Lumis Partners

Lumis is an Alternative Asset Platform that partners with seasoned entrepreneurs to build funds focused on themes with opportunities of a global scale. Leading with the build-buy-invest philosophy, Lumis joins hands with exceptional entrepreneurs and fund managers to build category-shaping businesses & funds in select pre-sunrise segments and solves problems of global relevance. Over the last 15 years, Lumis has been leveraging its immense domain depth & deep expertise in supply-chain, human capital, technology and healthcare to solve problems at scale, such as – Ageing, Future of Work, SME commerce, Digital Skilling, etc. We, at Lumis, employ the power of the balance sheet capital to create the initial torque. This is further multiplied by tailored capital structures leveraging LP capital and existing co-investors, to consistently deliver superior returns. Years of experience has assisted us in building expertise in supply-chain, human capital, healthcare and technology which has been effectively deployed to create businesses and funds focused across different industry verticals. We have perfected the methodology of leveraging India as a crucible, enabling frugal innovation and taking businesses global thereafter. Lumis takes many paths to value, building businesses for long-term value creation; anchoring funds, making equity investments across path-breaking companies; and offering debt structures for risk calibrated returns and consistent cash flows. The power of the firm gets exponentially deployed through deep assets we own – for instance, Supply-chain Labs, a fellowship program in collaboration with leading Corporates & MIT touches over 1000 supply-chain startups, and over 100,000 SMEs every year; it selects 1% in a tight cohort every year, and then collaborates with them over a 6-month program to get them scale ready. In doing so, we make equity investments in these companies.