Stellaris Closes $300M Fund; Announces New Partner

by Team Stellaris | Nov 28, 2024 | Others

We’re thrilled to announce the close of our third fund of $300 million to back early-stage founders in India building for Indian and global markets. Our strategy with the new fund remains consistent with our first two funds. We will continue to back companies in...

CTO & Founders’ Mixer: Data & Infrastructure Trends

by Sayantan Sarkar | Nov 20, 2023 | Others

CTOs are facing the new reality of doing more with less. As the demand for sophisticated data infrastructure continues to surge, market dynamics emphasize the need for cost optimization. The emergence of LLMs has also opened up exciting opportunities to redefine...

Harnessing Gen AI for India: Hackathon Showcase

by Naman Jain | Jun 29, 2023 | Others

Over the past few months, we’ve seen a plethora of Generative AI applications emerge across various fields; predominantly focusing on business use cases such as sales & marketing, coding, etc., or for infotainment through art, comic generation, and more. ...

Slintel’s Journey From Seed to Exit in Less Than 3 Years

by Alok Goyal, Arpit Maheshwari | Oct 11, 2021 | Others

In May 2019, we partnered with Slintel – a company we had known for 2 years prior – by leading their seed round. They have grown from strength to strength since then – ARR up >30X, ACVs up >2X – and recently announced their acquisition by...

Addressing the opportunity of part truck load in Indian logistics industry: Loadshare’s journey

by Aditi Gupta | Jul 4, 2019 | Others

Loadshare is an asset light logistics network powered by technology. Founded in 2017, today the network spans over 4000+ pincodes and has 130+ active partners who are an integral part of the offering. Stellaris Venture Partners and Matrix Partners are the primary...

Can there be a framework to identify Fearless Founders?

by Rahul Chowdhri | Jan 30, 2019 | Others

As investors, we are asked several times a month – “How do you decide which start-up to invest in?”. Despite the universal truth that the market trumps everything else, we all invest first and foremost behind great teams, market be damned. However, we usually fail to...