Founder Value-Add

Cedar-IBSi Capital can make capital work, owing to the expertise and credibility of the wider group platform

Multiple measurable areas of value-add

Founders see us as a growth partner to help in “supercharging” their GTM

Cedar-IBSi Global ecosystem

Cedar-IBSi’s knowledge and people infrastructure to be leveraged in areas of mentorship, intelligence, on-ground insights and global research and advisory experience

Product and Technology

Assist product and technology teams in areas of product reviews, benchmarking, gap analysis, and future roadmap design, keeping in mind our understanding of whitespaces

Revenue Expansion

Play a significant role in the revenue growth story of portfolio companies via high-conversion client introductions to global banks and big-techs, guidance on pricing strategy, and access to IBSi’s lead-gen intelligence

Visibility and Positioning

Leverage Cedar-IBSi’s digital and physical clout to help portfolio companies get positioned in front of technology buyers and users, via Cedar-IBSi events, thought-leadership, editorial content, and much more

People and Organization

Cedar-IBSi to play a role in attracting industry talent, design performance management frameworks, and use our proprietary Balanced Scorecard expertise in driving effective organizational performance

Competitive Intelligence

Fund portfolio companies to gain unique insight on competitor performance, tactics, and strategy across markets and product types. This is a strong area of knowledge for Cedar-IBSi.

Market and Geography Expansion

Assist portfolio companies in our proprietary frameworks around market-entry strategy and opportunity assessment, along with partner-search and identification in new countries

Access to Growth Capital

The Cedar-IBSi platform has a strong ability to attract and bring the next round of strategic investors (tech, banks, other) for our fund portfolio companies who are seeking to raise their next round

The India-GCC Corridor

The fund and wider group’s significant presence across the Middle East since 1998 will go a long way in helping portfolio companies leverage our market access and relationships, as they seek to find their next 100 Financial Services customers

Comprehensive Economic Partnership

The India-UAE CEPA will fuel entrepreneurship within India’s maturing FinTech ecosystem, attracting UAE-based companies and vice-versa.

Growing Startup corridor

DIFC, HUB 71, and many other GCC platforms are seeking to invite India startup participation, to boost the use of new-age BankTech and B2B FinTech in the Middle East

MoU fosters FinTech collaboration

MoU signed between the RBI and the CBUAE to facilitate collaboration in the B2B/B2C space

Cedar-IBSi FinTech Lab


Many Cedar-IBSi FinTech Lab members already generating significant revenue from GCC banks thanks to our platform

Affinity to Indian vendors

GCC banks/FIs have been actively purchasing technology and collaborating with Indian BankTechs and FinTechs for 15+ years.

Investment ties

Track-record of Indian FinTechs receiving investments from SWFs and GCC investors. Investment ties are already deep.