Stride Ventures

A venture debt / growth credit provider, offering debt solutions to venture-backed and scaling businesses. It is best for companies needing to bridge runway, manage inventory, or fund capex. Stride Ventures is one of India's larger venture-debt platforms, having surpassed $1 billion in cumulative venture-debt commitments across more than 150 portfolio companies, with its most recent domestic fund targeting a $300 million corpus. Its lending has gone to well-known growth-stage names such as BlueStone, Upstox, Moneyview and Ola Electric, giving a sense of the scale and stage of company it typically underwrites relative to the "venture-backed / scaling businesses" eligibility noted for this listing.