Enterprise FinTech is becoming a major focus as India's financial services sector embraces technology-driven changes, with AI, cybersecurity, fraud detection, and regtech revolutionizing banking operations. The Managing Partner of Cedar Hill Capital, Sahil Anand, is placing a strong emphasis on this prospect, employing a strategy concentrated on industries to invest in emerging businesses catering to Indian and worldwide economies. In this conversation with ET Digital, Anand discusses Cedar Hill’s investment thesis, what it looks for in founders, the growing role of AI in enterprise FinTech, and why legacy banking infrastructure could offer a significant opportunity for the next generation of technology companies. Edited excerpts.
Economic Times (ET): SIDBI’s Startup India Fund of Funds 2.0 has committed 15–20% of your target corpus. What does this institutional backing mean beyond capital, and how do you expect it to influence your ability to attract more LPs and source high-quality startups?
