PORTFOLIO NEWS JANUARY 2026NURTURING SUCCESSOne innovation. One partnership. One leap of faith at a time. Hello. And welcome to an even more exciting year!Innovation rarely announces itself with fanfare. It often begins with a quiet frustration, something that does not work as it should, a small gap in the market, ...

Nurturing Capital, Creating Connections, Building Value This quarter took us from global stages in Singapore to homegrown innovation hubs across India. In this edition, we share reflections from key industry events, insights from evolving market landscapes, and moments that reinforced our belief.   SuperReturn Asia 2025: India Takes Centre stage ...

Dear Investor,  We are pleased to share that our portfolio company QpiAI has successfully raised US$ 32 mn, at a post-money valuation of US$ 162 mn, in its Series A funding round. The round was co-led by Avataar Ventures and the Indian Government’s US$ 750 mn National Quantum Mission; it ...

  Dear Investor,  We are pleased to share that our portfolio company Wiom has successfully raised US$ 40 mn in a Series-B funding round, led by Bertelsmann India Investments and Accel. The round also saw participation from Prosus, Promaft Partners, and existing investor RTP Global. Founded in 2015, Wiom operates as India’s ...

  India’s venture capital industry has evolved considerably over the past decade. While securing funding and achieving rapid user growth were significant early on, there is now a greater focus on cash exits as a key measure of success and a driver for the ecosystem. This shift indicates a maturing ...

Aliste: US$ 1 mn Pre-Series A Funding YourNest Venture Capital and Artha Venture Fund co-led a US$ 1 mn Pre-Series A round in Aliste Technologies, a smart home automation startup. There was also participation from investors including Dholakia Ventures, KRS Jamwal and Anikarth Ventures. Aliste’s existing institutional investors include 100X Venture ...

Wiom Raises US$ 17 mn in Series-A Funding Round Wiom provides affordable and unlimited Internet to lower-middle-income households using their scalable architecture to split fixed broadband access and its costs across multiple homes, thereby making it affordable and secure.  The Series-A round was led by RTP Global while YourNest Venture ...

Action-packed Investors' Day 2023  On Saturday, April 22, we celebrated our Investors’ Day in the Mansion Oval Hall of the Hyatt Regency, New Delhi with over 150 investors, LPs, industry leaders, startup founders and partners from the ecosystem in attendance.    An action-packed day saw several of our Challengineer-founders showcasing ...

Contiinex: Pre Series-A funding by YourNestContiinex, a conversational AI startup has raised a Pre Series-A round with a commitment of US$ 1 mn from us.   The company offers a Unified Communication as a Service (UCaaS) platform that helps orchestrate and automate an end-to-end customer engagement process and has a ...

Altigreen Partners with Exponent Energy, Unveils New Electric Three-wheeler Altigreen, a commercial electric vehicle manufacturer, has entered into a partnership with Exponent Energy to launch a new variant of its three-wheeler cargo EV, ‘neEV Tez’. The neEV Tez features an 8.2kWh e^pack, a proprietary battery by Exponent built using regular ...

Exponent Energy Raises US$ 13 mn in Series-A  Exponent Energy, the electric vehicle (EV) fast-charging startup from our second fund has raised US$13 mn in a Series-A funding round led by Lightspeed. Existing institutional investors including YourNest Venture Capital, 3one4 Capital and AdvantEdge VC also participated in the round. Exponent ...

Miko, Dozee, Thriwe & Twid: Leading the Way Starting with this newsletter, we will periodically share updates from our portfolio companies – or Challengineers as we call them – and look forward to your feedback, as always. Twid: Raised US$12 mn in Series A Twid, the millennials’ payment app that aggregates ...

Two new investments in Fund III Our US$ 75 mn Innovative Products VC Fund III now has five portfolio startups. Crossover investments in Miko and Dozee were followed by WIOM in April. And June saw two fresh investments in SubCom and VTION. Pune-based cybersecurity startup SubCom received US$ 1 mn ...

  WIOM joins our family of Challengineers Telecom startup WIOM  raised US $4 mn in a seed funding round led by YourNest and 9Unicorns. Founded in 2015 by Satyam Darmora, Nishit Aggarwal, Maanas Dwivedi, Natraj Akella and Ashutosh Mishra, it was earlier known as I2e1. WIOM joins Miko and Dozee as the third investment ...

NIIF now an Anchor Investor in YourNest Innovative Products VC Fund III National Investment & Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) selects YourNest to enter Indian VC space with US$ 15 mn investment With NIIF investing 20% of the US$ 75 mn corpus in YourNest Innovative Products Fund III, we now have our ...

  UNIPHORE IS NOW A UNICORN! With its US$ 400 mn funding, the star of YourNest Angel Fund is now a Unicorn valued at US$ 2.5 bn. Read more about Umesh Sachdev and Ravi Saraogi's dramatic story here as they make all of us proud even two years after our exit in 2020.  TOP ...