IIMA Ventures
iimaventures.com Direct + LP
IIMA Ventures is a startup incubator and innovation hub at IIM Ahmedabad that supports early-stage ventures through incubation, acceleration, and investment. It invests via its balance sheet at pre-seed and seed stages and also incubates venture capital funds.
IIMA Ventures is an accelerator headquartered in Ahmedabad, India, founded in 2002. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, from pre-seed to seed, in DeepTech, digitalization and climate Tech. Its stated cheque size is $100-150k per venture. 340 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We back fearless entrepreneurs building disruptive solutions. We stand with the startups at their risky early stages, when they need most support while there is hardly any available.”
— IIMA Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Accelerator
- Headquarters
- Ahmedabad, India
- Invests in
- India
- Sectors
- DeepTech, Digitalization, Climate Tech
- Cheque size
- $100-150k per venture
- Founded
- 2002
- Portfolio
- 340 companies
Team, as IIMA Ventures publishes it
- Chintan Bakshi Partner - Incubation
- Priyanka Chopra CEO & Managing Partner
- Sandeep Koujalgi SVP - Seed & Acceleration
- Sanea Vakaliya Director - Finance & Legal
- Supriya Sharma Partner - Insights
- Vipul Patel Partner - Seed Investing
- Kunal Upadhyay Co-founder - IIMA Ventures Board Member - CIIEI
- Ankur Sinha Faculty - IIM Ahmedabad Board Member - CIIEI & CRIF
- Bharat Bhasker Director - IIM Ahmedabad Board Member - CIIEI
- Geeta Goel Managing Director - MSDF Board Member - CIIEI
- Sanjeev Bikhchandani Founder - InfoEdge Board Member - CIIEI
- Sunil Sharma Faculty - IIM Ahmedabad Board Member - CIIEI
Names and roles exactly as listed on iimaventures.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
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