2013 has been a year full of activity for the Indian startup ecosystem. A wave of optimism surging through a pool of pessimism, there has always been something to cheer about. 2012 saw more than $760 million being invested via more than 200 deals and the number has risen in 2013 to over a $1.6 Billion via 293 deals. This compilation covers (almost) all the investments that have been made public in the VC and Angel space over the year. All the startup acquisitions have been covered in a previous post here.
According to investment size
Out of all the disclosed fundings , we’ve made four broad categories for the funding size:
A: < $1 million (Angel/Seed Funding)
B: > $1 million and < $5 million (Seed fund/Series A)
C: >= $5 million and <$10 million (Series A/Series B)
D: >=10 million (Series C and beyond)
According to location
Location is always an interesting parameter and in 2013, South India won the show with 43% of all the deals. No prizes for guessing the biggest contributor: Bangalore. The Silicon Valley of India saw 81 deals followed by Chennai and Hyderabad within South India. The second most dense area in terms of investments has been the west with 29% of the deals. Mumbai is the clear winner here with 55 of all the deals. North India came in third with 57 deals.
According to sector
Sectorwise, Consumer Web leads the show in terms of number of deals with 49 but in terms of the amount, eCommerce is the highest owing to the outliers Flipkart ($360 million) and Snapdeal ($125 million). Total amount invested (and disclosed) in Consumer Web stands at $187 million with Zomato as the biggest winner and eCommerce as a whole stands at 44 deals worth $880 million.
Here is the list of all the deals:
Company
Investor
Funding ($mn)
Location
Sector
January
InvestoPresto
Crystal Horse
0.05
Hyderabad
Consumer Web
MultiStory Learning Pvt Ltd
Undisclosed
0.045
Chennai
Education
Core Diagnostics
Artiman Ventures
5
Gurgaon
Healthcare
ZoomIn
SVB India Finance
1.6
Mumbai
Consumer Web
Ping Digital Broadcast
Ashwin Dhamera, Ankur Daga
-
Mumbai
Media
Drishti Eye Care
Lok Capital
-
Bangalore
Healthcare
mSwipe
Matrix Partners
5
Mumbai
Payment
ScaleArc
Nexus, Trinity, Accel
12.3
Mumbai/Valley
Enterprise
Richcore Lifesciences Private Limited
Fidelity Growth Partners India
6
Bangalore
Healthcare
BookAdSpace
Aakrit Vaish and Miten Sampat
-
Ahmedabad
Media
Thats Personal
Corporate Honchos
-
Mumbai
eCommerce
Grey Orange Robotics
BITS Spark Angel and Blume Ventures
-
Gurgaon
Robotics
ASG Eye Hospitals
Sequoia Capital
9
Rajasthan
Healthcare
Abhibus
BS Group
-
Hyderabad
Travel
Perfint
Norwest Venture Partners
11
Chennai
Healthcare
Catamaran fishing
Hyderabad Angels
-
Hyderabad
Others
American Swan
Four Cross Media
8
New Delhi
eCommerce
PriceBaba
Angels
-
Mumbai
Consumer Web
WizIQ
Kaizen PE and Germany-based media group Bertelsmann
4
Mohali
Education
Integrated Cleanroom Technologies
GEF
8.4
Hyderabad
Clean
Suryoday Microfinance
Aavishkaar Goodwell and Lok Capital
4
Bangalore
Social Impact
CodeLearn
Kima Ventures
1.5
Bangalore
Education
Zovi
SAIF, Tiger Global
10
Bangalore
eCommerce
Nepra Resorce Management
Aavishkar
-
Ahmedabad
Social Impact
Nueclear Healthcare
Norwest Venture Partners
4
Mumbai
Healthcare
Eduraft
Agels
0.003
Mumbai
Education
February
Giftology
Kiran Sidhu
-
Delhi
e – Commerce
Zovi
SAIF, Tiger Global
10
Bangalore
e – Commerce
Sai Silks
16.4
Hyderabad
Others
Instamojo
Blume Ventures
0.25
Mumbai
Ecommerce
Learnpedia
Ixora Ventures
-
Hyderabad
Education
HolidayIQ
Tiger Global, Accel
5.15
Bangalore
Travel
LensKart
Unilazer Ventures
9.76
Delhi
Ecommerce
Cosmic Circuits
Cadence
-
Bangalore
Hardware
Strand Life Sciences
Burrill & Co.
-
Bangalore
Others
Ayojak
HBS Alumni Angels, Blume Ventures, and Srijan Capital
-
Pune
Consumer Web
Intellegrow
Micheal and Susan Dell Foundation
1.84
Mumbai
Social Impact
iKure
Intellecap Network
-
Kolkata
Healthcare
Vellvette
India Quotient
0.5
Mumbai
Ecommerce
Anunta
Bessemer Venture Partners
-
Mumbai
Enterprise
Housing.co.in
8 Investors – Zishaan Hayath, Vaibhav Puranik, Shishir Kapoor, Hemanth Goteti, Gagan Goyal, Harsh Baid, Aditya Agarwal and Aatif Misbah
-
Mumbai
Consumer Web
Chumbak
Seedfund
-
Bangalore
Ecommerce
Nobel Hygiene Limited
Access India Fund
11.5
Mumbai
Healthcare
Dogspot.in
India Quotient
1
Gurgaon
Ecommerce
LifeCell International
Helion Venture Partners
6.44
Healthcare
Zomato
Info Edge
10.12
Consumer Web
Reuters Market Light
Ivycap Ventures
-
Others
RJ Bio-Tech
9.2
Aurangabad
Others
Meritnation
Info Edge
5.5
Delhi
Education
Mitcon Consultancy and Engineering Services
SIDBI Venture Capital
2
Pune
Energy
Redbus
20
Bangalore
Consumer Web
March
Bio Sense
GSF India, Insistor Fund
0.5
Mumbai
HealthCare
Citrus Pay
Sequoia Capital
2
Mumbai and Pune
Payments
iMerit Technology
Omdiyar
-
Kolkata
Others
RankJunction
Indian Angel Network
-
Nagpur
Education
SkoolShop
Blume Ventures
1
Mumbai
Education
Housing.co.in
Haresh Chawla
-
Hyderabad
eCommerce
PlayCez
Mukul Singhal, Rajesh Swahney
0.5
Delhi
Mobile
Interaction One
DSS
1
Others
Alma Connect
iAccelerator
0.25
Gurgaon
ConsumerWeb
Celtycs
Activeo
-
Bangalore
Others
InvestmentYogi
Angels
0.3
Hyderabad
ConsumerWeb
Local Circles
Nadi Godrej
-
Delhi
ConsumerWeb
ShopClues
Nexus and Helion
10
Vadodara
eCommerce
Games2WIn
Clearstone Venture Partners
2
Mumbai
Gaming
April
Qubole
Charles River Ventures and Lightspeed Ventures+ angel investment from Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaram
7
Bangalore
Enterprise
Arohan Foods
Omnivore Partners
0.8
Mumbai
Others
Pick me e solutions
Mumbai Angels, Chennai Angels, Bangalore Angels
Mumbai
Others
Reviews 42
Nirvana Venture Advisors and Rahul Khanna
NCR
Consumer Web
My Dentist
Seedfund Advisors and Asian Healthcare Fund
10
Mumbai
Healthcare
Eventifier
Kae capital
Chennai
Consumer Web
Pepperfry
Norwest Venture Partners (NVP)
8
Mumbai
eCommerce
Utkarsh Microfinance
Aavishkaar Goodwell, International Finance Corporation and Norwegian Microfinance Initiative.
4
Varanasi
Social Impact
Satin Creditcare network
MicroVest II, LP, ShoreCap II Limited (managed by Equator Capital Partners LLC) and Danish Microfinance Partners K/S (“DMP”)
7.6
NCR
Social Impact
Power2Sme
Accel partners
6
NCR
eCommerce
Shephertz
Mumbai Angels, Kae capital, Blume Ventures
NCR
Mobile
Dataweave
Blume Ventures, TLabs (Times Internet), 5ideas Startup Superfuel, Meta Studio Advisors and a group of angels, namely Rajan Anandan, Pankaj Jain, Bharathram Thothadri, Krishna Mehra and Abhishek Gupta
0.3
Bangalore
Enterprise
Hike
Bharati SoftBank
7
NCR
Mobile
Yebhi
Fidelity Growth Partners India, Qualcomm Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners and Catamaran
12
NCR
eCommerce
Plustxt Mobile Solutions
Mumbai Angels, Bangalore Angels
Bangalore
Mobile
Little1
Angel round
0.08
Kolkata
eCommerce
GNRC
Canbank Venture Capital Fund
4
Guwahati
Healthcare
Mosambee
SIDBI ventures
1
Mumbai
Mobile
PolicyBazaar
Inventus Capital Partners
5
NCR
Consumer Web
BabyOye
Helion Venture Partners
12
Bangalore
eCommerce
HomeShop18
OCP Asia Ltd
15
NCR
eCommerce
ZipDial Mobile Solutions
Jungle Ventures
Bangalore
Mobile
Kinara Capital
Sorenson Impact Foundation
1
Bangalore
Social Impact
Shield Healthcare Pvt Ltd
Venture India
4
Chennai
Healthcare
Qubecell
Blume Ventures, Mumbai Angels and Russian investor TA Ventures.
Mumbai
Mobile
Jack on Block
Unitus Seed Fund
Bangalore
Social Impact
Apalya
Cisco, IDG, Kalaari, Qualcomm
10
Hyderabad
Mobile
SmartCloud Technologies Pvt Ltd
Ventureast Tenet Fund
0.5
Bangalore
Cloud
Shield Healthcare Pvt Ltd
Fulcrum Venture India
4
Chennai
Healthcare
Amrish Oncology Services Pvt Ltd
Singapore based entrepreneurs
6
Ahmedabad
Healthcare
OvenFresh
Kalaari
Chennai
Others
Lumos
Rajan Anandan
Bangalore
Energy
TookiTaki
Ravi Gururaj and two others
0.2
Kolkata
Enterprise
Moojic
Rajan Anandan
0.05
Mumbai
Consumer Web
Credii
0.05
Enterprise
Lawrencedale Agri Processing
Aspada Investment Company
Chennai
Agriculture
iStar
Unitus Capital Fund
Bangalore
Education
May
Intap Labs Pvt. Ltd
Seed fund Kae Capital
Jaipur
Education
Hector Beverages
Catamaran Ventures and Footprint Ventures
8
NCR
Others
ShoppingWish
SV investors
Pune
ConsumerWeb
Foodpanda
AB Kinnevik and Phenomen Ventures
20
Haryana
Consumer Web
Helical IT Solutions
Citibank official
2.5
Hyderabad
Others
Bluegape.com
Aniket Khera and Rahul Bhatia
NCR
eCommerce
DataWeave
Blume Ventures, TLabs (Times Internet), 5ideas Startup Superfuel, Meta Studio Advisors and a group of angels
Bangalore
Enterprise
Ecolibrium Energy Pvt Ltd
IFC, Infuse Ventures
1.6
Ahmedabad
Energy
Flipkart
Tiger Global and Accel Partners
150
Bangalore
eCommerce
Windmill Health Technologies
Villgro Innovations Foundation
NCR
Healthcare
The Beer Cafe
Mayfield India Fund
NCR
Others
Edukart
Kima Ventures, Amit Patni and Arihant Patni (Patni family), AKM Systems (Shiven Malhotra), Vibhor Mehra (ex Partner of SAIF Partners) and alumni from Stanford University.
0.5
NCR
Education
GenY
Srinath DeviReddy
0.5
Hyderabad
Others
Edreams Edusoft
Inventus
2
Bangalore
Education
Unicommerce
Nexus
NCR
Enterprise
Bedbathmore
Blume Ventures
Mumbai
eCommerce
SocialBlood
Rajan Anandan,HArvard Angels
Bangalore
Healthcare
Invictus Oncology
Navam Capital and Aarin Capital
2
Mumbai
Healthcare
Culture Alley
Kae Capital
Jaipur
Consumer Web
Rainmaker
Angels
3
Mumbai
Education
Cloe
Mountain Apollo
NCR
eCommerce
Joognu
IAN
Ahmedabad
Consumer Web
June
OnlinePrasad
GrowthStory
NCR
eCommerce
TaxiForSure
Accel, Blume, Helion
Bangalore
Consumer Web
WeAreHolidays
Blume, Mumbai Angels, MMT
NCR
Consumer Web
Saraplast
responsAbility
Pune
Social Impact
Wellspring Healthcare
Asian Healthcare Fund
4
Healthcare
CloudByte
Fidelity Growth Partners India, Nexus, Kae
4
Bangalore
Enterprise
Amagi
Mayfiedl Fund, Nadathur Group and Ojas Ventures
6
Bangalore
Media
Barrix Agro
Omnivore Partners
Bangalore
Others
TastyKhana
Delivery Hero
5
Pune
Consumer Web
InterviewMaster
Venture Nursery
Bangalore
Enterprise
Tabtor
arin Capital Partners, BITS Spark Angels Sand Hill Angels
1
Bangalore
Education
SnapDeal
eBay, Intel, etc
50
NCR
Consumer Web
Bright Lifecare
Intel Capital
5
Healthcare
Housing.co.in
Nexus
2.5
Mumbai
Consumer Web
July
IndiaCollegeSearch
Indian Angel Network
1
Gurgaon
Education
Shoptimize
Tandem Capital
-
Pune
Mobile
Crude Area
Sidharth Rao and Sudesh Samaria,(founders of Webchutney) and 2 US based angel investors
-
Mumbai
Ecommerce
Wicfy
Ecosystem Ventures, Everest Management Fund in Switzerland, and prominent angel groups from Singapore and India.
-
Pune
Consumer Web
XCode
Shead Holdings
0.17
Chennai
Healthcare
Buy.t
Valuefirst
1
Delhi
Consumer Web
FindYogi
Raju Vanapala
0.1
Bangalore
Consumer Web
Cubito
Undisclosed
0.2
Goa
Consumer Web
Wheebox
Lumis Partners, Indus Balaji PE fund, Signature Capital Advisors and The HR Fund
-
Gurgaon
Education
Gray Routes
Undisclosed
0.1
Mumbai
Enterprise
Ola Cabs
TigerGlobal
3.2
Mumbai
Consumer Web
The Shopping Pro
Gaurav Bhatnagar, Ankush Nijhawan and Manish Dhingra
0.04
Gurgaon
Enterprise
Minetta Brook
Naya Ventures & TiE Angel Group Seattle
2
Others
Power2SME
Accel, Kalaari & Inventus Capital
6
Gurgaon
Enterprise
SnapLion
Orios VP, India Internet Group, Blume Ventures, IAN and SV Angels
-
Delhi
Consumer Web
KartRocket
5Ideas and 500 startups
0.25
Delhi
Enterprise
PowerStores
Hong Kong-based angel investor
2
Goa
Enterprise
Ampere
Forum Synergies and Axon Capital
4
Coimbatore
Others
Giftxoxo
Kshatriya Ventures
-
Bangalore
Consumer Web
Zumbl
Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal
0.02
Delhi
Consumer Web
Zoom
Raj Kumar Elango
0.2
Bangalore
Others
Vaultize
Tata Capital
-
Pune
Enterprise
Zapr
Samir Bangara
-
Gurgaon
Mobile
FlipKart
Naspers, Accel Partners, Tiger Global and ICONIQ Capital
200
Bangalore
Ecommerce
IndiaOrders
Vijay Group
-
Mumbai
Ecommerce
IndusDiva
Rajkumar Elango
-
Bangalore
Ecommerce
Flat.to
Aakrit Vaish
-
Mumbai
Consumer Web
GramVaani
Indian Angel Network (not confirmed, in media)
0.5
Delhi
Mobile
Klip.in
VentureNursery
-
Mumbai
Ecommerce
CommonFloor
Tiger Global, Accel India
7.5
Bangalore
Enterprise
Milaap
Jungle Ventures
1.1
Bangalore
Social Impact
CashKaro
UK Angels
0.75
Gurgaon
Consumer web
Robosoft
Kalaari Capital
37
Udupi
Mobile
Knimbus
Undisclosed
0.5
Gurgaon
Education
SkillSonics
NSDC
3.8
Bangalore
Education
August
Kuliza
Blume Ventures
-
Bangalore
Enterprise
VoxApp
Blume Ventures, Narayanan Shadagopan, Palaash Ventures, Sachin Bhatia , US-based Ramesh Haridas & Vikas Taneja
-
Delhi
Mobile
Purplle
Blume Ventures, Mumbai angels, Chennai Angels
-
Mumbai
Ecommerce
Airwoot
Kae Capital, Rajan Anandan, Sasha Mirchandani, Sunil Kalra and Samir Sood
-
Delhi
Enterprise
Hokey Pokey
Peter Rajsingh, partner at New York-based Castellar Partners
1
Mumbai
Others
Vini Cosmetics
Sequoia
22
Ahmedabad
Others
Antuit
Zodius Capital
3
Bangalore (&Singapore)
Others
NxtGen Datacenter
Intel Capital
8.8
Bangalore
Enterprise
Snapdeal
Softbank
75
Delhi
Ecommerce
Organicshop
Rajasthan Angel Investor Network
0.05
Jaipur
Ecommerce
Squarekey
500Startups and Devaraj Southworth
-
Mumbai
Ecommerce
UrbanLadder
Saif Partners
-
Bangalore
Ecommerce
LivQuik
Snow Leopard Tech Ventures
-
Mumbai
Mobile
Reach Accountant
Sequoia
0.2
Chennai
Enterprise
MedGenome
Emerge Ventures
1.5
Bangalore
Healthcare
SocioSquare
David Bell (Wharton prof) and others
0.325
Mumbai
Others
InterpretOmics
Amarante, a Singapore-based shipping company, and two unnamed Indian investors
1.6
Bangalore
Others
Zivame
Kalaari Capital and IDG Ventures
-
Bangalore
Ecommerce
September
Ecosense Sustainable Solutions Pvt Ltd
IAN, Palaash Ventures & others
0.4
New Delhi
Energy
edabba
C Cube Angels
1
Mumbai
Ecommerce
Klip.in
Mumbai Angels, Arihant Patni, managing director at Hive Technologies; and Jeffrey Keng Yew Lai, director, New Zealand-based Emje Investments
0
Mumbai
eCommerce
Shopsense
Kae Capital (A group of angels under Powai Lake Ventures and Jehaan Mehta also participated in the round)
-
Mumbai
Enterprise
Mukunda Foods (Dosamatic)
IAN
-
Bangalore
Hardware
N1 Media
Rajasthan Venture Capital Fund
-
Media
Thrillophilia.com
Hyderabad Angels, iLabs Venture Capital Fund, Navlok Ventures and Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) IIM-A.
0.2
Bangalore
Consumer Web
Simplilearn
Kalaari Capital & Helion
10
Bangalore
Education
Crayon Data
Ravi Thakran, CEO of L Capital Asia and head of LVMH Asia Pacific, and Ravi Mantha, president, TIE Singapore. William Bissell, MD, Fabindia; Meng Wong, co-founder, Joyful Frog Digital Incubator in Singapore and Ernest Pomerantz, chairman, Stonewater Capital also participated in the round.
1.4
Chennai and Singapore
Others
Unmetric
JAFCO Asia with participation from existing investor Nexus Venture Partners.
5.5
Chennai and New York
Enterprise
Punjab Renewable Energy Systems
responsAbility Investments AG
-
Zurich
Energy
Printland
SIDBI Ventures. Existing investors Evista Venture Capital and Sanjeev Kakar, co-founder of startup incubator Aegis Centre for Entrepreneurship, also participated in the round.
1
Delhi
Others
Mani’s Dum Biryani
Navlok Ventures
0.2
Bangalore
Others
AxisRooms
Seedfund
-
Bangalore
Enterprise
NationWide Primary Healthcare
SVB India Finance
0.9
Bangalore
Healthcare
Delhivery.com
Nexus Venture Partners
5
Gurgaon
Others
Micro Housing Finance Corporation
Unilazer Ventures and existing investors including India Financial Inclusion Fund and Michael & Susan Dell Foundation.
7
Mumbai
Social Impact
Glocal Healthcare Systems Pvt Ltd
SIDBI Ventures
5
HealthCare
October
Zoom
led by New York-based Empire Angels. Other investors who put in money in this round include San Francisco-based VC firm Funders Club, Basset Investment Group and a few other individuals
1.6
Bangalore
Consumer Web
Inasra Technologies Pvt Ltd
Matrix Partners India
-
Chennai
Consumer Web
Arohan Financial Services Pvt Ltd
Aavishkaar Goodwell II and Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Swaminathan Anklesaria Aiyar
3.5
Social Impact
Touristlink
Kenya-based accelerator 88mph
-
Consumer Web
TravelKhana
http://www.palaashventures.com/
-
New Delhi
Consumer Web
iKure Techsoft Pvt Ltd
Centre for Innovation Incubation & Entrepreneurship (CIIE) and US-based investor Village Capital
-
Hyderabad
Education
Maiden Marketing Pte Ltd
Singapore-based Jungle Ventures and former Indiagames COO Samir Bangara
-
Payments
Evomo Research & Advancement Pvt Ltd
Centre for Innovation Incubation & Entrepreneurship (CIIE)
-
Others
IndianMoney.com
Hyderabad Angels
-
Bangalore
Consumer Web
Flipkart
Belgium-based Sofina, US-based Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Dragoneer Investment Group and Vulcan Capital, Tiger Global
160
Bangalore
Ecommerce
Idea Device Technologies Pvt Ltd
Sequoia Capital
4
Bangalore
Enterprise
Karma Recycling Pvt Ltd
Rubal Jain, director-corporate strategy, Safexpress and Rishabh Sethi
-
Delhi
Energy
Affine Analytics
5
Bangalore
Others
Unbxd Inc
IDG Ventures India and Inventus Capital Partners
2
Bangalore
Enterprise
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