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AdvantEdge backs exceptional founders and innovative companies across consumer sectors with a focus on mobility.
Rapido was founded in 2015 by Pavan Guntupalli, Rishikesh SR, and Aravind Sanka as theKarrier - an intra-city logistics aggregator.
We worked with the company as they pivoted to a bike-taxi marketplace, and partnered with them in 2016 as lead investors in their seed round.
Rapido has since emerged as the largest player in the Bike Taxi segment, ahead of Uber and Ola combined. The service is available in over 100 cities across India.
Other Investors: Westbridge Capital, Swiggy, Nexus Venture Partners, Shell, Hero Family Office
Chalo was founded in 2015 by Mohit Dubey, Nikhil Agarwal, and Vinayak Bhavnani as ZopHop.
We partnered with the company in 2017 as the company changed it’s name to Chalo.
Chalo is now India’s #1 bus transport technology company.
Other Investors: Waterbridge Ventures, Venture Highway, Avataar
Zingbus was founded in 2019 by Prashant Kumar, Ravi Verma, and Mratunjay Singh.
We lead Zingbus’ first round of funding in 2019 after working closely with the team to identify the most capital efficient GTM to become a category leader.
Zingbus is now India’s leading inter-city bus platform, covering over 500 cities in 18+ states across India, with a fleet of more than 350 buses.
Other Investors: Y Combinator, InfoEdge Ventures
Park+ was founded in 2019 by Amit Lakhotia.
We partnered with the company in Oct ‘21.
Park+ is India’s largest parking technology company, servicing 6 million cars, and 200K parking locations across India.
Other Investors: Peak XV (Sequoia), Matrix Partners, Epiq Capital
Exponent was founded in 2021 by Arun Vinayak and Sanjay Byalal.
We partnered with the team and invested in their first funding round in 2021.
Exponent operates the world’s fastest commercially deployed rapid-charging platform, charging commercial 3W vehicles in 15 minutes.
Other Investors: Lightspeed, YourNest, 3one4 Capital
Grip was founded in 2020 by Nikhil Aggarwal, Aashish Jindal, and Vivek Gulati - who were formerly building Chalo (we partnered with them in 2017)
We partnered with Grip in 2021.
Grip is India’s leading alternate investment platform, with USD 90M+ of investments enabled, and a community of 250K+ investors.
Other Investors: Venture Highway, Endiya, Stride Venture, Nueva LC
Sheru was founded in 2019 by Ankit Mittal, Nakul Mehan, and Shikhar Sharma - who formerly worked as battery-tech experts at GreyOrange.
We first met the team in 2017, when they pitched a high-speed electric motorbike OEM called “42 Energy”, and worked with them as they pivoted several times in pursuit of product-market-fit.
In 2019, we partnered with Sheru as lead investors in their first funding round, after the team left their jobs to focus full-time on their own company.
Sheru has become India’s #1 energy banking platform, aggregating distributed energy storage capacity for V2G power management.
Other Investors: Micelio, Smile
Baaz was founded in 2019 by Anubhav Sharma, Shubham Srivastava, Karan Singla, and Abhijeet Saxena - a team of IIT Delhi students who worked on Formula-E race cars.
Since it’s inception, the team was mentored by Ashish from our fund, who helped the team build a commercially viable platform of low-speed EVs for fleet use-cases.
AdvantEdge lead the first round of funding in the company in 2019.
Baaz now operates a full-stack platform of electric scooters and battery swap stations for gig delivery workers.
Other Investors: Kalaari, 9 Unicorns
Everyone at AdvantEdge is a former founder. We have built companies, scaled them, sold them, and failed. We understand an entrepreneur's journey as we have lived through it, and we hope to support our founders with the learnings we've had.
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