About

Zemuria is a community-centric, tech-enabled Venture Studio. We started with e-Commerce, and realizing that our merchant communities needed a better reach to market, we have now added Blog & News Media. Our communities then encouraged us to do an Education product to better prepare them to explore productive, meaningful life journeys. Together, with community engagement, we continue to ideate on emerging opportunities.

Our diverse talent pool of product-owner/CEO’s, comes from San Francisco Bay Area, New York city and, supported too, from our operations headquarters in Pondicherry - a city rich with French legacy layered on likely the oldest lived Indian civilization, on the shores of the Bay of Bengal, we whimsically refer to as Pondy by the Bay.

As a Venture Studio, we have the flexibility to weed or nourish from a portfolio of ventures based on traction and market realities, instead of prolonging hubris by blinkered founders, and can thus iterate good ideas faster. A key differentiator of our culture is that we actively co-create with our founder talent, collaborate with them during their near-inevitable course corrections, and coach them even through their pivots and occasional rebirths.

We invest in ventures that can generate sustainable positive cash flows, targeting initially the geo-economics of the rapidly rising global South, and expanding thence to the global economy. Our focused thesis, with early community engagement, helps us make well targeted decisions with our capital.

We provide two tangible infusions into our co-created ventures, typically starting at early, ideation stage :

• Infusion of up to $100K Capital for Equity or as interest-free Debt
• Core operating platform support costs.

We are also open to absorbing languishing startups for their IP, brand, and contributing team, giving them a fresh lease on life.

As any of our ventures gets meaningful traction and impact, we guide them to a funding round by external venture capital. We then set up the entire team as an independent operating entity, consolidating its operating functions, while retaining a meaningful say on its board.