# Top 50 Automotive Angel Investors in India in June 2026

## Rajesh Mane
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Mobile, Retail

An active investor in early stage startups across technology & CPG.

## Asish Mohapatra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, B2B

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.

## Amit Lakhotia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, Internet

Amit Lakhotia is the GM Paytm Wallet at Paytm.

## Sumant Sinha
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: B2B, Energy, Automotive

Sumant Sinha is based out of Delhi, India, and is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of ReNew. Sumant previously worked at ASSOCHAM as a President.  Sumant Sinha attended the CQUIN Learning Network. Sumant Sinha has been awarded as an Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Fellow.

## Ramakant Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce

Ramakant Sharma is the Founder and CEO of Livspace. He previously worked at Jungle Ventures as an Operating Partner. Ramakant attended the Indian School of Business, where he earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA), and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, where he completed a Bachelor of Technology (BTech).

## Sandeep Aggarwal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion

Sandeep Aggarwal is based out of Gurgaon, Haryana and is the Founder & CEO of Droom Technology. Sandeep previously worked at ShopClues as a Founder & CEO. Sandeep Aggarwal attended the Washington University in St. Louis - Olin Business School. Sandeep Aggarwal has been received the Best Brand Awards, Top 50 Enterpreneur Award, and GlobalVisionary Award.

## Ruchi Kalra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, B2B, FinTech

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.

## Milan Modi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Tutoring, Education

Milan Modi

## Ashneer Grover
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet

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.

## K Ganesh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Automotive, Rental, Travel

K Ganesh

## Anupam Mittal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Internet

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.

## Ganesh Krishnan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Apps, Software

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.

## Dhianu Das
- Type: Angel
- Location: Haryana, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Automotive, E-Commerce, Fashion

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.

## Raaj Kumar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: GreenTech, Automotive, Electric Vehicle

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

## Bhavish Aggarwal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Angel
- Focus: Apps, FinTech, Transportation

Bhavish Aggarwal is based out of Bengaluru, Karnataka and is the CEO, Co-Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Ola Electric. Bhavish Aggarwal attended the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT). Bhavish Aggarwal has been awarded Entrepreneur of the Year' by Economic Times in 2017.

## Ankit Bhati
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, EdTech, Wellness

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.

## Sujeet Kumar
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce

Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan

## Lakshmi Narayanan
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Manufacturing, Energy, Internet

Lakshmi Narayanan is the Chief Executive Officer at Cognizant Technology Solutions.

## Gajendra chandel
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Energy, Automotive

Gajendra chandel

## Ankit Sajnani
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: B2B, Automotive, E-Commerce

Ankit Sajnani

## Walid Aradi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Internet, Health Care

Entrepreneur, investor. Advising global tech companies navigate through MENA+ regulatory environments, market entry and scaling

## Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce

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

## Srinivas Anumolu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Content, Internet

Co-Founder of Growth Story.

## Chetan Maini
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Automotive, Software, Electric Vehicle

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.

## Gaurav Juneja
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Electric Vehicle, Logistics, Sustainability

Gaurav Juneja is Head - Digitisation at Google. He attended the Indian Institute of Management.

## Wes Schwalje
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology

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

## Suveer Sinha
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Automotive

Suveer Sinha is the head of KKR Capstone India.

## Nandan Nilekani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: B2B, Tourism, Health Care

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.

## Eugene Mayne
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Energy, Automotive, Electric Vehicle

Eugene Mayne - CEO & Founder @ Tristar Transport

## Jelle Vastert
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Energy, Automotive, Cloud Management

Jelle Vastert

## Frederick Towfigh
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Automotive

Frederick Towfigh Former Partner at Goldman Sachs & Operating Partner at Softbank Investment Advisers, Entrepreneur, Private investor, and Strategic Advisor

## Abhishek Goyal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, SaaS, Retail

Abhishek Goyal

## Dimple Tayal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Automotive, Electric Vehicle, E-Commerce Platforms

Dimple Tayal

## Amit Kumar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Social Network, Business Development

Amit Kumar is a Partner at ah! Ventures.

## Abhijeet Kumar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Automotive

Abhijeet Kumar is the Co Founder at Raincan.

## Ayad Chammas
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Automotive

Ayad Chammas

## Ankit Kedia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing

Ankit Kedia Founder at Capital-A.

## Gowri Narayanan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series C, Series D
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Gowri Narayanan - Partner, FinTech @ SoftBank Vision Fund

## Vijay Chhikara
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity
- Focus: Automotive, E-Commerce

Vijay Chhikara is the Founder at MotoFlux.

## Arvind Kumar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, Automotive

Arvind Kumar, Business Head - Agriculture Division at Force Motors Ltd.

## Nitin Johar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Automotive

Nitin Johar is the Chief Financial Officer at the Investment & Development Office, Government of Ras Al Khaimah.

## Munendra Singh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Automotive

Munendra Singh Co Founder at RainCan

## Anirudh Agarwal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Automotive

Anirudh Agarwal

## Sanjay Bhasin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Automotive

Sanjay Bhasin

## Gaurav Munjal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Health Care, Apps

Gaurav Munjal is the Co-Founder and CEO at Unacademy.

## Vijay Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, News, Software

Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Paytm. He previously worked at India Today Group Online as a Tech head. Vijay Shekhar attended Delhi College of Engineering.

## Tonse Gautham Pai
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Automotive, Electric Vehicle

Tonse Gautham Pai

## Rohit Chanana
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Wellness, E-Commerce

Rohit Chanana - Founder and Managing Partner @ Sarcha Advisors

## Ravish Naresh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, Audio

Ravish Naresh is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Housing.com and Khatabook. Prior to that, he worked as a summer intern at Deloitte.
Naresh holds a bachelor’s degree from IIT Bombay.

## Deepak Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Automotive, Electric Vehicle

Deepak Gupta is a Business Banking Relationship Manager at Kotak Mahindra Bank.

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