Exfinity Venture Partners books 13x returns with partial exit from CloudSEK
30 Apr 2026, 02:42 PMThe partial exit was facilitated through a secondary sale to the company's existing investors.
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Early-stage venture capital firm Exfinity Venture Partners has made 13x multiple on invested capital (MOIC) and an internal rate of return (IRR) of over 40% from its partial exit from AI-driven cybersecurity platform CloudSEK.
The partial exit was facilitated through a secondary sale to the company's existing investors, a statement said.
This transaction adds to Exfinity’s series of successful exits from its 2016 Fund II, which includes full exits from Kinara.ai and Locus, along with a previous partial exit from Pixis.
Exfinity had originally backed CloudSEK during its pre-Series A round in 2018, making it the startup's first institutional investor.
CloudSEK has crossed $15 million in annual recurring revenue, with over 60% of its net new revenue coming from international markets. The United States has emerged as its fastest-growing geography. The platform counts enterprises across banking, telecom, aviation, and digital services among its customers.
Earlier this year, CloudSEK had said that it has secured a strategic investment from Connecticut Innovations (CI), the strategic venture capital arm of the State of Connecticut, as part of its $10 million Series B2 round.Exfinity Venture Partners focuses on backing early-stage startups in deep-tech, enterprise technology, semiconductors, AI, and frontier technology, investing in companies building globally relevant solutions out of India.
Earlier this year, the venture capital firm launched its fourth fund with a target corpus of Rs 850 crore and an additional Rs 250 crore as a greeshoe option. It had closed its third in 2023 at Rs 500 crore.
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