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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

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