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Venture Catalysts made 207 bets in 2021, biggest exit brought 80x returns

IPO rush encourages early stage investor to dial-up deals up to Series C rounds

Venture Catalysts made 207 bets in 2021, biggest exit brought 80x returns
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Deepsekhar Choudhury Bengaluru
Venture Catalysts Group, which runs an angel network and VC firm 9Unicorns, saw the number of its deals rising two-fold to 207 this year compared to 2020. The investments were made in 178 start-ups – and saw $86 million of its own corpus being deployed, while more than $600 million was invested by its syndicate of angel investors.

Although Venture Catalysts Group is known as an early stage investor in start-ups, or young companies before they raise a Series A round, the past year has seen it make investments up to Series C rounds.

“In the last four months, we have made