Top 50 Beauty Angel Investors in India in January 2026

Investor	Beauty India investments
Suhasini Sampath	3
Suhail Sameer	3
Arihant Patni	3
Harminder Sahni	2
Rajeev Chitrabhanu (MAGNETIC)	2
Sangeet Agrawal	2
Arjun Purkayastha	2
Nimesh Kampani	2
Ramakant Sharma	2
Navin Parwal	2
Atim Kabra	1
Rajul Garg	1
Satveer Singh Thakral	1
Kunal Bahl	1
Rajan Anandan	1
Mohit Bajaj	1
Kunal Shah	1
Samrath Bedi	1
Kamal Haider	1
Navin Fabiani	1
Rohan Mirchandani	1
Farid Ahsan	1
Alok Mittal	1
Mithun Sacheti	1
Rajan Anandan	1
Anand Ladsariya	1
Shripad Nadkarni	1
Bhanu Pratap Singh	1
Rashmi Kwatra	1
Vipin Aggarwal	1
Neeraj Kakkar	1
Ankush Sachdeva	1
Aayuush Ahuja	1
Jatin Aneja	1
Dhianu Das	1
Nitin Gupta	1
Priyanka Gill	1
Samir Singh	1
Abhishek Pandey	1
Arun Malhotra	1
Tej Lalvani	1
Pradeep Mirani	1
Bikramjiet Kukreja	1
Kaushal Aggarwal	1
Nihir Parikh	1
Utsav Somani	1
Arjun Vaidya	1
Krishna Mehra	1
Binny Bansal	1
Nitin Agarwal	1

Suhasini Sampath is an entrepreneur and investor specializing in the food industry. Suhasini co-founded Yogabars, India's all-natural health food company.

Investment focus

Beauty, Cosmetics, Personal Health
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Nat Habit — NatHabit - Fresh Natural Beauty Care
Gully Labs — Gully Labs is a homegrown sneaker design house, specializing in hand-lasted sneakers that blend Indian cultural motifs with contemporary design. The brand releases new collections every 60 days, often drawing inspiration from Indian traditions, festivals, and regional art forms. Gully Labs positions itself as a response to both the lack ofauthentic Indian representation in mainstream sneaker culture and the prevalence of imitation products in the market, aiming to celebrate original Indian stories and craftsmanship
Moxie Beauty — Moxie Beauty offers the best hair care products. From shampoos to styling gels, find everything you need for perfect hair. Buy online now!

Suhail Sameer is based out of Delhi, India and is the Founder and Managing Partner of OTP Ventures. Suhail previously worked at BharatPe as a Chief Executive Officer. Suhail Sameer attended Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Fashion
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cleevo — Cleevo offers products of cleaning with eco friendly, non toxic solutions to your home.
Nuuk — Out with the old, in with the NUUK! Welcome to Nuuk, where the cool vibes of Greenland's capital inspire our line of home and kitchen appliances.
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.

Arihant is the Managing Director of Patni Financial Advisors, a wealth management company that advises high net worth families on a wide range of investment options. He is also Co-founder and Director at Nirvana venture Advisors. Arihant began his career at his family business, Patni Computer Systems, one of the leading Indian IT businesses of thetime, where he held positions in the computer software and human resources departments, as well as being a business development and marketing executive. Subsequently, Arihant worked as a Business Strategy Consultant for Fidelity Investments in Boston.

Investment focus

Health Care, Apps, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Innovist — Onesto Labs Private Limited is an unlisted private company. It was incorporated on 18 October, 2018 and is located in Central Delhi, Delhi. It is classified as a private limited company.The company has two directors - Rohit Chawla and Sifat Khurana.
Punt Partners — Punt Partners is a company that provides marketing technology services. It provides results through the use of proprietary data, technology, and services.
The Yarn Bazaar — The Yarn Bazaar is a modern, efficient, and transparently managed marketplace for yarn buyers and sellers to discover real-time yarn prices, information, and market trends.

Harminder Sahni - Founder & MD @ Wazir Advisors

Investment focus

Fashion, Lifestyle, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Series B
India

Portfolio highlights

Crepdog Crew — Crepdog Crew is the premier platform for sneakerheads and fashion enthusiasts .
Purple Style Labs — Purple Style Labs is an IIT-Bombay graduate and ex-banker with Deutsche. It aspires to be the biggest fashion house of India managing multiple designer brands in the premium, luxury as well as affordable retail segment.
Silae ESG Solutions Pvt Ltd — Silae ESG Solutions Pvt Ltd brings the power of Industry 4.0 to the fashion manufacturing industry - one of the largest employment generators globally - to improve efficiency and profitability, reduce wastage and operate sustainably, and leverage the benefits of Industry 4.0. Our powerful data-platform is in sync with the industry's uniqueneeds and is designed to help factories of any size become data-driven.

Rajeev Chitrabhanu (MAGNETIC)

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Furniture
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

RentoMojo — RentoMojo is an online furniture rental platform that was incorporated in November 2014.It currently operates in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.RentoMojo was founded by Geetansh Bamania, an ex-IITM, in November 2014 in India. Like many other young working professionals, he was living in rented apartments,working long hours and found it inconvenient to equip the house with furniture when he moved. RentoMojo was developed to provide an alternative to buying and selling furniture in rental properties.
Innovist — Onesto Labs Private Limited is an unlisted private company. It was incorporated on 18 October, 2018 and is located in Central Delhi, Delhi. It is classified as a private limited company.The company has two directors - Rohit Chawla and Sifat Khurana.
Skye Air Mobility — Skye Air Mobility is a leading drone delivery tech firm a widespread in India. The company has completed India's first drone delivery of vaccines and covid samples in September 2021. Skye Air has completed 965 flights in just 3 months.

Sangeet Agrawal - Founder @ Mokobara

Investment focus

Beauty, Retail, Flowers
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Hoovu Fresh — Farm fresh pooja flowers delivered to your doorstep by Hoovu. We offer Roses, Marigolds, Jasmines, lotus, Sevanthi & other pooja flowers. Subscribe for daily pooja flowers with one click.
Moxie Beauty — Moxie Beauty offers the best hair care products. From shampoos to styling gels, find everything you need for perfect hair. Buy online now!

Arjun Purkayastha is a purpose driven leader with extensive global experience managing diverse businesses and multi-cultural teams at FTSE Top 10 and Fortune 100 companies - Reckitt and P&G. He has a strong track record of building outperforming teams, iconic brands & innovative business models across 60+ countries having lived & workedin the UK, Singapore, South Korea.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Retail
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wellopia — Clean, joyful wellness made just for kids. Thoughtfully crafted with simple ingredients. Safe, natural care parents can trust.
Moxie Beauty — Moxie Beauty offers the best hair care products. From shampoos to styling gels, find everything you need for perfect hair. Buy online now!
Tuco Kids — A natural personal care range for kids and teens with a vision to make this planet plastic free

Nimesh is the Founding Partner at 108 Capital, a Growth-stage venture fund partnering with founders building digital-first, scalable and sustainable businesses. Prior, Nimesh was the cofounder at trica, a full-stack technology platform for growth-stage investments and equity management. He has been an avid Investor in private markets and is alsofounding venture partner for India’s first $100Mn revenue based financing fund N+1 Capital and also advisor & Board member of Campus Fund – 1st dorm fund in India

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

KhiladiPro — KhiladiPro a sports technology startup using artificial intelligence to assess and support young athletes.
Koinbasket — KoinBasket lets you invest in diversified cryptocurrency portfolios and indexes with Bitcoin, Ethereum, Altcoins and DeFi tokens on Binance, Coinbase and Huobi.
Intents Mobi — Mobile analytics, Logistics, Transportation, Fleet Management, Data Analytics

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ozi — Ozi operates as a quick commerce platform for parents.
Grexa AI — Grexa AI is creating a one-stop AI assisted mobile app designed to help local business owners grow with their revenue. Grexa helps business owners like clinics and dental practices, home service businesses such as plumbers, HVAC specialists, and pest control services, as well as salons, fitness centers, car service shops, restaurants, real estateagencies, and travel agents to effortlessly and affordably improve their digital presence and customer communication
Oolka — Oolka is a credit-building website that connects lenders and borrowers and shows credit scores.

Navin Parwal - Co-Founder @ Mokobara

Investment focus

Beauty, Cosmetics, Personal Health
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Moxie Beauty — Moxie Beauty offers the best hair care products. From shampoos to styling gels, find everything you need for perfect hair. Buy online now!

Atim Kabra is the Founding Partner of Frontline Strategy Limited, the investment manager/advisor for IIGF and SVFML. He has over 18 years of well rounded "equities exposure" including Portfolio Management, Equity Sales and Equity Research with global institutions like ABN AMRO Bank, ANZ Grindlays Bank. After a stint in the equityresearch section at ABN Amro Securities India, Atim moved to New York City with ABN Amro Inc. where he set up the sub continent equity sales desk. He quit ABN Amro in 2000 to set up FSL and SVFML. Atim has lived and worked in India (Delhi and Mumbai), and USA (New York region for 10 years). He now divides his time between India and Singapore, where he is currently based.Atim Kabra has majored in economics from Delhi University and also has a Masters in Management Studies from Bombay University.

Investment focus

B2B, Beauty, Wellness
Angel, Seed
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Hyperdata.IO — The premium domain hyperdata.io is for sale on fruits.co. Secure the domain now and start your online success story. Safe payment and quick transfer are guaranteed.
Cardiotrack — uber Diagnostics is engaged in mHealth space to deliver diagnostics solutions that significantly improve patient care in developing nations. Key challenges faced by healthcare providers include very high cost of diagnostics equipment and lack of trained professionals in semi-urban and rural areas. uber Diagnostics is addressing both of theseissues through innovation in medical electronics and research in cloud based IT infrastructure.
Inner Being Wellness — Inner Being Wellness manufactures beauty, wellness, and nutrition products.Inner Being Wellness comprises a growing roster of products spanning across the categories of beauty, wellness, and nutrition. Inner Being believes in the power of pure plant extracts, ancient wisdom, and their synergy with modern research methodology.Headquartered atHyderabad, Telangana with a pan-India presence, the company's mission is to make a dent in the industry affecting the lives of people and the society as a whole, positively.

Rajul co-founded GlobalLogic, sold for $420M in 2013 to Apax partners in the largest deal of the year in India. Rajul built the operation ground up in India and then expanded through global acquisitions, until 2008. Rajul then consulted with top tier venture capital firms such as Sequoia Capital and Aavishkaar, where he got exposed to the educationsector.Earlier, right out of college, Rajul founded Pine Labs, a leader in the Indian market in credit card transactions.Rajul serves on several Boards, including publicly traded S Mobility, a leader in digital mobility. He is an active mentor to several startups, a sought after angel investor and a participant in several industry bodies such as TiE, NASSCOM, IIT Mentors and othersRajul is a graduate from IIT Delhi.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Tripeur — Tripeur is an NLP and AI/ML based corporate travel bot that utilizes proprietary NLU algorithms, flexi-approval module and an inbuilt booking engine while focusing on ease of use and employee delight.
Bulbulshop — Bulbulshop is a purchasing e-commerce app that provides health, gadgets, beauty, cosmetics, apparel, jewelry, home, kitchen, and bags. It was founded on November 28, 2018, and is based in Delhi, India.
Sunstone Education — Sunstone Eduversity is an academic institution that aims at creating industry ready professionals with our unique pedagogy and technology-enabled education delivery. We partner with existing colleges who have a well-equipped infrastructure to run and manage an AICTE approved, PGDM program by leveraging the use of modern-day technology and thusensuring that the students are provided with the highest level of education quality across all our campuses. All our students are imparted with the desired skill sets that are in sync with the corporate environment and given practical training on various corporate domains that exist in an organization.The faculty at Sunstone realized that there was a huge disconnect between the present education system and the dynamic demands of the employment industry. Students these days have immense subject matter knowledge which is imbibed in them throughout their foundation years which begins right from their schooling and continues until they complete their post-graduation and so on!Broadcasting information on various subject matters does not really comply with the current industry requirements and hence the students really struggle when it comes to acing certain tasks at work. They lack the basic skill set that is considered to be a pre-requisite by most of the corporates and are not considered industry ready professionals.We envision in bringing about a paradigm shift in the present higher education system by equipping the students with various skill sets so that they are easily absorbed by the recruitment companies. Till date, Sunstone Eduversity has a 100% placement record with over 200 different recruitment companies impaneled with us. We take full responsibility of your career as we believe that all education institutes should provide its students with the confidence to be placed right after acquiring the desired skill sets and hence are delighted to procreate this framework!

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Apps, Internet
Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

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

Kunal is a technology entrepreneur and investor.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Legistify — Legistify offers AI-powered legal operations software to streamline workflows, manage contracts, track legal cases and improve productivity for enterprise legal teams
Equal Identity — Equal Identity operates as an ID-sharing platform.
Eyewear designed& labs — Eyewear designed& labs is a eyewear startup.

As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Smytten — Smytten is an online discovery platform for premium products & services. Smytten also offers assisted shopping, and for the more advanced shopper, customised offers and ability to build their own wishlist for regular purchases.
Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.

Mohit Bajaj

Investment focus

Beauty, Consumer, Lifestyle
Seed, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

MCaffeine — MCaffeine is a personal care brand that offers caffein-infused face, body, and hair care products. Its personal care product portfolio includes shampoos, face washes, shower gels, body lotions, and face masks, which use caffeine as a major ingredient. MCaffeine won Nykaa Femina Beauty Awards 2020 for the best Coffee body scrub.It was founded byVikas Lachhwani and Tarun Sharma in 2015 and based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Univest — Maximise your profits in stock market with the help of SEBI Registered Analyst of Univest. Start boosting your stock market Investments today with Univest.

Kunal Shah

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Hoggy — Founded by IITians and invested- in by unicorn founders like Kunal Shah and Sameer Pitalwala, Hoggy is a Kid’s learning app that focuses on providing interactive learning for kids aged between 2 to 5 years, while maintaining an absolutely safe space for kids. Through this platform, we've made it possible for creators of kids' content tomonetize their content and earn independently of ads and sponsored content. Hoggy serves as a brilliant platform where such content creators can find their niche target audience and grow the number of their true fans exponentially.
Affluense AI — Affluense provides AI powered platform to help businesses discover and engage HNI and UHNI individuals with real-time, 360° profiles.
Eyewear designed& labs — Eyewear designed& labs is a eyewear startup.

After completing his under-graduation in Economics and Psychology from the University of Rochester in New York, Samrath Bedi had set out for a career in corporate banking when his mother Mira Kulkarni began dabbling in premium Ayurvedic skincare back home in India. Intrigued, Bedi returned to New Delhi in 2002 to check out what looked like “aninteresting project”. He never left.

Investment focus

Apps, Beauty, Internet
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

simsim — Buy expert recommended products in fashion, electronics, home & kitchen, beauty & grooming only on simsim. Get free shipping, COD and easy returns/exchanges.
ClanConnect — Clan Connect - India's first data-driven AI-based top Influencer Marketing Platform for Agency, Company & brands. Collaborate with social media influencers.' /> <meta property=
Goa Brewcrafts — Goa Brewcrafts is a Private Limited Alco-beverage producer company that is incorporated on July 6, 2016.

Kamal Haider - Founder @ Market Securities

Investment focus

Beauty, Mobile, Banking
Seed, Angel
India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

OFF3R — Launched in 2015, OFF3R is a mobile crowdfunding aggregator that operates as an access point to the alternative investment market. It helps its users discover and track opportunities across multiple crowdfunding platforms. The platform collates investment opportunities from various crowdfunding platforms and displays them in a Tinder-style swipeformat. It also offers the latest insights and news about the alternative finance industry. OFF3R is operated from London, United Kingdom.
POPxo — POPxo is India's online community for women that deals everything from fashion, beauty, lifestyle, work, and etc.Reaching 9 million users every month with over 102 million monthly engaged content views. POPxo provides text and video content in an accessible manner, and reach them where they live their lives: on social media and on mobile.It focuses on reaching a highly targeted audience - the millions of young urban women in India who are growing in confidence, in independence and in spending power, it monetises by working across formats (native ads, social posts, events) with brands who want to reach this important and influential consumer base.I was launch in March 2014 it's become the go-to lifestyle resource for the female (18-34) demographic.
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Navin Fabiani - Real Estate Developer @ Grupo SURA

Investment focus

Apps, Music, Beauty
Angel, Series B
India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

POPxo — POPxo is India's online community for women that deals everything from fashion, beauty, lifestyle, work, and etc.Reaching 9 million users every month with over 102 million monthly engaged content views. POPxo provides text and video content in an accessible manner, and reach them where they live their lives: on social media and on mobile.It focuses on reaching a highly targeted audience - the millions of young urban women in India who are growing in confidence, in independence and in spending power, it monetises by working across formats (native ads, social posts, events) with brands who want to reach this important and influential consumer base.I was launch in March 2014 it's become the go-to lifestyle resource for the female (18-34) demographic.
Music Messenger — Shellanoo Group is a technology company specializing in mobile applications, Internet related services and interactive artificial intelligence with cognitive solutions.Introducing a modern way to invest in technology. Shellanoo Group offers investors the range of a diversified IT portfolio with the simplicity of investing in a single company.Shellanoo Group builds, operates and manages products and services that challenge the status quo, all of which are wholly owned by the Company.Founded in mid-2014 in Israel, Shellanoo Group has grown into one of Israel’s more appealing technology firms, combining both business expertise and technological strength.

Rohan Mirchandani is the Co-Founder at Epigamia. He attended The Wharton School.

Investment focus

Beauty, Retail, Cosmetics
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Nat Habit — NatHabit - Fresh Natural Beauty Care
Hypd Marketing Technologies Pvt Ltd — Shop from your favourite Creator's recommendations directly from their store! | #ItsAFullTimeJob | #getHYPD
Ginglani Distillers — Ginglani Distillers operates as a whisky startup. Ginglani Distillers is the maker of Black Bow whisky.

Farid Ahsan is a co-founder at ShareChat. He earned his degree at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Investment focus

Internet, Health Care, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Series B
India

Portfolio highlights

Fanztar — Performance-led Influencer marketing platform for Brands | Fanztar Collabs
Pillow — Pillow is an investment app that allows users to earn the best interest on their crypto via DeFi with none of the associated hassles. Earn up to 18% on stablecoins and up to 7.05% on your BTC and ETH.
Blitz — Blitz powers last-mile logistics for D2C brands with 60-min, 2-hour, same-day, and next-day delivery. Scale your quick commerce with our Darkstore fulfillment model for ultra-fast shipping.

Alok is Co-founder and CEO of Indifi, India's leading full-stack platform for enabling debt financing for small businesses. Alok is also an active angel investor, co-founder of Indian Angel Network, and on the board of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Delhi. Prior to starting Indifi, Alok setup and ran Canaan Partners' venture investmentbusiness. Earlier, Alok co-founded JobsAhead.com, a leading web-based recruitment business in India.Alok earned a BE in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and a MS in computer science from UC Berkeley.

Investment focus

Internet, Marketplace, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Cleevo — Cleevo offers products of cleaning with eco friendly, non toxic solutions to your home.
Mistry.Store — Mistry.Store is a digital-first, exclusive platform for professionals simplifying home building materials purchases.
speakX — Yellow Class is an online hobby platform for young kids.

Mithun Sacheti finished his undergrad studies and took the first flight out to the USA, to enrol and get certified as a gemologist from the Gemmological Institute of America, California (GIA). His passion for jewellery and all things diamond drove him to set up his first store (for Jaipur Gems), just a few days after his return! Afteroverseeing Jaipur Gem’s expansion into South India, including into Chennai and Coimbatore, Mithun headed towards e-commerce.mithunRealizing the huge potential of online retail in India and using his background/experience in jewellery and diamonds, Mithun laid the blueprint for CaratLane.com. His vision of selling solitaires and diamond jewellery over the internet was shared by a man whose expertise lay in a complementing area. With Srinivasa Gopalan, Mithun started CaratLane.com in 2007, with the site going live in 2008. From then, it’s been a journey of crossing milestone after milestone! Recognizing the leadership provided in growing CaratLane, TiE felicitated Mithun with the “Next-Gen Entrepreneur of the Year” Award in 2012.Mithun combines jewellery expertise with a passion for jewellery technology. He has ensured that every piece produced for CaratLane.com is manufactured to perfect specifications, so when our customers lay hands on their jewellery, they get exactly what they saw online. Few e-retailers can live up on specs like CaratLane.com! Today, Mithun oversees business strategy and direction at CaratLane.com. When not hobnobbing with diamonds, Mithun is an active badminton and squash player and a complete cricket aficionado.

Investment focus

Software, CRM, Sales
Seed, Angel
United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Bold Care — Bold Care is a digital men’s health and wellness startup that offers free sexologist consultations and discreet delivery of holistic sexual wellness kits. It offers personalised treatment plans with prescription medicines and natural supplements. With unlimited post-consultation follow-ups, the startup helps find permanent solutions for men’swellness issues.
Art Of Time — Art Of Time is a luxury watch retailer specializing in a curated selection of timepieces from renowned brands. It follows an omnichannel retail model, combining physical showrooms with an e-commerce presence, video consultations, home shopping services, and personalized concierge experiences. Art of Time also collaborates with TimeVallée forimmersive boutiques that bring together Swiss luxury watch brands under one roof, offering rich brand portfolios alongside experiential services such as after-sales care, gifting consultations, customization, and watch-making events.
Baanhem Ventures — Baanhem Ventures represents a privately held entity with a concentration on the, supported by its designation as a non-government company.

As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

NAYAN — NAYAN Offers High Precision Video Analytics and AI Data Driver Sleeping AI detects signs of driver drowsiness or sleeping to prevent accidents Using Mobile Phone Monitors and flags drivers using mobile phones while driving Wearing No Seatbelt Detects if the driver...
Freshtohome — Freshtohome is an online grocery store that sells a range of seafood and meat to its users.The website’s range of products include fish, poultry, mutton, steaks, and fillet. Fish consists of shell, freshwater, and marine. Furthermore, it enables suppliers to supply their seafood and meat to the website.Freshtohome was launched in 2015 by ShanKadavil and is based in Bangalore.
mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.

Mr. Anand Ladsariya is the CEO and promoter director of Everest Flavours Ltd., a privately owned company, manufacturer and exporter of Menthol, Peppermint Oil, flavours and fragrances. He is a Graduate, topper and gold medalist from Bombay University and Post Graduate MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad. He is also involved in various social activities. He isex-Chairman of CHEMEXCIL, a premium export promotion organisation established by Ministry of Commerce, Govt. of India, for promotion of exports.He looks forward to risk adjusted investments keeping in mind capital preservation, sound returns and growth possibilities. He has investments in equity, equity mutual funds, real estate, real estate mutual funds, corporate loans, debt and liquid funds. Other options are viewed regularly on an ongoing fashion.He is an active Angel Investor with both Mumbai Angels and Indian Angel Network. He has invested in over 35 start-ups till date and actively mentors and guides the promoters to reach the next level. He is also part of the Planning Commission’s “Committee on Angel Investment and Early Stage Venture Capital” which is guided by the Vice Chairman of Planning Commission.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Internet, Travel
Seed, Angel
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Kytchens — Kytchens is a full-stack "Kitchen as a Service" platform that empowers F&B brands to expand their footprint across the country with our cloud kitchens network.
Credit Fair — Credit Fair operates as a consumer lending fintech startup that aims to build a credit ladder for 550 million underserved Indians. It offers lending solutions to both businesses and private individuals.
NewsReach — NewsReach is a leading press release company that distributes to maximize brand exposure and engagement. Elevate your message with us.

Shripad Nadkarni - Director @ Maverix Platforms

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Tea
Seed, Series B, Series C
India

Portfolio highlights

Boba Bhai — Boba Bhai is a bubble tea brand that provides an unique and interactive bubble tea experience in the market.
Innovist — Onesto Labs Private Limited is an unlisted private company. It was incorporated on 18 October, 2018 and is located in Central Delhi, Delhi. It is classified as a private limited company.The company has two directors - Rohit Chawla and Sifat Khurana.
The Moms Co. — The Moms Co. creates safe and natural formulated products for babies that are certified toxin-free. The Moms Co. is on a mission to help moms make safe, natural, effective choices for themselves and their families.Their products are developed and tested with the best experts across India, Australia, and Switzerland. With Mother Nature making herpresence felt very strongly, everything they create retains the good and rejects the bad to give you a product that is as pure as Mother’s Love.

Bhanu Pratap Singh is a Co-Founder and CTO at ShareChat.

Investment focus

Internet, Apps, Beauty
Seed, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

Fanztar — Performance-led Influencer marketing platform for Brands | Fanztar Collabs
Zemé Fresh — Experience all natural, Ayurvedic Beauty Services at the comfort of your Home! Get chemical-free Facials, Hair Spas, Manicure & Pedicure with fresh, natural Indian ingredients that your grandmom has trusted for years! Created by Ayurvedic Doctors. Safe & Effective! Try it to believe it!
AppsForBharat — AppsForBharat is a product studio focused on building apps for spiritual and devotional needs of Indian users.

Rashmi Kwatra is the founder and CIO of Sixteenth Street Capital.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Beauty
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Curefoods — Curefoods democratizes access to food on a sustainable basis. They focus on operations management for cloud kitchens and the online food ordering market.
Innovist — Onesto Labs Private Limited is an unlisted private company. It was incorporated on 18 October, 2018 and is located in Central Delhi, Delhi. It is classified as a private limited company.The company has two directors - Rohit Chawla and Sifat Khurana.
Punch — Start trading options with confidence. Punch is a broker with single-screen trading & safety tools for part-time traders. If you're new to options, download Punch app.

Vipin Aggarwal is a seasoned professional of proven track record in Fund Management, Fund Raising, Real-Estate and Capital Markets with over 20 years experience. He has served reputed companies in his career.He's an MBA from Kurukshetra University and has participated in courses at IIM Ahmedabad and ISB, Hyderabad.He currently workswith Frontline Venture Services as a Principal Partner. FVSPL advises Frontline Strategy Limited, a successful manager of mid market focused Private Equity funds. FSL manages Strategic Ventures Fund, India Industrial Growth Fund, CCube Angels Network and has delivered an IRR in excess of 20% over the last 12 years. Prior to the Fund he worked as Executive director Omaxe limited, (2006-2009), a Delhi based Real estate listed company. He founded and ran India's largest commodity broking house from 2001 to 2006. From 1996 to 2001 he worked as Chief Dealer, India operations with DBS Bank Securities, Singapore. He was involved in founding of India's largest and successful stock broking house, Bonanza Portfolio Ltd.Vipin is well networked with Global and National investors and companies. As Executive Director in 2007 he lead Omaxe Ltd, to the best ever IPO in real estate. The issue garnered an investment interest of $10 billion. Vipin has been on Board of Delhi Stock Exchange in past and is currently on the Board of Zamil Solar, the Indian venture of one of the largest Saudi Based industrial conglomerates. He is also on the board of SEMCO Ltd, a company active in Defense & Railways.A passionate angel investor, Vipin has invested and successfully seed funded many ventures: indlaw.com (now a Thomson Reuters group company), Icraonline.com (now a Moody's online venture in India) and leading micro credit company among various others. His areas of interest are Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud, 3D printing and ventures focused on social causes, environment and education.

Investment focus

Beauty, Wellness, Nutrition
Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Inner Being Wellness — Inner Being Wellness manufactures beauty, wellness, and nutrition products.Inner Being Wellness comprises a growing roster of products spanning across the categories of beauty, wellness, and nutrition. Inner Being believes in the power of pure plant extracts, ancient wisdom, and their synergy with modern research methodology.Headquartered atHyderabad, Telangana with a pan-India presence, the company's mission is to make a dent in the industry affecting the lives of people and the society as a whole, positively.

Neeraj Kakkar - Co-founder and CEO @ Paper Boat

Investment focus

Beauty, Cosmetics
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Nat Habit — NatHabit - Fresh Natural Beauty Care

Ankush Sachdeva is the co-founder and CEO at ShareChat. He earned his degree at IIT Kanpur.

Investment focus

Internet, Wellness, Apps
Seed, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

Fanztar — Performance-led Influencer marketing platform for Brands | Fanztar Collabs
Wishlink — Wishlink by promoting brands through its storefront enables social media content providers to monetise their influence.
General Autonomy — General Autonomy is a robotics firm on the cutting edge of manufacturing and automation for the future.

Mr. Aayuush Ahuja has a diversified exposure of business for over 07 years. With Engineering background in Mechanical Engineering, Mr. Ahuja had spent all his time in new ideas and innovations which brings a great knowledge of the industry. With his acumen of business in early days, he got involved in technical works in projects related toOil/Gas, Refineries, Oil Pipelines, Energy and related infrastructure. With the family background of similar business, he had the passion of learning, implementing and growing business from start of his career.Mr. Ahuja is handling a key project of execution of Oil Pipeline for new Refinery for the client- Alghanim International Kuwait / Saipem Spa Italy / Kuwait Oil Company Kuwait under the Family Business company The Oilstone Technologies DMCC as Project Coordinator and Company Representative to handle the project with team of professionals hired from the industry. With his capability to handle key professionals, Senior Management and Client, Mr. Ahuja was elevated to Country Manager as well along with his ongoing project technical responsibilities.Aayuush Ahuja is the innovative founder of a cutting-edge B2B platform revolutionizing the salon and beauty industry. With a passion for fostering growth and connectivity, Aayuush's visionary leadership drives forward-thinking solutions that empowering salon and beauty industry.

Investment focus

Beauty, Information Technology, Personal Care and Hygiene
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

ZALON — Grow your Salon business, manage your operations & market your Salon with Zalon software suite.

Jatin Aneja

Investment focus

Apps, Beauty, Retail
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

CoinDCX — CoinDCX is India's largest and safest cryptocurrency exchange where you can buy and sell Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with ease. CoinDCX, with its #TryCrypto mission, provides Indian crypto audience with a simple cryptocurrency trading app for seamless crypto-to-crypto (c2c) and fiat-to-crypto (f2c) experience.
Be U Salons — Be U is India's first subscription based Salon Chain, Helping customers experience quality services at neighbourhood salons through an annual subscription while helping neighbourhood salons utilise their idle capacity at a minimal franchise subscription cost.
Bigspoon — We are an omni-channel multi-brand Cloud kitchen start-up, operational since September 2019 and headquartered out of Ahmedabad. Our main focus is on tier-2 markets, with a vision to minimize the delta between fine-dine and home-delivery experience for the customer and make great food accessible to all. Currently we have six live brands under theBigspoon umbrella - Makhni Brothers (Authentic North Indian Cuisine), Meals101 (Chinese and Global Meals-for-one), Oven & Grill (American Fast-food) and our latest offering, Thali Central (Thali meals ), The Wrap Co. (Roomali Wraps Brand) and The Monkey Fries (Fries brand) and have presence in 10 cities across Gujarat, MP, Maharashtra, Telengana, UP and RajasthanFounded by INSEAD and WGSHA alumni, with leadership experience at Uber, GoJek and ITC, we are on a mission to create the finest cloud kitchen start-up of Asia at scale.

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.

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.

Nitin Gupta

Investment focus

Beauty, Retail, Cosmetics
Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

O'2 Nails India — O'2 Nails India is a retail fashion brand into the nail care domain. Call us or book your online appointment at a nearby store.

Priyanka Gill is the Co-Founder and President of MyGlamm. She is also the Founder & CEO of POPxo, India's largest community of women.

Investment focus

Advertising, Beauty, Fashion
Seed, Funding Round
India, Sweden, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

POPxo — POPxo is India's online community for women that deals everything from fashion, beauty, lifestyle, work, and etc.Reaching 9 million users every month with over 102 million monthly engaged content views. POPxo provides text and video content in an accessible manner, and reach them where they live their lives: on social media and on mobile.It focuses on reaching a highly targeted audience - the millions of young urban women in India who are growing in confidence, in independence and in spending power, it monetises by working across formats (native ads, social posts, events) with brands who want to reach this important and influential consumer base.I was launch in March 2014 it's become the go-to lifestyle resource for the female (18-34) demographic.
Campanja — Campanja’s next-generation Bid Management Solutions radically improve return on your advertising spend.We are a technology driven company backed by noteworthy investors such as Google board member and founding investor, Ram Shriram and MySQL founder, David Axmark. Trusted by global organizations, we are redefining paid search and display with apowerful combination of technical and business expertise. Using advanced technologies such as Real Time Tracking, Predictive Modelling and High Frequency Bidding we harness the true potential of online advertising to deliver great results to our clients.
IQ Labs — IQ Marketplace offers unique NFTs with exclusive utilities, boosting your in-game experience. With flexible renting parameters and multiple payment options, rent without collateral and unlock the full utility of NFTs. Say goodbye to gas fees with our gasless renting feature and multiply the value of NFT collections with our multi-utility renting. Explore now

Samir Singh Ex-CMO, Global Personal Care, Unilever, Chair, Unilever Asia Pte Ltd.

Investment focus

Beauty, Cosmetics, Personal Health
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Moxie Beauty — Moxie Beauty offers the best hair care products. From shampoos to styling gels, find everything you need for perfect hair. Buy online now!

Abhishek Raj Pandey, head of sourcing and procurement, Mamaearth,

Investment focus

Beauty, Information Technology, Personal Care and Hygiene
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

ZALON — Grow your Salon business, manage your operations & market your Salon with Zalon software suite.

Arun Malhotra

Investment focus

Apps, Beauty, Retail
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Be U Salons — Be U is India's first subscription based Salon Chain, Helping customers experience quality services at neighbourhood salons through an annual subscription while helping neighbourhood salons utilise their idle capacity at a minimal franchise subscription cost.

Tej Lalvani is the CEO of Vitabiotics.

Investment focus

Fashion, Advertising, Beauty
Angel, Seed
India, Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

POPxo — POPxo is India's online community for women that deals everything from fashion, beauty, lifestyle, work, and etc.Reaching 9 million users every month with over 102 million monthly engaged content views. POPxo provides text and video content in an accessible manner, and reach them where they live their lives: on social media and on mobile.It focuses on reaching a highly targeted audience - the millions of young urban women in India who are growing in confidence, in independence and in spending power, it monetises by working across formats (native ads, social posts, events) with brands who want to reach this important and influential consumer base.I was launch in March 2014 it's become the go-to lifestyle resource for the female (18-34) demographic.
Gener8 — We believe that the advertising industry needs more transparency and that people should be able to control their own data. Our technology gives people the control that is currently missing. And if people choose to share their data with advertisers, we reward them for it. Consequently, people trust us and 83% of them share their data with us.Meaning that we have an incredible understanding about these people and their online behaviour. We work with companies (and their media agencies) in the capacity of a media owner to do three things: 1. Provide premium media for you to reach this highly defined audience.2. Use our proprietary first party data to unveil actionable insights about your customers, eg. their purchase habits.3. To promote your brand and drive an action from your audience.
Peachy Lean — Peachylean, is an Irish based athleisure business providing stylish, high quality, supportive, high waisted gym leggings. We want to support strong women who like to look good while working out in the gym.

Pradeep Mirani

Investment focus

Beauty, Internet, Internet of Things
Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Glam Studios — Glam Studios provide you a wide range of world class beauty salon services, makeup services, hair care services, skin care services, body spa and more.

Bikramjiet Kukreja

Investment focus

Apps, Beauty, Retail
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Be U Salons — Be U is India's first subscription based Salon Chain, Helping customers experience quality services at neighbourhood salons through an annual subscription while helping neighbourhood salons utilise their idle capacity at a minimal franchise subscription cost.

Kaushal co-heads the Financial Advisory business and leads the firm's Structured Finance operations. He has over seventeen years of global investment banking experience. He is based out of Mumbai.Prior to co-founding Avendus, Kaushal worked with Kotak Mahindra, a leading Indian financial services firm.He holds an MBA from the IndianInstitute of Management (IIM), Bangalore and a BTech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Beauty, Finance
Seed, Angel, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

EatClub Brands — Order on EatClub App from popular brands like MOJO Pizza, Box8, Itminaan Biryani & more. Save 30% Everytime. ZERO Delivery/ Packaging Fees.
Finomena — Revolutionising the way every consumer thinks about finance., because Innovations only happen when smart people stubborly decide to ask very simple first-principles-based questions, instead of accepting status-quo-based answers. Founded by Stanford and IIT Delhi graduates who've previously kicked ass at places like Facebook, Microsoft, BostonConsulting Group and Bain Capital :) Finomena provides access to flexible credit, to a large segment of India’s young demographic who do not traditionally have access to it. Finomena aims to radically change the end-to-end customer experience of a borrower, for their personal and professional growth, and make young Indians more financially independent and financially literate, thus revolutionising the way banking is done for today’s smartphone-wielding Indian.
MCaffeine — MCaffeine is a personal care brand that offers caffein-infused face, body, and hair care products. Its personal care product portfolio includes shampoos, face washes, shower gels, body lotions, and face masks, which use caffeine as a major ingredient. MCaffeine won Nykaa Femina Beauty Awards 2020 for the best Coffee body scrub.It was founded byVikas Lachhwani and Tarun Sharma in 2015 and based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Nihir Parikh - CEO @ Nykaa

Investment focus

Beauty, Fashion
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Innovist — Onesto Labs Private Limited is an unlisted private company. It was incorporated on 18 October, 2018 and is located in Central Delhi, Delhi. It is classified as a private limited company.The company has two directors - Rohit Chawla and Sifat Khurana.

Looking for - Passionate founders looking to target a market with tremendous future potential and stands to be disrupted by a new entrant. Crucial that the product / service is not easily replicable and the domain expertise of the company is a deterrent to fresh entrants.Keen interest in - Clean Technology, Consumer Internet, EnterpriseSoftware, Health Care, Mobile, SaaSSkills - Angel Investing, Financial Modelling & Valuation, Information Technology, Portfolio Management, Risk Management

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Grexa AI — Grexa AI is creating a one-stop AI assisted mobile app designed to help local business owners grow with their revenue. Grexa helps business owners like clinics and dental practices, home service businesses such as plumbers, HVAC specialists, and pest control services, as well as salons, fitness centers, car service shops, restaurants, real estateagencies, and travel agents to effortlessly and affordably improve their digital presence and customer communication
Vetic — India's fastest-growing chain of pet care clinics offering comprehensive veterinary services, grooming, and emergency care for your beloved pets.
OTPless — Authenticate customers with WhatsApp, SMS, Email, Biometrics, and more, with a 98% conversion rate on signup and sign-in.

Arjun Vaidya is the Founder of Verinvest Corporation. Attended Brown University.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Peeko — Peeko is a quick commerce platform that specializes in baby care products and accessories, promising 60-minute delivery.
Wellopia — Clean, joyful wellness made just for kids. Thoughtfully crafted with simple ingredients. Safe, natural care parents can trust.
Lumov Health — Lumov Health provides a wide choice of goods intended for efficient pain management. We hope to enable everyone to move freely and live pain-free.

Krishna Mehra Is The Director of Engineering At Facebook. He attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Investment focus

Analytics, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Crux — Delight your enterprise accounts with instant answers & insights from their business data
MCaffeine — MCaffeine is a personal care brand that offers caffein-infused face, body, and hair care products. Its personal care product portfolio includes shampoos, face washes, shower gels, body lotions, and face masks, which use caffeine as a major ingredient. MCaffeine won Nykaa Femina Beauty Awards 2020 for the best Coffee body scrub.It was founded byVikas Lachhwani and Tarun Sharma in 2015 and based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Facets.cloud — Platform Engineering made easy for large and complex infra setups. Set Ops guardrails and enable developer self-service with Facets' Internal Developer Platform.

Binny Bansal is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart with Sachin Bansal (not related) and was serving as the Chief Operating Officer until 11 January 2016 and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer. In January 2017 he was promoted to Group CEO of Flipkart. Binny is fromChandigarh and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Posha — With our smart kitchen robot, Julia, we are making home cooking great again! Find out more about our story, technology, and Julia herself.
Curefoods — Curefoods democratizes access to food on a sustainable basis. They focus on operations management for cloud kitchens and the online food ordering market.
RISA Labs — We exist for humanity 2Win. Pioneering BOSS [Business (Operating System) as Service]. Trusted by Top Oncologists, we serve mission critical enterprises. Transforming key operations with AI-driven discipline. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, RISA has offices across the globe.

Nitin Agarwal

Investment focus

Beauty, Internet, Internet of Things
Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Glam Studios — Glam Studios provide you a wide range of world class beauty salon services, makeup services, hair care services, skin care services, body spa and more.