Venturesutra in realtime
By Pulkit Sharma
 
Venturesutra (venturesutra.com) has unveiled the first of its kind Direct and Private Funding platform in India to help startup and growing enterprises easy and quick access to funding source. With Venturesutra, Entrepreneurs, Venture Capital, Angel and Seed Investors can now privately discuss potential investment opportunity directly in real time.  Currently, over 160 entrepreneurs and more than 25 top notch Investors have joined Venturesutra. With this free to register platform, Venturesutra has simplified the need for a funding ecosystem currently unavailable to effectively support growth of young and growing enterprises.

For Entrepreneur like Deepak Goel, Founder and CEO, Drizzlin and many others Venturesutra has eased the funding process as they can kick start this by creating executive summary, searching and identifying Investors and directly sharing their plan with targeted investor. For Angel Investors like J A Chowdary and Venture Capital firm like IDG Ventures India and Ojas Venture Partners and others Venturesutra offers direct access to quality deals right in their inbox from Tier 1 to Tier 3 cities across the country. The platform features customized account option, view and organize deals based on their investment mandate and engage with entrepreneurs directly.

Making the announcement Abhijit Maheswari, Founder, Venturesutra said “Entrepreneurs often struggle to find and reach out to the right investors directly and quickly; Venturesutra will provide a simple, easy, one stop place to search and connect with prominent and active investors instantly while investors can directly source deals and efficiently manage Dealflow in the Early and Growth stages. “Quality of deals and user-friendliness of the platform will be always important to us”, Abhijit said.

The Founder of Venturesutra, Abhijit Maheswari was earlier CEO of Sloka Capital, a capital advisory company focused on Startup and early stage companies primarily in healthcare, microfinance and technology sector businesses. Abhijit has previously worked in Intellecap, Hyderabad, Aermid Healthcare PLC, London and had co-founded Akula Handicrafts in Goa, right after college. The finance graduate from London has advised entrepreneurs on capital structuring, valuation, strategy, business plans and successfully raised capital for number of startups and growth stage businesses.

Venturesutra features neatly laid-out executive summary option that makes it easier for investors to quickly screen and evaluate ventures seeking funding. In order to keep the network of investor rich, venturesutra has set guidelines for investors who wish to join the platform. The joining of the platform is strictly on invitation. This also means only qualified investors have access to plans.

Ojas Ventures, IDG Ventures, Accel Partners, SIDBI Ventures,  Helion Partners, SAIF Partners, Inventus Capital Partners, Seedfund, Mumbai Angels, Qualcomm ventures, Reliance Venture Asset Management, Rabo Equity Advisors, Gujarat Venture Finance (GVFL), KITVEN, Rajasthan Venture Capital Fund (RVCF), VenturEast, Brand Capital, Small Enterprise and Assistance Fund (SEAF), Tempus Capital, The Morpheus, Omnivore Capital, Impact Investment Partners, and others are some of the investment companies that have joined Venturesutra. These investors represents diverse sectors and company stage (early / growth) focus from Technology, Internet, Mobile, Education, Consumer, Software, Cleantech to Healthcare and life science and Agriculture related enterprises.