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Founders First. AI Forward.
‍India Powered.

We partner with early-stage AI, software and deep tech founders who are ready to leverage India’s unique edge to build enduring global companies.​

Global Portfolio
Global Team

Bhavish Aggarwal

Ola Electric

Vijay Rayapati,
Kiran Darisi &
Parsuram Vijayasankar

Atomicwork

Deepak Bala,
Vignesh Girishankar &
Srikrishnan Ganesan

Rocketlane

Ravi Dodda &
Yashwant Kumar

MoEngage

Divyaanshu Makkar &
‍Vikas Garg

Wizcommerce

Karan Anand &
Himanshu Uniyal

Wootz

Sharan Urubail &
Ankush Mittal

Ximkart

Shashank Kumar &
Harshil Mathur

Razorpay

Lakshmipathy Deenadayalan &
Rangarajan Krishnan

FiveStar Business Finance

Arvind Prathiban &
Jayakumar Karumbasalam

SuperOps

Ola is India's largest mobility platform and one of the world's largest ride-hailing companies.
Bhavish Aggarwal & Ankit Bhati
Ola
Five Star is one of India's leading non-banking finance companies.
Lakshmipathy Deenadayalan &
Rangarajan Krishnan
Fivestar
OfBusiness is a technology-driven SME financing platform.
Ruchi Kalra, Bhuvan Gupta &
Asish Mohapatra
OfBusiness
Razorpay is India's first full-stack financial solutions company.
Shashank Kumar & Harshil Mathur
Razorpay
OneCard is India's best and smartest metal credit card, re-imagined for the mobile generation.
Rupesh Kumar, Anurag Sinha &
Vibhav Hathi
OneCard
Dailyhunt is India's number one news and local language content application.
Umang Bedi &  Virendra Gupta
Dailyhunt
Digital banking for India with real-time spend insights, asset tracking, and seamless UPI payments.
Jitendra Gupta
Jupiter
Intelligent marketing cloud platform, built for the mobile-first world.
Ravi Dodda & Yashwant Kumar
NBFC providing customized business loans and supply chain financing to SMEs and corporates.
Ruchi Kalra & Asish Mohapatra
Gokwik Founders Gokwik Founders
Turning abandoned carts into revenue for India's fast-growing D2C brands
Chirag Taneja & Vivek Bajpai
Foxtale FoundersFoxtale Founders
D2C skincare built from real stories of 3000+ Indian women
Romita Mazumdar
Farmart FoundersFarmart Founders
Reimagining food supply chains for 2000+ businesses across Asia and beyond
Alekh Sanghera & Mehtab Singh Hans

Z47 by the numbers

Founded

2006

AUM

$3.5Bn

Unicorns

10

The India Edge is
Our Unfair Advantage

A practical, repeatable advantage for global AI, software and deep-tech founders, built on what India does better than anywhere else.​

Talent that ships​

India’s engineering and data depth lets founders build faster, cheaper, and with more iteration, from AI deployment to full-stack product teams.

Cross-border company building​

Our hard-won corridor insight, helps founders decide what to build where, when to scale, and how to design the India ↔ US organisation.

A fast-growing technical market

India is now one of the world’s most active AI and software markets: technical users, early adopters, and engineering-led buyers give founders real feedback and early traction when it matters.

From Idea to PMF in the U.S. This Founder Did it Without Leaving Chennai.
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Hand-routed to Co-piloted: When the nervous system of electronics meets AI
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A Playbook for India’s AI Stakeholders
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How Scalekit is Revolutionizing Access Management for Agents
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The Chinese Internet Empire
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Built to Spec: How Wootz.work is Reimagining Indian Manufacturing for the World
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What We Invest In

Software & AI

AI is rewriting how software companies are built, and we're backing its authors with data moats, velocity, and global reach. From unbundled workflows to agentic automation, from GTM-as-code to vertical AI: we invest in founders who are ahead of the curve.

Agentic service management platform to modernize IT and enterprise workflows

Software for customer onboarding and professional services teams to accelerate time-to-value.

Professional services automation (PSA) and remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform.

Modular authentication platform for AI apps, agents, users, and APIs.

Vertical SaaS platform for B2B Commerce & Manufacturing- Manufacturers, Wholesalers and Distributors.

AI-native user engagement platform for consumer mobile apps.

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Content

How MoEngage Is Powering Global Customer Engagement | Zero to Infinity

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How Scalekit is Revolutionizing Access Management for Agents

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Where to incorporate SaaS Startups: US or India?

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Inside Vijay Rayapati's Playbook to Win Over Bay Area VCs

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Hand-routed to Co-piloted: When the nervous system of electronics meets AI

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Deep Tech

From robotics to semiconductors to industrial AI, the next global giants will be built by founders using AI to tackle the hardest technical problems head-on. We unlock talent access, cost advantages and customer networks for our founders.

From unbundled workflows to agentic automation

From unbundled workflows to agentic automation

From unbundled workflows to agentic automation

From unbundled workflows to agentic automation

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Content

How Scalekit is Revolutionizing Access Management for Agents

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Beyond ISRO: India's SpaceTech Startups Are Firing Up

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d-Matrix CEO Sid Sheth Shares His Blueprint for Chip Success | Seed to Silicon

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India’s Secret Advantage in AI: The FDE Revolution

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1-Pagers to 20-Pagers: How Term Sheets Really Work | Zero to Infinity

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The Chinese Internet Empire

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Z47 Global Investment Team

We are passionate about backing global-first founders from India, leveraging the country's unique competitive advantages to build world-class companies.

Avnish Bajaj

Founder of Z47, who previously who scaled Baazee.com and is shaping India’s startup ecosystem for global impact.

Vikram Vaidyanathan

Drives early-stage fintech and enterprise investments with a founders-first, globally networked approach.

Rajinder Balaraman

Blends international experience to help founders scale tech ventures beyond India.

Aakash Kumar

Backs high-growth SaaS and AI startups, leveraging founder empathy for global scale at Z47.

Sudipto Sannigrahi

A deep-tech specialist, connecting manufacturing and tech entrepreneurs with new markets.

Ashwin Pandian

Invests in enterprise AI, enabling founders to access world-class networks and markets.