Avataar Ventures

Partnering with growth-stage founders to build global world-class businesses

Over $1B assets under management
22 portfolio companies
3 IPO public market exits

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About Avataar Ventures

Partnering with growth-stage founders to build global world-class businesses. Avataar partners with companies through the most demanding phase of their journey helping them transform into public-market leadership with discipline, resilience, and conviction.

Investment philosophy

The firm backs B2B founders building the next generation of AI-enabled platforms across physical intelligence, vertical software, and service transformation across high growth markets. Consolidation at Scale: Identifying fragmented enterprise markets and backing the companies positioned to consolidate them. The firm helps build global category leaders. Physical Intelligence: Applying AI, robotics, quantum computing, and deep tech to manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, and physical infrastructure. Intelligent Enterprise: Building industry-specific software platforms purpose-built for healthcare, financial services, and regulated enterprise sectors. High Growth Sectors in India: Investing where technology meets India's high-growth markets where offline-to-online transformation creates category-defining outcomes at massive scale.

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Lavelle Deeptech LVF

Registered 2026

Cat II

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Mohan Kumar

Founding Managing Partner

Mohan Kumar was the Managing Partner at Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) and has led investment rounds in some of the most successful Enterprise and SAAS startup stories in India. Before his avataar as a VC, he spent two decades in leadership & operating roles including as Corporate Vice-President of Motorola, responsible for leading their Mobile Products division & scaling their product/design centres across Asia. He is an IIT undergrad alum with Exec-MBA from Kellogg.

Nishant Rao

Founding Partner

Anirudh Singh

Partner

Arjun Vikas

Director

Shobhit Gupta

Principal

Maxence Cacheux

Director, Europe GTM

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Saksham Bhandari

Senior Associate

Anuprava Chatterjee

Investment Professional

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