Sun Icon Ventures

How to approach Sun Icon Ventures

• There is no published programme or deadline. As checked in October 2026, the site shows no cohort, intake window or eligibility list. Treat it as an investor you pitch, not a programme you apply to.
• Use the pitch form. The Get in Touch button on the site opens an online form. Fill it in once, clearly, and do not expect a fixed reply time, because the site does not state one.
• Check your stage first. The fund lists seed to pre Series A. If you have not yet built a product, or you are well past a first institutional round, it is probably not your fund.
• Be India-based. The fund describes itself as investing in startups from India.
• Sector is open. It lists sector as agnostic, but read its blog and portfolio coverage to see the kinds of companies it has backed before you write your pitch.

What to prepare

• A short note on what you are building, who pays for it and what you have shown so far.
• The round you are raising and who else is in it. Its news pages often show it investing alongside other funds.
• Your own research on the fund's recent investments, which are linked from its blog page.

Contact

The contact page gives an office in Santacruz East, Mumbai and phone numbers. It lists only a named person's email, which we do not publish, so use the online form.

Sun Icon Ventures is an early-stage venture fund based in Mumbai that invests in startups from India. On its website it describes itself as an early stage fund investing in disruptive startups from India, run by investors with over three decades of investment experience. It is set up as an Alternate Investment Fund (AIF) and states that it is a Category II fund, with a SEBI registration number shown in the footer of every page.

Who they back

The site gives three simple facts about the fund. The stage is seed to pre Series A, so founders who already have a product or early traction and are raising a first institutional round are the natural fit. The sector is listed as agnostic, so there is no fixed list of industries to match. The site also lists a ticket size range, which is shown in the structured details on this page. The browser title of the homepage calls it an early-stage deep tech seed fund, while the body of the page says sector agnostic. Read both as a hint rather than a rule: the portfolio news on the site covers nutrition, consumer food, semiconductors, battery technology, farming technology, adtech and finance software.

Who runs it

The team page lists Suresh Jain as Managing Partner, with Saloni Jain and Darshan Jain as Founding Partners. The footer names Saloni Jain as the fund manager. An investment team of analysts and an operations lead sit under them, and the page also has an advisor team tab. The fund says it aims to support founders who walk the extra mile, who think beyond borders and boundaries, who come out with innovative ideas and who passionately desire to grow on a global scale.

What the fund publishes

Sun Icon keeps a blog and articles page that mostly links to press coverage of funding rounds, such as those of Hyperbots, Dreamfly Innovations, GROWiT and Cookd, which name Sun Icon among the investors. The page also links to a report on the close of its maiden fund, which carries the headline that it aims to invest in 20 startups, and to a few of its own long-form posts for founders. The portfolio page has a Fund-I tab and a Family Office tab, shown as logos without text.

How to reach them

The site has a Get in Touch button that opens an external online form. It publishes no application deadline, no cohort, no intake dates and no written selection criteria, so this is an open pitch to an investor rather than a programme with a fixed process. The contact page lists the office address in Santacruz East, Mumbai, and two phone numbers. It is a fund, so expect to give up equity if it invests.