Driving change. Transforming India.

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A house is more than just a shelter. Stable, affordable housing is critical for breaking the cycle of poverty. We make it possible for all citizens to construct their dream home, no matter what their income level.
Munuswamy Anandan, Founder, Aptus Housing Finance

When people and teams leverage all the ways we can connect and be collaborative, today, industry becomes more efficient. To build a better future, we must take this approach to working together.
Abhinav Shashank, Co-founder, Innovaccer

Building and maintaining a home is such an emotional and time-consuming challenge for everyone. I want to transform the way Indians buy home improvement products and improve the quality of life for homebuilders themselves.
Mayank Shivam, Co-founder, IBO

We want to ensure that education is affordable to all and hope that educational opportunities change our students’ lives the way it has changed ours.
Bibhu Prasad Das, Co-founder, Propelld

Something I learned from my father is that it's not important to be always right, but it is important to always keep moving. That’s now our core obsession in Bijnis, to always keep moving towards building an even better platform for factories.
Siddharth Vij, Co-founder, Bijnis

Despite the huge role customer service centers play in a business, customers rarely have a good experience. We decided to fix it by automating a large chunk of the cognitively routine contact center functions using voice AI, allowing businesses to focus their efforts on more value-added tasks.
Sourabh Gupta, Co-founder, Skit.ai

I spent some time on farms. When I was so close to the problem it was almost impossible not to notice the massive gaps in the market. From the farmers, to the sellers, to the re-sellers to the customers. No one was 100% satisfied. I just knew it was a problem worth solving. A problem worth my time. That’s how Otipy was born —- from farm to fork. It’s fast, it’s fresh, it’s affordable and it’s conscious.
Varun Khurana, Founder, Otipy

Healthcare should be a right, not a privilege. When we were working in the pharma industry, we realized 80% or more of the people in our country do not complete their full medicine dose because of affordability challenges. That’s how TrueMeds was born. Our goal is to democratize medicine purchase and bring a revolution to the Indian healthcare industry.
Akshat Nayyar, Co-founder, TrueMeds

Gaming is bigger than Bollywood. When you’re gaming you’re active. The player overcomes challenges and feels good. And when you’re playing multiplayer every experience is fresh. It’s very engaging entertainment that can be experienced again and again.
Manish Agarwal, Nazara

Our purpose

We support Indian entrepreneurs with purpose-driven capital

Our approach goes beyond capital. We aim for the long-term, as we know it can take years to build businesses for longevity. No matter the stage or phase of our investment, the number one commitment we make to all founders is time. It’s a value we’ve held since the beginning, made possible by the unique structure of our fund.

Like us, founders and their companies seek to create sustainable solutions — economic and otherwise — that strengthen India’s leadership in global technology. If we hit our mark, their work will bring value beyond valuation to communities, worldwide.

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Focus Areas

Innovation excites us. Whether a new engine, platform, or tool, technology creates efficiencies and widespread benefits. Several areas of focus have drawn our eye and expertise because of their collective capacity for change. These are the fulcrums we think will move the world in the next 20 years.

Consumer

• Consumer • Consumer • Consumer • Consumer • Consumer • Consumer • Consumer • Consumer • Consumer • Consumer • Consumer • Consumer • Consumer • Consumer • Consumer • Consumer

Modern, customer-focused retail chains and manufactured goods makers are attentively catering to the unique needs of rising middle- and lower-income Indian customers.
E-commerce

• E-commerce • E-commerce • E-commerce • E-commerce • E-commerce • E-commerce • E-commerce • E-commerce • E-commerce • E-commerce • E-commerce • E-commerce • E-commerce • E-commerce • E-commerce • E-commerce

Maintaining an online sales presence is competitively essential these days, but smaller firms can still have difficulty making the leap. The pandemic forced many Indian companies to finally pivot, motivating e-commerce platforms to adapt to the needs of SMEs.
Edtech

• Edtech • Edtech • Edtech • Edtech • Edtech • Edtech • Edtech • Edtech • Edtech • Edtech • Edtech • Edtech • Edtech • Edtech • Edtech • Edtech

Edtech collapses India’s traditional geographic and income barriers to education, lowering costs and promoting equity. Companies that provide tech-powered classroom and live online learning and upskilling are scaling steadily.
Electric vehicles

• Electric vehicles • Electric vehicles • Electric vehicles • Electric vehicles • Electric vehicles • Electric vehicles • Electric vehicles • Electric vehicles • Electric vehicles • Electric vehicles • Electric vehicles • Electric vehicles • Electric vehicles • Electric vehicles • Electric vehicles • Electric vehicles

With fuel costs rising and India setting ambitious carbon reduction goals, electric vehicles (EVs) are in high demand. Constant improvements to EV range and power are quickly narrowing the gap with fossil-fuel vehicles and products.
Enterprise tech

• Enterprise tech • Enterprise tech • Enterprise tech • Enterprise tech • Enterprise tech • Enterprise tech • Enterprise tech • Enterprise tech • Enterprise tech • Enterprise tech • Enterprise tech • Enterprise tech • Enterprise tech • Enterprise tech • Enterprise tech • Enterprise tech

Enterprise solutions are exponentially streamlining workflows, improving communication and providing access to critical decision-making data increasing the speed and effectiveness of processes like talent recruitment, customer service workflow analysis and logistics management.
Financial services

• Financial services • Financial services • Financial services • Financial services • Financial services • Financial services • Financial services • Financial services • Financial services • Financial services • Financial services • Financial services • Financial services • Financial services • Financial services • Financial services

Financial providers are seeing value and credit-worthiness in overlooked sectors and customers, offering a boost to Indian entrepreneurs, homebuyers and home improvers through microloans and alternative financing products.
Fintech

• Fintech • Fintech • Fintech • Fintech • Fintech • Fintech • Fintech • Fintech • Fintech • Fintech • Fintech • Fintech • Fintech • Fintech • Fintech • Fintech

Our fintech companies are unbundling gate-kept services and driving down costs expanding financial opportunities to the many Indian small businesses, startups and families who are geographically isolated or find traditional banking and accounting providers difficult to access.
Healthtech

• Healthtech • Healthtech • Healthtech • Healthtech • Healthtech • Healthtech • Healthtech • Healthtech • Healthtech • Healthtech • Healthtech • Healthtech • Healthtech • Healthtech • Healthtech • Healthtech

From big data to smartphones, new and legacy providers are leveraging technology to improve healthcare provision, diagnostics and outcomes.
Machine learning

• Machine learning • Machine learning • Machine learning • Machine learning • Machine learning • Machine learning • Machine learning • Machine learning • Machine learning • Machine learning • Machine learning • Machine learning • Machine learning • Machine learning • Machine learning • Machine learning

India’s long-standing expertise in software engineering and business transformation solutions are giving startups in this space an edge. Scalable, commercial ML applications for marketing, talent sourcing and customer experience in industries ranging from banking to healthcare are in high demand.
SaaS

• SaaS • SaaS • SaaS • SaaS • SaaS • SaaS • SaaS • SaaS • SaaS • SaaS • SaaS • SaaS • SaaS • SaaS • SaaS • SaaS

Cloud-based, modular, feature-rich software is changing the game for enterprise IT. With Indian SaaS companies performing go-to-market right from home, customer acquisition costs are low and the potential for scaling and value creation is unprecedented.

Portfolio

Since 2000, WestBridge has made over 150 investments in private and public businesses with a significant nexus to India and South Asia. In fact, a few of our investees have been with us for almost as long as we’ve been around.

The companies we partner with have always been on the vanguard of innovation and homegrown capability, creating new categories with both mass appeal and ingenuity. They range from early stage to public. Their products and services reach the hinterlands and around the world. One thing they all have in common is bold ideas with the potential to transform India for decades to come.

Company Year Sector

Turing 2020 SaaS

Healthians 2022 Healthtech

Skit.ai 2021 SaaS

AU Small Finance Bank 2020 Financial services

Wooden Street 2022 Consumer Internet

Sunstone 2021 EdTech

Aptus Housing Finance 2014 Financial services

Star Health 2019 Financial services

DealShare 2020 Consumer Internet

Third Wave Coffee 2022 Consumer

People

WestBridge is an ecosystem built on relationships. We consider people and the relationships between them the most powerful asset. Engineers, product developers, analysts, financiers, legal experts and connection-makers of all kinds — we exchange ideas, constantly collaborate and work hard to turn possibility into reality.

The founders who choose to partner with us bring diverse perspectives to our teams. They’re passionate, hungry and on a mission to positively impact people’s lives at national and global scale. They’re early dominant market leaders, creating new business categories and future-defining industries.

Founder

Munuswamy Anandan

Aptus Housing Finance

WBC Team

Sumir Chadha

Managing Partner

Advisor

Karthik Natarajan

Operating Advisor

Careers

Everyone knows the first ten start-up hires are the most important. Filling key positions during growth phase transitions is no less critical. We tap into our vast network and route top-tier talent to portfolio partners through these — and all — phases of growth. When a team comes together with visions aligned, incredible things happen.

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We support Indian entrepreneurs with purpose-driven capital

Consumer

E-commerce

Edtech

Electric vehicles

Enterprise tech

Financial services

Fintech

Healthtech

Machine learning

SaaS

Munuswamy Anandan

Aptus Housing Finance

Sumir Chadha

Managing Partner

Karthik Natarajan

Operating Advisor