Private equity (Cat II) · SEBI registry
SH India Opportunities Trust
Early stage (Pre-Series A) · Media & Entertainment · Mumbai
At a glance
- Stage focus
- Early stage (Pre-Series A)
- Primary sector
- Media & Entertainment
- City
- Mumbai
- HQ / office
- Mumbai, Maharashtra (Worli, Vaswani Chambers); also Singapore office
- Fund registered
- 2025
- Website
- stratfordhouse.com
About
Stratford House (Stratford House Capital) provides intermediated fund-of-funds solutions to investors in Indian private equity. Founded by a spin-out team from CDC's South Asia Fund team, it has managed 60+ funds and invested in 20+ funds; SHC is also licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
Investment focus
Indian private equity via a fund-of-funds / intermediated-solutions model (invests into and across PE funds rather than direct startup investments)
SEBI registration
SEBI AIF Category II — reported as “Cat II”
- IN/AIF2/25-26/1863
SIDBI Fund of Funds
Yes — DFI-linked (not SIDBI FFS). Stratford House is a spin-out of CDC/British International Investment (BII)'s South Asia Fund team; it advises BII on part of its India fund portfolio and advises Dayton Advisors (a wholly-owned BII subsidiary) on BII's India secondaries partnership with Coller Capital. Relationship is with BII (UK DFI) as advised mandate, not Indian govt fund-of-funds (https://stratfordhouse.com/about.html)
Team & organisation
4 investment professionals (Alagappan 'Muru' Murugappan – Managing Partner; Piyush Jhawar – Partner; Prachi Deedwania – Principal; Wilfred Chua – Investment Associate)
Category II AIF (trust — 'SH India Opportunities Trust'); manager is Stratford House, a fund-of-funds / secondaries & co-investment advisory firm with offices in Mumbai (Vaswani Chambers, Worli) and Singapore
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About this record
- ⚑ PE fund-of-funds (not direct startup VC); Singapore-affiliated (MAS-licensed entity)
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Sources: https://stratfordhouse.com/; https://stratfordhouse.com/about.html