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Ola is India's largest mobility platform and one of the world's largest ride-hailing companies.
Bhavish Aggarwal & Ankit Bhati
Ola
Five Star is one of India's leading non-banking finance companies.
Lakshmipathy Deenadayalan &
Rangarajan Krishnan
Fivestar
OfBusiness is a technology-driven SME financing platform.
Ruchi Kalra, Bhuvan Gupta &
Asish Mohapatra
OfBusiness
Razorpay is India's first full-stack financial solutions company.
Shashank Kumar & Harshil Mathur
Razorpay
OneCard is India's best and smartest metal credit card, re-imagined for the mobile generation.
Rupesh Kumar, Anurag Sinha &
Vibhav Hathi
OneCard
Dailyhunt is India's number one news and local language content application.
Umang Bedi &  Virendra Gupta
Dailyhunt
Digital banking for India with real-time spend insights, asset tracking, and seamless UPI payments.
Jitendra Gupta
Jupiter
Intelligent marketing cloud platform, built for the mobile-first world.
Ravi Dodda & Yashwant Kumar
NBFC providing customized business loans and supply chain financing to SMEs and corporates.
Ruchi Kalra & Asish Mohapatra
Gokwik Founders Gokwik Founders
Turning abandoned carts into revenue for India's fast-growing D2C brands
Chirag Taneja & Vivek Bajpai
Foxtale FoundersFoxtale Founders
D2C skincare built from real stories of 3000+ Indian women
Romita Mazumdar
Farmart FoundersFarmart Founders
Reimagining food supply chains for 2000+ businesses across Asia and beyond
Alekh Sanghera & Mehtab Singh Hans

Atomicwork

Vijay Rayapati, Kiran Darisi, Parsuram Vijayasankar

SuperOps

Arvind Prathiban Jayakumar Karumbasalam

Razorpay

Shashank Kumar, Harshil Mathur

Five Star

Lakshmipathy Deenadayalan &
Rangarajan Krishnan

Ola Electric

Bhavish Agarwal

WizCommerce

Divyaanshu Makkar, Vikas Garg

Moengage

Ravi Dodda, Yashwant Kumar

Rocketlane

Deepak Bala, Vignesh Girishankar Srikrishnan Ganesan

Wootz.work

Karan Anand, Himanshu Uniyal

Sevenloop

Sharan Urubail, Ankush Mittal

Neysa

Sharad Sanghi, Anindya Das

Confido Health

Chetan Reddy, Vichar Shroff

Cirkla

Vaibhav Goel, Ankur GuptaKapil Bhardwaj

Z47 by the numbers

Since
2006
AUM
$3.5Bn
Investments
150+
Unicorns
10
Z47
Seed to Growth
DeVC
Pre-seed

The India Edge. Your Unfair Advantage.

Talent That Ships

Build using the India GCC playbook: deep engineering and consulting bench strength, India accelerates build cycles at scale.

Market Access

The world’s second-largest AI market, enterprise-scale buyers, and a real-world testing laboratory for global AI products.

Scale Efficiently

AI-native forward deployed delivery models, human-in-the-loop cost advantages to scale revenue, faster.

Get To Know Us Better

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Vikram Vaidyanathan
Investor, Managing Director at Z47
Yesterday, the day started with 100+ CTOs and AI builders coming together for our CTO workshop with OpenAI. Wulfie, Nikunj, and Thomas walked us through implementation patterns and best practices with Agent Builder, GPT-5 and the Realtime API. We kicked things off with one simple idea: India’s AI story is entering its slingshot moment. Four drivers:
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Ashwin Kannan Pandian
Software & AI Investor @ Z47 | Matrix Partners
Startup CTOs, OpenAI engineers, and the Z47 + DeVC team came together this week for a hands-on technical workshop. Wulfie, Thomas, Nikunj and the OpenAI solutions team spent the morning deep-diving into implementation patterns and debugging challenges across Agent Builder, the Realtime API, and GPT-5.
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Ashwin Kannan Pandian
Software & AI Investor @ Z47 | Matrix Partners
I had a blast bringing this together with the OpenAI team! As India’s AI story gains momentum, we hosted a hands-on CTO Workshop in collaboration with OpenAI. The working session brought together over 90 tech leaders for a dive deep into implementation patterns and production challenges guided by Thomas Jeng, Nikunj Handa, and Wulfie Bain from the OpenAI team.
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Ashwin Kannan Pandian
Software & AI Investor @ Z47 | Matrix Partners
Anthropic hosted their first Dev Day in Bangalore this week and announced a physical presence in the city. We're now one of their most important geographies. The entire day was builder-led and builder-focused — with Dario Amodei (CEO), Rahul Patil (CTO), and Irina Ghose (India head) on stage, sharing what the year's focus is and how builders in India can build on top of that.
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Sudipto Sannigrahi
Managing Director at Z47
In my 10+ years as an investor, I have had the privilege of meeting some of the boldest founders who have shifted India’s trajectory for the better across manufacturing, deeptech, AI and consumer. As these startups meet global investors who share their vision, I am proud to introduce the first set of companies at ZAlpha 2026.
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Ashwin Kannan Pandian
Software & AI Investor @ Z47 | Matrix Partners
I’ve had the privilege of working with some of the most talented AI founders in the ecosystem. With ZAlpha around the corner, I’m excited to introduce our portfolio companies that are building some of today’s most sought-after AI products.
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Ashwin Kannan Pandian
Software & AI Investor @ Z47 | Matrix Partners
Three years ago, being bullish on AI infrastructure for India felt… a little contrarian. Now it feels obvious. Neysa has quietly become one of the backbones of India’s AI ecosystem, and we’ve been lucky to be on the journey as early investors. It’s been genuinely fun to watch how much the ecosystem has leveled up in ~3 years and to see the role Neysa has played in enabling that shift.
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Vikram Vaidyanathan
Investor, Managing Director at Z47
On 18th Feb, I’ll be speaking at the NDTV Ind.ai Summit (with Startup Policy Forum) on “Investing in an AI-led era” alongside Ashutosh Sharma, Aakrit Vaish, Manav Garg and Harshjit Sethi. A timely theme as capital, compute, policy and product innovation begin to align around India’s AI moment.
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Ashwin Kannan Pandian
Software & AI Investor @ Z47 | Matrix Partners
Wrapped up the AI Impact Summit with a small breakfast with founders + the OpenAI team. Marc Manara and Thomas Jeng gave us some dope on releases and improvements we can expect this year. We heard from a lot of founders that you'd like more technical workshops/ office hour style sessions to happen. Thomas and I will experiment with a few of these sessions in Bangalore soon.
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Ashwin Kannan Pandian
Software & AI Investor @ Z47 | Matrix Partners
Next week, we’re hosting a technical office hours with OpenAI’s engg + solutions team This has been a recurring ask from builders across the last few events Thomas, Rahul and I have hosted.. so we figured we’d run the first session in Bangalore Pls sign up if you’re building with OAI and have a bottleneck, or just want best practices. We’ll work through things like agents + tool calling, model selection/tradeoffs, RAG, evals & monitoring, reliability and latency optimization. P.S. For those who DM’d on my last post, if you shared your email, then this should already be on your calendar Z47 Rahul Mathur Vikram Vaidyanathan | Arjun Sun

The India Edge. Your Unfair Advantage

Talent That Ships

Build using the India GCC playbook: deep engineering and consulting bench strength, India accelerates build cycles at scale.

Scale Without the Burn

AI-native forward deployed delivery models, human-in-the-loop cost advantages to scale revenue efficiently.

Market Access

The world’s second-largest AI market, enterprise-scale buyers, and a real-world testing laboratory for global AI products.

Insights from Z47
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India’s Secret Advantage in AI: The FDE Revolution
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January 27, 2026
From IIT to Silicon Valley: This Founder is Building an AI Empire Across India and America
Enterprise AI
January 14, 2026
₹10,000 Cr AI Mission is changing India | Intelligent Indians
Consumer
April 10, 2025
Bhavish Aggarwal in conversation with Z47 | Building a Technology-driven Future in India
B2B & Manufacturing
November 15, 2024
d-Matrix CEO Sid Sheth Shares His Blueprint for Chip Success | Seed to Silicon
Enterprise AI
May 5, 2025
From Idea to PMF in the U.S. This Founder Did it Without Leaving Chennai.
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What we Invest IN

Software & AI

Deep Tech

Fintech

Consumer

AI is rewriting how software companies are built, and we're backing its authors with data moats, velocity, and global reach. From unbundled workflows to agentic automation, from GTM-as-code to vertical AI: we invest in founders who are ahead of the curve.

Z47

AI-powered employee service management platform

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Collaborative platform for professional services automation

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Unified RMM and PSA for MSPs

Z47

Enterprise auth built for AI agents

Z47

Insights-led customer engagement and marketing platform

DeVC

AI-driven medical coding and revenue management.

DeVC

Agentic front-office automation for US Healthcare

DeVC

Voice Ai foundation model company

DeVC

AI enabled sales tax automation platform

DeVC

Automated code health and security review

From robotics to semiconductors to industrial AI, the next global giants will be built by founders using AI to tackle the hardest technical problems head-on. We unlock talent access, cost advantages and customer networks for our founders.

Z47

Indigenous manufacturer of electric scooters and motorcycles

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Scalable AI cloud and infrastructure

Z47

Full-stack engineering procurement and custom manufacturing.

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Sustainable packaging for global brands

Z47

India's native LLM optimized for 22 Indic languages

DeVC

Autonomous orbital robots for satellite servicing

DeVC

Fabless semiconductor company designing reconfigurable processors

DeVC

Physical AI agents for data centers

Founders are rebuilding financial infrastructure from the ground up with AI. From programmable banking to intelligent underwriting to real-time risk systems, we’re backing the next generation of global financial platforms.

Z47

Global payments and business banking

Z47

A new-age credit card platform

Z47

Consumer fintech with banking layer

Z47

Secured lending for Small businesses

Z47

Travel-first credit card fintech

DeVC

Checkout and e-commerce conversion stack

DeVC

Retail fixed-income investing platform

DeVC

Supply chain finance for SMEs

DeVC

Wealth management for HNIs

The next generation of consumer companies are already AI-native. From new distribution primitives to full-stack digital brands to platforms for emerging global consumers, we’re backing founders creating category-defining consumer businesses.

Z47

Indigenous manufacturer of electric scooters and motorcycles

Z47

Mobility and ride-hailing platform

Insights from Z47

How MoEngage Is Powering Global Customer Engagement | Zero to Infinity

How Scalekit is Revolutionizing Access Management for Agents

Where to incorporate SaaS Startups: US or India?

Inside Vijay Rayapati's Playbook to Win Over Bay Area VCs

Hand-routed to Co-piloted: When the nervous system of electronics meets AI

From IIT to Silicon Valley: This Founder is Building an AI Empire Across India and America

₹10,000 Cr AI Mission is changing India | Intelligent Indians

Bhavish Aggarwal in conversation with Z47 | Building a Technology-driven Future in India

d-Matrix CEO Sid Sheth Shares His Blueprint for Chip Success | Seed to Silicon

From Idea to PMF in the U.S. This Founder Did it Without Leaving Chennai.

Scalekit raises $5.5M to launch authentication stack for AI agents

Deep Tech

From robotics to semiconductors to industrial AI, the next global giants will be built by founders using AI to tackle the hardest technical problems head-on. We unlock talent access, cost advantages and customer networks for our founders.

Deep Tech Insights from Z47

This Company is Making India the Metal Backbone of Global Supply | Zero to Infinity

From Years to Days: How AI is Redefining Chip Design

Hand-routed to Co-piloted: When the nervous system of electronics meets AI

d-Matrix CEO Sid Sheth Shares His Blueprint for Chip Success | Seed to Silicon

Investing in mobility: The role of Ai and robotics

Z47 Global Investment Team

We are passionate about backing global-first founders from India, leveraging the country's unique competitive advantages to build world-class companies.

Avnish Bajaj

Founder of Z47, who previously scaled Baazee.com and is shaping India’s startup ecosystem for global impact.

Vikram Vaidyanathan

Drives early-stage fintech and enterprise investments with a founders-first, globally networked approach.

Rajinder Balaraman

Blends international experience to help founders scale tech ventures beyond India.

Rajat Agarwal

Backs early-stage founders across fintech and consumer, working closely with them as they build and scale enduring companies.

Sudipto Sannigrahi

A deep-tech specialist, connecting manufacturing and tech entrepreneurs with new markets.

Aakash Kumar

Backs high-growth SaaS and AI startups, leveraging founder empathy for global scale at Z47.

Ashwin Pandian

Invests in enterprise AI, enabling founders to access world-class networks and markets.

Rahul Mathur

Partners closely with founders from zero to one, supporting product strategy, go-to-market, and early scaling decisions.

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