Funds managed
| Fund name | Asset Class | License |
| Crucible Fund | Early Stage | SEBI AIF Cat 1 |
About the AMC
- Crucible is an early stage fund focusing on B2B tech startups that are addressing real world pain points of businesses with a technology solution.
Key staff
- Avinash Kalia, founder at Crucible Fund. He has 32 years of experience across technology (10 yrs) and investment banking (22 yrs). Over 15 of them at CXO/Leadership levels. Led over 100 investment banking assignments across M&A, fund raising and capital markets (Kotak IB, PwC, HSBC)
- Hemant Pawaskar– Co- founder at Crucible Fund, he has 8 years of Experience across core technology, investment banking, social impact investing, Advisory/Strategic team member at start-ups, led technology sector investment banking (Fund raising, M&A)
Investment Philosophy (for firm)
- Invests in Enterprise Resource Optimisation (Data Analytics/AI/ML/IoT) and Cyber security.
- Crucible Fund will invest selectively in start-ups developing solutions in the aforementioned areas of focus.
- An EcoSystem approach will be followed so as to create a family of solutions with adjacencies and/or complementarities.
- In terms of capital, the Fund will look to invest about Rs.2-4 crore, in each of the investee companies.
Enterprise Resource Optimisation – An intersect of data + analytics / AI for a better business outcome
Cybersecurity – maintaining integrity of data and helping with recovery in case of problems
Analyst questions
- Any specific reason behind focus on only these two areas?
- Can you tell us about your investee companies, any recent investment done by you?
- What is the framework/ matrix you look for in a business for making an investment decision?
- What is the most popular exit strategy of the startups which are based on data analytics?
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