The Largest VC Firms in India

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Partners Group is a global private markets firm with USD 174 billion in assets under management and c. 1,800 professionals across 23 offices worldwide. We seek to generate superior returns through capitalizing on thematic growth trends and transforming attractive businesses and assets into market leaders. As a committed, responsible investor, we aim to deliver lasting, positive impact for all our stakeholders. We provide an innovative range of bespoke client solutions to institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, family offices and private individuals globally. Partners Group has been listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange since 2006 (symbol: PGHN).

EQT is a global investment organization focused on active ownership and thematic investing across private capital, infrastructure, and real estate, from early-stage ventures to large-cap buyouts.

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is a specialized financial partner for the innovation economy, serving startups from pre-seed to IPO, as well as venture capital and private equity investors globally.

Lendable is a technology-enabled investment platform providing debt and financing solutions to high-growth fintech companies and impact alternatives in emerging and frontier markets.

Novo Holdings A/S is the holding and investment company responsible for managing the assets of the Novo Nordisk Foundation, one of the world's largest enterprise foundations. Established in 1999, the company is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, with offices in London, San Francisco, Boston, Singapore, and Shanghai. As of 2024, Novo Holdings manages total assets of DKK 1,060 billion (€142 billion). The company's primary objective is to improve people's health and the sustainability of society and the planet by generating attractive long-term returns on the assets of the Novo Nordisk Foundation. To achieve this, Novo Holdings invests in life science companies at all stages of development and manages a diversified portfolio that includes equities, bonds, real estate, infrastructure assets, and private equity investments. In 2024, Novo Holdings reported record total income and investment returns of DKK 60 billion (€8.0 billion), driven by strong performances from its investment portfolio and the Novo Group companies. A significant recent development was the completion of a $16.5 billion acquisition of Catalent, a contract drug manufacturer, in December 2024. This strategic move aims to bolster the production of Wegovy, a popular weight-loss drug, to meet increasing demand. Novo Holdings' investment areas include life science investments, capital investments, and planetary health investments, with a focus on regions such as North America, Europe, and Asia. The company's guiding principles emphasize high performance with respect and responsibility, an ambitious strategy focused on return-driven investments, and excellence in operations, including talent development and strong governance.

Warburg Pincus is a global private equity firm founded in 1966, specializing in growth investing across various sectors and geographies. With over $87 billion in assets under management, the firm has invested in more than 1,000 companies worldwide. Their investment focus spans business services, capital solutions, consumer, energy transition & sustainability, financial services, healthcare, industrials, real estate, and technology. Warburg Pincus operates with a global approach, bringing together deep expertise across sectors to unlock cross-industry insights and opportunities. The firm is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Amsterdam, Beijing, Berlin, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, Mauritius, San Francisco, São Paulo, Shanghai, and Singapore.

Valor Equity Partners is an operational growth investment firm focused on non-control and control investments in high growth companies across various stages of development. For decades, we have served our companies with unique expertise to solve the challenges of growth and scale. We partner with leading companies and entrepreneurs who are committed to the highest standards of excellence and the courage to transform their industries.We use our proven deal sourcing capabilities and broad relationships with entrepreneurs, managers, and other successful investors to identify investments in leading growth companies. Our unique investment strategy, supported by our robust internal research function, is focused on identifying companies that align with our view on long-term fundamental demand drivers and that have excellent market opportunities.Our investment strategy is enhanced by our deep expertise in the consumer, infrastructure and industrial services, and manufacturing sectors.Valor's operationally active style is compelling to high growth companies seeking expertise to support execution of their strategy. In a process that begins before a transaction closes, we collaborate with the management teams of our portfolio companies to develop strategic and operational plans focused on enhancing management capabilities, establishing operational best practices, and accelerating growth.

Summit Partners is a global growth equity investment firm founded in 1984, specializing in providing capital and strategic support to category-leading companies across technology, healthcare, and growth products and services sectors. With over 40 years of experience, Summit Partners has invested in more than 550 companies, leading to over 175 public equity offerings and more than 250 strategic mergers and sales. The firm manages over $46 billion in assets across its fund complex, demonstrating its significant presence in the growth equity investment landscape.

Vitruvian Partners is an international investment firm that supports the most ambitious and talented entrepreneurs and higher growth companies to achieve their goals. We invest in higher growth, dynamic situation buyouts and growth capital investments. We back exceptional entrepreneurs and management teams in companies creating sustainable high growth and strategic value. We invest between €40m-€600m+ in companies typically valued between €75m-€4bn+.

TenOneTen Ventures is a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm that invests early in technical teams transforming major industries like healthcare, logistics, and manufacturing using AI and data.

BAM Ventures is a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Brian Lee and Richard Jun, both seasoned entrepreneurs with extensive experience in building and scaling companies. The firm focuses on early-stage investments, targeting resilient founders who have the vision to launch and scale innovative technologies, products, and services that connect with consumers and transform commerce. BAM Ventures emphasizes a hands-on approach, offering not only capital but also time, experience, and relationships to support entrepreneurs in building companies that matter. Their portfolio includes notable companies such as Honey (acquired by PayPal), Tala, Wondery (acquired by Amazon), Flow, Rael, and Modern Animal.

Breyer Capital is a premier global venture capital and private equity investor focused on catalyzing high-impact entrepreneurs in the United States and China. Our team frames strategic investments anchored by the passion of founders, the insights of our network of world-class investors, and a conviction that artificial intelligence and machine learning will transform technology and investment opportunities globally. Technology is an enabler not a replacer.

TCV, founded in 1995 by Richard H. Kimball and Jay Hoag, is a leading investment firm specializing in growth-stage technology companies. With over $21 billion in assets under management, TCV has invested in more than 350 technology companies worldwide, including notable names like Airbnb, Facebook, Netflix, and Spotify. The firm focuses on partnering with mission-driven teams to build category-defining companies, providing substantial capital and strategic resources to support their growth journeys. TCV's investment approach is characterized by a long-term orientation, a globally minded perspective, and a commitment to quality and excellence.

Sapphire Ventures is a venture capital firm partnering with expansion-stage, B2B enterprise software companies to help them scale from expansion stage to IPO.

Eight Roads Ventures is a global venture capital firm with over 50 years of investing experience and more than $11 billion in assets under management. The firm has invested in over 500 portfolio companies worldwide, focusing on sectors such as technology, healthcare, and consumer services. Their investment philosophy emphasizes long-term partnerships with entrepreneurs, providing strategic support and resources to help companies scale and succeed. Notable portfolio companies include AppsFlyer, Icertis, and Paidy.

Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch. We bring together talented outliers to develop their most ambitious ideas and raise money from the world’s best investors. Since pioneering Talent Investing in 2014, we’ve learned to recognize individuals with extraordinary futures before anyone else, embedding them in a community of ambitious peers and giving them the tools they need to succeed, fast. We back them before they have a company, a team, even before they have an idea, based purely on talent. The startups cofounded on our programs are now worth over $10B, and include Tractable, Magic Pony Technology, Cleo, La Vie, Aztec, Sonantic, and many more. EF is backed by some of the world's leading founders and investors, including Patrick and John Collison (Stripe); Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Tom Blomfield (GoCardless and Monzo), Sara Clemens (Whatnot and Twitch); Demis Hassabis (Google Deepmind); and Matt Mullenweg (Wordpress). We exist to make great companies happen that otherwise wouldn’t. For more information about Entrepreneur First, visit www.joinef.com We're hiring! Join our global team and experience firsthand the workings of a globally unique talent investor working with cutting edge entrepreneurs on world changing technologies:

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends in the Enterprise, Consumer, and Health sectors. Over the past two decades, the Lightspeed team has backed hundreds of entrepreneurs and helped build more than 400 companies globally, including Snap, Affirm, Nest, Nutanix, AppDynamics, MuleSoft, OYO, Guardant, and GrubHub. Lightspeed and its affiliates currently manage $10.5B across the global Lightspeed platform, with investment professionals and advisors in Silicon Valley, Israel, India, China, Southeast Asia and Europe.

Invus is an evergreen equity investment firm founded in 1985, managing over $10 billion in capital. With offices in New York, Paris, and Hong Kong, Invus focuses on empowering owner-managers to transform their industries by providing the freedom to take risks, the capital to reach their goals, and the strategic advice to navigate uncharted waters. The firm emphasizes a long-term investment horizon, aiming for exponential, sustainable value creation through building sustainable competitive advantages and innovating to fulfill real customer needs. Invus operates with a unique structure that allows flexibility in the types of companies and situations they engage with, fully aligning their incentives with their partners and demonstrating a long-term commitment to see through any challenges along the way. Since its inception, Invus has been successfully empowering owner-managers, with its source of capital being a European family group through their Artal investment vehicle. This evergreen structure has enabled Invus to compound its initial pool of capital over four decades, growing to over $10 billion even after distributing billions to shareholders.

Kleiner Perkins is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. They were early investors in many significant companies, including Amazon, AOL, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Google, Intuit, Macromedia, Netscape, Segway, and Sun Microsystems.For five decades, Kleiner Perkins has partnered with some of the most ingenious founders in technology and life sciences, helping them make history with their bold ideas. Through twenty venture funds and four growth funds, we’ve invested $10 billion in hundreds of companies including pioneers such as Amazon, Genentech, and Google. Today, Kleiner Perkins continues to help founders and their bold ideas make history investing in companies like Desktop Metal, IronNet, Ring, Spotify, Slack, and Peloton.The firm's four founding partners were Eugene Kleiner, Tom Perkins, Frank J. Caufield, and Brook Byers.

Greenoaks Capital Partners is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm specializing in long-term investments in technology companies worldwide. Founded by Neil Mehta, the firm has a history of backing high-growth companies across various stages. Notable investments include Coupang, Rippling, Wiz, Databricks, Stripe, Canva, and Figma. Greenoaks employs a concentrated fund strategy, focusing on a select number of portfolio companies to maximize value creation. In 2023, the firm raised $2.1 billion for its fifth fund, slightly surpassing the amount secured for its fourth fund in 2021. This fundraising success highlights Greenoaks' strong position in the venture capital landscape, even amid challenging market conditions. The firm's investment philosophy centers on identifying and supporting innovative companies with the potential for significant global impact. Greenoaks' approach combines deep industry expertise with a commitment to fostering long-term growth, aiming to build enduring value for both entrepreneurs and investors.

a16z crypto is a venture capital fund that invests in crypto and web3 startups. We have over $7.6 billion assets under management across four funds, and have been investing in web3 – across all stages – since 2013, under the direction of founding general partner Chris Dixon, as part of Andreessen Horowitz.

Norwest Venture Partners is a leading Silicon-Valley based venture capital and growth equity investment firm managing $7.5 billion in capital. Since our inception, we have invested in more than 600 companies. The firm invests in early to late stage companies across a wide range of sectors with a focus on consumer, enterprise, and healthcare.We offer a deep network of connections, operating experience, and a wide range of impactful services to help CEOs and founders advance on their journey.We are proud to have backed entrepreneurs at Apigee, Casper, FireEye, Jet, Kendra Scott, and Udemy among others.Norwest has offices in Palo Alto and San Francisco, with subsidiaries in Mumbai and Bengaluru, India and Herzelia, Israel.

NGP Capital is a venture capital firm dedicated to empowering exceptional founders in transforming their innovative ideas into companies that contribute to a better future. With over $1.6 billion under management, the firm has backed more than 100 companies, including 19 unicorns and 11 IPOs. Their investment philosophy centers on the convergence of the physical and digital worlds, believing that this fusion will ignite positive human progress and lead to the emergence of the next generation of iconic companies. NGP Capital's portfolio spans various sectors, including enterprise computer vision, consumer IoT platforms, cybersecurity, and autonomous robotics. Notable investments include Scandit, Xiaomi, Coda, Lime, Security Scorecard, Immuta, ANYbotics, and Dataloop. The firm is committed to partnering with companies from inception to IPO, providing long-term support to foster growth and innovation.

Vertex is a global network of venture capital funds. The Vertex network of funds invests in early stage opportunities in technology through Vertex Ventures and healthcare through Vertex Ventures HC, and growth stage opportunities through Vertex Growth. Each of the Vertex Ventures funds in Israel, USA, China, and SEA & India operate independently, with separate local teams that raise and manage respective funds independently.Vertex Holdings is an anchor investor in each of the Vertex funds, namely: Vertex Ventures China, Vertex Ventures USA, Vertex Ventures Israel, Vertex Ventures SEA & India, Vertex Ventures HC, and Vertex Growth. Vertex Holdings is owned by Temasek Holdings.