Unlike traditional accelerators that onboard companies across multiple sectors, geographies, etc. —we're focused. As a Hands-on Studio, we leverage our strengths, working only in the niches where we excel.
We're a Venture Studio co-building B2B AI companies
from India to $10M ARR, profitably!
Building Almabase to now building
100 Almabases from India for the World
Portfolio Companies in our life-time, and we want to deep dive into scaling each one of them! Unlike Traditional Accelerators, we want to work with a limited set of 100 Portfolio Companies in our life-time, and we want to deep dive into scaling each one of them! Unlike Traditional Accelerators,
we want to work with a limited set of 100 Portfolio Companies in our life-time, and we want to deep dive into scaling each one of them!we want to work with a limited set of 100 Portfolio Companies in our life-time, and we want to deep dive into scaling each one of them!
Read our full thesis on Shifu Ventures.
We envision co-building 100 companies in our lifetime, not in one 3-month cohort
We're a lean team with specific strengths, hence a super niche focus!
We don't specialise in D2C or B2C. Even in B2B, we are not super experienced with PLG motion. We don't have experience guiding founders moonlighting on ideas! We stick to our strengths :)
B2B
AI
India -> World
Inside Sales
Post Revenue
Because we’re a Hands-on Studio, we have a super niche focus
Co-building is our primary value-add. Especially in GTM & AI
GTM
AI
All our stakeholders are invested and incentivised to help you grow revenue
to Stakeholders
Frequently Asked Questions
Answering some FAQ's here, but we are always open to talking B2B founders :) Please feel free to reach out!
Given that we co-build companies instead of advising them like traditional accelerators, we don't have the luxury of being very generic. We have rigid constraints: B2B, from India for the world, with AI as a critical part of the offering, inside sales (ACV > $10K), and post-revenue!
We don't work with hardware, manufacturing, or robotics. We are interested in B2B AI. Even within that, we don't have the expertise to support deep-tech startups—if you are building a foundational LLM, YC is your best bet!
For now, we are looking for Services.AI companies or Vertical AI companies.
- B2C, D2C, or B2B2C. We don’t specialise in either of them.
- You serve SMBs, and your ACV is less than $5,000. We don't specialised in PLG either.
- You are moonlighting on an idea or pre-revenue.
- You are selling from India to India. One of our key value-adds is GTM to the USA!
Since we only pick 4-5 startups a year, we have to be super picky. If there is sufficient interest on either side, we take around 3 months and do a few pilots so that we can both make a confident decision! We don't have any structured selection process, and we don’t run cohorts like traditional accelerators, so you can reach out to us anytime during the year!
You can operate from anywhere in India. We are based in Bangalore and the SF Bay Area.