Equanimity Investments

Know what you are pitching to

Equanimity is an investor, not an incubator or grant scheme. It takes equity in early-stage Indian startups through its Alternative Investment Funds. Expect a pitch and due diligence, not an application form.

How to reach them

• Use the "Send us your pitch deck" or "Submit your Business Plan" buttons on the site. Both open an email to the contact inbox shown on the Connect page.
• Put "Pitch to Equanimity" in the subject line, as the site's own link does.
• The site states no deadline, intake window or checklist, so send a short, complete deck and do not wait for a call to open.

Check fit before you write

• Look at the portfolio and press pages. The firm has led or co-led seed rounds and has invested at pre-Series A.
• Sectors shown include EV mobility, B2B SaaS, defence technology, consumer technology, insurance technology, food technology and social media.
• Fund size and cheque size are not published, so ask early whether your round suits the fund.

What they say they look for

• Innovative business models that use technology to build scalable and sustainable companies.
• A selection process applied to deals the firm sources itself, with environmental, social and governance principles.
• Founders open to an engaged investor that coaches leadership teams at touch points.

Read their writing first

The newsletter and blog show the questions the team is thinking about. Referring to a recent post in your note is a simple way to show you have done your homework.

Equanimity Investments is a venture capital firm in Powai, Mumbai that backs early-stage Indian startups. It manages SEBI-registered Alternative Investment Funds through Equanimity Management Services LLP, and describes itself as partnering with founders to scale their ideas into disruptive and profitable businesses.

What the firm runs

The firm has three funds. Fund I, Equanimity Ventures Trust, is registered as a Category I Alternative Investment Fund. Fund II, Equanimity Ventures Trust II, and Fund III, Equanimity Ventures Trust III, are registered as Category II Alternative Investment Funds. Its homepage also speaks of a Bold Vintage Fund I and a New Horizons Fund II, so you may see both naming styles. The site does not publish fund size or cheque size, so check those with the team before you assume a fit.

Who it backs

Equanimity says it backs innovative business models that use technology to build scalable and sustainable companies. Its news page shows the stages in practice: a seed round in an EV mobility startup, a pre-Series A round in a logistics company, and seed rounds it led or co-led in an analytics software company and an education company. Its portfolio page groups companies under EV mobility, B2B SaaS, defence technology, consumer technology, insurance technology, food technology and social media. Named portfolio companies include Neuron Energy, Biva Analytics, Optimized Electrotech, Renée Cosmetics, Insurance Samadhan, Samosa Singh, Thinkly, Hi Hello, Edept, Consint.ai, Navata Supply Chain Solutions and GrEL. Founders quoted on the site describe the team as hands-on and closely involved.

How it invests

The firm describes a framework it calls SPEED: a selection criteria applied after sourcing its own deals, people and processes, environmental, social and governance principles, an engagement model that coaches leadership teams at touch points, and a portfolio design that aims to back the winners, exit the others and diversify across vintages and sectors. For a founder this means a firm that expects to stay involved after the cheque, not only before it.

Who runs it

The partners are Rajesh Sehgal (Managing Partner), Vivek Saxena and Shilpa Sehgal. Rajesh Sehgal's bio says he has made 20 angel investments since 2007. Vivek Saxena started ZipCash, a digital payments company that was acquired by Ola. Shilpa Sehgal is a Chartered Accountant whose career started with ICICI Bank. Pooja Parmar is a Principal with operating experience from Housing and PWC. A global advisory board adds further experience, including the co-founder of HCL.

What it publishes

The site carries a newsletter and a blog with sector notes on topics such as health tech, consumer tech and the effect of AI on software, and a press page listing its deal announcements. These are a useful way to see how the team thinks before you write to them.

How to reach it

The home page invites startups to send a pitch deck, and the Connect page invites a business plan, both by email to the firm's contact inbox. The site gives no intake window, form or eligibility checklist, so treat this as a direct pitch to an investor and not as a programme with a deadline. The office is at ATL Corporate Park, Saki Vihar Road, Powai, Mumbai.