Artha Venture Fund

Stage focus

Multi-stage

Primary sector

Fintech

City

Mumbai

HQ / office

A-902, Marathon Futurex, Mafatlal Mills Compound, NM Joshi Marg, Lower Parel, Mumbai 400013, Maharashtra, India. (Footer of artha.fund shows "A 902 Marathon Futurex, Lower Parel, Mumbai, MH" verbatim; full postal detail corroborated by the Artha India Ventures site.)

Fund registered

2017

Investments on record

135

Corpus (as reported)

~₹2,300–2,400 crore platform AUM (2025, across Artha Venture Fund + growth vehicles + proprietary capital); ~$137M reported total AUM at the Artha Select Fund final close. Stated target of ₹10,000 crore AUM by 2032. Figures sourced from media reporting (YourStory, DealStreetAsia, entrepreneurindia profile); the site's AUM counter renders placeholder zeros to automated fetch, so AUM is not a static official-page number.

Website

artha.fund

LinkedIn

Profile ↗

Artha Venture Fund (AVF) is an India-based early-stage micro-VC fund founded/led by Anirudh Damani (Managing Partner), originating from the Damani family office (first investment ~2012, formal VC establishment ~2013). It operates under the Artha Venture Partners fundhouse — positioned as "India's first microVC fundhouse, created by a family office to empower other family offices" — alongside Sandesha Jaitapkar (COO/CHRO) and Jashank Pohani (Head – Family Office Relationships). The platform invests at seed with follow-ons up to Series A across fintech, consumer/D2C, SaaS, spacetech and deeptech, and manages a multi-fund structure (Artha Venture Fund, Artha Continuum Fund, Artha Select Fund) under three SEBI AIF registrations shown on artha.fund.

Stage: Seed / early-stage micro-VC with follow-ons up to Series A (Artha Venture Fund / AVF; the fundhouse positions itself as "India's first microVC fundhouse"). The platform also runs growth/later-stage vehicles (Artha Continuum Fund, Artha Select Fund — the latter closed at ~$49.4M in 2025). Sectors: FinTech / fintech infrastructure, RetailTech, D2C/consumer ("premium consumption"), SaaS, SpaceTech/DeepTech, RecruitmentTech/HRTech, applied AI.

Lead cheques ~INR 15-30 lakh ($25K-$50K); up to ~INR 2 Cr in Pre-Series A rounds

As compiled from public sources — verify with the investor.

SEBI AIF Category I — Venture capital — reported as “Seed / early-stage micro-VC / Cat I/Cat II”

• IN/AIF1/17-18/0522
• IN/AIF1/23-24/1281
• IN/AIF2/24-25/1507

On the SIDBI FFS list

Funds: Artha Venture Fund I

Yes — on official SIDBI FFS supported-AIF list (Artha Venture Fund I)

OYO (exit); Purplle (partial exit); Rapido; Agnikul Cosmos; Karza Technologies; Everest Fleet; Exotel (exit, ~114x reported); Biryani By Kilo

~14-person team incl. 2 partners (Managing Partner Anirudh A. Damani)

Investment Manager: Artha Singularity Venture Partners LLP; SEBI-registered Category I AIF (Reg. IN/AIF1/17-18/0522), ~INR 200 Cr fund within multi-fund Artha platform

What does Artha Venture Fund invest in?

Stage: Seed / early-stage micro-VC with follow-ons up to Series A (Artha Venture Fund / AVF; the fundhouse positions itself as "India's first microVC fundhouse"). The platform also runs growth/later-stage vehicles (Artha Continuum Fund, Artha Select Fund — the latter closed at ~$49.4M in 2025). Sectors: FinTech / fintech infrastructure, RetailTech, D2C/consumer ("premium consumption"), SaaS, SpaceTech/DeepTech, RecruitmentTech/HRTech, applied AI.

What cheque size does Artha Venture Fund write?

As compiled from public sources: Lead cheques ~INR 15-30 lakh ($25K-$50K); up to ~INR 2 Cr in Pre-Series A rounds

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• ⚑ Brand/entity cluster (not fraud, but confirm which entity contracts): "Artha" spans Artha Venture Partners (fundhouse, artha.fund), Artha Venture Fund (brand site artha.vc — a JS app returning only a tagline to automated fetch), Artha India Ventures (family office, artha.ventures), and Artha Group (artha.group, the email domain used on the contact-us page). Email-domain inconsistency: homepage uses [contact on file] while the contact-us subpage uses [contact on file] / [contact on file] — all official Artha-group domains, but worth confirming the live point of contact. Aggregator/scraper email patterns (RocketReach, LeadIQ, ContactOut) exist but were NOT used. Private family-office-origin firm — no government/DFI/public-university linkage. HQ in India (Mumbai).

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://artha.fund/; https://artha.fund/about-us/