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True North

True North traces its origins back to 1999, when it was originally named India Value Fund. Today is one of India’s leading home grown private equity funds, founded with a focus on investing in and transforming mid-sized profitable businesses into world-class industry leaders, built on the strong foundation of True North Values which are embodied within the principles of ‘The Right Way’.

True North has built deep knowledge and skills in the Indian markets and has successfully launched six separate investment funds with a combined corpus of over US$ 2.8 billion including co-investments. True North’s insights and understanding of India has been sharpened over the last two decades by investing in more than 40 Indian businesses. It has successfully guided these companies in making the transition into well-established and large businesses that are valuable, enduring and socially responsible.

The company has significant focus on and extensive experience of evaluating and investing in multiple businesses across a range of segments in the Indian healthcare sector having invested over US$ 520 million across 10 companies.

The True North team has been structured with a balanced mix of 13 Investment Managers and 18 Business Managers, who bring with them several hundred man-years of industry experience.

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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."

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