SAHA Fund is India’s first SEBI registered venture capital fund to promote and invest in women entrepreneurship. SAHA fund invests in companies run by women founders/ senior management, companies hiring 50% or more women, or companies creating a service or product for women consumers. We want to promote women entrepreneurship, employment and engagement. SAHA fund has a 100 Crore corpus to invest in companies in India with a small global carve out. SAHA Fund is investing in companies in the pre-series A stage, which are leveraging technology to scale up and address the larger markets to create a quantifiable impact. Investments are across e-commerce, healthcare, education, tech platforms, food tech, mobile, data analytics, enterprise solutions, artificial intelligence, cloud etc. Some of the fund’s investments are Fitternity, MyAlly, InnerChef, Shoptimize, Joules to Watts to name a few. The fund currently has leading industry icons, family offices and SIDBI as investors. Some of whom also play an integral role and are part of the Advisory Board.
The SAHA Fund is run by CEO & Founder, Ankita Vashistha, who has over a decade of experience in private equity and venture capital across UK, US and Asia. Ankita works very actively in the start-up ecosystem in India, Philippines, Singapore, UK, USA to source, evaluate, mentor and invest in early stage technology enabled and focused companies. Ankita works closely with portfolio companies to help them create value, scale and expand leveraging technology across health-tech, ed-tech, fin-tech, food tech, media, ecommerce and enterprise-tech. Ankita is very passionate about promoting gender equality at the workplace across the emerging markets. Previously worked at Tholons capital, Wavemaker Labs, Aureos Capital and Abraaj Group. At Aureos Capital, Ankita was part of the global investor relations and portfolio management team based in London and was part of the team to raise 700M USD from cornerstone investors like CDC, Norfund, FMO, ADB for the group’s regional funds. Ankita has experience working with a diverse investor set across Institutional investors, Development Finance Institutions, Banks, Fund of Funds, Family Offices and HNI’s. She is an active member of the ecosystem and is part of the Indian Angel Network. Ankita is an electronics and communication engineering graduate from VTU and Masters in Finance and Management from UK’s top business school, Cranfield school of Management, UK
