Pre-seed fund research profile
100X.VC is a Mumbai-based pre-seed platform built around standardised first cheques on India-adapted iSAFE notes. Led by Sanjay Mehta, Ninad Karpe and Vatsal Kanakiya, it uses cohorts, mentors and follow-on relationships to help founders reach institutional rounds.
At a glance
Research profile
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Investment lens
100X.VC uses a pre-seed approach across Generalist.
Current evidence
100X.VC announced an 18-startup January 2025 cohort with $2.7M of aggregate investment and maintains a current public portfolio that includes Dezy, Beyond Snacks, EMO Energy, Fyllo, abCoffee, Data Sutram and Pocketly.
Strategy
Pre-seed
Sector focus
Generalist
AIF structure context
Indian venture capital and angel-fund strategies are commonly structured as Category I AIFs. Verify the specific vehicle and registration before investing.
Current signal
100X.VC announced an 18-startup January 2025 cohort with $2.7M of aggregate investment and maintains a current public portfolio that includes Dezy, Beyond Snacks, EMO Energy, Fyllo, abCoffee, Data Sutram and Pocketly.
Investor questions
100X.VC is covered in Rupeia's venture capital research universe. The current public record describes the strategy as Pre-seed, with a sector focus of Generalist. The profile should be read with the linked source trail and Typical route: Category I AIF context.
The profile displays only company or asset names attributable to 100X.VC in the reviewed public sources: Dezy, Beyond Snacks, EMO Energy, Fyllo, abCoffee, Data Sutram, Pocketly. It does not represent a complete current portfolio unless the manager has published one.
The GP reports 180 companies, 400+ founders, $90M+ of follow-on funding and 2,010 jobs, with examples such as Dezy, Beyond Snacks, Fyllo, abCoffee and Data Sutram. These are platform metrics, not an audited fund return. These signals are not a substitute for fund- and vintage-specific net performance, realised distributions and audited or administrator-supported reporting.
Public fund size: The platform operates through a cohort / first-cheque model; no single current corpus is disclosed on the reviewed GP pages.. Public terms or access information: ₹1.25 crore first cheque on iSAFE notes, with a published term-sheet-to-wire process of roughly two weeks; sector mandate is broad and stage is pre-seed / seed.. Current fees, minimum commitment and availability must be confirmed for the exact named vehicle in its fund documents.
The current source record names Sanjay Mehta. Verify current roles, departures, attribution and key-person provisions before relying on the team history for a new commitment.
Review stage concentration, follow-on reserves, company failure rates, dilution, exit timing and the gap between paper valuations and realised distributions. The current open diligence point is: Vehicle-level terms, ownership and fund-level return metrics are not publicly disclosed..
2025-01-18: 100X.VC announced an 18-startup January 2025 cohort with $2.7M of aggregate investment and maintains a current public portfolio that includes Dezy, Beyond Snacks, EMO Energy, Fyllo, abCoffee, Data Sutram and Pocketly.
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