Introducing Adept Ventures and our first investment

I am glad to announce Adept Ventures — an early stage, sector agnostic, micro VC as I transition into a more formal structure of startup investing and build on my current portfolio of angel investments.

GRADUAL LEARNINGS

Adept is a culmination of my learnings of the VC ecosystem in the last 6 years. Adept is the step towards building an investment ecosystem around me which helps the portfolio companies as needed. This model allows us to be smart in our capital deployment while maintaining a healthy level of impact towards each investment.

The goal of Adept will be two fold –

• To serve the Founders who allow us to partner with them through our network of co-investors and colleagues
• To provide access to good quality, thesis driven investment opportunities to our LPs

PAST INVESTMENTS

Some of the themes I have stuck to in my past investments in companies like Vahdam Teas, InVideo, Masai School, VTION Media, Third Wave Coffee, Boheco, Clairco has been the commonality of:

• Building for a very large target addressable market, in most cases with a global product.
• Demonstrable drive among the Founders to solve the problem they are building for
• Capital efficiency and cost conscientiousness of the business where capital is used as a growth lever, not as a tool for survival

ACTIVELY INVESTING

We have already made two investments from Adept.

• The first one was announced last week — CreatorOS. It’s empowering the passion economy generation. Using CreatorOS, creators can launch their own apps within minutes, loaded with natively built features to monetise their audiences. This is increasingly important to break monopolistic behaviours of large platforms. The great product and execution has convinced an impressive roster of investors on their vision. I am excited to see Madhavan and CreatorOS team’s vision take shape.
• Our second investment just closed. Follow us on Adept_vc to find out more about it soon.