About Turbostart
Turbostart is a venture capital firm founded in 2019. It is primarily based out of Bengaluru, India. As of May 2026, Turbostart is an active investor, having invested in 75 companies, with 7 new investments in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Seed round in India based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to High Tech and Consumer. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of Sychedelic AI Overall, Turbostart portfolio has seen 6 acquisitions including key companies like Lawyered, Xpedize and Irillic. A lot of funds co-invest with Turbostart, with names like Rainmatter sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Turbostart has team of 28 people including 11 partners.Key Metrics
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Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed & Series A
Deals in last 12 months
Turbostart's List of Top Investments
Turbostart has a portfolio of 75 companies. Their most notable investments are in Tohands and InfoBay.Their portfolio spans across India, United States, Belgium and 4 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Consumer and 26 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A stages. Here is the list of top investments by Turbostart:
1. InfoBay
Provider of expert-verified training data, annotation infrastructure, and evaluation systems for artificial intelligence models. The company engineers training intelligence by combining proprietary multilingual corpora, domain expertise, structured annotation methodology, and rigorous evaluation design. Services include pre-training data curation, instruction dataset design, reinforcement learning from human feedback, and medical data processing. The infrastructure supports the development of factual, accurate, and production-ready models across various domains including healthcare, coding, and voice technology. By providing traceable and high-quality datasets, the company enables systematic control over model knowledge, reasoning capabilities, and safety performance.
Key facts about InfoBay
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: Farrukhabad (India)
- Annual Revenue: ₹100 - ₹500 Cr as on Mar 31, 2026
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $4.26M
- Employee Count: 434 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: LetsVenture, Maruna Exports and 111 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Angel, Sep 26, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. Lawyered
Provider of on road legal assistance platform. It offers on-road legal assistance for both commercial and non-commercial vehicles. The platform provides on call legal guidance and local legal representation. It offers legal consultation, documentation assistance, and regulatory compliance support. The application is available on app store and play store.
Key facts about Lawyered
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: Gurugram (India)
- Annual Revenue: 0 - ₹10 Cr as on Mar 31, 2025
- Last Known Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $6.6M
- Employee Count: 132 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Rainmatter, Finvolve and 78 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Apr 21, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
3. Flam
Provider of AI‑native mixed‑reality and interactive‑content platform. It enables enterprises to create immersive, app‑less, video‑like streaming experiences that run directly in browsers and messaging apps. It technology supports integration and distribution across channels, including web embeds and sharable links. It offers models for generating content with visuals and interactions.
Key facts about Flam
- Founded Year: 2021
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Annual Revenue: 0 - ₹10 Cr as on Mar 31, 2023
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $62.5M
- Employee Count: 316 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: QED Investors, Inventus Capital Partners and 20 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Sep 14, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. OTO Capital
Provider of financing and retail services for motorized two wheeled vehicles. This business facilitates the purchase of motorcycles and scooters through loan arrangements and direct sales. Customers select vehicles from various manufacturers and secure credit options to complete their acquisitions. The service includes processing loan applications and coordinating the delivery of purchased units to buyers.
Key facts about OTO Capital
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: Mumbai (India)
- Annual Revenue: ₹10 - ₹50 Cr as on Mar 31, 2025
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $29.8M
- Employee Count: 402 as on Feb 01, 2026
- Investors: BlackSoil, Catalyst Investors and 128 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Nov 11, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
5. SpaceFields
Developer of custom solid propulsion systems for aerospace and defense. The company specializes in designing and developing mission-critical solid-fuel systems. It provides solutions for powering next-generation aerospace and defense platforms. The company focuses on high-performance solid composite propellants and integrated propulsion systems and rocket motors. Research and development efforts concentrate on energetics and chemical processes.
Key facts about SpaceFields
- Founded Year: 2021
- Location: Bengaluru (India)
- Annual Revenue: 0 - ₹10 Cr as on Mar 31, 2025
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $6.71M
- Employee Count: 20 as on Aug 31, 2025
- Investors: Valour Capital, SIDBI and 124 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Sep 19, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Turbostart's Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Turbostart has invested in 75 companies over the last 6 years, with an average of 6 new investments annually in the last 5 years. In 2025, it made 13 investments, while as of May 2026, it has made 4 investments in this year. Its most recent first time investment was in Sychedelic AI and most recent follow-on round was in Ken42.Year | No. of Investments | ||
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1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 3 | 1 | 4 |
2025 | 10 | 3 | 13 |
2024 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
2023 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
2022 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
2021 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
2020 | 24 | 0 | 24 |
Turbostart's Investments by Stage
Turbostart has made 52 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $1.35M and 3 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $5.6M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 52 |
Series A | 3 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Turbostart's Investments by Sector
Turbostart has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Consumer, High Tech, Vertical SaaS and EdTech. Notably, it has invested in 70 Tech companies, 55 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 42 Software companies and at least 29 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 26 |
Consumer | 17 |
High Tech | 16 |
Vertical SaaS | 10 |
EdTech | 7 |
Others | 65 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Turbostart's Investments by Geography
Turbostart has made most investments in India (48), followed by United States where it has made 7 investments.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
India | 48 |
United States | 7 |
United Arab Emirates | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Turbostart's recent investments
Turbostart has made 4 investments in 2026 so far. Sychedelic AI and Lawyered are the latest among them.Here are the most recent investments by Turbostart:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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May 20, 2026 | India | Seed | 4877 | [+2] | |
Apr 21, 2026 | India | Seed | 5128 | [+1] | |
Mar 20, 2026 | India | Series A | 9372 | - | |
Feb 11, 2026 | India | Seed | 4090 | [+4] | |
Oct 30, 2025 | United States | Seed | 6629 |
Acquired companies in Turbostart's Portfolio
6 companies from Turbostart's portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Argoid in Dec 2024 by Amagi for $*****.Here are Turbostart's portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 03, 2024 | Feb 24, 2021 | Seed | 8130 | |
Oct 21, 2023 | Feb 13, 2020 | Seed | 1668 | |
Mar 16, 2022 | Dec 31, 2020 | Seed | 3705 | |
Apr 20, 2021 | Feb 13, 2020 | Seed | 4606 | |
Dec 07, 2020 | Feb 13, 2020 | Seed | 8379 |
Team profile of Turbostart
Turbostart has a team of 28 members including 11 Partners and 3 Principals located in India, United States and 1 more location. Turbostart's team sits on the board of 1 company.Here is a list of top team members in Turbostart:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
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Partner | Bengaluru | - | ||
Partner | Bengaluru | |||
Partner | Fairfax | - | ||
Partner | Washington | - | ||
Partner | India | - | ||
Partner | Bengaluru | - | ||
Partner | Singapore | - | ||
Partner | Bengaluru | - | ||
Partner | - | - | ||
Partner | - | - |
Co-investors of Turbostart
Over the past 6 years, 1245 investors have co-invested in Turbostart's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Turbostart: 100Unicorns, Kwaish Ventures and 583 others have invested in rounds before Turbostart. There are 2 companies where 100Unicorns has invested before Turbostart and 2 companies where Kwaish Ventures has invested before Turbostart.
- Top Co-investors of Turbostart: 348 investors entered a company along with Turbostart. These include investors like Rainmatter (4 companies).
- Invested after Turbostart: A total of 312 investors have invested in Turbostart's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Angel List (5 companies), LetsVenture (4 companies) and SucSEED Indovation (2 companies).
Recent News related to Turbostart
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Zerodha-backed Rainmatter, Turbostart invest $2.5 million in LawyeredIndian Startup News•Apr 21, 2026•Zerodha, Lawyered, Rainmatter, Turbostart and 1 other
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Armatrix raises $2.1 Mn led by pi VenturesStartupNews•Feb 25, 2026•Boundless Ventures, Armatrix, Inuka Capital, Boost VC and 3 others
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TimBuckDo Closes ₹2.70 Crore Funding Round After Ideabaaz AppearanceCyberMedia India Online•Feb 11, 2026•TimBuckDo, Turbostart, Rukam Capital
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Surgical Automations Announces Closing of $3.4 Million Oversubscribed Seed Roundintelligence360•Nov 14, 2025•Turbostart, Surgical Automations
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Surgical Automations Closes $3.4M Seed Funding RoundFinSMEs•Oct 30, 2025•Surgical Automations, Turbostart
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AltMat Secures Strategic Investment from H&M Group, Zerodha’s Rainmatter, Turbostart, and Fashion for GoodTextile Magazine•Oct 24, 2025•AltMat, Fashion For Good, Turbostart, H&M Group and 1 other
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FMCG company Meolaa raises $6 Mn led by General CatalystEntrackr•Oct 08, 2025•Meolaa, General Catalyst, Colossa Ventures, Clay Capital and 8 others
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MedSetGo Closes $2.4M Oversubscribed Seed Round to Transform Healthcare Navigation with AIintelligence360•Oct 04, 2025•MedSetGo, Gold House, Turbostart
