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Founder & CEO at Better Capital. Baby steps at DF (DomkundwarFoundation). 3X Founder. Berkeley Engineering.

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Vaibhav Domkundwar is the Founder & CEO of Better Capital, the most active and influential pre-seed fund focused on the India opportunity. With 200+ startups, multiple unicorns, and 20+ soonicorns, Better Capital has backed India’s most ambitious founders across fintech, software, AI, climate, agri, health, and more — often as the very first believer.

Its portfolio includes award-winning, globally recognized companies that are defining new categories and transforming core industries. Beyond capital, Vaibhav is known for his deep founder partnership model, a hands-on, high-trust approach that has built Better into a magnet for India's top talent and breakout ideas.

A 3X entrepreneur, Vaibhav previously built and scaled Roamware (enterprise software) and Better Labs (startup studio), giving him firsthand insight into company-building from zero to scale.

He is a trusted voice in India’s innovation ecosystem, frequently featured in CNBC, Forbes, Economic Times, and more. In 2021, he was awarded the Inclusive India Award by IVCA for his work with inclusive entrepreneurship.

Vaibhav holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and COEP, and splits his time between Silicon Valley and India, bridging two of the most powerful startup ecosystems in the world.

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    Founder & CEO

    Better Capital

    - Present 7 years 11 months

    San Francisco Bay Area

    Better Capital is the first US-based pre-seed fund purpose-built to back India's breakout founders — with conviction, at scale.
    → $100M AUM
    → 200+ companies | 2 unicorns | 15+ soonicorns
    → $250K–$500K median check size
    → Solo GP-led | 3X founder | 25+ years in global B2B

    Backing India’s boldest across:
    → Fintech: M2P, Slice
    → Software: Toddle, Open
    → AI: DPDZero, Merlin
    → Consumer: Crafto, Eloelo, Stage
    → Climate: Varaha, SolarSquare
    → Agri: Vegrow, Eeki…

    Better Capital is the first US-based pre-seed fund purpose-built to back India's breakout founders — with conviction, at scale.
    → $100M AUM
    → 200+ companies | 2 unicorns | 15+ soonicorns
    → $250K–$500K median check size
    → Solo GP-led | 3X founder | 25+ years in global B2B

    Backing India’s boldest across:
    → Fintech: M2P, Slice
    → Software: Toddle, Open
    → AI: DPDZero, Merlin
    → Consumer: Crafto, Eloelo, Stage
    → Climate: Varaha, SolarSquare
    → Agri: Vegrow, Eeki, BiofuelCircle
    → Gaming: Probo, Stan
    → Education: Nxtwave, Teachmint
    → Crypto: Mudrex, LogX
    → Manufacturing: Mekr, Cradlewise
    → Healthcare: Even, Inito
    → Commerce: Vaaree, Swish, Slikk
    ...and many more.

    Inside Better
    → Why top founders choose Better: https://www.bettercapital.vc/founders/
    → Our full list of holdings is here: https://www.bettercapital.vc/portfolio/
    → Visualise our journey via our annual letters here: https://www.bettercapital.vc/stories/

    Important points to put all of the above in perspective:
    → We owe a lot to global LPs who trusted our very contrarian vision.
    → We owe our success to our founders & their teams entirely.
    → We owe our failures to our decision making & learn from it.
    → We prioritised working with "good people" and will never change that.
    → We hope our portcos' impact will be even greater than their market caps.
    → We will do even more contrarian things in the years to come.
    → We, because there is no such thing as a Solo GP. We have a lot of supporters.

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    Investor & Board Member

    Teachmint

    - Present 5 years 7 months

  • M2P Fintech Graphic

    Seed Investor

    M2P Fintech

    - Present 5 years 9 months

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    Seed Investor

    slice

    - Present 6 years 2 months

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    Seed Investor

    Open Financial Technologies

    - Present 7 years 9 months

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    Seed Investor

    NxtWave

    - Present 4 years 1 month

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    Founding Investor

    SuperAGI

    - Present 4 years

  • Merlin AI by Foyer Graphic

    Founding Investor

    Merlin AI by Foyer

    - Present 3 years 6 months

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    Founding Investor

    Kutumb

    - Present 5 years 2 months

  • Eloelo Graphic

    Seed Investor

    Eloelo

    - Present 4 years 5 months

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    Founding Investor

    Xhipment

    - Present 3 years 3 months

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    Seed Investor

    Varaha

    - Present 3 years 4 months

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    Seed Investor

    eeki

    - Present 3 years 10 months

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    Seed Investor

    SolarSquare Energy

    - Present 4 years 3 months

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    Founding Investor

    Kolo

    - Present 4 years 5 months

  • Toddle - Your Teaching Partner Graphic

    Seed Investor

    Toddle - Your Teaching Partner

    - Present 6 years 1 month

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    Seed Investor

    Jai Kisan

    - Present 6 years 2 months

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    Seed Investor

    Yulu

    - Present 7 years 7 months

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    Founding Investor

    Mudrex

    - Present 6 years 8 months

  • Founder & CEO

    Better Labs

    - 14 years 9 months

    San Francisco Bay Area

    Founded Better Labs, a bootstrapped startup studio where we built a repeatable process to turn ideas into profitable businesses. Our products were covered by the likes of Wall Street Journal & TechCrunch. We have had 100s of global customers (F500 to SMBs) and happy buyers who continued to be our customers across multiple companies they worked at over a decade. Our products have received rave reviews from users across 50+ countries. We also learnt a lot from our many failed products over the…

    Founded Better Labs, a bootstrapped startup studio where we built a repeatable process to turn ideas into profitable businesses. Our products were covered by the likes of Wall Street Journal & TechCrunch. We have had 100s of global customers (F500 to SMBs) and happy buyers who continued to be our customers across multiple companies they worked at over a decade. Our products have received rave reviews from users across 50+ countries. We also learnt a lot from our many failed products over the years - it helped us strengthen our company building DNA which laid the foundation for our evolution to Better Capital, an award winning founding stage venture firm.

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    Co-Founder & Head of Marketing

    Mobileum

    - 2 years 11 months

    San Francisco Bay Area

    Co-founded Roamware (now Mobileum), an enterprise software company that helped mobile carriers to grow revenue from their roaming subscribers via a suite of value-added services. Roamware became a leader in the space with top carrier customers in all major countries. It was acquired by PE firm Audax and continues to grow with a larger suite of services with a new brand name.

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