We support founders with patient capital, our availability and network.

BlueLotus invests in gritty founders who make work and life better.

We’re early-stage investors with hands-on investing and operating experience in companies. We seek to partner early in niche businesses with emergent competitive advantages.

BlueLotus’ portfolio companies have raised >$500M in follow-on funding from the likes of 8VC, Tiger Global, Google, Blume, 3one4, Linse, BEENext, Omidyar, Trifecta, Premji Invest, the Bajaj group, V-Guard, Bharat Innovation Fund & numerous others. Our 2018 investment cohort is currently delivering a TVPI (Total Value to Paid-in Capital) of 41x.

Who We Are

UDAY ARYA

Founding Partner

Uday returned to India in 2017 after 14 years in New York and Paris, working in various capacities in investment banking. His principal areas of formal expertise are structured finance, risk management and value investing. He taught critical thinking & history at SAICE, in Pondicherry. Selected writings.

MBA, NYU | MS Columbia

We focus on Unstoppable founders across sectors

FIN-TECH | DEV-TOOLS | SAAS | AD-TECH | FRONTIER / BIO-TECH | ++

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We’re always looking for exceptional founders with big ideas

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with us?

  1. We’re very selective in what we invest in. We don’t do “volume” to maximize the chances of carry.
  2. We’re investing our hard-earned money with our LPs, and startup opportunities have to cross a high threshold in order to be considered worthwhile.
  3. If this low-frequency, high selectivity approach could be of interest to you,