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Vaibhav Domkundwar

Founding Investor at Merlin AI by Foyer

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview

Vaibhav Domkundwar is the Founder & CEO of Better Capital, India's largest and first pre-seed fund with a $7B+ enterprise value. He has successfully invested in and supported top-tier founders in various sectors such as Gaming/eSports, AgTech, and Health IT, and has also served as an investor and board member for Teachmint. Vaibhav's career highlights include being a 3X Founder and investing in a range of successful companies like Toddle (Series A) and Houseware (Seed). He has demonstrated expertise in entrepreneurship, market research, and strategic partnerships, contributing to his impactful role in the startup ecosystem.

Work Experience

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Better Capital

Founder & CEO
2018 - Current
Better Capital is a $100M AUM early-stage venture firm where we make founding-stage investments in the top 1% of founders from India. We created the pre-seed category in India and went from 0 to $100M AUM, 230 companies, 2 unicorns, 12+ soonicorns, and a community of 700 top-tier founders in a short period. Our companies are backed with follow-on funding from the best investors in the world including Lightspeed, Insight Partners, Tiger Global, DST Global, General Catalyst, Temasek, Google, Accel, Peak XV, Elevation, RTP Global, and many others. We invest across categories and have backed leaders across many of them: Fintech (Slice, Jupiter), Fintech Infra (M2P, Open), Edtech (Nxtwave, GrowthX), SaaS (Toddle, Teachmint), AI (SuperAGI, Merlin), Agritech (Vegrow, Eeki), Climate (SolarSquare, Yulu), Consumertech (Eloelo, Kolo, Stage), B2B (ShopKirana, Xhipment), Gaming (Probo, Indus), Crypto (LogX, Stader) and Healthtech (Cradlewise, Inito). We have one of the largest communities on LinkedIn and X which continues to be a massive force behind our brand and we couldn’t be more thankful for our community - they have seen us build Better Capital brick by brick from Day 1. > Here’s why top founders choose Better: https://www.bettercapital.vc/founders/ > Our full list of holdings is here: https://www.bettercapital.vc/portfolio/ > You can visualize our journey via our annual letters here: https://www.bettercapital.vc/stories/

Better Capital is a micro venture firm that creates and invests in innovative businesses.

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