The Otherwise Ventures
Otherwise.
Most support for founders is built for one kind of founder. The one with the slick deck, the right pedigree, the company already in motion. We work with the other kind. The founder solving a problem the market hasn't priced in yet. The founder in a city that isn't on the map. The founder whose company will take five years to look obvious. We work with twelve of them a year, in two cohorts of six, six months at a time, side-by-side. We call this otherwise.
What we do.
Three pillars. Two engagements. Twelve months.
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Capital & narrative.
The story you tell investors, and the round that follows it. We co-own the deck, the data room, and the conversation that closes the cheque.
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02
Operating cadence.
The weekly and quarterly rhythms that compound into growth. We are in the room with you every week, for a year.
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03
Reach.
Introductions, distribution, and the unfair edge of who you know in a region where who you know decides what gets built.
Selected ventures.
Cohort 01 · 2026 · Applications open.
A Northeast-rooted personal care brand building a national distribution motion out of Assam.
Applications are open for cohort 01. If you are at an inflection point, write to us — this slot could be yours.
Applications are open for cohort 01. If you are at an inflection point, write to us — this slot could be yours.
Applications are open for cohort 01. If you are at an inflection point, write to us — this slot could be yours.
Applications are open for cohort 01. If you are at an inflection point, write to us — this slot could be yours.
Applications are open for cohort 01. If you are at an inflection point, write to us — this slot could be yours.
Who's on the other side of the table.
Four partners. Three cities. One roster.
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Co-founder · Technology & Strategy
Jeremy Fritzhand
Jeremy is the CEO of the VentureStudio at Ahmedabad University and the builder behind PeaceRise, Studio Bagru, and a stack of platform infrastructure across the Indian innovation system. He has spent the last decade designing the operating systems other people's accelerators use. At TOV he owns capital strategy, narrative, and the technology choices that make a small firm punch above its size.
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Co-founder
Radhika Mīa
Radhika is the connective tissue between Northeast entrepreneurs and the institutional stakeholders most ventures only meet by accident. She moves between state government, central ministries, multilaterals, and the founder's desk with the same posture — practical, quietly insistent, allergic to theatre. At TOV she owns regional strategy and any room where the right introduction unlocks a year of work.
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Co-founder
Sancheet Pasari
Sancheet is a Chartered Accountant who has spent his career inside the financial machinery of Northeast businesses — family firms, first-generation founders, ventures going through their first institutional round. He advises TOV's portfolio on structuring, compliance, and the unglamorous mechanics of capital that decide whether a term sheet becomes a wire transfer. The partner who reads the schedule of the SHA before the headline number.
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Co-founder
Hasan Al Mehdi
Hasan is the founder of Fuloni and a deep operator inside the Northeast India startup ecosystem. He was incubated at IIT Guwahati and Startup Assam and has spent the better part of a decade building, hiring, and selling in a market most decks fly over. He runs the operating cadence of every TOV engagement and is the partner founders speak to when something needs to ship this week, not next quarter.
A note to founders
At an inflection point?
Twelve ventures join us in 2026, in two cohorts of six. Applications are open.