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GREEN MARBLE VENTURE CAPITAL FUND

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Category AIF Category II
Company Green Marble Ventures
Fund Managers Ruchira Shukla
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About Company

Green Marble Ventures

Green Marble Ventures (operating under its registered SEBI trust frameworks) is a premier technology-focused alternative asset manager dedicated to advancing climate sustainability and industrial innovation across India and the broader South Asian landscape. Founded by institutional private equity pioneers and corporate venture specialists, the firm fills the early-stage capitalization gap for deep-tech, material science, and clean-tech engineering. Green Marble Ventures blends rigorous scientific screening with international investment standards, managing selective portfolios that connect institutional private capital to structural, low-carbon industrial transformations.

Fund Snapshot

Attribute Details
Regulatory Status Registered with SEBI as a Category II AIF
SEBI Registration No. IN/AIF2/25-26/2071
Fund Structure Closed-ended Alternative Investment Fund (AIF)
Core Investment Thesis Science and Engineering-Led Climate Tech Innovations
Geographic Mandate India-centric with pan-Asian scaling pathways
Target Stages Early Stage (Pre-seed, Seed, and Series A rounds)

Fund Purpose

The Green Marble Venture Capital Fund is an institutional Category II Alternative Investment Fund specifically designed to provide foundational equity and strategic operational corridors to early-stage companies building engineering and science-led innovations for climate mitigation, resilience, and adaptation. By applying a rigorous first-principles approach, the fund targets industrial and technology sectors requiring deep structural transformation, including energy transition, sustainable manufacturing, materials, agriculture, and cross-border clean technologies. The fund operates as a key commercialization catalyst, helping technical founders scale breakthrough intellectual property into globally defensible enterprise market leaders.

Fund Philosophy

1. Hard Science and Engineering Rigor

We intentionally focus on hardware and deep-tech platforms derived from specialized scientific engineering. The fund prioritizes breakthroughs across material science, mechanical development, and chemical engineering that offer measurable decarbonization solutions that cannot be easily replicated by soft-tech competitors.

2. Customer-Centric Use Case Validation

We do not back abstract research projects or ungrounded science experiments. Every investment target must address a specific, pressing corporate or industrial operational challenge with a commercially viable, validation-ready use case that delivers immediate economic value to the end customer.

3. Unleashing Tier-II and Tier-III Innovation

We actively source proprietary deal pipelines outside of traditional tech ecosystems. The fund recognizes that substantial hardware, industrial asset optimizations, and manufacturing breakthroughs emerge directly from India’s industrial corridors and Tier-II or Tier-III engineering clusters.

4. Build Locally, Scale Globally

We utilize India's highly competitive R&D and advanced manufacturing cost structures to optimize our portfolio's initial product development phases. From day one, we underwrite businesses with an explicit cross-border design framework, preparing them to penetrate mature North American and European enterprise markets.

5. Multi-Disciplinary Operational Collaboration

Capital serves as our entry ticket to provide deep operator partnership. Our team integrates technical expertise across mechanical and material disciplines with long-term institutional finance networks, assisting early-stage teams with product engineering iterations, ESG impact mapping, and structured paths to growth financing.

Section: Fund Leadership
Meet the Fund Managers

Learn about the experienced fund managers responsible for investment decisions, portfolio strategy, and long-term fund performance.

Ruchira Shukla

Ruchira Shukla serves as the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Green Marble Ventures, where she directs the trust's investment allocation, sector mapping, and institutional risk management parameters. Bringing over 25 years of highly decorated global investment experience across private equity, venture capital, and investment banking, she previously spearheaded regional technology and venture capital divisions at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), alongside senior mandates at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Lehman Brothers. At the firm, her extensive background in cross-border underwriting anchors the fund's deal-execution and climate-tech thesis.

Section: Help & Support
Frequently Asked Questions

Find answers to common questions about fund investments, performance, portfolio strategy, and investor services.

What is the official SEBI regulatory status of the Green Marble Venture Capital Fund? +

The Green Marble Venture Capital Fund is officially registered with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) as a closed-ended Category II Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) under the regulatory registration reference code IN/AIF2/25-26/2071.

What primary sectoral niches fall under the investment scope of the Green Marble Venture Capital Fund? +

The Green Marble Venture Capital Fund systematically deploys capital into early-stage companies building deep engineering and science-led innovations for climate mitigation, energy transformation, sustainable materials, automated manufacturing, and agriculture.

Who is eligible to participate as a subscriber in the Green Marble Venture Capital Fund? +

The Green Marble Venture Capital Fund is open to sophisticated institutional market participants, prominent domestic corporate treasuries, Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), and high-net-worth family offices capable of fulfilling the SEBI-mandated minimum investment threshold of ₹1 Crore.

How are capital drawdowns managed over time for partners in the Green Marble Venture Capital Fund? +

The Green Marble Venture Capital Fund utilizes a capital-efficient progressive call structure, meaning committed capital is drawn down incrementally across a 3-to-4-year window to match real-time transaction execution rather than pulling the full pool upfront.

What is the structural lifespan and exit horizon for the Green Marble Venture Capital Fund? +

Operating under strict closed-ended private equity rules, the Green Marble Venture Capital Fund maintains a fixed institutional lifespan of 7 to 9 years, allowing ample runway for deep-tech and climate-focused physical assets to mature and exit via trade sales or listings.

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