Venture Catalysts

Venture Catalysts is an integrated incubator that offers funding, mentorship, and network. It provides investment of $500K to $2MN per startup with incubation support for 18-24 months. It was established in year 2016 and in a short span, it boasts of successful incubatees like BharatPe, Fynd, Beardo, PeeSafe, Innov8, vPhrase, SuprDaily, DSYH, IGP.com etc., which are today category leaders. It is one of the largest early stage players in India with 4500+ angel investors spread across 36 cities in 6 countries - India, Hong Kong, Singapore, UAE, Saudi Arabia & USA. Globally, marquee investors such as YCombinator, Greenoaks, Axis Capital, Alpha Capital, Rocketship, FJ Labs (investors of Airbnb, Uber, Facebook) have co-invested with Venture Catalysts. With its focus on developing startup ecosystem in Tier II, III cities in India, Venture Catalysts has launched its incubation program in cities like Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Raipur, Surat and Nagpur besides metros like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata. These centres not only offer incubation support to startups but also organise regular investor education sessions for potential angel investors viz. HNIs & industrialists. Besides raising seed stage and Series A investments for startups, Venture Catalysts is known for its startup building capability, strategic guidance, generating business leads, leveraging its network across the globe through its partners and providing phenomenal returns to its investors. It is evident from the fact that more than 10 incubatee companies of Venture Catalysts have raised Series A investment in the last two years especially when the market had not been very upbeat. Today, Venture Catalysts has taken the leadership position in startup investments and incubation and has been rated as India's top Early stage Investor by leading national media.

Gaurav Jain

Co-Founder

Past deals in Jewelry

Plus

Seed Round in 2023
Plus is a jewellery savings app.

Plus

Seed Round in 2022
Plus is a jewellery savings app.

Join Ventures

Series B in 2022
Join Ventures is a leading celebration-focused company in India, known for its portfolio of digital-first brands such as IGP and Interflora. The company specializes in e-commerce, offering handmade and customized products across various categories, including home décor, food, flowers, fashion, jewelry, accessories, and festival items. By leveraging proprietary technology and a network of strategically located dark stores throughout India, Join Ventures enhances the consumer shopping experience. The integration of artificial intelligence and analytics allows the company to provide hyper-personalized services, ensuring that its brands effectively meet the diverse needs of customers during special occasions.

Join Ventures

Series A in 2022
Join Ventures is a leading celebration-focused company in India, known for its portfolio of digital-first brands such as IGP and Interflora. The company specializes in e-commerce, offering handmade and customized products across various categories, including home décor, food, flowers, fashion, jewelry, accessories, and festival items. By leveraging proprietary technology and a network of strategically located dark stores throughout India, Join Ventures enhances the consumer shopping experience. The integration of artificial intelligence and analytics allows the company to provide hyper-personalized services, ensuring that its brands effectively meet the diverse needs of customers during special occasions.

Melorra

Venture Round in 2021
Melorra is a jewelry brand based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, founded in 2016. The company specializes in designing and retailing affordable, trendy jewelry suitable for everyday wear. By utilizing 3D printing technology, Melorra ensures an accurate and elegant finish for its products, catering to contemporary wardrobes. The brand's offerings are developed in alignment with global fashion trends, with a focus on versatility for various occasions, including casual outings, work, and parties. Melorra's collaboration between fashion stylists and jewelry designers enables the creation of light and stylish pieces that appeal to modern consumers.

SpiceStyle

Seed Round in 2020
SpiceJet has been known for making history. 12 years ago, when the airline was launched, it revolutionised the way Indians travelled. It scripted the era of affordable travel in India. Not only that, the airline went beyond making air travel affordable. It took boredom out of travel and infused 'fun' into the otherwise mundane routines of air travel. This fact is aptly captured by the airline’s signature line: 'Red. Hot. Spicy.' Over the years, the airline has grown from strength to strength, and the confidence of its customers keep growing every passing day. SpiceStyle.com comes from the same lineage of SpiceJet. This exclusive retail portal is unlike any other contemporary retail offering. At SpiceStyle.com you will find some of the best quality products carefully 'curated' and 'hand-picked' by a team of specialists. And that is why every product in the roster comes with the promise of exceptional quality, and offers unmatched value to the consumer. In fact, the 'value' proposition is inherently built into the brand as it comes from the lineage of SpiceJet. The portal offers 11 different categories of products, including a signature series by Rohit Bal. The Rohit Bal signature series is a premium line that offers high-fashion accessories like neck ties, pocket squares, cufflinks, bags, perfumes, watches and shades to travellers who like to travel in style. Apart from these, Spicestyle.com offers SG range of accessories, Caprio range of sunglasses, Lesk range of jewellery & fashion accessories, Vajero range of handbags, Innocenti range for kids, Inscripto range of stationery, Spice4Sound range of audio accessories and Positech range of electronics. These products are targeted at travellers who always carry their style with them. Available both in-flight and online, these trendy products from SpiceStyle are sure to spice up the style quotient of the today's traveller.

Purple Style Labs

Seed Round in 2017
Purple Style Labs Private Limited is a fashion house based in Mumbai, India, that specializes in personal shopping and styling solutions. Established in 2015, the company operates two multi-designer platforms, Pernia's Pop-Up Shop and The Stylist, which allow customers to discover and purchase Indian designer wear. Purple Style Labs caters to a diverse clientele, offering a wide range of clothing, accessories, footwear, and jewelry for men, women, teens, and children. The company provides various styling appointment and subscription plans, along with online shopping assistance and wedding styling services globally. Its mission focuses on delivering a memorable shopping experience while promoting the growth of Indian brands and designers.
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