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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…

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…

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…

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…

As the first investors in GreyOrange, and in every subsequent round, we are pleased to share that the warehousing automation and robotics startup has raised $140 million as part of its series C funding. Through these past 6 years, Blume has seen the company transform the…

Ethereal Machines is part of the broad of tools and machinery market. This, being ancillary to the manufacturing industry, is a very large market across the world. Just 3D printing machinery and supplies have an immense impact on manufacturing across the world and the market…