A fund without a fund is an oxymoron—but not in the increasingly crowded world of private equity (PE) and venture capitalism. Financiers are using so-called fundless structures as their calling card to enter India, where an estimated 350-400 PE funds are already jostling for space. Jaganath Swamy, a former McKinsey and Co. consultant and a Wharton MBA, has used one such structure when he headed back to India after a short stint with a large PE fund in New York. He chose to launch a pledge fund after he saw that a number of limited partners (LPs) in the US were unhappy with India-focused funds. […]