Top 50 Automotive Angel Investors in India in July 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Automotive startups based in India. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Automotive companies from India. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Automotive Angel Investors in India in July 2025
Investor | Automotive India investments |
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Rajesh Mane | 4 |
Amit Lakhotia | 3 |
Asish Mohapatra | 3 |
Sumant Sinha | 3 |
Sandeep Aggarwal | 2 |
Walid Aradi | 2 |
Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman | 2 |
K Ganesh | 2 |
Lakshmi Narayanan | 2 |
Sujeet Kumar | 2 |
Ruchi Kalra | 2 |
Srinivas Anumolu | 2 |
Ashneer seth Grover | 2 |
Suveer Sinha | 2 |
Raaj Kumar | 2 |
Gajendra chandel | 2 |
Anupam Mittal | 2 |
Ganesh Krishnan | 2 |
Bhavish Aggarwal | 2 |
Gaurav Juneja | 2 |
Ankit Bhati | 2 |
Ramakant Sharma | 2 |
Chetan Maini | 2 |
Wes Schwalje | 2 |
Milan Modi | 2 |
Lakshmi Narayanan | 2 |
Dhianu Das | 2 |
Aman Gupta | 1 |
Ankit Kedia | 1 |
Rajaram Ajgaonkar | 1 |
Amiya Pathak | 1 |
Gowri Narayanan | 1 |
Nandan Nilekani | 1 |
Marco DeMeireles | 1 |
Deepak Jain | 1 |
Yuvraj Singh | 1 |
Neeraj Garg | 1 |
Vijay Chhikara | 1 |
Pankaj Chaddah | 1 |
Austin Ligon | 1 |
Peyush Bansal | 1 |
Dewang Neralla | 1 |
Arvind Kumar | 1 |
Finn Age Haensel | 1 |
Jose Marin | 1 |
Chand Das | 1 |
Sachin Bansal | 1 |
Ram Trichur | 1 |
Nitin Johar | 1 |
Chandu Nair | 1 |
An active investor in early stage startups across technology & CPG.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Mobile, Retail
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Orbo.ai — Orbo.ai provide contextual information and become a gateway to the world and not just stay limited to computational photography through our deep learning technology based solutions.Orbo’s face tracking technology can be implemented across devices to identify human emotions, transformative & augmented effects as well as one can build enhancedcamera centric applications.
- Blowhorn — Grow your brand with same day delivery on our network using full stack solutions for all your logistics needs
- Impact Guru — ImpactGuru is a No.1 crowdfunding platform in India offering fundraising solutions for medical treatments, emergencies, NGOs & startups. Start a crowdfunding campaign now!
Amit Lakhotia is the GM Paytm Wallet at Paytm.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- ELIVAAS — Discover exclusive Luxury Villas for short rentals. Find the perfect vacation homes or weekend homes. Book your dream homestay with us today!
- Electrade — Hnh Cart is one of the best place to Buy Electronics Components Online in India. We offer a wide range of components ICs, Resistors & capacitors at low prices..
- HealthCred — HealthCred offers financial solutions tailored to the needs of India's healthcare ecosystem. The company specializes in providing working capital to healthcare stakeholders such as hospitals, medical device manufacturers, drug manufacturers, distributors, and importers. HealthCred's services are designed to stabilize cash flows withoutrequiring equity dilution, ensuring that healthcare providers can continue their operations smoothly. With a process that promises capital availability within 72 hours, HealthCred addresses the urgent financial needs of its clients efficiently.
Asish Mohapatra is the Co-Founder and Head of Sales of OfBusiness. He previously worked at Matrix Partners as a Healthcare Investments Lead. Asish Mohapatra attended the Indian School of Business.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, B2B
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Kikibix — Relish what tastes like your childhood, loaded with an array of healthy ingredients for scrumptiously flavorful and healthy snacks. Born from the vision of a doctor to make a brilliant amalgamation of tasty and healthy. Made with love, baked to perfection, a home for healthy cookies that taste amazing!
- Freakins — Looking for a wardrobe upgrade? Check out the collection of latest, trendy and stylish denim apparel by Freakins Online! Shop & enjoy Free delivery on all orders.
- TyrePlex — Buy car and bike tyres. Best tyre price, features, reviews. Find right tyre size and tyre dealer details
Sumant Sinha is the Founder and CEO of ReNew, a wind energy firm based in India.From 2008 to May 2010, Sumant was the Chief Operating Officer of Suzlon Energy Ltd, the world's third largest renewable energy company (FY 2010 sales of $5 billion). At Suzlon, Sumant shared the CEO's responsibilities with Mr. Tulsi Tanti, the founderChairman and majority shareholder of the company. During this period, Sumant was directly running the finance, marketing, supply chain, and organizational transformation and integration initiatives of the company. Under his watch, Suzlon refinanced its entire outstanding debt worth $3 billion, raised additional funds of approximately $800 million, restructured $500 million of convertible bonds, generated an order book in excess of $2 billion, and turned the company around in an extremely difficult external operating environment.Prior to joining Suzlon, Sumant set up the Aditya Birla Group's venture in the retail sector in India, Aditya Birla Retail (ABRL) and was it's founder CEO. During a stint of 18 months he set up 600 supermarkets and 2 hypermarkets, hired over 12000 people and positioned ABRL as one of the leading retail operators in India.From 2002 to 2007, Sumant was the Group CFO of the Aditya Birla Group, one of India's largest and most diversified business groups (market cap of USD 25 bn). He was responsible for some of the largest acquisitions in India's corporate history.Sumant's areas of expertise are finance, business strategy, turn-arounds, start-ups and climate change issues.Sumant has a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and a Masters degree from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He was a Dean's Fellow at Columbia, a National Talent Scholar and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
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Investment focus
- B2B, Energy, Automotive
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- BluSmart Mobility — Blu Smart Mobility is a provider of electric shared smart mobility platform for transportation. Blu Smart is an all-electric, shared, and smart mobility platform for ride-sharing, car-sharing, and scooter-sharing. Blu Smart is a 100% electric mobility platform that partners with electric vehicle manufactures.
- Baaz Bikes — ElecTorq Technologies operates as a shared mobility solutions startup. ElecTorq Technologies manufactures Baaz I, a solo self-ride electric scooter, which is expected to find a clientele in the country's shared mobility players such as Rapido, Yulu, Bounce, Zapp and Vogo.
- Clean Core Thorium Energy — Clean Core Thorium Energy develops advanced nuclear fuel for existing reactors.
Sandeep started "ShopClues.com" after a long progressive career with best in breed companies in Silicon Valley, Seattle and India, covering 16 years of global experience in business operations, strategy and investment, focusing on Internet and technology. He is counted amongst leading Internet experts globally, and has regularly appearedon CNBC, Fox, ABC News and regularly quoted by Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes and other prominent media outlets.In his prior career as one of the most popular and prominent Internet analysts in the US, Sandeep provided research coverage on global Internet giants such as -- Google, eBay, Amazon, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Expedia, Priceline, Netflix, DigitalRiver, GSI Commerce etc. In September 2010 Sandeep wrote a sector defining report for the India Internet and also launched research coverage on MakeMyTrip. Prior to Wall Street, Sandeep worked with technology giant Microsoft in it's headquarter in Seattle with senior leadership team and ran strategy planning for Schwab.com in San Francisco. Sandeep has also worked with Kotak Mahindra and as a co-founder of a small boutique investment banking firm.Sandeep has an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis and Bachelors in Commerce from Kurukshetra University from India. Sandeep is a Charter Member of TiE Silicon Valley. Sandeep enjoys playing squash as a stressbuster, and spending time with his family.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Phot.ai — Phot.ai is a comprehensive AI-powered platform that simplifies photo editing and graphic design by providing a variety of tools to help ecommerce sellers optimize their workflow.
- Clapingo — Clapingo is an online tutoring service with one-on-one sessions. Clients, vendors, suppliers, individuals, and companies place they provide us with personal information and they are committed to protecting the privacy and security of that information. Tutors also collect recruitment-related data.
- HouseEazy — Buy or Sell Resale Flats in Noida, Ghaziabad, and Gurgaon. Discover 2, 3, & 4 BHK options with top amenities at the best price!
Entrepreneur, investor. Advising global tech companies navigate through MENA+ regulatory environments, market entry and scaling
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, Nigeria, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Omnisient — Privacy-Preserving Data Collaboration platform enabling businesses to collaborate while ensuring consumer privacy and data protection.
- Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
- Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
Angel / Sophisticated Investor and Trader (Ex London Stock Exchange(LSE), Deutsche Bank, London Clearing House(LCH) ) , Invested in 60+ Startups / 4 successful exits (with Avg 20x) and counting more. (Web3 -> udaybs.ETH )Invested in following asset classes from past 2 decades across UK / India / US / Europe /
-Private Equity (Seed / Growth / VC/ Acquisition / Merger)
- Equity Markets
- Real Estate
- FX
- Commodity
- Bonds
- Fintech, Blockchain, Crypto Market, Web3 , DeFi, NFT
- Derivative Markets / Hedging / F&O / CFDGrowing Wealth in bumpy economic rides - There is no secret formula. Investment is an art. Being vigilant, dynamic, connecting dots, evaluating risk with constant change, loads of patience and visualising medium to long term.Private Equity Investments across globe in following domains / categories:
- Energy - EV / Carbon Footprint
- Blockchain / FinTech / AI / ML / Web3 / DeFi
- D2C / B2C
- Food & Beverages
- Pharma
- Media & Entertainment
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding
- United Kingdom, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Agnikul — Agnikul is a space tech startup that designs, manufactures, tests, and launch orbital-class rockets for micro and nanosatellites. They currently work out of the National Center for Combustion R&D at IIT-Madras. Rocket scientists, engineers, ex-bankers and space lawyers are a part of their team. This unique blend of people is one of theirbiggest strengths. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
- Log 9 Materials — The spirit of innovation remains the cornerstone of every mission here at Log9. We have failed numerous times in this mission of ours, only to learn from them
- Toffee Ride - Learning App for Classes I - IV — Developed by a group of IIM, NIT alumni, with the support of academicians and child development experts, Toffee Ride is an app-based learning program that helps your child develop a thorough understanding of fundamental concepts and improve their language skills. Toffee Ride helps to make productive use of your kid's screen time by keepingthem engaged through a wide variety of fun-filled learning activities. Toffee Ride is specifically designed for Classes I-IV and contains more than 800 + lessons and 6000 + activities, which provide comprehensive coverage of English, Maths, EVS, GK, Social Studies, and Life Skills. Our Vision: “Making premium education affordable”The level of personalized attention required during the formative years is lacking in most schools, except for a few premium ones. Moreover, most parents, especially working professionals, often find it difficult to find time to compliment their kids learning in school. A rather serious implication of this is that children whose development lag behind during their early years find it very difficult to catch up in their higher classes. Through Toffee Ride, we attempt to bridge this gap using technology as an enabler to provide the much-needed personal attention in early learning.
K Ganesh
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Investment focus
- Automotive, Rental, Travel
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India
Portfolio highlights
- OTO Capital — India's most trusted place to buy bikes, scooters and electric scooters of all brands on loan and in cash. Digital Process. Lowest EMIs. Fast Deliveries - OTO
- Flashaid — EasyAspataal have partnered with the best hospitals near you fitting your budget and convenience to make hospitalisation easy
- Battery Smart — Battery Smart provides advanced Li-ion batteries to e-rickshaws. Battery Smart develops a retrofittable 48V Li-ion twin battery system that is compatible with all major electric rickshaw (e3w) models.
Lakshmi Narayanan is the Chief Executive Officer at Cognizant Technology Solutions.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- QpiAI — QpiAI - Building Next-Generation AI Solutions and Quantum Software
- Raptee Energy — Emobility
- Clean Core Thorium Energy — Clean Core Thorium Energy develops advanced nuclear fuel for existing reactors.
Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- GoRally — GoRally operates a pickleball chain.
- Pizza Wings — Pizza Wings is a pizza brand, known for fresh, high-quality pizzas and more, available for dine-in, takeout, or delivery.
- Sarla Aviation — We're developing India's most sophisticated eVTOL, driving innovation for widespread adoption in urban air mobility. Our focus is on creating an affordable, clean, and safe aerial travel experience, revolutionizing the way urban India moves.
Ruchi Kalra is the Co-Founder and Head of Credit and Payments of OfBusiness. She previously worked at McKinsey & Company as a Partner. Ruchi Kalra attended the Indian School of Business.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, B2B, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Kikibix — Relish what tastes like your childhood, loaded with an array of healthy ingredients for scrumptiously flavorful and healthy snacks. Born from the vision of a doctor to make a brilliant amalgamation of tasty and healthy. Made with love, baked to perfection, a home for healthy cookies that taste amazing!
- FS Life — Shop premium quality work wear for women online in India at Fablestreet. Luxury fabric, Multi-season styles, Easy returns & exchanges, Free Shipping, COD Available.
- Narrato — Narrato Workspace is an AI content creation, collaboration and workflow management tool built for content and marketing teams and creators.
Co-Founder of Growth Story.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Content, Food Processing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ONWO — Discover premium sweeteners and trading solutions with Onwo, your trusted partner in international trade.
- Podeum — Podeum helps to combine various pre- and post-game activities such as pre-match analysis, live-match commentary, online social media debates, and fantasy and prediction competitions into one platform.
- Magma — Magma platform partners with factories and raw materials suppliers to offer supply chain services from the supplier to the customer.
Ashneer Grover is the CEO and Co-Founder of BharatPe. He previously worked at PC Jeweller Ltd as a Head Of New Business. Ashneer Grover attended Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- TigerPay — TigerPay allows card payments instantly from your smartphone and is reshaping payment solutions for Small and Medium Enterprises.
- Lorien Finance — Lorien Finance is a cross-border FinTech platform providing affordable student loans and retail banking services to immigrants (students and temporary workers) moving to the US.
- Zippee — ZFW Dark Stores enables 30 Min, 2 Hour, & Same-Day deliveries for E-commerce brands through next-gen fulfillment, network of dark stores, & last-mile infrastructure across India. This capital-light approach is helping brands like Epigamia, Unilever, Rage Coffee, NOTO, and Baskin Robbins expand without upfront capital, overheads, &headaches.Our platform integrates seamlessly with all industry platforms to provide brands with complete visibility into supply-chain ops & customers: significantly improving customer loyalty, RTOs, & costs.E-commerce is becoming increasingly competitive with shifting brand loyalties. Stay ahead of the curve & be closer to your customers by offering them super-fast deliveries.If you're a D2C brand in India that wants to boost profitability & customer experiences- reach out & say hi!
Suveer Sinha is the head of KKR Capstone India.
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Investment focus
- Automotive
- Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- AutoNxt Automation — Discover the future of sustainable farming with Autonxt Automations electric tractors and self-driving technology. Explore our innovative solutions today.
Former CEO at GMR Energy Ltd
Former Joint MD & CEO at JSW Energy Ltd
Former MD at Jindal Praxair Ltd
Former CEO at Asian Paints
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Investment focus
- GreenTech, Automotive, Electric Vehicle
- Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- TresMoto — TresMoto build smart, connected electric scooters designed ground up for taking on anything you throw at them.
Gajendra chandel
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Investment focus
- Energy, Automotive
- Seed, Angel
- India
Portfolio highlights
- BattRE Electric Mobility — Metal Panels , 132 KM range, 5" TFT Display with navigation, LucasTVS motor & controller, 60v 52Ah Heavy Duty AIS 156 approved Battery
Anupam started his entrepreneurial journey by founding People Group - A New Media & Entertainment group, which includes businesses such as Shaadi.com, Makaan.com, Mauj Mobile, and People Pictures. Today the group is recognized as one of the most innovative enterprises in the country. Besides his operational roles, Anupam is also one ofIndia's most active angel investors.He attended Boston College.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Gaon — Gaon delivers authentic Indian food flavors.
- HealthFab — Seen on Shark Tank India! Buy GoPadFree period panties & GopainFree Period relief cream online by HealthFab. Shop for best menstrual products!
- Bambinos Learning Solutions Pvt. Ltd. — Join bambinos.live - India's biggest platform to learn English and math for kids aged between 4-12 years.
Ganesh is a serial entrepreneur with four successful green field ventures and exits. Most recently, he founded and led TutorVista which was acquired by US and UK listed education leader Pearson for $ 213 MM in January 2011.He is a strategic investor / promoter of India based consumer Internet and ecommerce companies bluestone.com (onlinejewellery), Bigbasket.com (egrocery), MustseeIndia.com (travel packages and content), bookadda.com (academic focused online books) and delyver.com (hyper local delivery).Ganesh was also Chairman, Investor and Advisor in the data analytics BPO firm Marketics until March 2007, when the company was acquired by NYSE listed WNS for $ 63 MM. His earlier venture, CustomerAsset was started in mid 2000 and later acquired by ICICI (NYSE listed, India's largest bank) and is now publicly listed in India as First Source Solutions. In 1990, as his first entrepreneurial venture, he co-promoted IT&T. And as its Founder and CEO, he played a major role in making the company one of India's top multi-vendor IT service and support till the business was sold to iGate (a listed company) in 2003.He is also on the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and has a post-graduate degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi University.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Windo — Create your online store for free within a few clicks, within a few minutes, hassle-free. Make your store mobile-friendly, responsive and secure.
- Impact — The Impact is a fitness, kindness mobile app where every step walked or jogged raises money for a social cause. Person workouts are sponsored by companies through their Corporate Social Responsibility and the money goes directly to the partnered NGOs.
- Goa Brewcrafts — Goa Brewcrafts is a Private Limited Alco-beverage producer company that is incorporated on July 6, 2016.
Bhavish graduated with a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2008 and worked at Microsoft Research for 2 years after that, filing 2 patents and publishing 3 papers in International Journals. Sensing the need to change the way transportation is consumed in India and create a choice of reliable personal transportation in acountry that's as unique as India, Bhavish quit his job in August 2010 to start Ola!
Within 3 years, Ola is India's largest network of personal transportation options and also the most popular app amongst customers and users in over 22 cities of its operations. Bhavish was featured as one of Hindustan Times’ 30 Achievers under 30 as well as in the Forbes India list of 30 under 30.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, FinTech, Transportation
- Series A, Angel, Funding Round
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Ola — Ola operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation for customers and driver partners in India. Its mobile application allows its customers to book a range of cabs, auto-rickshaws, bikes, and shuttle buses. Ola's mobile application allows customers to book city taxi, outstation travel, car rental, and corporatetravel services. Its mobile application is available on Windows, Android, and iOS platforms. Ankit Bhati and Bhavish Aggarwal founded Ola on December 1, 2010. It has its headquarters with additional offices in Bengaluru in India.
- Virgio — Women's & Men's Clothing and Accessories | Shop Trendy Fashion Online
- Krutrim — Krutrim SI Designs is an artificial intelligence (AI) firm that aims to focus on creating silicon chips and building a cloud infrastructure. The company is dedicated to constructing the nation's inaugural comprehensive AI computing infrastructure.
Gaurav Juneja is Head - Digitisation at Google. He attended the Indian Institute of Management.
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Investment focus
- Electric Vehicle, Logistics, Sustainability
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Commaful — Commaful short stories bring fanfiction, thrillers, romance, comedy, poetry, and emotions to life with stunning visuals. Stories take minutes to create, allowing you to share your ideas easily.
- Oben Electric — Oben Electric, The top e bike manufacturer in India has combined safety along with performance.
- Evify — India's first carbon negative EV fleet
Ankit Bhati heads the technical aspects of Olacabs, ensuring a quick, convenient and instinctive experience for our customers and partners. He joined IIT Bombay in 2004 for Btech in Mechanical Engg and MTech in CAD and Automation. By 2009 he had already worked on several freelance projects & startups like Wilcom (http://wilcom.co.in),QED42 etc. and finally decided to give up his nomadic professional life for a start-up of his own. He joined the Olacabs journey in November 2010.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Wellness, EdTech
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- TableSprint — An AI-first SaaS B2B platform for you to build apps with no coding needed. Start now with versatile playbooks tailored for all businesses.
- Billion Hearts — Did you sign-up for our beta launch?
- LaundryMate — LaundryMate provides laundry services which allows people to spend their time doing activities that people enjoy rather than worrying about washing.
Ramakant plays a central role in driving all technological innovations that form the backbone of Livspace while also leading our operations team. Before founding Livspace, Ramakant was a core team member and Vice President of Engineering at Myntra, a leading fashion eCommerce startup in India (acquired by Flipkart). Ramakant, graduated from IITKanpur, and holds an MBA from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- OUTZIDR — Trendy GenZ western wear. Vacation, Party & Casual Wear. FREE Shipping on All Orders. COD Available. Easy 7-Days & Returns. Code OUT400 for FLAT 400 OFF.
- Rabitat — Rabitat is a consumer product company that offers creative lifestyle solutions for customers through trusted brands. Merlin Brands was founded in 2016 and was headquartered in New Delhi, India.
- Beyond Appliances — Beyond Appliances want to create appliances that not only make your culinary adventures more accessible but also elevate your kitchen environment to a place where you will truly enjoy being.
Motivated by a desire to combat climate change, Chetan co-founded the REVA Electric Car Company, India's first electric car manufacturer, in 1994.With a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering (University of Michigan) where he focused on solar electric vehicles, and a Master's in Mechanical Engineering (Stanford University)where he worked on hybrid electric vehicles, Chetan has over 20 years of experience in the development of solar, hybrid and electric vehicles in the U.S. and India. Prior to REVA, he worked for Amerigon Inc. (USA) and General Motors (USA). As a program manager at Amerigon, he was responsible for all electric vehicle programs and initiated the REVA project.In 2009, Chetan was named by Business Week magazine as one of the top 50 most influential people in India, and at the 2010 AIMA Managing India Awards, he was named "Entrepreneur of the Year." He has also been amongst the select few to have been adjudged as a Young Global Leader (YGLs) for 2011 by The World Economic Forum, and in 2011, he received the India Business Icon Award from Entrepreneur CNBC TV18. At The Economist's annual event in London, in October 2011, the publication conferred Chetan Maini its 2011 'Innovation Award in Energy and the Environment' for his work on affordable electric vehicles.Chetan also serves as a member of India's National Board on Electric Mobility (NBEM) formed by the Government of India's Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises. He is also the Chairman of the Personal Transporation Council, World Economic Forum. He currently holds patents in energy management systems for electric vehicles and has presented technical and keynote papers on electric vehicles globally. His papers have been published in several international journals.
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Investment focus
- Automotive, Software, Electric Vehicle
- Seed, Angel
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Bolt.Earth — Revos is a smart mobility platform that provides AI-enabled IoT solutions for electric vehicles. The company provides a modular and customizable tracking and control system that integrates easily into vehicles making them smart, safe, and connected.Revos develops the largest network of edge devices and its operating stack to enable electricvehicle adoption in emerging markets.
- AutoNxt Automation — Discover the future of sustainable farming with Autonxt Automations electric tractors and self-driving technology. Explore our innovative solutions today.
Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
- PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
- Chhotastock — Temukan pengalaman bermain toto togel 4D dan toto slot terbaik di SAUDARATOTO. Bergabunglah dengan situs toto resmi yang terpercaya di Asia, dengan berbagai pilihan permainan dan peluang kemenangan besar. Daftar sekarang dan rasakan sensasi menang besar!
Milan Modi
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Tutoring, Education
- Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Oben Electric — Oben Electric, The top e bike manufacturer in India has combined safety along with performance.
- OLL — Online Live Learning is an online marketplace for passionate teachers and aspiring learners. On our platform, teachers get the chance to extend their expertise and learners get the opportunity to expand their knowledge bank. If you’re someone who does not believe in a cookie-cutter teaching approach and are looking for real-time help, this platformis the right choice for you. To sum it up, we’re your one-stop solution for all things learning. OLL works around the clock to make amazing experiences for our customers, with that we get the appreciation through your Reviews and Feedbacks.
Lakshmi Narayanan is the Chief Executive Officer at Cognizant Technology Solutions.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- QpiAI — QpiAI - Building Next-Generation AI Solutions and Quantum Software
- AGNIT Semiconductors Private Limited — AGNIT Semiconductors offers ultra-efficient GaN RF solutions with Epi wafers, components & modules for telecom, defense & strategic applications.
- Clean Core Thorium Energy — Clean Core Thorium Energy develops advanced nuclear fuel for existing reactors.
Dhianu Das is a businessman par excellence with a mission to empower entrepreneurs & start-ups with investment, mentoring and capacity building to enable business development. With an extensive investment, operation, strategy & development experience he has mentored many startups into successful businesses and has effectively led majorbusiness turnarounds as well as set up new businesses all across India. A mentor with exceptional clarity and a strategist who can plan and help execute - Dhianu Das is the perfect combination of a dreamer, a mentor, a businessman, and a true Visionary.
Das is an active angel investor in many startups that are involved in inventing and developing problem-solving products. He invests both his money and trust in the companies and people with idiosyncratic business ideas and the passion to change the world.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Automotive, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India
Portfolio highlights
- FunkFeets — FunkFeets operates as a quirky sneaker startup. Funkfeets leverages the need to provide asymmetrical designs for sneakers on shoes so that buyers can connect with the elements on the footwear.
- Puresh Milk — Puresh Milk providing natural cow milk from our dairy farm.
- Power Gummies — Simplifying Good Health for Healthy Hair & Nails, the perfect beach body, & PMS Gummies Vitamins with a Natural Blend of Nutrition & Antioxidants.
Aman Gupta - Co Founder & CMO @ boAt
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Manufacturing
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Anveshan — At Anveshan, we make food products that are natural, healthy and chemical free. Anveshan provides the best quality food products through the use of technological solutions. We have cold-pressed/wood pressed oils, A2 vedic bilona ghee and super seeds for healthy diet and immunity boosting.
- Let's Try — Let's Try sells namkeen and snacks. They have a diverse range of snacks, each with its own distinct taste and flavor. These products are tastier and healthier than other junk food and may be consumed by everyone. They sell a number of items, including mixes, cookies, methi mathri, tikoni mathri, masala namakpare, and more.
- Go Zero — Go Zero is an innovative ice cream company dedicated to provide deliciousness without guilt.
Ankit Kedia Founder at Capital-A.
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- Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- India, United States
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- hypergro — Hypergro provides the power of user-generated content, craft impactful UGC video ads designed to attract, engage, and convert.These video advertising act as a distinctive, tailored connection between the brand and potential clients, which boosts consumer traffic, app downloads, and revenue for your company.
- InfinityBox — InfinityBox is a platform for reusable packaging for plastic bottles.
- hypergro — Hypergro provides the power of user-generated content, craft impactful UGC video ads designed to attract, engage, and convert.These video advertising act as a distinctive, tailored connection between the brand and potential clients, which boosts consumer traffic, app downloads, and revenue for your company.
Rajaram Ajgaonkar
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- Battery, Automotive, Electric Vehicle
- Seed
- India
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- Greenie Energy — Greenie Energy is an EV charging technology company that provides electric vehicle charging solutions.
Amiya built the first version of the ZipDial platform single-handedly (literally, he did it with one broken arm!).Previously, Amiya built companies such as Ketera and Zapak (acquired by Reliance) where he served as Director of Platform Engineering. Amiya completed his engineering degree at IIT Kanpur and his MBA at IIM Calcutta.
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- Children, Computer, Internet
- Seed
- India
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- Refrens — The most powerful business management platform for B2B service providers in India. Right from building your portfolio to generating leads for your business to manage your invoices etc, we have got you covered.
- SprintAI — SprintAI is an Enterprise AI company.
- PiggyRide — Piggy Ride offers live classes for kids based on their age, skill level, and interests. You can enroll your child in a range of kids classes including dance, music, yoga, and a number of other activities. Our platform connects you with qualified teachers and tutors in a variety of subjects. Let's dive into the excellent video tutorials forexcellent learning. PiggyRide is a leading destination for providing your kids with quality online training on specific skills with fun and creativity.
Gowri Narayanan - Partner, FinTech @ SoftBank Vision Fund
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series C, Series D
- United States, India, Canada
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- Dukkantek — Dukkantek aims to empower and enable traditional merchants to be able to compete in the modern world or the digital world through digital transformation. It is a technology partner that improves and provides so many solutions to your business. Dukkantek has what every store needs to manage their business easily and efficiently. With Dukkantek, you will have an end-to-end technology companion that improves all your processes.
- Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
- Trellis Technologies — Finally, an API for insurance information.
Nandan Nilekani was the chairman of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), author of _Imagining India_, philanthropist, and former entrepreneur and co-founder of Infosys.
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- B2B, Tourism, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- India, Singapore, United States
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- IntrCity — Manager- Corporate Communications
- RailYatri — Indian Railways Train Enquiry, Insights & IRCTC eTicket booking - RailYatri
- PharmEasy — PharmEasy is one of India's most trusted online pharmacy & medical stores offering pharmaceutical and healthcare products at a FLAT 20% OFF*. Used by 50 lakhs+ customers in India in 1.2K+ cities like Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Noida, Pune, etc.
Marco DeMeireles is a Partner at TCG, an affiliate of The Chernin Group, where he leads venture capital and growth equity investments and serves as a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. Marco began his investing career at Technology Crossover Ventures, and subsequently joined Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) where he built and led theirventure capital and growth equity businesses across sectors.At BAM, he was specifically responsible for developing the firm’s private investment business – leading the strategy’s venture capital investments, operations, and team-building. Marco was also responsible for proprietary sourcing, investment idea generation, transaction leadership, and portfolio company board oversight.During his tenure, Marco led the firm’s thesis development surrounding software-driven systems, marketplaces, financial technology, healthcare and consumer subscription business, which led to a dozen investments; most notably, the firm's 2017 investments into Peloton and Coinbase. His prior investments and directorships include: Acorns, Amount, Bright Machines, Coinbase, Cuebiq, Harness Wealth, Kindbody, Orbital Insight, Peloton, Spotify, Spring Labs, Tencent Music, and Zola amongst others.Recently, Marco has led investments across live streaming (ShopShops), consumer healthcare (Dadi) and end-of-life services (Better Place Forests) where he serves on the Boards of each.Education, Personal, and Fellowship
Marco attended Williams College, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree.He has a philanthropic interest in education and entrepreneurship, serving on several related nonprofit boards, and remains an active supporter for the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). Marco also is an advocate for emerging managers, serving on the Advisory Committee of Primary Venture Partners and Work-Bench, two seed-stage focused firms based in New York.Marco is a member of Class 23, serving his fellowship at TCG under the mentorship of Lior Susan, Managing Partner of Eclipse Ventures. He lives with his wife Joanne in New York.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Series C, Funding Round
- United States, China, India
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- Kindbody — Kindbody offers fertility assessments, fertility testing, egg freezing, IVF, virtual fertility telemedicine and women's wellness.
- Zoomcar — Zoomcar offers the best car rental options for stress-free travel. Explore our top-quality vehicles and book your ride today.
- Harness Wealth — Discover and work with advisors who have experience in your specific situation, including knowledge about company equity, small business, and crypto.
Partner, Bain & Co., ET 40Under40
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- B2B, EdTech, Internet
- Seed
- India
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- Groyyo — Groyyo is a B2B manufacturing and automation start-up. They make your factory bigger, faster, smarter, global, and cost-effective so that you can grow your business to the next level.
- Fixcraft — Fixcraft is changing the way car owners get their car repair done. Its tech enabled startup which plans to bring "Quality Service at Fair Price" to every user. Currently, the market is ruled by Authorised workshops on one end which charge exorbitant amount in the name of brand on one end and local mechanics which is a sub-standard qualitywork at lower price.
- Leverage Edu — Leverage Edu is an AI-enabled marketplace designed to help students with their higher education and career growth plans. It is one of India's leading/fastest growing ed-tech companies, transforming access to an exponential career growth, by democratising mentorship, breaking traditional systems, & helping the new student of today jumpover the artificial high walls!
Yuvraj Singh is a former Indian cricketer who played in all forms of the game. He has his own charity YouWeCan has treated hundreds of cancer patients.
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- Fitness, Health Care, Wellness
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, United Kingdom
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- Mitsu — Overcome depression & anxiety in just 30 minutes a week with Mitsu's online self-therapy app. Get expert guidance & clinical self-help tools for 70% less.
- Cartisan — Cartisan helps car owners find the nearest, best value and quality car service providers and easily make bookings from car washes to regular maintenance and more.
- Nothing — Nothing is a London-based company removing the barriers between people and technology to create a seamless digital future.
Neeraj is a well-known veteran of Automobile Industry in India. After completing his Mechanical Engineering from NIT (Warangal) and Management degree from NITIE, Mumbai, he had been responsible for successfully establishing the Global car Brands Honda, Nissan and Volkswagen in India through his aggressive leadership style. He has 28 years ofexperience of Marketing and sales of Automobiles in India and Gulf countries. After returning from Dubai in 1997, Neeraj headed Sales and Marketing department of Honda Siel cars (1997 ~ 2005) wherein he was responsible for building up the strategy for entry of Honda cars in India. He and his team successfully created and implemented complete retail strategy for long term growth of Brand. Neeraj helped Nissan Motors (2005 ~ 2009) in creating their strategy for entry into India with production facility at Chennai, entry of Nissan and Datsun brand, Nissan Renault JV of Commercial Vehicle with Ashok Leyland, and possibility of JV with Bajaj for Ultra Low cost vehicle. He worked at Nissan as Director and Board Member – Marketing and Sales.Volkswagen engaged Neeraj in 2009 as Board Member and Director. Neeraj could repeat history by strategizing and implementation of Brand entry in India with lots of innovation and great success. He started his next assignment in 2012 with Tata Motors Limited as Vice President (Commercial) for passenger cars for domestic market. He is a certified ‘Corporate Director’ for improving Corporate Governance in line with Companies Act 2013. He is working as a consultant in Automobile industry to enhance enterprise efficiency and customer values.
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- Automotive, E-Commerce
- Angel, Funding Round
- India
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- SparesHub — Partner with SparesHub - the experts in this industry Start your Automobile Parts Business! Start your Automobile Parts Business! Build an enduring business in your city Submit Application Watch these videos for more details We are
- Strom Motors — Strom Motors is a smart urban mobility Company.
Vijay Chhikara is the Founder at MotoFlux.
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- Automotive, E-Commerce
- Private Equity
- India
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- MotoFlux — Founded in 2017 with a sole goal to bring the best possible shopping experience to any motorcycling enthusiast who visits us online. We are now 50 brand strong and growing at an exponential pace. For us, the customer always comes first and we do our best to make sure that each customer has an experience which is exemplary of our brand.
Pankaj Chaddah is the Co-Founder of Shyft. Pankaj graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from IIT Delhi in 2007.
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- E-Commerce, Fitness, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, France, Portugal
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- sheerME — SheerME is Revolutionising the way people find, book, and pay for their Wellness and Beauty services powered by a benefit-based walletOur approach is based on Discovery, Transaction & Reward to create more online visibility, reach, conversion into new business, loyalty, and frequency through our wallet and cashback ecosystem, to all ourpartners in the beauty and wellness sectors.This made us a fresh and different option in this sector where there are mainly SaaS players, and we bring marketplace with no monthly fee, only a commission for business sent through our owned and partner channels.
- Yoho — Yoho manufactures orthopaedic lightweight footwear.
- Clean Electric — Clean Electric builds Lithium-Ion Batteries with Liquid Immersion Cooling. Fast Charge. Long Life. Unparalleled Safety.
Austin Ligon is an Angel/Seed stage private investor at Tewada Capital; he is an investor and Board Member at Redfin, Inc. and Rev.comPreviously, Austin was the Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer at CarMax, the nation’s largest retailer of used cars, from its creation in 1991 until his retirement in 2006. Austin hasalso served as Senior Vice President of Strategy for Circuit City and for the Marriott Corporation and has been a Senior Consultant at Boston Consulting Group. Austin earned his MBA from Yale University and his M.A. and B.A. degrees in Economics from The University of Texas Austin.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, India
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- Hitch — Hitch is Uber for Long Distances. We Offer Private and Shared Ridesharing Services, both Door-to-Door and Station-to-Station. View Rates here - over 300,000 rides given.
- Photo Butler — Certain moments in life should last and linger. Currently taking, texting and finding photos is cumbersome and intrusive. It takes people out of the moment. We want to help people to live life fully present. Free of distraction. And yet, to hold the memory for them and let them share it, as and when they see fit, now and forever.
- Startup Angels — Different helps institutions and family offices discover, analyze, diligence, and select venture capital funds. We track the venture landscape, leveraging our proprietary research, insights, and scoring models to make these funds available to you.
Peyush Bansal is the Co-Founder, Chief Executive, and People Officer of Lenskart. He attended McGill University.
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- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- India, United States, France
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- Sudathi — Sudathi is a clothing brand that offers the best and latest fashion accessible to all offering outstanding service at affordable prices.
- HealthFab — Seen on Shark Tank India! Buy GoPadFree period panties & GopainFree Period relief cream online by HealthFab. Shop for best menstrual products!
- Hair Originals — Hair is India's first luxury hair extension and wig brand, offering 100 percent natural Indian human hair.
Dewang Neralla is the Founder and CEO of NTT DATA Payment Services. He is a former Co-founder at 63 moons Technologies. He attended Bharati Vidyapeeth.
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- Gaming, Fitness, Training
- Seed, Angel
- India
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- IPHawk — Protect your brand, intellectual property and trademark online. Monitor trademark and brand protection by using IPHawk's AI-based Monitoring tool.
- Growfitter — Growfitter is a gamified digital health reward platform that adds financial benefits to your physical activity. Growfitter offers goal-based rewards (short, mid & long term) from consumer health and wellness brands and retail financial services from credit cards to health insurance for 30 mins walking, running, cycling, & health quiz on adaily basis. Growfitter partners with the best premium brands to bring an exciting buffet of lifestyle rewards on completing their fitness goals.
- Shirsa Labs — Shirsa Labs is a cognitive skill assessment and training portal that provides children with fun educational games for the new age that have measurable benefits. The portal provides customized assessment and training of cognitive skills for children in the age group of 5 to 15 years.These cognitive skills provided by Shirsa Labs have a directimpact on children’s learning abilities in classrooms as well as day-to-day activities. Its aim is to complement the existing education system and provide an extended support to teachers and parents in nurturing young minds.Shirsa Labs was launched in 2013 by
Arvind Kumar, Business Head - Agriculture Division at Force Motors Ltd.
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- Retail, Automotive
- Seed
- India
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- Meratractor — Meratractor.com is one stop solution that brings farmers, dealers, agents on a common platform to transact in the most transparent, trustworthy & hassle freeway. With a Network consisting of Brick and Mortar Dealerships, an online platform and a dedicated Team of Experts, we are the only Phy-gital Marketplace catering to Farm Mechanization Products.
Finn Age Hänsel, 36, studied Business Administration in Germany, Hungary and New Zealand. Following a 4-year engagement at BCG, he joined Rocket Internet in Australia from 2011 to 2013, as a Managing Director. After founding the largest australian online fashion retailer, THE ICONIC, he went on to become the Managing Director of theProSiebenSat1-Incubator, EPIC Companies. In 2015 he founded the Berliner Berg brewery and became a Business Angel for multiple Berlin start-ups including CrossEngage, SMACC and Einhorn. In November 2015, he joined Movinga as CEO. Finn is also board member in the German Start-up Association. Just recently, he founded the Sanity Group, a European Cannabis company, together with Fabian Friede.
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- SaaS, Cloud Management, Transaction Processing
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Germany, India
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- Grovy — Grovy is a q-commerce & grocery delivery provider. Customer order via App or Web and get the order delivered within 10 minutes. The company was founded in Dec 2020 and headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany.
- CARS24 — Buy and Sell Used Cars Online at Cars24. Cars24.com offers home inspection to sell your car and provides 100% verified second-hand customer cars at best price with Easy Finance and RC Transfer.
- CrossEngage — CrossEngage is a Customer Data & Engagement Platform that combines a customer data platform with cross-channel campaign management capabilities. It easily integrates with all data sources and marketing channels so that customers can keep their existing marketing infrastructure. By enabling a more personalized communication, CrossEngages helpsits clients sustainably increase customer engagement and loyalty.Too many marketing channels - too little orchestration. Many companies and consumers suffer from uncoordinated marketing activities. CrossEngage helps you to deliver a better customer experience through a relevant, consistent cross-channel communication per user. They provide a cross-channel marketing cloud solution that empowers marketing managers to orchestrate their campaigns across all relevant channels (e.g. E-Mail, RTA, Onsite, Push Notifications).According to the Digital Marketers Census 2015, Cross-Channel Marketing is with 58% the highest of all priorities for Digital Marketers in Germany. They help you to solve the challenges in this field and profit from the benefits of an orchestrated cross-channel strategy.
Jose Marin started his professional career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.In 1999 he co-founded DeRemate.com (eBay model for Latin America). The company raised 75 M USD, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq .Currently Jose is co-Founder and co-CEO of IGExpansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets (main focus Brazil). IG builds one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project). 5 of the 6 are already operating being Viajanet (Expedia for Latam) its biggest success.Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in >70 start-ups. Before this, Jose invested in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006) obtaining top tier returns.Jose is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA and an MA in International development Economics from Stanford.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
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- Borzo — Borzo is a global delivery service that enables intracity same-day delivery. Our algorithms optimize numerous parallel deliveries taking into account the geographical routes, packages’ contents, couriers and many others to ensure the feasibility of the same-day delivery. The services are available in 10 countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam and are used by 3 million customers ranging from SMEs to enterprises.
- Printify — Sell custom t-shirts, phone cases, and 800+ products with your designs printed on demand. We will handle printing and shipping to your customers.
- Menu Next Door — Menu Next Door's chefs are enthusiasts from all walks of life who want to share their talents. So you'll always enjoy freshly-made, delicious meals originating from all over the world.On Menu Next Door, you'll find these quality meals at affordable prices because they're homemade and prepared locally with no delivery charges.It's great food for the many, not the few.What brings people together more than food? Community is the magic ingredient in Menu Next Door.Meeting your chef and getting the chance to talk to them about the dish they've prepared is what makes this something more than just a takeaway.
Chand Das
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- Fitness, Handmade, Shopping
- Seed, Funding Round
- India
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- Lal10 — Lal10 enables creative manufacturing MSMEs to easily digitize, manage and sell their inventories for cross-border wholesale. Lal10 is Shopify + Alibaba for Indian MSMEs. Small manufacturers use Lal10’s Karigar application to digitize physical inventories which are available for RFQs on our global wholesale platform. We are creating a maker’srevolution by digitizing micro and small manufacturers to take their creative products to global markets. India has over 1.2mn such MSMEs involved in the manufacturing of apparel, home furnishings, decor products. We have digitized 30k SKUs to date and are the largest vertical platform for MSMEs for cross-border wholesale in India. Post pandemic layers of middlemen/ export houses and traditional channels of sales like exhibitions have been disrupted. We have created an efficient alternative with innovative technology-led solutions catering to these large and untapped supplies. We are seeing strong organic adoption of technology for quick market access by local manufacturers and pandemic has only accelerated its requirement. We believe that the future of retail is local. We are targeting small & medium-sized buyers in the US, UK, and Middle east using efficient data analytics and aggressive marketing. We provide them the benefits of a big-box retailer, i.e. affordable sourcing, contemporary design curation & assortment of products. These buyers are resellers on Amazon, Etsy, or Mom & Pop shops, Private labels, and have traditionally been only dependent tradeshows.
- Tinkerly — Tinkerly provides online coding courses blended with hands-on STEM toys for kids of grades 1-12. Tinkerly also helps schools to set up STEM and Tinkering Labs along with coding curriculum as per NEP guidelines. The company is a registered vendor on ‘Govt. E-Marketplace(GeM)’ to set up Atal Tinkering Labs sponsored by NITI Aayog.
- AutoNxt Automation — Discover the future of sustainable farming with Autonxt Automations electric tractors and self-driving technology. Explore our innovative solutions today.
After completion of his degree, Sachin Bansal joined Techspan company where he has served for few months. In 2006, he joined Amazon.com India as a Senior Software Engineer. Then he got Binny Bansal into Amazon.com and after 6 months they both decided to leave Amazon. They initially thought of starting a comparison search engine but realized thatthe market for E-commerce in India was very small. Hence, after leaving Amazon in 2007, they founded Flipkart as an E-commerce company.Sachin Bansal and his business partner Binny Bansal launched Flipkart from an apartment in Bangalore with 400,000 rupees ($6,500) cash. In 2007 during the early days of Flipkart Sachin Bansal and his business partner Binny Bansal used to deliver books across Bengaluru on their scooters and in October 2015 they showed up at the doorsteps of some customers, personally delivering goods in order to gain insights from the online buyers.And now, Sachin Bansal is the CEO of Chaitanya Rural Intermediation and Development Services.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Debt Financing, Seed, Series A
- India, United States
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- Spare8 — Spare8 is a micro-investment app for investing money in digital gold, enabling everyone to start their investment journey through its flagship feature- micro-investment.
- U Gro Capital — U Gro Capital is a fintech platform that provides lending services for SMEs. U GRO Capital is a BSE-listed, technology-focused, small business lending platform. The company is focused on addressing the capital needs of small businesses operating in select eight sectors by providing customized loan solutions.
- Navi Technologies — Lightning fast UPI payments, instant Cash Loans & Home Loans, smart investments in Mutual Funds & Digital Gold, comprehensive Health Insurance - all in one app.
Ram Trichur is a Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers.
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- SaaS, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Series D, Series C, Seed
- Canada, India, Austria
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- PAPER — Give every student an equal opportunity to excel academically. Paper delivers unlimited, 24/7, personalized learning help from expert tutors.
- GarageWorks — GarageWorks, a tech enabled multi-brand solution that delivers bike services at home. A one-stop-shop solution for all your two-wheeler needs including periodic maintenance, repairs, accidental repairs, tyre replacement, battery replacement and others.
- RightHand Robotics — RightHand Robotics offers advanced robotic piece-picking technology for efficient and predictable order fulfillment. Contact us today to learn how.
Nitin Johar is the Chief Financial Officer at the Investment & Development Office, Government of Ras Al Khaimah.
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- Automotive
- Seed
- India
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- AutoNxt Automation — Discover the future of sustainable farming with Autonxt Automations electric tractors and self-driving technology. Explore our innovative solutions today.
Chandu Nair is a promoter of the Menterra Social Impact Fund. He has over 30 years of experience in consultancy, business information, and media in Indian and global markets. He is the co-founder of Scope e-Knowledge Center, a KPO company, where hegrew the company to 1,000 people during his tenure.A member of TiE (The IndusEntrepreneurs) and NEN (National Entrepreneurship Network), he advises entrepreneurs in creating and building their businesses. He holds an MBA from IIM-Ahmedabad.
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- Baby, Retail, E-Commerce
- Seed
- India
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- Bumberry — Bumberry is a brand for mothers who care for generations to come. Bumberry manufactures environmentally friendly and baby-friendly products and services. Our expertise is in innovation in baby-friendly products for mothers who care tomorrow. Bumberry pioneered the idea of modern cloth diapers in the Indian market by launching on Amazon, Flipkart,and Firstcry.comFashionable diapers Bumberry diapers serve its purpose and makes your baby look fashionable. A wide selection of cool and trendy designs are available for you to choose from. Your baby stands out at any social meetings or functions when he or she is wearing a Bumberry reusable cloth diaper. Easy to use Bumberry cloth diapers have snaps or Velcro-style closures, with hi-tech waterproof fabrics that keep leaks at bay. Bio-Soft Liners make diaper changes a breeze.Comfortable There’s nothing like the feel of soft cloth against your baby’s skin. You can tell when a cloth is wet, so cloth diapers get changed more often – and that’s healthy. Babies in cloth benefit from more air circulation, less build-up of high temperatures, and are less susceptible to skin rashes unlike in disposables.Economical and saves money Disposables or Single-use diapers from 0-3 years cost between Rs. 20,000-30,000 . A stash of cloth diapers that can be used for the same 2 1/2 year period can cost as little as Rs. 3500. Phenomenal savings, even after you factor in extra 2-3 loads of laundry per week. Think about using the same durable diaper for a second child in the family!!! Even bigger savings!Saves planet Count the 3000 disposable diapers used by one baby on average adding to upto 1 to 2 TONS of garbage. It is estimated that one single-use diaper can take 500 years to biodegrade. Bumberry confines to the world's motto of "Reduce, Re-use and Recycle."
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