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Driving change. Transforming India.

Smita Deorah
Aravind Sanka
Kanav Hasija
Nilesh Patel
Deepak Sahni
Meghna Agarwal
Victor Senapaty
Saurabh Bansal
Akshat Nayyar
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One day I became curious about the quality of the preschool my maid’s child attended. I walked in and saw thirty kids of various ages, cleaning and loitering around a dilapidated building, while my own two-year-old was learning how to read in a good preschool. This experience shook me and I knew instantly that this was going to be my life's work: bringing equity in education to all kids in India.

Smita Deorah, Co-founder, LEAD School

We made a list of the things we all do from the moment we wake up to when we go to sleep, as well as the problems we face every day. That’s when the idea of private transport emerged. Ride sharing and cab booking existed only in big cities, and not for the masses in smaller cities. We started thinking about the common Indian man’s vehicle — that’s how we arrived at the idea of two-wheeler ride sharing.

Aravind Sanka, Co-founder, Rapido

When people and teams leverage all the ways we can connect and be collaborative, today, industry becomes more efficient. To build a better future, we must take this approach to working together.

Abhinav Shashank, Co-founder, Innovaccer

After being in the business of services, I was keen to build a software-first business. My sales background led me to think of what improvement opportunities existed in the sales and marketing space, so we started by integrating processes and powering them through automation in a single, streamlined system.

Nilesh Patel, Co-founder, LeadSquared

Healthcare as a service is evolving toward more self-managed care. We don’t merely screen, but also guide our customers towards managing and treating health issues. We’re building products and services that increase patient access, lower costs and reduce burdens on healthcare infrastructure.

Deepak Sahni, Co-founder, Healthians

The advent of hybrid work has created a new opportunity for employees to live, study and work in the same city. With the increasing popularity of the work-near-home scenario, employers who want to cater to a redistributed workforce will have more demand for flexible, scalable workspaces.

Meghna Agarwal, Co-founder, IndiQube

We want to ensure that education is affordable to all and hope that educational opportunities change our students’ lives the way it has changed ours.

Bibhu Prasad Das, Co-founder, Propelld

I still remember the sacrifices my parents made just to pay for my tuition fees and one train ticket to Delhi. My parents said, ‘All we can give you is education.’ That’s all that anyone needs in order to bring generational change to their circumstances.

Anil Nagar, Co-founder, Adda247

Healthcare should be a right, not a privilege. When we were working in the pharma industry, we realized 80% or more of the people in our country do not complete their full medicine dose because of affordability challenges. That’s how TrueMeds was born. Our goal is to democratize medicine purchase and bring a revolution to the Indian healthcare industry.

Akshat Nayyar, Co-founder, TrueMeds
Our purpose

We support Indian entrepreneurs with purpose-driven capital

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Our approach goes beyond capital. We aim for the long-term, as we know it can take years to build businesses for longevity. No matter the stage or phase of our investment, the number one commitment we make to all founders is time. It’s a value we’ve held since the beginning, made possible by the unique structure of our fund.

Like us, founders and their companies seek to create sustainable solutions — economic and otherwise — that strengthen India’s leadership in global technology. If we hit our mark, their work will bring value beyond valuation to communities, worldwide.

Focus Areas

Innovation excites us. Whether a new engine, platform, or tool, technology creates efficiencies and widespread benefits. Several areas of focus have drawn our eye and expertise because of their collective capacity for change. These are the fulcrums we think will move the world in the next 20 years.

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    Consumer

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    Modern, customer-focused retail chains and manufactured goods makers are attentively catering to the unique needs of rising middle- and lower-income Indian customers.

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    E-commerce

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    Maintaining an online sales presence is competitively essential these days, but smaller firms can still have difficulty making the leap. The pandemic forced many Indian companies to finally pivot, motivating e-commerce platforms to adapt to the needs of SMEs.

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    Edtech

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    Edtech collapses India’s traditional geographic and income barriers to education, lowering costs and promoting equity. Companies that provide tech-powered classroom and live online learning and upskilling are scaling steadily.

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    Electric vehicles

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    With fuel costs rising and India setting ambitious carbon reduction goals, electric vehicles (EVs) are in high demand. Constant improvements to EV range and power are quickly narrowing the gap with fossil-fuel vehicles and products.

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    Enterprise tech

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    Enterprise solutions are exponentially streamlining workflows, improving communication and providing access to critical decision-making data increasing the speed and effectiveness of processes like talent recruitment, customer service workflow analysis and logistics management.

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    Financial services

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    Financial providers are seeing value and credit-worthiness in overlooked sectors and customers, offering a boost to Indian entrepreneurs, homebuyers and home improvers through microloans and alternative financing products.

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    Fintech

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    Our fintech companies are unbundling gate-kept services and driving down costs expanding financial opportunities to the many Indian small businesses, startups and families who are geographically isolated or find traditional banking and accounting providers difficult to access.

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    Healthtech

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    From big data to smartphones, new and legacy providers are leveraging technology to improve healthcare provision, diagnostics and outcomes.

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    Machine learning

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    India’s long-standing expertise in software engineering and business transformation solutions are giving startups in this space an edge. Scalable, commercial ML applications for marketing, talent sourcing and customer experience in industries ranging from banking to healthcare are in high demand.

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    SaaS

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    Cloud-based, modular, feature-rich software is changing the game for enterprise IT. With Indian SaaS companies performing go-to-market right from home, customer acquisition costs are low and the potential for scaling and value creation is unprecedented.

Portfolio

Since 2000, WestBridge has made over 150 investments in private and public businesses with a significant nexus to India and South Asia. In fact, a few of our investees have been with us for almost as long as we’ve been around.

The companies we partner with have always been on the vanguard of innovation and homegrown capability, creating new categories with both mass appeal and ingenuity. They range from early stage to public. Their products and services reach the hinterlands and around the world. One thing they all have in common is bold ideas with the potential to transform India for decades to come.

Portfolio
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Turing
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Healthians
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Wooden Street
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Sunstone
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Aptus Housing Finance
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Star Health
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DealShare
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People

WestBridge is an ecosystem built on relationships. We consider people and the relationships between them the most powerful asset. Engineers, product developers, analysts, financiers, legal experts and connection-makers of all kinds — we exchange ideas, constantly collaborate and work hard to turn possibility into reality.

The founders who choose to partner with us bring diverse perspectives to our teams. They’re passionate, hungry and on a mission to positively impact people’s lives at national and global scale. They’re early dominant market leaders, creating new business categories and future-defining industries.

Vijay Krishna
Founder

Vijay Krishna

Turing

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WBC Team

Deepak Ramineedi

Partner

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Sashi Reddi
Advisor

Sashi Reddi

Venture Advisor

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Careers

Everyone knows the first ten start-up hires are the most important. Filling key positions during growth phase transitions is no less critical. We tap into our vast network and route top-tier talent to portfolio partners through these — and all — phases of growth. When a team comes together with visions aligned, incredible things happen.