Stride

The Only Way to Move is Forward

A global asset manager enabling specialized investment strategies across private markets.

Overview

Stride is a global asset manager building and managing private market investment strategies across geographies and sectors. The firm has enabled over USD 1.6 billion across 200+ portfolio companies, partnering with institutional investors and growth sponsors to provide flexible, risk-disciplined capital.

Stride operates multiple private market investment strategies that support businesses at different stages of growth.

Through disciplined underwriting, governance-led investing, and global market access, Stride partners with sponsors, founders, and capital partners to build durable, long-term value.

Investment strategies

Independent strategies across Venture Debt, Growth Credit, Co-Investments, Energy Transition, and Special Situations.

Venture Debt and Growth Credit
01
Empowering entrepreneurs with structured credit solutions.
Co-Investment Platform
02
Co-investment platform converting proprietary private credit origination into scalable institutional capital deployment across markets.
Circulus
03
An ecosystem-first, equity strategy investing across strategic and circular inputs, advanced manufacturing and component platforms, and industrial decarbonisation technologies.
Special Situations
04
Opportunistic equity solutions to unlock value in special situations.

Explore Our Strategies

Stride at a Glance

Delivering consistent outcomes through disciplined capital deployment across markets, backed by a strong global track record.

$0.0 B+

Capital enabled

000+

Portfolio Companies

Disclaimer : Any references to capital deployed, capital enabled, portfolio company count, transaction volume, investment activity, historical performance, realised or unrealised investments, value creation initiatives, investment outcomes, or similar metrics are provided for illustrative and informational purposes only.

Value Creation

Our partnerships with both emerging ventures and billion-dollar entities have endowed us with a nuanced understanding of the global ecosystem.

GoMechanic x Spinny

GoMechanic is one of India's leading automotive service platforms, built on a nationwide network of workshops and technicians. Following a period of operational challenges, Stride supported the company's stabilisation and revival, culminating in its acquisition by Spinny. The transaction brought together vehicle ownership and after-sales services, advancing Spinny's vision of a full-stack automotive ecosystem.

Investor

Accel, Tiger Global Management, ADQ (Spinny)

Founders

Niraj Singh (Spinny), Himanshu Arora &Amit Bhasin (GoMechanic)

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BRKZ

BRKZ is a leading managed marketplace for construction materials in Saudi Arabia, connecting contractors and factories with suppliers across 7,500+ SKUs. Stride supported BRKZ with working capital to grow its recently launched BNPL credit book, strengthening liquidity and enabling faster, more efficient procurement across the ecosystem.

Investor

BECO Capital, Wa’ed Ventures (Aramco), Better Tomorrow Ventures

Founders

Ibrahim Manna

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Ather

Ather Energy is a leading electric two-wheeler manufacturer building high-performance EVs and charging infrastructure in India. Stride supported Ather with capital expenditure, working capital, and general corporate purposes, including enabling land acquisition in Aurangabad to scale manufacturing capacity and accelerate its growth journey.

Investor

Hero MotoCorp, GIC, NIIF, Tiger Global

Founders

Tarun Mehta & Swapnil Jain

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InMobi

India’s first unicorn, it is one of the world’s largest independent mobile advertising platforms, delivering AI-powered, programmatic solutions across 165+ countries. Stride enabled access to global co-investment capital in a $350M transaction, supporting a founder-led ownership transition and strengthening the company’s positioning ahead of its next phase of growth

Investor

Softbank Group

Founders

Naveen Tewari

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How We Operate

Stride provides each strategy with institutional governance, global relationships, and operational infrastructure required to operate across private markets.

Strategic Backing

An integrated institutional framework supports each strategy, creating the conditions for focused execution, disciplined investing, and scalable growth across markets.

Global Capital Partnerships

A unified point of access provides exposure to a diversified set of private market strategies across India, the GCC, UK & Europe, & SEA. The investor base spans family offices, HNIs & UHNIs, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, pension funds, and financial institutions.

Entrepreneurial Culture

Strong institutions are built by empowered individuals. An entrepreneurial mindset, ownership, and continuous learning drive both personal growth and long-term value creation.

Technology Infrastructure

Every part of the investment lifecycle is powered by proprietary systems from underwriting and portfolio monitoring to LP reporting and compliance enabling consistent and scalable execution.

Governance & Regulatory Frameworks

Stride establishes and maintains robust governance structures, cross-jurisdictional legal frameworks and regulatory oversight across multiple jurisdictions.

Latest Insights

Timely perspectives on market trends, strategies, and investment developments

Blog

July 12, 2021

How venture debt firm Stride Ventures wants to be the go-to financial institution for startups

News

March 24, 2026

Hara Global, Bain Capital Ventures Lead Swish's Series B Round

News

December 28, 2025

Saudi Arabia's BRKZ lands $30 million debt from Stride Ventures