{"id":923902,"date":"2025-04-21T07:19:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T01:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=923902"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:22:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T01:52:56","slug":"vertex-ventures-steps-up-india-bets-eyes-ai-fintech-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/21\/vertex-ventures-steps-up-india-bets-eyes-ai-fintech-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Vertex Ventures steps up India bets; eyes AI, fintech deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vertex Ventures\u2019 Southeast Asia and India-focused fund has ramped up its investment activity in India, with a focused approach on AI-led businesses, fintech, and consumer brands. Following a slump in the broader funding environment for two years, the fund has seen a surge in deal-making since late last year. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last six months have been super active for us. Toward the end of 2023, as the market slowed, we ramped up conversations with high-quality founders. The first half of 2024 was spent building our pipeline and thesis, making the latter half intentionally hectic,\u201d said Piyush Kharbanda, general partner at the fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vertex Ventures\u2019 Southeast Asia and India-focused fund has ramped up its investment activity in India, with a focused approach on AI-led businesses, fintech, and consumer brands. Following a slump in the broader funding environment for two years, the fund has seen a surge in deal-making since late last year. \u201cThe last six months have been super active for us. Toward the end of 2023, as the market slowed, we ramped up conversations with high-quality founders. The first half of 2024 was spent building our pipeline and thesis, making the latter half intentionally hectic,\u201d said Piyush Kharbanda, general partner at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}