GAURAV RADHESHYAM KHAITAN

PGDM(FINANCE), DIV: A
ROLLNO:20182024
Subject: Private Equity & Venture Capital
Introduction about matrix partners India:

Matrix Partners began in Boston in 1977, and today invests

actively in the USA, India and China. Matrix Partners India was
established in 2006, The venture capital firm, which was started
by Bajaj and Rishi, with offices in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Delhi,
and currently manages over $1 billion. Matrix Partners has a
global network of funds investing in the US, China and India with
$5 billion under management. and invests across a variety of
sectors including consumer technology, B2B, enterprise, fintech,
among others. Matrix Partners India is an investment firm
targeting the Indian enterprise and consumer market at the seed,
early and early growth stages. Following a "founders first!"
philosophy, the firm invests in entrepreneurs across sectors, and
is personally committed to helping build world-changing
companies. Ola, Quirk, Prato, Daily- hunt, MS wipe, Five Star
and Treebo are few of the companies that Matrix has invested in
and continues to partner closely with.

Team Members in Matrix Partners India:

Gourav Bhattacharya:
Vice President
Sanjot Malhi:
Senior Associate
Anirudh Kumar:
Senior Associate
Tarun Davda:
Managing Director
Raghav Nagarajan:
Associate
Vikram Vaidyanathan:
Managing Director
Rajat Agarwal:
Vice President
Portfolio(Number of Investment):

Ola Cabs (stylised as OLΛ), is an Indian transportation network

company (TNC) offering services that include peer-to-peer
ridesharing, ride service hailing, taxi and food delivery. The
company is based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India and was
developed by ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Quikr is an Indian classified advertising platform. Headquartered

in Bangalore, Quikr has listings in over 900 cities in India in
categories such as mobile phones, household goods, cars, real
estate, jobs, services and education.

ZipLoan, RBI registered NBFC, is a technology enabled on-line

lending platform established to provide Small Business Loans.
Small Business Loans as a segment until now has been ignored
by Financial Institutions given the granular peculiarities of small
businesses and poor cost benefit trade-off with respect to
sourcing and underwriting small loans
Practo is a patient focused, unbiased, independent medical
website with over 100,000 doctor profiles from across India and
Singapore. Patients can book confirmed appointments with
doctors listed on Practo’s website. This is a free service for both
the patient and the doctor. We had booked over 28,000
appointments for the month of June 2014.

Avail Finance provides Indians with an instant online loan app

built for them to have access to fast cash anytime, anywhere. ...
The Avail instant online loan app aims to save customers from
embarrassment, harassment or long-term investment when
they need low interest loans.

Stages of Funding:
The matrix partners has Raise Funding by Seed investment
and Series Funding.

The new fund--Matrix Partners India III, LLC–raised the money

from 43 investors, Matrix Partners has raised $300 million (Rs
2,100 crore) for its third India-dedicated fund. The first fund with
a corpus of $150 million and later topped it up to $300 million.
Subsequently, it raised $300 million for its second fund.
Fin-tech platform Avail Finance has raised its Series A round of
financing of $9M led by Matrix Partners India. Founded in 2017
by Ankush Aggarwal and Tushar Mandritta, Avail Finance is
building a neo-bank for the blue-collar workers in India.
Of Business, a technology enabled SME financing platform, has
raised INR 250 crore in Series D financing led by Norwest
Venture Partners (NVP), with participation from existing
investors Matrix Partners India. With this new round of funding,
the company has raised a total of INR 1,500 crores of equity and
debt funding till date.

California-based Mo Engage Inc., a leading intelligent marketing

cloud platform founded by Raviteja Dodda and Yashwanth
Kumar, has raised USD 9 million in a Series B funding round led
by Matrix Partners India.

In March 2018, Matrix India had led the seed investment in Avail
Finance along with other marquee angel investors including
Binney Bansal, Kunal Shah, Founder of Cred, Bhavesh
Aggarwal and Ankit Bhatti, Founders of Ola and Manish Patel,
Founder of Ms swipe.

Matrix Partners India has led the seed investment in And Nothing
Else, a 100% clean-label food brand that intends to re-build the
world’s trust in its food. The round also saw participation from
Sauce.vc (a consumer focused, early stage VC fund) and a
clutch of marquis angel investors like Shashwat Sharma).

Matrix Partners India has invested in Ola Electric Mobility, a

company backed by Ola, India’s leading mobility platform and
one of the world’s largest ride-hailing platforms.

Matrix Partners India announced today that it has invested in

Pesto, a career accelerator for India’s top software engineering
talent.
Choice of Sector:

Matrix partners invest in Sector such as healthcare, Fintech,

Grocery, Education, consumer internet, Travel, E-commerce &
marketplaces.

Matrix partner India invest healthcare businesses. a portfolio of

healthcare services investments (e.g., Cloudnine, Centre For
Sight, Meditrina) as well as health tech companies (e.g., Practo).
We continue to actively scout for opportunities in healthcare,
especially in areas that we call the ‘picks-and-shovels’ evergreen
enablers of healthcare.

Matrix Partners raised $9MN in Bengaluru-based consumer

lending start-up Avail Finance. With this funding, Avail Finance
wants to become a complete online banking solution for blue
collar workers by catering to a multitude of their financial needs
such as savings, investments and insurance.

Source of Funding:

The new fund-Matrix Partners India III, LLC–raised the money

from 43 investors.

Size of The company:

Matrix Partners India has raised a total of $721M across 2 funds,

their latest being Matrix Partners India III. This fund was
announced on Dec 18, 2018 and raised a total of $321M.

Matrix Partners India, an early stage venture capital firm, raised

the third fund of over $300 Mn (INR 21.19 Bn), eight years after
the company raised second fund
The venture capital firm, which was started by Bajaj and Rishi
Navani, had launched its first fund with a corpus of $150 million
and later topped it up to $300 million. Subsequently, it raised
$300 million for its second fund in 2011.

Address of the company:

Matrix Partners India

Address : F Wing, Dr Annie Besant Rd, Markandeshwar Nagar, Shiv

Sagar Estate, Worli, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400018.