Merak Ventures

How to reach the fund

• Write to the funding inbox, investments@merakventures.com, with a short note on your company. The Connect page asks founders to drop a note there.
• The site shows no application form, intake window or deadline, so treat this as a rolling email approach and do not wait for an open call.

Check you fit before you write

• Stage: the fund says Pre-Seed or Seed, Pre-A at most, and that pre-revenue is fine. If you are further along, it says it does not go later.
• Geography: strictly India-centric. Essential operations or ties must be in India.
• Sector: agnostic within B2B, and almost nothing in B2C. A consumer social product, lifestyle brand or similar will not fit.
• Its own examples of interest are supply chains such as agriculture, modernising old industries such as insurance, and air quality.

Before you send the note

• Say what real problem you solve and for whom, and where your operations are in India.
• Read the portfolio page first so you can show how you differ from companies it already backs.
• Look at the cheque and follow-on sizes on the homepage to confirm your round fits.

Merak Ventures describes itself as an early-stage venture capital fund. Its stated aim is to invest in seed-stage, B2B and emerging-technology companies that solve real problems and create large-scale impact. The fund is run from New Delhi, with a second office in Singapore, and its site lists its fund as a SEBI-registered Category I alternative investment fund.

Who it backs

On stage, the homepage says Pre-Seed or Seed, and Pre-A only if the stars align, with nothing later. It says it will look at companies at idea, prototype or proof-of-concept stages, and that being pre-revenue is fine. On sectors it calls itself agnostic: it will look at most things in B2B and almost nothing in B2C. On geography it is blunt: strictly India-centric, with essential operations or ties in India, because it is not equipped to invest in geographies it does not understand.

The About page adds colour on taste. It says the team cares about two things, innovation and impact, and gives examples of what would interest it: easing broken supply chains such as agriculture, bringing old industries such as insurance up to date, and cleaner air for Delhi. It also says it has no interest in the next social network, a lifestyle brand or other problems of plenty.

How to reach the fund

The Connect page lists a funding inbox on the firm's own domain, investments@merakventures.com, and asks founders to drop a note there. It publishes no application form, intake window or deadline, so this is a rolling email approach rather than a programme with cohorts. The same page lists general and careers inboxes, plus the Delhi and Singapore office addresses.

Portfolio and team

The portfolio page groups current investments under Merak Fund I, with companies such as AbleCredit, Atomgrid, CredResolve, Curvet, Farmtheory, Helium, iDO Devices, NeoSapien, Rupyz, SatLeo Labs and Unicel, and lists an earlier fund called grow x ventures with its own holdings and a list of exits. The About page names two partners, Manu Rikhye and Sheetal Bahl, a director, Pranav Sanghvi, and a wider team of analysts, associates and fund operations staff, plus venture partners.

Cheque and follow-on sizes are stated on the firm's homepage; check them there rather than relying on a third-party listing.