Chennai, January 31, 2017: The Chennai Angels (TCA) today announced an investment of Rs 3 Crores in Netree E-services Private Limited, engaged in creating a retailer oriented networking platform that helps the retail industry stake holders to interconnect directly with the small and medium retailers.
“We feel the understanding of the retail market, quality of solution, initial marquee customer adoption, potential scale of the market and hunger of the entrepreneur makes Netree a strong candidate for investment.” said Mr. Gowri Shankar Subramaniam,CEO at Aspire Systems and lead investor.
Small and medium retailers either use very little technology or are not using any. They are fragmented too that there are no large organisations that provides solutions that helps them improve their productivity. Netree creates a retailers networking platform that enables them to take full control of their business along with digital payments, whilst engaging with their customers and suppliers seamlessly. Our ecosystem helps manufacturers, distributors, banks and other stake holders of the retail industry to get engaged with the last-mile retailers in real-time” said Mr. Desi Valli, founder & CEO of Netree. He added that he is happy to have The Chennai Angels and Lets Venture as its investors and funds will be used for technology enhancement, business development and expansion.
S. Mohammed Shadaan, Partner and Dheeraj Mani, Senior Associate of Kochhar & Co. were the legal partners providing legal advice and end to end support involving preparation, negotiation and finalization of transaction documents including the share subscription and shareholders agreement and assistance with execution and closing of the transaction.
About Netree
Netree E-services Pvt Ltd, is one of its kind most disruptive and fastest growing Internet technology company in India that works to revolutionize the retail industry. Netree builds a retailers-oriented networking platform that makes the retail industry stake holders like principals, manufacturers, brands and distributors to connect with the retailers, including small and medium retailers, in real-time thus helping everyone to exchange information relevant to each other, leading to better engagement and productivity.
About The Chennai Angels
The Chennai Angels (TCA, www.thechennaiangels.com) is one of India’s most active angel investing groups. Founded in the year 2007, it is comprised of successful entrepreneurs and business leaders with a track record of starting and scaling large enterprises. Additionally, several seed and venture capital firms hold institutional membership in the group. TCA portfolio companies b