Recently, Infosys cofounder Kris Gopalakrishnan urged India’s wealthy to look at startups as a serious investment opportunity and not just a trend. “We need to flow the money of high net worth individuals (HNIs) into startups,” he had said.
Notably, the new generation of wealthy and high net-worth individuals (HNIs) have been focussing on wealth management and investments through family offices. Globally, as per a Crunchbase research of 2018, 193 family offices made over 1700 venture deals.