We are operators.
We back founders, not just with capital.
MGS Ventures backs founders building category-defining companies at Seed to Series A stage - capital, conviction, and operator ethos from day one.
Fifteen years ago, Andreessen Horowitz said software was eating the world. Today, AI is eating software — and changing how the work itself gets done. We back the builders of that reality, with operators who have lived it.
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Seven sectors we believe is ripe for disruption.
Sector-agnostic within technology - but building for enterprise customers is where we can help.
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A clear no saves everyone time.
What we are NOT
- Not a horizontal AI fund.
- Not consumer.
- And not backing technology for its own sake, without commercial adoption.
What we will NOT back
Sectors that gain from harm to people, the environment, or society (vice sectors, weapons, gambling, and private crypto among them).
A short process, run by partners.
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Seed to Series A
We lead rounds and co-invest alongside others. What changes between stages is the ownership our cheque buys, not the size of our commitment.
We go beyond this when the round warrants it, and double down on portfolio winners with follow-on cheques.
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FAQs
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A partner from the first cheque.
MGS Ventures backs founders at the earliest and riskiest stage.
Drawing from our decades of experience in operating successful enterprise regulated tech businesses, we extend it to our portfolio companies to not just cross the 'valley of death' but emerge on the other side as category leaders.
Team
Advisory board
Some decisions are better made by someone who has made them before. We bring in senior operators and specialists from across the globe, usually before the company knows it needs them.
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We'll be in touch. Questions in the meantime — reach us at info@mgsventures.in.
Apply for more than just the funding
Prefer email? Write to info@mgsventures.in.
Some companies do not exist yet. Runway is a platform that incubates teams in ideation, college and pre-seed stage and stays with them until the seed round is a real conversation.
A cybersecurity company built in India, defending apps anywhere in the world.
That was the thesis in 2020. India was going mobile-first faster than anywhere on earth, and almost all of the software defending those apps was being written somewhere else. We wanted a homegrown company with genuinely global capability — the strength to sit on any shortlist, in any market. So we incubated one.
Protectt.ai began at exactly the stage Runway is built for — a founding team and a conviction, before there was a product. We wrote the first cheque and stayed close: incubation, mentoring, go-to-market, hiring, customer introductions.
Today it is an AI and behaviour-driven mobile app security and fraud control platform protecting critical banking, exchange and insurance apps — runtime protection, device and SIM binding, code and API defence, and now security for AI models and agentic systems. Having earned the trust of India’s enterprises, it is now taking that protection global.
It has grown exponentially year over year and is backed today by Bessemer Venture Partners and the Bajaj Group.