{"id":985604,"date":"2026-01-16T08:52:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985604"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:23:17","slug":"vc-firm-kairon-capital-debuts-with-rs-200-crore-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/vc-firm-kairon-capital-debuts-with-rs-200-crore-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"VC firm Kairon Capital debuts with Rs 200 crore fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deepankur Malhotra, a former executive at Amazon India, where he focused on investing in consumer brands, has launched a consumer-focused venture capital firm, Kairon Capital, with a target corpus of Rs 200 crore, including a Rs 50-crore greenshoe option. <\/p>\n<p>The firm marked its first close at Rs 90 crore, raising capital from the likes of listed fast-moving consumer goods company Emami and a clutch of direct-to-consumer brand founders such as Saurabh Jain of Livspace, Rohit Chawla of Innovist and Yogesh Kabra of XYXX, he told ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deepankur Malhotra, a former executive at Amazon India, where he focused on investing in consumer brands, has launched a consumer-focused venture capital firm, Kairon Capital, with a target corpus of Rs 200 crore, including a Rs 50-crore greenshoe option. The firm marked its first close at Rs 90 crore, raising capital from the likes of listed fast-moving consumer goods company Emami and a clutch of direct-to-consumer brand founders such as Saurabh Jain of Livspace, Rohit Chawla of Innovist and Yogesh Kabra of XYXX, he told ET.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985604","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=985604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}