Invest with BlueLotus Ventures
₹1.2 cr (₹3,00,000)
Typical Investments
1
Deals Last 12 Months
72
Unique LPs have invested
Note from BlueLotus Ventures
BlueLotus invests in gritty founders who make work and life better.
We're early-stage investors with hands-on investing and operating experience in companies. We seek to partner with niche businesses with emergent competitive advantages.
BlueLotus' portfolio companies have raised >$400M in follow-on funding from the likes of 8VC, Tiger Global, Google, Blume, 3one4, Linse, BEENext, Omidyar, Trifecta, Premji Invest, the Bajaj group, V-Guard & numerous others. Our 2018 investment cohort is currently delivering a TVPI (Total Value to Paid-in Capital) of 41x.
More on our portfolio companies is available here : bluelotus.vc/portfolio )
Interests
Here are our broad areas of interest & representative investments:
- Frontier Technologies that create >10x improvements that matter. (ex: Gegadyne, Ottometric, Sequencing, Craft Aero & AcousticaBio)
- Emergent Bio-Tech Platforms (Catena Biosciences, Rejuvenation Tech, KernalBio)
- Niche SAAS businesses (Chronicle, BusinessOnBot, FactoryPlus, MagicBell, Crib)
- Developer-Focused Businesses (DevTron, Insightly Analytics)
- Fin-Techs that do not operate in crowded spaces (Open, WorkApps, CreditEnable, Finarkein Analytics, Numadic, Grip Invest, , MoneyClub, InspektLabs, Castler, Anduin, Vincent, RiskCovry, Blostem)
- Web 3.0 infrastructure projects (CryptoSlam, Listed.Fans, Wilder World)
- Ad-Tech (Audigent, ClanConnect, VTION, Adonmo, Blotout, Confidently)
- Ed-Techs with emergent competitive advantages (Uable, Skillprint, GrowthX, Questt, 7 Classes, AdmitKard, EarlyBird)
- Healthcare (Decipher, jumpingMinds, Montera Health)
- Other Participations: Social Investing (iTribe), Social Commerce (BizzTM), Gaming (HyperNova), Agriculture / food supply (BharatAgri, Eggoz) & Logistics (OmniVio), Conferencing (Airmeet)
We can't share how excited we are to have the privilege of partnering with the founders of the companies you see below. It would be too large a task to even describe why we thought each of them were exceptionally suited to their herculean adventures.
We typically participate at the Pre-Seed, Seed, or Pre-Series A stage. We're actually sector-agnostic, but have a strong preference for companies that scale leveraging technology. As a direct result, we rarely participate in hardware-related startups1 but once in a while the value-proposition is hard to deny and despite the frictions and scaling challenges, we have been delighted to partner with companies like Yulu (the Micro-mobility leader in India) Gegadyne (leap-frogging battery technology for the world) and Lyte (US/EU smartphone charging infra, 3 recent IPOs in Asia from this space).
A large part of our investing thesis rests on assessing founder capabilities. Of course, we desire category-creators, and we try not to be boxed-in by templates - but identifying such product-market fitting founders early on is extremely difficult.
Importantly, we look for startups that are able to grow rapidly through natural demand with large and/or growing TAMs.
We work hands on with our investee companies and advise them on building product, marketing, customer acquisition, intellectual property portfolios & we're always keen to connect them with our extensive network globally. Capital is currently a commodity and we seek to go well beyond the renting of money.
Dealflow
We will syndicate all deal that we are involved in.