IAN Angel Fund Backs LearnTube in Seed Round, Strengthening Its Focus on Future-Ready Skills
New Delhi, 13th January’26: IAN Group, the country’s single largest early-stage investment platform, has invested, through the IAN Angel Fund, in the seed round of LearnTube.ai, an AI-powered personalized learning and career acceleration platform. Nazara Technologies and Blitzscaling Ventures also participated in the round. The...
IAN Group Co-founder Padmaja Ruparel Featured in Business Today’s Most Powerful Women 2025 List
IAN Group is proud to share that its Co-founder, Padmaja Ruparel, has been named in Business Today’s Most Powerful Women 2025 list, recognising women leaders who are shaping India’s business and innovation landscape at scale. Padmaja Ruparel’s entrepreneurial journey began early. Under her leadership, IAN Group...
IAN Group announces Final Close of its Second VC Fund IAN Alpha Fund with US$100 million
New Delhi, 10th Dec’25: IAN Group, the country’s single largest early-stage investment platform, has announced the final close of its 2nd VC Fund - IAN Alpha Fund with US$100 million. The Fund will invest in early-stage companies / MSMEs with strong founders, solving real problems,...
Trishul Space Raises ₹4 Crore in Pre-Seed Funding Round led by IAN Angel Fund
New Delhi, November 10, 2025 — Trishul Space, an advanced rocket propulsion startup developing next-generation liquid rocket engines, has secured ₹4 crore in a pre-seed funding round led by the IAN Angel Fund, with participation from 8X Ventures and ITEL. The capital will fund research...
India’s reforms moment in Science and Technology
Consumer App have scripted a unique success story in India: they are transforming the way we eat, shop, and make payments, thus helping us to embrace technology at an accelerated pace. As they expand geographically, these billion-dollar businesses have also inspired and enabled a new...
How Propelld is trying to solve the specialised education financing problem
About a decade ago, Victor Senapaty, 37, chanced upon a peculiar trend. In a country where education is seen as a path to success, the quantum of education loans outside of, say the top 50 institutes, was nothing to write home about. What surprised Senapaty and...
AI startup Uniphore raises $260 million in Series F from Nvidia, AMD, Snowflake, Databricks
Artificial intelligence (AI) for business platform Uniphore has raised $260 million in a Series F round from global tech majors such as Nvidia, AMD, Snowflake, and Databricks, taking its total funding to $870 million. “Our Series F raise marks an exciting milestone for Uniphore. It is...
Morphing Machines Series A Funding Led by IAN Alpha Fund
Morphing Machines, a Bengaluru-based fabless semiconductor IP company at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), has raised ₹38.36 crore in a Series A funding round led by IAN Alpha Fund, with participation from Speciale Invest, IvyCap Ventures, and Navam Capital. Existing investors from the Seed round include...
India’s next billion-dollar leap
Consumer App have scripted a unique success story in India: they are transforming the way we eat, shop, and make payments, thus helping us to embrace technology at an accelerated pace. As they expand geographically, these billion-dollar businesses have also inspired and enabled a new...
India’s Angel Led Disruption
IAN Group is an early stage investing platform platform that invests in startups from seed to series A. According to Padmaja Ruparel, co founder and senior managing partner at IAN Alpha fund, the early stage is very attractive because innovative solutions are built by entrepreneurs,...