About Us

We are a VC & strategic Family Office backed Investment Bank,
conceived to help identify investable whitespaces for VCs, Family Offices and Corporate VC Funds across

The word ‘Yugo’ is Japanese for ‘Fusion’. The cornerstone of Yugo Capital’s Foundation is the intent of delivering a blend of intellectual & financial capital to entrepreneurs and business leaders.

The word ‘Yugo’ is Japanese for ‘Fusion’. The cornerstone of Yugo Capital’s Foundation is the intent of delivering a blend of intellectual & financial capital to entrepreneurs and business leaders.

Leadership

Senior Partner
Investor & Advisor- Energy & Water Business
Partner and Head of Investment Banking
Senior Manager - Deals & Research
Vice President- SaaS
Core Philosophy

Deliver value with the fusion of intellectual & financial capital. We bring in sectoral expertise of operations & strategic corporate financial acumen of VC/PE/Banking professionals.

Operator VC Fundamentals in IB

Through our investment careers, we have focused on deploying capital in fundamentally sound assets and helping the founders fix the gaps in their businesses. We bring the same methodology to Yugo. We are hands on and help with Product Development/Mgmt., Product & Corp Marketing, Intellectual Capital Mgmt.

Research Driven Deal Making

Plugging the vacuum of research led technology trend discovery which forms the fundamentals of innovation & its commercialization.

Long Lifecycle association

We aim not only to capture deal making through Seed to Series B but we also look at driving strategic M&As.

Our Edge: For Entrepreneurs

Through our combined VC investment experience of over 4 decades, we have realized that there is a large gap between Innovation and Commercialization. Yugo helps entrepreneurs escape this ‘Valley of
Death’.

We focus on fundamentally strong businesses with product and/or business model innovation at their core. Most times, these are difficult to understand models and entrepreneurs need a partner who can share the vision, conviction and help them translate their complex solutions into formats which can be easily communicated to Investors.

Our Edge: For Investors​

From our experiences as a VC, we realize that while most institutional investors have handsome deal flow, most transactions are not aligned with their thesis, objectives and portfolio design resulting in a very high rejection rate. This is more true for CVCs and Family Offices which view
transactions through an additional lens of longer corporate strategy alignment.


Yugo works closely with Investors to first understand their thesis in gravity and bring meaningful relevant investment opportunities which have the potential of driving healthy shareholder & stakeholder returns.

Here is what we try to assist investors with-

  • Pre-validated models from an Innovation & commercialization point of view
  • Research driven deal analysis & diligence
  • For CVCs: Alignment of deals with Corporate Strategic Goals- innovation and/or diversification
  • For FOs: Strong ability to understand overall portfolio thesis & allocation + Relevant deals from a Family business perspective
  • Post Transaction portfolio management support & accountability