FORMER INFY BRASS BACK START-UPS NANDAN NILEKANI

The story of how Infosys was built by N R Narayana Murthy with Start-ups platform
~10,000 and six co-founders is part of India’s business folklore. After | Mubble — helps | Letsventure —
moving out of Infosys, co-founders Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, users track telecom online angel
S Gopalakrishnan and S D Shibulal are now mentoring start-ups. They spend funding platform
are joined by T V Mohandas Pai and V Balakrishnan. Their investments | Juggernaut — | Team Indus — a
in start-ups exceed ~1,000 crore at present. start-up aiming at
digital and
physical publishing a lunar mission
N S RAGHAVAN
Start-ups | BrizzTv Maritime Ltd "It is a very small part of my
| Tyfone | TeliBrahma | FAME India portfolio. It is only to
| Ziva software | RiverSilica | Active Canvas encourage entrepreneurs
| Insieve Investment who are thinking and
| Mango innovating new solutions,
techno | Cbazaar | Nadathur unique to India. I am broadly
| Vizury | Sobha Holdings looking at how technology
| CoCubes Developers | Ojas Venture can be used to make
| GoodEarth Partners India organised"

S GOPALAKRISHNAN N R NARAYANA MURTHY

Start-ups | Lookup — Start-ups | Bloom&Wild — flower
| SellerworX hyperlocal delivery
messaging C2B | Coverfox — online
| EasyFix — home insurance comparison | Healthspring —
service aggregator | 99Tests — IT testing primary healthcare
| BuyHatke | Yebhi — e-commerce
| Vigyanlabs | PaperBoat clinic chain
| Uniphore — Institution Institution
| Innoviti — SMB
speech recognition | Advisor, IDG lending | Catamaran Ventures
| FreshWorld — Ventures
grocery delivery | Axilor Ventures
S D SHIBULAL
My investment philosophy
Start-ups Management India —
is to invest in the
founders rather than on | SellerworX owns 700 appartments
sectors. I continue to | EasyFix — home service in Seattle
work at a policy level and aggregator | The Tamara — luxury
on expanding the system. resort in Coorg
I have investments in
| Vigyanlabs
| Innovations Institution
10-plus start-ups; the
investments are small and Investment | Axilor Ventures
typically ~1-3 crore.

V BALAKRISHNAN T V MOHANDAS PAI

Start-ups power company Start-ups | TaxSutra
| CannyKart marketplace supplying to data centre | TheBetterIndia
| Licious — Meat delivery
for IoT devices clients
start-up Institution
| Avekshaa — IT start-up | Mad Street Den — AI
| GetActive — fitness | Arin Capital
| Riversilica — hardware start-up
start-up | Exfinity Fund
and software for IP | iQlect — data analytics
| Zimmer — home | Saha Fund
Streaming Video | TaxSutra solutions
delivery Institution | Tandem
| OnlineTyari. com — Capital
| Virtual Power Systms — | Exfinity Fund online exam | Aaruha
preperations Capital
"If you look at IT services, it's | ZoomCar — car on rent
a $125-bn sector, which purely | YourStory
came from services. The next
$100 bn is going to come from all | Vyome Biosciences
new areas — digital, mobile, cloud, | Homelane
etc. We would continue to | Ressy — deal discovery
invest in these areas"
Compiled by Alnoor Peermohamed