This VC firm just raised $550 Million Dollars | Tarun Davda & Rajat Agarwal | Shradha Sharma

Amidst a funding winter, Matrix Partners India managed to overachieve their fund size. The original plan was to raise a $450 million fund, but the enthusiasm and the excitement to invest in India and her founders meant it managed to raise a $550 million fund. This fund, just like the ones that have come before it, will focus on helping digitise India's existing GDP, but this time the VC firm wants to focus on experienced founders or senior operators who have seen and in many cases, written the playbook to create a breakout tech company in India. The venture capital firm is keen to double down on the winners in the portfolio and defend its ownership in these startups. Read more at: yourstory.com/video/matrix-partners-indias-550-mil… ABOUT SHRADHA SHARMA: Shradha Sharma is the Founder & CEO of YourStory. She started YourStory in 2008 to tell stories of entrepreneurs - something that mainstream media was not ready to do in 2008. Since then, Shradha has scaled YourStory to become one of India’s leading digital media platforms covering every aspect of India’s new economy. She was featured on Fortune’s list of the best 40 under 40 entrepreneurs in India for three years in a row. In 2018, she won the Forbes Power Trailblazers award and was twice featured on LinkedIn’s list of powerful influencers, along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and actor Priyanka Chopra. Follow Shradha on LinkedIn here: www.linkedin.com/in/sharmashradha/ ABOUT YOURSTORY: YourStory is India’s biggest and definitive platform for startups and entrepreneurs related stories, resources, research reports, and analyses of the startup eco-system, mobile app developers, and more dedicated to promoting the startup ecosystem Also, don't forget to watch some of our most loved interviews: Kunal Shah -    • Kunal Shah on Building Cred for the f...   Ratan Tata -    • Ratan Tata's learnings and love for s...   Alakh Pandey -    • @PhysicsWallah Like Never Before with...   Nikhil Kamath -    • Ep 06: To invest or not to invest? | ...   Nitin Kamath -    • Unfiltered deep dive with Nithin Kama...   Follow YourStory on Twitter: twitter.com/YourStoryCo Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com/ Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/company/yourstory-com/

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