We’re not a fund that invests in ventures.
We build them.
As a venture studio, we have a ‘launchpad-to-escape velocity’ approach. Companies born at Prototyze benefit from offices and infrastructure, centralised business services (financial, legal, recruitment), expert assistance in key stages (strategy, planning, product development...), the ability to plug-into existing systems & processes and connection to a network of clients, partners and investors.
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What in the world is a Venture Studio?
There are two very different types of entities which are confusingly called by the same name: Incubators.
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We’ve Built
We’re sector agnostic. But keen only on ventures where we foreseeably have a competitive advantage and which serve a (probably) perennial need.
We’re not interested in mindless geo-clones. Or ideas that satisfy the mood-of-the-season among VC’s.Basically, we try to build sane, sustainable companies that we’d be proud of for years.
How We Built Them
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"What in the world are we trying to do"
A note from the founder
We set-up Prototyze to improve the process of creating successful, innovation-driven businesses. VC firms aren’t designed to coach and hand-hold a fledgling venture through it’s early years, especially AFTER capital infusion. We believe this is crucial for success, and our goal is to enable this support system for all our ventures.
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Our Investors
Siddharth Parekh worked with Boston Consulting Group and the International Finance Corporation. Then spent six years with Actis (in London and Mumbai) as an investment principal. He has a BS (Economics) from Wharton and an MBA from Columbia and currently heads private equity firm Paragon Partners.
Nagesh is the Vice Chairman (and former CEO) of Shopper’s Stop. He’s the founder Chairman of TRRAIN, India’s leading foundation for the retail industry and was inducted into the World Retail Hall of Fame in 2008. He has been a prominent and early investor in digital economy ventures
Avtar Monga is the Chief Operating Officer of IDFC Bank and has three decades of experience in the financial sector. He was previously with Bank of America as its Managing Director for Global Delivery Centers of Expertise, establishing BA Continuum across India and leading the expansion into Costa Rica, Mexico and the Philippines.
R. Ramaraj has been the founder-CEO of pioneering technology companies such as Computer Point, Microland and Sify where he was the second Indian to take a company to NASDAQ. He’s subsequently been an Advisor to Sequoia Capital and a number of other prominent firms.
Harish Shah is the Managing Director of Signet Chemical, India’s largest excipient company. Signet has become the ‘First Recall’ name for excipients in the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry.
EpiMoney Ventures is a consortium of prominent leaders from the financial world who’ve created EpiMoney as a specialized vehicle for fintech investment.
MediAssist is a category-leading medical services company, a Red Herring Top 100 Asia Winner and a portfolio company of Bessemer Venture Partners and IDFC Alternatives
Lumina Datamatics is a global solutions provider of content, technology and commerce.
Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 17 countries across Asia and Africa. Headquartered in New Delhi, India, the company ranks amongst the top 3 mobile service providers globally in terms of subscribers.
SilverRange is a Private Investment entity based in Hong Kong.
K2 is a Hong Kong based investment firm, collating private capital from credentialed individual investors.
NB Ventures is a Dubai-based $50+ million fund. Their Indian investments include participation in the Series A of LetsTransport (co-invested with GMO of Japan) and the $7 million Series A for HealthifyMe.
InnerHeads: The Scaffolding For All We Build
Innerheads is the organisational glue that holds our entire ecosystem together. It provides centralised business services to all our ventures, and takes care of everything from hiring, to facilities management, to financial MIS management, to legal and administrative support. It’s led by highly credentialed and deeply experienced professionals who have worked at some of India’s (and the world’s) largest corporates, and provides a quality of service that most startups (even well-funded ones) would find difficult to afford or internalize. It’s the metaphorical oil that keeps our venture machinery operating smoothly and efficiently.
Private Unlimited: Our First ‘Incubator’
Private Unlimited is our first entrepreneurial ecosystem, built around knowledge-capital based service ventures. It comprises 3 autonomous companies that work independently, yet frequently combine to provide integrated communication solutions for both large corporate clients, as well as our Prototyze incubated ventures.
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Interested?
To partner with us, work with us, invest with us or just get to know us, write to our Founder and Director, Gourav Jaswal at [email protected]