SIDBI Fund of Funds for Startups (FFS)
Funds India's startup ecosystem indirectly by committing government-backed capital to qualified fund managers in a mother fund structure.
SIDBI's Fund of Funds for Startups (FFS) is a government-backed mother-fund established by the Small Industries Development Bank of India under the Government of India's Startup India initiative. SIDBI, incorporated by an Act of Parliament in 1990 and regulated by the Reserve Bank of India as one of five All India Financial Institutions, deploys the FFS corpus as LP capital commitments into SEBI-r…
A government-backed INR 10,000-crore mother-fund that makes LP commitments into SEBI-registered AIFs investing in Indian startups, providing indirect equity capital to the startup ecosystem.
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