INVESTMENT LIFE CYCLES

SEEDING VENTURE FUNDS

WEALTH MANAGEMENT
WHO WE ARE
THE NADATHUR GROUP IS A FAMILY-BACKED PRIVATE INVESTMENT FIRM
FOUNDED IN 2000 BY N. S. RAGHAVAN, CO-FOUNDER AND FORMER
JOINT MANAGING DIRECTOR OF INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES (NASDAQ – INFY).
We manage an investment portfolio of over US $600 million, across asset
classes and investment life cycles -- from angel and venture funds to private
equity, public equity and debt. Our group has also seeded a venture fund,
a domain-specific investment platform, and a family office for wealth
management. We have invested in over 25 venture and private equity
opportunities, have funded an investment bank, and have made long-term
investments in philanthropic and social ventures. The group’s activities span
diverse sectors, including information technology, hospitality, aerospace,
Entrepreneur- Centric
biotechnology, health care, education, real estate, arts, and conservation.
Though our historic geographic strengths are in India, our active investments
over the years have led to a significant broadening of our spheres to include SE
Asia and, to a lesser extent, the U.S. Our organization is based out of offices in
India and Singapore.

WHAT WE DO
As a group, we have three broad areas of activity. WE VIEW OUR Fa m i l y o f f i c e C e n t r i c
INVESTMENT ACTIVITIES FALLING INTO THREE BROAD AREAS – ENTREPRENEUR
CENTRIC, FAMILY OFFICE CENTRIC AND SOCIAL. Our entrepreneur-centric
activities include investing in venture capital that we seed, incubate, and grow
as well as strategic businesses we participate operationally. Our family office-
centric efforts focus on the generational wealth management and lifestyle
needs of the family. Our social investments and philanthropic efforts support
diverse causes that are close to our hearts.

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Entrepreneur-Centric
Having been entrepreneurs ourselves, we believe in the
power of a sound business idea backed by execution,
expertise, passion, and, of course, funds. We also
understand that to succeed in emerging markets with
nascent entrepreneurial ecosystems, early stage ventures
have to manage unique challenges. That’s why we take an
‘owner/partner’ approach with promising start-ups, and back
them with ‘patient capital’ as well as our operational
expertise, domain knowledge, and extensive network of
contacts. Because we are able to commit proprietary funds,
we offer entrepreneurs a lot more flexibility on the path to
value creation, as well as the ability to build
long-term relationships. Above all, we bring to the table our
credibility and a reputation built on years of being good at
what we do.
Within our entrepreneur-centric efforts, we not only invest in
fixed life cycle venture models, but also in long-term
strategic businesses.
Venture Capital
Nadathur’s history is centered primarily on identifying
entrepreneurs and backing their ventures in areas of specific
interest to us. We continue to support the development of
the entrepreneurial ecosystem through the N.S. Raghavan
Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL), an incubation
unit in partnership with IIM Bangalore. Over the years we
have nurtured ventures across the technology, life sciences,
engineering services, media and advertising, apparel, and
agriculture sectors. We deploy our venture capital via direct
investments, platform (Healthcare and Life sciences) and
fund models (Ojas Venture Partners).
SEE ACCOMPANYING SHEET FOR A LIST OF OUR NOTABLE DIRECT INVESTMENTS
Ojas Venture Partners
Incorporating lessons learnt through the years from investing
in start-ups, as well as leveraging NSR’s (as N.S. Raghavan is
popularly known) experiences, we set up Ojas in 2007 and
seeded it with US $35M. The firm focuses on investing in
India-centric seed and early stage technology companies.
To incorporate best practices, and institutionalize our
investing model, we have brought together a professional
team recruited from across the U.S., Europe and India.
Further, to complement the above, we have put together a
network of industry veterans who can offer advisory support
Life Sciences and Health Care platform
In 2005, to focus on human health related opportunities, we carved
out of our portfolio a specialized domain-specific platform in health
care and life sciences. Thus far, we have invested over US$50 million
through this platform into ventures that target not only the supply side
(R&D) but also the demand side (health care) of the value chain. Our
portfolio ranges from agri-biotech and drug discovery to health care
services and hospitals.
Ventures supported by the platform that translate R&D to the
marketplace include Connexios Life Sciences, a drug discovery
company, and Metahelix, an agri-biotech company. We also support
ventures that leverage domain expertise and unique delivery models
to provide services/solutions to the local and global markets. These
include Indegene Life Systems, a marketing and commercialization
solutions provider to global Pharmaceutical industry, and Medi Assist,
a Third Party Administrator (TPA) of Health Insurance, and health care
services provider.
Additionally, we set up Group Lifespring in 2007 to provide specialized
advisory services in support of this platform, and have brought
together the requisite domain expertise, investment experience, and
industry knowledge.
Strategic Business: Hospitality
Real estate is an important asset class for any family office, and this is
true for us as well. However, rather than passively holding assets, our
approach is to look at real estate as the underlying asset on which we
nurture and build value added business. Effectively, for us, real estate
forms the 'horizontal' on which we build certain niche entrepreneurial
'verticals.’ Hospitality is one such vertical and where we currently are
focused. Here, the family seeds the business, and, along with
entrepreneurs incubates and builds out the enterprise.
Our approach in Hospitality is to focus on boutique properties in both
urban and leisure projects primarily in Asia. We have set-up Ativa
Hospitality in pursuit of this vision, and brought together an
entrepreneurial team with experience in the geography, that has
managed boutique properties, and delivered world class service. Ativa
currently is focused on developing projects in Cambodia, India, Laos,
Thailand, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.
Family Office-centric Social Investing
The primary goal of the family office is to manage Social investing is an area of great interest to Nadathur
generational wealth for the Nadathur family. For this Group, where we strive to make a difference personally
purpose, we have brought together a team of qualified and professionally. We invest in the causes that are close
professionals that is separate from the family. Our to our hearts, striving to transform passion into financially
approach is to seek a balance between the family’s viable and sustainable models. Livelihood building, the
priorities on the one hand, and professionalism arts, education, and conservation are of interest to us,
(objectivity and performance) on the other. The team and, in these efforts, the Nadathur group goes beyond
retains a high degree of independence and autonomy in investing funds. We put in our personal time, effort,
decision-making, thus delinking family biases from management expertise, and intellectual capital to build
investment selection and execution. successful projects. Notable efforts include FAME India,
Active Canvas, the Nadathur Conservation Trust, and
We generally are sector agnostic in our wealth
Maya Organics.
management efforts, but try and avoid sectors/industries
characterized by a high likelihood of conflicts with our
value systems and ethos. We have so far deployed more
than US $500 Million in wealth management across asset
classes, sectors, and geographies. In general, we are
proactive about investment opportunities in Asia, and, to
some extent the U.S. markets as well. However, we are
opportunistic when it comes to investments in Europe,
and other regions.
Successful investments handled by our family office
include the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE); Sobha
Developers, a premiere BSE listed real estate firm;
Goodearth Maritime Limited (GML), a shipping company;
ICS, a fertiliser company in Senegal, Africa; and Tractorul,
a real estate development opportunity in Romania,
amongst others.
Summary of Investment profile
Entrepreneur-Centric Family-Office Centric Social
Invested US$ 100 million US$ 500 million US$ 10 million
Areas of interest Angel and VC: Wealth Management: Social:
Healthcare Sector Agnostic Conservation
Life Sciences Arts
Technology Livelihood
Strategic: Special Education
Hospitality
Geographical focus Angel and VC: Wealth Management: Social:

to the companies. South and SE Asia with a Global India focused

special focus on India
The Ojas portfolio of companies includes start-ups that are
creating new technologies (with significant intellectual
property) as well as those that are using technology to offer Strategic:

a service. The portfolio today spans the domains of South and SE Asia
telecommunications, banking, consumer Internet and
mobile, semiconductor and services. Ventures include Ziva ,
a mobile search firm, Tyfone, a mobile banking and payment
platform, Mango, a middle ware for low cost cell phones,
and TeliBrahma, a blue tooth media network.
Our Philosophy
We follow a simple investment philosophy centred on integrity, wealth sharing, and people.
To us, integrity is about ‘doing the right thing’ in all our endeavours rather than ‘being right.’ It’s not just
our belief, but who we are. We hold our group and ourselves accountable to this inviolate standard.
We believe that wealth should be shared with those who helped create it, and this belief is incorporated
in all our business ventures. In our experience, this helps align interests, and creates an environment that
fosters the growth of existing ventures, while at the same time generating further investment opportunities.
We believe that people make all the difference; we do not see the organization and its people as separate
entities. We view the strengths of every individual as contributing to the strength of the whole. However,
we also understand that individuals are not perfect. Hence our approach in working towards shared goals
is open and encouraging of individual achievement while at the same time, emphasizes bringing people
together to build teams.

Head Office Singapore Office

Nadathur Holdings and Investments Pvt. Ltd., Nadathur Fareast Pte Ltd.
# 278/23, 3rd Floor, 10th Main, 71A Amoy Street,
T.Mariappa Road, 2nd Block, Singapore – 069890
Jayanagar, Bangalore 560 011. Tel: +65 6595 9350
Tel: +91 80 41204336/37/38 Fax: +65 6220 3642
Fax: +91 80 41204339
info@nadathur.com

www.nadathur.com