Enablers

Enablers

Enablers was launched in 2015 as the startup-advisory vertical of ValPro, the Indian investment-banking and financial-advisory firm whose directors — Neha Khanna, Anshuman Khanna, Chaitanya Gadia and Rianty Dewi Astuti — bring combined experience from Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, JM Financial, Oxford’s Saïd Business School and the Big Four accounting networks. The firm operates from a single office in New Delhi’s Neeti Bagh and draws its identity from ValPro’s balance-sheet-advisory and compliance DNA, which it repurposes into investor-readiness services: financial modelling, due-diligence preparation, MIS structuring and tax and accounting support that sit alongside pure fundraising execution. The firm is sector-agnostic and works across equity fundraising, debt advisory, M&A and secondary stake sales for companies raising Seed through Series C rounds. Enablers does not operate a fund-of-funds or take principal positions; its stock-in-trade is a managed distribution list that spans venture funds, corporate venture arms, family offices and high-net-worth individuals across India and select global pools of capital, including Singapore and Indonesia. The firm’s dense transaction roster — publicly loggable over nearly a decade — includes Otipy’s $10.2 million Series A led by SIG (per Economic Times, July 2021), Leverage Edu’s $6.5 million Series A led by Tomorrow Capital (per YourStory, February 2021), AdOnMo’s $25 million Series B from Rigel Capital and Sinar Mas (per DealStreetAsia, September 2024), Shipskart’s $2.7 million round from Trail Mix Ventures and Hermes Offshore (per Business Standard, March 2022), and Glamyo’s HNI-led bridge. Its network draws repeat participation from Blume Ventures, WaterBridge Ventures, growX ventures and Cornerstone Venture Partners — firms that have closed multiple mandates through the platform. The platform does not publicly disclose total capital raised or assets under advisory, and its professional headcount remains private, though the leadership page lists four directors with operational histories at EY, KPMG, PwC and JM Financial. September 2024: Enablers acted as the exclusive advisor on AdOnMo’s $25 million round, the cloud-connected digital-out-of-home company’s largest raise to date (per the firm, September 2024). The firm’s services also extend into debt through an associate-partner relationship with a lending platform and secondary-stake sales — it advised Roadzen’s secondary share sale to undisclosed investors, tapping the same HNI and family-office channels that anchor its primary-placement business. What sets Enablers apart is not a proprietary thesis but a two-track architecture: it runs a relationship-heavy investment bank (ValPro) alongside a high-volume origination platform (Enablers), giving the startup arm non-predatory access to the institutional and family-office counterparties that the parent covers for M&A and compliance mandates. That structure turns deal flow into two-way overhead — startups get vetted introductions to capital, and investors get pre-scrubbed exposure to early-stage names — which explains why Cornerstone Venture Partners’ Abhishek Prasad publicly graded the diligence process as on par with any leading global investment bank.