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As compiled from public sources: USD 100,000-200,000 in pre-seed/early-stage companies

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Bharat Founders Fund

Multi-stage · IT / SaaS / Enterprise Software · New Delhi

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At a glance

Stage focus: Multi-stage
Primary sector: IT / SaaS / Enterprise Software
City: New Delhi
HQ / office: Investopad, C-19, SDA Market, New Delhi - 110016, India
Fund registered: 2022
Investments on record: 90
Corpus (as reported): Not officially disclosed as a single AUM figure. At launch (2022) it reported deploying ~$3–3.5M across ~20 startups and planned to deploy $20M+ over 2022; exact total fund size not published (year: 2022 reported figures).
Website: www.bharatfoundersfund.com
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About

Bharat Founders Fund (BFF) is an India-focused early-stage / seed venture fund structured as a collective of 50+ successful Indian startup founders who back and mentor next-generation founders building for India ("Bharat"). It was unveiled/launched around 2021-2022 and is managed by Investopad partners Maanav Sagar and Sera Arora, with backers including Meesho co-founders (Vidit Aatrey, Sanjeev Barnwal), Cars24 founders (Vikram Chopra, Mehul Agrawal, Gajendra Jangid), Rivigo's Gazal Kalra, and LEAD School's Smita Deorah and Sumeet Mehta. It typically writes seed checks of roughly $100K–$200K across a sector-agnostic mandate.

Investment focus

Stage: Seed and pre-seed / early-stage (also early Series A), typical ticket ~$100K–$200K. Sector: sector-agnostic / horizontal across SaaS, fintech, consumer/e-commerce, edtech, healthtech, logistics, AI, web3.

Cheque size

USD 100,000-200,000 in pre-seed/early-stage companies

As compiled from public sources — verify with the investor.

SEBI registration

SEBI AIF Category II — reported as “Seed / micro-VC (founder collective) / Cat II”

IN/AIF2/22-23/1031
IN/AIF2/23-24/1360
IN/AIF2/23-24/1382

SIDBI Fund of Funds

None found

Notable portfolio

BlissClub; Looppanel; Yellow Class; SkillBee; AdmitKard; Fixcraft; Basic; Treebo (via partner network)

Team & organisation

~3 Partners (Maanav Sagar, Sera Arora, Aparna Saxena) plus ~52 venture partners (founder collective); ~55 total

Founder-collective early-stage VC group (founded 2022, New Delhi); seed/micro-VC; specific SEBI AIF category not publicly disclosed

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Frequently asked

What does Bharat Founders Fund invest in?: Stage: Seed and pre-seed / early-stage (also early Series A), typical ticket ~$100K–$200K. Sector: sector-agnostic / horizontal across SaaS, fintech, consumer/e-commerce, edtech, healthtech, logistics, AI, web3.
What cheque size does Bharat Founders Fund write?: As compiled from public sources: USD 100,000-200,000 in pre-seed/early-stage companies
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About this record

⚑ Name collision: distinct from "Bharat Fund / Bharat Innovation Fund / Bharat Inclusion Seed Fund" (bharat.fund, CIIE Ahmedabad) — different entity; do not conflate. No email published on the official site (only a "Pitch to us" form) — no verified email could be obtained from the firm's own domain; do not use any email found on third-party scraper sites. Private founder-collective VC (not a government/DFI/public vehicle). HQ in India (New Delhi / NCR), no UP focus.

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Sources: https://www.bharatfoundersfund.com; https://www.bharatfoundersfund.com/venture-partners