Artha Venture Fund

Artha Venture Fund is an Indian early-stage alternative investment fund that invests seed capital in early-stage companies and participates in follow-on rounds up to and including Series A. The fund is part of the broader Artha India Ventures platform founded by Anirudh A. Damani (Managing Partner) alongside partners, and operates as a family-office-backed / SEBI-registered Category-I Alternative Investment Fund structure based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Artha Venture Fund invests across consumer internet, fintech, SaaS, mobility, and adjacent Indian-market technology themes, typically writing initial check sizes in the USD 250,000 to USD 1 million range at seed and early Series A stages. The firm has raised multiple institutional funds (Artha Venture Fund I in 2018, Artha Venture Fund II in 2021) with aggregate AUM in the USD tens to low-hundreds of millions range. Notable portfolio companies include Purplle (Indian beauty-e-commerce unicorn), Exotel, Karza Technologies, Unacademy (adjacent portfolio), LenDenClub, Tala, and various other Indian technology start-ups.