Investment Banking
WHO WE ARE
We help in fundraising for startups – from the right investors, and provide both buy and sell side advisory on mergers, acquisitions and even acquihires to both unfunded and funded companies.
Sector Agnostic
We advise start-ups in various sectors including SaaS, Healthcare, Edutech, Agriculture, Mobility, Fintech, e-Commerce, social etc.
Technology Element
We look for companies with the larger tech play which can scale and create impact.
Our Focus
We focus on technology startups across the stages of their fundraise.
360-degree View
We understand the client’s requirements deeply and customize our solution to meet the investment objectives.
Venture Partner:
We know that a lot of individuals and organisations in the ecosystem want to see good deserving startups progress especially on fundraising. We have an innovative partnership model with key players in the ecosystem who are able to identify fundable startups, and partner with them giving them an opportunity to monetise their startup picking skills, and we do the heavy lifting of running the operations of the fundraise process. We have a fair share of success fee and create a win-win-win equation for the partner-startup-and ourselves.
Why you should choose us
Hands on Approach
We are a bunch of ex-entrepreneurs and understand the psyche of an entrepreneur. We handhold the entrepreneur at every stage of fund raising process to ensure the desired output is achieved.
Well Connected in the Ecosystem
We have a strong and deep connections with the investor eco- system across Angels, Seed Funds, VCs and PEs. Yes, we have pitched to them before and successfully raised funding for our own venture.
Assistance on Pitch Material
We ensure that an entrepreneur is fully prepared when he pitches to an investor. We assist in preparing pitch deck, financial modelling, research data and everything else that will help to secure the investment.
Team Idrive
Utsav Dokania
Utsav has over 2 years of public market value investing experience and investment banking. He has graduated from BITS Pilani and has cleared CFA Level I.
VarathaRajan
Varatharajan has over 7+ years of experience tracking the Indian Startup & Venture Capital ecosystem in his previous research role at Venture Intelligence, His research work has been featured in Economic Times, The Hindu, ET Now, TechCrunch etc
Aarti Manikandan
7+ years of experience in handling customers across various sectors. She is also a passionate teacher and likes to teach students during her free time.
Advisory
Hari Krishnan
Ex Founder and VC, 50+ investments, 2 100m usd fundraises, 1 multimillion $ exit (to Flipkart)
Vineet Neeraj
Co-Founder of Kobster, a PayPal incubate company. Instrumental in taking company PAN India. Raised multiple rounds of funding from Indian and Japanese investors.
What Founders Say About Us
For a first time entrepreneur, it is important to have the right advisor for fund raising. The value add from iDrive has been immense in this regard. They helped me in reaching out to the right investors. They have always been very critical in their feedback and take the complete ownership of the fund raising process. I am happy to recommend them to any start-ups founders who are looking for fund raising.
You need your investment banker to be proactive, tenacious and always be hustling with you and the team at iDrive has been exactly that. They have also been resourceful in connecting me to the right investors in the ecosystem. Additionally, their approach has been hands on and agile. They keep giving constructive feedback to ensure the objectives are met. They are always approachable and ready to go out of their comfort zone to get things done. I strongly recommend start-ups entrepreneur for their service.