Ohm Mobility raises INR 3 crore pre-seed funding led by Antler India
EV Financing platform Ohm Mobility announced that it has raised INR 3 crore in pre-seed funding led by Antler India. The round also saw participation from Blume Founders Fund and other prominent angels such as Sagar Gubbi (Ecoforge), Anshuman Bapna (Terra.do), Mathew Chako (Spice Route Legal), and Karishma Menon. The funds will be used to build and scale a technology platform in the EV Financing sector that aims to connect EV players with a host of financial institutions. Ohm is also backed by Catalyst Fund – a FinTech and Climate Finance accelerator and angel investors like Kunal Shah.
Founded in 2020, Ohm’s client portfolio currently includes companies such as Race Energy (battery tech), Eveez (EV Fleet), Hala Mobility (E-MaaS platform), etc. Its financing products include Business Loans, Asset-backed loans and EV leasing.
About Ohm’s platform – Ohm is enabling access to institutional capital for EV players in India while enabling lenders to discover, verify and deploy capital to EV companies. The technology platform, which went live this April 2023, is built to onboard any business in the EV market that is looking to raise capital from financial institutions. This could be OEMs, fleet operators, logistics providers, battery companies or any other EV company. While on the other side, financing institutions (banks, NBFCs, leasing companies, etc) can discover, verify and disburse capital to EV companies/operators. Ohm’s risk management tool gathers and assesses a host of data, including the health of the fleet and various other inputs to improve credit and risk management for lenders. Within its first two months of going live, over INR 5 Cr (USD 6,25,000) of financing has been facilitated via Ohm’s platform, said the company.
The company statement also added that the current EV Financing market in India is estimated to be roughly $2 billion and is expected to grow to $50B a year by 2030. Data from the Electric Mobility Financiers Association of India shows that in the last year, the number of EV finance players has only grown from 4 to 13.
Talking about the fundraise, Nikhil Nair, Founder & CEO, said, “We are thrilled to receive support from one of the best early-stage investors in India. We are confident we have a scalable business model that is solving a core problem around financing for EV businesses. The backing from Antler and Blume Founder Fund is a great testament to our mission and what we are aiming to do at Ohm. The EV industry is growing and evolving very quickly, and access to appropriate capital continues to be a barrier in this sector. We truly believe there is a need for a technology platform to play a role in democratising Financing for EVs in India. We aim to facilitate debt and leasing options to both new entrants as well existing businesses that are switching to clean mobility. At Ohm, our aim is to become a one-stop shop for all EV financing needs and be an important catalyst in driving India’s clean mobility transition.”
Globally, Antler has already backed multiple EV startups, and the funding in Ohm marks its entry into the EV sector in India. Talking about the investment, Vineet Agarwal, Investments Director at Antler, said, “As EV penetration in India goes from 3% to 50% in certain categories by 2030, financing will play a crucial role in enabling this. Ohm’s approach of a tech-enabled, asset-light, end-to-end lending marketplace to enable EV buyers (starting with fleet operators, driver-cum-owner or DCOs) to digitally finance their fleets is strongly differentiated. There is currently no other marketplace model of this kind in India and we are thrilled to back Nikhil and the Ohm team in their journey.”
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