{"id":849583,"date":"2026-09-16T08:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T08:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/849583\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T08:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T08:48:09","slug":"indian-startups-need-more-patient-capital-beyond-vc-cycles-rainmatters-dinesh-pai-explains-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/849583\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian startups need more patient capital beyond VC cycles. Rainmatter\u2019s Dinesh Pai explains why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rainmatter model<\/p>\n<p>Rainmatter Capital, the venture investing arm of brokerage platform Zerodha, has deployed about  \u20b91,700 crore across 180 startups over the last decade. It invests jointly, both out of its new  \u20b91,000 crore alternative investment fund (AIF) called Rainmatter Capital Fund, which has a lifecycle of 17 years with a 2-year extension, and the Zerodha balance sheet, like how many corporate venture funds operate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rainmatter model Rainmatter Capital, the venture investing arm of brokerage platform Zerodha, has deployed about \u20b91,700 crore across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[28,1687,359201,359199,169871,19958,359202,158,359198,74201,682,2551,218203,359200,26785,1166,164,136144],"class_list":["post-849583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-business","tag-climate","tag-dinesh-pai","tag-early-stages","tag-early-stage-startups","tag-energy-transition","tag-entrepreneurial-capital","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-evergreen-funds","tag-family-offices","tag-health-wellness","tag-indian-startups","tag-patient-capital","tag-rainmatter-capital","tag-startup-funding","tag-startups","tag-venture-capital","tag-zerodha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}