Top 50 Beauty Angel Investors in India

Investor	Beauty India investments
Arihant Patni	2
Harminder Sahni	2
Suhail Sameer	2
Neeraj Kakkar	1
Bikramjiet Kukreja	1
Kunal Bahl	1
Atim Kabra	1
Arun Malhotra	1
Pradeep Mirani	1
Tej Lalvani	1
Suhasini Sampath	1
Nitin Gupta	1
Devndra Chawla	1
Aadil Ebrahim	1
Arun Venkatachalam	1
Mithun Sacheti	1
Alok Mittal	1
Jatin Aneja	1
Satveer Singh Thakral	1
Krishna Mehra	1
Dhianu Das	1
Shripad Nadkarni	1
Ramakant Sharma	1
Kamal Haider	1
Nihir Parikh	1
Mohit Bajaj	1
Tidhar Carmeli	1
Binny Bansal	1
Rajul Garg	1
Sundeep Sahni	1
Navin Fabiani	1
Kaushal Aggarwal	1
Rashmi Kwatra	1
Supreet Singh	1
Utsav Somani	1
Vipin Aggarwal	1
Hussein Kanji	1
Harsh Gupta	1
Anand Ladsariya	1
Rahul Gupta	1
Priyanka Gill	1
Sunil Kalra	1
Rajeev Chitrabhanu (MAGNETIC)	1
Rajan Anandan	1
Kunal Shah	1
Rohan Mirchandani	1
Rajan Anandan	1
Rohit Bansal	1
Samrath Bedi	1
Nitin Agarwal	1

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.
MathCo — TheMathCompany is a data science firm that helps organizations buck age-old trends and create demonstrated value with the help of robust data and analytics transformations. They have become one of the fastest growing AI & ML start-ups in the world in just over two years, disrupting the analytics industry by making enterprises analyticallyself-sufficient.
The Yarn Bazaar — The Yarn Bazaar is a Purpose-Led, Modern, Efficient, and Transparent managed Marketplace for yarn that allows yarn buyers and sellers to discover real-time yarn prices, information, and market trends in an instant. Our proprietary processes and flexible unsecured financing options enable yarn sellers to expand their reach and sales whilemaintaining higher margins, and buyers to discover and purchase high-quality yarn at unbeatable prices while reducing raw material and procurement costs, saving time, money, and effort.

Harminder Sahni - Founder & MD @ Wazir Advisors

Investment focus

Lifestyle, Beauty, Coffee
Seed, Angel, Series B
India

Portfolio highlights

Rage Coffee — Rage Coffee’s blend of brain supplements sourced from plant extracts and natural compounds have been scientifically formulated to work synergistically with your coffee, offering you lasting mental energy and focus throughout the day. Rage Coffee contains only the best of ingredients that are carefully selected and have undergone years of clinicaltests and studies. All of the ingredients are considered safe by the FDA (Food and Drugs Association) and EMA (European Medicines Agency). Hence, the coffee is highly effective as well as safe for individuals of all ages. Furthermore, every ingredient used in Rage Coffee is 100% natural and does not pose any side effects.
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 — On-demand Manufacturing Platform for Fashion Brands

Suhail Sameer Attended Chief Executive OfficerChief BharatPe . Suhail Sameer Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.

Investment focus

FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

GenWise — GenWise is the best app for Indian Elders. Get Emotional Support on Call through Saathi | Generate Good Morning wishes with Whatsapp Greetings | Get Account statements with Risk-Free Passbook
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.
White Inc — Digitally Native Vertical Brands

Neeraj Kakkar - Co-founder and CEO @ Paper Boat

Investment focus

Beauty, Cosmetics
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Nat Habit — NatHabit - Fresh Natural Beauty Care

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.

Kunal is a technology entrepreneur and investor.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bluelearn — Find co-founders & teammates, apply to gigs, learn new skills, and meet passionate people.
Legistify — Discover unparalleled legal management with our AI-powered platform, all-in-one solution for enterprise-level matter management, IPR, notices, and contracts
Stable Money — Steady returns, untapped opportunities, and excellent long-term performance to aid your journey of wealth creation!

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 — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
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.

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.

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.

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.

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
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Nat Habit — NatHabit - Fresh Natural Beauty Care

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.

Devndra Chawla is a MD & CEO at Spencer's Retail & Nature’s Basket.

Investment focus

Beauty, Cosmetics
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Nat Habit — NatHabit - Fresh Natural Beauty Care

Aadil Ebrahim

Investment focus

Beauty, Fashion, Lifestyle
Seed, Series C
India

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.

Arun Venkatachalam is an analyst at the Habrok India Fund, spun out of London-based hedge fund, Habrok Capital Management. HSBC ranked the fund as the best performing hedge fund in the world in December 2017. Venkatachalam is also an angel investor interested in the tech sector. Some of his notable investments include Indian car-sharing companyZoomcar, B2B e-commerce firm IndustryBuying, and technology-enabled lender Ziploan. He's also a part of one of the biggest family dynasties in India and continues to advise the family business, The Murugappa Group, on collaborations with technology companies.

Investment focus

Marketplace, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
India

Portfolio highlights

Driffle — A marketplace built for gamers by gamers. Browse a huge collection of games, gift cards & subscriptions.
Vegapay — VegaPay is a fintechcompany that provides configurable solutions for faster, scalable & seamless banking.
Tractor Junction — India's Leading DIgital Marketplace for Tractors and Farm Equipments

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

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.
Securden — Securden offers a zero-trust based all-in-one platform for privileged access governance and security. It provides complete control over privileged access and helps prevent identity thefts, malware propagation, and cyber attacks in enterprises.
Paperflite — Curate, Organize and distribute your marketing collaterals, track their performance and engagement in real time with Paperflite.

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

GroMo — Become a partner and make a regular income by selling financial products. Brand yourself as a certified financial advisor and launch and grow your business.
DigitalPaani — DigitalPaani builds cutting-edge IoT and digital management tools that redesign wastewater operations.
leap.club — we are a powerful and private network of women leaders.

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.

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

Apps, E-Commerce, Beauty
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

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.

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, Angel, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Zotalabs — Build you scalable digital application with hassle free deployment without any coding experience of Blockchain, AI, IOT and Cyber security.
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.

Shripad Nadkarni - Director @ Maverix Platforms

Investment focus

Tea, Baby, Beauty
Seed, Series B
India

Portfolio highlights

Bonhomia — Bonhomia serves gourmet tea or coffee that is made from the finest beans and leaves; customized for connoisseurs of both taste and technology to homes, offices, or studios in India. Bonhomia comes in by providing artisan coffees in capsule format. Its capsules are well-preserved and brewed to ensure the rich aroma and flavors of coffee and fineteas.
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. — Explore the mom and baby care products for skin, body and hair with The Moms Co. All our products are Australia certified, natural and safe for both newborn babies and pregnant moms.

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

Portfolio highlights

Jugyah — Jugyah is a technology company transforming how the next billion urban Indians rent their homes.Our pioneering, fin-tech powered business model is radically changing the long term home rental market.We believe there is a better place (”jugyah”) out there for both renters and property owners where they feel like they belong. Our goal is to takethem there.Backed by the largest real estate developers in the country and some of the top tier angels and VCs, we are currently in beta.
EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
General Autonomy — General Autonomy is a robotics firm on the cutting edge of manufacturing and automation for the future.

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.
O-Teas —

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.

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 — Solving the problems of community based investments globally

Tidhar Carmeli

Investment focus

Big Data, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Movia — Mobile billboard truck advertising boosts your brand awareness that can add value to the growth of your business. Feel free to create a truck advertising campaign at Movia.
Parabola — Parabola is your toolkit for faster, smarter work. Automate any manual task you usually do in a spreadsheet.
Immersed — We immerse distributed teams into the same VR workplace to maximize productivity.

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

OppDoor — Launch your Amazon Brand into Thriving International Markets. OppDoor is a Growth Partner for Amazon Brands.
Leela Life — Timeless Indian wellbeing secrets for peaceful and joyful living
Alltius Inc. — Alltius is an AI-driven platform for conversational assistance in software products primarily to help and guide users in their product journeys.

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 — Navan India (Formerly Tripeur) is India's Smartest, Integrated Platform for Corporates to Manage Expenses and Business Travel. Experience The Difference Now!
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!

Sundeep Sahni

Investment focus

Apps, Beauty, Retail
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Qin1 — Qin1 is focuses on children between the ages of five and 14, provides personalised live classes across subjects. Qin1 creates a customised learning experience for each student – in terms of teacher selection, course design and medium of delivery. While edtech penetration has grown significantly in recent years, focus on kids in primary andpre-primary schools is missing.
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.

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.

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, Consumer
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 —
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.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Beauty
Seed, Series A, Series B
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.
Skill Lync — Skill-Lync offers industry relevant advanced engineering courses for engineering students by partnering with industry experts.
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.

Supreet Singh - FOUNDER & CEO @ Altor Executive Search

Investment focus

Beauty, Fashion, Lifestyle
Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Belita — Belita is an innovative beauty service company devoted to delivering beauty & spa services at doorstep. We view ourselves walking hand in hand with our customers, employees, community and environment. Our mission is to make high quality and value for money - personal hygiene, beauty & wellness services available to every woman at herconvenience.

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

Portfolio highlights

OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPLESS. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
Supply6 — Supply6 is the perfect balance of the 6 essential micro and macro nutrients in one wholesome meal.
Alt Carbon — Alt Carbon operates as a climate tech platform.

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.

Hussein is a partner at Hoxton Ventures. He currently represents Hoxton on the boards of BaseImmune, Biotx, Finesse, Fy!, Giraffe360, Kbox, Luminary, Peptone, Raptor Supplies, Raw Material, Skin Analytics, SOC.OS, TourRadar, XYZ Reality and Yieldify, and serves as a board observer on Behavox, Karakuri, Loveshark, Panakeia and Vidya Health. Hepreviously served on the boards of Babylon Health, bd4travel (acquired by Dnata), Campanja (acquired by 24/7 Media), Darktrace (LSE:DARK) and Deliveroo (LSE:ROO).Hussein also serves on the board of Tech Nation. He also sits on the advisory board of GTO Partners, a tech mid-market buyout firm, and Landscape, a venture capital review site.While forming Hoxton, he helped Eros STX Global develop ErosNow, an online streaming video platform for Bollywood. Prior to Hoxton, Hussein was an associate with Accel Partners. He joined Accel from Microsoft Corporation. Earlier in his career, he worked with three startups, Safe-View (acquired by L-3), Radiance Technologies (acquired by Comcast) and Studio Verso (acquired by KPMG).Hussein holds an MBA from London Business School and did his undergraduate studies in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University. He stubbornly refuses to swear allegiance to a monarch and remains a proud American.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, India

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.
LLUSTRE — Domain for Sale. LLustre.com. Request Price. What Are the Advantages of a Super Premium .Com Domain? Increased Traffic. Search Engine Ranking. Brand Recognition. Immediate Presence. Higher Profits. Great Investment. #1 in Premium Domains. 300,000 of the World's Best .Com Domains.
Signpost — Signpost is the leader in small business management software for home service businesses. Learn more about our products & see how we can help.

Harsh Gupta of School of Design and Entrepreneurship.

Investment focus

Beauty, Cosmetics
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

The Ayurveda Co — Organic skin care products: TAC Ayurveda skincare with natural skincare products provides solutions for face, hair, body & overall wellness. Buy online ayurvedic beauty products.

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

FinTech, Food and Beverage, Internet
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.
StayVista — Vista Rooms, to put it succinctly, is where you go when you want the privacy of a cozy home, the vibe of a fabulous vacation and the standards of a hotel. With its unique stay options across India and Sri Lanka, and stellar customer reviews, Vista Rooms has fast become synonymous with group getaways in the region. Vista Rooms has served over100,000 happy travellers on one end, and 100+ second home owners on the other, allowing them to maintain their properties and monetize them by giving them out to verified guests in a simple, hassle-free manner. A rigorous selection process means only 1 in 10 properties that we scout get on our list, but once selected, we are quick to upgrade it as per our standards, manage the services required and open doors to groups looking at a quick getaway. We also undertake various security measures to ensure the safety of the property as well as the guests. As managers of cherished homes and organizers of memorable getaways, trust is our most important asset and with our 24x7 customer care team, of which the founders are also a part, we take pride in keeping it strong.

Rahul Gupta of Tricity Technologies.

Investment focus

Beauty, Cosmetics
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

The Ayurveda Co — Organic skin care products: TAC Ayurveda skincare with natural skincare products provides solutions for face, hair, body & overall wellness. Buy online ayurvedic beauty products.

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

Sunil Kalra - Managing Director @ Via Projects

Investment focus

Financial Services, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Series C
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Chargeup — Chargeup operates as a battery swapping network for e-rickshaws.
Medikabazaar — Medikabazaar is an online B2B marketspace for medical supplies and equipment. They are a single point of contact for all product-based needs, enabling medical institutions and individual practitioners alike to cut down on operational costs and making the best global brands available locally, all aided with the miracle that goes by the name oftechnology. They are connected with more than 50,000 medical establishments, 1,50,000 Independent Practitioners, and have partnered with 13,000+ suppliers all over India including ones in Tier 2, Tier 3 cities, and remoter locations to establish a strong foothold in India and simultaneously earn the respect of our clients. With the power of technology, we organized a haywire market in a country with perhaps the largest and most complex geographical structure in the world for this purpose. Our last-mile delivery system and 26 strategically placed Fulfilment Centres across India enable us to deliver essential medical supplies to healthcare facilities and help them nurture quality and timely patient care. With our first international office in the Middle East, we are transcending boundaries to deliver care, everywhere.
Pepper Farms — Pepper Farms is an agritech startup that helps farmers in organizing the vegetable production lifecycle by building a network of farms with end-to-end virtual management, customized agronomy, and direct market linkages.

Rajeev Chitrabhanu (MAGNETIC)

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kratikal — Kratikal, India's best cyber security company, provides VAPT and Compliance audit services. Kratikal is CERT-In Empanelled Security Auditor.
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 provides an affordable and fast drone delivery service for online orders. We use drones to deliver products to consumers in just a few minutes

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

NAYAN — NAYAN visual AI monitors and identifies real-time road events. NAYAN AI supports businesses and authorities by offering actionable insights on visual events, to make the world a safer place.
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.

Kunal Shah

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Nurturev — Revenue intelligence is the process of analyzing & interpreting sales data to make informed business decisions. Transform your sales conversations, gain insights, & drive revenue growth.
SydeLabs — Secure your generative AI foundation with SydeLabs. Build with unshakeable confidence. Unleash the full potential of your applications.
Mave Health — Mave Health uses science-based interventions to provide a comprehensive solution that fits effortlessly into an individual's lifestyle and causes no inconvenience.

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.

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, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

NAYAN — NAYAN visual AI monitors and identifies real-time road events. NAYAN AI supports businesses and authorities by offering actionable insights on visual events, to make the world a safer place.
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.

Rohit Bansal - Co-Founder @ Snapdeal

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

TyrePlex — Buy car and bike tyres. Best tyre price, features, reviews. Find right tyre size and tyre dealer details
Bluelearn — Find co-founders & teammates, apply to gigs, learn new skills, and meet passionate people.
Stable Money — Steady returns, untapped opportunities, and excellent long-term performance to aid your journey of wealth creation!

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

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.
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=

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.