We have been fortunate to be backed by one of the early industry luminaries in India who, along with his cofounders, has shown entrepreneurs by example that it is possible to create a transparent, scalable, competitive, wealth sharing, world class technology company out of India - Mr. Raghavan S. Nadathur (NSR), the co-founder and former JMD of Infosys. NSR has been an active player in the early stage ecosystem in India since 2000 helping with mentorship and guidance through NSR Center for Entrepreneurial Learning at IIM – Bangalore as well as with financial capital from Nadathur Holdings and Investments. NHIL (www.nadathur.com) is a private wealth management company with assets under management in excess of $500 M. Under his tutelage, we hope we can influence the growth of the early stage ecosystem in India.

Since 2000, NSR through Nadathur Holdings has been an active investor in the Indian early stage eco-system and has invested in over 18 early stage technology and life sciences start-ups in India.  Selected examples include Metahelix, one of the few agri-biotech companies in India developing GM crop varieties that are drought and pest tolerant,  Connexios, a pure play early stage drug discovery firm that leverages network biology, computation, structural chemistry, technology and Traditional Indian Systems of medicine to discover Novel Chemical Entities (NCE). CADES, a high-end aerospace design &engineering services firm, Indegene Lifesystems, which is India's first and currently largest pharmaceutical marketing services firm and Co-Options Technologies that builds state-of-the-art products and offers end-to-end services in the banking and financial services area with focus on cooperative banking and allied rural sectors.