Nadathur was established by N.S. Raghavan, Founder and Former Joint Managing Director of Infosys. NSR, as he is known, retired from Infosys in 2000 to promote his vision of entrepreneurship. Along with a few associates, he started Nadathur Holdings & Investments with the aim of nurturing knowledge based and innovation driven ventures that either target the Indian market or leverage Indian resources to target the global market. Today, Nadathur supports a portfolio of over seventeen companies across industries such as Life Sciences, Information Technology, and Engineering Services.

Our Vision

To foster scientific & business innovation by promoting entrepreneurial efforts that leverage India.

Our Philosophy

Nadathur believes that people make all the difference in entrepreneurship based value creation. We back people who are driven by passion and a desire to excel. The rest, we are convinced, will automatically follow.

Fostering Scientific & Business Innovation  

We support innovation at multiple levels. First, we have been and continue to be one of the few angel investors in India and uniquely the only one that funds high-risk, long gestation R&D ventures. For instance, we have funded Metahelix, one of the few agri-biotech companies in India developing GM crop varieties that are drought and pest tolerant. We also have funded Connexios, a pure play early stage drug discovery firm that leverages network biology, computation, structural chemistry, technology and Traditional Indian Systems of medicine to discover Novel Chemical Entities (NCE). We believe that the role of an angel is critical to inspire and foster innovation with commercial opportunities.

Second, India’s strengths include R&D capabilities in a wide range of areas both in terms of talent as well as infrastructure. We believe that partnering with Research Institutes as well as individual scientists will both enable innovation and its commercial development. These partnerships would range from funding R&D programs to collaborative development to project specific alliances.

Third, we have leveraged the Infosys experience of NSR to identify ventures based on business innovation early on. For instance, CADES, a high-end aerospace design & engineering services firm was funded by Nadathur in 2001, when very few players had identified this area as a growth path. Today we are one of the leading players in this space. Nadathur has funded REACH Technologies, a leading IT solutions company with focus on the global apparel, home furnishings and leather industries, and Indegene Lifesystems, which is India's first and currently largest pharmaceutical marketing services firm.

Leveraging India

We believe that the India advantage is driven but not limited by cost arbitrage or availability of a vast talent pool. There are many more ways of leveraging the India advantage.

India is a key high growth market and we have made investments in ventures that tap into this market. For instance, Co-Options Technologies builds state-of-the-art products and offers end-to-end services in the banking and financial services area with focus on cooperative banking and allied rural sectors. Similarly, Medi Assist is a licensed Third Party Administrator (TPA) that enables delivery of quality health care services in India, one of the fastest growing markets in Healthcare.

Our investments also include companies that leverage India strengths in providing specialized high value services to global markets. For instance, REACH BPO specializes in pattern engineering for global apparel manufacturers, and Paladion Networks delivers a complete suite of security related services to large financial institutions around the world. Similarly, Megatech Controls is one of the largest Control Technology companies in India offering total solutions for critical production and process applications to a variety of industries and infrastructure organizations worldwide.