Artha Venture Fund

Before you send a deck

• Check the stage first. The flagship fund covers Seed Plus to Series A. The Series A to Series C fund is for later rounds of companies already in Artha's portfolio, so it is not a way in.
• Check the sector. The thesis page names fintech, vertical SaaS, consumer and D2C, climate and energy, healthcare and deeptech.
• Artha says it invests in India, so have your Indian entity and cap table ready.

How to send it

• Use the form on the For Founders page. It asks for a deck, your company URL and a three-line summary, and nothing more.
• The site says a GP will be in touch within five business days and that the first call is 30 minutes.
• Referrals are valued: the contact page says they come with added trust. If you have a warm introduction, use it.
• The contact page also lists a phone number and a Mumbai office address if the form does not work for you.

What to expect

• Diligence is described as a focused two-week process with reference calls, market sizing and term-sheet discussion.
• The site promises a yes or no 14 days from the first call. Treat that as the firm's own statement of intent.
• Artha's stated test, the SCOUTE framework, looks at problem urgency, moat, unit economics, founder-market fit, practical technology use and room to scale. Write your summary against those points.

Artha, which runs funds under the name Artha Venture Fund, is a venture capital firm headquartered in Mumbai. Its site says it was founded in 2013, has offices in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore, and calls itself a firm that backs India's next category creators. It is an investor, not a programme: there is no cohort or application window, and founders reach it by sending a deck.

Funds and the stages they cover

The site describes three vehicles. Artha Venture Fund is the flagship early-stage microVC fund, investing from Seed Plus to Series A across business software, consumer technology and fintech, in India. Artha Select Fund is a follow-on vehicle for later rounds, from Series A to Series C, in ventures that have already come out of Artha's early-stage portfolio, so it is not a first-cheque route. Artha Continuum Fund is a syndicate-style pool for growth-stage investments across India, Africa, Europe, Southeast Asia and global markets.

What it backs

The thesis page lists fintech, vertical SaaS, consumer and D2C, climate and energy, healthcare and deeptech as the areas where it invests. It says it leads Seed and Series A rounds and describes a test for companies, called the SCOUTE framework, covering the problem, moat, unit economics, founder right to win, practical use of technology and room to scale. It says it decides within fourteen days or declines.

How to reach them

The For Founders page asks for a deck, the company URL and a three-line summary through an online form. It says the first call is 30 minutes with a GP within five business days, followed by a focused two-week diligence of reference calls, market sizing and term-sheet discussion, and a yes or no 14 days from the first call. The site does not publish a fixed list of documents or an application deadline, and it does not say it is open to every kind of founder. The contact page also lists a Mumbai office address and a phone number, and says referrals matter to the firm.

Who runs it

The team page says Artha has six partners and a fourteen-person platform team working out of Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore. The platform team covers talent, go-to-market, capital markets, communications and LP relations, and the site says it works for portfolio founders, not the fund. Artha also runs a separate CEO-in-Residence programme for experienced operators who want to buy and run a business; that is not a startup funding route.

Regulation

The site footer says Artha Venture Fund is registered with SEBI as a Category I AIF and is managed by Artha Singularity Venture Partners LLP. Check the registration on SEBI's own list before relying on it, because other pages of the site give different details.