With over 400 million+ gamers and ~100 million paying users, India’s gaming ecosystem is ripe for disruption. Young population and a large gamer base has positioned the Indian gaming market to reach $7bn by 2026, 3x the size of Bollywood. This presents several opportunities that can be capitalized by Indian game developers and publishers.

Investment Thesis

Local games with deep storylines and immersive gameplay including vernacular content.
Social and multiplayer gaming experiences creating virtual hangout environments.
Growth of the Esports ecosystem – players, tournaments, streaming and organizers.
Development of a publisher ecosystem in India to promote the growth of local game development.
Gaming infrastructure platforms for faster content generation, game development, and newer revenue channels.

The Disruptors We Support

Gaming

Through its SaaS tool BattleXO, EsportsXO is connecting gamers and brands by enabling them to launch and manage online tournaments.

Invested in 2021

Founders

Vikas Goel, Utsav Umang and Rohit Raj

Other Investors

SOSV, SucSEED Innovation and We Founder Circle

Reason of Investment

There are 1 million Esports players in India but over 85 million Esports viewers. Esports XO is developing a platform to facilitate the journey of an esports viewer to a player seamlessly, while enabling discovery of users for a host of games looping to tap the fast-growing Indian gamers market.

Gaming

Stan is a digital card collectible platform for esports players which allows users to create NFTs of their cards, trade those cards, and use them like playing cards.

Invested in 2022

Founders

Parth Chadha, Akshat Rathee, Rahul Singh, Shubham Gupta and Nauman Mulla

Other Investors

General Catalyst, Better Capital

Reason of Investment

Backed by passionate game builders Parth and Rahul, STAN is utilizing the intersection of web 3 and gaming to make creator-fan interaction captivating, which has the power to expand overall viewership of the esports industry.

Gaming

It is a single platform that provides players with multiple hyper casual games while also allowing users to share and publish ideas for hyper casual games.

Founders

Rahul KR and Sourav Badami

Other Investors

WEH Ventures

Reason of Investment

These days people can get access to content over a click of a button in various apps, but when it comes to gaming people need to install separate apps for each new game, SVG plans to solve that by serving bite sized fun games to millions of indians, under one platform.

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What They Say About Us

Eximius has been a great partner for us from Day 0 of Skydo. Right from the investment process where they were fully transparent and helped us in shaping our ideas and plans, to early days of setting up the company and team where they've been proactively helping us with relevant connections and hiring.

Movin Jain

Co-Founder

Skydo

As a Founder, I have had great experience with Eximius team. Apart from the capital, we got access to the network and connects which is super helpful for a growing startup. Pearl is just a call away when we need her.

Parth Chadha

Co-Founder

Stan

Since the day we have pitched our idea to Pearl, she believed in our idea and was were very quick in taking decision to invest. Her team has worked with us in all the aspects, from hiring needs to discuss ideas on the product.

Manikanta Nikhil Kotla

Co-Founder

iTribe

Eximius has been a great choice for us. The team is extremely helpful in terms of hiring, global network, product decisions, etc. The most important thing is that they take decisions quickly starting from the first call to the term sheet within 2 weeks without wasting the founder's time.

Jasveer Singh

Co-Founder

Hood

If you're an early stage founder who is just coming off raising some money, you're probably hiring and iterating towards a product market fit. The team at Eximius will help you with both of these functions.

Nikhil Kurhe

Co-Founder

Finarkein Analytics

From timely feedback on growth ideas to help in hiring tech talent, Eximius has been a great partner throughout. You can bank on them for any help you need in your startup journey :)

Rahul Gope

Co-Founder

Oyela