As passionate investors, we partner with pioneering entrepreneurs and companies to create leaders of tomorrow.

Who we are

Your Growth Specialists

Established in 2012, Bertelsmann India Investments (BII) is a sector agnostic venture capital fund that has proven to be a strong pillar for mentoring growth stage companies into unicorns. In the past decade, BII has invested in category-defining companies including Eruditus, Licious, Shiprocket, Pepperfry, AgroStar, Bijak, Skeps and Vymo, among others. BII focuses on early growth stage investments (Series A to D) in tech driven startups. It is known for disruptive investments in lucrative sectors such as healthtech, fintech, agritech, edtech and others. Bertelsmann India Investments (BII) is the strategic investment arm of Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA in India. BII is part of Bertelsmann Investments, which has so far invested more than $1.06 billion in over 250 innovative companies and funds.

Why us

We believe in long-term partnerships

The BII team has extensive operational and investing experience in India and internationally. Being part of the global content and service powerhouse, we at BII add strong value and are a long-term partner to our investee companies.

Bertelsmann Group

A leading media, services and education company

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Domain Experts

Strong operational expertise and sector knowledge

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Global Network

Home to a strong network of funds with around 100 holdings

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Portfolio

Current portfolio

AgroStar

Helping Farmers Win
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Awign

Enterprise focused gig-work platform
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Basic

Making home loans faster, stress-free and BASIC!
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Bijak

B2B Marketplace for Agri-traders
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Eruditus/Emeritus

Making Global IVY education accessible to the world.
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iNurture

Pioneer in career-ready and industry relevant formal education
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Lendingkart

India's leading online lending business
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Lets Transport

India's largest Intracity Logistics Platform
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Licious

India's fastest growing meat and seafood brand
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Nat Habit

Fresh Natural & Ayurvedic Beauty Care
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Orange Health

India’s Fasted Home Diagnostics Lab
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Pepperfry

Where Indians shop for their homes
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Quikr

Aasaan hai badalna
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Rozana

Rural Commerce Designed for Bharat
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Rupeek

India's fastest growing gold lending marketplace
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Scimplify

Science-first manufacturing of Chemicals
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Shiprocket

India’s leading eCommerce shipping platform
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SKEPS

Transforming POS Lending Ecosystem
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Squadstack

Fully Managed Telecalling For Sales & Operations Teams
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Treebo

Technology enabled budget hotel chain
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Kaizenvest

The only fund focused on investing in human capital transformation in Asia
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Nirvana Venture Advisors

Early stage venture capital fund
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Vymo

Sales Acceleration Platform
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Previous Investments

Saavn

India’s music streaming service
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Indiaproperty (Acquired by Quikr)

India’s leading real estate marketplace offering a one stop shop for total home buying experience
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Roposo

UGC focused social network
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WizIQ

Leading Global Education Technology Provider
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Helion

Early to mid-stage, India focused venture fund
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Team

Meet the team

Advisory Team

Pankaj Makkar

Managing Director
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Rohit Sood

Partner
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Jayesh Bavle

Head of Finance
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Swati Murarka

Principal
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Keshav Bagri

Vice Principal
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Vaani Malik

Manager – Marketing & Communications
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Padmaja Sadagoban

Director, Finance
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Akshay Chiripal

Associate
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Raghav Syal

Associate
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Ayushi Gupta

Investment Analyst
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Naman Wadhwa

Senior Analyst
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Aryaman Wadhwa

Research Analyst
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Muskaan Sharma

Analyst
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Liza Baweja

Senior Office Manager
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Yogeshwari Chawla

Manager, Events and EA
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Investment Committee

Carsten Coesfeld

Chief Executive Officer of Bertelsmann Investments
 

Deniz Pielsticker

Chief Financial Officer Bertelsmann Investments
 

Tobia Menken

Vice President Corporate Controlling and Strategy, Bertelsmann
 

News & Media

BII Stories

Press Releases
March 26, 2024

Bertelsmann Grows Group profit by more than 25 percent to €1.3 Billion in 2023

The annual revenues generated by the international media, services, and education company Bertelsmann exceeded the €20 billion mark for the second consecutive year. Thus, it remained at the previous year’s record level despite the sale of the shares in the customer experience company Majorel in November 2023, and a challenging environment in the TV business.
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Portfolio News
December 12, 2023

Nat Habit Releases Series B Round Led By Bertelsmann

D2C beauty and wellness brand Nat Habit has raised $10,2 millions in a series B round of funding led by Bertelsmann India and other investors. The brand is eyeing an omnichannel play starting with Delhi.
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BII News
December 5, 2023

Bertelsmann, Amazon Invest In Personal Care Brand Nat Habit

Naturohabit Pvt Ltd, which owns the beauty and wellness Brand Nat Habit and counts Peak XV Partners as an investor, has raised $10,2 million (Rs 85 core) in a Series B founding round led by Bertelsmann India Investments.
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BII Desk

Blogs & Insights

Propelling India’s Growth Story!

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MythBusters: The Next Billion

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Future of Work: The Exciting New Story of Indian Startups

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Podcast




Season 2

 

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Honest, candid and to-the-point…Building It Up with Bertelsmann is India’s first business podcast that focuses on entrepreneurship and growth-pangs of a Start-up. Listen to leaders of the start-up community share what goes behind taking a company from 10 to 100 and how to solve some of the biggest growth challenges.
After all, they’ve been there, done that!

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Pramath Sinha on building self-sustaining new-age institutions

 
 
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Bertelsmann India Summit is a unique platform to discuss cutting edge trends and innovative business models with ecosystem stalwarts. This year we bring you Innovation in Education as the Summit theme, where you will meet policy makers, educators, innovative companies and investors that are redefining the way India will be educated tomorrow & beyond.

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