Discover MoonShot Ideas to Invest - 100X.VC Class 04 startups announced

With the latest funding round, 100X.VC has now driven investments in more than 50 startups to date

Mumbai, May 15, 2021: With the aim to fund and discover credible startup deals, 100X.VC has announced the names of 11 seed-stage startups that are a part of its Class 04 portfolio. The start-ups were handpicked from 1715 applications, out of which, 446 applicants had passed the meticulous initial diligence process.

We focus on the road ahead, today.

With these 11 investments, 100X.VC has crossed 50 investments to date. The names of these 11 startups were revealed at the VC Pitch Day on the 14th of May, 2021, which was attended by more than 500+ investors, including VCs, corporate houses, angels, and family houses from all around the world. The sector-agnostic, innovation-led VC firm has invested in each of the selected start-ups via founder-friendly iSAFE notes. 100X.VC is the first institutional investor that introduced iSAFE (India Simple Agreement for Equity) notes in India back in 2019. iSAFE notes have now become a popular early-stage investment instrument for founders and investors alike.

At 100X we are committed to developing a long-term relationship built on trust that delivers investor community credible deal flow they deserve and expect. 

Prior to the VC Pitch Day, the portfolio companies interacted closely with a panel of industry experts and attended 100+ hours of Masterclass sessions by 50+ expert mentors, industry veterans, successful founders, and venture capitalists who shared their in-depth insights about the startup ecosystem. A few topics addressed Sales Strategy, Leadership, Product-Market fit, Hiring, GTM Strategy, and so forth. The Class 04 Portfolio companies include Bhyve, Field Proxy, Powerbot, Inzpira, Kroop.ai, Creators Club, Talkie, DataKund, Quizy Games, Moving, and Clinify. All of these startups cater to diverse sectors including Deeptech, SaaS, Edutech, and Fintech to name a few.

Ninad Karpe, Partner at 100X.VC said, “With our Pitch Day for Class 04, we have now invested in 50 startups in India using our pioneering iSAFE notes. Angel investors, family offices, and VCs eagerly look forward to our Pitch Days to evaluate the startups that have been curated by 100X.VC. We will build on our learnings to ensure that we continue on our pioneering path, wherein we discover early-stage startups at regular intervals, provide unlimited mentoring to the founders, and showcase innovative startups to the investors.”

Class 04 Portfolio Companies:

With 100X.VC Class 04, investors can expect big-picture thinking and investment opportunities with large market opportunities.

1. Moving (https://moving.so/) – New Delhi - A Twitter for crypto, Moving is a go-to platform for crypto news, insights, and verified knowledge, where you find amazing investors and friends to learn from. One can find amazing investors and friends to follow and learn from. With their curated themes, it becomes much faster and 10x simpler to discover new coins and venture into crypto. Sector: Fintech

To reach the founders send an email to [email protected]

2. FieldProxy (https://fieldproxy.com/) – Chennai - FieldProxy is a SaaS platform that helps field servicing companies to better manage their on-field teams. The platform allows business managers and owners to create and deploy custom applications through a simple workflow builder. The templates are across various use cases including - CRM, scheduling, dispatch, mobile invoicing, payments, inventory, timesheet & much more. Large Organizations like UPS Provider Vertiv depend on Fieldproxy to run their business operations. Sector: SaaS – Field/Home Servicing

To reach the founders send an email to [email protected]

3. Powerbot (https://powerbot.in/) – Pune - Powerbot offers an energy analytics service that helps industries and commercial buildings to optimize their use of electricity by analyzing their electricity usage in real-time to identify saving opportunities. They have 60+ customers using PowerBot on a subscription model for real-time alerts and dashboards. Founders have domain expertise in the field of energy management with a proven product and looking to scale business in Industries through an Omnichannel business model. Sector: Energy Servicing

To reach the founders send an email to [email protected]

4. Inzpira (https://www.inzpira.in) – Trivandrum - Inzpira is a curated marketplace for live English Language learning that allows students to instantly connect with a trainer and learn anytime, from anywhere. Like Uber matchmaking, they are the only company that lets students decide when to learn, whenever they want to learn by letting them instantly connect to a trainer. They have figured out the model and mastered the way to make a trainer available on-demand at any time a student wants to learn. Sector: Edutech

To reach the founders send an email to [email protected]

5. Kroop AI (https://www.kroop.ai) – Gandhinagar - Kroop AI is empowering organizations with deepfake detection services to help them authenticate audio and video samples. Kroop AI has built an explainable, multimodal solution for detecting high-quality deepfakes. The team has published over 50 research papers and has over 5000 research citations and awards from IEEE, ACM and Google. Sector: Deep Tech

To reach the founders send an email to [email protected]

6. Creators Club (https://usecreclub.com/) – Mumbai - CRE.CLUB is redefining social commerce by building India’s first social payment method which allows shoppers to pay by social media post at the point of sale. Cre club digitizes and automates word of mouth marketing in the online world by democratizing influencer perks, down to the 99% of the social media users and develop a community where the brand and customer “synergistically interact with each other”. Sector: Social Commerce and Marketing Tech

To reach the founders send an email to [email protected]

7. Talkie (https://www.talkie.team/) – New Delhi - Talkie is a voice-only, real-time chat platform for remote teams to communicate effectively. Talkie works on an easy to use communication widget which contains all profiles of teammates and needs one click & hold on to profiles to record the conversation. The widget hovers on the desktop and lets one communicate with the team without switching between different workflows. With Talkie, one can make instant live calls. The dashboard less design enables faster communication and removes the need for link sharing and joining meetings. Talkie makes communication frictionless. Sector: SaaS

To reach the founders send an email to [email protected]

8. DataKund (https://datakund.com/) – Chandigarh - DataKund is a no-code, intelligent browser automation tool that allows everyone to build software robots to automate their repetitive work on the web without any programming.  DataKund understands all your actions on the browser like click, type, open link, open new tab, switch between tabs, close tab, copy, paste, select etc. In the past 6 months, DataKund bots have been run about 200,000 times by over 2000 users. These bots have worked for about 8000 hours doing about 5 million human actions. Sector: Automation - SaaS

To reach the founders send an email to [email protected]

9. Quizy Games (https://www.quizygames.com/) – Gurugram - Quizy is a skill-based real money gaming platform that allows people to apply their knowledge to win real cash through their 24*7 contests. Quizy also hosts topical contests around recent matches/movies or other recent events. At Quizy, All contests are hosted by Influencers and they get incentivised for hosting contests. Youtube. Presently, they have onboarded 25+ influencers at Quizy giving a reach of 1.5+ million. They launched on 15th Feb and in less than 50 days we achieved 20K+ downloads, with active player conversion percentage stands at 12-13%, 70-80% slots are full in a single contest of 250 players. Sector: Online Gaming

To reach the founders send an email to [email protected]

10. Bhvye (https://bhyve.io/) – Mumbai - BHyve is a Future of Work SaaS platform that helps companies document and democratize the tacit knowledge of their employees and launch peer learning networks at organizations. BHyve enhances employee productivity by 35% and reduces time lost to search by 30%. Their Future of Work Technology ensures employees are highly Productive, Engaged and most importantly, Happy! With BHyve’s algorithms, relevant Tacit Knowledge can be provided at a click of a button to ensure no employee feels left out! Sector: SaaS – HR tech

To reach the founders send an email to [email protected]

11. Clinify (https://www.clinify.in/) – Bangalore - Clinify is India’s first marketplace of live interactive courses for students to learn new skills with the help of a mentor and for instructors to make a passive stream of income. They have an engaged community of over 35,000 students from across 2500 colleges and schools. They are a team of 10 & the founders are from BITS Pilani. The team comes from great expertise in digital media and content creation in the ed-tech space. Sector: Edutech

To reach the founders send an email to [email protected]

With the closure of Class 04 VC Pitch Day, 100X.VC has opened applications for Class 05.

Serving entrepreneurs best interests is at the heart of everything we do hence we attract the best brains & deal flow in the town. Investors can evaluate and invest in bold ideas which can be explained in simple words. The product / IP is so good that every user spontaneously talks about them to the world. Building a good product is hard and these teams have done that successfully. These teams have an ambitious vision that got shaped in the right direction at 100X.VC

We invite all founders/start-ups to apply to be a part of Class 05 applications by sending in their pitch decks to [email protected]

About 100X.VC:

100X.VC is India’s first Fund to invest in early-stage start-ups using iSAFE - India SAFE Notes. The fund is sponsored by Mehta Ventures, the Family Office Investment arm of Sanjay Mehta, to nurture innovative ideas that add value and bring solutions to a problem. 100X.VC values its relationships with founders, co-investors, corporations and investment bankers and effectively becomes the coach, strategy consultant, investment banker, business mentor and trusted advisor of the start-up after investing. Visit www.100x.vc for details.