Saif Partners

Group Members
Varun Achar (20181001)
Soham Moghe (20181031)
Shreyash Ranjan (20181040)
Pranav Sarawagi (20181042)
Rohit Yadav (20181059)

Saif Partners
SAIF Partners is a leading private equity firm that provides growth capital to companies in
Asia.Primary areas of focus include Information Technology, Internet, Mobile, Consumer
Products and Services, Healthcare, Cleantech, Education, Modern Agriculture, Financial
Services & Manufacturing.
SAIF Partners was founded in 2001 and currently manages over $3 billion in capital. With
over 100 investments since its inception, SAIF has become one of the largest and most
active funds in the region. SAIF is a long-term investor with local teams in Hong Kong, China,
and India.
Private Companies
Acko: Acko operates as an independent general insurance company with its entire
operations offered through a digital platform. The company creates products and delivers
opportunities in areas such as personalized insurance products based on user consumption
behavior.
Date: Mar 13, 2019
Funding Amount: $65M
Funding Type: Series C
Auto Ninja: Auto Ninja specializes in Customer Engagement Solutions for Automobile Car
Dealerships. Auto ninja flagship product Ninja CRM is a complete suite of CRM for Sales,
Service & Insurance - with focus on Mobile & Social CRM. Advanced features, such as full
telephony integration, auto dialer, campaign management and mobile app.
Date: June 19, 2018
Funding Amount: ₹1.5B
Funding Type: Unknown
Aye: Aye Finance is a young modern organization that believes in delivering customer
centered and yet affordable loans to its rapidly growing clientele of micro and small and
micro enterprises across India which are presently locked out of the financial
system. Founded by professional bankers Sanjay Sharma and Vikram Jetley in 2014.
Date: June 11, 2018

Bobble Keyboard: Bobble Keyboard is an input method that allows users to personalise
conversations. Users can convert text into visual elements like stickers, GIFs, emojis, custom
fonts etc. Stickers and GIFs can be personalised with users' own faces. It uses AI to suggest
relevant content using factors like text, emotions, location, language, relationship etc.
Leading smartphone brands in India have chosen it as the default keyboard.
Date: Nov 5, 2015
Funding Amount: $3M
Funding Type: Series A
BookMyShow: BookMyShow is India's largest entertainment ticketing portal. As it stands

today, the highest number of tickets sold in a single month tallies over 10 million.
Date: Jun 18, 2014 & Jul 5, 2016
Funding Amount: $25M & $81.5M
Funding Type: Series B & Series C
Capital Float: Capital Float is an online platform that provides working capital finance to
small and medium enterprises (SME) in India. The company offers flexible, short-term loans
that can be used to purchase inventory, service new orders or optimize cash cycles.
Date: Aug 21, 2017
Care24: Care24 intends to free up India's healthcare services from the limitations of real
estate, armed with the knowledge that patients get better faster in the comfort of their
homes. Towards this vision, Care24 provides highly trained medical professionals to serve
home-bound patients in Delhi and Mumbai, while using digital and mobile tech to enhance
patient outcomes.
Date: Oct 27, 2015 & Jan 13, 2016
Funding Amount: $350K & $4M
Funding Type: Seed & Series A
Chaayos: Chaayos is a leading new-age chai brand that aims to revolutionise the way India
drinks chai. Chaayos specialises in serving fresh, custom-made chai through chai cafes, chai
delivery and innovative packaged chai segments.
Date: Sep 5, 2018

Funding Amount: ₹810M
Funding Type: Series B
ClearTax: ClearTax is India’s leading fintech company that offers intelligent software
solutions for compliance with direct and indirect taxes. ClearTax's mission is to simplify
people’s financial lives and improve outcomes for businesses by helping them manage taxes
and compliance in a simple and smart way. ClearTax is used by over 1.5 Million users to file
their taxes.
Date: Oct 23, 2018 & Jun 17, 2016
Funding Amount: $50M & $12M
Funding Type: Series B & Series A
Coverfox: Coverfox is an online platform for researching and purchasing health, car, bike,
home and travel insurance. It is on a mission to simplify managing and buying Insurance.
Date: Jul 24, 2019
Funding Amount: ₹400M
Crowd ANALYTIX: Crowd ANALYTIX is a crowd-sourced analytics service that supports the
growing need for analytics expertise in the life sciences and professional service industries.
Through Crowd ANALYTIX’s crowdsourcing platform, the company engages a large
community of independent analytical experts in solving client problems through competitive
contest.
Date: Unknown
Funding Amount: Undisclosed
Funding Type: Unknown
CSS Corp: CSS Corp is a leading technology support company that offers enterprise and
consumer product support, manages IT infrastructures (stand alone, cloud-based or mobile-
enabled) and oversees networks.
Date: Jan 1, 2006
Funding Type: Series Unknown

Detect Technologies: Detect Technologies develops state of the art patented hardware and
software technologies (deep tech) to perform intelligent asset monitoring in the industrial
space. The company is a leader in the space of solutions for the process industry and
services 80% of the Indian Oil and Gas market currently.
Date: Nov 20, 2018
Funding Amount: $3.3M
MEESHO: Meesho is an online reseller network for housewives and SMBs, who sell products
within their network on social channels. The company is creating the next big e-commerce
distribution channel via homepreneurs selling on WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram.
Date of funding- Oct 12, 2017
Amount of funding- $3.4 M
Type of funding- SERIES A FUNDING
MAKE MY TRIP: MakeMyTrip (India) Pvt., Ltd. operates as an online travel company in India.
It provides booking services for flights, hotels, and buses; and holiday packages and travel
guides. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, India.
Date of funding- BETWEEN 2005 -2008
Amount of funding- $ 25 M
Type of funding- SERIES B & C Funding
LIFCARE: LifCare is India’s largest Subscription pharmacy for chronic patients and is making
chronic health management affordable and convenient for everyone. Lifcare is an ideal
healthcare centre for patients on long duration medicines for Diabetes, Heart,
Hypertension, Thyroid, Kidney disorders, etc.
Date of funding- Jul 24, 2018
Amount of funding- $11 M
Type of funding- SERIES B FUNDING
JUSTDIAL : Just Dial Limited is India's No. 1 Local Search engine that provides local search
related services to users across India through multiple platforms such as website, mobile
website, Apps (Android, iOS, Windows), over the telephone (voice, pan India number
8888888888) and text (SMS).Justdial has also initiated ‘Search Plus’ services for its users.
Date of funding- 2006

Amount of funding- Rs 55 Cr
Type of funding- SERIES C FUNDING
IXIGO : Ixigo is an intelligent, AI-based travel app with over 150 million users. ixigo allows
Indian travellers to organise, book and track trips from 120+ travel suppliers and OTAs
across flights, trains, hotels, buses & cabs. ixigo’s vision is to empower travellers with
trustworthy & personalised travel recommendations.
Date of funding- UNDISCLOSED
Amount of funding- $ 18.5 M
IVISION: iVision is an IT company that provides consulting and managed services for
business. Its services covers infrastructure and application solutions, organized into five
complementary practices which include Infrastructure services, data center, converged
network and application development.
Date of funding- August 2008
Amount of funding- Rs 50.37 crore
INTELLIGENT GROUP Intelligroup is a global provider of strategic IT outsourcing services

with a large, growing Indian offshore presence. Intelligroup’ s Indian operations are based
out of Hyderabad and it employees around 1,200 people.
Date of funding- 2004 & 2006
Amount of funding- $15 M in 2004 / $10 M in 2006
GOODERA : Goodera is a global CSR & Sustainability platform, co-headquartered in

Bangalore and Menlo Park. With our innovative cloud, mobile, voice and big data platform,
embedded with strong domain expertise, we enable and empower corporates to manage
their CSR and sustainability goals in a simple, transparent, measurable, and engaging
manner.
Date of funding- MAR 19, 2018
Amount of funding- Rs. 790 M
FIRSTCRY: FirstCry.com is Asia’s Largest Online Portal for Baby Products and Toys. They have
over 20000+ items from 250+ top International and Indian brands like Mattel, Ben10,
Pigeon, Funskool, Hotwheels, Nuby, Farlin, Medela, Pampers, Disney, Barbie, Gerber, Zapak,
Mee Mee, and so on.
Date of funding- Apr 26, 2011
FAREYE: FarEye is a machine-learning-based predictive logistics platform for businesses to

execute, track, collaborate, predict and optimize the movement of goods.The platform
empowers global leaders like DHL, Walmart, Amway, Wayfair, Hilti, Tata Steel, Blue Dart and
many more with efficiency and operational intelligence to achieve growth, happier...
Date of funding- Jun 23, 2016
FABALLEY: FabAlley is the ultimate Indian fashion destination for fashion-forward, indie-chic
girls. Founded in 2012, Tanvi Malik and Shivani Poddar started FabAlley as a highly curated
accessories only store. In a few short months, FabAlley has grown to become the mecca of
globally trendy apparel and accessories both, and all of them designed in-house!
Date of funding- Dec 27, 2018
Amount of funding- $ 600 M
INDUSTRY BUYING: Industrybuying.com is India's largest ecommerce platform for industrial

supplies . They have over 50,000 products available and adding more everyday. They are
first movers in bringing ecommerce to India's industrial space.
Date of funding- MAY 07, 2015
ILFS: IL&FS Investment Managers is an India-based fund management company that invests
in infrastructure solutions providing businesses.
Amount of funding- Undisclosed
NSE: NSE is India's leading stock exchange covering various cities and towns across the
country. NSE was set up by leading institutions to provide a modern, fully automated
screen-based trading system with national reach. The Exchange has brought about
unparalleled transparency, speed & efficiency, safety and market integrity. It has set up
facilities that serve as a model for the securities industry in terms of systems, practices and
procedures.
Date: 1992
Funding Amount: RS 9.8B
Funding Type: Private Equity
NoBroker: NoBroker develops a peer-to-peer property listings platform designed to make

the real estate transactions efficient. NoBroker develops a peer-to-peer property listings
platform designed to make the real estate transactions efficient. Its platform makes it
possible to buy, sell and rent a house without paying any brokerage fees.
Date: 2014
Funding Amount: Rs 133.3M
Funding Type: Series D and Series C
Paytm: Paytm is a payment gateway that provides payment services to merchants and
allows consumers to make seamless mobile payments from cards, bank accounts, and digital
credit among others. The company maintains an open culture where everyone is a hands-on
contributor and feels comfortable sharing ideas and opinions.
Date: Jan 01 2010
Funding Amount: Rs 2.2B
Funding Type: Funding Round
Playment: Playment is a fully managed data labeling platform generating training data for
computer vision models at scale. They empower companies in the Autonomous Vehicle,
Drones, Mapping, and similar spaces with high precision annotation services - No matter
how complex.
Date: 2015
Funding Amount: $ 2.5M
Funding Type: Seed
PlaySimple Games: PlaySimple Games is the company behind the game GuessUp, which
available on Android and iOS.
Date: NOV 2014

Funding Amount: $ 4,6M
PropTiger: Headquartered in the National Capital Region of Delhi (NCR), PropTiger has been
founded by alumni of Harvard Business School, IIT and ISB who possess decades of
combined experience in real estate in India as well as abroad.
Date: Feb 1, 2011
Funding Amount: $ 85M
Funding Type: Venture
Qikwell Technologies: Qikwell is a startup focused on helping people be healthy and feel
well. Qikwell is used every day by thousands of patients to easily access their healthcare
providers. They are a healthcare professional and would like to know how Qikwell can help
you connect better with your patients.
Date: 15 Sept, 2011
Funding Amount: $3M
Senco: Senco creates fasteners and power fastening tools for residential, commercial,
manufacturing and construction applications. SENCO is renowned for its excellent product
quality and diverse line, which includes pneumatic and electric nailers, staplers, screw
systems and compressors, as well as nails, staples, screws and specialty fasteners
Dates: 1948
RIVIGO: At Rivigo, They are a technology company that is building the material movement
pipeline of India and making logistics human, faster, safer and cost-effective through a
globally unique innovation, enabled by a strong interplay of technology, data, culture and
operations excellence.
Date: 2014
Funding Type: Debt Financing

SenseHawk: SenseHawk is revolutionizing asset management with data from autonomous
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). SenseHawk's solutions combine multiple UAV types and
sensors with proprietary data acquisition planning and processing engines that are available
through the SaaS route.
Date: June 2018
ShareChat: ShareChat is an Indian social media startup. It offers the content consumption
and sharing platform only in Indian vernacular languages to cater to over 1.17 billion
wireless network users of India. It is available in 15 Indian languages.
Date: 2015
Funding Type: Series D
Swiggy: Swiggy designs an on-demand food delivery platform that brings food from
neighborhood restaurants directly to users' doors. The company's food delivery platform
lists local restaurants and menu lists on an app for users to order from and track delivery of
its delivery executives, enabling users to order food with speed and convenience
Date: Aug 1, 2014
Funding Amount: $ 1B
Toppr: Toppr is India's leading after-school learning app on a mission to make learning
personalised. We help students prepare for various school, board, and competitive exams.
Abled with artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data, we study student
behaviour and create adaptive learning paths with infinite combinations.
Date: Feb 4, 2013
Funding Amount: $65.1M
Funding Type: Series B
Tracxn.com: Tracxn is the research partner of choice for Venture Capitalists and Corporate
Development offices, powered by the largest Startup Data platform tracking over 10m
companies globally.
Series A Funding- $ 3.5mn

Announced Date: 28th April, 2015
Stage: Early Stage Venture
Travel Traingle: Travel Triangle is an online holiday-planning platform connecting worldwide

travellers to multiple local and expert travel agents. It provides fully customizable holiday
packages and ensures a high level of customer satisfaction through open and fair
transactions and rigoruous on-ground support.
Series A Funding: $ 1.7mn
Announced Date: 17th July,2014
Series B Funding: $ 10mn (RS. 67Cr)
Announced Date: 7th February, 2017
Treebo Hotels: Treebo Hotels is India's largest branded chain of budget hotels. It provides
India's budget travellers with reliable comfortable accomodation and affordable prices and
at the same time helps its hotel partners earn more from their properties.
Series A Funding: $ 6mn
Announced Date: 23rd June, 2015
Series B Funding: $ 17mn
Announced Date: 22nd July, 2016
Series C Funding: $ 34mn
Announced Date: 30th August, 2017
Stage: Late Stage Venture
Unacademy: Unacademy’s mission is to be the world’s largest educational repository by

empowering great educators and making their courses accessible to everyone.
Series B Funding: $ 11.5mn
Announced Date: 13th September, 2017

Announced Date: 16th July, 2018
UrbanClap: UrbanClap is India's largest home services marketplace. The platform helps
customers hire trusted professionals for services like salon at home, cleaning, plumbing,
carpentry, interior design, wedding photography, yoga training etc.
Seed Funding: $ 1.6mn
Stage: Seed Stage
Series A Funding: $ 10mn
Announced Date: 29th June, 2015
Announced Date: 19th November, 2015
Announced Date: 3rd July, 2017
YourDOST (Healthcare): YourDOST is your emotional wellness coach who stands by you in
the journey of life. With its unique platform, it connect you instantly with a wellness expert
who guides you through personal, professional and academic issues.
Announced Date: 27th June, 2016
Ziploan: ZipLoan offers unsecured working capital loans to small business owners in India.
The team's tech-first approach ensures the process is simple, efficient and hassle-free for
borrowers.
Series B Funding: Rs. 900mn

Urban Ladder: Urban Ladder is an India-focused online furniture marketplace. It offers

products across categories such as beds, sofas, tables, storage, kitchen and home décor
Series A (Round 1) Funding: $ 1mn
Announced Date: 1st august, 2012
Series A (Round 2) Funding: $ 5mn
Announced Date: 15th July, 2014
Series E Funding: $ 1bn
Venture Round (Series Unknown) Funding: $ 12mn
Announced Date: 1st March, 2018
Venture Round (Series Unknown) Funding: $ 150mn
Xpressbees: Xpressbees is an e-commerce logistics specialist company, providing reliable

and fast logistics solutions to its partners.
Seed Round: $ 5mn
Announced Date: 1st September, 2015

Stage: Seed Stage
Public Companies
Arman Financial Services Ltd.: Arman Financial serves unbanked and semi-banked
customers with microfinance, two-wheeler finance and micro-enterprise loans, primarily in
rural and semi-rural markets. It has a strong presence in Western and Central India.
Post-IPO Equity Funding: $ 7.6mn
Stake: 24.8%
Atul Ltd.: Atul Limited produces over a thousand products and formulations for 4,000 clients
in sectors as diverse as adhesives, agriculture, animal feed, automobile, chemical,
composites, construction, cosmetic, defence, dyestuff, electrical and electronics and so on.
Post-IPO Equity Funding: Rs. 200-300 Cr
Announced Date: June, 2014
Stake: 10%
Bajaj Consumer Care: Bajaj Consumer Care is a leading Indian FMCG company in the hair
care and skin care space.
Post-IPO Equity Funding: $ 8.8mn
Announced Date: October, 2017
Stake: 1%
Bluestar: Blue Star is India's largest central air conditioning company with a network of 32
offices, seven modern manufacturing facilities, over 2,000 dealers and around 2,500
employees.
Post-IPO Equity Funding: Rs. 47.50 Cr
Announced Date: July, 2012
Stake: 3.85%
Indian Hotels Company Ltd.: The Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL) and its subsidiaries
are collectively known as Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces, which is recognised as one of Asia's
largest and finest hotel companies.
Post-IPO Equity Funding: Undisclosed
Announced Date: March, 2014
Stake: 1.62%
Edelweiss (Undisclosed Amount): Edelweiss is one of India’s leading diversified financial

services groups. Its businesses are broadly divided into the following segments: Credit,
including Retail Finance and Debt Capital Markets, Commodities, Financial Markets, Asset
Management, and Life Insurance.
FIEM Industries: FIEM Industries is one of the largest suppliers of automotive lighting,
signalling equipment and rear-view mirrors to OEMs such as Tata Motors, Skoda, GM India,
Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India and TVS Motors
(1.1 per cent stake)
Rs 11.3 crore ($1.7 million) March, 2016
Havells : Havells India Limited is one of the largest electrical equipment companies in India.
In business since 1958, the company has products ranging from home and kitchen
appliances. By March 2011 it had sold more than half of its stakes and had a remaining
holding, pegged around 1.48 per cent, is valued at Rs 71 crore and Saif had sold the shares
with over 3x returns.
Rs 80-82 crore ($18 million) March, 2009
IndiaMART: IndiaMart InterMesh Ltd, which owns a business-to-business (B2B) marketplace

for products and services, has raised Rs 213.6 crore (around $31 million) in anchor
investment from 15 investors.
Rs 18 crore Jun, 2019
IPCA Labs : Ipca is a fully-integrated Indian pharmaceutical company that manufactures over
350 formulations and 80 active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for various therapies.
(1.6 per cent stake) October, 2018
JM Financial (Undisclosed Amount): JM Financial is a leading financial services group with

presence across the spectrum including investment banking, wholesale lending, distressed
asset management and wealth management.
Karur Vysya Bank : Karur Vysya Bank blends 97 years of tradition with the newest
technology to deliver innovative products and services at affordable rates throughout India
blends 97 years of tradition with the newest technology to deliver innovative products and
services at affordable rates throughout India.
Rs 150 Crore May, 2014
KDDL Ltd. : KDDL is a leading manufacturer of high quality watch components for top global
watch brands and is also into manufacturing of high precision pressed components and
tooling solutions for a wide range of engineering applications
(10 per cent stake)
Rs 30 crore July, 2015
MindTree: Mindtree is among the fastest growing global technology firms with more than
200 clients and offices in 14 countries. Mindtree delivers technology services and
accelerates growth for their clients by solving complex business challenges with
breakthrough technical innovations. private equity firm completed the exit in MindTree on
Thursday, selling a major chunk of its holding for about $20 million (Rs 96 crore)
(4.97% stake)
$12 million (Rs 57.6 crore) 2008
Thermax : Thermax is an INR 5577 crore company that provides a range of engineering
solutions to the energy and environment sectors. Focussed in heating equipment,
absorption chillers, power and captive cogeneration plants, waste heat recovery, water
management, air pollution control systems and solar-based heating, cooling and power.
Private equity firm SAIF Partners has exited its investments in IT services firm MindTree Ltd
and engineering firm Thermax Ltd, earning returns of over 2x in both deals.
(2.60% stake)
$15 million (Rs 72 crore)
Pennar Industries. : Pennar is one of India’s leading industrial companies engaged in the
production and marketing of specialized and engineered steel solutions. The Company
manufactures profiles and components and caters to the auto, white goods, railways and
infrastructure sectors.
Rs 35 crore December, 2011

Persistent Systems Ltd : Persistent Systems is a global company specializing in software
products and technology services. Their areas of work include product development and
engineering, supporting clients’ digital transformation, analytics and Big Data, security and
cloud technology and more.
$20 million (Rs 119 crore) June, 2013
Ratnamani Metals and Tubes LTD : Ratnamani manufactures a wide range of stainless steel
(SS) and carbon steel (CS) pipes & tubes used in projects in different industries such as oil &
gas, petrochemical, thermal & nuclear power, fertilizers, chemicals, water pipelines, etc
(1.2% stake)
Rs 30 crore ($4.5 million) August, 2016
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Group Members

Varun Achar (20181001)

Soham Moghe (20181031)

Shreyash Ranjan (20181040)

Pranav Sarawagi (20181042)

Rohit Yadav (20181059)

Date: Mar 13, 2019

Funding Amount: $65M

Funding Type: Series C

Date: June 19, 2018

Funding Amount: ₹1.5B

Funding Type: Unknown

Date: June 11, 2018

Funding Amount: $10M

Funding Type: Series C

Date: Nov 5, 2015

Funding Amount: $3M

Funding Type: Series A

BookMyShow: BookMyShow is India's largest entertainment ticketing portal. As it stands

Date: Jun 18, 2014 & Jul 5, 2016

Funding Amount: $25M & $81.5M

Funding Type: Series B & Series C

Date: Aug 21, 2017

Funding Amount: $45M

Funding Type: Series C

Date: Oct 27, 2015 & Jan 13, 2016

Funding Amount: $350K & $4M

Funding Type: Seed & Series A

Date: Sep 5, 2018

Funding Type: Series B

Date: Oct 23, 2018 & Jun 17, 2016

Funding Amount: $50M & $12M

Funding Type: Series B & Series A

Date: Jul 24, 2019

Funding Amount: ₹400M

Funding Type: Series C

Funding Amount: Undisclosed

Funding Type: Unknown

Date: Jan 1, 2006

Funding Amount: $22M

Funding Type: Series Unknown

Date: Nov 20, 2018

Funding Amount: $3.3M

Funding Type: Series A

Date of funding- Oct 12, 2017

Amount of funding- $3.4 M

Type of funding- SERIES A FUNDING

Date of funding- BETWEEN 2005 -2008

Type of funding- SERIES B & C Funding

Date of funding- Jul 24, 2018

Amount of funding- $11 M

Type of funding- SERIES B FUNDING

Date of funding- 2006

Type of funding- SERIES C FUNDING

Date of funding- UNDISCLOSED

Amount of funding- $ 18.5 M

Type of funding- SERIES A FUNDING

Date of funding- August 2008

Amount of funding- Rs 50.37 crore

INTELLIGENT GROUP Intelligroup is a global provider of strategic IT outsourcing services

Date of funding- 2004 & 2006

Amount of funding- $15 M in 2004 / $10 M in 2006

Type of funding- SERIES A FUNDING