Playbook Partners to invest USD 20 million each in 12-15 companies over 2 years

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Growth capital firm Playbook Companions intends to take a position USD 20 million (round Rs 175 crore) every in about 12-15 corporations over the following two years, a prime firm official stated. The agency’s investment portfolio contains corporations like Myntra, PolicyBazaar, InMobi, Nazara Technologies, Rapido, and Renee, amongst others. Whereas primarily investing in India, it has additionally backed international corporations like SpaceX and Stripe.

“With deliberate investments as much as USD 20 million every in 12-15 corporations, we’re concentrating on high-potential ventures throughout SaaS, E-commerce, Healthtech, ClimateTech, B2B & B2C,” Playbook Companions Founder and Managing Accomplice Vikas Choudhury stated.

“Our focus is on corporations which have crossed Rs 100 crores in turnover, the place our capital and experience can speed up their journey to the following degree of development,” Choudhury informed PTI.

Commitments to 3 corporations are within the ultimate levels of closing and can be introduced over the following quarter, he added.

The previous Jio president stated he has invested in 75-80 corporations and 10 of them grew to become unicorns. Choudhury stated he expects one other 10 to comply with swimsuit, within the likes of Treatment Meals, Capillary, UltraHuman, GoQuick, FarMart, Jupiter, and JAR.


Choudhury shared that his agency’s funding method favours development capital over conventional enterprise capital, specializing in corporations that display the potential to change into market leaders with cash-based outcomes inside 3-5 years. He differentiated Playbook Companions from different enterprise capital companies and stated whereas VCs wager early on an concept/product and usually have a 10-12 12 months minimal maintain interval, his agency likes to step in when an organization has established a product, a market, and clients. He referred to as it reinvesting for development. Outlining his guidelines whereas choosing startups to put money into, he stated the scale of the whole addressable market, the standard of the P&L (revenue and loss), technological tailwinds, enablement companies, and the management potential are some issues he appears for.

“The very first thing that we search for is the flexibility to get to scale. The second factor that we search for is the standard of the P&L–both on the income facet in addition to on the fee facet. What we wish to see are revenues which are sticky, repeatable, and have annuities constructed into them. That does not have focus dangers. And on the fee facet, we like to have a look at excessive gross margins.

“The third factor we search for is a tailwind in know-how, change, adoption curves, and the place the market is rising,” he defined. India is in the beginning of a digital explosion life cycle, Choudhury stated.

Given the expansion fee of India, the adjustments in client behaviour, and the proliferation of recent micro companies, he stated there’s a large alternative for new-age items, services to be constructed utilizing the startup ecosystem that didn’t exist earlier than, at much more inexpensive prices and costs.

These services which are being in-built India will then successfully change into exportable to the remainder of the world, he stated.

Vikas additionally outlined Playbook Companions’ long-term plans, aiming to deploy over a billion {dollars} into the Indian tech growth ecosystem within the coming years. He emphasised their give attention to corporations that perceive the nuances of the Indian market, construct worthwhile companies, and prioritise operational excellence.


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