Peak XV Partners
भारत और दक्षिण पूर्व एशिया की अग्रणी वेंचर कैपिटल फर्म, जो पहले Sequoia Capital India के नाम से जानी जाती थी, $9 बिलियन से अधिक का प्रबंधन करती है और Zomato, OYO, Ola और Freshworks को सीड से IPO तक समर्थन देती है।
Peak XV Partners at a glance
| Established | 2006 |
|---|---|
| Address | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India |
| Programmes | 2 standing programmes · 1 open call right now |
| Stages supported | Idea, Prototype, MVP, Early revenue |
| Fees | Free — all 2 programmes that state a fee policy |
| Equity | 1 of 2 programmes that state a policy take no equity |
| Official website | www.peakxv.com |
| contactus@peakxv.com |
Programs by Peak XV Partners
1 open now · 0 past · Filter all programs
Track record
What Peak XV Partners reports about its portfolio.
Every figure on this page is the firm's own, undated and self-reported. Surge's numbers cover Surge only; the firm-wide counts cover Peak XV as a whole. The two are not interchangeable.
All figures self-reported — surge.peakxv.com, as of 2026.
Programmes they run
Standing programmes at Peak XV Partners, separate from the funding calls above.
Surge is the only programme at Peak XV a founder can apply to, and it is open year-round. The main Peak XV site carries no pitch form — outside Surge, the only published channel is its general enquiry inbox. Spark, the firm's women-founder platform, is named on an old page about the 2023 rebrand but has no page of its own on either site today, so it is not written up here.
Surge
PlatformPeak XV's seed platform — an equity investment plus hands-on operator support, open to applications year-round.
Best for: Founders raising a seed round, including those still at idea or pre-launch stage, in any sector.
- Idea – Early revenue
- Open-ended — Surge says there is no end date to the platform access; the structured part is an eight-week Immersion once a year
- Hybrid
- Free, takes equity
What you get, who can apply and how to applyHide details
Surge started in 2019 and is how Peak XV does its seed investing. It is an equity investment, not a paid programme and not a grant, and Surge says it does not take board seats at the early stage. It also says it welcomes co-investors and does not require exclusivity.
The site describes Surge two ways at once and both are true of different halves of it. The money is always-on: no cohort windows, and Surge says that when a founder is ready, it moves. The community is cohort-shaped: eleven numbered cohorts have their own pages, and once a year the cohort comes together for an eight-week Immersion that ends in San Francisco with visits to companies the site names as NVIDIA, OpenAI, Google and Notion.
What you get
- Seed capital from Peak XV as an equity investment, with co-investors welcome.
- A dedicated investment partner from day one, who sets and tracks sixteen-week goals with you.
- Operator support across hiring, product, engineering, go-to-market, marketing, communications and policy, and expansion into new markets.
- One-to-one office hours with specialists in technology, recruiting, marketing, finance, legal and compliance, and fundraising.
- An annual eight-week Immersion ending in San Francisco.
- The wider founder community — city and sector meetups, reunions, an app and online events, with a community team that makes introductions.
- Access to follow-on capital from Peak XV as the company grows.
Who can apply
- Any founding team. Surge publishes no incorporation rule, no geography rule and no category rule.
- Idea-stage and pre-launch founders are explicitly invited; Surge says it is never too early to apply.
- Any sector. Asked whether it only invests in artificial intelligence, Surge says no, and names skincare, eSIMs and quantum computing among its own companies.
- The form does ask for a company name and the country the company is registered in, so it assumes an entity exists.
How selection works: applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Surge says it weighs the strength of the founder or founding team, the size of the market opportunity, and, for companies that have already launched, early signs of customer love through engagement, retention and product usage — with a heavy weight on founder-market fit.
How to apply: fill the form on the Surge site. It runs to about twenty-one questions across ten pages, takes roughly twenty-five minutes, and can be saved and resumed. It asks for co-founder details, a one-line description, the problem, what is unique, why your team, lifecycle stage, traction metrics, and a link to your deck or demo — Dropbox or Google Slides only, with permissions set so anyone can access it. References are optional. Surge says it will get back to you within two to three weeks. You can also write to contactus@peakxv.com.
Future Founders Fellowship
FellowshipA summer fellowship placing students from six named institutions inside a Peak XV portfolio company in Bangalore for eight weeks — its published application window has closed.
Best for: Students in their second to fourth year at six named institutions — not founders.
- 8 weeks
- In person
- Free, no equity
With IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, BITS Pilani (Pilani Campus)
What you get, who can apply and how to applyHide details
This is a student programme, not a route for founders, and it is listed here so it is not mistaken for one. Fellows spend eight weeks in Bangalore, full-time and in person, working inside one of Peak XV's portfolio companies, with a monthly stipend. Every Friday the cohort comes together with Peak XV founders, operators and investors for sessions and company visits.
Who can apply
- Students currently in their second to fourth year, with a stated bias toward second and third years.
- Only at six institutions Peak XV names as partners for the first cohort: IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur and BITS Pilani (Pilani Campus).
- You must be available full-time in Bangalore for the eight weeks.
How selection works: you apply, the team reads every application, shortlisted candidates have conversations with the Surge team, and an offer follows. Peak XV says the cohort is picked from hundreds of applicants.
How to apply: the page is still up and still shows an Apply button, but its own schedule puts the close of applications before this page was last checked, so the published window has passed. Watch the page for the next intake. Note the page gives two different end months for the same eight weeks, so treat its dates as approximate.
Support services
Help offered alongside funding and space.
Business advisory
A dedicated investment partner per company plus a sixty-plus member operating team working on hiring, product, go-to-market and scaling.
Legal & finance
Specialists in finance, legal and compliance available for one-to-one office hours; the firm also has a portfolio finance function.
Market access
Go-to-market planning, early sales support, and introductions to customers through the founder community.
Regulatory support
A public policy and communications function covering media, regulatory and public affairs.
News
- Peak XV Partners Unveils 12th Surge Cohort With 18 Startups Across AI, Robotics, Space and Fintechindianstartuptimes.com · last week
Source: Google News aggregated
How to apply to Peak XV Partners
Which route is actually open
Surge is the only programme at Peak XV with a live application form, and it is open year-round. If you are raising a seed round, that is the route. There is no general pitch form on the main Peak XV site — if you are past seed, the only published channel is the firm's general enquiry inbox, contactus@peakxv.com, and a warm introduction through a portfolio founder is likely to travel further than a cold note.
The Future Founders Fellowship is a student programme, not a founder one. It is open only to students in their second to fourth year at six named institutions, and its published application window has already closed. Do not apply to it as a founder.
How the application works
Expect a single online form of around twenty-one questions across ten pages. Surge says it takes about twenty-five minutes, and you can save and come back to it. Have these ready before you start:
- Your company name, website if you have one, and the country your company is registered in.
- Full details for every co-founder: name, email, phone, LinkedIn and the city they are in.
- A one-sentence description of what the company does, the problem, what is unique about what you are building, and why your team is the right one.
- Where the company sits: idea or prototype, pre-launch or beta, or launched.
- Traction metrics if you have them. If you are pre-launch, the form tells you to write N/A rather than leave it blank.
- A link to your deck, demo, screenshots or a product video. Surge asks specifically for a Dropbox or Google Slides link with permissions set so anyone can access it. A link nobody can open is a wasted application.
- Optionally, references — a senior business leader, teacher, mentor, manager, advisor or investor. Surge says a teacher's reference is fine if you are a student with no prior work history, and that it may contact them if your application goes forward.
Use your own email address, not a shared team inbox — the form says all communication goes to the address you give.
How selection works
Surge says it reviews applications on a rolling basis and gets back within two to three weeks. It describes weighing three things: the founder or founding team, the size of the market, and, for companies that have already launched, early signs that customers actually love the product — engagement, retention, usage.
What reviewers look for
Founder-market fit is the phrase Surge uses most: why this team, specifically, is the one to solve this problem. Two questions on the form exist to answer that directly, and they are the ones worth the most care — what is unique about what you are building, and why you are the right team to build it. There is also an open question about what shaped you and why you are building this now, which is optional in form but is the place a distinctive answer can lift an application.
Being early is not a disqualifier. Surge states plainly that it works with founders at the idea stage and that many of its companies were pre-launch when they applied, so waiting for more traction before applying is not the strategy it asks for.
Sector is not a filter either. The firm says it partners with founders in any sector, and the application's own category list is deliberately broad, so do not rule yourself out on the basis that your area is not one it is known for.
Before you apply
Check the Surge companies list for anything close to what you are building. Surge does not publish a conflict policy, but knowing who in the portfolio is adjacent to you is useful either way. If you have already spoken to someone at Surge, say so — the last question on the form asks, and it exists so you get routed back to whoever already knows you.
About Peak XV Partners
Peak XV Partners बेंगलुरु, भारत में स्थित एक वेंचर कैपिटल फर्म है, जो भारत और दक्षिण पूर्व एशिया में निवेश पर केंद्रित है। यह फर्म पहले Sequoia Capital India & Southeast Asia के नाम से जानी जाती थी और वैश्विक Sequoia Capital साझेदारी से अलग होने के बाद 2023 में Peak XV Partners के रूप में रीब्रांड की गई। 2006 में स्थापित, Peak XV $9 बिलियन से अधिक की संपत्ति का प्रबंधन करती है और इस क्षेत्र में संचालित होने वाली सबसे प्रभावशाली वेंचर फर्मों में से एक के रूप में व्यापक रूप से मानी जाती है।
भूमिका
Peak XV एक मल्टी-स्टेज वेंचर कैपिटल निवेशक के रूप में कार्य करती है, जो सीड से लेकर ग्रोथ स्टेज तक की कंपनियों को समर्थन देती है। यह फर्म पूंजी, रणनीतिक मार्गदर्शन, प्रतिभा सहायता और ऑपरेटर्स, अधिकारियों और सह-निवेशकों के एक गहरे नेटवर्क तक पहुंच प्रदान करती है। Peak XV के साझेदार अपनी पोर्टफोलियो कंपनियों के साथ सक्रिय भागीदारी के लिए जाने जाते हैं, उत्पाद रणनीति से लेकर कार्यकारी नियुक्तियों और अंतर्राष्ट्रीय विस्तार तक हर चीज में मदद करते हैं।
कार्यक्रम
Peak XV समर्पित फंड वाहनों के माध्यम से कई चरणों में निवेश करती है। इसका Surge कार्यक्रम भारत और दक्षिण पूर्व एशिया में सीड-स्टेज स्टार्टअप्स के लिए एक रैपिड-स्केल कार्यक्रम है, जो कंपनी निर्माण, हायरिंग और विकास को कवर करने वाले संरचित 16-सप्ताह के कार्यक्रम के साथ $1-3 मिलियन का प्रारंभिक वित्तपोषण प्रदान करता है। Surge के अलावा, Peak XV Series A, B, C और उससे आगे सीधे निवेश करती है। यह फर्म उपभोक्ता इंटरनेट, SaaS, फिनटेक, ई-कॉमर्स, हेल्थटेक और एडटेक वर्टिकल पर ध्यान केंद्रित करती है।
उल्लेखनीय भूतपूर्व कंपनियाँ
Peak XV के पोर्टफोलियो में भारत की कुछ सबसे मूल्यवान कंपनियाँ शामिल हैं: Zomato (IPO), Ola, OYO Rooms, BYJU'S, Freshworks (Nasdaq IPO), Mamaearth (IPO) और Truecaller (IPO)। फर्म ने भारत और दक्षिण पूर्व एशिया में कई यूनिकॉर्न और सार्वजनिक रूप से सूचीबद्ध कंपनियों के निर्माण में भाग लिया है।
किसे लाभ होगा
भारत और दक्षिण पूर्व एशिया में प्रौद्योगिकी कंपनियाँ बनाने वाले सभी चरणों (सीड से ग्रोथ तक) के संस्थापक। Surge कार्यक्रम विशेष रूप से उन सीड-स्टेज संस्थापकों के लिए उपयुक्त है जो पूंजी के साथ संरचित समर्थन चाहते हैं। ग्रोथ-स्टेज कंपनियाँ बड़े राउंड का नेतृत्व करने और परिचालन स्केलिंग विशेषज्ञता प्रदान करने की Peak XV की क्षमता से लाभान्वित होती हैं।
रणनीतिक प्रभाव
Peak XV लगभग दो दशकों से भारत के स्टार्टअप इकोसिस्टम को आकार देने में महत्वपूर्ण रही है। इसके निवेश ने भारत में खाद्य वितरण, गतिशीलता, आतिथ्य और एंटरप्राइज़ सॉफ्टवेयर श्रेणियों के निर्माण में मदद की। Sequoia Capital से फर्म के अलग होने और 2023 में Peak XV के रूप में रीब्रांड होने से एक स्वतंत्र, भारत- और दक्षिण पूर्व एशिया-केंद्रित फ्रैंचाइज़ी के रूप में गहरी स्थानीय विशेषज्ञता के साथ काम करने की इसकी प्रतिबद्धता का संकेत मिला।
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Shailendra Singh
Managing Director
Rajan Anandan
Managing Director
Pushpak Kedia
Vice President
Lara Kanga
VP - Public Policy & Communications
Suraj Laungani
VP - Human Capital
Jaspriya Kaur
Director, Portfolio Finance
Harshita Jain
AVP - Programs, Marketing
Sufiyan Sait
AVP - Community
Frequently asked questions about Peak XV Partners
What does Peak XV Partners do?
Peak XV Partners बेंगलुरु, भारत में स्थित एक वेंचर कैपिटल फर्म है, जो भारत और दक्षिण पूर्व एशिया में निवेश पर केंद्रित है। यह फर्म पहले Sequoia Capital India & Southeast Asia के नाम से जानी जाती थी और वैश्विक Sequoia Capital साझेदारी से अलग होने के बाद 2023 में Peak XV Partners के रूप में रीब्रांड की गई। 2006 में स्थाप…
Where is Peak XV Partners located?
Peak XV Partners is based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
What programs does Peak XV Partners run?
Peak XV Partners currently has 1 open programme: Surge by Peak XV.
Which Peak XV Partners programme should I apply to?
It depends on how far along your startup is. Idea stage: Surge. Prototype stage: Surge. MVP stage: Surge. Early revenue stage: Surge. Check the programme's own eligibility before applying — several programmes are sector-specific.
Do Peak XV Partners programmes charge a fee?
No. Every Peak XV Partners programme that states a fee policy is free to join, including Surge and Future Founders Fellowship.
Does Peak XV Partners take equity?
It depends on the programme. Future Founders Fellowship take no equity, while Surge takes equity.
What sectors does Peak XV Partners support?
Peak XV Partners works with startups in AI/ML, SaaS, Fintech, Consumer Internet, E-Commerce and D2C and other sectors.
What stage of startup does Peak XV Partners support?
Peak XV Partners supports startups at the Ideation, Validation, Early Revenue, Growth and Scaling stages.
How do I apply to Peak XV Partners?
Surge is the only programme at Peak XV with a live application form, and it is open year-round. If you are raising a seed round, that is the route.
Who runs Peak XV Partners?
Shailendra Singh (Managing Director), Rajan Anandan (Managing Director) and Jaspriya Kaur (Director, Portfolio Finance).
When was Peak XV Partners founded?
Peak XV Partners was founded in 2006. It operates as a vc / investor.
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