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India's first venture fund by startup founders launched with $85 mn corpus

The men behind the fund are Girish Mathrubootham of Freshworks, Manav Garg of Eka Software, Shubham Gupta (ex-Matrix) and Avinash Raghava (ex-Accel)

(L-R)Shubham Gupta, Girish Mathrubootham, Manav Garg and Avinash Raghava
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(L-R)Shubham Gupta, Girish Mathrubootham, Manav Garg and Avinash Raghava

BS Reporter Mumbai
In a push to entrepreneurial zeal within India, founders Girish Mathrubootham of Freshworks, Manav Garg of Eka Software, Shubham Gupta ex-Matrix and Avinash Raghava ex-Accel have come together to launch a founders-first venture called Together Fund.

The fund, which has an initial corpus of $85 million, seeks to help India’s best SaaS entrepreneurs build, scale and win together, establishing India as a true product nation. Together Fund is the first and only VC fund in India that is led by founders. In parallel with being founding partners of Together, they run some of India’s most well-known SaaS startups.

The fund will invest