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Better Capital

Pre-seed / Idea · Media & Entertainment · Pune

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At a glance

Stage focus: Pre-seed / Idea
Primary sector: Media & Entertainment
City: Pune
HQ / office: Dual-based: Santa Clara / San Francisco, California, USA and Pune, India. Founder Vaibhav Domkundwar "splits his time between Silicon Valley and India" (per the firm's official media page). No precise street address is published on the firm's official site; a "1600 Duane Ave, Santa Clara, CA 95148" address appears only on third-party scraper databases (Growjo, Gaebler, etc.) and is unverified.
Fund registered: 2018
Investments on record: 8
Corpus (as reported): Maiden fund $15.28M / ~INR 114 Cr (closed Nov 2021; "Better Capital Ventures I"). Firm now self-reports $100M+ AUM with 200+ portfolio companies (2023-2025 reporting; official site states 200+ companies, $7B+ combined valuation, 700+ founders, 2 unicorns).
Website: bettercapital.vc

About

Better Capital is an India-focused early-stage venture firm founded in 2018 and run as a solo-GP fund by Vaibhav Domkundwar, a Berkeley-trained 3x founder (previously Roamware, acquired in a nine-figure deal, and Better Labs). It closed a $15.28M maiden seed fund in November 2021 and is described as one of India's most active pre-seed investors by deal volume, backing founders at "day zero." It is the first US-based pre-seed fund purpose-built to back India's breakout founders; privately operated with no government or DFI affiliation found.

Investment focus

Stage: pre-seed / seed ("day zero" / founding-stage); median check ~$250K-$500K (originally ~$300K, up to $1M). Sector: largely sector-agnostic — fintech & fintech infrastructure, edtech, SaaS, AI, consumer, climate/cleantech, agritech, deeptech, web3/crypto.

SEBI registration

Registration category not stated — reported as “Seed / pre-seed micro-VC (solo-GP fund)”

SIDBI Fund of Funds

None found

Notable portfolio

Slice; Open; M2P (M2P Fintech); Khatabook; Teachmint; Jupiter; Rupeek; Yulu

Team & organisation

HQ partly OUTSIDE India: the fund is US-based (Santa Clara / San Francisco, California) with a secondary Pune presence — material for a UP government program. No contact email or pitch/application form is published on the firm's own official website (home, media, portfolio pages all checked; only LinkedIn/Twitter social links present); emails such as [contact on file] appear ONLY on third-party scraper sites and were NOT output. No rebrand, name-collision, fraud, or PE/DFI/government-vehicle concerns found — firm appears private and legitimate.

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What does Better Capital invest in?: Stage: pre-seed / seed ("day zero" / founding-stage); median check ~$250K-$500K (originally ~$300K, up to $1M). Sector: largely sector-agnostic — fintech & fintech infrastructure, edtech, SaaS, AI, consumer, climate/cleantech, agritech, deeptech, web3/crypto.
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About this record

⚑ HQ partly OUTSIDE India: the fund is US-based (Santa Clara / San Francisco, California) with a secondary Pune presence — material for a UP government program. No contact email or pitch/application form is published on the firm's own official website (home, media, portfolio pages all checked; only LinkedIn/Twitter social links present); emails such as [contact on file] appear ONLY on third-party scraper sites and were NOT output. No rebrand, name-collision, fraud, or PE/DFI/government-vehicle concerns found — firm appears private and legitimate.

Compiled from 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.bettercapital.vc/; https://www.bettercapital.vc/portfolio/