WaterBridge Ventures

WaterBridge Ventures is a SEBI-registered Indian early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2017 with offices in New Delhi and Bengaluru. The firm passionately supports tech-driven, India-centric startups across eight strategic sectors, Manufacturing Tech, Health Tech, Deep Tech, Consumer Tech, Global SaaS, Financial Services, Education Tech and Climate Tech, and enters at the Seed to Series A stage with strong follow-on participation through later rounds, willing to lead. WaterBridge raised its $30 million maiden Fund I in 2018 and marked the final close of Fund II at $150 million, roughly INR 1,112 crore, enabling check sizes of $500K to $3M, up from Fund I's typical INR 3 to 4 crore tickets, across approximately 25 portfolio companies per fund, with capital reserved for follow-ons. The firm is led by Co-Founder and Partner Manish Kheterpal, alongside Partners Sarbvir Singh, Ravi Kaushik, Ashish Jain and Anjali Sosale, with a supporting team including Vice President Sapna Goyal, Investments lead Raj Nayan Datta and Fund Operations lead Karan Kapoor. Across roughly 37 companies invested as of December 2025, the portfolio includes Atlan, a modern data catalog that raised a $105M Series C in 2024 led by GIC and Meritech Capital, Magicpin in commerce loyalty, Chalo in urban bus mobility, Unacademy, CityMall, Bijnis, Eloelo, DataWeave and ZipLoan. Notable exits include DoubtNut, acquired by Allen Career Institute in 2023. By backing India-centric founders across eight strategic sectors from seed to Series A with strong follow-on support, WaterBridge Ventures has built a diversified early-stage technology portfolio.