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Eight Innovate Investment Trust II

Cat II · Managed by 8i Ventures

We back founders before the world agrees with them.

Private equity, private credit and real-estate funds that don't employ leverage except for operating needs. The largest AIF category.

Overview

About

8i Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. Its pre-seed and seed programme, Origami, offers cheques from $250K to $2M across sectors. The firm invests without requiring a warm introduction: applicants receive a first call within 7 days and, if it goes well, meet the partners within the following 7 days.

Investment philosophy

The firm backs founders before the wider market agrees with them. Origami is sector agnostic.

Team12

Ravi Chachra

Co-Founder & Senior Principal

Ravi Chachra is a Co-Founder and Senior Principal of Eight Capital Group. He is a pioneer and early entrant in India's distressed debt market, having invested in public and private debt and equity-linked securities across sectors for over 15 years. He was an adviser to the authors of India's Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code and to members of the Bankruptcy Law Reform Committee. Prior to co-founding Eight Capital in 2005, he worked for over a decade as an investment analyst and portfolio manager at J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank, TCG, and J. Goldman & Company in New York and London. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Vikram Chachra

General Partner and CIO

Vikram Chachra is a Co-Founder and Senior Principal of the Eight Capital Group, co-leading the firm's distressed and special situations investment strategy in India since 2005.

Indranil Das

Director / SEBI Contact Person

Indranil Das is the SEBI-designated contact person for Eight Distressed Investment Trust I at Eight Capital Advisory Services Private Limited, Mumbai.

Vishwanath V

General Partner

Rohan Sharma

Principal

Yug Shah

Associate

Akshay Wadhwani

Assistant Manager

Registration

SEBI registration

SEBI-registered

SEBI registration no.IN/AIF2/26-27/2176

RegisteredMay 2026

Valid untilPerpetual

Contact personVikram Chachra

Address1108 11th Floor One Lodha Place, Senapati Bapat Marg Lower Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400013

Investment manager

8i Ventures

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