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KAREKEBA VENTURES

We Invest In Passionate People With Sustainable Business Models To Help Them Scale

Our Services

We craft startup ecosystems that grow businesses & create lasting impacts

We are a full-stack digital platform for early-stage startups that believes being a 'Favorite' brand is more valuable than just being a 'Famous' one. We craft useful, connected ecosystems for 'Bharat' that grow businesses and build enduring relationships between brands and humans.

Physical and Virtual Incubation

Guidance to deep-dive in the business idea and execution strategy

Access to world class mentors

Access to mentorship and handholding
support from our pool of domain experts

Seed Investment Platform

We facilitate seed assistance to post-revenue businesses to help them grow

Syndication Services

We facilitate syndication at established platforms to help businesses scale-up

KKB in numbers

Startups Curated
in 450+ Inquiries

Investors Interest
Registered

Startups Onboarded for Acceleration

Advisors/Mentors
Onboarded

Startup Education Webinars

We've got you covered

One-to-one mentorship with experts. Assistance with Pitch Deck evaluation. Financial Projection Analysis.
Making you Pitch Ready for investors.

Curation

Pitch to us and if we like your business idea you become one of our curated startup.

Curation

Pitch to us and if we like your business idea you become one of our curated startup.

Assistance with third Party services

Get connected with service providers such as technical, finance, legal, marketing, etc.

Assistance with third Party services

Get connected with service providers such as technical, finance, legal, marketing, etc.

Hands on Support

Mentorship support from domain experts and get your issues discussed and resolved.

Hands on Support

Mentorship support from domain experts and get your issues discussed and resolved.

Financial and Legal Due Diligence

Get your business proposal’s due diligence done at a very nominal fee from us.

Financial and Legal Due Diligence

Get your business proposal’s due diligence done at a very nominal fee from us.

Investor Pitch Ready

Pitch for our Internal Investment Committee and get your pitch ready for investors pitch.

Investor Pitch Ready

Pitch for our Internal Investment Committee and get your pitch ready for investors pitch.

All paperwork is on us

Term Sheet signing, Agreement and all other required paperwork is done by us.

All paperwork is on us

Term Sheet signing, Agreement and all other required paperwork is done by us.

Announcements

KKB FEATURED ON YOURSTORY

KareKeBa venture has been featured on YourStory

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The journey of KareKeba Ventures was highlighted on YourStory, India’s biggest and definitive platform for startups and entrepreneurs. From the story behind the venture’s origin to its continuous interventions in the startup ecosystem, the article covers the mission and the striving pursuit of KareKeba in developing the vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems that go unnoticed in the underserved geographies of India.

Do Visit:

https://yourstory.com/2021/05/startup-bharat-karekeba-ventures-mentorship-capital-entrepreneurs-bihar/amp

Hanuman Raises ~ INR 4Cr in the Follow-on round.

Karekeba’s first investee startup raised its follow-on round of INR 4 Cr jointly led by Kamal Lath and Karekeba Ventures. With about a 10-fold rise in revenues since its first round, more than 1000 ambulances onboarded and over 35,000 services rendered, Hanuman is looking to deepen and widen its penetration in Bharat.

Shashank (Co-founder & CEO DeHaat) shares his experience with the Agri-tech founders @Karekeba

A long-term mindset coupled with determination is the key to building deep impact sustainable solutions!"

Karekeba conducted a mentorship session for our acceleration cohort and other startups in Agri-tech and rural disruptions domains. And who else but India’s biggest agri-tech startup founder to lead this!

Thanks a lot, Shashank Kumar (co-founder DeHaat) for joining us and interacting with our startups viz - AgriVijay™, Nkosh, Harvest Global, Aishntech, PlatFarm, engineerHUB. It’s a pleasure to listen to you- crisp and insightful as always! Thanks for throwing light on your journey and sharing learnings for our incubated startups and also guiding them on their respective business models.

Together we can……

Raising Now - Harvest Global: an AI-based Agri Value Chain Intelligence startup

Curated through our stringent evaluation process and targeting the huge market of agri-supply chain, Harvest Global (www.hgsystems.in) provides a one-stop platform for research and data needs of global AgVC stakeholders for a wide range of crops from cereals to pulses; sugarcane to horticulture and many more. It uses AI/Spatial science /GIS in agriculture, DEM, and Hydrology in crop intelligence to optimise the solutions in a huge addressable global market. The startup has already bagged orders from companies in India and Tanzania and looking to scale-up.

Raising Now - Think Startup: a new age Edtech startup

ThinkStartup is a wonderful new-age supplementary education platform focusing on entrepreneurship and innovation, churning out go-getters. #Founded by two IITD alum with B2B, B2C and B2G revenue models, as entrepreneurship becomes the next big thing for the Indian education system catching the mind-space of both, government and private players.

Come, be a part of this exciting opportunity!

Raising Now - JhaJi : a Shark Tank featured Startup

JhaJi Store sells traditional homemade pickles, chutneys, and lip-smacking preserves made by women using authentic ingredients and recipes from Mithilanchal in Bihar. Kalpana and Uma Jha started this business to take Mithila’s authentic taste to people across the diaspora and others who have a taste for traditional flavours, a large, ever-growing market. The consumers swear by Jhaji’s authentic taste! It was a finalist at Shark Tank India too and is growing in revenues month-on-month.

Redinent signs MoU with IIT Patna

Redinent founded by our CTO Mr Divyanshu has joined hands with IIT Patna to collaborate on various interdisciplinary research fields in cybersecurity, IoT and machine learning. We are grateful to Director TN Singh, Prof. Jawar Singh and the entire faculty and staff for their vision, faith and enthusiasm in facilitating this milestone for all of us. We look forward to working closely and building innovative solutions together.

KAREKEBA VENTURES EVOLVING AS A FULL-STACK ECOSYSTEM PLAYER FOR BHARAT!

KKB FEATURED AS AN ACCELERATOR, MENTOR & INVESTOR SUPPORTING STARTUPS FROM BHARAT.

Karekeba is an endeavor to be a game-changer for the startup ecosystem of 'Bharat'. KKB was conceptualized with a thought to address the anomalies in the entrepreneurial ecosystem of India by bringing best-in-class value creation for the entrepreneurs in the under-served geographies of India i.e. 'Bharat'. With a firm belief in the innovative prowess of the youth of 'Bharat', it strives to enable and empower them through mentorship, hand-holding, and providing a platform for securing investment for scale-up. It is the place where 'Impact meets financial returns'.

Read Full Coverage here

KKB FEATURED ON YOURSTORY

KareKeBa venture has been featured on YourStory

Do Visit:

https://yourstory.com/2021/05/startup-bharat-karekeba-ventures-mentorship-capital-entrepreneurs-bihar/amp

Hanuman Raises ~ INR 4Cr in the Follow-on round.

Shashank (Co-founder & CEO DeHaat) shares his experience with the Agri-tech founders @Karekeba

Raising Now - Harvest Global: an AI-based Agri Value Chain Intelligence startup

Raising Now - Think Startup: a new age Edtech startup

Raising Now - JhaJi : a Shark Tank featured Startup

Redinent signs MoU with IIT Patna

KAREKEBA VENTURES EVOLVING AS A FULL-STACK ECOSYSTEM PLAYER FOR BHARAT!

KKB FEATURED AS AN ACCELERATOR, MENTOR & INVESTOR SUPPORTING STARTUPS FROM BHARAT.

Karekeba is an endeavor to be a game-changer for the startup ecosystem of 'Bharat'. KKB was conceptualized with a thought to address the anomalies in the entrepreneurial ecosystem of India by bringing best-in-class value creation for the entrepreneurs in the under-served geographies of India i.e. 'Bharat'. With a firm belief in the innovative prowess of the youth of 'Bharat', it strives to enable and empower them through mentorship, hand-holding, and providing a platform for securing investment for scale-up. It is the place where 'Impact meets financial returns'.

Read Full Coverage here

KKB FEATURED ON YOURSTORY

KareKeBa venture has been featured on YourStory

Do Visit:

https://yourstory.com/2021/05/startup-bharat-karekeba-ventures-mentorship-capital-entrepreneurs-bihar/amp

A Few of Our Startups

Tie-ups

As a venture partner to lend syndication to startups onto their platforms for bigger asks.

For Branding and Communication Strategy.

To help startups get B2B market outreach to FMC's MSME members.

As a Knowledge partner with E-cell IIT Patna to support in startup evaluation

The Team

Divyanshu Verma

Founder & CTO

Divyanshu is a senior Technology Management Leader with more than 20 years of global experience. He is an alumnus of IIT BHU, IIT- Delhi, and IIM- Bangalore. In a career spanning over more than two decades, he has worked across continents in companies like Intel, NetApp, Ericsson & Dell, his co-domain being Tech leadership, AI, ML, Cyber Security, etc.

Avantika Sahay

Co-Founder | COO

An erstwhile Senior Director at T-Hub, Hyderabad, Avantika is an Economics grad coupled with expertise in Website Designing and Development. An experienced advisor in the startup ecosystem, Avantika started her career with a Noida based startup founded by 4 IITians and went on to work with MNCs like Sapient, UHG & Tech Mahindra.

Anubha Prasad

Founder & Advisor

Anubha attended BIT Sindri (Elect.) and MDI, Gurgaon (MBA-Finance, Strategy) and is a Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers. She has had a 23 years' stint at SIDBI in MSME & startup financing, and impact investment. She was with UNEP for a couple of years before founding Karekeba to follow her heart to be a change-maker for Bharat.

Kshitiz Anand

Investor | Design Advisor

Kshitiz is a passionate Design Leader with experience in setting up and leading Design Teams across industry and academia. He currently works at Paytm as AVP Design and headed the UX at 1mg earlier. He is an IIT-Guwahati and Indiana University alumnus (bagged distinguished alumni awards) and also runs an education non-profit called 'HappyHorizons'.

Amitabh Prasad

Advisor

Amitabh attended BIT, FMS and Kellogg and is presently the CEO heading Brazil operations of Sterlite Power. He is a C-Suite Executive with more than 2 decades of strong experience in leading large and diverse teams across the globe.

Kushagra

Co-Founder | Strategy Advisor

Kushagra attended Cornell University as a Tata Scholar and graduated Summa-cum-Laude in 2015 with a triple major in Economics, Maths, and Statistical Sciences. He attended the London School of Economics & Columbia Business School majoring in Finance and is a Financial & Strategic consultant in NYC.

Ram N Kumar

Advisor

Ram is the Founder & CEO of NirogStreet which is India’s largest B2B2C Ayurveda tech platform with over 45000 Ayurveda doctors and 200k patients on board. Previously he founded multi-speciality marketing technology company Marketech and not-for-profit, 'Centre for Civil Initiatives'.

Shakir Jamil

Operations Manager I Analyst

Professional having founder's experience with a demonstrated history of working in the education management industry. With an Engineer’s Degree from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Patna, Shakir is skilled in Operations Management, User Experience (UX), Entrepreneurship, User Interface Design, Start-ups, and Project Management.

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Our Services

We craft startup ecosystems that grow businesses & create lasting impacts

Physical and Virtual Incubation

Access to world class mentors

Seed Investment Platform

Syndication Services

KKB in numbers

Startups Curatedin 450+ Inquiries

Investors Interest Registered

Startups Onboarded for Acceleration

Advisors/MentorsOnboarded

Startup Education Webinars

We've got you covered

One-to-one mentorship with experts. Assistance with Pitch Deck evaluation. Financial Projection Analysis. Making you Pitch Ready for investors.

Curation

Curation

Assistance with third Party services

Assistance with third Party services

Hands on Support

Hands on Support

Financial and Legal Due Diligence

Financial and Legal Due Diligence

Investor Pitch Ready

Investor Pitch Ready

All paperwork is on us

All paperwork is on us

Hanuman Raises ~ INR 4Cr in the Follow-on round.

A Few of Our Startups

Tie-ups

As a venture partner to lend syndication to startups onto their platforms for bigger asks.

For Branding and Communication Strategy.

To help startups get B2B market outreach to FMC's MSME members.

The Team

Divyanshu Verma

Founder & CTO

Avantika Sahay

Co-Founder | COO

Anubha Prasad

Founder & Advisor

Kshitiz Anand

Investor | Design Advisor

Amitabh Prasad

Advisor

Kushagra

Co-Founder | Strategy Advisor

Ram N Kumar

Advisor

Shakir Jamil

Operations Manager I Analyst

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Get in Touch With Us

For Inquiries: +91 85410 96777

Subscribe for regular Updates

Startups Curated
in 450+ Inquiries

Investors Interest
Registered

Advisors/Mentors
Onboarded

One-to-one mentorship with experts. Assistance with Pitch Deck evaluation. Financial Projection Analysis.
Making you Pitch Ready for investors.