HELION VENTURES

One of the biggest and most successful Venture capital firms in the country is Helion
Ventures and which has invested in over 75 start-ups while making 110 deals until now. It
runs a company worth $605 (US) which is roughly equal to 4021 crore INR. This is an India
focused company which invests in outsourcing, Internet, mobile, healthcare, financial
services and education sectors and domains. Created in 2006, Helion was founded by Rahul
Chandra, Ashish Gupta, Kanwaljit Singh and Sanjeev Aggarwal. Helion is focused primarily
on technology companies, it has also funded companies in the environmental technology,
education, financial services, and health care sectors.

BIG BASKET

Bigbasket is an Indian online grocery delivery service.[3] The company primarily delivers

grocery goods found in convenience stores, home essentials and food supplies to its
customers. bigBasket was founded in December 2011 and has its headquarters
in Bangalore, India.

Customers use a mobile application to order groceries online, bigbasket employees then
secure the items from their warehouse and deliver the items to the consumer. bigBasket has
partnered with Bayer CropScience project which has over 8000 local farmers
across India that help harvest crops and processed at their collection centers.[12] In December
2018, bigbasket launched bbdaily service to deliver milk to its customers. In June 2018, they
launched bb Instant.[13][14] During the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020, bigBasket along
with Grofers and Amazon India was among the few online grocery platforms that continued
to operate in India.

In April 2020, they partnered with American firm Uber and Indian company Rapido to

deliver the essential item to people.

Venture Capital Industry Works like this – it has four main players: entrepreneurs needing
funds; investors wanting high returns; investment bankers needing companies to sell; and
finally the venture capitalists who generate money for themselves by making a market for the
other three players

VC firms also need protection from investment risks which is gained in the form of an effort
to co-invest with other VC firms. Usually the organizational structure in such as co-investing
effort is a lead investor and follower investors. It is actually very rare to see a sole VC firm
funding an individual company completely. It is considered common practice however for
VC firms to have around three or two groups involved in all stages of financing. These act as
media for diversification for VC firms leading the VC firms to invest in more deals for the
same amount of cash. What they also do is reduce workloads of the VC partners by dividing
risk assessment tasks amongst themselves during the due diligence period and also helps in
managing the deal overall.

Another positive effect of having several VC firms collaborating on funding for a particular
company, is that the credibility of the funding itself along with the company goes up. It has
often been suggested by market observers that really top notch funds always will be a
follower of top tier firms.