Growth Sense

Work out whether you are the founder or the investor

Growth Sense serves two very different audiences, and its pages mix them. If you are a founder, the thing that applies to you is the idea-to-investor advisory. The Growth Fund, the Venture Fund and the Apex Fund are investor products — the eligibility criteria on those pages are written for people putting money in, not for startups raising it.

How to approach them as a founder

• There is no registration fee to be screened.
• Send a short one-page summary or a brief pitch deck for the initial look, through the contact form or the published role email.
• Expect their own analysis and due diligence before any funding is facilitated — being screened in is not the same as being funded.

What to keep in mind

• Growth Sense is sector-agnostic, so your sector is unlikely to be the deciding factor; the quality of the problem and the venture will be.
• There are no fixed cohorts or intake dates to time your approach around, so you can reach out when you are ready.
• If you are an angel or institutional investor rather than a founder, approach through the relevant fund page instead.

Growth Sense Private Limited is a startup investor that works with founders from idea stage through to raising capital, and offers angel investors a way to back early-stage startups. It is run as Growth Sense Private Limited and keeps offices in Akola, Ahmedabad and Mumbai. It describes itself as an ecosystem for startups rather than as an incubator or accelerator, and the founder-facing side of its work is advisory paired with investment through the funds it manages.

What they do

Growth Sense positions itself as a kind of virtual co-founder: it helps startups validate an idea, get investor-ready and then facilitates funding, with the funding step following its own analysis and due diligence. Its investment strategy is sector-agnostic. Alongside the advisory work it manages two SEBI-registered Alternative Investment Funds and offers angel investors a curated basket of startups to invest in.

For founders

The route in for a founder is the advisory engagement. There is no registration fee to be screened; a founder sends a short one-page summary or a brief pitch deck for an initial look. Funding is not automatic — Growth Sense facilitates it only after its own critical analysis and due diligence of the startup. There are no cohorts, batches, demo days or incubation space described anywhere on its pages, so this is an advisory-and-investment relationship rather than a fixed-term programme.

For investors

Most of Growth Sense's structured offerings are built for investors rather than founders. The Growth Fund lets angel investors take a share in a curated basket of startups, with an added layer of due diligence, a small ticket size and simplified entry and exit. The Growth Sense Venture Fund is a SEBI-registered Category-1 Alternative Investment Fund set up as a Venture Capital Fund (Angel Fund); its trustee is Mitcon Credentia Trusteeship Services Limited and its investment manager is Growth Sense Private Limited. In 2026 it added the Growth Sense Apex Fund, a SEBI-registered Category-2 Alternative Investment Fund aimed at growth-stage and selected pre-IPO opportunities for institutions, family offices and larger individual investors. The eligibility criteria it publishes for these funds are investor criteria, not founder criteria.

Track record

Growth Sense reports that it has invested in a large number of startups, but its own pages do not agree on the figure: its Category-1 fund page states 88+ startups while its Category-2 fund page states 94+ startup investments, so the count is best read as an order of magnitude. The same Category-2 page also describes a wide base of startup evaluations and a sizeable investor network. These are the company's own self-reported figures.

Locations and contact

Growth Sense lists offices in Akola, Ahmedabad and Mumbai. It does not publish a full street address or pincode. Founders and investors can reach it through the contact form on its site or by its published role email.