Tanmay Bhat first investment was as a later stage VC in the startups called Smallcase that specializes in the financial domains. She has also invested in a startups called HYPD Store along with others YouTuber on Bhuvan Bam, allowing influencers & creators to create their multi brand stores on the platforms.
We will talk about the various startups investment made by one such social media influencer in Tanmay Bhat of All India Bakchod fame. She also has a self titled YouTube channel with 3.84 millions subscriber & has also contributed to Netflix India.
Tanmay Bhat Investment
- Smallcase
- Qoohoo
- Mean DAO
- Avalon Scenes
- HYPD Stores
- Flint
- Growth School
- Wint Wealth
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1. Smallcase Tanmay Bhat Investment
Smallcase is an online trading platforms that make it easy for professional to invest in the stock markets. Smallcase was founded in February 2015 by three IIT Kharagpur alumni in Anugrah Shrivastava, Rohan Gupta & Vasanth Kamath.
Smallcase provide its user with access to various brokerage & wealth platform and also has its teams of professional who help the investors to create their ideal portfolios of stock, ETFs Exchange Traded Fund, REITs Real Estate Investment Trust & many others option for an investor portfolio. Smallcase has also been backed by giant like Amazon & Sequoia Capital India.
Tanmay Bhat invested in 10 preferred share for a 0.3% stake in September 2020. This is in line with his YouTube video where he makes a lot of video on how someone new to finance can invest in stock etc.
2. Qoohoo Tanmay Bhat Investment
Qoohoo is a social platforms that allows content creator to make a lasting connections with their follower & fans while also monetizing it so content creator can reap the benefit. Qoohoo was founded in November 2020 by Vimal Singh & Aseem Gupta.
In March 2021, as an investors, Tanmay Bhat & populars social media influencer Ranveer Allahabadia invested in the first rounds of Qoohoo. They were joined by others prominent investor such as Gaurav Munjal founder of Unacademy, Kalyan Krishnamurthy CEO of Flipkart, and Kunal Shah founder of CRED. Qoohoo was able to raise $800,000 in its first investments round.
3. Mean DAO Tanmay Bhat Investment
Based in Miami, Florida, United State of America, Mean DAO was founded in November 2021 by Eydel Ruiz, Maylin Ramirez, Yamel Fdez, Yansel Florian, Michel Triana. They focus on providing blockchain infrastructures & decentralized product to ensure that no one misses out on the benefit of crypto currencies.
They operate the MEAN protocols, which is responsible for the smooth running of the Solana blockchains. Tanmay Bhat invested $3.5 million as an early stage venture capitalist for this company. Soon, others investor such as DeFiance Capital & Gate.io have also joined.
4. Avalon Scenes Tanmay Bhat Investment
Founded in May 2021, Avalon Scenes was established by three digital entrepreneurs in Varun Mayya, Shashank Udupa, & Abhinav Arora. It helps build a community space where peoples can interact with like minded people in any walk of life, whether it’s establishing a new products or reminiscing about their old college day, etc. Avalon Scenes also help a person to create their community & monetize it, you can also add multiple moderator.
In May 2021, Tanmay Bhat, along with other angel investors he already knew from his investments in Qoohoo, Kunal Shah, Kalyan Krishnamurthy, and Gaurav Munjal, invested an undisclosed amounts in his pre Series A funding round.
5. HYPD Stores Tanmay Bhat Investment
Established in 2020 by Ashwarya Garg & Akshay Bhatnagar, HYPD Store was started to enable content creator to launch their multi brand store businesses & establish a new source of revenue for them and thus helps creator monetize their platform. HYPD Store is completely ad free and allow user to experience the products before buying virtually.
In January 2022, HYPD store managed to raise US$1.5 millions in seed fundings from Tanmay Bhat, Bhuvan Bam & Ranveer Allahbadia. Investment firm such as Better Capital, Sauce VC, have also invested in the startups.
6. Flint Tanmay Bhat Investment
Founded in 2021 by two former CRED products manager, Anshu Agrawal & Akshit Bordia. Flint is involved in the cryptocurrency domains. They try to make sure that the investors gets a returns of up to 13% of what he has invested in cryptocurrencies and only deals with stablecoin on Ethereum & USDC, which are pegged to the US dollar.
In January 2022, Flint managed to raise $5.1 millions in seed fundings from Tanmay Bhat along with other angel investor like Kunal Shah & Rohit Bansal. Private equity firm such as Sequoia Capital India & Coinbase Ventures also participated.
7. Growth School Tanmay Bhat Investment
Growth School is a startups operating in the educational technology industry & was founded in 2020 by Vaibhav Sisinty. They partner with expert in various field to create customized training program in a short period, so that they can be employable & thus contribute to society as soon as possible. The courses, for example, are about how to build a UI-UX platforms, how to invest in cryptocurrencies, etc.
In January 2022, Tanmay Bhat, along with 80 others angel investor, invested in the startups. The company managed to raise 5 millions dollar in seed capitals. Growth School has also been helped by notable investment firm in Sequoia Capital India & Owl Venture.
8. Wint Wealth Tanmay Bhat Investment
Founded in 2020 by Abhik Patel, Ajinkya Kulkarni, Anshul Gupta, Shashank Chimaladari, Wint Wealth is a platforms that offers return on fixed income investment product of around 10-11%. These returns are higher than fixed deposit which range from 2% to 5% but also don’t have the risk factors associated with stock.
These investments opportunities are generally available to people with a high net worth. Formerly known as GrowFix, they have been widely endorsed by Zerodha & Kunal Shah of CRED & Freecharge.
In January 2022, they managed to raise an undisclosed amount from a special round of fundings from Tanmay Bhat and others notable individual such as Ankur Warikoo, founder of Nearbuy and also one of the leading public speaker in India, CA Rachana Ranade, who offer classes. of bag through Youtube & others.
Conclusion
Tanmay Bhat has been an investors in startup based primarily on teaching financials literacy to all sector of people or startup encouraging new social media influencer to showcase their skills & incentivize them. With step like these, he has shown that he is someone who is sympathetic to emerging social media influencer & doesn’t want them to face the same struggles he did when he first burst onto the scene.
