We are CORE91.VC

WE ARE

CORE91.VC

An early stage fund investing in outlier ideas and ambitious founders.

We back pre-seed to Series A startups by Indian founders, globally, who are building intelligent B2B SaaS solutions with deep passion and user empathy.

We want to be part of your journey as you mature from T20s to One Days and Tests. While we may not be able to face the googlies for you, we will be right beside you on the non striker’s end. We will be the sounding boards, connectors, evangelists and critiques to help you perform your best.

YOUR FIRST CHECK OF


100-400k
USD

USUALLY ARRIVES WITHIN


Two
Weeks

ALONG WITH ACCESS TO

Our Network of Founders & Investors

GUIDING YOU THROUGH

Global Markets & Future Rounds






Proud to have backed the teams at ...

Beureau.id
OnlineSales.io
Card91
Mihup
Vtion
Lemma
Kiwi
Essenvia
Hypto
Aerchain
FunctionUp
Swaypay
Spyne
Mason
Quest
Enumerate
Dista
Anokhi





Prior & Personal Portfolio

Coinbase
Zoomcar
Xelpmoc
Homecapital
Strata
Airmeet
SuperK
Eeki
AmpereHour
Kluster
Boom & Bucket
OnDeck
GoSuperBus
AngelList
EzyMov

The Core91 TEAM

Shalin Shah

Partner

Grew up in NY, Shalin brings the accent with him. He barely survived Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon where he was in the founding team of a medical device startup, measuring intracranial pressure non-invasively. While working at hedge funds and in private equity at DCM Partners, Indus Growth Partners and Piramal Group he found more excitement in helping founders both in the US and India. Initially he only could offer time, until he built some savings to invest in their startups. His first angel investment became a $100B IPO, but he missed a dozen “right in front of my nose" unicorns.

Keshav Jain

Venture Partner

When we first met Keshav we discovered an excel guru out of place amongst the army of real estate investors. He worked in high street fashion and banking but knew everything that VCcircle had to write on startups. Soon after he founded a profitable molecular diagnostics startup, NeoDx, we roped him in to help us at Core91. We made the mistake of offering him instant coffee and he decided he’d bring his coffee-religion to us.

Aman Singhal

Alumni (Founder @ Kluster)

We first met Aman while he was building 2-wheeler servicing startup, Drivojoy from the ground up, raising capital from top investors including Kunal Shah. We believed he was a strong founder and helped him with his model and a few investor introductions. The startup didn’t scale so he went on to work in senior roles at Halodoc as a PM and Growth at Swiggy before we pulled him into Core91 to explore edtech. We then committed the first check in his latest startup, Kluster. Aman graduated from IIT-Bombay.

Manjot Pawha

Alumni (Lightspeed, Ex-Stripe India Head)

Xooglers that worked in Mountain View have a special sauce that must come directly from their Michelin star cafeterias, so when we were introduced to Manjot, we were happy to help her find her calling while she helped us understand internet infrastructure. She started as an engineer in the Google Photos team and left as a PM in their Kubernetes team before exploring starting up herself. She then led Stripe in India before joining a superstar fund, Lightspeed.