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Since our launch in India in January 2019, we have supported more than 200 exceptional individuals on their entrepreneurial journey and invested in more than 40 startups.

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Bangalore boasts some of the world’s top talent, universities and tech startups. We welcomed our first cohort here in 2019, and have since funded more than 40 groundbreaking companies with the potential for global impact.

Building across a wide range of sectors, our India portfolio includes gamified investment and personal finance platform Fello, who have acquired 100,000 users and raised a US$1M Seed round, and Retail Pulse, who are using computer vision to provide real-time display analytics, connecting businesses to millions of mom and pop stores.

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The Bangalore Team

A wealth of expertise from India’s startup and technology ecosystems.

The EF India team bring a wealth of experience and knowledge from the Indian startup ecosystem, both as founders themselves, and as mentors to other startups.

Rahul Samat

Partner and General Manager, Bangalore
Leads EF India, prior leadership experience at a decacorn. Founder, Angel Investor & UPenn graduate

Vivek Kumar

Funding Manager
Founder with extensive experience supporting and scaling early tech startups in India

Ashwin Chandra

Entrepreneur in Residence
Two-time founder supporting teams to ideate and build backable companies

Prajwal Bhat

Entrepreneur in Residence
Entrepreneur, co-founder of Cerenode and computational biologist
The Bangalore Team

Venture Partners

Our Venture Partners provide dedicated support to founders in the second half of the platform, bringing their world-leading expertise as entrepreneurs, investors and advisors to push you and your startup to success.

Venkat Raju

Venture Partner, Entrepreneur First
Serial entrepreneur and prolific angel investor and mentor

Srikant Sastri

Venture Partner, Entrepreneur First
Two-time exited entrepreneur, passionate about spending time with early startups
Bangalore

Why build in Bangalore?

India has an extraordinary talent pool. Much of Silicon Valley  is run by entrepreneurs and executives who started life in India. And increasingly founders no longer believe they have to leave India to have an extraordinary impact: it’s clear that you can build globally competitive technology companies in India.

Our job is to accelerate this trend tenfold. We believe that a disproportionate share of the next decade’s deep tech giants will be built in India and we want to play a major role in making that happen.
“One key problem has been finding an ideal co-founder who has the same passion, and having mentors who can guide you through the entrepreneurial journey so you won't repeat the same mistakes.

Both these problems are solved by Entrepreneur First.”
Anil Chandra Naidu Matcha CTO, Vadoo
Our Community

A community of ambitious future founders, hand-selected by our team.

Founders have left leading institutions and impressive jobs to join our platform.

From a wide variety of backgrounds, they all share a commitment to building innovative startups now. These are the challengers; the driven; the leaders; the ones with the potential to found globally important companies.

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Bangalore Companies

Building across a wide range of industries and technologies.

Our teams are tackling challenging and pressing problems, including driving faster and cheaper antibody discovery; enabling logistics players to automate and improve their operations on-demand; and making crypto investments accessible for the mainstream investor.

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Featured Companies

Unbox Robotics
The AI-powered fleet of robots for parcel sorting.
Series A Supply Chain, Transportation or Logistics
Retail Pulse
Enabling consumer goods companies to optimise product visibility and revenue
Seed Commerce or Marketplace
MedPay
Enabling B2C businesses to deliver outpatient services at scale.
Seed Healthcare
Vadoo
Helping video streaming platforms reduce bandwidth cost and improve latency.
Pre-Seed Media or Entertainment
Fello
Game based savings and investment app for the Gen-Z of India
Seed Finance
Flippy
Decrypting crypto for the new age investor through social and assisted investing
Seed Finance
“I remember being overwhelmed at the kick-off weekend, thinking how do I put myself out there. But most people are capable of so much more than they think, and now I run my own company with a co-founder who I wouldn’t have even met if it weren’t for EF.”
Laina Emmanuel CEO, Brainsight AI
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