Top 50 Automotive Angel Investors in India in January 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 January 2025
Investor | Automotive India investments |
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Rajesh Mane | 4 |
Amit Lakhotia | 3 |
Sumant Sinha | 3 |
Asish Mohapatra | 3 |
Sandeep Aggarwal | 2 |
Raaj Kumar | 2 |
Srinivas Anumolu | 2 |
Walid Aradi | 2 |
Ruchi Kalra | 2 |
K Ganesh | 2 |
Milan Modi | 2 |
Ashneer seth Grover | 2 |
Anupam Mittal | 2 |
Ganesh Krishnan | 2 |
Lakshmi Narayanan | 2 |
Gajendra chandel | 2 |
Gaurav Juneja | 2 |
Ankit Bhati | 2 |
Chetan Maini | 2 |
Wes Schwalje | 2 |
Dhianu Das | 2 |
Ramakant Sharma | 2 |
Bhavish Aggarwal | 2 |
Suveer Sinha | 2 |
Sujeet Kumar | 2 |
Shajikumar Devakar | 1 |
Anmol Nayyar | 1 |
Abhijeet Kumar | 1 |
Jelle Vastert | 1 |
Munendra Singh | 1 |
Ram Trichur | 1 |
Aman Gupta | 1 |
Aprameya Radhakrishna | 1 |
Satveer Singh Thakral | 1 |
Sachin Bansal | 1 |
Abhishek Goyal | 1 |
Amit Kumar | 1 |
Pushpak Ranka | 1 |
Anirudh Agarwal | 1 |
Niraj Singh | 1 |
Sanjay Bhasin | 1 |
Olivier Guillaumond | 1 |
Abhishek Goyal | 1 |
Ravichandran Sargunaraj | 1 |
Nitin Johar | 1 |
Oskar Hartmann | 1 |
Uday Sodhi | 1 |
Manish Agarwal | 1 |
Frederick Towfigh | 1 |
Eugene Mayne | 1 |
An active investor in early stage startups across technology & CPG.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Mobile, Fashion
- Seed
- 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.
- LiquiLoans — LiquiLoans is a company uses technology to match borrowers and lenders and in the process eliminates the margin which is charged by traditional banks and NBFCs, thus, making borrowing cheaper and investing a more lucrative opportunity as compared to traditional investment avenues.
- 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!
- Kredmint — Explore Kredmint's financial solutions, including business loans, Working capital loans, term loan, Embedded Finance,supply chain finance, trade finance and invoice discounting. We offer tailored funding options to support your business growth.
- 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.
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, Automotive, Recruiting
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- HireQuotient — With the vision to disrupt the hiring process for business roles globally, HireQuotient’s virtual interviewers help companies test business skills at scale in an engaging and realistic manner, saving clients millions of dollars and man-hours. It has been used by more than 30,000 candidates in over 42 countries, and generated significant timesavings for hiring organisations while improving candidate quality in interviews.
- 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.
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
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
- 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 — Explore a range of refurbished resale apartments in Noida and Ghaziabad. Find Best housing options with modern amenities, prime locations and at the best price.
- Jimmy's Cocktails — Jimmy's Cocktails makes premium cocktails.
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.
Co-Founder of Growth Story.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Automotive, Food Processing
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ONWO — ONWO is a tech-enabled curated marketplace to reliably discover, transact, and fulfill food products from Indian manufacturers.
- 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.
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 | Collaborative Consumer Intelligence — 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.
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.
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.
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.
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, Funding Round, Series A
- India, France, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- earKART — earKART is a group of professionals and industry stalwarts who work towards increasing awareness about hearing loss and making the hearing aid selection process transparent, consistent and fair every time.
- TigerPay — TigerPay allows card payments instantly from your smartphone and is reshaping payment solutions for Small and Medium Enterprises.
- 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!
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, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Meragi — Meragi is an end to end wedding decor service taking care of all decor requirements from deisgn to execution, all at a great price
- Gud Gum — Gud Gum is a food brand that offers plastic-free, all natural, and biodegradable chewing gum.
- ReFit Global — Discover top-quality, certified refurbished phones at Refit Global. Enjoy premium devices at unbeatable prices with reliable performance.
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, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Euler Motors — Euler Motors is an automotive tech startup based out of New Delhi focused on commercial electric vehicles. Inspired by the work done by EV Companies across the globe esp. Tesla, Euler Motors is committed to accelerating India's transition to sustainable mobility. Euler aims to become the category leader for cargo transport by driving theElectric Vehicle Revolution in India. Euler Motors is focused on first solving last-mile logistics for e-commerce and 3PL players. To kickstart mass-market adoption - Euler is offering the entire "mobility as a service" stack instead of serving just one stage of a larger value-chain.
- CredR — Whether Buy & Sell Used Bikes or buy & sell Scooters online in India, CredR- the one-stop solution for all. Get 100% verified used two-wheelers in just 3 simple steps. No Legal Hassles. Premium Refurbished Bikes.
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 vertically integrates quantum computing and AI for solutions in manufacturing, industrial, transportation, finance, pharmaceuticals, and materials with diverse software platforms and products and provides impactful advances to generative AI and various industry verticals.
- Raptee Energy — Emobility
- AGNIT Semiconductors — AGNIT Semiconductors is to provide Gallium Nitride devices that are dependable, cost-effective, high-performing, and unique for the upcoming wireless systems. AGNIT Semiconductors is a semiconductor business that uses gallium nitride (GaN). AGNIT Semiconductors primary focus is on designing and producing electrical components and GaN materials(wafers) for use in radio-frequency applications. For the defense and telecommunications sectors, AGNIT's GaN components provide strong performance, cost, and footprint advantages.
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
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 — TableSprint is the world's first free app builder with zero fees and onboarding in a day using an intuitive, Excel-like interface.
- 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.
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 — Chhotastock is an Investment Platform that aims to democratize stock trading and retail investing.
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.
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
- Doodhvale — Doodhvale is a brand owned by Sanjeevani Dairy Farms Private Limited (Formerly known as Sanjeevani Dairy Farms LLP). Doodhvale is recognized as a startup by Department for the promotion of industry and internal trade, Minister of Commerce & Industry, Government of India. Doodhvale allows a customer to walk away from the doodhiya’s un-reliable& poor quality milk and also from the stale and processed milk of big dairy companies.Doodhvale not only delivers the high quality of fresh & pure cow milk but their innovative technology platform i.e. mobile app welcome an easy relaxed way of pausing milk supply for the day so or change quantity of milk required at any time etc. Customers can manage the entire milk calendar just in few seconds through doodhvale.com mobile app and track its milk delivery boy.The company currently operates in Delhi & NCR and has dairy products like Cow Milk, Buffalo Milk, Cow Ghee, Buffalo Ghee, Brown Bread, Taaza Dahi, etc. More than 10000 satisfied customers in Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Sonipat and Ghaziabad enjoying Doodhvale’s product every day and striding towards the chemical-free life.
- Truva — Truva is a proptech company that specializes in home buying and selling. We have deep expertise in Powai and provide an unparallel customer experience when it comes to buying apartments that are up for resale. We have multiple properties in Hiranandani, Lake Homes, Nahar and Raheja Vihar
- 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.
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.
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.
Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Vidyut — Vidyut offers end-to-end solutions for purchase and financing to resale which provide superior economics on electric vehicles compared to petrol & diesel vehicles.
- Pizza Wings — Pizza Wings is a pizza brand, known for fresh, high-quality pizzas and more, available for dine-in, takeout, or delivery.
- Third Wave Coffee — Third wave coffee is a manufacturer and distributor of easy coffee bags that help to make barista-quality coffee anytime without any equipment. The third wave roasts coffees in small batches and introduce specialty cofee.
Shajikumar Devakar, Managing Partner at IIFL Investment Managers.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Automotive
- Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Oben Electric — Oben Electric, The top e bike manufacturer in India has combined safety along with performance.
- KarmaLifeAI — KarmaLifeAI is an AI-powered digital solution for the financial well being of blue-collar gig workers and micro-business. The company allows the user to pay directly for key expenditures and smoothen their consumption patterns. It offers real-time access to credit for gig workers, based on their payroll account, through partnerships with thedigital platforms they work for. It operates an interest-free subscription model in which the platform or the gig worker can pay a flat fee and access credit equalling up to one-third of their monthly income. The company analyzes alternative data points and payment behavior over time to unlock higher credit lines for the workers.
Anmol Nayyar manages strategic relationships for the DMI Group, in addition to which he has other key responsibilities across DMI Group businesses.With over 15 years of experience in advisory and financial services and as an entrepreneur, Anmol started his career as a lawyer helping build the India practice at Ashurst in London, after which hewas an entrepreneur in financial services, building cross border Europe-India platforms in private equity and investment banking before joining DMI He graduated from Reed College in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Phi Beta Kappa) and holds the degree of Juris Doctor from the Northwestern College of Law. He is an active angel investor and an advisor to the UK Government in relation to entrepreneurship globally.
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Investment focus
- Automotive
- Angel
- India
Portfolio highlights
- EVage — EVage is electrifying India's logistics sector through our indigenously designed, and emissions-free electric commercial vehicles. We are India's first new age car company, redesigning and thinking the way mobility takes place.
Abhijeet Kumar is the Co Founder at Raincan.
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Investment focus
- Automotive
- Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Jelle Vastert
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- Energy, Automotive, Cloud Management
- Angel
- India
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- BRIGHTBLU — BRIGHTBLU is a leading Charger-to-Vehicle solutions provider in India offering versatile solutions for home, office, in town and on the road.
Munendra Singh Co Founder at RainCan
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- Automotive
- Seed
- India
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- 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.
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.
Aman Gupta - Co Founder & CMO @ boAt
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- Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Manufacturing
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- India, United States
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- NemoCare — NemoCare is developing the smartest and most comprehensive patient monitoring and management system. It is an innovative, continuous vital sign data acquisition, analysis and prediction engine that combines unobtrusive wireless wearable sensors and networks, analytical algorithms and big data to provide affordable continuous, high resolutionmonitoring for all newborns in hospital, and at home.We use design thinking principles to build life-saving technologies that will transform the way healthcare is delivered. Our current area of work is in newborn and maternal care.
- Medulance — Medulance is a GPS based technology platform for fast and reliable first point medical attention.
- RaptorxAI — RaptorX.ai is a fraud prevention platform that utilizes machine learning and data analysis to safeguard businesses against transaction and identity fraud. It offers tailored solutions for user profiling, continuous identity verification, and vigilant fraud detection to enhance operational trust and safety. The platform simplifies processes andreduces costs while providing comprehensive protection against evolving threats.
Aprameya loves singing romantic songs and is the quintessential dreamer who doesn’t fear to experiment. He used to be the Head of Business Development for PDS at Jones Lang LaSalle India where he spent almost 3 years post his graduation from IIM Ahmedabad. He has worked at Infosys and has an Electronics engineering degree from NITK Surthkal andif all this has made you think he’s a geek, ask his close friends and they would say otherwise!
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- Internet, Software, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, Croatia, Singapore
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- GoodGudi — GoodGudi is a Lifestyle retail shopping destination. Our Stores sell Travel Accessories, Fashion Accessories, Home Improvement products, Toys and Cosmetics
- Basil — Lunch has never been so fun! India's first stainless steel & leakproof bento lunch boxes and insulated water bottles! Designed for today's kids and the child in you!
- Evolved Foods — Evolved Foods is a sustainable eatery manufacturing company that designs and delivers plant based proteins and edible nutritional products.
Satveer has the experience of working across a few industries such as yarn manufacturing and real estate development in different countries. Now, under the guidance of his father, he helps the investments made through SGAN grow by leveraging the management expertise and global network of the Thakral Group. Academically, Satveer has graduated fromthe University of Virginia (UVa) with distinctions, earning a Bachelor of Science degree from McIntire School of Commerce (Finance & Management), along with a major in Psychology and a minor in Leadership from The College of Arts & Sciences.
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- Apps, E-Commerce, Beauty
- Seed, Angel
- India
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- Carmesi — We understand how rashes can be a constant worry during periods. Well, worry no more! Carmesi sanitary pads offer you the gentlest, safest care, so you can have a completely rash-free period.
- BoxMySpace — Warehousing and Logistics Solution across Pan-India
- FalconBrick — End-to-End construction project management software from FalconBrick for quicker project completions, quality handovers
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Abhishek Goyal is a Co-Founder at Tracxn. He attended the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
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Investment focus
- Retail, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Futwork — With Futwork, learn for free and get a telecaller job. Find Work from Home jobs in India. Flexi hours & work suitable for freshers and women. Earn from home now!
- Dr. Paws — Dr. Paws is a brand specializing in premium pet care products. It offers solutions designed to enhance the health and well-being of pets.
- DeepMatrix — DeepMatrix is a fully managed cloud-native SAAS Platform for all geospatial-related data. DeepMatrix "singularity" solution has end-to-end capabilities for ingesting, analyzing and visualizing this data. We are passionate about leveraging geospatial data effectively to increase resource productivity, reduce costs and enhance safety.Anytime. Anywhere.
Amit Kumar is a Partner at ah! Ventures.
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- Apps, Social Network, Business Development
- Seed, Funding Round
- India, Australia
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- Barneys — One of the best hard seltzers you have ever tasted. We at barneys offer you six unique hard seltzer drinks which were born out of love of fermentation, out of the universe thoughts and most importantly flavors.
- ImmersiveLabz — Discover Cadaviz by Immersive Labz, India's first virtual dissection table, offering an innovative approach to learn anatomy.
- Clean Electric — Clean Electric builds Lithium-Ion Batteries with Liquid Immersion Cooling. Fast Charge. Long Life. Unparalleled Safety.
Pushpak Ranka is an investor at WealthTrust Capital Services.
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- Automotive, Manufacturing, Electric Vehicle
- Pre-Seed
- India
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- Ashnni Motors — Ashnni Motors engineers and manufactures intelligent electric vehicles.
Anirudh Agarwal
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- Automotive
- Angel
- India
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- Strom Motors — Strom Motors is a smart urban mobility Company.
Niraj Singh - Founder & CEO @ Spinny
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- Transportation, Travel, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States
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- GroMo — Gromo is India's best real money earning app to earn extra income online without investment. Become a Gromo partner to Sell financial products & earn real money.
- Neend — Neend research on sleeplessness, its root causes, and solutions and come up with simple and new solutions through sleep apps.
- ApniBus — Welcome to ApniBus!
Sanjay Bhasin
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- Automotive
- Angel
- India
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- Strom Motors — Strom Motors is a smart urban mobility Company.
Olivier Guillaumond Global Head of Innovation Labs and Fintechs at ING.
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- SaaS, Automotive, Electric Vehicle
- Seed
- India, Singapore
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- Stemly AI — A global decisions science provider with state-of-the-art forecasting and optimization solutions for supply chain and finance businesses.
- goegonetwork — Explore goEgo's Smart EV charging solutions for residential and commercial use. Discover powerful AC & DC chargers and comprehensive charging management software.
Abhishek Goyal
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- E-Commerce, SaaS, Retail
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- India
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- Threado AI — Threado is the command centre for your online community. Measure engagement, get detailed insights and automate your operational tasks. Get early access!
- TyrePlex — Buy car and bike tyres. Best tyre price, features, reviews. Find right tyre size and tyre dealer details
- Sunday Design — Sunday Design offers modern products made in India but designed in Italy.
Ravichandran Sargunaraj is an Executive Director at TVS Logistics Services Ltd.
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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.
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.
Oskar Hartmann currently works as an Angel Investor for YAP. He previously worked at Flaschenpost SE as an Investor. Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Russian Federation, India
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- Tiggy — 15 minute grocery delivery on a mission to forever change the way we buy everyday essentials. Now live in Vancouver
- Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
- June Homes — June Homes is a network of fully furnished bedrooms in prime spots available on flexible month-to-month terms in major American cities.
Uday Sodhi
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- SaaS, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, United States
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- pumpumpum — Pumpumpum is an asset-light fintech mobility platform. We are empowering pre-owned car users with an IoT-enabled smart car subscription model. Users can select a pre-owned car of their choice, without worrying about the price, financing, warranty, quality & depreciation of the car. We are building a risk-free & high-quality pre-owned carportfolio for our financial partners via the B2B2C approach.
- ThinkMetal — ThinkMetal offers advanced metal 3D printing services for industrial applications. Discover our cutting-edge solutions for manufacturing high-quality metal parts.
- ErlySign — ErlySign develops noninvasive home-based early detection test kits for fatal diseases like Oral cancer, Uterine cancer, Prostate cancer, Lung Cancer, Breast Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer and many more. With our next gen diagnostics solution we can identify the cancer even before a visible tumor or lesion appears.
Manish is the General Partner of AXA Strategic Ventures, based in New York City. His primary focus is on making early stage investments in the US and helping young companies grow and scale. Manish sits of the boards of a number of ASV portfolio companies including, among others, Neura, Bee Financial, Limelight Health and PriceMethod.
Prior tojoining ASV, Manish held a number of investing, operational and strategic roles. Most recently, he was the Head of Financial Protection for AXA US, responsible for the company’s life insurance business. He also led AXA’s investment in Planmember and the disposal of the MONY closed block.
Manish started his career at McKinsey & Co. where he led client teams in engagements across strategy, corporate finance and operations & technology. Manish earned his M.S. and Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University and B.Tech. at the Indian Institute of Technology. He lives in New York City with his wife and two kids.
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- Health Care, Dental, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Israel, India
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- Qloo — Qloo is the cultural AI. Qloo has developed cutting-edge machine learning processes and AI algorithms to predict taste for any target audience and map relationships within and between cultural domains, including: Music, Film, TV, Dining, Nightlife, Fashion, Books, Travel and Tech.Qloo has mapped more than a quarter-trillion culturalcorrelations, and makes this intelligence readily available to individuals, developers, and leading brands. Qloo's cultural AI is currently powering personalization and informing key decisions for market leaders in tech, financial services, entertainment, automotive, fashion, CPG and hospitality. Qloo is headquartered and lovingly built in NYC.
- pumpumpum — Pumpumpum is an asset-light fintech mobility platform. We are empowering pre-owned car users with an IoT-enabled smart car subscription model. Users can select a pre-owned car of their choice, without worrying about the price, financing, warranty, quality & depreciation of the car. We are building a risk-free & high-quality pre-owned carportfolio for our financial partners via the B2B2C approach.
- Radius Agent — A nationwide real estate network with endless possibilities.
Frederick Towfigh Former Partner at Goldman Sachs & Operating Partner at Softbank Investment Advisers, Entrepreneur, Private investor, and Strategic Advisor
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- Automotive
- Seed
- India
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- 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.
Eugene Mayne - CEO & Founder @ Tristar Transport
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- Energy, Automotive, Electric Vehicle
- Seed
- India
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- Raptee Energy — Emobility
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