

At YourNest, we engage with startups which have an idea that has been translated into a product and have customer validation. Our founders are committed young entrepreneurs who we label ‘Challengineers’ – people who actively question the status quo to create disruptive products and continually push boundaries that engineer new outcomes. Between the two funds, we count six investments that promise to be Dragons i.e. ‘fund makers’ who can return the entire corpus in a single exit.
The YourNest team has come together to create a better world with the use of pathbreaking technologies. We are committed to our mission of identifying and investing in Challengineer-founders and on nurturing global market leaders from India with the best available resources to make a positive difference and repay the trust reposed in us by our investors.
WIOM is the first external investment from Fund III. It is India’s first and largest PDOA (Public Data Office Aggregator), which is a new class of Internet delivery players allowed under the recently announced PM- WANI (Wi-fi Access Network Interface) framework by the Government of India. WIOM provides affordable and unlimited Internet to middle and lower-middle-income households and their data packages start from as low as INR 5 per day.
WIOM’s product innovation has a scalable architecture to split fixed broadband access and its costs across multiple homes, thereby making it affordable and secure. In addition, this pioneering solution gives information access round the clock to families and not just when smartphone users are at home. This technology will enable the next two billion internet users worldwide, esp. from India, to get online. It is a paradigm shift in information access and is comparable to Uber’s offerings for convenience in mobility.
Telecom Startup WIOM Bags USD 4 Mn In Its Seed Funding Round Led by YourNest and 9 Unicorn
Dozee is India’s first contactless remote health monitoring startup. Exclusively designed and manufactured in India, Dozee tracks key vitals of the human body such as heart rate, respiration rate, oxygen saturation, sleep stages, stress-recovery and more. The contactless sensor, placed under the mattress, captures real-time body vitals without using any external wires or touching the user’s body. Its artificial intelligence (AI)-based health intelligence module detects early signs of health deterioration by continuously assessing a user’s vitals data and conducting a risk analysis.
Dozee is originally a Fund II investment in which we have further invested from Fund III as part of our crossover strategy.
Focused on taking Robotics and AI to every consumer home. Miko3 is an advanced AI robot made to engage, educate and entertain kids. Miko can detect moods, initiate conversations and adapt to different environments. Kids can learn with it — and take plenty of dance party breaks also. A growing app library helps kids learn languages, science, nature, literature and coding. Parents can purchase the MikoMax subscription to access all premium apps, which are loaded with games, challenges and several learning experiences. In total, it adds up to 50,000+ hours of audio-video libraries with 1,000+ games, videos, stories, puzzles, songs, coding experiences, and more.
Miko is originally a Fund II investment in which we have further invested from Fund III as part of our crossover strategy.
Robotics Startup Miko Raises $28 Mn In Series B Round led by IIFL AMC
Contiinex offers a Unified Communication as a Service (UCaaS) platform which helps orchestrate and automate an end-to-end customer engagement process through the usage of bots, diallers and human workforce in a single platform. It forms an intuitive communication bridge across multiple channels and helps customers save a lot of time to manage sales operations across diverse industries.
Its Speech-to-Text engine helps customers transcribe voice recordings on a real-time basis with accuracy rates of up to 96%. Further, it also offers AI-based Quality Audit as a service which can function for Insurance, Healthcare, Consumer Banking and Retail sectors with 100% data security. This AI-powered interaction analytics tool can turn valuable unstructured data from customer conversations into actionable insights that drive customer experience decisions and strategies to automate and improve compliance and quality control, and to enhance agent performance.
YourNest India VC Fund II was launched in January 2017 with a focus on building world-class, enterprise-oriented opportunities from India that serve global markets. The fund thesis focuses on digitising life and work, and smart physical systems. The fund has received participation from UHNIs and multiple institutions including our anchor investor: the Indian Govt.-backed Electronics Development Fund. The fund held its final closure in January 2020 with a total capital commitment of INR 215 cr (USD 30 mn).
KoineArth raises $1.8M in Pre-Series A round led by YourNest
AI-based startup UptimeAI raises $1.5M in seed round led by YourNest Venture Capital
AI startup Argoid raises $1.7 Mn led by YourNest Venture Capital
Photonics startup LightSpeedAI Labs secures funding from YourNest, growX; to invest in building MVP
AI healthcare startup Dozee raises Rs 12.5 cr led by YourNest Venture Capital and others
Global Investors bet on visual enhancement startup, Orbo AI raises Pre-Series A round $1.6 mn.
YourNest Venture Capital leads $2M Series A funding round in Lavelle Networks
YourNest, IAN Invest $1.45 Mn In Virtual Reality Startup SmartVizX
Fintech startup CredRight Raises $1.3 Mn Pre-Series A Funding from YourNest and Accion
Robotics Startup Miko raises INR 23 Cr From Stride Ventures, Angel Investors
YourNest Angel Fund was launched in March 2012 and raised INR 90 cr (US$ 14 mn) that has been fully deployed its capital across 16 companies. The Fund thesis focuses on the technology-enabled sector which includes ventures in mobile, internet, cloud, software and analytics. In November 2017, the fund became the youngest fund to be ranked in Preqin’s Top 10 Alternative Assets in India.
YourNest leads Pre-Series A investment in Smart Software (SSTS Inc)
Artificial intelligence startup Arya.ai raises $750k from YourNest
YourNest Angel Fund Invests in Gurgaon Based Startup MyCity4Kids