About StrongHer Ventures
StrongHer Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2020. It is primarily based out of San Francisco, United States. As of Aug 2024, StrongHer Ventures has invested in 35 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 Consumer and Retail. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of Inc42 Overall, StrongHer Ventures portfolio has seen 2 unicorns, 1 IPO and 10 acquisitions including key companies like Licious, Uniphore and Fitternity. A lot of funds co-invest with StrongHer Ventures, with names like ITI Growth Opportunities sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. StrongHer Ventures has team of 13 people including 8 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed & Series A
Portfolio IPOs
Portfolio Soonicorns
StrongHer Ventures' List of Top Investments
StrongHer Ventures has a portfolio of 35 companies, including 2 unicorns. Their most notable investments are in MyAva and MyAva.Their portfolio spans across India, United States, Singapore and 2 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Consumer, Retail and 17 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A stages. Here is the list of top investments by StrongHer Ventures:
1. Licious
Retailer of fresh meat products available for online consumer purchase. This business facilitates the digital procurement of various raw meat items. Customers select products through an online interface for delivery. The operation focuses on the distribution of perishable food goods directly to households.
Key facts about Licious
- Founded Year: 2015
- Location: Bengaluru (India)
- Annual Revenue: ₹500 - ₹1,000 Cr as on Mar 31, 2025
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series G
- Total Funding till date: $490M
- Employee Count: 2,828 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Amansa Capital, Multiples Alternate Asset Management and 67 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series G, Sep 21, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. Inc42
Online platform offering startup news. It is an online platform that provides news related to startups, startup activity news, entrepreneurial statistics, technology, and updates. It also plans to develop a platform for aspiring entrepreneurs to interact and form a community. It monetizes through membership.
Key facts about Inc42
- Founded Year: 2015
- Location: Delhi (India)
- Annual Revenue: ₹10 - ₹50 Cr as on Mar 31, 2024
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $5.76M
- Employee Count: 37 as on Apr 30, 2025
- Investors: LetsVenture, PitchRight Ventures and 132 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Mar 19, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. LoveLocal
Platform offering e-commerce platform connecting consumers with local retailers. It is an online platform that enables users to shop from local Kirana stores. It include includes fruits, vegetables, meat, snacks, pharmaceuticals, beauty products, cleaning essentials and more.
Key facts about LoveLocal
- Founded Year: 2015
- Location: Mumbai (India)
- Annual Revenue: 0 - ₹10 Cr as on Mar 31, 2025
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $25.7M
- Employee Count: 229 as on Aug 31, 2025
- Investors: Chiratae Ventures, Flat Capital and 63 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Sep 07, 2022, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. Uniphore
Provider of a business artificial intelligence platform with agentic and model layers. Business AI company that unlocks the agentic enterprise with a complete, composable AI platform spanning agents, models, knowledge, and data. Its platform, the Business AI Cloud, bridges the AI divide between consumer AI and enterprise AI combining the simplicity of consumer AI with the rigor, security and scalability required for the enterprise. It allows business users to effortlessly harness AI and deliver results immediately, while providing CIOs the foundation to deliver powerful AI applications that are embedded into workflows, trained on enterprise data. It delivers on the promise of AI as a transformative force for business. Customers include leaders across industries, like Skechers, LastPass, Atlassian, HP, Allstate, Sony, and more. Through strategic collaborations with industry leaders like KPMG, Cognizant, Rackspace, Databricks and Snowflake, it helps organizations move beyond experimental AI pilots to production-grade deployment operationalizing AI agents across internal and client-facing workflows at scale. Sectors includes Native AI, High Tech, Artificial Intelligence, Agentic AI, MarketingTech, Cloud Infrastructure, Generative AI.
Key facts about Uniphore
- Founded Year: 2008
- Location: Palo Alto (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series F
- Total Funding till date: $961M
- Employee Count: 884 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Next Round Capital, Chiratae Ventures and 137 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series F, Oct 22, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
5. Fitternity
Fitternity is an online portal that offers a search engine for gyms, trainers and workout spaces in a location. Users can also browse through various fitness and health related articles on the platform. The platform also serves as a community for users to have discussions related to health and wellness. Users can join community forums related to various activities in their location. The portal also offers information about upcoming health related events at various locations. The platform also offers a retail store for various health related products such as fitness diet products, equipment, daily use health devices etc. Raised pre-series A from Exfinity Venture Partners and SAHA fund.
Key facts about Fitternity
- Founded Year: 2013
- Location: Mumbai (India)
- Annual Revenue: 0 - ₹10 Cr as on Mar 31, 2023
- Last Known Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $10.9M
- Employee Count: 45 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Sixth Sense Ventures, Exfinity Venture Partners and 42 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Jul 06, 2020, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
StrongHer Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
StrongHer Ventures has invested in 35 companies over the last 6 years, with an average of 1 new investment annually in the last 5 years. Its most recent first time investment was in Inc42 and most recent follow-on round was in MyAva.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2022 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2020 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
StrongHer Ventures' Investments by Stage
StrongHer Ventures has made 7 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $665K and 1 investment in Series A stage with an average round size of $15M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 7 |
Series A | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
StrongHer Ventures' Investments by Sector
StrongHer Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Consumer, Retail, Consumer Goods, Media & Entertainment and Enterprise Applications. Notably, it has invested in 31 Tech companies, 22 Consumer (B2C) companies, 16 Enterprise (B2B) companies and at least 15 companies focusing on Software.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Consumer | 6 |
Retail | 4 |
Consumer Goods | 2 |
Media & Entertainment | 2 |
Enterprise Applications | 1 |
Others | 6 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
StrongHer Ventures' Investments by Geography
StrongHer Ventures has made most investments in India (8), followed by United States where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
India | 8 |
United States | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
StrongHer Ventures' recent investments
StrongHer Ventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by StrongHer Ventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Aug 05, 2024 | India | Seed | 2566 | [+9] | |
May 13, 2023 | India | Seed | 7651 | [+1] | |
Oct 12, 2022 | United States | Series A | 4779 | [+4] | |
Sep 07, 2022 | India | Seed | 4387 | [+13] | |
Jul 01, 2022 | India | Seed | 9099 | - |
Unicorns in StrongHer Ventures' Portfolio
StrongHer Ventures has 2 unicorns in its portfolio - Uniphore and Licious. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is Uniphore. It became a unicorn in 2022, 4 years before StrongHer Ventures first invested in it.Here is a list of unicorns in StrongHer Ventures' portfolio:
Tracxn Score | Company | Short Description | Founded year | Sector | Location | Company Stage | First Investment/ Acquisition Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
67 | Provider of a business artificial intelligence platform with agentic and model layers | 2008 | Palo Alto | Series F | qeery{m | ||
83 | Retailer of fresh meat products available for online consumer purchase | 2015 | Bengaluru | Series G | chr{{mn |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in StrongHer Ventures' Portfolio
1 of StrongHer Ventures' portfolio company became public - LVMH. It got listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FRA), in Jan 2000.Here are StrongHer Ventures' portfolio companies that went public:
Company | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 05, 2000 | - | - | 3576 |
Acquired companies in StrongHer Ventures' Portfolio
10 companies from StrongHer Ventures' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Jify in Sep 2024 by Moneyview for $*****.Here are StrongHer Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 12, 2024 | - | - | 2584 | |
Jun 27, 2023 | - | - | 5016 | |
May 02, 2023 | Sep 03, 2020 | Seed | 9564 | |
Feb 13, 2023 | - | - | 8709 | |
Aug 17, 2022 | - | - | 6156 |
Team profile of StrongHer Ventures
StrongHer Ventures has a team of 13 members including 8 Partners and 1 Principal located in United States, India and 1 more location. StrongHer Ventures' team sits on the board of 4 companies.Here is a list of top team members in StrongHer Ventures:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Partner | Dubai | - | - | |
Partner | Bengaluru | - | ||
Partner | Kanpur | |||
Partner | San Francisco | - | ||
Partner | Bengaluru | |||
Partner | Seattle | - | - | |
Partner | Pune | - | ||
Partner | New York City | - | - | |
Partner | Chicago | - | - | |
Partner | Houston | - | - |
Co-investors of StrongHer Ventures
Over the past 6 years, 344 investors have co-invested in StrongHer Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before StrongHer Ventures: Manisha Raisinghani, Sprout Capital Advisors and 167 others have invested in rounds before StrongHer Ventures. There are 2 companies where Manisha Raisinghani has invested before StrongHer Ventures and 2 companies where Sprout Capital Advisors has invested before StrongHer Ventures.
- Top Co-investors of StrongHer Ventures: 44 investors entered a company along with StrongHer Ventures. These include investors like ITI Growth Opportunities (2 companies).
- Invested after StrongHer Ventures: A total of 131 investors have invested in StrongHer Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Kunal Naresh Shah (2 companies), QED Innovation Labs (2 companies) and Bootstrap Trust (1 company).
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