VC fund (Cat I) · SEBI registry
3F Ventures
Early stage (Pre-Series A) · Pharma & Life sciences · Mumbai
At a glance
- Stage focus
- Early stage (Pre-Series A)
- Primary sector
- Pharma & Life sciences
- City
- Mumbai
- HQ / office
- Byculla East, Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Fund registered
- 2016
- Investments on record
- 6
- Website
- www.3f.vc
- Profile ↗
About
3F Ventures (3F VC) is a Mumbai-based early-stage firm backing founders in underserved/deep-tech markets (climate, biotech, hardware, AI), notably via equity-free grants to very early founders under 25. Linked to 3F Venture Partners (Sanjay Nath, Ashish Fafadia, Karthik Reddy and others associated with the Blume Ventures network).
Investment focus
Very early-stage (student/young founders); supports teams via equity-free grants and early VC across biotech, renewable energy/climate, hardware, and AI/compute infrastructure
Cheque size
Equity-free grants: Micro Grant INR 50k-1 Lakh; Indie Grant INR 10k-15k; wildcard stipend ~INR 10k/month (per own site). Not a conventional equity AIF cheque
As compiled from public sources — verify with the investor.
SEBI registration
SEBI AIF Category I — reported as “Cat I”
- IN/AIF1/16-17/0301
SIDBI Fund of Funds
None found
Notable portfolio
Neoves; Oru'el; Incy Tech; LiteFold; ThreadScope; Illume Bio
Team & organisation
Not disclosed on site (contact: Yash)
Early-stage grants/fellowship platform (equity-free) for sub-25 founders; SEBI Category I AIF registration not independently verified — operates as a grant program rather than a typical cheque-writing AIF
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Frequently asked
- What does 3F Ventures invest in?
- Very early-stage (student/young founders); supports teams via equity-free grants and early VC across biotech, renewable energy/climate, hardware, and AI/compute infrastructure
- What cheque size does 3F Ventures write?
- As compiled from public sources: Equity-free grants: Micro Grant INR 50k-1 Lakh; Indie Grant INR 10k-15k; wildcard stipend ~INR 10k/month (per own site). Not a conventional equity AIF cheque
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About this record
Compiled from SEBI registrations and public sources as of 2026-07. iHub India lists investors neutrally and does not endorse, rank, or verify investment terms — confirm all details directly with the investor before transacting.
Sources: https://www.3f.vc/; https://www.linkedin.com/company/3f-vc/