Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$1,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,000,000.00
Skills
Education
- TW
- II
- II
Lists including Karthik
Investments
LightFury Games
Total Funding: $9M
Interview Kickstart
Total Funding: $10M
Flash.co
Total Funding: $13M
Rocketium
Total Funding: $6M
Smartstaff
Total Funding: $10M
STAGE
Total Funding: $9.7M
Procol
Total Funding: $18M
Gooey.AI
Total Funding: $410K
IDfy
Total Funding: $11M
Niqo Robotics
Total Funding: $5M
Work Experience
2010
Co Founder and Managing Partner
2010
Building Blume since 2010 Blume focusses on Seed to Pre Series A startups born out of India and continues to back our best portfolio companies through the growth stages. 4 Primary Funds: Fund I (2011-15) $20M, Fund II (2015-18) $60M, Fund III (2018-21) $102M, Fund IV (2021-22 closing) $290M Opportunity Funds and Secondary Funds (2018-23) ~ US$170M AUM Blume's biggest winners include: Unacademy, Spinny, Slice, Purplle, Grey Orange, Turtlemint, dunzo, Carbon Clean, Classplus, Servify, Smallcase, Exotel, Lambdatest, BatterySmart, Pixxel, Jai Kisan, Locus, Koo, Cashify, Healthifyme, IntrCity amongst other rising stars. Karthik's active board representations (Director | Observer) include (as of Dec 2023): Grey Orange, Servify, smallcase, Exotel, HealthifyMe Blume's biggest exits to date include: TaxiforSure (to Ola), Runnr (to Zomato), Agara (to Coinbase), Minjar (to Nutanix), Mettl (to Mercer Consulting), Zipdial (to Twitter), Superset (to Byjus | Great Learning), Promptec (to Havells), Threadsol (to Coates),
2008 - 2014
Member
2008 - 2014
2007 - 2010
VP, Brand Capital
2007 - 2010
2006 - 2007
SVP, Strategic Planning
2006 - 2007
Business Development New Initiatives Planning and Strategy for the group Investor Relations
2006 - 2006
VP, Investment Banking
2006 - 2006
Media & Telecom Practice, Investment Banking
2002 - 2005
VP Technology Services
2002 - 2005
Securities Clearing Software Technologies - Project Management, New Business Initiatives and Business Development
2002 - 2002
VP
2002 - 2002
Business Development
2001 - 2002
Associate, Technology Investment Banking
2001 - 2002
Capital Markets, M&A - Telecom Network Infrastructure, Telecom Software
2000 - 2000
Summer Associate
2000 - 2000
1996 - 1999
Manager
1996 - 1999
Debt Capital Markets, Product Structuring and Derivatives Marketing