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Mar 2023
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    Blume Ventures elevates seasoned investors Sajith Pai and Arpit Agarwal to Investment Partners

    Mumbai, India, March 20, 2023. Blume Ventures, one of India’s largest homegrown early-stage venture capital firms, is delighted to announce the elevation of two senior members of its investment team, Arpit Agarwal and Sajith Pai, to Investment Partners…
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    Mar 2023
Dec 2022
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    Blume Ventures closes its Fourth Fund at upwards of $250 million to back visionary tech founders

    Blume Ventures, India’s leading homegrown venture fund has announced the close of its Fund IV at over $250million bringing the firm’s AUM to over $600 million. Blume focuses on early-stage, innovative technology-led startups. Blume backs entrepreneurs either…
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    Dec 2022
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Apr 2022

  • Our Team Is Growing

    We are happy to announce three new additions to our exceptional team. In the eleventh year of our existence, we have now entered a new phase of growth. Our companies are mature (three unicorns and many more soonicorns already!) and our brand identity has recently been…
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    Apr 2022
Mar 2022

  • Older, Wiser, Sharper: Meet The New Blume!

    We got ourselves a makeover! Blume is over a decade old now, and it was time to look like the firm we have become and aspire to be as we grow from strength to strength this coming decade.  When we first decided to get started on this journey, we were obsessed with…
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    Mar 2022
Aug 2021

  • Meet Blume’s Latest Cohort Of Investment Analysts

    We onboarded our new Analyst team over the last few weeks here at Blume. This is Blume’s fourth Analyst cohort, with our alums currently making us proud across the larger ecosystem. Analysts play a special role at our company. The world of Venture Capital looks…
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    Aug 2021
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    • #Hiring
Jul 2021
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    Announcing The Second Edition Of The Blume-U Velocity Program

    In August 2020 we launched the Blume-U Velocity program — a seven week program for our early stage portfolio founders. We have always believed that a structured learning program, specially crafted and engineered for our early-stage founders, has immense value. This…
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    Jul 2021
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    • #BlumeVelocity
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May 2021

  • Blume Is Hiring An Associate – Investor Relations

    We are looking to hire an Associate – Investor Relations to help position Blume appropriately and strategically with analysts, investors and stakeholders.  The chosen applicant will report directly to the Head – Investor Relations, and will be…
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    May 2021
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Apr 2021

  • LeadTribe 2022 – Meet The Cohort!

    The first few months of the year are always an exciting time at Blume. Why? Because it’s the time to meet a new set of inspiring women building companies and reshaping sectors, aka our Lead Tribe cohort! While the first cohort of Lead Tribe ended in April 2021,…
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    Apr 2021
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Mar 2021

  • Blume Portfolio Company Mettl Acquired By Mercer

    We are pleased to share that Mettl, a Blume Fund I portfolio company, has entered into an agreement to be acquired by global consulting firm Mercer. Mettl was founded in 2010 by Ketan Kapoor and Tonmoy Shingal and is based out of Gurgaon, India (Delhi NCR). It will be…
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    Mar 2021

  • Blume, In Close Partnership With Avendus, Closes Fund 1X, An Innovative Secondary Vehicle, At ₹350 Crores

    Blume Ventures, in partnership with Avendus, launched and closed a first-of-its-kind product for Indian investors in late 2020. The INR 300 crore target fund is now closed at INR 350 crores, and was oversubscribed. The recently closed secondaries fund, named Blume Ventures…
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    Mar 2021
    Topics
    • #Fundraise
Feb 2021
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    Announcing $6.5m Series A In Leverage Edu

    In 2014 September, as part of his Zero to One book launch promotion campaign, Peter Thiel did an AMA (ask me anything) with Forbes’s subscribers. In that AMA, he was asked about the most important and influential book he had read. Strangely, the book Thiel…
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    Feb 2021
Jan 2021

  • Blume Ventures Adds Kunal Bajaj And Gayatri Udeshi To The Platform Team – Strengthening Growth & Exits, Finance & Investor Relations

    Blume has always been a deep believer in a partnership model, assisting its portfolio companies and investors – by building deeper engagement across the lifecycle of the relationship. As Blume kicks off its second decade, it has made two new hires to the Platform…
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    Jan 2021
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    • #BlumeTeam

  • Blume Ventures Launches Founders Fund To Further Strengthen The Network And Build On Great Relationships

    Blume Ventures, one of India’s leading early stage venture capital firms, announced its founder network initiative – Blume Founders Fund, a carve out program that utilizes 1-2% of the core investment funds. The program will invest a range of $25K to $100K…
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    Jan 2021
Dec 2020

  • Blume Elevates Arpit Agarwal To Director. Strengthens Platform Team With Hires In Marketing And Networks Roles

    In February 2020, just before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, we announced the close of our third fund at $102 million.  As we come to…
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    Dec 2020
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    • #BlumeTeam
Feb 2020

  • Blume Announces Final Close Of Fund III At $102m

    This is the formal Press Release that we issued today announcing the final close of FundIII. Accompanying picture issued with the Press Release. India’s leading homegrown early-stage venture capital firm, Blume Ventures, has announced the…
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    Feb 2020
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    • #Fundraise
Jan 2020

  • Blume Is Hiring In Marketing!

    *** APPLICATIONS FOR THIS ROLE ARE NOW CLOSED. *** If you are passionate about brand-building and communication, and are curious about startups and venture capital, then you should apply to lead Marketing at Blume Ventures. The Marketing Lead…
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    Jan 2020
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Jun 2019

  • Blume Ventures Is Hiring!

    In 2011, Karthik & Sanjay started Blume Ventures, with a view to back and help build transformational ventures from passionate founders. Along the way, this startup venture fund of ours has grown, across three funds and some intermediate ones, to a double-digit sized…
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    Jun 2019
May 2019

  • Blume Ventures Marks The First Close Of Fund III

    Mumbai, October 4, 2018 – India’s foremost homegrown early-stage venture capital firm, Blume Ventures, has completed the first close of its Third Fund. Reaching half of its $80 Mn target corpus and with commits from existing investors for another $20 Mn, Blume…
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    May 2019
    Topics
    • #Fundraise
Mar 2019

  • Vokal – The Largest Knowledge-Sharing Platform For India’s Non-English Speaking Segment

    When Aprameya told me he had originally narrowed in on audio and rich media, targeted only at regional languages as the area that he wanted to solve for, I was elated. While there will be many winners in the space, I was glad that one of our breakout Fund I founders was…
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    Mar 2019

  • Blume Ventures-Backed E2E Networks Makes Its IPO Debut On NSE Emerge

    On May 15th, 2018, our portfolio company E2E Networks listed on the National Stock Exchange’s SME platform NSE Emerge. The IPO was cited by many observers and the startup press as a seminal moment in the young Indian startup ecosystem. It established that a hard-fought…
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    Published
    Mar 2019
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