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By: Suryansh DhawanMBA-FA 2016-18

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About Blume Venture Fund1 •About Blume Venture Fund

2 •Investment Process In Venture Funding

3 •Philosophy Of Blume Venture Fund

4 •Categories Of Venture Funding

5 •Portfolio Of Blume Venture Fund

6 •Return On Blume Venture Fund

7 •Success Stories

About Blume Venture Fund


Mumbai-based tech-focused early-stage investment firm Blume Ventures was founded in 2010 by Karthik Reddy and Sanjay Nath. It launched Fund I in the domestic market in 2011.

Journey began in 2010 with the founding partners having met and being active in one of India’s first institutional angel networks, the Mumbai Angels.

Blume has, so far, supported over 70 startups since its inception in 2011 and it plans to continue investing in founding teams of value, sources add.

Blume Venture have almost consistently been the most active early stage Indian VC since 2011, funding more than 20 companies per year.

Its portfolio include companies such as Rail Yatri, Re Globe, IDfy, Grey Orange Robotics, Zopper, Purplle, Nowfloats, Taxi For Sure, Promptec.



Founded in 2010, Blume closed its debut fund at Rs 100 crores i.e. around $20Million.

“Blume Venture first fund—a domestic, rupee-only fund raised from HNIs that pitched to 500-600 people—to now, it has been as much of an entrepreneurial journey for the companies,” said Sanjay Nath, co-founder and managing partner, Blume Ventures.

The Karthik Reddy and Sanjay Nath-led investment firm was chosen for the award by an eminent jury chaired by Arun Duggal, chairman of ratings agency ICRA.

For Blume Venture Fund II, Blume Venture has target corpus of $60 million, which is lead by ICONIQ Capital, IIFL Wealth, SIDBI.



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Investment Process in Venture Funding

Fund RaisingSource Of Capital from Bank, Corporations

EvaluationEvaluate Venture Opportunity

InvestmentInvest Capital into Enterprise

GoverningGovern Business to Profitable Growth

ExistGenerate Liquidity through IPO

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Philosophy Of Blume Venture Fund

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Pathologically Obsessed Ideas Are Passé

Strategy Is To Be Ahead Of The Wave

Undifferentiated Winning Strategy


Categories Venture Funding

Seed Money: Low level financing for proving and fructifying a new idea

Start-up: New firms needing funds for expenses related with marketing and product development

First-Round: Manufacturing and early sales fundingSecond-Round: Operational capital given for early stage companies which are selling products, but not returning a profit

Third-Round: Also known as Mezzanine financing, this is the money for expanding a newly beneficial company

Fourth-Round: Also calledbridge financing, 4th round is proposed for financing the "going public" process

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