Investor Profile: Zero To One Fund — Thesis, Cheque Size & How to Apply

If you are raising your first institutional round, here is how to get funding from Zero To One Fund. This New Delhi-based SEBI-registered Category-1 AIF sits on a Rs 300 crore corpus approved in January 2023, and writes early cheques into technology-led startups. Zero To One Fund funding comes with a 500+ strong network of angels, HNIs and VCs across India, Singapore, Dubai, the US and the UK.

Thesis and sweet spot

The fund's stated philosophy is to invest first in people, later in products — backing technology-backed, disruptive and innovative ideas at the earliest stages. While sector-agnostic, its priority sectors named at launch are edtech, healthtech, agritech, medtech and cleantech. Beyond capital, the team of chartered accountants, HR leaders, business strategists, CXOs and merchant bankers works with founders under one roof.

Cheque size and fund

The Rs 300 crore fund writes cheques of Rs 2.5 million to Rs 50 million (about Rs 25 lakh to Rs 5 crore), investing from pre-seed to pre-Series A with co-investment through later rounds. The angel-network figure is self-reported by the firm.

Notable portfolio

The verifiable portfolio investment is Devalaya Elearn (Rs 1 crore angel funding, February 2023), an affordable skill-education startup — consistent with the fund's thesis of technology-led disruption in education.

Partners

The fund was founded in May 2022 by Praveen Kaushik (Founder and Director, a chartered accountant turned investment banker) and Rahul Massey (co-founder).

Programs, credits and perks

Zero To One runs an in-house screening mechanism and investor syndicates that let angels share risk and diversify — founders get access to the collective operating expertise of the network's professionals.

Beyond the AIF, Zero To One continues to run its 500+ member angel network across India, Singapore, Dubai, the US and the UK, letting angels co-invest alongside the fund and share risk through syndicates — so founders get both institutional capital and a broad base of individual backers.

How to apply for funding

Founders can pitch directly: email [email protected] or call +91 98117 17900 (both listed on the official site), and explore the founder-facing page at 0to1fund.com/startups.php. Lead with the team and the disruptive idea — the fund explicitly backs people first.