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Auxano Capital

Seed · Fintech · Gurugram

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At a glance

Stage focus: Seed
Primary sector: Fintech
City: Gurugram
HQ / office: 202, 2nd Floor, Address One by Baani, Golf Course Road, Sector 56, Gurugram, Haryana - 122011, India
Fund registered: 2019
Investments on record: 8
Corpus (as reported): Auxano Dawn Fund (SEBI Cat-II AIF) launched July 2022 with a target corpus of ~USD 25 million; firm also runs the Auxano Entrepreneur Trust (SEBI Cat-I Angel Fund). Combined disclosed corpus across the two funds cited at ~USD 50M; in June 2024 the firm announced plans for a second/larger fund targeting ~USD 100M. No single consolidated AUM officially disclosed; ~USD 25M is the latest confirmed individual fund size (Auxano Dawn Fund, 2022).
Website: auxano.in
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About

Auxano Capital is a Gurugram-based early-stage venture capital firm (Auxano Capital LLP) founded in 2016 by Brijesh Damodaran Nair and Ashish Padiyar, backing tech-enabled startups primarily at seed/pre-Series A. It manages two SEBI-registered alternative investment funds — the Auxano Entrepreneur Trust (Cat-I Angel Fund, IN/AIF1/19-20/0741) and the Auxano Dawn Fund (Cat-II AIF, IN/AIF2/21-22/1002). The current team includes partners Brijesh Damodaran Nair, Ashish Padiyar and Mohit Handa, with principal Mansi Handa.

Investment focus

Stage: Seed / pre-Series A early-stage (occasional Series A/B follow-on). Sectors: tech-enabled / emerging-tech businesses — fintech, agritech, enterprise SaaS, logistics/supply chain, healthcare/healthtech, edtech, commerce, gaming, sustainable mobility, manufacturing/deep-tech.

SEBI registration

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

IN/AIF1/19-20/0741
IN/AIF2/21-22/1002

SIDBI Fund of Funds

None found — no evidence of SIDBI FFS or other govt LP commitment to Auxano's funds in authoritative sources.

Notable portfolio

Milkbasket (acquired by Reliance, Aug 2021); Aereo (formerly Aarav Unmanned Systems); Polymatech Electronics; WIOM (formerly i2e1); The Office Pass; LoanKuber; mProfit; Mugafi

Team & organisation

~15 members incl. 3 partners, 1 venture partner, 2 principals (per Tracxn); designated partners Brijesh Damodaran Nair and Ashish Padiyar

Auxano Capital LLP is investment manager of two AIFs: Auxano Entrepreneur Trust (Category I Angel Fund, IN/AIF1/19-20/0741) and Auxano Dawn Fund (Category II AIF, IN/AIF2/21-22/1002); LLP-managed multi-fund

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What does Auxano Capital invest in?: Stage: Seed / pre-Series A early-stage (occasional Series A/B follow-on). Sectors: tech-enabled / emerging-tech businesses — fintech, agritech, enterprise SaaS, logistics/supply chain, healthcare/healthtech, edtech, commerce, gaming, sustainable mobility, manufacturing/deep-tech.
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About this record

⚑ Name collision: separate unrelated "Auxano"-named entities exist (e.g. auxano.com and other "Auxano" firms) — the correct VC is auxano.in. The phone number published on the site ("+1 840 841 25 69") is a US-format placeholder; do not rely on it. Founder's full legal name is Brijesh Damodaran Nair (sometimes shown as just "Brijesh Damodaran"). Private firm — no government/DFI/public-university linkage. The live /portfolio/ page shows only a rotating subset; full portfolio corroborated via independent sources (Tracxn, Crunchbase, SuperScout). "Stockal" could not be re-confirmed on the official site in this pass and was replaced with Mugafi (confirmed on official portfolio page); treat Stockal as unconfirmed if needed.

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Sources: https://auxano.in/; https://tracxn.com/d/venture-capital/auxano/__NniKOM2MzgAxIijhdYBfyyufskJSTvh3sTQwS02-HFs