Budget 2021 is the first digital budget in the history of India. The budget classified into 6 important pillars as Health and Wellbeing, Physical & Financial Capital, and Infrastructure, Inclusive Development for Aspirational India, Reinvigorating Human Capital, Innovation and R&D, and Minimum Government and Maximum Governance testify to the strategic direction of the country's growth trajectory. From allocating Rs 64180 crores for new health schemes to the investment of Rs 35,000 crore for COVID vaccine and many others the healthcare industry received a positive impetus.
Further, setting up of integrated public health labs in all districts to incorporating vital aspects of air pollution, Jal Jeevan Mission to strengthening the nutritional content, delivery, outreach, and outcome to ensuring the fitness tests of private vehicles after 20 years and commercial vehicles after 15 years the Budget will ensure healthy living of every individual.
The pandemic had brought unprecedented effects on the Indian economy. And thus, the manufacturing sector has to grow in double digits on a sustained basis. Schemes, provisions, and allocations are made to ensure a smooth supply chain, cutting-edge technology, and core competence.
This, if executed, will help in scaling up the potential and the size of every industry, thereby creating employment opportunities for youth. Segments like textile, infrastructure, asset monetisation, petroleum and natural gas will receive investment. An increase in the capital budget will help in improving roads and highways, railways, urban, power infrastructure and the condition of the ports, shipping, and waterways. Further, supporting the development of a world-class Fin-Tech hub at the GIFT-IFSC and consolidating the provisions of SEBI Act, 1992 will instill confidence among the market stakeholders. Provisions like increasing FDI in the insurance sector, recapitalisation of PSBs, decriminalization of the Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) Act, 2008 will benefit companies in their compliance requirements. Investment in agriculture and education will help in making the backbone of the Indian economy stronger. Improving the plight of the migrant workers and labourers is of utmost priority.
This, if executed, will help in scaling up the potential and the size of every industry, thereby creating employment opportunities for youth. Segments like textile, infrastructure, asset monetisation, petroleum and natural gas will receive investment. An increase in the capital budget will help in improving roads and highways, railways, urban, power infrastructure and the condition of the ports, shipping, and waterways. Further, supporting the development of a world-class Fin-Tech hub at the GIFT-IFSC and consolidating the provisions of SEBI Act, 1992 will instill confidence among the market stakeholders. Provisions like increasing FDI in the insurance sector, recapitalisation of PSBs, decriminalization of the Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) Act, 2008 will benefit companies in their compliance requirements. Investment in agriculture and education will help in making the backbone of the Indian economy stronger. Improving the plight of the migrant workers and labourers is of utmost priority. The incorporation of one-person companies, with no restriction in paid-up capital and turnover, along with an update of the definition of small companies under Companies Act, 2013, revision of the definition by raising the capital base from Rs 50 lakh to Rs 2 crore and encouragement for the increasing number of entrepreneurs in India by reducing the residency limit for any Indian from 182 days to 120 days are indications of a welcoming change. This will increase capitalisation and boost the startup ecosystem. However, from a startup point of view, there still remains ample scope for new schemes and changes. Direct tax benefits were also announced. Tax relief to senior citizens, for 75 years and above, having only pension and interest income, exemption from filing ITR, serious tax evasion cases, where evasion evidence is Rs.50lac or more than reopening within 10 years to making possible the approaching of the committee for anyone with total income less than 50 lacs and disputed income less than 10 Lacs and many others are positive changes. Thus, the budget encompassing some of the major industries, if implemented, will help in driving economic growth.
The Angel Fund has made 4 investments to date and has created a proprietary deal flow leveraging the Global Alumni Network. Currently, we are in the process of shortlisting some of the most interesting early-stage deep tech startups working on emerging themes like Neuroscience, AR/VR, Robotics, Biotechnology, Blockchain, Electric Mobility, Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence among others
We are happy to share the news of our recent investment in PurpleTutor and are excited to have the PurpleTutor team & Co-founders, Gaurav Perti and Yatish Gupta, join the IvyCap Ventures family! PurpleTutor is offering cutting edge live online coding classes to students aged between 6 to 16. PurpleTutor has placed an immense focus on a rigorous and systematic selection of teachers thereby ensuring that the best curriculum is designed for the student. The company is focusing on skills rather than syntax thereby making children innovative designers and computational thinkers. Read more about our funding in PurpleTutor here
We are thrilled to inform you that our portfolio companies have already started gaining interest and 2 of our portfolio companies have recently been selected to be among the Top 6 Finalists in the 10th Edition of “Young Turks TiE the Knot”, which is one of the largest and prestigious televised events organized by TiEcon in association with CNBC TV-18.
Key Highlights
We are also excited to share with you some of the achievements that our portfolio companies have been able to unlock in recent months:
Company is working with various marquee clients at different stages like Bose, Western Union, Walmart, CISCO, Samsung in India, and the USA for IoT device provisioning and device security use cases. Currently, it is working on two new products focusing on contract tracing and user authentication for airports. It is also in the process of filing 2 new patents in the USA.
Currently, the company has over 2200 experts sharing more than 55,000 minutes of video bot career experience from top companies with about 20 million minutes spent on the android app. During Oct-Dec'20, there were about 70,000 app downloads and MRR has grown by 18x during those 3 months with an ARR of $0.5 Million as of Dec'20
Company has been able to achieve 70% of its quarterly target (Q4 FY21) in January itself. In a very short duration, the company has successfully on-boarded 12 paid customers with around 25 customers already in the pipeline. Recently, the company has also signed up with one of the largest management schools in India.
Company’s revenue is growing at a rate of 30-40% MoM and it is one of the fastest to achieve an ARR of $250,000 in just 12 months. No. of registered users stands at 35,000 by the end of Jan'21 with no. of paid students on-boarded increasing at the rate of 40% MoM. In the month of January, they doubled no. of onboarded teachers' and Jan'21 revenue has already crossed $500,000 ARR. Recently, they also launched a new website along with branding.