Week ending 22nd March 2025
# 1 Markets The Nifty surged 1,000 points this week, marking its best performance in nearly four years. Sensex closed...
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.
We are driven to help ambitious entrepreneurs forge their growth stories.
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.
Sarvagram, established in 2019, is a financial services company on a mission to democratize access to aspiring rural middle class households and small businesses, with the aim of improving their incomes and overall quality of life.
Sarvagram was founded by Utpal Isser, and Sameer Mishra, who are veterans in rural banking, each with 20+ years of experience in the industry. Headquartered in Mumbai, the company today operates in the states of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Karnataka. The company offers credit through its NBFC subsidiary, and has a unique, household-centric approach to approach to lending, understanding the multiple streams of income that a rural household has and the indebtedness of a household providing them superior underwriting capabilities. Sarvagram has also forayed into the farm mechanisation business by leasing agricultural implements to farmers through its robust agent network.
