Apoorva Ranjan Sharma
Founder of 9Unicorns
Apoorva Ranjan Sharma
Founder of 9Unicorns
Mumbai, Maharashtra
Overview
Work Experience
Cofounder & Managing Director
2019 - Current
9Unicorns is a $70Mn accelerator fund. We are India's No. 1 accelerator VC, backed by prominent LPs, successful founders & leading CXOs. We are reinventing idea stage funding! We are looking to fund 150+ bold founders at early stage.
Co-Founder
2015
Venture Catalysts is India’s largest and No. 1 Integrated Incubator. It provides investment of $500k to $1mn per startup with incubation support for 1 year. It was established in year 2016 and in a short span of just two years, it boasts of successful incubatees like Fynd, Beardo, PeeSafe, Innov8, vPhrase, Supr, DSYH etc., which are today category leaders.
Board Member
2018
TiE is a not-for-profit network of entrepreneurs fostering entrepreneurship, mentorship and education. Members of TiE attend meetings in various chapters, exchange ideas and build partnerships to start new companies or ventures.
Charter Member
2016
Executive Vice President & Partner
2012 - 2015
VentureNursery aims at mentoring and accelerating up to a dozen startups in one year. Following a unique Angel-in-Residence model, in addition to providing business and infrastructural support, VentureNursery offers intensive and immersive mentoring to a batch of entrepreneurs by active angel investors, throughout the acceleration process. Participating companies that graduate successfully will be considered for seed funding by the angels.
Vice President
2010 - 2012
Indian Angel Network (IAN) as you may perhaps know, is India's first angel investment network and looks to invest up to US$1mn, though our sweet spot is between US$200k-400k. Apart from funding, the Network also seeks to provide mentorship, strategic thought leadership and leverage the Network's network for the investee companies. The Network has met with early successes and has already invested in 22 companies across multiple sectors.
General Manager
2005 - 2010
Leading equity based incubator with a linked early stage fund with over 60 startups associated.
Project Manager
2003 - 2005