YourNest VC

YourNest Venture Capital is a Gurugram-headquartered Indian VC firm founded in 2011 by Sunil K Goyal, Managing Director and Fund Manager, Sanjay Pande and Girish Shivani. The firm's distinctive 'Nurture Capital' philosophy emphasizes deep mentoring and operational involvement with founders in addition to capital, and YourNest positions itself as a sharply focused Pre-Series A specialist in technology-led, enterprise B2B and DeepTech startups, willing to lead. After briefly investing in a handful of consumer-internet companies, the firm pivoted within two years of Fund I to become an India-focused DeepTech-only investor in IoT, electronic system design, applied AI, advanced robotics, AR/VR, edge cloud, developer tools and enterprise SaaS. YourNest has raised three funds on a roughly five-year cadence, Fund I in 2012, Fund II, and most recently Fund III, 'Engineering the Future, Now,' sized at approximately $75M, with cumulative committed AUM near $53M and a portfolio mark-up valued at roughly $1.2B as of May 2025. Across all funds, YourNest has backed 58 companies, producing one unicorn, Uniphore in conversational AI, which crossed $1B in 2022 and on which YourNest earned a 7x return on its early INR 8 crore investment, and nine acquisitions, including queue-management company SmartQ, enterprise-AI startup Arya.ai, acquired by Aurionpro in April 2024, and AI startup Argoid, acquired by Amagi in December 2024. Investment pace has remained active with nine new deals in 2025. By pairing 'Nurture Capital' mentoring with a DeepTech and enterprise focus, YourNest backs Pre-Series A Indian founders.