Skip to main content

Deal Alert: Nexus Venture Partners invests in Unicommerce

Unicommerce raises funding from Nexus Venture Partners

Unicommerce, India’s leading provider of SaaS based order management and fulfillment platform today announced that it has received funding from Nexus Venture Partners, India’s leading Venture Capital firm. 

Unicommerce was founded in 2012 by 3 classmates from IIT Delhi -Ankit Pruthi, Karun Singla, Vibhu Garg. Their flagship product Uniware is an easy to deploy web based solution that manages the complete order fulfillment lifecycle. Companies can easily manage vendors, procurement, inventory, warehouse, shipments and returns. This enables enterprises and their customers to keep track on a real time basis of pending orders, order fulfillment and shipment status. The platform auto updates inventory and order status across the entire supply chain removing possibilities of stock outs.

Uniware is being used by e-commerce companies and retail businesses, as well vendors who supply to them -clients include Snapdeal.com, Jabong.com, ecommerce players in South East Asia and Canada. The platform manages over 1.5 million product shipments per month across50+ warehouses and 1000+ concurrent users globally.

Speaking about the funding, Mr Ankit Pruthi, Co-founder, Unicommerce.com, said, “We are thrilled to work with Nexus Venture Partners who have deep experience in helping buildmarket leading companies. The funding will help Unicommerce increase sales and marketing efforts and continue to build its product and infrastructure”.

Unicommerce platform is being adopted by small & medium enterprises and large companies as they are easier to deploy and use compared to conventional ERP platforms. Uniware customers have benefited from improvement in order fulfillment rates, reduced manual intervention and leakages in warehouse and delivery management, and unified view and analytics across the supply chain.

Mr Anup Gupta, Managing Director, Nexus Venture Partners, said, “Unicommerce is fulfilling a growing market need in India and overseas for simple, easy to deploy and use order, inventory management and fulfillment platform for online and offline businesses. We are excited about the opportunity and delighted to partner with the bright and nimble team at Unicommerce”.

About Unicommerce 

Unicommerce is India’s leading provider of SaaS based order management and fulfillment platform. The platform is relevant for retail / ecommerce players (B2C), their vendors / suppliers and distributors, third party logistics providers and incorporates multi-location and multi-warehouse operations.

Unicommerce flagship product Uniware is an easy to deploy web based solution to manage complete order fulfillment lifecycle and inventory. Companies can easily manage vendors, procurement, inventory, warehouse, drop-shipments and returns. This enables enterprises to keep track on a real time basis of pending orders, order fulfillment status, shipment status and returns. Within a year of launch, Unicommerce has witnessed rapid adoption across leading ecommerce companies in India like Snapdeal, Jabong,ecommerce players in South East Asia and Canada. Currently, Unicommerce manages shipments in50+ warehouses with 1000+ concurrent users.

Unicommerce was founded by three class mates from IIT Delhi -Ankit Pruthi, Karun Singla, Vibhu Garg. For more information, please visit www.unicommerce.com

About Nexus Venture Partners

Nexus Venture Partners (www.nexusvp.com) is India’s leading venture capital fund, with offices in India and Silicon Valley. Nexus team consists of entrepreneurs who have founded and scaled large global companies. The team has invested in a variety of companies leading to numerous successful public offerings and M&A transactions. It has over $600mn under management with an active portfolio of over 45 companies across Technology, Internet, Media, Consumer, and Business Services sectors. The Nexus team plays an active role in helping entrepreneurs and management teams build market leading businesses.

Nexus partner companies include Cloud.com (Cloud provisioning platform acquired by Citrix), Gluster (Open source cloud storage, acquired by Red Hat), Pubmatic (Publisher Ad revenue optimization), DimDim (Open Source Web Conferencing acquired by Salesforce.com), Snapdeal.com (Ecommerce), MapMyIndia (Digital Navigation), Netmagic (Managed Services and Cloud infrastructure provider, acquired by NTT), Komli (Online ad network), Prana (Animation services), Druva (computing End-point protection), Unmetric (Social media analytics for business applications), Shopclues(onlinemarketplace) and Talentsprint (vocational education). 

Venture Intelligence is the leading provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity, venture capital and M&A) & their Valuations in India. Click Here to view our products list including the Free Deal Digest Weekly: India's First & Most Exhaustive Transactions Newsletter.

Popular posts from this blog

PE-VC investments decline 8% to $6.2 B in Q1'24

Press Release: Private Equity - Venture Capital (PE-VC) firms invested over $6.2 Billion (across 205 deals) in Indian companies during the first three months of 2024, shows data from  Venture Intelligence , a research service focused on private company financials, transactions, and their valuations. (Note: These figures include Venture Capital type investments, but exclude PE investments in Real Estate). The investment amount represents a 8% fall over the $6.7 Billion (across 242 deals) invested in the same period during 2023 and also down by 6% when compared to the immediate previous quarter (which witnessed $6.6 Billion being invested across 200 deals). Deal volumes in Q1'24 also declined 15% compared to Q1'23 and were up by 3% compared to the immediate previous quarter.  Q1’24 witnessed 8 mega deals ($100 M+ rounds) worth $3.5 Billion, compared to 17 such investments (worth $3.6 Billion) in Q1’23 and 15 such deals (worth $4.1 Billion) in the immediate previous quarter.  Th

PE-VC investments in Q2'23 decline 33% to $9.9 Billion

Private Equity-Venture Capital (PE-VC) investments in India during the quarter ended June 2023 (Q2'23), at $9.85 Billion across 182 deals, registered a 33% decrease compared to the same period in 2022 (which saw $14.6 Billion being invested across 371 deals). The investment amount however rose 74% compared to the immediate previous quarter (which saw $5.7 Billion being invested across 181 deals), shows data from  Venture Intelligence , a research service focused on private company financials, transactions, and their valuations. The PE-VC investment figures for the first 6 months of 2023 - at $15.5 Billion (across 363 deals) - was 50% lower compared to the same period in 2022 (which saw $31 Billion being invested across 800 deals). Q2’23 witnessed 19 mega deals ($100 M+

Chiratae, Speciale and Stride Ventures win APEX'24 Venture Capital Awards

Chiratae Ventures, Speciale Invest and Stride Ventures were awarded as among the leading Venture Capital investors in India for 2023 as part of Venture Intelligence APEX‘24 Private Equity & Venture Capital awards event in Mumbai.  The Venture Intelligence “Awards for Private Equity Excellence” (APEX) is dedicated to celebrating the best that the Indian Private Equity & Venture Capital industry has to offer. The APEX Awardees are selected based on both Self Nomination by the participating PE-VC firms and "crowd sourced" voting from the Limited Partner, PE-VC and advisory communities. (The main criteria are Return Track Record, New Fund Raises & Follow-on Funding Rounds for Portfolio Companies) VC Investor of the Year Chiratae Ventures received the Venture Capital Investor of the Year 2023 Award on the back of 10 part exits totaling $178 million via Secondary Sales during the year. Its exits included those from retail unicorn Lenskart, SaaS Startup Pixis and baby pr

Blackstone, MO Alts and InvAscent win APEX'24 Private Equity Awards

Press Release Blackstone, MO Alternates (formerly Motilal Oswal PE) and InvAscent were awarded as among the leading Private Equity and Growth Capital investors in India for 2023 as part of Venture Intelligence APEX‘24 Private Equity & Venture Capital awards event in Mumbai.  The Venture Intelligence “Awards for Private Equity Excellence” (APEX) is dedicated to celebrating the best that the Indian Private Equity & Venture Capital industry has to offer. The APEX Awardees are selected based on both Self Nomination by the participating PE-VC firms and "crowd sourced" voting from the Limited Partner, PE-VC and advisory communities. (The main criteria are Return Track Record, New Fund Raises & Follow-on Funding Rounds for Portfolio Companies) PE Investor of the Year Blackstone received the Private Equity Investor of the Year 2023 Award on the back of strong complete exits during the year: from Sona Comstar and IBS Software. Ganesh Mani and Amit Dalmia, Senior Managing D

Avendus tops League Table for Transaction Advisors to PE deals in Q1'23

Aeka Advisors and Ambit claim the No.2 & 3 slot Avendus topped the Venture Intelligence League Table for Transaction Advisor to Private Equity Transactions for Q1 2023 advising 5 deals worth $808 million. Aeka Advisors stood second having advised 3 deals worth $228 million. Ambit followed with 4 deals worth $160 million. Ernst & Young ($114 million across 4 deals) and o3 Capital ($80 million across 2 deals) completed the top five for Q1 2023. Avendus acted as advisor to ADIA’s $500 million investment in omnichannel eyewear retailer Lenskart . Aeka Advisors acted as advisor to Kreditbee’s $160 million fundraise from Advent International, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) and existing investors. Ambit advised the $104 million fundraise of Freshtohome from Mount Judi Ventures, Iron Pillar, Amazon and others. The  Venture Intelligence League Tables , the first such initiative exclusively tracking transactions involving India-based companies, are based on the value of PE