Investors
They prefer backing founders who apply technology to disrupt big industries, by combining technology with services business models. While often seeming out of fashion the past few years, they have always gravitated towards entrepreneurs employing capital efficiency and proven unit economics, alongside growth strategies and big ambitions. They have particular experience and continued interest in the naturally high-margin business models โ like software-as-a-service, internet marketplaces, mobile and technology enabled services โ used to define new sectors or move massive portions of existing off-line markets into the global digital economy.
Mela Venturesย Trust is a SEBI-approved AIF Category-2 fund for early-stage companies. With a goal to build next-gen enterpreneurs, the fund focuses on building a portfolio in areas, such as AI/ML, AR/VR, IoT, Cloud Migrations and Deep Technologies. Mela Ventures was founded by Industry Veterans, Krishnakumar Natarajan and Parthasarathy NS who have co-founded Mindtree and taken it from a startup to a multi-billion-dollar market cap enterprise.