{"id":994837,"date":"2026-02-26T07:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994837"},"modified":"2026-02-26T07:29:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:59:45","slug":"sauce-vc-logs-final-close-of-rs-750-crore-opportunities-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/26\/sauce-vc-logs-final-close-of-rs-750-crore-opportunities-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauce VC logs final close of Rs 750-crore opportunities fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sauce VC, a venture capital firm focused on backing consumer brands, has closed a Rs 700-750 crore fund that it will use to back some of its high-growth portfolio companies, founder and managing partner Manu Chandra told ET. <\/p>\n<p>The new fund will support four to five startups from Sauce\u2019s early-stage portfolio, allowing it to double down on some of its high-conviction bets such as ice-cream brand Hocco, clean-label snack maker The Whole Truth, new-age luggage brand Mokobara, skincare startup Innovist, apparel brand XYXX and petcare startup Supertails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sauce VC, a venture capital firm focused on backing consumer brands, has closed a Rs 700-750 crore fund that it will use to back some of its high-growth portfolio companies, founder and managing partner Manu Chandra told ET. The new fund will support four to five startups from Sauce\u2019s early-stage portfolio, allowing it to double down on some of its high-conviction bets such as ice-cream brand Hocco, clean-label snack maker The Whole Truth, new-age luggage brand Mokobara, skincare startup Innovist, apparel brand XYXX and petcare startup Supertails.<\/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-994837","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\/994837","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=994837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}