Blume Ventures is an early-stage investment firm founded in 2010 in Mumbai. It has supported over 70 startups since 2011 across various sectors. Blume Ventures focuses on founding teams with potential and has consistently funded over 20 companies per year. Notable investments include Rail Yatri, Re Globe, IDfy, and Taxi For Sure. Blume Ventures aims to be ahead of emerging trends and has raised $60 million for its second fund to continue supporting early-stage Indian startups.

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About Blume Venture Fund
1 • 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

3. About Blume Venture Fund
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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.

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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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About Blume Venture Fund
Source:crunchbase

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About Blume Venture Fund

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Investment Process in Venture Funding
Fund Raising
Source Of Capital from
Bank, Corporations
Evaluation
Evaluate Venture Opportunity
Investment
Invest Capital into Enterprise
Governing
Govern Business to Profitable Growth
Exist
Generate Liquidity through IPO
Distribution
Distribute Return to Investors`
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Philosophy Of Blume Venture Fund
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

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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
funding
Second-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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Portfolio Of Blume Venture Fund
Portfolio
Analysts
Business Service
Clean Tech & Energy
Consumer Brands
Consumer Service
Customer Service
E-Commerce
Edtech
Fintech
Health Tech & Life Science
HR Tech
Internet Infra
Logistics
Manufacturing
Marketing Tech
Media & Ent
Real Estate
Retail Tech
Robotics
Social
Travel & Hospitality
Source:BlumeWebsite

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Return on Blume Venture Fund
Source:VCCRICLE

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Success Stories Of Blume Venture Fund
Source:BlumeWebsite

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Success Stories Of Blume Venture Fund
Source:BlumeWebsite

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Success Stories Of Blume Venture Fund
Source:BlumeWebsite

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Success Stories Of Blume Venture Fund
Source:BlumeWebsite

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