Equity
Alternative Investment Funds
Strategy name
R.I.S.E.
Inception date
25th February 2025
Target sector
Diversified
Target market cap
Multi Cap
Benchmark
NIFTY 500
Minimum commitment required
₹1 Cr
Lead
Mr Rahul Veera
Co-manager
Mr Prashant Kutty
Strategy name
Inception date
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Target market cap
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Lead
Co-manager
Strategy name
Empowered India
Inception date
29th July 2025
Target sector
Diversified
Target market cap
Multi Cap
Benchmark
NIFTY 500
Minimum commitment required
₹1 Cr
Lead
Mr Rahul Veera
Co-manager
Mr Prashant Kutty
Strategy name
Inception date
Target sector
Target market cap
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(A MULTI-CAP OFFERING)
Aims to invest in sectors that EMPOWER INDIA—supporting enterprises that contribute to nation-building and hold global relevance. Specifically, the fund manager seeks to allocate approximately 70% of the corpus to companies driven by domestic consumption, reflecting India's robust internal demand, while the remaining 30% will be directed toward businesses with strong export potential that cater to global markets.
Lead: Rahul Veera
Co Manager: Prashant Kutty
India focused companies benefiting from rising consumption, capex revival and policy push like Banking, Energy, Manufacturing, Consumption, Cement & Industrials.
Export oriented companies in niche sectors where India has global cost and quality advantage like Pharma, IT.
(A MULTI-CAP OFFERING)
Aims to deliver superior returns by investing in India’s structural growth story through a focused portfolio of companies that stand to benefit from rising industries, superior stock selection and executional excellence.
Lead: Rahul Veera
Co Manager: Prashant Kutty
India’s structural growth – PLI schemes, capex revival, and manufacturing-led exports
Rising Industries such as Industrials, Infra and Power, IT and Allied services etc.
Focus on high-growth, high ROE companies with strong governance.
(A SMALL-CAP OFFERING)
NOW CLOSED FOR SUBSCRIPTIONAims to meticulously curate a portfolio through a bottom-up investment approach, with a predominant focus on the small-cap segment. The fund’s strategic objective is to engage in investments centered on Undiscovered, Under-Owned, and Under-Researched opportunities, which possess the potential to deliver exceptional returns over the long term.
Lead: Rahul Veera
Co Manager: Prashant Kutty
High Capital Efficiency with massive headroom to grow.
Strong visibility of earnings growth over next 3-5 years.
Run by dynamic and ethical entrepreneurs.
(A MULTI-CAP OFFERING)
NOW CLOSED FOR SUBSCRIPTIONAims to deliver superior returns by investing in Indian growth stories through a focused portfolio of companies that stand to benefit from the unlimited opportunity that the Indian economy has to offer over the next decade.
Lead: Rahul Veera
Co Manager: Prashant Kutty
Multicap portfolio with the right blend of secular growth and cyclical opportunities
Companies that stand to benefit from the unlimited opportunity that the Indian economy has to offer over the next decade
(A MULTI-CAP OFFERING)
NOW CLOSED FOR SUBSCRIPTIONAims to deliver superior returns by investing in India's growth story through a focussed portfolio of high growth businesses that stand to benefit over the next 5-7 years.
Lead: Rahul Veera
Co Manager: Prashant Kutty
Companies with strong visibility of earnings growth over the next 3-5 years in manufacturing, digital technology, and banking services.
Carefully constructed bottom-up companies that are likely to benefit from emerging trends within India.
Companies that have demonstrated a consistent track record of growth in revenue, profitability, and capital efficiency over the last few years.
(A MULTI-CAP OFFERING)
NOW CLOSED FOR SUBSCRIPTIONAims to deliver superior returns by investing in a focused portfolio of Indian companies that are market leaders or have the potential to be dominant in their area of operations either in India or abroad.
Lead: Prashant Kutty
Co Manager: Rahul Veera
Companies that are or have the potential to become global leaders in their product or segment.
Entities amongst the top 10 companies globally.
Companies with global operations, exports, and acquisitions.
Companies exhibiting revenue growth, profitability and high capital efficiency over the last 10 years.
(A MULTI-CAP OFFERING)
NOW CLOSED FOR SUBSCRIPTIONFocussed portfolio of high-growth businesses that stand to benefit from India becoming a five trillion dollar economy over the next 5-7 years.
Lead: Rahul Veera
Co Manager: Prashant Kutty
High-growth companies with a market capitalisation of more than 500 cr.
Benchmark agnostic concentrated portfolio of 20-30 companies benefitting from themes like the ease of living, indigenous push for technology, and better infrastructure.
(A MULTI-OFFERING)
NOW CLOSED FOR SUBSCRIPTIONFocussed portfolio of high-growth businesses that stand to benefit from a paradigm shift in the economy unleashed by the next billion Indians from tier II-IV cities, semi-urban & rural areas.
Lead: Prashant Kutty
Co Manager: Rahul Veera
Benchmark agnostic concentrated portfolio of 20-30 companies that benefit from themes like ease of living, indigenous push for technology, and improved infrastructure.
(A MULTI-CAP OFFERING)
NOW CLOSED FOR SUBSCRIPTIONPortfolio of high-growth businesses that stand to benefit from the millennial-driven economy.
Lead: Prashant Kutty
Co Manager: Rahul Veera
Benchmark-agnostic portfolio of 20-30 companies from the fulfilment ecosystem, aspirational consumption, financing, and investing domains.
(A SECTOR OFFERING)
NOW CLOSED FOR SUBSCRIPTIONAims to work through a portfolio comprising fundamentally sound companies in the financial services space.
Lead: Prashant Kutty
Co Manager: Rahul Veera
Fundamentally sound companies in the space working towards democratisation of banking services.
Companies in the midst of financial savings boom.
Companies benefitting from the ‘Housing for All’ Programme 2022.
(A MID-CAP OFFERING)
SCHEME WOUND DOWNAims to deliver superior returns by participating in India’s growth story through a focussed portfolio of high-growth emerging businesses that stand to benefit from a paradigm shift from an unorganised to organised sector.
Companies with a market cap of less than ₹20,000cr.
Existing/potential leaders in their field of operations.
Companies that have demonstrated high capital efficiency on Return on Equity/Return on Capital Employed.
Must 5 Quality Framework for due diligence
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