Vaibhav Domkundwar — Founder

Vaibhav Domkundwar is the Founder & CEO of Better Capital, the most active and influential pre-seed fund focused on the India opportunity. With 200+ startups, multiple unicorns, and 20+ soonicorns, Better Capital has backed India’s most ambitious founders across fintech, software, AI, climate, agri, health, and more — often as the very first believer. Its portfolio includes award-winning, globally recognized companies that are defining new categories and transforming core industries. Beyond capital, Vaibhav is known for his deep founder partnership model, a hands-on, high-trust approach that has built Better into a magnet for India's top talent and breakout ideas. A 3X entrepreneur, Vaibhav previously built and scaled Roamware (enterprise software) and Better Labs (startup studio), giving him firsthand insight into company-building from zero to scale. He is a trusted voice in India’s innovation ecosystem, frequently featured in CNBC, Forbes, Economic Times, and more. In 2021, he was awarded the Inclusive India Award by IVCA for his work with inclusive entrepreneurship. Vaibhav holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and COEP, and splits his time between Silicon Valley and India, bridging two of the most powerful startup ecosystems in the world.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Venture Capitalist with a strong focus on supporting innovative startups in India.

Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Experience: 25 yrs 9 mos

Skills

Entrepreneurship
Business Development

Career Highlights

Founder of the most active pre-seed fund in India.
Backed over 200 startups, including multiple unicorns.
Awarded Inclusive India Award for promoting entrepreneurship.

Work Experience

Xhipment

Founding Investor (3 yrs 6 mos)

Varaha

Seed Investor (3 yrs 7 mos)

Merlin AI by Foyer

Founding Investor (3 yrs 9 mos)

eeki

Seed Investor (4 yrs 1 mo)

SuperAGI

Founding Investor (4 yrs 3 mos)

NxtWave

Seed Investor (4 yrs 4 mos)

SolarSquare Energy

Seed Investor (4 yrs 6 mos)

Eloelo

Seed Investor (4 yrs 8 mos)

Kolo

Founding Investor (4 yrs 8 mos)

Kutumb

Founding Investor (5 yrs 5 mos)

Teachmint

Investor & Board Member (5 yrs 10 mos)

M2P Fintech

Seed Investor (6 yrs)

Toddle - Your Teaching Partner

Seed Investor (6 yrs 4 mos)

slice

Seed Investor (6 yrs 5 mos)

Jai Kisan

Seed Investor (6 yrs 5 mos)

Mudrex

Founding Investor (6 yrs 11 mos)

Yulu

Seed Investor (7 yrs 10 mos)

Open Financial Technologies

Seed Investor (8 yrs)

Better Capital

Founder & CEO (8 yrs 2 mos)

Better Labs

Founder & CEO (14 yrs 8 mos)

Mobileum

Co-Founder & Head of Marketing (2 yrs 10 mos)

Education

Master of Science at University of California, Berkeley

Management of Technology (Certificate with the Haas Business School) at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

Bachelors in Engineering at COEP Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering at Savitribai Phule Pune University

None at St. Vincent's High School

Vaibhav Domkundwar

Founder

San Francisco, California, United States25 yrs 9 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Founder of the most active pre-seed fund in India.
Backed over 200 startups, including multiple unicorns.
Awarded Inclusive India Award for promoting entrepreneurship.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Venture Capitalist with a strong focus on supporting innovative startups in India.

Contact

Skills

Core Skills

EntrepreneurshipBusiness Development

Other Skills

AIAgriCRMClimateDemand GenerationEmail MarketingFintechHealthLead GenerationManagementMarket ResearchMarketing ManagementMarketing StrategyOutsourcingProduct Design

Seed Investor

Mar 2018 – Present · 8 yrs

Better capital

Founder & CEO

Jan 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Better Capital is the first US-based pre-seed fund purpose-built to back India's breakout founders — with conviction, at scale.
→ $100M AUM
→ 200+ companies | 2 unicorns | 15+ soonicorns
→ $250K–$500K median check size
→ Solo GP-led | 3X founder | 25+ years in global B2B
Backing India’s boldest across:
→ Fintech: M2P, Slice
→ Software: Toddle, Open
→ AI: DPDZero, Merlin
→ Consumer: Crafto, Eloelo, Stage
→ Climate: Varaha, SolarSquare
→ Agri: Vegrow, Eeki, BiofuelCircle
→ Gaming: Probo, Stan
→ Education: Nxtwave, Teachmint
→ Crypto: Mudrex, LogX
→ Manufacturing: Mekr, Cradlewise
→ Healthcare: Even, Inito
→ Commerce: Vaaree, Swish, Slikk
...and many more.
Inside Better
→ Why top founders choose Better: https://www.bettercapital.vc/founders/
→ Our full list of holdings is here: https://www.bettercapital.vc/portfolio/
→ Visualise our journey via our annual letters here: https://www.bettercapital.vc/stories/
Important points to put all of the above in perspective:
→ We owe a lot to global LPs who trusted our very contrarian vision.
→ We owe our success to our founders & their teams entirely.
→ We owe our failures to our decision making & learn from it.
→ We prioritised working with "good people" and will never change that.
→ We hope our portcos' impact will be even greater than their market caps.
→ We will do even more contrarian things in the years to come.
→ We, because there is no such thing as a Solo GP. We have a lot of supporters.

SaaSStart-upsEntrepreneurshipBusiness DevelopmentStrategic PartnershipsManagement

Better labs

Founder & CEO

Apr 2003 – Dec 2017 · 14 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Founded Better Labs, a bootstrapped startup studio where we built a repeatable process to turn ideas into profitable businesses. Our products were covered by the likes of Wall Street Journal & TechCrunch. We have had 100s of global customers (F500 to SMBs) and happy buyers who continued to be our customers across multiple companies they worked at over a decade. Our products have received rave reviews from users across 50+ countries. We also learnt a lot from our many failed products over the years - it helped us strengthen our company building DNA which laid the foundation for our evolution to Better Capital, an award winning founding stage venture firm.

Mobileum

Co-Founder & Head of Marketing

May 2000 – Mar 2003 · 2 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Co-founded Roamware (now Mobileum), an enterprise software company that helped mobile carriers to grow revenue from their roaming subscribers via a suite of value-added services. Roamware became a leader in the space with top carrier customers in all major countries. It was acquired by PE firm Audax and continues to grow with a larger suite of services with a new brand name.

SaaSStart-upsEntrepreneurshipBusiness Development