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We are thrilled to announce our $4m investment in BIDSO, an Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) for outdoor toys and baby hardlines. This is part of a larger $5.5m equity round. BIDSO previously raised a $1.5m round led by Peer Capital, supported by Sadev Ventures, both of whom have doubled down in this round as well. BIDSO was founded by XLRI batchmates Vivek Singhal, Rahul Agarwal, and…

Credit is the invisible engine behind nearly every meaningful economic outcome, whether it is a small business buying inventory, a household purchasing its first home, or a solar installer scaling distribution. Yet in India, credit remains structurally under-penetrated relative to the scale and ambition of its economy.This gap is not due to lack of demand, but historically due to gaps in data,…

India’s Public Markets Aren’t Cyclical. They’re Compounding.A decade of listings suggests the country’s public markets are entering a phase of sustained expansion. India’s public markets, long thought to move in bursts of speculative enthusiasm, are beginning to look more like a compounding machine of capital formation. Over a decade-long review of mainboard listings shows…

The piece uses the metaphor of quantum orbit shifts to describe Blume Ventures’ evolution alongside India’s startup ecosystem. As ambition scales from $100M outcomes to billion- and even $100B-scale visions, orbit shifts are enabled by aligned forces — founder ambition, customer adoption, capital, talent, policy, and infrastructure. India’s digital foundation, rising deep-tech push, and emerging technologies like AI…

This is a guest post by Apurv Agrawal, Co-founder and CEO of Squad​Stack​.ai, a Blume Fund II portfolio company. Search got solved. Coding is getting eaten by models. Now we’re entering the next interface shift: Voice as the primary interface for the world. If you’re a CX, growth, or tech leader at a consumer brand, your inbox probably looks like…