WOI India has acquired SwiftSeed Ventures, an early-stage investment and startup ecosystem platform, and appointed its founder Amar Dixit as Chief Executive Officer. SwiftSeed will continue to operate as an entity under WOI India, bringing its investor, founder and institutional network into WOI’s India platform.
Over the past few years, SwiftSeed has built a network of 500+ investors and 10,000+ founders, operators and ecosystem participants, along with around a dozen startup investments. The platform has also formed partnerships and MoUs with institutions including IIT Delhi, IIM Lucknow and IIM Udaipur, and worked with corporate and innovation ecosystems including Maruti Suzuki Innovation and Google’s innovation ecosystem.
Dixit has been part of the IIT Delhi entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem for several years. He has been on the core team of IIT Delhi Angels and previously headed eDC IIT Delhi, working with founders and supporting ventures from the institution. He also sits on the boards of several growth-stage ventures and advises startups and businesses on strategy, growth, partnerships and ecosystem development.
His move to WOI India follows several years of work in early-stage investing, entrepreneurship and ecosystem building. In his new role, he will lead the development of WOI India’s platform and its work with founders, investors, institutions, corporates and global ecosystem partners
Amar Dixit – Chief Executive Officer – WOI India, said, “I have had the opportunity to experience entrepreneurship from different sides as a builder, while working with founders, and while working with investors and institutions. Each experience showed me that founders don’t just need capital. They need the ecosystem around the capital.”
WOI India is building its platform across six areas — Education, Venture Studios, Community, Centres of Excellence, Infrastructure and Capital. Its Vision 2030 targets include training 1 crore entrepreneurs, building 100 venture studios to support 10,000+ startups, setting up eight Centres of Excellence, developing 30 Startup Parks, 1,000 Startup Cafés and 10 Innovation Cities, and mobilising ₹10,000 crore+ in entrepreneurial capital.
With the acquisition, SwiftSeed’s early-stage investment platform and founder-investor community will continue under WOI India. Its existing relationships with founders, investors and institutions will become part of WOI India’s wider ecosystem work.
Amar Dixit – Chief Executive Officer – WOI India, said, “Some of the biggest opportunities are in the gaps between companies, capital, institutions and markets. That is where I want to spend the next chapter of my career.”
