PointOne Capital focuses on pre-seed and seed stage technology enabled startups in emerging sectors.
Extensive business vetting by domain experts. Primary focus is towards category creators and backing emerging trends. And most importantly - founding team is a top priority element for us, we spend a lot of time with the founder to evaluate the founder-market fit and would they be able to pull off operating at scale, would be able raise new financing and hire top folks.
We provide active mentorship to the founders by an experienced and seasoned Venture Partner allocated to startups wherever required. We have a large network with the later stage investors and would enable an efficient next round through these connects. Long experience with instrumenting successful exits for portfolio startups as well.
Investment Strategy
- Target stage for investments: Seed
- Product/Business stage: MVP/Pilot/Beta stage/Early revenues
- Planned ticket size: $50k - $200k
- Sector focus: Healthcare, SaaS, Deep Tech, India-2 focussed Fintech, Consumer tech
- USP: All the deals vetted by a successful entrepreneur/advisor from the industry in which the startup operates
Team
The Core team includes Archana Priyadarshini, Mihir Jha and Ravish Ratnam all of whom are considerably experienced in the VC space and have collectively invested in or been involved with 70+ investments in their tenure apart from managing relationships with 100+ VC funds.
- Archana Priyadarshini: Ex-Partner at Unicorn India Ventures. Served 5 boards. Led investments in Open(>100X valuation growth). Leadership roles at IBM, Capgemini, Wells Fargo. IIT-Kanpur 1997
- Mihir Jha: Ex-Head - Startup Sourcing@LetsVenture, Deal Manager@LetsVenture, Ex-Vertical Head - Home Improvements@UrbanClap. IIT-Kanpur 2014
- Ravish Ratnam: Ex-Head-VC Relations@LetsVenture, Head - Healthcare Council@LetsVenture, Deal Manager@LetsVenture. IIT-Delhi 2015
Sourced through our internal network of founders, investors and domain experts.