Abhishek Sethi is the co-founder and CEO of gradCapital, a Bengaluru-based accelerator and venture fund he launched with Prateek Behera. See contact routes.
Abhishek Sethi is the co-founder and CEO of gradCapital, a Bengaluru-based accelerator and venture fund he launched with Prateek Behera to back student-led startups. The firm describes itself as pre-seed/early-stage and has said it focuses on companies emerging from student, science, and engineering backgrounds, with investments spanning high technology, enterprise applications, and consumer solutions. Public sources say gradCapital’s standard check has been $40,000 for about 4% equity, and earlier reporting also described a $1 million first fund followed by a $6 million second fund. Named portfolio companies mentioned in sources include Armatrix and Pluto Mobility; the firm also says it has tracked investments across six companies in one source and about 34 companies in another. Sethi has publicly framed gradCapital around funding student entrepreneurs in India, including on a podcast and in posts directing applicants to the firm’s website.
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