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Top 50 Big Data Angel Investors in India in May 2026

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Big data startups based in India. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Big data companies from India. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Big Data Angel Investors in India in May 2026

Investor Big Data India investments
Nicholas Brathwaite 3
Rajan Anandan 3
Bhupen Shah 3
Rajan Anandan 3
Sachin Bansal 3
Binny Bansal 3
Manish Singhal 2
Amit Singhal 2
Anand Ladsariya 2
Rohit Bansal 2
Kunal Bahl 2
KRS Jamwal 2
Chirag Jain 2
Vikram Lakhotia 1
Siddharth Talwar 1
Sanjay Nath 1
Rajesh Sawhney 1
Amit Ranjan 1
Apurva Chamaria 1
Ashvin Chadha 1
Sunil Kalra 1
Khawar Nabi Shah 1
Mehzabin Kaitha 1
Raju Reddy 1
Prashant Mehta 1
Naveen Tewari 1
Murugavel Janakiraman 1
Anupam Mittal 1
Aloke Bajpai 1
Atul Singh 1
Samir Sood 1
Hafiz Ullah Khan 1
Nitin Gupta 1
Amit Manocha 1
Kishore Ganji 1
Harish Bahl 1
Abhishek Gupta 1
Anil Jain 1
Krishna Mehra 1
Samir Bangara 1
Phanindra Sama 1
Rajesh Ranavat 1
Vinay Bansal 1
M Chandrasekaran 1
Bharathram Thothadri 1
Nelson Holzner 1
Jaspreet Bindra 1
Hemendra Kothari 1
Arjun Malhotra 1
Sidharth Rao 1

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Nicholas Brathwaite
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Nicholas Brathwaite is the Founder and Managing Partner at Celesta Capital at Celesta Capital. He attended the University of Waterloo.

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Investment focus

  • Big Data, Analytics, Information Technology
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, India, Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • AJUA — Start your first business web-page in minutes. Easily power online transactions, Buy Ads with your Airtime on Facebook, Instagram, and Google. Get ratings and reviews to build your business credibility, and enlarge your customer base.
  • BangDB — BangDB is an AI database platform with Graph and time-series data analysis. It is designed for modern use cases for edge computing.
  • Calumino — The world's first thermal sensor designed for mass-market applications. Discover how our innovations cater to any application, ensuring safety and efficiency.
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Rajan Anandan
Angel

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.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • NAYAN — NAYAN is a computer vision platform, providing Hyperlocal data in the form of visuals and analytics. We gather visual data via multiple assets and transform it into actionable insight using artificial intelligence. Our suite of products - Hybrid Enterprise Solutions for large clients and our Direct to Customer Search Platform - empowers Businesses,Governments and Individuals to supervise infrastructure, monitor people and events of interest, monitor inventory, analyze conditions and usage, and efficiently supervise the progress of multiple projects. We enable our clients worldwide to objectively assess and manage assets using our Technology
  • 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.
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Bhupen Shah
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States

Bhupen Shah holds a Masters of Science degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He brings with him a great deal of expertise and experience.Bhupen Shah has over twenty-five years of experience in technology development, product development and engineering management in embedded digitalmedia and communication solutions at Sling Media, Emuzed, Dazzle, RealChip, Philips Semiconductors, IBM and other such heavyweights. Bhupen successfully built cost-effective India-based development organizations. He co-founded Sling Media, and as COO & VP Engineering, was instrumental in bringing award winning Slingbox products into the retail market. Sling Media was acquired by Echostar in 2007 and Bhupen currently plays the role of CTO at the same. Prior to Sling Media, Bhupen co-founded Emuzed, Inc., initially serving as COO and EVP of Engineering. His team delivered PC and embedded digital media products to worldwide tier-1 OEMs. Emuzed was then acquired by Flextronics. Bhupen was also a key contributor and VP of Software at Dazzle, the first company to deliver video capture devices to the consumer market. Dazzle was acquired by SCM Microsystems.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Big Data, Recruiting
  • Angel, Seed, Series A
  • India, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Tydy — From onboarding to offboarding - deliver the best Employee Experience, at scale. Tydy consolidates data from multiple systems and processes and uses artificial intelligence to send the right communication and notification to the right person at the right time.
  • ten3T — ten3T is a medical grade wearable device startup. ten3T builds a sophisticated self enclosed, real time monitoring device - a 9 cm triangular patch that the patient places on their chest - for as long as is required - from a minute to several days.
  • Locus.sh — Locus is an intelligent logistics automation and decision-making platform that comes with in-built route planning and vehicle allocation engine which improves consistency and efficiency of operations.The platform helps companies and enterprises in e-commerce, food delivery, FMCG, and other verticals to automate and optimize their logistics. Theproduct suite comprises a route deviation engine, order dispatch automation, a field user app, route optimizations, scheduling, tracking for end-customer, and predictive analytics. Offering the entire technology stack, in the form of a platform as a service.
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Rajan Anandan
Angel

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.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Smytten — Discover Trial Packs from 1200+ top brands on Smytten. Explore 250+ lifestyle categories and try sample products across skincare, haircare, makeup, fragrances & more.
  • 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.
  • PlusPin Healthcare — PlusPin aims to add substantial value to mom and pop pharmacies in making them a key component of the healthcare ecosystem. Pluspin powered pharmacies would provide convenient and optimal healthcare solutions to a large base of consumers from the middle of the pyramid segment. PlusPin has 3 major goals: ● Transform pharmacies into HealthcareSatellite centers that are accessible to the common man in both Urban and Rural areas. ● Launch and Diversify niche healthcare services at these centers, assisting in cost containment and care management. ● Increase earning potential of partner mom and pop pharmacies.
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Sachin Bansal
Angel · Bangalore, Karnataka, India

After completion of his degree, Sachin Bansal joined Techspan company where he has served for few months. In 2006, he joined Amazon.com India as a Senior Software Engineer. Then he got Binny Bansal into Amazon.com and after 6 months they both decided to leave Amazon. They initially thought of starting a comparison search engine but realized thatthe market for E-commerce in India was very small. Hence, after leaving Amazon in 2007, they founded Flipkart as an E-commerce company.Sachin Bansal and his business partner Binny Bansal launched Flipkart from an apartment in Bangalore with 400,000 rupees ($6,500) cash. In 2007 during the early days of Flipkart Sachin Bansal and his business partner Binny Bansal used to deliver books across Bengaluru on their scooters and in October 2015 they showed up at the doorsteps of some customers, personally delivering goods in order to gain insights from the online buyers.And now, Sachin Bansal is the CEO of Chaitanya Rural Intermediation and Development Services.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Debt Financing, Seed, Series A
  • India, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Spare8 — Spare8 is a micro-investment app for investing money in digital gold, enabling everyone to start their investment journey through its flagship feature- micro-investment.
  • U Gro Capital — U Gro Capital is a fintech platform that provides lending services for SMEs. U GRO Capital is a BSE-listed, technology-focused, small business lending platform. The company is focused on addressing the capital needs of small businesses operating in select eight sectors by providing customized loan solutions.
  • Navi Technologies — Lightning fast UPI payments, instant Cash Loans & Home Loans, smart investments in Mutual Funds & Digital Gold, comprehensive Health Insurance - all in one app.
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Binny Bansal
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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.

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Investment focus

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

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.
  • BorderPlus — BorderPlus supports nurses in building careers abroad, including Germany, through structured pathways, preparation, and long-term professional support.
  • Equal Identity — Equal Identity operates as an ID-sharing platform.
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Manish Singhal
Angel · Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Ideator, Coach, Angel Investor.Passionate about building & helping startups. The uncertainties, the possibilities and the thrills are never ending!Love wild life photography – especially birds! Keen sports enthusiast – tennis and playing chess being my favorites.Talk to me for anything to do with start-ups – ideation, scaling, funding!

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • India, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Locus.sh — Locus is an intelligent logistics automation and decision-making platform that comes with in-built route planning and vehicle allocation engine which improves consistency and efficiency of operations.The platform helps companies and enterprises in e-commerce, food delivery, FMCG, and other verticals to automate and optimize their logistics. Theproduct suite comprises a route deviation engine, order dispatch automation, a field user app, route optimizations, scheduling, tracking for end-customer, and predictive analytics. Offering the entire technology stack, in the form of a platform as a service.
  • DropKaffe — DropKaffe is India’s first and only online coffee shop. They offer a wide range of coffee and freshly prepared beverages. Affordable luxury combined with convenience - that’s DropKaffe. Their services are currently available in Koramangala, HSR layout, Indiranagar, Domlur, Bellandur, Marathahalli, CV Raman Nagar and BTM Layout.
  • BetterButter — For home chefs who want to keep pace with the world of food: Find, share and explore thousands of tested Indian recipes, cooking, hacks, meals and many more at BetterButter.
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Amit Singhal
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Amit Singhal is a senior vice president and software engineer at Google Inc., a Google Fellow, and the head of Google’s core ranking team. He has worked in the field of search for over fifteen years, first as an academic researcher and now as a Google engineer. His research interests include information retrieval, its application to web search, webgraph analysis, and user interfaces for search. Prior to joining Google in 2000, Amit was a senior member of technical staff at AT&T LabsSinghal is also the author of two publications: Efficient Multicast Algorithms for Switch based Irregular Heterogeneous Networks of Workstations and Terabit Switching: A survey of Techniques and Current Products.Singhal obtained his bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from IIT Roorkee, India, and his M.S. from the University of Minnesota. He also holds a Ph.D.in computer science from Cornell University.

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • India, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Fitspire — India's Best Vegan Health Supplement Brand. Shop 100% Authentic & Premium Vegan health supplements, plant-based protein powder & more online on Fitspire.
  • Dimension — The state of the art collaboration platform for modern engineering teams. Chat, project management, smart actions, and more, accelerated by AI.
  • AutoNxt Automation — Discover the future of sustainable farming with Autonxt Automations electric tractors and self-driving technology. Explore our innovative solutions today.
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Anand Ladsariya
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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.

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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, Travel, FinTech
  • 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.
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Rohit Bansal
Angel · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Rohit Bansal is based out of Gurgaon and is the Co-founder of AceVector. Rohit previously worked at FICCI as a Chair. Rohit Bansal attended Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • &Done — Multi-functional formulas tested in 150+ salons. Made for Indian hair. Try your &Done ritual today. This is your Power Move.
  • Legistify — Legistify offers AI-powered legal operations software to streamline workflows, manage contracts, track legal cases and improve productivity for enterprise legal teams
  • Eyewear designed& labs — Eyewear designed& labs is a eyewear startup.
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Kunal Bahl
Angel · New Delhi, Delhi, India

Kunal Bahl is based out of Delhi and is the Co-Founder of AceVector. Kunal Bahl attended the University of Pennsylvania.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Speed Kitchen — Your Reliable Commercial Kitchen Space Provider
  • Clapstore Toys — Clapstore Toys offers safe, eco-friendly Montessori-inspired busy boards and interactive toys that promote a screen-free childhood through hands-on play, skill-building, and developmental learning.
  • Naturik — Buy online 100% pure & natural instant oats, ragi and multigrain cheela mix at best prices on The Naturik Co. 100% secure payment & free shipping.
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KRS Jamwal
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

KRS Jamwal is Executive Director, Tata Industries, and is responsible for the incubation of new ventures, as well as investments made by Tata Industries in new businesses and start-ups. Mr Jamwal is on the board of three other Tata companies – Advinus Therapeutics, where he serves as chairman of the board, Tata Advanced Materials, and TataUniStore. He is also a member on the board of Flisom AG and Apex Investments (Mauritius) Holding.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • Dr. Paws — Dr. Paws is a brand specializing in premium pet care products. It offers solutions designed to enhance the health and well-being of pets.
  • PlaySuper — Transform your mobile game with AI-driven monetization. Players earn coins and redeem real-world rewards from 3000+ brands. 50+ gaming studios, $500k+ monthly GMV. Simple SDK integration with measurable results.
  • IntelloSync — IntelloSync offers bespoke solutions to address the particular difficulties of B2B organizations. With Intellosync in place, you can leverage the power of data analytics and AI to eliminate repetitive tasks, human errors, and security risks.
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Chirag Jain
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Chirag Jain is a CEO of Ashika Group.

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Investment focus

  • Big Data, Software, Analytics
  • Seed
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • Finarkein Analytics — Finarkein helps BFSI companies build intelligent, data-driven solutions across data aggregation, AI/ML powered analytics, and financial services distribution, leveraging Account Aggregator (AA), ONDC, and OCEN.
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Vikram Lakhotia
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Vikram Lakhotia is the Managing Director, Standard Coastal Shipping Pvt. Ltd. at Standard Chartered Bank. He attended SIM Global.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Mobile, FinTech
  • Seed
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • LenDenClub — LenDenClub is India's largest Peer-to-Peer lending investment platform by Innofin Solutions Pvt Ltd, an RBI registered NBFC-P2P. Join our community of 2M+ investors now.
  • Vahanalytics — Vahanalytics aims to create better drivers and safer roads by using cutting edge big data and machine learning techniques.
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Siddharth Talwar
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Siddharth Talwar - Co-Founder & Partner @ Lightbox

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, B2B, News
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • ZAPR — ZAPR, is one of the world's first media consumption repositories and cross-targeting platforms. ZAPR's technology platform auto-detects comprehensively all offline media content being viewed by millions of people. ZAPR is currently over 1000x larger than any audience measurement database in India and they're rapidly growing. Forthe very first time, a brand can bridge its offline advertising strategy with its social.mobile.digital strategies, by identifying their audiences, understanding their media habits and targeting the same user base across all mediums - offline and online - mobile and social. Users who are watching TV, but ignoring the commercials, can now be retargeted across social and mobile platforms, to ensure that a brand's wasted TV impressions are reinforced by the second screen. ZAPR is quickly expanding on all fronts - its user base, various media formats (live TV, radio, movies-in-theater, VOD, internet media) as well as geographic presence. ZAPR is a VC funded media-tech startup and is backed by iconic angel and institutional investors from India, Singapore, Europe and US.
  • Rooter — Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop.
  • Cityflo — Cityflo is a premium daily commute service for urban India, currently operating in Mumbai & Delhi NCR. We offer comfortable rides to work in AC Benz buses, for corporate professionals.
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Sanjay Nath
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Sanjay Nath - Co-founder & Managing Partner @ Blume Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Machine Learning, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, India, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

  • ZAPR — ZAPR, is one of the world's first media consumption repositories and cross-targeting platforms. ZAPR's technology platform auto-detects comprehensively all offline media content being viewed by millions of people. ZAPR is currently over 1000x larger than any audience measurement database in India and they're rapidly growing. Forthe very first time, a brand can bridge its offline advertising strategy with its social.mobile.digital strategies, by identifying their audiences, understanding their media habits and targeting the same user base across all mediums - offline and online - mobile and social. Users who are watching TV, but ignoring the commercials, can now be retargeted across social and mobile platforms, to ensure that a brand's wasted TV impressions are reinforced by the second screen. ZAPR is quickly expanding on all fronts - its user base, various media formats (live TV, radio, movies-in-theater, VOD, internet media) as well as geographic presence. ZAPR is a VC funded media-tech startup and is backed by iconic angel and institutional investors from India, Singapore, Europe and US.
  • Raena — RAENA adalah platform reseller kecantikan terbesar di Indonesia yang memberikan peluang bisnis rumahan yang menjanjikan. Dropshipper & Reseller produk kecantikan
  • Petasense — Founded with a vision of making industrial machines smarter, Petasense is an Industrial IoT startup based in Silicon Valley. The company offers an end-to-end solution – comprised of a patent-pending wireless vibration sensor, cloud software and machine learning analytics – that helps with asset reliability and predictive maintenance. Customersare able to monitor, assess and predict the health of their critical machines in real-time. This helps them reduce unplanned downtime and lower repair costs. Petasense's clients include industry leaders like JLL, C&W Services, Silicon Valley Power and Stanford University. Petasense is backed by True Ventures, Felicis Ventures and top angel investors. The company is founded by serial entrepreneurs, Abhinav Khushraj and Arun Santhebennur, who have 25 years of combined experience in building enterprise companies, with degrees from MIT and IIT.To learn more about Petasense, visit www.petasense.com.
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Rajesh Sawhney
Angel · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Rajesh is the co-founder and CEO of InnerChef and Super Angels. He holds a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering from Delhi University, and a master's degree in management from Mumbai University. He has also done a fellowship in 'Globalisation and Leadership' from the London School of Economics and Social Sciences.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Fambo — Fambo is a technology-based food service company that offers semi-processed foodstuffs to restaurants and cloud kitchens.
  • CargoFL — CargoFL is a B2B logistics technology platform that offers transport management software for enterprises in retail, pharma, and manufacturing sectors. It provides a cloud-based enterprise resource planning platform that focuses on capturing the logistics market by digital technology, automates dispatches, consolidates truckers, and provides supplychain visibility and vehicle tracking.
  • ProcureYard — ProcureYard aims to revolutionize B2B raw materials procurement by modernizing traditional processes with cutting-edge AI technology, creating a transparent and reliable marketplace that reduces costs and simplifies sourcing for businesses.
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Amit Ranjan
Angel · New Delhi, Delhi, India

Amit heads the team that is building SlideShare.Amit has a previous background in product marketing, sales & consumer research. His last job was with PepsiCo; prior to PepsiCo, he worked with Asian Paints & Godrej. He holds an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies, Univ Of Delhi and a Mechanical Engineering degree fromREC/NIT, Jaipur.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Minko — Minko is a retail fintech platform that provides credit facilities to small shop and retail shop owners. Minko is a smart credit product that now allows retailers to access low-cost instant short-term loans to grow business.
  • Seekho — Seekho is a membership-based career accelerator platform. Start your 30-day trial and get unlimited access to Live Workshops, Courses, Certifications, Community to build your career in Product Management, Consulting, Finance, Analytics, Digital Marketing.
  • SalaryBox — SalaryBox is the best staff management app to manage employees. It automates your attendance, payroll, leave, shifts and more processees
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Apurva Chamaria
Angel · Delhi, Delhi, India

Apurva Chamaria

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Investment focus

  • News, Events, Sports
  • Seed, Angel
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • ProEves — Find the List of Best Preschool, Playschools & Creche near me for kids with contact information, Counsellor Chat, Timings & Reviews. Book Appointment Now at the center with exact Address & Phone Number.
  • 1DigitalStack — Technology for brand growth on Ecommerce marketplaces We help brands dominate Ecommerce by leveraging marketplace data & AI-enabled media management Let's Connect
  • Better Nutrition — Our flour is enriched with Iron, Zinc & Protein. Iron is important for maintaining healthy red blood cells and preventing Anemia.
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Ashvin Chadha
Angel · Delhi, Delhi, India

Mr. Ashvin Chadha has spent over a decade working in the financial services industry both in India and the United States. He started his professional career as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley in New York. He then joined General Atlantic LLC, a worldwide private equity firm, where he was based in the New York City and Greenwich offices.Ashvin moved to India in 2006 to join the core team to set up the Mumbai office for India Equity Partners (IEP), a $350mm India focussed Private Equity Fund.In 2011, Ashvin moved to Delhi to set up his own family office to invest in debt securities of mid market Indian companies. He has successfully invested over INR 100cr of proprietary capital in debt securities across 20 companies in the last 5 years.Ashvin has served on the Board of Directors of several financial services companies including Manappuram Finance (until 2010) and Netafim Agricultural Finance Agency Private Limited (since 2012). He also serves as an advisor and Investment committee member for SEBI registered VC funds including Fulcrum Venture India LLP and Carpediem Capital Partners.Ashvin completed his education from Wesleyan University and The London School of Economics.

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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, Retail, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • India, France

Portfolio highlights

  • Swipez — Easy to use online payment collection for businesses. Organize your day to day business operations, collect payments online faster and file your GST directly from one dashboard.
  • Neemans — Neeman's are designed to be your Most comfortable Sneaker. They are made better with Natural & Sustainable Materials. Neeman's Shoes are Lightweight, Flexible, Sock-free, Odour Resistant and Machine Washable. Made with Merino Wool, Organic Cotton , Recycled Plastic Bottles . Change the Norm with Neeman's Sneakers.
  • Juice Up — Juice Up is a food and drinks company that offers raw and fresh cold-pressed juices. These 100% raw and fresh juices are also available at over 250 locations including premium modern trade chains, hotels, restaurants, QSRs, cafes, and entertainment venues across Delhi NCR. it also provides six flavors including Anarkali, Hello Yello, Melony,Red-E-Steady, Green Mile, and Anarkali.Juice up made by blending innovative combinations of fruits and vegetables, to deliver taste and nutrition both. It was founded in 2015 and is based in New Delhi, India.
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Sunil Kalra
Angel · New Delhi, Delhi, India

Sunil Kalra - Managing Director @ Via Projects

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Apps, FinTech
  • Seed, Angel, Series B
  • India, United States

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.
  • 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.
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Khawar Nabi Shah
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Khawar Nabi Shah

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Investment focus

  • Big Data, Software, Non Profit
  • Pre-Seed
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • DaanVeda — Experience the power of AI-driven prospecting, outreach, and analysis for NGOs. Streamline your fundraising with Daanveda.
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Mehzabin Kaitha
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Mehzabin Kaitha

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Investment focus

  • Big Data, Software, Non Profit
  • Pre-Seed
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • DaanVeda — Experience the power of AI-driven prospecting, outreach, and analysis for NGOs. Streamline your fundraising with Daanveda.
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Raju Reddy
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Flam is a Board Member of Flam. He attended the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Big Data
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • India, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Budy — Budy is your AI Powered Sidekick for SaaS Professional Services
  • Homingos — Relive the special moments and surprise your loved ones with Flam. Why Create photos. Create Tangible Moments with FlamCard. Shop your FlamCard now!
  • Locus.sh — Locus is an intelligent logistics automation and decision-making platform that comes with in-built route planning and vehicle allocation engine which improves consistency and efficiency of operations.The platform helps companies and enterprises in e-commerce, food delivery, FMCG, and other verticals to automate and optimize their logistics. Theproduct suite comprises a route deviation engine, order dispatch automation, a field user app, route optimizations, scheduling, tracking for end-customer, and predictive analytics. Offering the entire technology stack, in the form of a platform as a service.
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Prashant Mehta
Angel

Prashant is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of Komli Media including sales, product development, engineering, marketing and business development. Prashant worked for Eight years at Yahoo! Inc., where he was Vice President and Head of Monetization for Yahoo!’s Emerging Markets Group which included India, Southeast Asia,Latin America, Middle East and Eastern Europe. Prior to Yahoo!, Prashant held various roles at Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan Chase (formerly, Chemical Bank) and NatWest.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Advertising, Ad Targeting
  • Series A, Seed, Angel
  • India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • ZAPR — ZAPR, is one of the world's first media consumption repositories and cross-targeting platforms. ZAPR's technology platform auto-detects comprehensively all offline media content being viewed by millions of people. ZAPR is currently over 1000x larger than any audience measurement database in India and they're rapidly growing. Forthe very first time, a brand can bridge its offline advertising strategy with its social.mobile.digital strategies, by identifying their audiences, understanding their media habits and targeting the same user base across all mediums - offline and online - mobile and social. Users who are watching TV, but ignoring the commercials, can now be retargeted across social and mobile platforms, to ensure that a brand's wasted TV impressions are reinforced by the second screen. ZAPR is quickly expanding on all fronts - its user base, various media formats (live TV, radio, movies-in-theater, VOD, internet media) as well as geographic presence. ZAPR is a VC funded media-tech startup and is backed by iconic angel and institutional investors from India, Singapore, Europe and US.
  • WayCool — global video community
  • SilverPush — Silverpush is an AI-powered contextual video advertising company that uses moment targeting to produce engaging ads in a brand safe & suitable environment where your users are most likely to see them.
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Naveen Tewari
Angel · Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Naveen is the founder of InMobi. His philosophy of constant innovation and disruption is embedded deep into the DNA of InMobians and is resonated across InMobi. His dream is to re-imagine advertising in a truly ‘user-first’ way and unlock the true potential of the mobile ecosystem.He has a Bachelor’s degree from Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur (IIT) and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Harvard Business School, where he was also bestowed with the Dean’s Award, for his exceptional leadership and contribution. In 2013, his alma mater, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur also honored him with the esteemed ‘Distinguished Alumnus Award’ for his excellence in entrepreneurship.Naveen is involved in the fueling of around 30 start-ups as yet in India and has personally invested and supported several start-ups like NestAway, SlideRule, Mettl, Moneysights, Bombay Canteen, Zimmber, Razorpay etc. A believer that start-ups will be the pillars of growing India, he co-founded iSPIRT, which is a change agent with the brain of a think tank and aims to address government policy, create market catalysts, and grow the maturity of product entrepreneurs in order to transform India into a hub for new generation software products.He also founded and chairs a U.S.-based nonprofit called India School Fund which funds and sets up schools in rural India, a cause he cares deeply for.Naveen is a board member at Paytm and has been recognized for his entrepreneurial skills at various platforms. He received several awards and recognitions over the last several years:>‘Future Leaders Award’ presented by Narendra Modi, Indian Prime Minister, 2015>Fortune’s ‘40 under 40’ most powerful, influential and important people in business, 2015>The ‘Pathbreaker of the Year’ Award, 2014>Forbes India Leadership Award for ‘Outstanding Start Up', 2014>‘100 Most Creative People’, 2014 across the world>The ‘Pathbreaker of the Year’ Award, 2013 presented by Narendra Modi, Indian Prime Minister>‘7th Most Important Person’ by Business Insider’s the Mobile Power List, 2013>‘Mobile Top 50’ in The Drum, 2013>‘2nd Most Important Person’ by Business Insider’s the Mobile Power List, 2012An avid fan of cricket, Naveen is a fitness enthusiast and his early morning routine alternates between a long run outdoors and a cycling trip around the less crowded parts of the city.Source (http://www.inmobi.com/organization/leadership/naveen-tewari#profile)

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Klub — India's leading Revenue Based Financing platform with a vision to revolutionize growth capital. Join the Klub for fast, fair & flexible funding.
  • Kaarva — Kaarva is India's first flexible salary platform which is not a salary advance but gives employees control to access a part of their earned salaries on their own whenever they need, multiple times a month.
  • Bright Money — A new system for financial planning to delete debt and build wealth. Pay Down Debt Faster, Build Savings and Boost your Credit Score.
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Murugavel Janakiraman
Angel · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Murugavel Janakiraman is the Founder and CEO at Matrimony.com.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • CargoFL — CargoFL is a B2B logistics technology platform that offers transport management software for enterprises in retail, pharma, and manufacturing sectors. It provides a cloud-based enterprise resource planning platform that focuses on capturing the logistics market by digital technology, automates dispatches, consolidates truckers, and provides supplychain visibility and vehicle tracking.
  • Beautywise — Beautywise is a dermatology-led supplement brand with the purpose of empowering everyone to embrace unique beauty by embracing long-term, evidence-based treatments that operate from inside.
  • Holiday Tribe — Holiday Tribe provides customizable holiday experiences across various destinations, catering to various groups including families, couples, honeymooners, adventure-seekers, and those seeking new or unexplored destinations.
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Anupam Mittal
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Anupam started his entrepreneurial journey by founding People Group - A New Media & Entertainment group, which includes businesses such as Shaadi.com, Makaan.com, Mauj Mobile, and People Pictures. Today the group is recognized as one of the most innovative enterprises in the country. Besides his operational roles, Anupam is also one ofIndia's most active angel investors.He attended Boston College.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • India, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

  • Burger Bae — We are a sustainable streetwear clothing brand. Our vision is to diminish the line between high end fashion and streetwear to create a more unified clothing line!
  • Cookie Cartel — Buy Cookie Cartel New York style chunky homemade cookies. Fresh baked cookies, beautifully packed and delivered all across India. Bite into the flavourful cookie bliss!
  • Naturik — Buy online 100% pure & natural instant oats, ragi and multigrain cheela mix at best prices on The Naturik Co. 100% secure payment & free shipping.
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Aloke Bajpai
Angel · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Aloke Bajpai is ixigo.com’s Co-Founder and CEO. Aloke graduated from IIT Kanpur in 2001 and started his career at Amadeus in Europe where he held key product and technology roles, building and managing large scale web-based products and networks for the first four years of his career. He then went to INSEAD for his MBA, and returned to India tolaunch ixigo.com in 2007. Under Aloke’s leadership over the last 7 years, ixigo has gone from a bootstrapped startup to India’s leading travel search and planning business, with over 20 million active users every month across mobile and web. Aloke is a TiE charter member and a mentor and advisor with several startups and accelerators.

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, Apps, SaaS
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • India, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • InstaAstro — Chat and talk to astrologer for accurate predictions on love, career, marriage, business & relationship. 24/7 astrology consultation starting from 10 per minute in Hindi, English, Tamil, Bengali, etc
  • MealHopper — Mealhopper brings food from home that matches closest to the customers. They provide a true home food from real home cooks.
  • OnlineTyari — OnlineTyari.com helps you prepare and take online mock tests for govt exams like SSC, IAS, Bank PO, Railways. We keep student updated with latest study material including GK and current affairs 2019 in India. We provide study material (online Mock tests, E-Books, Video classes and Practice questions). Highly recommended for students preparing for competitive exams like civil services (IAS, CSAT), engineering services, PSU jobs exams.Get current affair 2019 and free mock tests to start preparation.
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Atul Singh
Angel

Atul Singh is Group President, Asia Pacific, The Coca-Cola Company, with oversight over the operations of 5 Business units: Greater China and Korea BU (GC&K), India & Southwest Asia (INSWA) and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Japan & South Pacific. He supervises operations in 36 markets, which include China, Korea,Taiwan, Mongolia, Hong Kong, Macau, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Maldives, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Japan, American Samoa, Australia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Northern Mariana Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga & Vanuatu.Atul joined The Coca-Cola Company in 1998 as Vice President, Operations of Coca-Cola, India Division. He led the Franchise Operations and Key Accounts group of the India Division from 1998 to 2001. He then moved to China and served as the President of the East, Central and South China Division. Under his leadership, mainland China operations were among the fastest growing Coca-Cola businesses. In September, 2005, Atul took over as the President of Coca-Cola India and South West Asia Business Unit. Under his stewardship, Coca-Cola’s business in India made strides in all facets of its operations, emerging amongst top 7 businesses in the Coca-Cola System Worldwide and delivering 32 consecutive quarters of growth.Prior to joining Coca-Cola, Atul worked with The Colgate Palmolive Company for 10 years and held several key positions including Country General Manager, Nigeria (1995-1998), Finance Director and then Country General Manager, Romania (1992-1995) and Finance Manager, Body Care Division, USA (1990-1992). Before joining Colgate, Atul worked as an Auditor with Price Waterhouse in New York.Atul is an independent Director on the Board of Compass Ltd (BATA international Board) and was also independent Director on the Board of Bata India Ltd for 3 years. He has been past Chairman of AMCHAM India on two occasions. In the last 8 years, Atul has chaired several committees on Environment, Water, Sports, Rural Development & CSR in India’s apex chambers of commerce, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Atul is a member of the Advisory Board of AIESEC in India, the world’s largest student organization and a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization, a global body dedicated to creating ‘Better Leaders through Education and Idea Exchange’. He is also on the advisory board of Catalyst in India, a leading global non-profit membership organization founded in 1962, focused on expanding opportunities for women and business.Atul is an alumnus of the prestigious St. Xavier’s College of Kolkata, India from where he majored in Commerce (Honors). Atul holds an MBA degree from Texas Christian University, USA. He has lived and worked in the four continents of Asia, Africa, Europe and North America.

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Investment focus

  • Big Data, Software, Analytics
  • Seed, Angel
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • Frrole — Consumer intelligence provider trusted by the world's leading brands, agencies, government organizations and technology products. Applies Artificial Intelligence to public social data and provides consumer intelligence and predictive analytics that is not available anywhere else.
  • Burgerama — Burgerama provides fast-casual, made for delivery burger experience.
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Samir Sood
Angel · New Delhi, Delhi, India

Samir Sood is the Founder and All Things Business and Chief Believer at Venture Highway.

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • India, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Airwoot — Airwoot is a real-time customer support provider enabling brands to provide customer support on social media by notifying the customer engagement in real-time. The company reinvents the customer experience by transforming the way brands interact with their customers on social media. It is an intelligent customer experience platform using naturallanguage processing and machine learning to automatically identify customers who need engagement and help brands reduce response time, uncover business insights behind conversations, know the customers like never before, and increase customer satisfaction. It is used by many of the consumer internet companies of India to manage social media customer experience.
  • Linkrunner — Linkrunner turns customer data into insights with an AI driven MMP.
  • ShieldSquare — Forrester Research has ranked ShieldSquare as a Leader in their New Wave™: Bot Management Report for Q3 2018. ShieldSquare offers a non-intrusive API-based solution to detect and eliminate bad bot traffic from websites, mobile apps, and APIs in real-time. Our solution leverages intent-based deep behavior analysis, device fingerprinting, anddomain-specific detection technologies to identify and eliminate invalid traffic with zero false positives. We protect against automated attacks such as account takeover, application DDoS, API abuse, carding, content scraping, ad fraud, form spam, and other fraudulent activities. ShieldSquare safeguards over 80,000 internet properties owned by global online brands spread across 70 countries.
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Hafiz Ullah Khan
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Hafiz Ullah Khan

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Investment focus

  • Big Data, Software, Non Profit
  • Pre-Seed
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • DaanVeda — Experience the power of AI-driven prospecting, outreach, and analysis for NGOs. Streamline your fundraising with Daanveda.
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Nitin Gupta
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Nitin Gupta is a Founder and CEO at Uni.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Oolka — Oolka is a credit-building website that connects lenders and borrowers and shows credit scores.
  • Peeko — Peeko is a quick commerce platform that specializes in baby care products and accessories, promising 60-minute delivery.
  • Finarkein Analytics — Finarkein helps BFSI companies build intelligent, data-driven solutions across data aggregation, AI/ML powered analytics, and financial services distribution, leveraging Account Aggregator (AA), ONDC, and OCEN.
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Amit Manocha
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Amit Manocha joined Everstone in 2006 and is responsible for leading deal teams within Southeast Asia. He also heads up The Investment Office, which is responsible for monitoring all investments within Everstone’s private equity group, and reports to the Chief Investment Officer. Amit has over 12 years’ experience in private equity, corporatefinance and financial management, including prominent roles at Coca-Cola, GE Capital and HCL Technologies. Amit holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Delhi and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School. He is also a qualified Chartered Accountant.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Banking, FinTech
  • Seed
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • Keito — Human-assisted low-code machine learning platform for information & document extraction, to break data silos for enterprises. Keito enables enterprises to go digital, and to leverage the power of information within days. We enable enterprises to classify emails/images, extract information, and discover information from large volumes,irrespective of the type of data-image, documents, emails, voice. This can be achieved with our self-configurable platform. Making AI systems easy to create, train, and validate, and deploy and configure on cloud or on-premise as per customer choice.Kapture - Intelligent Document Processing, Image Classification, and Extraction Ira - Intelligent Email & Other Communication Channel Management & Processing Discover - Data search and discovery for faster decision making
  • Chqbook — India's first Neo-Bank for Small Business Owners. Open Zero Balance Current Account. Keep Record of Pending Payments from Customers. Apply for Business Loan, Buy Insurance and Pay Your Monthly Bills.
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Kishore Ganji
Angel · Marlboro, New Jersey, United States

Kishore Ganji is the Angel Investor & Mentor at Astir Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • India, United States, Bangladesh

Portfolio highlights

  • Lal10 — Lal10 enables creative manufacturing MSMEs to easily digitize, manage and sell their inventories for cross-border wholesale. Lal10 is Shopify + Alibaba for Indian MSMEs. Small manufacturers use Lal10’s Karigar application to digitize physical inventories which are available for RFQs on our global wholesale platform. We are creating a maker’srevolution by digitizing micro and small manufacturers to take their creative products to global markets. India has over 1.2mn such MSMEs involved in the manufacturing of apparel, home furnishings, decor products. We have digitized 30k SKUs to date and are the largest vertical platform for MSMEs for cross-border wholesale in India. Post pandemic layers of middlemen/ export houses and traditional channels of sales like exhibitions have been disrupted. We have created an efficient alternative with innovative technology-led solutions catering to these large and untapped supplies. We are seeing strong organic adoption of technology for quick market access by local manufacturers and pandemic has only accelerated its requirement. We believe that the future of retail is local. We are targeting small & medium-sized buyers in the US, UK, and Middle east using efficient data analytics and aggressive marketing. We provide them the benefits of a big-box retailer, i.e. affordable sourcing, contemporary design curation & assortment of products. These buyers are resellers on Amazon, Etsy, or Mom & Pop shops, Private labels, and have traditionally been only dependent tradeshows.
  • Teleport — Planning a trip? Say goodbye to visa hassles with Teleport! We've made applying for visas online super easy. Explore our site now to get started now!
  • Monitra Healthcare — Monitra Healthcare is a Hyderabad based med-tech company developing solutions that capture cardiac events anytime anywhere. Our products detect cardiac arrhythmias and cardiovascular disease at real-time for pre-emptive treatments. Cardiac monitoring is widely used to identify heart disease, to monitor cardiac activity before and after surgery andother cardiac procedures, and to assess the effects of therapeutic drugs on cardiac activity. The Company’s vision is to dramatically reduce the effects of heart disease by making monitoring and pre-emptive cardiac care a seamless part of everyday life.
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Harish Bahl
Angel · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Harish Bahl is the Founder and Chairman of Smile Group. He previously worked at Airseva as a Co-Founder and Local JV Partner. Harish Bahl attended SDM College of Engineering and Technology.

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Investment focus

  • Advertising, Internet, Apps
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • India, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

  • ProfitWheel — The consumer intelligence is at the heart of what we do. ProfitWheel provides you with 1st party insights of your best audiences to build effective, product and marketing strategies.
  • Punt Partners — Punt Partners is a company that provides marketing technology services. It provides results through the use of proprietary data, technology, and services.
  • Creative Galileo — Creative Galileo sits at the intersection of education, technology, and gaming, and leverages character based learning with cutting edge technology.. Our first product is the Little Singham: Kids Early Learning App which 1M downloads on the Plat Store
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Abhishek Gupta
Angel · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abhishek Gupta - Business Head & COO @ TLabs

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Investment focus

  • Big Data, Analytics, E-Commerce
  • Seed
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • Dataweave — DataWeave provides AI-powered Digital Shelf Analytics and Commerce Intelligence to Brands and Retailers globally to boost their sales on ecommerce channels.
  • Reslink — Reslink is an AI-powered SaaS platform that helps companies accelerate their R&D process.
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Anil Jain
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Anil Jain is based out of Mumbai, Maharashtra and is the Co-Founder of Elev8 Venture Partners.

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, Retail, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Series A
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • vPhrase — Phrazor, a reporting automation, and business intelligence platform makes your business reports easy-to-understand with insightful narratives using natural language generation.
  • FYRE — FYRE is claimed to be India’s first functional energy shot that gives a consumer instant energy that lasts for many hours backed by the goodness of Ayurveda
  • Wassup Laundry — Wassup is Indias's first friendly neighbourhood laundry & dry cleaning service. It is affordable and has a free home pickup and delivery service. Wassup - Just Laundry is a professionally run setup with state of the art machinery and skilled fabric experts who ensure hygiene and utmost care of your garments. As a result your whites staywhite, colour stay brighter and sheen of fabric remains for longer timeframe.
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Krishna Mehra
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months

Krishna Mehra Is the AI Partner of Elevation Capital. Krishna Mehra attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • getcrux — Delight your enterprise accounts with instant answers & insights from their business data
  • Pipeshift — Pipeshift is a modular orchestration platform for building with open-source AI components—embeddings, vector databases, LLMs, vision models, and audio models—across any cloud or on-premise. Enterprises get to deploy their AI workloads in production faster and more reliably.
  • Breakout — Breakout is the always available agentic workforce that grows your inbound pipeline by Delivering personalized conversations to every website visitor Showing live demos based on the conversation Giving actionable insights to the GTM team on what your website visitors are looking for
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Samir Bangara
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Samir Bangara - Co-Founder & Managing Director @ Qyuki

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, Apps, News
  • Seed, Angel
  • India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • POKKT — POKKT is an Alternate Mobile Payment Platform that helps owners of Paid Digital Goods and Services to monetise thier users through an advertiser-funded Model. Develpoers and Publishers of Digital content can significantly increase monetization and convert non-paying users into paying users.
  • Thrill — Online meetings can be professionally transcribed by Transcriberry experts with 99% accuracy. No matter whether it'll be Skype, Zoom, Google Meets or other service.
  • My Child — Enjoy millions of the latest Android apps, games, music, movies, TV, books, magazines & more. Anytime, anywhere, across your devices.
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Phanindra Sama
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Phanindra Sama is the Advisor of WestBridge Capital. He previously worked at redBus as a Founder and CEO. Phanindra Sama attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, SaaS, Software
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Kraftshala — Kraftshala is a online skilling platform for non-coding domains.
  • Chai Bisket — The Telugu Culture Company! Our Family - Girl Formula, Boy Formula, Chai Bisket Food, Kiraak Style, Chai Bisket Podcasts and Chai Bisket Shorts.
  • Eyewear designed& labs — Eyewear designed& labs is a eyewear startup.
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Rajesh Ranavat
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Rajesh Ranavat - Managing Director @ Li & Fung

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Software, Logistics
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • ThriveFNC — ThriveFNC is an alternative approach to creating holistic health through food and nutrition. ThriveFNC claims that it uses an innovative approach to reversing and curing chronic illnesses with a combination of science backed functional nutrition guidelines along with harnessing ancient wisdom from traditional medical systems.
  • Carrot — Shopping and lifestyle app for high intent shoppers who are rewarded for browsing, shopping and interacting with brands
  • Evolve — Evolve is a free meditation, anxiety & sleep app geared towards personal growth. Our approach towards meditation is refreshing & the meditation techniques are joyful!
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Vinay Bansal
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Finance professional with 20+ years of global experience in Fortune 50 companies, Startups and Private Equity, Vinay comes with a plethora of experience in finance, having begun his career in HUL and subsequently climbing up the ladder to play a paramount role in leading one of the largest finance team in GE India. He also has hands on experiencein startups, having worked in wildcraft wherein he played a pivotal role in mentoring the team and turning it into a profitable venture. He continued on his journey as a turnaround specialist bringing to life various portfolio companies while in TPG Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Edvizo — Edvizo is an education based startup that aspires to re-invent India's educational institutions via innovative technology and a passion to serve.
  • PhableCare — In India, 1 in 4 people suffer from chronic ailments. Meanwhile, 80% of patients cannot comply to the treatment plan provided by the doctor leading to even more complications. This poses a huge burden on the healthcare system. Phable solves this by making care autonomous and predictive. Our AI-enabled health assistant significantly improves healthoutcomes by enabling disease-specific guidance and continuous monitoring.Phable is marching onward to impact a billion lives over the next 5 years.
  • VideoVerse — VideoVerse is an interactive video shopping platform. VideoVerse introduces shoppable blogs and shoppable videos which will help to reach out to a rich pool of followers and enthusiasts.
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M Chandrasekaran
Angel

M Chandrasekaran

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Investment focus

  • EdTech, Big Data, Machine Learning
  • Seed
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • Kidovators (by GyanLab) — Kidovators is India's first 21st Century Competencies platform for school students. Through dedicated programs for 21st century skills such as creativity, innovation and critical thinking including annual courses, spotlight challenges, learning feed and more, Kidovators is working towards empowering over 1,000,000 school students with 21stcentury skills by 2025. Kidovators also conducts the world’s first Olympiads on creativity and critical thinking as well as works closely with schools to empower educators & parents with the knowledge of 21st century skills. With the world moving towards automation at an accelerated speed aided by advances in artificial intelligence, Kidovators is ensuring that school students are skilled for their future, not our past.
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Bharathram Thothadri
Angel · New Delhi, Delhi, India

Bharathram Thothadri is an EVP, Chief Credit Officer, Global Commercial Services, and Head of Merchant, and Network Risk of American Express.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, FinTech, Big Data
  • Seed
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • Dataweave — DataWeave provides AI-powered Digital Shelf Analytics and Commerce Intelligence to Brands and Retailers globally to boost their sales on ecommerce channels.
  • Instamojo — Sell online easily and directly to consumers. Run your online business with integrated payment gateway, shipping, analytics & more. Powering 20,00,000+ Indian businesses with powerful eCommerce features.
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Nelson Holzner
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Nelson Holzner is CEO and Co-Founder of MODIFI, a Fintech company solving global Trade Finance for small and medium-sized businesses. Prior to founding MODIFI, Nelson was CEO of AEVI, a German-based Fintech company providing an open B2B marketplace for business apps, SmartPOS devices and payment solutions to banks and acquires around the globe.Prior to joining AEVI, Nelson was founder and CEO of BillPay, a leading provider of payment by invoice or installments for e-commerce which was acquired by Klarna in 2017. He was Vice President at Cerberus Capital Management, an international investment firm. Nelson started his career as a lawyer at an international law firm. He is an active business angel in FinTech.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Banking, Big Data
  • Seed
  • India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Bitbond — Bitbond radically improves the issuance, settlement and custody of bonds and other assets with the help of blockchain technology and tokenization. In 2019 Bitbond received regulatory approval by BaFin to run Europe's first Security Token Offering (STO). The company makes its tokenization expertise and software and credit solutions available tobanks and other intermediaries.
  • ZestMoney — Enjoy the convenience of shopping for electronic gadgets, fashion, travel, education on EMI without credit card. No debit card or credit score required!
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Jaspreet Bindra
Angel · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Jaspreet Bindra is a SVP – Digital Innovation & ECommerce at Mahindra & Mahindra.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, SaaS, Open Source
  • Seed, Angel
  • India, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Meesho — Meesho operates as an online reselling platform that enables anyone to start a business without investment. Meesho is a business platform trusted by more than 2.6 million resellers across India. The company was founded in 2015 by Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwa and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.
  • Octo.ai — The analytics hypervisor, an operating system to manage all your analytics needs and licensed under Apache 2.0 License.
  • Elemential — An open & accessible development platform to help future generations of blockchain innovators design, run & scale networks with exponentially lower overhead. We do for blockchain what Docker did for containerization.
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Hemendra Kothari
Angel

Hemendra Kothari

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Investment focus

  • Retail, Big Data, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • Locus.sh — Locus is an intelligent logistics automation and decision-making platform that comes with in-built route planning and vehicle allocation engine which improves consistency and efficiency of operations.The platform helps companies and enterprises in e-commerce, food delivery, FMCG, and other verticals to automate and optimize their logistics. Theproduct suite comprises a route deviation engine, order dispatch automation, a field user app, route optimizations, scheduling, tracking for end-customer, and predictive analytics. Offering the entire technology stack, in the form of a platform as a service.
  • Apollo Pharmacy — Apollo Pharmacy Online Medical Store - Online Medicine Order - Buy medicines online from Apollo Pharmacy Store (India's largest pharmacy chain) and experience the fastest home delivery. All kinds of medicines, health products & equipment are available at our online medicine store.
  • Acko — Buy Car, Bike, Health & Travel Insurance online on ACKO. Enjoy zero commissions, paperless claims, and more. Kickstart your insurance journey with ACKO Insurance today | Welcome Change
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Arjun Malhotra
Angel · Delhi, Delhi, India

Arjun Malhotra is a General Partner at Good Capital, an early stage VC firm.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Octo.ai — The analytics hypervisor, an operating system to manage all your analytics needs and licensed under Apache 2.0 License.
  • Wealthy — Wealthy is a new-age financial services platform that is leveraging technology to build superior financial advice and transaction capabilities. Our suite of products today include customer-facing advice tools, a paper-less execution platform and internal tools to manage the experience of customers and run the business. We are present acrossplatforms and have consistently been praised for our superior customer experience. Wealthy is helping re-shape the financial services industry. We are leveraging software and Internet to enable everyone take better financial decisions. We are domain experts with a team that operates at the intersection of Finance, Technology and Design to deliver an experience that is delightful.
  • Mypoolin — As a customer, you can send, receive and split payments (instantly from any bank to any bank) with your friends & colleagues on a daily basis for - * movies & events * food & drinks * outing & travel * gifting & experiences and any thing that you can think ofAs a business owner, you can start accepting digital payments aswell as route them smartly over UPI and IMPS at the lowest cost in an automated manner. - Accept payments using Bharat QR / SMS links over any payment mode - Distribute money automatically and instantly to your vendors / agents / employees - Authenticate eKYC using Aadhaar verification for any of your service providers and much more!
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Sidharth Rao
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Entrepreneur since 1998. Proud founder of a couple of really spectacular internet businesses in India. And then, at least 2x number of equally spectacular turkeys. The first bit taught me how to find great partners, choose great investors, build awesome teams, be great in sales, execute, execute and ruthlessly execute.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Art, Product Design
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • Lio — Lio lets businesses calculate, tabulate, and organize tasks such as creating to-do lists, wedding registries, and class schedules. The product can be used by home businesses, solo business owners, farmers, doctors, and small to medium businesses, among others.
  • VS Mani & Co — Shop South Indian filter coffee, instant coffee that tastes almost like filter coffee, and wholesome snacks and spices at VS Mani & Co. Free delivery.
  • FastJobs.io — FastJobs.io envisions a world in which job hunting is completely stress-free and convenient.
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