Top 50 Big Data Angel Investors in India in December 2024
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 December 2024
Investor | Big Data India investments |
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Binny Bansal | 3 |
Rajan Anandan | 3 |
Rajan Anandan | 3 |
Sachin Bansal | 3 |
Kunal Bahl | 2 |
KRS Jamwal | 2 |
Bhupen Shah | 2 |
Chirag Jain | 2 |
Rohit Bansal | 2 |
Nicholas Brathwaite | 2 |
Amit Singhal | 2 |
Phanindra Sama | 1 |
Anand Ladsariya | 1 |
Nihal Mehta | 1 |
Amit Ranjan | 1 |
Neeraj Arora | 1 |
Harish Bahl | 1 |
Rajesh Mane | 1 |
Sharad Sharma | 1 |
Rajesh Kamat | 1 |
Vinay Bansal | 1 |
Apurva Chamaria | 1 |
Manish Singhal | 1 |
Atul Singh | 1 |
Rajiv Dalal | 1 |
Manav Garg | 1 |
Ratilal M. Bavarva | 1 |
Hemendra Kothari | 1 |
M Chandrasekaran | 1 |
Kishore Ganji | 1 |
Rajesh Ranavat | 1 |
Tushar Singh | 1 |
Bharathram Thothadri | 1 |
Sachin Arora | 1 |
Sunil Kalra | 1 |
Pran Mehra | 1 |
Abhishek Gupta | 1 |
Lip-Bu Tan | 1 |
Nitin Singhal | 1 |
Amit Manocha | 1 |
Rajesh Sawhney | 1 |
Ashvin Chadha | 1 |
Nittin Passi | 1 |
Samir Bangara | 1 |
Mitesh Shah | 1 |
Nelson Holzner | 1 |
Siddharth Talwar | 1 |
Shalini Chhabra | 1 |
Vishal Khare | 1 |
Jaspreet Bindra | 1 |
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
- 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 — Alltius is an AI-driven platform for conversational assistance in software products primarily to help and guide users in their product journeys.
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, 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.
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, Apps
- 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.
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.
Kunal is a technology entrepreneur and investor.
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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!
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
- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- 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.
- 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.
- Scandalous Foods — Scandalous Foods offers food preparation services such as 6-month preservative-free sweets in single-serve sizes.
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.
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 Analytics offers no-code workflow orchestration and data analytics platform for digital platforms.
Rohit Bansal - Co-Founder @ Snapdeal
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- 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.
- Stable Money — Steady returns, untapped opportunities, and excellent long-term performance to aid your journey of wealth creation!
- Equal Identity — Equal Identity operates as an ID-sharing platform.
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
- Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Automotive
- 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
- Exostellar — Exotanium, Inc. is a cloud resource optimization and management platform that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to help enterprises reduce spending in the cloud by up to 90%, while enhancing both operational security and performance.
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 — Dimension is an all-in-one ecosystem for product development built for a better developer experience, enabling developers to plan, build, and deploy their project in one place.
- AutoNxt Automation — Discover the future of sustainable farming with Autonxt Automations electric tractors and self-driving technology. Explore our innovative solutions today.
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, Health Care, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Bitsila — Bitsila is an software company that allows retail shops to start and grow business through online platform.
- Punt Partners — Punt Partners is a company that provides marketing technology services. It provides results through the use of proprietary data, technology, and services.
- Billion Hearts — Did you sign-up for our beta launch?
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
- 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.
- NewsReach — NewsReach, a leading PR firm, specializes in press release distribution to maximize brand exposure and engagement. Elevate your message with us.
Nihal Mehta is a Co-Founder at Eniac Ventures. He was an Angel Investor at Uber. He attended the University of Pennsylvania.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Street FC — 100+ Street soccer games every month. Join a club or build one with us.
- Buildstock — Buildstock is a B2B construction materials marketplace & Fintech software company, focused on connecting buyers of materials directly with materials suppliers for bulk purchasing of base building materials, in the high rise & industrial market. While also offering access to real time lending for procurement & factoring for PurchasingOrders of suppliers; improving, cost of materials, time efficiency, data accuracy & cashflow innovation.
- SportsIcon — Venture Studio and Sports Agency harnessing frontier technology to build innovative approaches in sports, media, and entertainment.
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, Enterprise Software
- 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
Neeraj Arora is responsible for “all things business at WhatsApp”. He is an IIT graduate as well as a management graduate from the Indian School of Business, gave up his high profile job managing global M&A at Google to join one of Silicon Valley’s hottest starts-ups. Arora served as the principal, corporate development, at Google and beforethat he was the chief manager at Times Internet Ltd.
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Investment focus
- Apps, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series B, Angel
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Zipy — Traditional tools might throw a list of bugs at you, but Zipy tells you which ones matter through real time customer journeys.
- OTPless — Explore top-notch authentication solutions like WhatsApp, SMS or email-based Numeric codes and Magic Link with OTPless. High conversion, flexible integrations, and robust security features await you!
- PingSafe — PingSafe is an industry-leading Cloud Security platform with a comprehensive knowledge of the attackers’ modus operandi. Analyze critical vulnerabilities on Cloud and seal them before the attackers get a sniff.
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, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- India, 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
An active investor in early stage startups across technology & CPG.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Mobile, Fashion
- Seed
- India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Orbo.ai — Orbo.ai provide contextual information and become a gateway to the world and not just stay limited to computational photography through our deep learning technology based solutions.Orbo’s face tracking technology can be implemented across devices to identify human emotions, transformative & augmented effects as well as one can build enhancedcamera centric applications.
- LiquiLoans — LiquiLoans is a company uses technology to match borrowers and lenders and in the process eliminates the margin which is charged by traditional banks and NBFCs, thus, making borrowing cheaper and investing a more lucrative opportunity as compared to traditional investment avenues.
- Impact Guru — ImpactGuru is a No.1 crowdfunding platform in India offering fundraising solutions for medical treatments, emergencies, NGOs & startups. Start a crowdfunding campaign now!
Sharad Sharma is the Co-Founder of the iSPIRT Foundation. He attended Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Minjar — Short term financing makes it possible to acquire highly sought-after domains without the strain of upfront costs. Find your domain name today.
- Vebbler — Roulette Online merupakan permainan situs judi Live Casino Terpopuler di Indonesia. Mainkan Rolet online gampang menang hari ini.
- Wishberry — Wishberry is a rewards-based crowdfunding platform that enables users to raise funds for their creative and innovative ideas. The platform focused on topics such as arts, design, film, music, theatre, publishing, technology, games, and applications.
Listed as India’s hottest 40 under 40 Business Leaders by Economic Times and Spencer Stuart, Rajesh was previously the COO of Peter Chernin’s Asia focused private equity fund CA Media. Kamat had formerly launched Viacom18’s popular Hindi GEC network COLORS. With a mix of disruptive and differentiated programming, accompanied by aggressive marketingand distribution strategies Kamat catapulted COLORS to a number 3 position in its very first week and the number 1 position 9 months after launch, breaking Star Plus’ stranglehold on the position after nine years of unchallenged dominance. Under Rajesh’s leadership COLORS continued its successful run and grew into a vibrant brand reaching 140mm Households. It is the only GEC to have reached an operating break-even in 15 months. He served as COO of Viacom 18 Group and CEO of COLORS. Prior to COLORS, he launched Endemol India and served as its Managing Director. He has also served as SVP of Commercial & Business Planning at STAR India and held various marketing positions at Coca-Cola and MTV India. Kamat has also been named Impact Media Person of Year in 2009 and ‘Outstanding Entrepreneurs of Asia Pacific for 2010. Rajesh is a Bachelor of Engineering and also holds a Master's in Business Administration.Rajesh is also an active board member in over 10 companies and enjoys contributing to the angel investor ecosystem
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Digital Entertainment, Social Media
- Seed, Angel, Series B
- India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Animeta — Animeta is the World's first Social Media Influencer collaboration platform for Digital Creators, TikTok stars, & everyone else - powered by AIJoin the revolution of influencers that make money with digital creator tech, empower the creator economy, and get famous faster.
- Infinite Analytics — Understand Your Audience And Refine Your Targeting
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
- Internet, Health Care, E-Commerce
- 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.
Apurva Chamaria
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Investment focus
- News, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- 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.
- Josh Talks — By leveraging our expertise in research and storytelling, we create exclusive content in regional languages to help brands tell their story better and reach their target audience.
- 1DigitalStack.ai — Technology for brand growth on Ecommerce marketplaces We help brands dominate Ecommerce by leveraging marketplace data & AI-enabled media management Let's Connect
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, Coffee, Generative AI
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- 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.
- RagaAI — The most comprehensive testing platform for AI.
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.
Rajiv Dalal
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Investment focus
- News, Finance, Big Data
- Series A
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Heckyl — Heckyl provides real time financial information, news analytics, and heatmaps to get exclusive coverage of markets, companies, and businesses. The company helps businesses understand the past, analyse the present, and get insight into the future. Heckyl uses systems to simultaneously gather data from sources from all over the world and presentready-to-use, actionable intelligence to the user, in real time. The systems are engineered for performance, reliability, and accuracy.In essence, Heckyl helps users explore new ideas and keep pulse on the current business events and issues. With Heckyl, users will find a wealth of information that matters to them, streaming at their fingertips.
Ratilal M. Bavarva is the Founding Member and Investor at Aasan Group of companies. He attended Lukhdhirji Engineering College, Morbi graduated with a degree in electrical engineering.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Renewable Energy, Clean Energy
- Pre-Seed, Private Equity
- India, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Aasan Industries — AASAN is a representative house for selected manufacturers and suppliers in the field of the cast, forged, milled, and turned parts as well as toolmaking from INDIA and Germany.The company has international expertise lying in the manufacture of high-quality, nevertheless inexpensive products for the railway, medical technology, vehicle, machineand tool construction, oil and gas as well as for the hydraulic industry.
- AASAN Tools — A family inheritance enterprise focused on a tool manufacturing unit based in India and Germany. Aasan Tools works with high-quality cutting tool manufacturers from GERMANY and offers a direct solution for the metalworking and machine tool industry.We are an inhouse based importer and Supplier of high-performance and cost-effective cutting toolInserts and holders for Turning, Grooving, Threading, Parting, Precision Grooving, Face Grooving, DIN 471 & DIN 509 Grooving, and Profiling. We understand the needs of our customers very well and offer them the best quality and cost-effective solution for their process.Presently AASAN tools have partnered with GERMAN-based indexable tools specialist KEMMER Hartmetallwerkzeuge GmbH and offer a decidedly wide range of solutions, which allows you to choose the best for your work. The combination of different carbide substrates and numerous coatings is the result of an extremely large product range of KEMMER inserts. In addition to the PVD coatings, Kemmer also gradually offers the latest CVD coatings.Apart from that the company has many joint venture suppliers and manufacturers collaborations with various organizations based in Switzerland, France, Austria, Italy, Finland, Belgium, Netherlands.
- Hacchu Dachhu Incorporation — The Hacchu Dachhu Incorporation will be South Asian most innovative site location of the year 2025 - 2028 where new technologies in the field of sustainable energy provision, water, and waste systems will be tested and applied in a real-life environment. One of its main aims for such global-level incorporation will be to accelerate innovations inthe energy transition. It will also set a new benchmark of place where knowledge institutions and big companies, and local communities' growth will be able to jointly develop and valorize technologies and systems all under one roof.
Hemendra Kothari
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- Retail, Big Data, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India
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- 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
M Chandrasekaran
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- EdTech, Big Data, Machine Learning
- Seed
- India
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- 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.
Kishore Ganji is the Angel Investor & Mentor at Astir Ventures.
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- E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- India, United States, Bangladesh
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- 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.
Tushar Singh is a Managing Partner at Dominor Investment Holdings LLP.
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- FinTech, Big Data, Financial Services
- Seed
- India
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- Dubpro.ai — Deepsync Dub allows you to translates your videos into major languages and auto-syncs it in 5 minutes! Supports voice cloning.
- The Money Club — Money Club is a registered digital AI chit fund platform in India which lets you create peer-to-peer chit fund clubs. Download the safe & secure app now!
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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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Big Data
- Seed
- India
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- 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.
Sachin Arora is a Co-founder at Chqbook.com.
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- Apps, Banking, FinTech
- Seed, Angel
- India
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- 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.
- AdPushup — We help web publishers grow their advertising revenue by using cutting-edge technology, premium demand partnerships.
Sunil Kalra - Managing Director @ Via Projects
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- Financial Services, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Series C
- India, United States
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- Chargeup — Chargeup is a full-stack EV Financing & Asset Management Platform. We enable last-mile drivers with ownership and higher earnings
- 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.
Pran Mehra
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- Big Data, Telecommunications, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- India
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- Deepsync — Deepsync Dub allows you to translates your videos into major languages and auto-syncs it in 5 minutes! Supports voice cloning.
Abhishek Gupta - Business Head & COO @ TLabs
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- Big Data, Analytics, E-Commerce
- Seed
- India
Lip-Bu Tan is Chairman and Founder of Walden International and has been active in the venture capital industry for the past two decades. Additionally, he introduced and pioneered the U.S. venture capital concept in Asia and contributed towards the promotion of early-stage technology investing in the Asia-Pacific region.Prior to WI, he was VicePresident at Chappell & Co. and held management positions at EDS Nuclear and ECHO Energy. Mr. Tan concurrently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. and has been a member of the Cadence Board of Directors since 2004.He is also a board member of Flextronics (NASDAQ: FLEX), SINA (NASDAQ: SINA), SMIC (NYSE:SMI / HKSE:981), a member of the VC Advisory Board of Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), serves on the College of Engineering Advisory Board at University of California Berkeley, the School of Engineering Dean's Council at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), the School of Engineering Dean's Advisory Board and the Visiting Committee for the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a trustee of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and a member of the Committee of 100.He also served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of San Francisco for 9 years.He holds a B.S. in Physics from Nanyang University in Singapore, an M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an M.B.A. from the University of San Francisco.
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- Software, Semiconductor, Artificial Intelligence
- Series B, Seed, Series A
- United States, Israel, India
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- SiMa.ai — SiMa.ai™ is a machine learning company transforming the embedded edge market through high-performance compute at the lowest power. Initially focused on computer vision applications, the company’s software-first approach simplifies ML integration and supports the broadest set of capabilities through a purpose-built MLSoC™ platform, enabling rapidadoption and creating the best of ease-of-use experience. SiMa.ai is led by technologists and business veterans and backed by a set of top investors committed to helping customers scale machine learning at the edge.
- Contextual AI — Contextual AI offers a pioneering approach to generative AI for the workplace.
- Guardrails AI — Enforce assurance for LLM applications
Nitin Singhal is the Founder and Managing Partner of Fresco Global.
Nitin has an MBA from London Business School and a BTech from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and he is based in London, UK
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, United States, United Kingdom
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- 6to8 (B-Fresh by Baxi) — India's first truly hyperlocal delivery service.
- LawRato.com — Consult & Hire the Best Lawyers in India. Top Rated Advocates available for Consultation by Phone, Meeting, Video Call, at your Home / office and through Email.
- University Living — Explore millions of student rooms and dorms with verified reviews. UL offers students home to study abroad. Search by city, university, and property.
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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- SaaS, Banking, FinTech
- Seed
- India
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- 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.
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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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India, Singapore, United States
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- Settlin — Search, Visit, Check Legal, Negotiate and Buy - all at one place.
- TyrePlex — Buy car and bike tyres. Best tyre price, features, reviews. Find right tyre size and tyre dealer details
- hypergro — Hypergro provides the power of user-generated content, craft impactful UGC video ads designed to attract, engage, and convert.These video advertising act as a distinctive, tailored connection between the brand and potential clients, which boosts consumer traffic, app downloads, and revenue for your company.
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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- Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Retail
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India
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- Burgerama — Burgerama provides fast-casual, made for delivery burger experience.
- Burger Singh — Just another WordPress site
- KNAB Finance — KNAB Finance has one purpose in mind, how to use technology to find best and easy lending solutions for the customers. Started in 2015, it has served around
Nittin Passi
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- Travel, Tourism, Big Data
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- India
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- Shipsy — Shipsy is a comprehensive software suite that helps logistics and supply chain companies increase operational efficiency and service levels using actionable insights. The platform capitalizes on your company's existing data and provides you with critical business insights for your organization, empowering you to make better business decisions.Shipsy enables real time data processing and provides you with live alerts using scalable machine learning models.
- Deyor — Find the best multi-day tour and book online. First time in India. India's first chatbot integrated experiential travel website.
Samir Bangara - Co-Founder & Managing Director @ Qyuki
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Apps, Digital Media
- 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.
Mitesh began his career with Mandhana Industries Limited, an apparel manufacturing company in 2001, where he handled various projects including the company’s IPO in 2010 and its exclusive global licensing deal with Salman Khan’s Being Human brand.
He joined Ola as CFO in December 2013 and played a pivotal role in the evolution of one of the biggeststart-up stories of India. Then came Bookmyshow, where he spearheaded the finance department and played an active role in strategic business management. With his vast experience in the start-up world, Mitesh is now a mentor to many young entrepreneurs guiding their startup journey apart from helping them with angel Investment.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Machine Learning
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, United Kingdom, Singapore
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- 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.
- 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.
- Data Sutram — Data Sutram is an AI-based Location Intelligence Enterprise with a Cloud-based B2B product that works on a Data As A Service business model to help businesses 1. Pinpoint New Locations for Expansion 2. Improve the performance of their existing physical & digital assets. 3. Finding the right Audience for a business.They are currently focussedon Retail, E-Commerce, Agritech, Real Estate, BFSI.
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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- FinTech, Banking, Big Data
- Seed
- India, Germany
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- Bitbond — Bitbond radically improves the issuance, settlement and custody of financial assets with the help of blockchain technology and tokenization.
- ZestMoney — Enjoy the convenience of shopping for electronic gadgets, fashion, travel, education on EMI without credit card. No debit card or credit score required!
Siddharth Talwar - Co-Founder & Partner @ Lightbox
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- News, Lifestyle, Advertising Platforms
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- India
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- 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.
Shalini Chhabra is a Managing Partner at Incipia Advisors LL.
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- Software, Analytics, Finance
- Seed
- India
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- Tan90 — Instant cold gel ice pack! We are manufacturers of gel ice packs in India. A Reusable Ice Pack, Insulated Delivery Cooler Bags, Plastic Pads, or Tan90 High-Quality PCM cooling liquid are the refrigerant.
- Haqdarshak — Haqdarshak is a technology-enabled platform working to transform how Indian citizens learn about, apply for, and benefit from, government schemes. The company is composed of a group of passionate social entrepreneurs using technology to impact the next billion. The team comprises of individuals from diverse background who have come together out ofcommon interest and passion. The investor community represents individuals holding prestigious positions in different companies across various sectors.
- Planys Technologies — Planys Technologies is an IIT Madras incubated company that provides submersible robotic inspection and survey solutions using Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs). Planys has its head office in Chennai where it indigenously designs and manufactures compact ROVsPlanys brings world class technology and cutting-edge innovations in underwaterrobotics and diagnostics in the shallow-mid depth segment. Planys’ technology spans the domains of marine robotics, advanced Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE), and post-inspection analysis. Planys provides a holistic service offering to customers through a design level fusion of ROV manufacture, operations and structural diagnostics. Planys is the first and currently the only OEM of ROVs in the Indian Sub-continent.Planys was founded by IIT Madras alumni and faculty who have been working together on various projects since 2012.
Vishal Khare was the Director at Citrix Systems India and was responsible for planning and executing sale & business strategies for Citrix in India Subcontinent. He has a total experience of over 19 years.Vishal is an active angel investor with having invested in 10+ startups and has been on board of few of them. Vishal’s areas of interestare early stage startups, which can project real & scalable business opportunities in any relevant field.
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- Mobile, Computer, Software
- Seed
- India
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- Roopya — Best Loan Origination, Underwriting and Analytics platform for all Lenders including Bank, NBFC, MFI, Fintech, LSP. Consume Lending Analytics As a Service. Enjoy most advanced Loan CRM with Customer Journey, KYC, Scorecard, Credit Score and Rule Engine
- AdStringO — AdStringO is World’s Fastest end-Point Mobile & Web based Image, Audio & Video Compression Technology provider which enable organizations to release up to 96% of their existing storage capacity to achieve significant, permanent storage cost savings. Also the primary objective of AdStringO technology to help the last mile image capture to beseamlessly move to Corporate house even at 1G, 2G, and Dial-up through its innovative compression technology. Headquartered in Mumbai India, the company delivers primary storage and network bandwidth under the brand AdStringO. AdStringO products are sold worldwide and have already helped small and medium-sized companies, universities, public and government institutions as well as the vast majority of Fortune 500 companies get more from their storage investments
- Aznog Technologies Limited —
Jaspreet Bindra is a SVP – Digital Innovation & ECommerce at Mahindra & Mahindra.
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- E-Commerce, SaaS, Open Source
- Seed, Angel
- India, United States
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- 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 — Build and scale production applications on the latest optimized models and fine tunes using the OctoAI SaaS or in your environment.
- 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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