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sustainable & scalable businesses
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Who we are

TVS Capital Funds (TCF) is one of the leading Indian growth equity funds. Since its inception in 2007, TVS Capital has been on a mission to partner “Next-Gen” entrepreneurs in building successful multi-decadal businesses. 

TCF was founded by Gopal Srinivasan, a third-generation entrepreneur of the TVS family, as a “Designed for India” fund and is a pioneer in the Indian growth equity industry. We focus on portfolio value creation by bringing in capability through its vast network of industry leaders, advisors, and partners.

Our Portfolio Founders

We are driven to help ambitious entrepreneurs forge their growth stories. 

D. Lakshmipathy

Five Star Business Finance is a Chennai based NBFC providing Collateralized Small Business Loans to customers present predominantly in tier-III cities and below. All its loans are collateralised and fully secured against property. The company is promoted by Mr D Lakshmipathy, who joined the Board of the company in 2002, and is currently its Chairman and Managing Director. Under his leadership, over the last 9 years, the company has grown from a branch network of 6 to more than 260 today and from an AUM of Rs 18 Crores to about Rs. 4,400 Crores in this period. The management headed by Rangarajan (CEO) and Srikanth (CFO), have longstanding experience and expertise in the financial services industry.

Sameer Nigam

PhonePe is a leading Indian digital payments and financial technology company headquartered in Bengaluru, India. PhonePe is the market leader in UPI payments, processing over 150+mn daily transactions. The platform has over 40Cr registered users, and over 3Cr registered merchants till date. The platform also offers mobile recharges, bill payments, insurance, and mutual funds to its users. PhonePe’s vision is to ‘offer every Indian equal opportunity to accelerate their progress by unlocking the flow of money and access to services’.

PhonePe was founded in December 2015, by Sameer Nigam, Rahul Chari and Burzin Engineer. The Company is majority-owned by Walmart, and counts General Atlantic, Tiger Global, Ribbit Capital, and Binny Bansal among its other shareholders.

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