About Astarc Ventures

These are forward looking themes where we believe, large businesses can be built in the next decade because of new technology and fundamental shifts in consumer preferences and lifestyles.

• Vertical AI – Applications solving industry specific problems using Artificial Intelligence (and its family of algorithms)
• IOT – Both Hardware and platform plays to enable data gathering and rapid decision making across sectors, manufacturing units (Smart Factories) to improve the manufacturing throughput, improve compliances and reduce costs
• Consumer Tech – Very broad in outlook – This could include anything which improve consumer lifestyles
• Fin-Tech – Companies which improve access to finance for all consumers, SMEs etc. or bring efficiency in existing financial institutions
• B2B Businesses – Right from supply chain efficiencies to improved sales / marketing platform , HR , Financial accounting or anything which improves either Top line or Bottom line for businesses

These investment themes are based on Astarc Group’s existing business operations and future growth plans. Some of the themes include (but not limited to )

• Printing Tech – 2D, 3D , Screen Printing, Handheld printing etc.
• Auto-Tech – Auto Parts, Consumer Facing Applications
• Agri Tech – Fertilizers, Seeds, Micro Nutrients, Organic Pesticides, Insecticides, Crop Yield Enhancers, Irrigiation Techniques, Storage and Warehousing, Distribution channels, Agri Financing , Ecommerce, Farm Equipments etc.
• Real Estate and Construction Tech – Pre Fabrication, Design Optimization and Visualization, Sustainable construction, 3d printing, Consumer real estate ownership / rental models, New Age Brokerage, Sales and marketing platforms.

We are flexible in our approach to partnering with startups. While we prefer to come in as early as possible , we could invest anywhere from Seed stage to Pre Series A, Series A , B stages.

We are geography agnostic in our approach. It depends on the target market , our market knowledge and our growth plans. We majorly focus on India, Israel , US and UK.

Ticket Size : We invest anywhere from $50,000 to $1 Million in a single company.

Time Horizon : This is a major source of advantage for us, being promoted by Astarc Group- we are what market calls as patient capital. While we do try and exit our investments in 5-7 years, we are not in any obligation to exit our position pre maturely and partner with the entrepreneurs as long as necessary

The nature of our fund allows us to both lead the investments and co-invest with other funds in syndicate rounds.

LP Investments : We also partner with multiple funds across the globe as LPs to make investments