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Collective Action
Collective of Founders, Operators, & Investors: We invest from concept to early traction in the most ambitious and driven founders, committed to helping them build transformative companies
No
Programs
Checksize
$245k - $400k
Engaged
community

Checksize
$50K-$500K 

We invest up to $500K in the earliest stages of your venture and love being your first money in.

Engaged
community 

Leverage our diverse network to find the right mentors to help you think through GTM, product development, organization building and more.

Accessible
24 x 7 x 365 

No cohorts, no programs. Engage continuously with specialists to uplevel design, engineering, product, marketing, HR and more as you scale.

The 

 Collective

40+ early believers who rally behind your vision and support you through the grit and grind

Naresh Agarwal
Traceble
Harshil Mathur
Razorpay
Arvind Parthiban
SuperOps.ai
Jitendra Gupta
Jupiter
Amit Lakhotia
Park+
Rohit Kapoor
Swiggy
Miten Sampat
CRED
Rohit MA
PeerCapital
Aakrit Vaish
Haptik
Ramakant Sharma
LivSpace
Srikrishnan Ganesan
Rocketlane
Chirag Taneja
Gokwik
Prashant Malik
Tykhe Block
Karthik Ramamoorthy
Zoura
Ashwini Asokan
Mad Street Den
Shashank Kumar
Razorpay
Raviteja Dodda
MoEngage
Naveen Kukreja
Paisabazaar.com
Arjun Vaidya
VerlinVest
Vasant Sridhar
OfBusiness
Narasimha Reddy
MoEngage
Rangarajan Krishnan
Five Star
Ashish Goel
Urban Ladder
Revant Bhate
Mosaic Wellness
Nitin Gupta
Uni Cards
Mohit Sadaani
Moms Co.
Asish Mohapatra
OfBusiness
Anil Goteti
Scapia
Anurag Sinha
One Card
Sanat Rao
Blocktower
Aakash Kumar
Matrix Partners India
Rahul Chaudhary
Matrix Partners India
Anoop Dawar
Gitlab
Alex Peter
Talent Deck
Chakradhar Gade
Country Delight
Sumit Maniyar
Rupeek
Chitra Hariharan
ex-Intel
Madhusudanan R
M2P Fintech
Prabhu Rangarajan
M2P Fintech
Utsav Somani
Offline
Suhail Sameer
BharatPe
Vishesh Rajaram
Speciale Invest
Lizzie Chapman
ZestMoney
Abhishek Goyal
Tracxn
Naresh Agarwal
Traceble
Harshil Mathur
Razorpay
Arvind Parthiban
SuperOps.ai
Jitendra Gupta
Jupiter
Amit Lakhotia
Park+
Rohit Kapoor
Swiggy
Miten Sampat
CRED
Rohit MA
PeerCapital
Aakrit Vaish
Haptik
Ramakant Sharma
LivSpace
Srikrishnan Ganesan
Rocketlane
Chirag Taneja
Gokwik
Prashant Malik
Tykhe Block
Karthik Ramamoorthy
Zoura
Ashwini Asokan
Mad Street Den
Shashank Kumar
Razorpay
Raviteja Dodda
MoEngage
Naveen Kukreja
Paisabazaar.com
Arjun Vaidya
VerlinVest
Vasant Sridhar
OfBusiness
Narasimha Reddy
MoEngage
Rangarajan Krishnan
Five Star
Ashish Goel
Urban Ladder
Revant Bhate
Mosaic Wellness
Nitin Gupta
Uni Cards
Mohit Sadaani
Moms Co.
Asish Mohapatra
OfBusiness
Anil Goteti
Scapia
Anurag Sinha
One Card
Sanat Rao
Blocktower
Aakash Kumar
Matrix Partners India
Rahul Chaudhary
Matrix Partners India
Anoop Dawar
Gitlab
Alex Peter
Talent Deck
Chakradhar Gade
Country Delight
Sumit Maniyar
Rupeek
Chitra Hariharan
ex-Intel
Madhusudanan R
M2P Fintech
Prabhu Rangarajan
M2P Fintech
Utsav Somani
Offline
Suhail Sameer
BharatPe
Vishesh Rajaram
Speciale Invest
Lizzie Chapman
ZestMoney
Abhishek Goyal
Tracxn
Naresh Agarwal
Traceble
Harshil Mathur
Razorpay
Arvind Parthiban
SuperOps.ai
Jitendra Gupta
Jupiter
Amit Lakhotia
Park+
Rohit Kapoor
Swiggy
Miten Sampat
CRED
Rohit MA
PeerCapital
Aakrit Vaish
Haptik
Ramakant Sharma
LivSpace
Srikrishnan Ganesan
Rocketlane
Chirag Taneja
Gokwik
Prashant Malik
Tykhe Block
Karthik Ramamoorthy
Zoura
Ashwini Asokan
Mad Street Den
Shashank Kumar
Razorpay
Raviteja Dodda
MoEngage
Naveen Kukreja
Paisabazaar.com
Arjun Vaidya
VerlinVest
Vasant Sridhar
OfBusiness
Narasimha Reddy
MoEngage
Rangarajan Krishnan
Five Star
Ashish Goel
Urban Ladder
Revant Bhate
Mosaic Wellness
Nitin Gupta
Uni Cards
Mohit Sadaani
Moms Co.
Asish Mohapatra
OfBusiness
Anil Goteti
Scapia
Anurag Sinha
One Card
Sanat Rao
Blocktower
Aakash Kumar
Matrix Partners India
Rahul Chaudhary
Matrix Partners India
Anoop Dawar
Gitlab
Alex Peter
Talent Deck
Chakradhar Gade
Country Delight
Sumit Maniyar
Rupeek
Chitra Hariharan
ex-Intel
Madhusudanan R
M2P Fintech
Prabhu Rangarajan
M2P Fintech
Utsav Somani
Offline
Suhail Sameer
BharatPe
Vishesh Rajaram
Speciale Invest
Lizzie Chapman
ZestMoney
Abhishek Goyal
Tracxn

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Team

Divyanshi Chowdhary

Divyanshi leads investments at DeVC.

Her early career transitioned from building ventures to investing in them. She began her career at Grofers (BlinkIt), working in the founders' office, and later joined the founding team at BharatPe. More recently, she focused on consumer and enterprise investments at Matrix Partners India.

Divyanshi holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Rahul Mathur

Rahul leads platform, content & community at DeVC.

He founded Verak Insurance (a YC W21 company) which was acquired by InsuranceDekho (ID) in 2023. At ID, he led their business insurance unit & spearheaded their ONDC integrations. Rahul had become an active Angel investor prior to joining DeVC.

Rahul holds a master’s degree in Statistics from the University of Warwick

FAQs

01
What stage of companies does the DeVC collective back?
We don’t split angel, seed and pre-seed into separate categories — we provide support across the board. The earlier we can invest, the more helpful we can be. Even if you think you are early, we’d still like to get to know you and are super keen to brainstorm as you discover your big mission.
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02
Does the DeVC collective back companies only in particular sectors  or industries ?
Founders have always inspired us with their pioneering work, and we look to our founders to convince us of what’s next. That’s why we don’t focus on any particular sectors. We do tend to like teams which are leveraging technology and sharp customer insights to build product first companies.
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03
What do you look for in a founding team ?
From cold calls to design reviews, managing customer support to building teams, we know that building a company takes a lot. As operators and founders ourselves we look out for talent that can navigate both strategy crafting and ‘sleeves rolled up’ execution at the same time. We seek to find this in every conversation that we have.
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04
Do you back founders located outside of India?
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Yes! While we have a large concentrations of our partnered founder sets in India, we believe successful startup founders can be based out of any region across the globe  
05
What is the decision making process and how long does it take?
From your first interaction with us to a close, you should expect:

1. Initial vetting: 30-45 minute introductory meetings with either one of our DeVC collective members or the DeVC team.

2. Rapid follow ups: Post our introductory meetings If we are able to build some early conviction and are keen to partner with you, we’d follow through with upto 5 meetings with a few of the DeVC collective members. This enables us to learn more about your thought process, while we are always moving towards a decision. We’ll typically make some reference/diligence calls through this period

3. Final decision: We discuss all opportunities as a group once every 10-14 days and partnership opportunities which are through the follow up process can expect a final answer from us within 1-2 days from our most recent huddle.  

These are some general steps every founding team goes through. While we strive to move at pace to get from intro to final answer in less than 14 days, sometimes developing a relationship might take longer.  
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05
How do I know which of the 40+ members is the best fit to partner with my company?
While our deVC founder collective members have different and diverse interest areas and specializations, they like to evaluate and back opportunities together. We constantly discuss each opportunity and what we find interesting. You do not need to choose one or many from the collective. We’re extremely collegial in how we work together to back startups  
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05
How should I get in touch with the DeVC collective ?
You can directly reach out to the DeVC team, and we’ll review the partnership opportunity. We do prefer having some reading material (deck/g-doc/notion/any format) about your thesis and ideas to be shared with us upfront. We value referrals from operators and other angels that we know, and a direct referral will likely get a quicker response. Many of our past partnerships were referrals from seed stage VCs.
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05
What size rounds does the DeVC  collective participate in ?
It varies from company to company. We’ve participated in rounds as small as $200K  and as large as $XX million. Regardless of check size, we are focused on partnering in the earliest stages (idea/pre-product/early traction) and decide our participating basis total round size being a good setup for success for the company
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05
Does the DeVC collective lead rounds ? What happens if I’m looking to raise more than $500K ?
We tend to steer away from leading rounds and usually like being less than 30% of the total raise.  We have a long standing track record of partnering with seed-stage VCs, angels and family offices to help you round off your raise.
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05
Few of the DeVC collective members are early stage investors and seed VCs. How does that work ?  
DeVC collective is made up of  individuals who are both builders and investors but above all super excited about shaping a vibrant early stage ecosystem. We are supported by and collaborate with multiple early stage investing institutions including Matrix Partners India, Peer Capital, White Ventures, Speciale and more. Our backing is independent of such institutions and is in no way determined by or conflicted with any of them.
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05
How do you help your companies ?
The DeVC collective brings together unique domain knowledge, specialized expertise, and access to a valuable network that accelerates the progress of early-stage companies towards achieving Product-Market Fit (PMF) and shaping their Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy. We like to be co-builders in your journey and helping you find the path to scale.
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