Unilazer Ventures

Ronnie Screwvala serves as the sole investment decision-maker as Founder and Managing Director. He sources, evaluates, and approves all direct equity commitments, drawing on his experience building UTV Group into a diversified media company before selling it to Disney in 2012. A small Mumbai-based team supports due diligence and portfolio monitoring, but the firm does not maintain formal investment committees or external advisors.

Unilazer Ventures was capitalized with proceeds from The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of UTV Group, the media conglomerate co-founded by Ronnie Screwvala. Disney purchased its initial stake in UTV in 2008 and completed a full buyout by 2012, providing the liquidity that enabled Screwvala to establish Unilazer as his dedicated technology investment vehicle the following year.

upGrad, the online higher-education platform co-founded by Ronnie Screwvala in 2015, operates as Unilazer's largest and most operationally integrated portfolio holding. Screwvala serves as executive chairman and participates in its fundraising rounds as both a founder-operator and an investor through Unilazer. The company received a $210 million investment led by ETS Global in November 2023, confirming Unilazer's continued long-term commitment to the business.

Unilazer exclusively executes direct equity investments. The firm does not commit capital to third-party venture funds, fund-of-funds structures, or external private equity vehicles. All deployment activity involves direct ownership stakes in individual Indian technology companies.

The firm concentrates on Series B through late-stage venture rounds, with check sizes generally ranging from $2 million to $15 million. Unilazer occasionally enters at Series A for companies where Screwvala provides operational guidance akin to venture-building, but early-stage seed investments fall outside its primary mandate.