Cedar-IBSi Capital is the region’s leading early-stage FinTech venture capital fund, primarily focused on B2B FinTech and Financial Services-Infrastructure companies. The $20-25mn fund has achieved a First Close and has completed initial investments in Cogniquest and WonderLend Hubs, both disruptive advanced solutions that address large market opportunities in BFSI and beyond.
The fund is built on the legacy Cedar Consulting (www.cedar-consulting.com) and IBS Intelligence (www.ibsintelligence.com) platform, which comprises over 60 years of research and consulting experience for Banks and Technology players globally. The fund’s Managing Partner, Sahil Anand, in his prior role, co-created the region’s only FinTech Lab, which has demonstrated a strong track-record of accelerating 55+ B2B FinTechs across the region (www.cedaribsifintechlab.com).
The fund is independently structured, follows a classic LP-GP model, and is backed by leading institutional and family office investors across the region.
What makes Cedar-IBSi Capital unique is our strong ability to add transformational value across tangible areas for founders in our portfolio, leveraging the fund manager’s past experiences in the world of FinTech, combined with the Cedar platform’s 60+ year-old credibility and expertise in this space We can make capital work like no other.
Category: Category II Alternative Investment Fund
Registration Number: IN/AIF2/22-23/1185
Investment Manager: Cedar-IBSi Ventures Private Limited
Often taken for granted and requires expertise of use-cases & technology. This is our key competitive advantage. Multiple Indian banking infrastructure firms have grown in our FinTech Lab.
FinTech and Banking veterans, with complimentary skillsets building B2B product-oriented companies with strong unit economics with path to profitability in a defined timeframe.
We enter early-stage but revenue-stage when the company has at least 1-2 paying enterprise clients. This mitigates some risk. Additionally, our ability to value-create earlier via bank access is unique. This excites us.
Cedar and IBS Intelligence are trusted advisors to 200+ large global BankTech firms who are often seeking to acquire/invest in emerging players, especially in the B2B space. This provides proprietary exit channels to the fund.
Due to the geography-agnostic nature of B2B FinTech solutions, our ability to take portfolio cos to dollar revenue markets such as Europe and the Middle East is an important investment criteria
