About 5ideas
5ideas is a venture capital firm founded in 2012. It is primarily based out of Gurugram, India. As of Apr 2015, 5ideas has invested in 5 companies. It primarily invests in Seed round in India based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to Retail and Consumer. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series A round of DataWeave Overall, 5ideas portfolio has seen 1 IPO and 1 acquisition, namely Shiprocket and Roposo. A lot of funds co-invest with 5ideas, with names like Superfuel Ventures sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio.Key Metrics
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Portfolio Acquisitions
5ideas' List of All Investments
5ideas has a portfolio of 5 companies. Their most notable investments include Shiprocket and Roposo.Their portfolio spans across and India. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Retail, Consumer and 3 other sectors, across stages such as Seed stage. Here is the list of all investments by 5ideas:
1. Shiprocket
Provider of e-commerce shipping, fulfillment, marketing, and financial services. The business offers tools for domestic and cross-border shipping, including integrations with courier partners. Fulfillment services encompass warehousing, packaging, and shipping. Marketing solutions include checkout optimisation and customer engagement tools. Financial services provide capital and credit score assessment.
Key facts about Shiprocket
- Founded Year: 2012
- Location: Delhi (India)
- Annual Revenue: ₹1,000+ Cr as on Mar 31, 2025
- Stage: Public
- Total Funding till date: $322M
- Employee Count: 915 as on Aug 31, 2025
- Investors: Temasek, Innoven Capital and 63 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series E, Dec 23, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Public
2. Roposo
Roposo is a social platform for sharing photos and videos. The application offers a TV-like browsing experience with user-generated content on its channels. Users can also use editing tools on the platform and upload their content. It comes with a chat functionality that lets buyers and sellers converse directly through the platform, and creation tools such as an option to add voice-over, music and GIF stickers for videos and photos. It supports nine languages that include English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati, Punjabi, Marathi, and Bengali. The platform started out as a fashion-focused social network that offered curated choices across categories such as apparels, footwear, accessories, and lingerie.
Key facts about Roposo
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: Gurugram (India)
- Annual Revenue: 0 - ₹10 Cr as on Mar 31, 2025
- Last Known Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $42.7M
- Employee Count: 124 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Tiger Global Management, India Quotient and 8 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, May 30, 2019, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
3. DataWeave
Cloud based data analytics software for retail industry. It provides e-commerce analytics solutions that allows users to collect and analyze the data to generate insights for decision making. It helps users streamline sales on e-commerce channels by providing competitive intelligence on pricing, product assortment, promotions, and historical and real-time e-commerce data analysis. The platform captures retail performance indicators from different retail data sources.
Key facts about DataWeave
- Founded Year: 2011
- Location: Bengaluru (India)
- Annual Revenue: 0 - ₹10 Cr as on Mar 31, 2023
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $1.13M
- Employee Count: 150 as on Aug 31, 2025
- Investors: NB Ventures, TLabs and 27 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Apr 06, 2017, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Online retail platform offering multi-category personalized gifts. They offer a custom embroidered pet sweatshirt, t-shirt, hoodie, and more.
Key facts about Giveter Gifts
- Founded Year: 2012
- Location: Gurugram (India)
- Annual Revenue: 0 - ₹10 Cr as on Mar 31, 2025
- Stage: Deadpooled
- Total Funding till date: $500K
- Employee Count: 28 as on Dec 31, 2019
- Investors: India Quotient, Jaipur Capital and 2 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Dec 17, 2013, $*****
5. Uncommon
Uncommon is an employee-owned design and development consultancy. We design web applications and mobile applications across the three major platforms — Android, iOS and Windows Phone. We also develop scalable and powerful Android applications. We've worked with clients across various verticals like e-commerce, data science, online learning, enterprise applications and F&B.
Key facts about Uncommon
5ideas' Investments by Stage
5ideas has made 4 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $505K.5ideas' Investments by Sector
5ideas has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Consumer, Retail, Enterprise Applications, Vertical SaaS and Big Data - Industry Applications. Notably, it has invested in 4 Tech companies, 3 Software companies, 2 Consumer (B2C) companies and at least 2 companies focusing on Enterprise (B2B).Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Consumer | 3 |
Retail | 3 |
Enterprise Applications | 2 |
Vertical SaaS | 2 |
Big Data - Industry Applications | 1 |
Others | 2 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
5ideas' Investments by Geography
5ideas has made most investments in India (4).5ideas' recent investments
5ideas has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by 5ideas:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 01, 2015 | India | Series A | 2949 | [+9] | |
Mar 27, 2014 | India | Seed | 4444 | [+3] | |
Dec 17, 2013 | India | Seed | 9964 | [+1] | |
Jul 23, 2013 | India | Seed | 7705 | [+2] | |
Apr 25, 2013 | India | Seed | 2939 | [+12] |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in 5ideas' Portfolio
1 of 5ideas' portfolio company became public - Shiprocket. It got listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), National Stock Exchange (NSE), in Aug 2026 at marketcap of $735MHere are 5ideas' portfolio companies that went public:
Company | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Aug 19, 2026 | Jul 23, 2013 | Seed | 7921 |
Acquired companies in 5ideas' Portfolio
1 company from 5ideas' portfolio has been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Roposo in Nov 2019 by Glance for $*****.Here are 5ideas' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 20, 2019 | Mar 27, 2014 | Seed | 6044 |
Co-investors of 5ideas
Over the past 13 years, 77 investors have co-invested in 5ideas's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before 5ideas: Brand Capital has invested before 5ideas.
- Top Co-investors of 5ideas: 17 investors entered a company along with 5ideas. These include investors like Superfuel Ventures (3 companies).
- Invested after 5ideas: A total of 59 investors have invested in 5ideas's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Bertelsmann India Investments (2 companies), Tribe Capital (1 company) and Innoven Capital (1 company).
Recent News related to 5ideas
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Dataweave Raises Seed Funding From Blume, Tlabs And Other Angel InvestorsIndiatimes•Jul 23, 2022•DataWeave, Blume Venture, TLabs, 5ideas and 6 others
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DataWeave raises seed funding from Blume Ventures, TLabs, 5ideas, Rajan Anandan & others | TechcircleVCCircle•Apr 25, 2013•DataWeave, TLabs, 5ideas, Blume Venture and 7 others
