Matrix Partners India is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. The firm focuses on sectors such as consumer technology, enterprise software, and healthcare, among others. It provides capital, mentorship, and support to startups with high growth potential.

Matrix Partners India

Matrix Partners India is an investment firm targeting the Indian enterprise and consumer market at the seed, early and early growth stages. Following a "foundersfirst!" philosophy, the firm invests in entrepreneurs across sectors, and is personally committed to helping build world-changing companies. Ola, Quikr, Practo, Dailyhunt, Mswipe, FiveStar and Treebo are few of the companies that Matrix has invested in and continues to partner closely with. Matrix Partners India was established in 2006, with offices in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Delhi, and currently manages over $1 billion. Matrix Partners has a global network of funds investing in the US, China and India with $5 billion under management.

You can submit your business plan here - http://www.matrixpartners.in/contact/business

OZiva

Testbook.com

TinyOwl

GrownOut

Avail Finance

Chumbak

Clip App

ShopClues

Vogo

Yelo

Just Dial

DailyNinja

Five Star Business Finance

LimeRoad

Myra

To scale a thriving business, new age entrepreneurs must navigate the transition between private and public markets by avoiding common pitfalls and emphasizing key strategies for success.

#IPOLearning 6: Focus matters

• Build in large markets where single product has scale
• Profitability of same franchise is always better than something new
• Competence is strongest typically in one business line
• Free cash flows also accrue where business is strongest
• Platform network effects do matter
• Increasing wallet share from same customer also helps
• Build on your competitive advantage 

Raamdeo Agrawal | Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd | #RSrinivasan | SBI MUTUAL FUND | Avnish Bajaj | Rajinder Balaraman | Sharika Sodah
 
#FoundersFirst #MatrixAscend #PublicMarkets

Happy to announce our partnership with Paul Meinshausen, Schaun Wheeler and Sami Abboud for Aampe, an AI-native user engagement platform. 
 
Today, managing customer relationships has inefficiencies created by traditional, manual processes. Aampe automates content creation, experimental design, and conversion tracking, among other uses. Improving those marketing processes significantly boosts user engagement and conversion rates while reducing the time and effort required to manage traditional rules-based systems.
 
“Aampe has created a way for CRM AI agents to iteratively learn user preferences and then adapt and respond to those preferences optimally, unlocking the benefits that better customer experience provides.” said Paul Meinshausen, CEO and Co-founder of Aampe. 

The funds will be used to support product development and fuel growth as the company continues its rapid global expansion. 

At Matrix Partners India, we are excited to be a part of Aampe’s journey in shaping the future of AI-native customer engagement solutions. 
 
Link to our announcement: https://lnkd.in/dvS67cdR
 
Avnish Bajaj | Vikram Vaidyanathan | Aakash Kumar | Pranay Desai | Ashwin Kannan Pandian

#FoundersFirst #AIatMatrix #Martech

Excited to double down on our investment with Arvind Parthiban & Jayakumar K. for SuperOps.ai, the AI-powered IT management SaaS platform.
 
The $280-billion Managed Service Providers (MSPs) industry is dominated by small and medium-sized businesses, which have struggled with tools that have not seen any innovation for years. SuperOps.ai has changed this status quo. 
  
“Traditionally, MSPs relied on a mix of tools that resulted in high costs and lack of visibility and efficiency. Now, with SuperOps.ai, they can move from outdated point products to a unified platform,” said Arvind Parthiban, Co-founder and CEO, SuperOps.ai. “I am excited about the launch of advanced network monitoring as part of our unified SuperOps.ai platform, so MSPs can offer more services to their clients without adding on more tools. Our goal is to keep developing our platform further so that it can keep supporting MSP ambitions."
 
The funds will be used to enhance its AI capabilities, expand its presence in USA and support community-led initiatives aimed at assisting MSPs in areas beyond technology.
 
At Matrix Partners India, we're delighted to continue supporting the SuperOps.ai team as they transform how MSPs operate.
 
Link to our announcement: https://lnkd.in/dCQNRySH
 
#FoundersFirst #AIatMatrix #MSP
 
Tarun Davda

The Global Electronics Manufacturing Services market is valued at $900 billion with India capturing only ~2% of the market share. This is estimated to reach $1.2 trillion in the next 3-4 years and with India capturing 8 – 10% of this.

Whether you're an early-stage founder or share our enthusiasm for this sector, tune in for an insightful fireside chat with Mukesh Gupta, CEO, Plumage Technology; Tao He, CEO, Bluebank Communication Technology Co., Ltd; Sudipto Sannigrahi and Anurag Srivastava of Matrix Partners India, on “The Rise of the Indian electronics manufacturing Industry” in Gurugram on Tuesday, October 17th.

Link to register: https://lu.ma/o9dmpi3n

#FoundersFirst #B2BatMatrix #ElectronicsManufacturing

#IPOLearning 5: Simplicity Is Your Friend

•Typically big businesses are simple businesses
•If investors don’t understand your business you will not get a good valuation
•Good business needs to be understood first before it can be called a good business
•Storytelling is important. How are you different? What is the narrative?
•Cut out lots of jargon, acronyms and complexity to explain your unit model
•Warren Buffet’s annual report 2007 – page 6 and 7 
(https://bit.ly/3Q3Ze5m)
•Warren Buffet’s annual report speaks about what makes a business good great or gruesome
•Among other things business model simplicity is everything

Raamdeo Agrawal | Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd | #RSrinivasan | SBI MUTUAL FUND | Avnish Bajaj | Rajinder Balaraman | Sharika Sodah
 
#FoundersFirst #PublicMarkets #TechIPO #MatrixAscend

On the latest episode of Matrix Moments, Ashish Aggarwal, Co-Founder, AppBroda and Vivek Ramachandran, Matrix Partners India, discuss the world of mobile apps and the growing segments in the gaming landscape in India.

This episode covers - 

📈 Growth Potential: Discover why India's gaming industry is on the brink of an inflection point in the next 18 months.

🌐 Developer Talents: Learn about India's vast developer talent pool and their evolving role in the global gaming industry.

🌍 Global Perspective: The importance of expanding beyond local markets to maximize revenue and user acquisition.

💡 Monetization Strategies: Incorporating ads, premium formats, and effective user acquisition to boost your game's success.

📈 Scaling Success: How developers who started small grew into million-dollar studios and why now is the perfect time to embrace the entrepreneurial plunge in the gaming industry.

Link to the full episode - https://lnkd.in/dpFaHM4j

If you are building in the space, drop us a line. 

Aakash Kumar

#FoundersFirst #MatrixMoments #GamingAtMatrix

India's gaming industry is thriving and what truly distinguishes the landscape is its extensive pool of talent, with over 200,000 developers listed on the Play Store—an exceptional number compared to other nations.

On the upcoming episode of Matrix Moments, Join Ashish Aggarwal, Co-Founder, AppBroda and Vivek Ramachandran, Matrix Partners India, as they discuss the evolving gaming sector in India, its challenges, and more.

Stay Tuned. Coming Soon!

Aakash Kumar

#FoundersFirst #MatrixMoments #GamingAtMatrix

#IPOLearning 4: Valuation multiples are all relative
 
•Companies think too much about size, or market share
•Growth, combined with operating return on capital is far more valuable
•A good business or a good management will always command higher valuations
•A 50 P/E stock may be cheaper than a 15 P/E stock because each company’s growth, return on capital employed and cost of equity is different
•Implied P/E is different from Market P/E 
 
Raamdeo Agrawal | Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd | #RSrinivasan | SBI MUTUAL FUND | Avnish Bajaj | Rajinder Balaraman | Sharika Sodah
 
#FoundersFirst #PublicMarkets #TechIPO #MatrixAscend

#IPOLearning 3: Competitive advantage drives terminal value: 
 
• What are your right-to-win characteristics? 
• Are you investing to expand your moats?
• The threat of disruption for whatever reason should be minimized
• Return on capital employed (RoCE) should not be optimised over building deep and wide moats. Don’t invite competition
• RoCE should also be looked at more at the unit level. Investing behind growth is important to public market investors too
• Anything that doesn’t drive terminal value ultimately will end up like a value trap. A short-term investment at best
 
Raamdeo Agrawal | Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd | #RSrinivasan | SBI MUTUAL FUND | Avnish Bajaj | Rajinder Balaraman | Sharika Sodah
 
#FoundersFirst #PublicMarkets #TechIPO #MatrixAscend

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