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RPSG Capital Ventures closes Fund II at Rs 550 Cr

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RPSG Capital Ventures closes Fund II at Rs 550 Cr
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Early-stage consumer venture capital fund RPSG Capital Ventures has announced the close of its latest Fund II with Rs 550 crore. The investor base for this fund is largely domestic including family offices, high net worth individuals and industry veterans from the consumer sector. Along with other repeat investors from its previous funds, RPSG group itself has doubled their initial investment as the anchor investor. RPSG Capital Ventures has invested into 16 companies till date that includes brands such as The Souled Store, Supertails, Perfora, mCaffeine, Vedix, SkinKraft, Plix, and True Elements amongst others. “With this new Fund, we’ll continue to invest into new age consumer businesses that have solid unit economics, differentiated positioning, and strong teams.” said Abhishek Goenka, partner at RPSG Capital Ventures. The fund invests in Series A rounds with first cheques of Rs 10 to Rs 40 crore in the digitally native consumer ecosystem across F&B, beauty, health and wellness, entertainment, lifestyle goods and consumer enabler categories.

Exclusive: Nikhil Kamath-backed Gruhas invests in Shark Tank fame Bummer

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Exclusive: Nikhil Kamath-backed Gruhas invests in Shark Tank fame Bummer
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Shark Tank fame direct-to-consumer (D2C) innerwear brand Bummer has raised Rs 9.25 crore led by Gruhas Consumer Fund along with the participation of Fluid Ventures Fund. The board at Bummer has passed a special resolution to issue 2,16,121 pre-series A1 CCPS at an issue price of Rs 428 each to raise Rs 9.25 crore, its regulatory filing sourced from the RoC shows. Gruhas Consumer Fund pumped in Rs 8 Cr while Fluid Ventures Fund participated with Rs 1.25 crore in the new round. Gurhas is a venture capital fund co-founded by Nikhil Kamath and Abhijeet Pai. The company will use the proceeds to expand and develop its categories, according to the filings. Founded in 2019, Bummer sells comfort wear and innerwear for both men and women. The company claims that its products use 47% less water for manufacturing and reduce carbon footprint by 18%. Following the fresh proceeds, Gruhas became the largest stakeholder with 17.3%, followed by Beenext Asia, Fluid Ventures, and Thapar Vision LLP. Its founder and CEO Sulay Lavsi along with his family command 45.97% of the company. As per TheKredible’s estimates, the company has been valued at around Rs 46.5 crore or $5.6 million post-allotment. Before this, Bummer had raised 180K from Singapore’s Beenext and Rs 75 lakh on TV show Shark Tank India led by Aman Gupta, co-founder and CMO of boAt and Namita Thapar, CEO of Emcure Pharmaceuticals. During the previous fiscal year that ended March 2023, Bummer’s revenue from operations surged three-fold to Rs 7.83 crore while the losses of the firm spiked 2.8X to Rs 2.94 crore in the same period.

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