Venture Catalysts, which brands itself Venture Catalysts++, is a Mumbai-based early-stage investment platform that began in 2016 as an angel network and describes itself as a multi-stage investment platform combining incubation, funding, acceleration and business development support. This record is for the angel-network and investing entity, Venture Catalysts Private Limited, trading as VCAT, which its own site names as the fund manager of the Venture Catalyst Angel Fund. The firm publishes two SEBI-registered Category I Alternative Investment Funds in the Venture Catalysts name: the Venture Catalyst Angel Growth Fund (Category I AIF, Venture Capital Fund, Angel Fund; SEBI registration IN/AIF1/18-19/0653; fund manager Venture Catalysts Angel Growth Fund Manager LLP) and the Venture Catalyst Angel Fund (Category I AIF, Venture Capital Fund, Angel Fund; SEBI registration IN/AIF1/22-23/1157; fund manager Venture Catalyst Pvt. Ltd.). Separate but related brands sit alongside it and are NOT part of this record: 100Unicorns, the accelerator fund launched as 9Unicorns in August 2019 and rebranded to 100Unicorns; Beams Fintech Fund, a growth-stage fintech fund; Elev8 Venture Partners, a growth fund; Spyre, a proptech venture fund; and VCGrid. The firm states it looks for team, target market, tenacity, traction and technology rather than publishing a list of target sectors, and it says it is bullish on India and on Indian entrepreneurs.
Over $450M (group-wide, reported September 2022 on the launch of the Elev8 fund, Business Standard) AUM68/100 Power Score™2016 FoundedMumbai, India
Venture Catalysts Private Limited is incorporated in Mumbai on 23 September 2015, CIN U74999MH2015PTC268665, at Times Square, Andheri East.
2016
Venture Catalysts is founded as an angel network, per Business Standard's September 2025 report; Forbes India dates the founding to January 2016.
2019
Venture Catalysts launches 9Unicorns, an accelerator fund, in August 2019.
2021
The 100Unicorns first fund is launched with a $100M corpus, per Outlook Business.
2022
Beams Fintech Fund, backed by Venture Catalysts, announces a first close at Rs 270 crore (Rs 2.7 billion, reported as $36 million) in April 2022.
2022
Elev8 Venture Partners announces a $200M growth fund, described by Business Standard as the fourth fund backed by Venture Catalysts, taking the group's total assets under management to over $450 million.
2024
9Unicorns rebrands as 100Unicorns and launches a second fund with a $200M corpus and a $100M green shoe option.
2025
Spyre PropTech Venture Fund is launched with $50M, per Outlook Business.
2025
Venture Catalysts raises Rs 150 crore (Rs 1.5 billion) in a mix of primary and secondary transactions, announced 8 September 2025.
2026
Venture Catalysts exits the hygiene brand Pee Safe at a reported 9.6x return and 30.53 percent XIRR in January 2026, nine years after a 2017 pre-Series investment.