Venture debt / Private credit · SEBI registry
Kautilya Real Estate Fund
Debt / Venture debt · Private credit / Debt · New Delhi
At a glance
- Stage focus
- Debt / Venture debt
- Primary sector
- Private credit / Debt
- City
- New Delhi
- HQ / office
- New Delhi (Nehru Place); fund administered out of Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi
- Fund registered
- 2018
- Website
- nishithdesai.com
About
Kautilya Real Estate Fund (KREF) is a SEBI Category II real-estate debt AIF that provides growth capital and construction finance to residential developers, advised by Kautilya Finance Investment Advisors LLP and linked to Aevitas Property Partners. The SEBI registry email belongs to law firm Nishith Desai Associates (formation counsel), not the fund itself; no genuine standalone fund website was confirmed.
Investment focus
Real-estate debt: senior secured debt / construction finance to residential developers (affordable & mid-income housing) in Delhi and Mumbai
SEBI registration
SEBI AIF Category II — reported as “Cat II”
- IN/AIF2/18-19/0574
SIDBI Fund of Funds
None found
Team & organisation
Category II AIF (SEBI Reg. IN/AIF2/18-19/0574), managed by Kautilya Finance Investment Advisors LLP, New Delhi (registry address B-7/45, Safdarjung Enclave Extn, New Delhi 110029; HQ also cited at Nehru Place). Note: 'nishithdesai.com' is the law firm that structured the fund, not the fund's own site; Aevitas Property Partners is an LP/investor, not the manager
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About this record
- ⚑ real-estate debt fund (not startup VC); Aevitas sponsor/platform is Amsterdam-based (foreign sponsor link)
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Sources: https://lei.bloomberg.com/leis/view/335800ECWAQTMHDNE470; https://www.aevitas.com/investment-platforms/kautilya-finance