India VC: Fireside Ventures is funding non-technology consumer businesses

India VC: Fireside Ventures is funding non-technology consumer businesses

Fireside Ventures founder Kanwaljit Singh. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint

At 53, Kanwaljit Singh is starting a new venture capital firm for the second time in a decade. This time around, though, he’s a little bit more excited than the last time. Fireside Ventures, his firm, currently on the road to raise a Rs300-crore (about $45 million) maiden fund, takes him back to his roots—consumer businesses of the non-technology variety.

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