Gemba Capital
Adith Podhar is a seasoned professional in the investment and startup ecosystem, currently serving as a Founding Partner at Gemba Capital since January 2018, focusing on pre-seed and seed stage scalable startups in SaaS, Fintech, and Deep tech from India. Prior experience includes a role as Vice President - Investments at Motilal Oswal Private Equity, where participation was in growth capital investments, and as Vice President at Cipher-Plexus Capital Advisors, which provided growth capital to SMEs and startups. Adith Podhar also founded and served as CEO of Altius Enterprises (Crepeteria) from March 2007 to May 2011 and worked as a Product Manager for Alternative Investments at ICICI Bank. Academically, Adith Podhar holds an M.B.A. in Finance and a Bachelor's degree in Management Studies, both from the University of Mumbai.
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Gemba Capital
Guided by our True North, we at Gemba Capital back tech enabled startups that are scalable and looking for seed funding. What we look for? At Gemba Capital we look for three things: Founder, Market and Product. • Ability, passion and vision in a founder. • Size, competition and growth in a market. • Need, differentiation and value in a product. We are sector agnostic, however below are our focus areas: SaaS, Fintech, B2B Commerce, Agri tech Our ideal investment will be: We look to invest in visionary founders, strong in execution and with complementary skill sets Significant growth potential over the next 3 to 5 years. Startups having paying customers. We prefer backing founders with at least 4-5 years of prior experience Differentiated products or services that have the potential to be "platforms“ Products or services which solve a particular problem or caters to a particular need/gap in the market How we invest? We typically invest US$200-250K per company. We are open to investing through convertible structures and instruments, however we prefer straight equity. Please visit our website to check our portfolio, team and advisors and to reach out to us !!