Venture debt / Private credit · SEBI registry
FOOD & AGRIBUSINESS INVESTMENT TRUST
Debt / Venture debt · Agri products & FPO · Bengaluru
At a glance
- Stage focus
- Debt / Venture debt
- Primary sector
- Agri products & FPO
- City
- Bengaluru
- HQ / office
- Bengaluru (Tasker Town); offices also in New Delhi
- Fund registered
- 2025
- Website
- prowessadvisors.com
- Profile ↗
About
The Food & Agribusiness Investment Trust is the AIF vehicle associated with Prowess Advisors, a food-and-agribusiness investment banking and advisory firm; it runs the Prowess Agribusiness Fund focused on patient growth capital for SMEs in the food/agri value chain. Registry signatory Saurabh Narain (Group CFO; ex-Rabo Equity Advisors, ex-Xander Group) leads fund operations.
Investment focus
Cat II AIF investing in India's food, agribusiness and sustainability value chain — primarily growth/expansion capital ('patient capital') for high-growth SMEs that are profitable or near profitability
SEBI registration
SEBI AIF Category II — reported as “Cat II”
- IN/AIF2/25-26/2111
SIDBI Fund of Funds
None found — no SIDBI/govt LP in the fund verified. (SIDBI Ventures appears only as a co-investor in a portfolio company, The Ayurveda Experience, not as an LP/anchor of the fund.)
Team & organisation
~10+ professionals (Chairman, MD & CEO, Exec Director/Group CFO + investment banking/consulting associates)
Trust-based Category II AIF (Food & Agribusiness Investment Trust); investment manager Prowess Advisors Private Limited (food & agribusiness advisory firm), managing the Kalpavriksh family of funds (growth equity + private credit), Bengaluru with Delhi offices
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- Cat II AIF investing in India's food, agribusiness and sustainability value chain — primarily growth/expansion capital ('patient capital') for high-growth SMEs that are profitable or near profitability
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About this record
- ⚑ Sector-specialist agribusiness/food fund; SME growth-capital focus (not early-stage tech VC); registered domain prowessadvisors.in does not currently resolve, but the firm's live site is prowessadvisors.com and the dedicated fund site is prowessequity.com
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://prowessadvisors.com/prowess/contacts/; https://www.kalpavrikshfund.com/