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Harsh Gupta

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Frontier

February 28, 2024

Why We Invested in StepChange: Announcing Our First Climate Finance Investment

We are very excited to introduce you to StepChange, an India-based provider of cutting-edge climate data science solutions for risk management.

Flourish Ventures Promotes Investment Leads in India and LatAm; Strengthens Bench in US and Africa with New Hires

Early-Stage Global Venture Capital Team Partners with Mission-Driven Fintech Entrepreneurs SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Feb. 26, 2024 – Flourish Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm with purpose, today announced new hires and promotions, adding capabilities to its global investment team. Five team members joined the fintech-focused venture firm in 2023, and...

[The New Indian Express] Why Investors Should Support Founders’ Mental Health

Originally posted on The New Indian Express Entrepreneurial journeys are challenging. There are peaks of extreme happiness and moments of utter despair and hence entrepreneurs draw on a special kind of mental energy. They go after the impossible. As a founder, if you’re not training for a marathon, you may...

Why We Invested in Mapan: Rising Social Fintech Empowers Indonesian Women

Flourish and Patamar re-teamed to invest in Mapan’s community of digital saving circles. In 2009, smartphones were a mostly untapped invention – and had not…

[e27] Why kirana stores are central to India’s digital opportunity

Originally posted on e27 Image credit: 123rf-amberkhane1986 The COVID-19 pandemic showed us just how important kirana stores are in India. Rather than abandoning their neighbourhood shops in favour of online deliveries, Indian consumers told us they bought more groceries from these local shops during lockdowns. They also said they had...

As Flourish’s leading investor in India, Harsh’s approach to partnering with mission-driven founders is influenced by his belief that financial inclusion enables individuals with diverse backgrounds to be at a level playing field. Harsh actively works with his portfolio companies - including such rising fintechs as ApnaKlub, Aquaconnect, M2P, Mapan,...

[Flourish Focus] A One-on-One with Varun Tangri, Founder & CEO, QueueBuster

How to Get MSMEs in India to Go Digital Flourish’s India-based investor Harsh Gupta sits down with serial entrepreneur Varun Tangri to discuss how retail-focused superapp QueueBuster is helping corner shop owners replace the ‘nightmare’ of managing in-store operations using pen and paper with easy-to-use software. Mobile-based QueueBuster is a full stack PoS application...

Portfolio

Embedded Finance

Portfolio

Embedded Finance

February 15, 2022

Why We Invested In Brick: Seamlessly connecting consumers to embedded financial products with a single line of code

Why We Invested: Brick Southeast Asia is home to over half billion people with a rapidly maturing digital economy. Like the rest of the world,…

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Infrastructure