CerraCap Ventures unique Sales & Scale model will gell with Exfinity’s stated vision to help build and scale global enterprise startups leveraging the Indo-US corridor
Bengaluru, NFAPost: California-headquartered early-stage VC company CerraCap and Exfinity together for new investments which are poised to unleash the next wave of Enterprise Artificial Intelligence and Digital Disruption.
Their core investment will focus on Cyber Security, Health Tech, Logistics, Document Intelligence, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning which includes deep learning and underpins many recent advances in other AI technologies. The CerraCap-Exfinity partnership is a powerful combination.
According to Arvian Research, the decision of Exfinity to align with CerraCap is primarily for investing in US-based startup companies. “Exfinity had already made up its mind to come up with a rupee and dollar-denominated third fund for this investment,” stated Arvian Research.
CerraCap Ventures CEO and Founder Saurabh Ranjan said with Exfinity’s understanding of complex digital product interactions, its deep engineering expertise and agile collaborative approach uniquely compliments how CerraCap operates.
Investment opportunity
“We believe this facilitates an extraordinary opportunity for expansion of right global investments for leading technology products and platform,” said Saurabh Ranjan
Enterprise startups can leverage the CerraCap – Exfinity partnership to create frugal but cutting-edge innovation in India and take products to market in the US. Given that Exfinity is domiciled in India and CerraCap in the US, portfolio companies will benefit from their expertise at both ends of the Indo-US corridor to build companies with optimum capital and greater access to the global markets.
Exfinity Managing Partner & CIO Shailesh Ghorpade said partnering with CerraCap Ventures will allow the company to provide the very best business program and portfolio strategies on which Exfinity will conceive, design, and build the next generation of transformative enterprise and digital products and platforms.
Enterprise AI
“Together working as one team we will unlock the full potential of enterprise AI and place our portfolio companies on the best path for success in the new ever-changing business landscape,” said Shailesh Ghorpade.
CerraCap Ventures is a Global fund headquartered in Orange County, California dedicated to early-stage technology investments in enterprise (B2B) solutions focused on the new fundamentals of the digital age – Healthcare, Enterprise AI and Cyber Security. It enables rapid growth of technology startups leveraging its unique sales & scale business model; driving revenue from large enterprises into its portfolio companies.
Exfinity Venture Partners is an early-stage Venture Capital Fund based out of India and registered with SEBI as a Category I AIF. It is founded by industry veterans who have strong operating backgrounds. The fund focuses on Enterprise Tech investments at pre–Series A, Series A stage. Exfinity is now raising its third fund with a targeted size of Rs 5 billion.
CerraCap closed its second fund during July this year backed by Mexico Ventures (co-managed by Sun Mountain Capital, a PE and VC firm in the United States, and Fondo de Fondos, a Mexico based institutional investor), IIFL Group – India’s largest Wealth Management company and John C Cushman III (Cushman & Wakefield), among others.
CerraCap Fund II has invested in companies such as Deep Instinct, Dathena, Censia, Robotic Skies, Nirveda Cognition and Quantix.
Exfinity Venture Partners, promoted by IT veterans T V Mohandas Pai, V Balakrishnan, Deepak Ghaisas and Girish Paranjpe, is going ahead with its plan to come up with a third fund which should be a combination of a rupee and dollar-denominated one, for more flexibility for investing in US-based IT start-ups.
