We back first-time founders at the earliest, scrappiest moment — before the deck is polished and the metrics exist.
You don't need traction, a warm intro, or a perfect story. You need someone to believe early enough to matter.
That's the whole job. We read every deck ourselves, reply within a week, and write cheques fast when it's a yes.
We invest in the conviction of a founding team long before the spreadsheet makes the case for them.
A strong team with a rough prototype, or a sharp insight and the drive to chase it.
Pre-seed and seed only — often the first institutional money on the cap table.
Fintech for Bharat, dev tools, AI, health, climate, and the SaaS India ships to the world.
Intros, hiring, the next round — help when you ask, room to build when you don't.
A handful of the 60+ companies our partners believed in before the rest of the market.
Two founders and a platform team who've shipped products, made payroll, and pitched from zero.
Founded Rise High after years backing early-stage founders at Unicorn India Ventures. She leads the firm’s investment decisions and works closest with the founders we fund.
ceo@risehighcapital.com
The technical half of the firm, previously at JSW Ventures. He builds Rise High’s tooling and runs technical diligence on the products we back.
Joined from Kae Capital, where she worked closely with seed-stage teams. She runs hiring, intros and the next-round playbook so founders can keep building.
Built founder and investor networks at Indian Angel Network. She partners with founders after the cheque on hiring, introductions and the next raise.
