Investor Faq's

Investors FAQ

What is Indian Funding?

Indian Funding, www.indianfunding.com, is a place where entrepreneurs looking for funding can find potential investors. It’s also a place where investors get to explore business ideas in areas they are interested in for investment.

What is the USP of Indian Funding?

The aim of Indian Funding is to enable entrepreneurs to have easier access to funding than the methods that are prevalent today. While banks advertise a lot of support for micro, small and medium enterprises, they require collaterals from the companies. Venture capital firms typically do not look at small funding needs. India has a lot of angel investors, as well as groups of investors, looking for great business ideas to fund. India also has a lot of entrepreneurship potential, which is not being exploited due to want of funds.

Indian Funding has created a unique online platform to bring the entrepreneurs and investors on the same page. The idea is to tap into more ideas, more people, and more investments, which the Internet can help achieve. Indian Funding’s parent company, Mash Audio Visuals Pvt. Ltd., has demonstrated expertise in running Internet-enabled collaboration platforms as these. With this expertise, Indian Funding is bridging the gap that exists currently for entrepreneurs to access funds to jumpstart their businesses.

Who are the entrepreneurs at Indian Funding?

The entrepreneurs could be startups or existing (small to medium size) business owners. They could be engaged in businesses in any domain, any city or town of India. They are looking for funding to help them take their business idea off the ground, or investments to scale up their existing business. Their investment needs are quite minuscule compared to the funds that venture capital firms have in their pool to invest.

You will find the entrepreneurs here to be quite passionate and skilled at what they do or dream of, but not many would really understand how to handle the finance aspect of it. So investors will have to help them through this aspect as well.

Do you do a background check of the entrepreneurs?

No, Indian Funding does not conduct any due diligence or background checks of the entrepreneurs registered at the site. However, we whet all the business proposals submitted to ensure that they are not junk, or contain objectionable material.

How does this service work?

You can first register as an investor, and choose your preferences. Once your account gets approved, you can search or browse business proposals as per your interest. If a proposal interests you, you can get in touch with the entrepreneur or request the entrepreneur to get in touch with you through the preferred mode of communication.

How much does it cost?

Indian Funding is completely free to investors. There are no hidden or additional charges of any sort.

Will there be any other charges?

No, there are no other charges. Indian Funding will be launching Premium Services for Entrepreneurs, for which the charges will be announced at the time of the launch.

Is there a maximum/minimum limit for funding?

No. We have entrepreneurs looking for as little as a lakh of rupees to over multiple crores.

How is my privacy protected?

Indian Funding uses a secure environment to store all your information. Only the information that you allow others to see will be made visible. The site does not give away your information to any third party agency. Your information is kept confidential and private.

How much can I expect to make as a return on my Indian Funding investment?

This really depends on the type of business you invest in and how much you invest. This is also dependent upon what the industry trends are like.

How do I judge if an entrepreneur is bogus or not?

Start with a clear idea of your expectation from your investments. What kind of domains are you willing to invest in? How much money do you intend to invest? What kind of returns are you looking at? What are your work ethics? Do you expect the business you want to invest in to have the same set of values?

Look at business proposals very carefully. Is the idea really as good as the entrepreneur is making it sound? Or conversely, is the potential much bigger than what the entrepreneur is presenting? How clearly has the value proposition been presented? Is it just a play of words, or is there some solid offering in place?

You can also conduct background checks of the entrepreneurs. You can ask for references and speak to them.

These are just some ideas to help you zero in on entrepreneurs with the real potential. You will also have to use your contact and information network to help you arrive at your decision.

I have other questions. Whom do I contact?