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Tuscan Ventures

Tuscan Ventures is an investment firm that provides creative financing solutions to entrepreneurs building large businesses.

Tuscan’s hallmarks are creativity and patience. By way of flexibility, we have the ability to invest at different stages of a company’s life cycle. We have participated in early stage funding rounds as well as provided growth capital to established businesses. Unlike traditional investment firms, we are not restricted to investment stages or limited by the nature of the investment instrument. If the founder has a bold, outsize dream, we will work to provide his or her business the financing solution it needs.

At Tuscan, we see hundreds of businesses each year and the cumulative experience we draw from these interactions informs our investment evaluation process. We are constantly soliciting diverse input from industry experts to keep our perspectives current. As a result, we have a proven record of uncovering and unlocking value in situations where other buyers do not have the necessary expertise or resources.

TVS Capital Funds

TVS Capital Funds or TCF is one of the leading growth PE funds in India. Since its beginning in 2007, TVS Capital has been anchored on the philosophy of partnering “next-gen” entrepreneurs, their building scalable and successful businesses.

TVS Capital Funds is dedicated to backing businesses that align with India’s growth story. The platform focusses on portfolio value creation by bringing in capability through its vast network of industry leaders, advisors and partners.

TCF was founded by Gopal Srinivasan, a third-generation entrepreneur of the TVS Family with a vision to provide financial and capability capital to Empower India’s NextGen entrepreneurs. 

The TCF team consists of an experienced investment team with deep sectoral knowledge, supported by an eclectic ecosystem that works with them in supporting entrepreneurs in building businesses. The team is currently actively investing from TCF’s 3rd fund, TVS Shriram Growth Fund 3, which has commitments of ~?1,900 crore.

TVS Shriram Growth Fund 3 is backed by key domestic financial institutions, family offices and high net worth individuals, many of whom have been associated with TCF since inception. It is noteworthy to mention that entire gains generated through our investments from the Fund stay in India.

TVS Capital Funds Limited

TVS Capital Funds or TCF is one of the leading growth PE funds in India. Since its beginning in 2007, TVS Capital has been anchored on the philosophy of partnering “next-gen” entrepreneurs, their building scalable and successful businesses.

TVS Capital Funds is dedicated to backing businesses that align with India’s growth story. The platform focusses on portfolio value creation by bringing in capability through its vast network of industry leaders, advisors and partners.

TCF was founded by Gopal Srinivasan, a third-generation entrepreneur of the TVS Family with a vision to provide financial and capability capital to Empower India’s NextGen entrepreneurs. 

The TCF team consists of an experienced investment team with deep sectoral knowledge, supported by an eclectic ecosystem that works with them in supporting entrepreneurs in building businesses. The team is currently actively investing from TCF’s 3rd fund, TVS Shriram Growth Fund 3, which has commitments of ~?1,900 crore.

TVS Shriram Growth Fund 3 is backed by key domestic financial institutions, family offices and high net worth individuals, many of whom have been associated with TCF since inception. It is noteworthy to mention that entire gains generated through our investments from the Fund stay in India.

UBER

Uber’s mission is to bring reliable transportation to everyone, everywhere. We started in 2010 to solve a simple problem: how do you get a ride at the touch of a button? Over six years and more than two billion trips later, we’ve started tackling an even greater challenge: reducing congestion and pollution in our cities by getting more people into fewer cars. The mobile application is currently operational in over 450+ cities and 70+ countries, where it facilitates safe, reliable, and affordable transportation while generating a meaningful livelihood opportunity for hundreds of thousands of independent driver-partners registered on its platform.

Over the last three years in India, Uber has made reliable and affordable mobility options available in 29 cities across the country while creating hundreds of thousands micro-entrepreneurship opportunities for driver-partners. Uber has committed itself to extend the opportunity to earn a livelihood with dignity to 1 million individuals across the country, over the next 2 years. To realise this vision, Uber has partnered with several institutions such as the National Skill Development Corporation, the Union Ministry of Labour and Employment, Rajasthan Skill and Livelihoods Development Corporation, Maharashtra Skill Development Ministry etc.

UDIO - A product from TranServ

Udio, is a product from TranServ Private Limited, a leading digital payments company established with a vision to create the best payment experiences – be it social or for partner merchants – in a highly secure environment. It helps businesses deliver a delightful consumer experience by utilizing cutting-edge technology to create a seamless payments experience. The company’s extensive product suite allows businesses of varying sizes and scale to collect and disburse payments in an efficient manner.

Its consumer facing payment solutions includes recently launched Udio App - India’s 1st social wallet that provides a platform of choice for P2P transfers. With Udio wallet, TranServ envisions to create a world class platform to send/request money and gifts with added features like splitBill, group payments, social gifting, recharges and other utility payment facilities.

TranServ has been successful in effortlessly blending together the utilitarian aspect of the digital payment exchange with a community driven experience. The overall focus is on creating a payments solution infrastructure for both online and offline merchants to collect payments/manage refunds/loyalty and couponing by leveraging its very own consumer wallets along with a convenient P2P payment offering for individual customers.

Udwadia Udeshi & Argus

Udwadia Udeshi & Argus Partners is a leading law firm in India with a diverse practice portfolio. The Firm was reconstituted in April, 2012 with the merger of Udwadia & Udeshi and Argus Partners and renamed Udwadia Udeshi & Argus Partners.

With offices in Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore and Chennai, the Firm has built a formidable reputation for its work and has been acknowledged and appreciated by its clients and peers for providing quality services. Established more than a decade ago by lawyers who have vast experience in handling domestic and cross-border transactions, the Firm has grown considerably over the last few years. The Firm’s clientele includes industry and business leaders in all segments of the market and at various stages in the growth of their businesses.

The Firm’s core practice areas include mergers and acquisitions, general corporate, projects, banking and finance, competition, disputes, real estate, education, policy and estate and succession planning.

The Firm’s M&A Practice:

The Firm is well known for its M&A practice having participated in complex transactions in India, both domestic and cross border. The Firm’s M&A team consists of highly skilled lawyers who have developed significant expertise in this area of practice and offer creative and pragmatic solutions on all matters. The Firm’s expertise include mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, asset sale and purchase, joint ventures, court sanctioned scheme of amalgamation and arrangement, group restructuring, public and private takeovers, privatization, private equity, leveraged buyout and management buyout. The Firm has represented both public and private acquirers as well as target companies and the sell side in varied inbound as well as outbound acquisition transactions.

The Firm’s offices across India, gives it a distinct advantage. Lawyers across all offices work closely to provide clients with comprehensive advise on M&A matters. The Firm’s depth of experience and skills in a broad spectrum of other practice areas such as tax, competition, disputes, finance and exchange control regulations, enable it to service clients more effectively.

The Firm offers advice on every aspect of a transaction including structuring the transaction, documentation, undertaking a comprehensive legal due diligence and offering post closing advisory services amongst others. The Firm has represented clients before the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for proposed mergers and acquisitions and have been successful in obtaining timely clearance from the CCI for several mergers and acquisitions.

Unicommerce eSolutions Pvt. Ltd

"Unicommerce is a Nexus Ventures funded start-up founded by IIT/IIM graduates in 2012.

Unicommerce provides a Cloud based Multi Channel Order Fulfilment platform which enables E-commerce sellers of all sizes to sell more.

Many big e-commerce players like Jabong, Myntra, Snapdeal, Urban Ladder, Bluestone, thousands of Online Sellers like Triveni, The Vanca and big brands like Nike, Fab India rely on Unicommerce to grow their e-commerce business.

The platform takes care of every aspect of back-end of e-commerce. Every stage of Order fulfilment including Syncing Orders from various marketplaces/carts, syncing back Inventory, procurement, vendors, warehouses, shipment tracking, drop shipments, returns, etc. can be managed and automated with Unicommerce. Being a Cloud based product, it brings the power of technology to small and medium sized companies at a fraction of cost and without the usual hassles of technology.

Unicommerce is already integrated with 70+ marketplaces, carts, couriers, accounting software etc."

Unitech

Established in 1972, Unitech is amongst India’s leading real estate and infrastructure conglomerates, with an outstanding track record in large scale, integrated, real-estate development.

The first real estate developer to be awaded the ISO 9001:2000 certificate in North India, we are India’s most geographically diversified developer. Our land reserves of thousands of acres are spread across all major hubs of economic activity in the country. Our strong engineering heritage allows us to successfully address the enormous potential of the infrastructure sector.

Millions of people live in a Unitech Home, work from a Unitech Office, and shop in a Unitech Mall.

Awards & Certifications

First Real Estate Developers to have been certified ISO 9001:200 Certificate in North India
Declared a Superbrand by Superbrand India, October 2007
One of India’s top 10 builders : CW Architect & Builders Awards, 2008

UNSW Global Pty Limited

UNSW Global Pty Limited is a leader in the provision of education, training and advisory services to business, government and the community. It is a not-for-profit, wholly owned enterprise of UNSW Australia (The University of New South Wales).

UNSW Global is recognised and acknowledged internationally for:
•    quality global education activities that enable students to access academic pathways to UNSW
•    innovative and professional global business services that develop commercial opportunities for UNSW.

UNSW Global comprises a number of prestigious business groups:
•    UNSW Foundation Studies was established in 1988 and is Australia’s leading pre-university pathway provider.
•    UNSW Institute of Languages is Australia’s first university language centre and has been operating for more than 45 years. 
•    Educational Assessment Australia is a leading international assessment organisation that specialises in large-scale assessments. Its products are available in more than 20 countries with over 2 million student entries annually.
•    Unisearch (Expert Opinion Services) has provided independent expert advice to the public and private sectors for over 45 years.
•    UNSW Global Student Services and Recruitment is responsible for the recruitment of high quality international students to UNSW Global programs that provide a pathway to UNSW.