Springboard is a platform for startups for scale, capital, and IPO/M&A Readiness
FinTech BizNews Service
Mumbai, May 7, 2025: Prime Securities Limited, a leading financial institution, successfully concluded its flagship two-day event, ‘Springboard – A Prime Securities Initiative’, recently. Designed to bridge the gap between startups and strategic capital, the event provided a platform for 24 emerging companies to present their ideas to a curated audience of high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and institutional investors. Springboard is aimed at helping Indian startups scale, raise equity and debt capital, refine their business models, and form long-term partnerships. Unlike conventional showcases,
Prime Securities actively partners with these companies to prepare them for IPOs, consolidations, or strategic M&As— typically over a two to three-year period. Many of these relationships span as long as three to five years, or even up to seven to eight years. Over two days, the event featured presentations from companies across sectors such as fintech, robotics, clean energy, healthcare, snacking, dairy, semiconductors, aquaculture, and diagnostics. The participating companies included Bdel Wellness, BridgeUp, DavaNinja, Fantopark, Feast Software, FermionIC, Health Total, Hindustan Wellness, Jalpak, Legends League Cricket, LESOL, Lithion Power, NephroX, Re-Desyn, Sirena Robotics, Svasthyaa, Tiivra, Taali, TJs Brewworks, Usha Shriram, Venttura, VG Learning Destination, Xanadu Foods, Xpand, and Prime Trigen Wealth. Each of these businesses has received support from Prime Securities in the form of funding and guidance on key strategic business decisions.
The event also saw the launch of Prime Trigen Wealth, a new wealth management platform focused on ultra-HNIs and family offices. Showcased alongside the startups, Prime Trigen Wealth is led by industry veterans Sailesh Balachandran and Maneesh Kapoor. The platform aims to assist businesses and individuals in early stages and foster long-term partnerships, with a distinctive focus on “ROI” (return on intellectual property) and “RONW” (return on network).
“What we are seeing is the ability to use our investment banking skills to solve problems,” said N. Jayakumar, Managing Director and Group CEO of Prime Securities. Commenting on Prime’s approach, Jayakumar added, “Prime Securities doesn’t just raise equity capital—we work closely with our partner companies to get them M&A, consolidation, or IPO-ready. The long-term nature of these partnerships means our involvement often spans several years.” He also emphasized the importance of early preparation, including maintaining proper accounts, appointing a CFO, and building strong boards. He noted that the startups Prime supports are primarily funded by HNIs and family offices, who offer patient and flexible capital.
“They are not looking at down rounds and up rounds. They see things going up and down much the same way that life is,” he remarked. Akshay Gupta, Managing Director and CEO of Prime Research & Advisory, said, “At Prime Securities, the partnerships we build are not transactions—they’re a philosophy. Whether it’s an established client or a first-generation founder, we’ve worked together through both good times and challenging ones. With Springboard, we reaffirm our commitment to walking alongside the entrepreneurs building the businesses of tomorrow.” Two panel discussions added further depth to the event. The first, “Seed to Scale: A Masterclass in Brand Building”, moderated by Jayant Sinha, President of Eversource Capital, featured insights from C.K. Venkataraman, MD of Titan Company; Damodar Mall, CEO of Reliance Retail and author of SupermarketWala; Minal Vazirani, Co-Founder and President of Saffronart and Co-Founder of Art Mumbai; and Santosh Desai, Founder of Think 9 Consumer Technologies and author.
The second panel, “Next Gen Brands: Rewriting the Consumer Playbook”, was moderated by Shruti Mishra, Deputy Editor and Anchor at CNBC-TV18, and featured Aarti Kochhar Kaji, Co-Founder of Taali; Alpana Parida, Co-Founder and CEO of Tiivra and Board Director at Nykaa, Nestle, and Hindware; Amisha Vora, Chairperson and MD of PL Capital Group; Anjali Mukerjee, Founder Director of Health Total; and Pooja Sheth Madhavan, MD and Founder of Limelight Lab Grown Diamonds. The event concluded with a closing note by Jayakumar, who reiterated Prime Securities’ long-term commitment to supporting scalable ventures and providing capital, mentorship, and strategic guidance. Springboard marks a significant milestone in the Group’s broader vision to identify and empower the next generation of Indian entrepreneurs.
