First Cheque
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Investment thesis
First Cheque is an early-stage investor that backs mission-driven founders across a wide range of sectors, positioning itself as a founder's earliest supporter.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 7 people
from the firm's websiteFounder mafia
2 people who came through First Cheque went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 82 of 140 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×34SaaS ×33Consumer ×22E-commerce ×16Enterprise Software ×16Fintech ×13Marketing Tech ×11Developer Tools ×8
HQs:India×44United States×9Indonesia×2Singapore×1Vietnam×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 55 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×182 founders×213 founders×84+ founders×8
Where their founders studiedfrom 66 founders with education data
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani ×16Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay ×7Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi ×5Indian Institute of Management Bangalore ×3Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad ×3Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee ×3Anna University Chennai ×2Delhi College of Engineering ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 67 founders with field-of-study data
Engineering ×34Computer Science ×21Business & Management ×12Mathematics & Statistics ×9Humanities ×2Physics ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 67 founders with career history
Flipkart ×4Oracle ×4Freshworks ×3Google ×3Mood Indigo IIT Bombay ×3Paytm ×3Antaragni IIT Kanpur ×2Cognizant ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
8 hold an MBA (of 75 with degree data)
Investments · 140 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 22025 · 12023 · 12022 · 32021 · 32020 · 111 dated
30 Sundays is an AI-powered holiday planning and booking platform that creates personalized vacation itineraries specifically designed for couples.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerTravel & Hospitality
Kshitij Chaudhary(Founder)inAnuj Punjani(Founder)in
Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersEximius VenturesInfo Edge Ventures
Able operates a career platform in India that helps early-stage professionals find job opportunities, develop their profiles, and access interview preparation and training content.
ConsumerEdTechHR TechBengaluru, IN
Ravish Agrawal(Co-Founder & CEO)inSvatantra Kumar(Founder)inSiddharth Srivastava(Founder)inSiddharth Srivastav(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsTitan CapitalY CombinatorElevation CapitalExpansion Venture CapitalFinTLV VenturesHuman Capital+1 more
DailySalary offers an earned wage access service that lets employees receive pay instantly for each day they work, with daily payments funded by Flexi Salary and no change to the employer's costs, cashflows, or payroll processes.
FintechHR Tech
Ambitio is a study-abroad admissions platform that gives students personalised, data-backed guidance for undergraduate, master's, and PhD applications to top universities.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechSaaS
Dirghayu Kaushik(Founder)inVikrant Shivalik(Founder)in
Co-investorsBLinC InvestWe Founder Circle Global Angels Fund
Anar Business App was a B2B marketplace that connected small businesses, sellers, and buyers across India, facilitating business enquiries and product listings.
B2B Marketplaces
Nishank Jain(CEO and Co-founder)
Co-investorsElevation CapitalTitan CapitalAccelAll In CapitalUpsparks CapitalAccel India+1 more
Bellatrix Aerospace develops and manufactures advanced propulsion systems for satellite deployment and orbital missions.
Deep TechHardwareSpace Tech
Rohan M Ganapathy(Founder)in
Co-investorsCactus Venture PartnersgrowX VenturesInflexor VenturesMerak VenturesPavestone
Biddano operates an integrated B2B healthcare marketplace in India connecting pharmacies with distributors and manufacturers for medicine procurement across allopathy, ayurvedic, generic, OTC, surgical, and veterinary categories.
B2B MarketplacesE-commerceHealthtech
Co-investorsDholakia VenturesWindrose CapitalVenture Catalysts
BiteSpeed provides an AI-native marketing, sales, and support platform for e-commerce brands, using AI agents to manage customer conversations across WhatsApp, voice, email, SMS, and social channels.
AI & Machine LearningE-commerceMarketing Tech
Vinayak Aggarwal(Founder)inKshitij Abhishek(Founder)inAman Mishra(Founder)in
Co-investorsAll In CapitalPeak XV PartnersUpsparks CapitalWhiteboard Capital
Blitz provides white-label express and last-mile logistics services using an all-electric vehicle fleet, letting businesses run deliveries under their own brand with customizable SLAs, live tracking, and cash-on-delivery support.
CleantechLogistics & Supply ChainMobility & Transportation
Saivya Chauhan 🛵📦⚡️(Founder)in
Co-investorsADB VenturesITERATIVEVynn CapitalAlteria CapitalBetter CapitalIndia Quotient+2 more
Blitz provides fulfillment and delivery software that forecasts demand and optimizes inventory placement across locations, and offers pre-checkout delivery-timeline display and post-checkout order tracking for online retailers.
E-commerceLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS
Yash Sharma(Founder)in
Co-investorsBetter CapitalCapria VenturesIndia QuotientAlteria CapitalConnecticut InnovationsInspired Capital+3 more
Blitz provides real-time performance insights and learning tools to help gamers of any skill level improve their play through automated guidance and meta-aware recommendations.
ConsumerGamingSaaS
Co-investorsCrosscut VenturesADB VenturesAlteria CapitalBANSEABetter CapitalIndia Quotient+2 more
A snack-food brand that makes popped (not fried or baked) chips using whole wheat atta and rice bran oil, along with peanut butter–layered wafers.
ConsumerFoodTechDelhi, IN
Abhishek Agarwal(Founder)
Brysk provides autonomous retail hardware and AI software solutions that operate checkout-free stores in hotels, universities, and other venues.
AI & Machine LearningHardwareRetail TechChicago, US
Ankur Sharma(Founder)in
Co-investorsTechstarsUpsparks Capital
CapGrid is a technology-enabled "Design-To-Deliver" company for precision parts and components, offering cloud manufacturing, fulfillment, and quality assurance to give manufacturers visibility and traceability across their supply chain.
Advanced ManufacturingB2B MarketplacesCloud ComputingLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS
Co-investorsAnicut CapitalAxilor VenturesNexus Venture Partners
ClaimBuddy provides health insurance claim assistance for patients and hospitals, using technology and operational processes to handle claims.
Digital HealthHealthtechInsurTech
Ajit Patel(Founder)inKhet Singh Rajpurohit(Founder)in
Co-investorsChiratae VenturesLVX VenturesRebright PartnersTitan CapitalBharat Fund
Confido Health provides an AI-powered phone answering and appointment booking system for healthcare practices, integrating with existing practice management systems to reduce administrative burden on front desk staff.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtech
Vichar Shroff(Founder)in
Co-investorsBetter CapitalDeVCMomentum CapitalOperators StudioRebellion VenturesSenseAI Ventures+5 more
CustomFit.ai is an AI-native platform for D2C and Shopify brands that enables marketers to personalize, A/B test, and optimize storefronts without engineering support.
AI & Machine LearningDirect to ConsumerE-commerceMarketing TechSaaS
Co-investorsUpsparks CapitalVelocity
OLake provides an open-source data ingestion engine optimized for Apache Iceberg that accelerates data movement from databases with CDC support and a clean interface.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsLewes, US
Shubham Baldava(Founder)Rohan Khameshra(Director)
Co-investors100x Entrepreneur FundDholakia Ventures
DelightChat provides an omnichannel customer support inbox that consolidates WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Email, and Live Chat into one dashboard with AI-assisted response drafting.
E-commerceMarketing TechSaaS
Preetam(Co-founder & CEO)inSankalp(Co-founder & CTO)in
Co-investorsGemba Capital Venture Partners
Diagna builds AI technology to automate administrative work in healthcare clinics, helping medical staff focus on patient care by handling information management tasks like form processing, faxes, and data coordination.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHealthtech
SansiddhDhruv
Co-investors100x Entrepreneur Fund
DrinkPrime offers smart water purifiers to Indian households through a rent-to-own subscription model that includes free maintenance, delivery, and relocation, with an app to track water consumption and filter health.
CleantechConsumerHardwareHealthtechIoTBangalore, IN
Manas Ranjan HotainVijender Reddy Muthyala
Co-investorsLVX VenturesMyAsiaVCPeak XV PartnersStride VenturesSupermorpheusTitan Capital+5 more
Dubpro.ai provides video localization and dubbing services for Indian enterprises and individuals by combining artificial intelligence with human expertise to reach audiences across regional language boundaries.
AI & Machine LearningMedia & EntertainmentIndia, IN
Ishan Sharma(CEO & CO-FOUNDER)Rishikesh(CTO & CO-FOUNDER)
Co-investorsAnicut Capital
ePlane designs and develops electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for mid-mile urban air mobility, addressing city congestion and emissions.
CleantechDeep TechHardwareMobility & TransportationChennai, IN
Prof. Satya Chakravarthy(CTO, Founder)
Co-investorsAll In CapitalAnicut CapitalAxilor VenturesLVX VenturesRedstart LabsUTEC+1 more
Eazybe provides automatic cloud backup and archival of WhatsApp conversations for business teams, particularly sales and support departments, ensuring conversation history remains with the company rather than individual devices.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales Tech
Sagar Dewan(Founder)in
Pune, IN
Sushil Mundada(Founder)
Co-investorsPentathlon VenturesSprout | Venture PartnersSupermorpheus
Fashinza is a B2B apparel sourcing and production management platform that connects fashion brands with vetted garment suppliers and manufacturers.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningB2B MarketplacesGurugram, IN
Abhishek Sharma(Founder)in
Co-investorsAccelAll In CapitalElevation CapitalFundamentumLiquidity CapitalTitan Capital+1 more
Fleetx is a fleet and logistics technology company that combines its own IoT hardware (OBD devices, fuel, temperature and drum sensors, dash cams) with a unified software platform and an AI layer for tracking, maintenance, compliance, fuel management, and invoicing.
AI & Machine LearningIoTLogistics & Supply Chain
Vineet Sharma(Founder)in
Co-investorsAll In CapitalCapria VenturesIndia QuotientBEENEXT
Florzy is an online destination for browsing and shopping tiles, letting users filter by room, material, style, size, color, and finish.
E-commerceMarketplacesPropTech
Rakesh Raman(Founder)in
Co-investorsBetter CapitalXeed Ventures
freshOk is an AI operations platform for grocery and FMCG retailers that connects to existing POS, ERP, and supplier systems to automate replenishment, expiry markdowns, pricing, assortment, and planogram decisions.
AI & Machine LearningRetail TechSaaS
Crux is an AI-powered analytics and creative strategist platform that helps performance marketers optimize advertising decisions and campaigns.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Himank Jain(Co-Founder and CEO)inAtharva Padhye(Founder)inPrabhat Singh(Founder)in
Co-investorsEMERGENT VENTURESY Combinator100x Entrepreneur Fund
Gimimichi is a food brand that sells curated bundles of ramen, including Korean-style ramen products, offered as boxed sets to consumers.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerceFoodTechGurgaon, IN
Nishank Goyal(Co-Founder)inAkhil(Co-Founder)Bodhi(Co-Founder)
Co-investorsIndia QuotientDeVCIIMA VenturesTitan Capital
GIVA is an online jewelry retailer selling silver and other jewelry pieces such as rings, pendants, and accessories directly to consumers, with prices listed in Indian rupees.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerce
Co-investorsAditya Birla VenturesAll In CapitalEpiq Capital Investment Advisory LLPIndia QuotientKenro CapitalLVX Ventures+9 more
GlobalFair is a B2B sourcing platform for building materials such as quartz, granite, tiles, cabinets, and pre-fabs, offering low minimum order quantities and door-to-door delivery with load tracking.
B2B MarketplacesConstruction TechLogistics & Supply Chain
Co-investorsLightspeed Venture PartnersMars Shot Ventures
GoodMeetings builds a sales productivity platform aimed at making sales interactions and meetings more effective for customer-facing revenue teams.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech
Co-investors100x Entrepreneur FundA42.VCChiratae VenturesSupermorpheus
GroMo is a platform that enables individuals to earn income by selling financial products from partner brands within their networks.
B2B MarketplacesFintechInsurTechMarketing TechSaaSGurugram, IN
Ankit Khandelwal(Founder)inDarpan Khurana(Founder)in
Co-investorsBeyond Next VenturesKube VCSoma CapitalTracxn labsVentureSouqY Combinator+14 more
Habbit is an innovation lab that develops advanced food ingredients, formulations, and processes to create nutritional products.
ConsumerFoodTech
Inspektlabs develops a computer vision platform that automates visual inspections of physical assets using photos and videos, serving industries that require asset assessment and damage evaluation.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechInsurTechSaaSNew Castle, US
Devesh Trivedi(CEO)inSanchit(CPO)in
Co-investorsChiratae VenturesIFCScrum VenturesBetter CapitalTechstarsTitan Capital
InterviewVector provides technical interview outsourcing and recruitment services, offering on-demand video interviews and structured assessment for hiring technical talent.
Enterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaSSingapore, SG
Junio is a prepaid RuPay-powered smart card and companion app for children and teens in India, letting parents transfer money, set spending limits, and track spending while kids learn budgeting.
ConsumerEdTechFintech
Ankit Gera(Founder)inShankar Nath(Founder)in
Co-investorsNB VenturesSprint VcVenture Catalysts
Juno was a consumer fintech company that offered a financial account product for managing and moving money.
ConsumerFintech
Co-investorsParaFi CapitalParafi General Fund
Kaagaz is a document management platform that helps users organize and access their important documents.
Cloud ComputingConsumerMarketing TechSaaSNew Delhi, IN
Snehanshu Gandhi(Founder)inTamanjit Bindra(Founder)inGaurav Shrishrimal(Founder)inTaman(Chief Technology Officer)
Co-investorsAxilor VenturesBetter CapitalPravega VenturesSupermorpheusY CombinatorCaffeinated Capital+6 more
Kalam Labs designs and manufactures high-altitude hydrogen-based unmanned aerial vehicles and stratospheric platforms for military and defense applications, including surveillance systems, autonomous weather platforms, and stealth strike swarms capable of operating at 100,000+ feet.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningDeep TechDefense TechHardwareRoboticsSpace TechIndia, IN
Ahmad Faraaz(Founder)inSashakt Tripathi(Founder)inHarshit Awasthi(Founder)in
Co-investors2am VCLightspeed Venture PartnersY CombinatorLightspeed India PartnersPioneer
Kutuki creates early-learning content and educational products for young children in India.
ConsumerEdTechBengaluru, IN
Bharath Bevinahally(Founder)inSneha(Founder)
Co-investorsBetter CapitalOmidyar NetworkOmidyar Network India
Looppanel offers an AI-enabled platform for analyzing customer research and feedback, helping teams organize interviews and surface insights faster.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaS
Kritika(Founder)Akash(Co-founder)
Co-investorsSpeciale InvestSupermorpheus
Lorazzo is an online retailer of kitchen and bathroom fixtures, selling products such as quartz and stainless steel sinks, faucets, bidet attachments, health faucets, mirror cabinets, and water softeners.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerce
Co-investorsSprout | Venture Partners
Mailmodo is a platform that uses AI to help marketers plan, create, and automate email campaigns with interactive elements like forms and polls directly in emails.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Aquibur Rahman(Co-founder, CEO)inApurv Gupta(Co-founder, CPO)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorAll In CapitalTitan Capitalm]x[v CapitalSequoia Capital
MapleMonk provides a no-code platform for building scalable data architectures, creating data pipelines, and managing data assets across multiple cloud tools like Snowflake and AWS.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Krishna Sudhama Gurram(Founder)in
Maya Labs builds AI systems that can generate and modify code autonomously, enabling non-programmers to create software solutions.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkBengaluru, IN
Sibesh Kar(Founder)inShubham Mishra(Founder)in
Co-investorsIndia QuotientPioneerY CombinatorFundamental VenturesPeterson Venture PartnersTitan Capital
Melio is a payments platform for handling business accounts payable and receivable, letting companies pay vendor bills by card or bank transfer, send domestic and international payments, and get paid via invoices and payment links.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Ilan Atias(Founder)in
Co-investorsAccelAlephBessemer Venture PartnersCapital One VenturesClocktower VenturesCoatue Management+11 more
OneBanc offers a digital banking app that lets users open a digital account to spend, save, and track money, with AI-powered insights and recommendations for a holistic view of their finances.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerFintech
Vibhore Goyal(Founder)in
Co-investorsLeo Capital VenturesSaison Capital
OnPoint is an e-commerce enabler in Vietnam that provides services and solutions to help brands grow across online channels, including commercial management, supply chain and logistics, creative, and omni-channel growth.
E-commerceLogistics & Supply ChainMarketing TechRetail TechSaaSHo Chi Minh City, VN
Co-investorsKiwoom InvestmentWhiteboard Capital
Poindexter Labs develops syncronus, a collaborative workflow platform for training and evaluating large language models through expert data annotation and review.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Co-investorsEpisode1Octopus Ventures
Predis is an AI tool that generates product videos for e-commerce businesses by extracting product details from store links and automatically creating scripts, voiceovers, and edited videos.
AI & Machine LearningE-commerceMarketing TechSaaS
Questbook operates a platform that connects builders and grant applicants with grant managers, recommending applicant profiles and delivering relevant grant opportunities.
Crypto & Web3Developer ToolsMarketplacesSaaS
Sriharsha Karamchati(Founder)in
Co-investorsCoinbase VenturesDragonflyHashedLemniscapMirana VenturesAll In Capital+9 more
Questt provides an AI decision system for consumer and retail enterprises, built around an "Intelligence Warehouse" knowledge layer that connects business logic (SKU hierarchies, distribution networks, GTM structures) with live operational data.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareRetail Tech
Co-investorsCelesta CapitalChiratae VenturesTitan Capital
Recordbook is a table-first, no-code workspace for structuring operational data such as sales logs, collections, inventory, customer records, and field reporting.
Enterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSBengaluru, IN
Abhishek Choudhary(Founder)in
Co-investorsCapria VenturesIndia QuotientY CombinatorGlobal Founders CapitalGoodwater CapitalMyAsiaVC+2 more
Refrens is a business operating system that helps businesses manage invoicing, accounting, sales, compliance, payments, inventory, and related operations.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Co-investorsUpsparks Capital
RentOk provides a mobile app for property owners to rent and manage PGs, hostels, co-living spaces, studios, and flats, handling rooms, tenants, and rent collection.
ConsumerPropTechSaaSGurugram, IN
Nimit Jain(Founder)in
Co-investorsGSF AcceleratorQuona CapitalSprint VciSeed
RevenueHero provides scheduling automation and inbound lead routing software that qualifies, matches, and books meetings between prospects and the right sales reps directly from web forms.
Marketing TechSaaSSales TechClaymont, US
Charanyan Venkataraghavan(Founder)inPranav R(Founder)Sudharshan Karthik 🦸(Founder)inHariharan Ramkumar 🦸(Founder)inAaditya S 🦸(Founder)in
Co-investorsAll In CapitalPeak XV PartnersStellaris Venture Advisors 2 LlpTogether Fund
Platform enabling digital creators to manage, grow and monetize communities through subscription-based groups.
Swapnil Saurav(Founder)in
Co-investorsAccelAll In CapitalElevation CapitalStellaris Venture Advisors 2 LlpTitan CapitalAccel India
Rocketlane is an AI-powered platform that unifies service delivery, project management, and customer experience by automating workflows, resource allocation, and business operations through intelligent agents.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Deepak Bala(Founder)inVignesh Girishankar(Founder)inSrikrishnan Ganesan(Founder)in
Co-investors8VCAll In CapitalFoster VenturesInsight PartnersZ478i Ventures+2 more
Shivansh Shrivastava(Founder)in
Co-investorsAlkemi Growth CapitalBetter CapitalIncubate FundIndia QuotientJetty VenturesRTP Global
Seekho is a video-based learning platform that teaches stock market and investing basics in Hindi through short videos covering topics like intraday trading, risk management, and beginner investment strategies.
ConsumerEdTechFintechMedia & Entertainment
Rohit(Founder & CEO)Keertay(Founder & COO)Yash(Founder & CTO)
Co-investorsLVX Venturespeercheque
Simplismart provides a machine learning inference platform for deploying and auto-scaling AI models, supporting LLMs, vision-language, diffusion, and speech models from a library of 150+ open-source models or custom weights.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaSSan Francisco, US
Amritanshu Jain(Founder)inShrayansh Agarwal(Founder)in
Co-investorsAccelDallas Venture CapitalShastra VCTitan CapitalAccel IndiaNVIDIA
Skillbee is a job platform and app connecting international migrant blue-collar workers with employers in the Gulf and Europe.
Neelankarai, IN
Ravichandra Gautham V(Founder)in
Co-investorsGood CapitalInvestopadWamda CapitalAccess Bridge VenturesVibe Capital
SpeakX is an AI-powered learning platform that helps adults improve their English speaking skills through simulated real-life conversations for work, interviews, and daily interactions.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerEdTechGurgaon, IN
Co-investorsElevation CapitalIndia Quotient
Stratzy provides tailored investment research and portfolio guidance through algorithms and automation, enabling retail investors to access premium investment insights typically restricted to institutional players.
Fintech
Mohit Bhandari(Co-Founder & CEO)Gaurav Sangle(Co-Founder & CTO)in
Co-investorsLeo Capital VenturesTitan CapitalLeo Capital
SuperK operates a network of 160+ supermarkets bringing modern, affordable grocery retail to families in Tier-2, Tier-3, and Tier-4 towns.
ConsumerE-commerceRetail TechAndhra Pradesh, IN
Neeraj Menta(Founder)inAnil Thontepuin
Co-investorsAll In CapitalCore91.vcSilverneedle VenturesSTRIVEXeed VenturesBlume Ventures
Swift provides an e-commerce operations platform for online sellers, offering single-click checkout, fraud/RTO anomaly detection, shopper communication management, smart courier allocation, and warehousing across India.
E-commerceLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSBengaluru, IN
Debanshu Sinha(Founder)in
Co-investorsKalaari Capital
Tamasha is an AI-first social platform offering multiplayer social games, 1:1 chats, audio rooms, and anonymous emotional expression spaces designed to help people connect and interact.
ConsumerGamingSocialBengaluru, IN
Co-investorsChiratae VenturesGood CapitalIncubate FundInvestopadTitan Capital
The page hosts content for "337SPORTS", an Indonesian-language online gambling site offering sportsbook, slots, casino, lottery, and arcade games.
Gaming
Tournafest operates an esports platform where gamers can compete, develop their skills, and connect with a community of other players.
AI & Machine LearningGamingSocialSports Tech
Co-investorsIndia Quotient
Typo provides AI-powered engineering insights and automated code reviews for software development teams, integrating with existing developer tools to improve code quality, developer experience, and software delivery speed.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
KshitijVarun
Co-investorsAnicut CapitalGSF AcceleratorSupermorpheusUpsparks Capital
Vichar.io develops AI models and language technologies tailored for Indian languages and cultural contexts, with proprietary "Thoughts Layer" technology designed to enhance reasoning capabilities.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsCapitalOvenSenseAI VenturesTitan Capital
Vimobin provides cloud-based playable ads that stream native gameplay for mobile game advertising, aimed at game developers and studios—particularly for midcore and hardcore titles.
AdTechCloud ComputingGaming
Wealth42 offers an AI-based optimization engine called MINT Science that performs financial need-analysis by aligning client goals with products like mutual funds, ETFs, insurance, loans, and pensions.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
Nitish Varma(Founder)inAshutosh(Founder)in
Co-investorsFundamental VCNuVentures
Wherehouse offers e-commerce fulfillment and inventory management for online brands, using a warehouse management system and a hybrid network of hyperlocal and 3PL partners to pick, pack, and ship orders.
E-commerceLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS
Vaibhav Chawla(Founder)inJeevan Prakash(Founder)in
Co-investorsBetter CapitalTitan CapitalUpsparks Capital
Wint Wealth is a SEBI-registered online bond platform that lets retail investors buy corporate and other debt securities offering fixed returns.
FintechBengaluru, IN
Anshul Gupta(Director)inAditya Anand(CEO)inAjinkya Kulkarni(Founder)inAbhik Patel(Founder)inShashank Chimaladari(Founder)in
BoardVasanth Kamath
Co-investorsAll In CapitalArkam VenturesBetter CapitalCapria VenturesFundamentumGemba Capital Venture Partners+7 more
The page presents RR88 (RR88.COM), an online gambling and betting platform offering casino games, lottery, fish shooting, sports betting, and card games.
ConsumerGaming
Yellow Metal offers home-delivered gold loans in India, aiming to provide rural households a simple gold loan at their home within 30 minutes.
FintechBengaluru, IN
Rahul Boggaram(Founder)in
Co-investorsMSA NovoSpiral VenturesWaterBridge VenturesJava CapitalMSA Capital
YoloBus is an intercity bus travel service in India offering online ticket booking for AC and non-AC luxury and sleeper buses across more than 400 routes.
ConsumerMarketplacesMobility & TransportationTravel & Hospitality
Sanjay Jadounin
Co-investorsIndia QuotientNexus Venture Partners
Zipy is a monitoring and analytics platform that combines session replay, error tracking, frontend and network monitoring, and user journey analytics to help teams debug issues and understand user behavior.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Karthik MSN(Founder)inVishalini Paliwal(Founder)inJyoti Bansal(Co-founder)Girish Mathrubootam(Co-founder, CEO)Neeraj Arora(Co-founder)
BoardDilip Khandelwal(Global CIO)
Co-investorsBetter CapitalTogether Fund
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Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has First Cheque made?
- First Cheque has 140 tracked investments, 2 of which have exited, including 3 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does First Cheque invest at?
- First Cheque invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What is First Cheque's typical check size?
- First Cheque typically writes checks of $500K.
- What sectors does First Cheque focus on?
- First Cheque focuses on SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is First Cheque located?
- First Cheque is headquartered in Mumbai, IN.
- Does First Cheque lead rounds?
- First Cheque has led 4 of the 9 rounds where its role is on record.
- Who does First Cheque co-invest with?
- First Cheque most often shares deals with All In Capital, Better Capital, Titan Capital, among 120 tracked co-investors.
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