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Fireside Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($100K–$300K Checks)

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Bangalore, IndiaWebsite

Fireside Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Bangalore, India investing in Consumer, Other, Marketplace. The firm typically writes $100K–$300K checks and has 10 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$100K–$300K
Portfolio
10 companies on record
Partners
9 listed
AUM
$650M
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sectors
Consumer, Other, Marketplace
HQ
Bangalore, India

Last verified: 2026-05-26

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$100K – $300K

AUM

$650M

Portfolio

10+ companies

Team

9 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Fireside Ventures focuses on early-stage consumer brands with emphasis on direct-to-consumer food delivery and marketplaces.

How Fireside Ventures invests

Fireside Ventures is a vc firm based in Bangalore, India. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Consumer, Other, Marketplace. It does not invest in Media.

Fireside Ventures typically writes checks of $100K–$300K per investment, backed by approximately $650M in assets under management.

Fireside Ventures has backed 10 companies in our records, including Yogabar, Slurrp Farm, Sports For Life.

Partners & Team

AB

Ankita Balotia

Vice President

IG

Ipsita Ghose

Assistant Vice President of Finance

AK

Amit Kulkarni

Chief Financial Officer

SG

Siddharth Gupta

Vice President

NP

Nandika Pradeep

Director of Human Resources

DB

Dipanjan Basu

Co-Founder

SP

Shuchi Pandya

Principal

RR

Ramya Ramesh

Executive Assistant

VS

Vinay Singh

Co-Founder

Industry Focus

Invests In

Consumer
Other
Marketplace

Does Not Invest In

Media

Portfolio Companies (10)

Other

YO

Yogabar

Food Delivery, Consumer
SL

Slurrp Farm

Food Tech
SP

Sports For Life

NE

Nester

EA

Earthful

AN

Antinorm

OR

Oroos Confectionery

CU

Cumin Co.

TR

Troovy

DU

DUSQ

How to pitch Fireside Ventures
  • •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • •Lead with your fit in Consumer, Other, Marketplace — the sectors they actively back.
  • •Size your ask to their typical $100K – $300K check.
  • •warm intro preferred
  • •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Ankita Balotia, Vice President.
  • •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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