The Souled Store is a home-grown, pop culture merchandise brand created in 2013 with the philosophy of following your soul. It owns over 100 international and Indian licenses including Disney, Warner Brothers, WWE, stand-up comedians, Bollywood movies, amongst others.
Founded by Aditya, Rohin and Vedang (all self-confessed nerds), TSS’s goal is to help each fan express themselves through a wide range of products (apparel, mobile accessories, backpacks etc.)
“RPSG Capital Ventures has been extremely helpful with business strategy and giving us the right advice to scale. Their experience helped the team focus on the bigger vision, accelerating growth while being preemptive of business challenges.”
Founders :Aditya SharmaRohin SamanteyVedang Patel
Mohil Chaturvedi
Mohil Has 5 years of experience across transaction advisory and IT consulting. In his last stint, he was a part of transaction advisory team at EY and prior to that he was a Business Analyst at TCS, working in the Life Sciences domain.
Mohil has an MBA from Great Lakes, Chennai.
He is an active swimmer and can sing out some tunes in his free time. He also geeks out on documentaries and sitcoms.
IncNut Digital is a global media company focused on women’s beauty, wellness (StyleCraze.com) & parenting (MomJunction.com). StyleCraze and MomJunction together get more than 40 million monthly visitors making them the largest platform for women in India and one of the leading platforms globally in women’s lifestyle content media space.
Abhishek heads RPSG Capital Ventures and is based out of Gurugram, India. An avid believer in the Indian consumer story, he brings 15+ years of experience across investments and M&A. He loves brainstorming with entrepreneurs over a cup of coffee.
Prior to this, he was part of the investments team at True North and JP Morgan. He is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Financial Analyst by qualification.
When not working, he loves traveling to lesser-explored destinations and trying his hand at cooking (results vary).
mCaffeine is positioned as a unisex brand of premium and innovative skin and hair care products created using caffeine present in coffee, green tea and chocolate. Caffeine has magical properties for Hair and Skin Care. A natural and clean label brand, mCaffeine targets the bold, young and confident millennial.
Founders :Tarun SharmaVikas Lachhwani
Hersh Gulati
Hersh is a Principal at RPSG Capital Ventures and is based out of Gurugram. He has over 11 years of experience across Investment Banking and Venture Capital. He has previously worked with Blume Ventures, First League Ventures, and Ernst & Young. A strong believer in the start-up story, Hersh is dedicated to helping young founders grow and impact everyday lives.
He holds an MBA in Finance from Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, is a qualified Chartered Accountant, and holds a B. Com (Honours) degree from Delhi University.
When not working, Hersh loves to mix songs on his DJ console at home or paint a landscape if he is looking to unwind.
IncNut LifeStyle is a personal care company focused on creating customizable cosmetics. It houses two of India’s first customized brands: SkinKraft & Vedix. SkinKraft is a customizable cosmetics brand based on dermatology while Vedix is a customizable cosmetics brand based on Ayurvedic principles.
“We found the team at RPSG Capital Ventures very in-tune with the market opportunity and excellent in business and operational strategy. We believe they are the right partners for us to realize our vision of building a completely new category of customizable personal care brands”
ShopG is solving the problem of next 200mn Bhaarat internet users to bring them to mainstream digital commerce.
Founded by seasoned startup professionals Abhishek, Ankur, Pranay, and Yogesh, ShopG leverages group buying behavior and help users cross the trust barrier to start their online purchase.
“We are fortunate to have RPSG Capital ventures as one of our early investors. Their expertise in retail helps us in a faster GTM with better insights, and helps us build a greater vision”
By challenging current norms and perceptions about Health Foods, True Elements believes Taste is what matters at the end of the day. With a range of breakfast items and snacks, we promise to keep your taste buds excited without disappointing any of your other parts!
Started by Sreejith and Puru, who believe in building a brand that is genuinely true to nature, just the way they are (at least they think so!)
A distinctive benefit that we experienced from this association was that RPSG Capital was not only encouraging about our vision, but they also helped us to connect with the right industry influencers, delved into key decision points and also made us reflect on our key decisions, thereby co-creating and co-scaling the venture as “True” partners!
Founders
Puru Gupta Sreejith Moolayil
Swati Mehra
Swati has 7 years of experience across investing and consulting. In her last stint, in the Strategy and New Business Development team of the RPSG Group, she was looking at mergers and acquisitions for their consumer business.
Prior to that, she was a management consultant at Accenture Strategy. Swati has an MBA from IIM Bangalore, and an undergraduate degree from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University.
She spends her free time traveling, reading, and experimenting with new food cuisines.
Prathi Tandon
Prathi is a penultimate year BSc. Management Sciences student at Loughborough University, UK. He is currently on an industrial placement role with RPSG Ventures as a part of his degree curriculum.
Previously Prathi has worked in internship positions with Cargill India & The DeVere Group. He also co-founded an investment fund at University while he was President of the Finance Society.
Prathi is a fitness enthusiast, intra-mural football player and a recreational golfer.
Jhoomer Sinha
Jhoomer has 9 years of experience across investing and consulting. In her last stint, she worked at Acumen, where she led investments & portfolio management across health-tech, energy, education and allied sectors.
Prior to that, she was part of Accenture Management Consulting team. Jhoomer earned an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and a B.Tech from NIT Surat.
She is also an avid reader, her all-time favorite authors being Michael Crichton and Salman Rushdie, and she also dabbles in oil painting in her free time.
