Top 50 Biotech Angel Investors in India in July 2025

Investor	Biotech India investments
Nagendra Bandaru	2
Sanjiv Rangrass	2
Rajan Anandan	2
Rajan Anandan	2
Sami Mikati	1
Tushar Vashisht	1
Rajeev Singh	1
Sameer Brij Verma	1
Vaibhav Hegde	1
Dr Vinay Tulla	1
Samir Kalia	1
Balaji Srinivasan	1
Uday Sodhi	1
Raman Roy	1
Dr.Ajith Kamath	1
Ganesh Natarajan	1
Raju Reddy	1
Paula Mariwala	1
Shashank Mehta	1
Abhishek Ganguly	1
Jitendra Patel	1
Nimesh Kampani	1
Nitin Zamre	1
Sarah Dhar	1
Nithin Kamath	1
Lalit Keshre	1
Sanjay Jesrani	1
Shantanu Agarwal	1
Sunil Kant Munjal	1
Jaideep Mehta	1
Binny Bansal	1
Gunavanth Vaid	1
Arvind Singhal	1
Neeraj Singh	1
Harsh Jain	1
Maninder Gulati	1
Paula Mariwala	1
Sharaf Yamani	1
Aniruddha Malpani	1
Anand Deshpande	1
Deepank Kumar, CFA	1
Layacharan Sandadi	1
Jaithirth Rao	1
Akshay Singhal	1
Harshil Mathur	1
Aarti Grover	1
Dr. Ganesh Natarajan	1
Suman Kant Munjal	1
Sabine Kapasi	1
Akshay Mittal	1

Nagendra Bandaru

Investment focus

Fitness, Hardware, Security
Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Transcell Biolife — Transcell is a Biotech company with a strong commitment to develop innovative and transformative stem cell based approaches in advancing evidence based practice in disease management. The in-house stem cell repository programs bridge the gap between the research and emerging discoveries in clinical applications.
SecurWeave Research Labs — SecurWeave is one of the most trusted and leading cyber security companies in India offering CHESS, which is designed to fill the gap in cyber defense against APTs. Malware

Sanjiv Rangrass is the Venture Partner of Unitus Ventures. He previously worked at ITC Limited as a Group Head - R&D, Sustainability & Projects. Sanjiv Rangrass attended Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Investment focus

AgTech, Food Processing, Farming
Seed, Series A, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

altM — altM is an alternate materials company on a mission to develop the future of materials to reduce carbon footprint and improve circularity in their supply chain.
Wootz.work — We provide precision engineering solutions, from custom fabrications to full assemblies. Enhance supply chain resilience with integrated design, manufacturing, and delivery expertise, backed by global standards.
Sugar Watchers — A healthy twist to our daily staples like Rice, Atta and Poha. Sugar Watchers is a range of Low GI staples that are 100% Natural, non-gmo and clinically tested. They are good for diabetics, help in sugar and weight management and good for the full family.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Sami Mikati is a Director of Synthace Ltd. Investor and commercial executive with deep experience and network across energy and engineering industries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Life Science
Seed
India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CyGenica — CyGenica uses a non-viral, non-toxic platform to develop in vitro and in vivo delivery solutions for drugs, gene editing components, and antibiotics.
Synthace — The Synthace Experiment Platform lets you design powerful experiments, run them in your lab, & gather automatically structured datasets. No code necessary.

Tushar Vashisht is the Cofounder and CEO of HealthifyMe.Before HealthifyMe, he did an experiment to live on average Indian income (Rs100aday.com) for a month with his cofounder and worked in the Unique ID Authority with the Government of India for nearly two years. Tushar started his career as in investment banker on Wall Street and in the Bay Areabefore moving to Singapore with Deutsche Bank. He is a graduate of University of Pennsylvania and a passionate musician by hobby.

Investment focus

Wellness, Health Care, Neuroscience
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Ivory — Neuroscience-backed assessments & games to improve your brain health and live your best life.

Rajeev Singh is a Techno functional consultant SAP CRM TPM, S/4, UI5, BW at SAP Labs.

Investment focus

Wellness, Health Care, Neuroscience
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Ivory — Neuroscience-backed assessments & games to improve your brain health and live your best life.

Sameer Brij Verma is the Managing Director of Nexus Venture Partners. Sameer graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago with a BS in Computer Engineering (International Scholar & Founders Scholar)

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Information Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

BuildSupply — BuildSupply is among the leading real estate ERP and construction project management provider companies in India. It is an innovative SaaS and B2B E-Commerce platform for the construction and real estate industry. The company provides a unique system for standardization, efficiency and transparency leading to cost and time effective projects.
Green Grahi — Green Grahi transforms food waste into useable protein, fats, and oils to create a more sustainable world.
CapGrid Solutions — CapGrid is a B2B commerce company specializing in sourcing and procurement of direct-material supplies. Its platform houses detailed capability intelligence of global supply sources from major manufacturing and best-cost sourcing destinations.

Vaibhav Hegde is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cambrian Bioworks. He previously worked at Medimmune as an Associate Scientist in Cell Culture Process Development. Vaibhav Hegde attended Georgia Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Biopharma, Life Science, Biotechnology
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Cambrian Bioworks — Cambrian Bioworks builds automated solutions for genomic testing and molecular diagnostics workflows, powering precision medicine in oncology, infectious disease diagnostics, and genetic testing.

Dr Vinay Tulla

Investment focus

Health Care, Fitness, Wellness
Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Weeclu —
Transcell Biolife — Transcell is a Biotech company with a strong commitment to develop innovative and transformative stem cell based approaches in advancing evidence based practice in disease management. The in-house stem cell repository programs bridge the gap between the research and emerging discoveries in clinical applications.
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.

Gets Holidays est une compagnie tourisme et l'un de tour qui offre un voyage fascinant, elle est spécialisée dans l'organisation de voyage pour la découverte de l'inde dans ses quatre coins cardinaux, elle a été crée en 1987 et a son siège à New Delhi, avec des petites extensions à travers l'inde et des représentants de lacompagnie a travers le monde.On peut dire que, nous sommes l'un des entreprises touristiques, qui offre un service de qualité à nos clients, avec de prix vraiment abordable.notre équipe travaille 24hrs/7jrs conformément au fuseaux horaire de nos clients, pour nous permettre de leur offrir un service de qualité en répondant à toutes leurs préoccupations. Nous avons aussi une équipe de 125 agents parlant plus de 10 langues du monde.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Prantae Solutions — Prantae Solutions is a biotechnology company that creates affordable technologies for rare and neglected disorders. They are backed by experienced and enthusiastic scientists and faculties from leading institutes and universities, legal advisors, clinicians, and media personnel in the country who are united by a single aim of creating better healthopportunities. They aim to channelize the entire profit into the development of new technologies and creating health awareness in the country.It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India.

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Aspora — Aspora help users bank seamlessly across countries, invest in diverse assets, access credit and insurance services.
Kindly MD — Kindly MD is a healthcare services and technology company that offers solutions for sleep support, pain treatment, and medication management through advanced data analytics. The company integrates mental health services, traditional medication, and plant-based alternatives to provide comprehensive, whole-person treatment. Dedicated to promoting abrighter, healthier future, Kindly MD delivers personalized care that addresses the unique needs of each patient.
Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.

Uday Sodhi

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

OSSO — OSSO provides comprehensive treatment for a full range of orthopedic conditions.
PlaySuper — PlaySuper is the core values of a mobile app or game and used to see in product page and should convey the app’s purpose and benefits.PlaySuper is building commerce in games, specifically focusing on revolutionizing in-game commerce by enabling gaming studios to integrate rewards and brands to reach gaming audiences
ThinkMetal — ThinkMetal offers advanced metal 3D printing services for industrial applications. Discover our cutting-edge solutions for manufacturing high-quality metal parts.

Raman is widely regarded as the pioneer and “guru” of the BPO industry (also called the ‘IT Enabled Services’ industry) in India. He has played a pivotal role over the last 14 years in promoting Indian BPO and proving that India can be a preferred location for Remote Processing.Raman is a pioneer four times over, having successfully led thecaptive/third party BPO initiatives of American Express, GE Capital (now Genpact) and Spectramind (now Wipro BPO) out of India before starting Quatrro mid 2006, which is launched to focus on high end BPO services.Raman is a Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Management Accountant with a doctorate in Management Accountancy. In his career spanning across 30+ years, Raman has a very hands-on approach to business and has first-hand experience and rare insights into servicing markets as diverse as North America, Europe, Japan, Asia Pacific and Australia.As a tribute to his contribution to the BPO industry, he was awarded the Dataquest Pathbreaker Award in 2002 for directly creating 35,000+ jobs in India and indirectly enabling the employment of over 410,000 people by creating the BPO industry.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, SaaS, Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Workie — We offering the Perfect Commercial & Co-working Office Space which are Fully Furnished for Businesses, Startups & Freelancers.
HireACamp — HireACamp is an online marketplace that lets travelers easily Search and book camps with local camp owners.
SP Robotic Works — SP Robotic Works is India's #1 Edutainment Company that bundles Learning Robotics, Coding & other New age technologies with fun! Digital Learning Platform(AI assisted) coupled with Hands-on Kits helps students learn various Technologies like Robotics, Coding, Internet Of Things(IoT), Drones, Android App Building, Virtual Reality and manymore!! They deliver courses both on Online & Offline Smart classes mode via SP Robotics Maker Labs spread across 83 dedicated centres in 32 cities and 13 states.

Research Executive at Natural Remedies Private Limited

Investment focus

Health Care, Life Science, Biotechnology
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Ahammune Biosciences — Ahammune Biosciences is an innovation-led drug discovery company started in 2016 which focuses on developing new treatment options for immune mediated diseases of the skin. Our current program is on the depigmenting disorder, Vitiligo.

Ganesh has spent over a decade in Silicon Valley. He’s an engineer at heart and has a master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University. Ganesh previously worked as engineering lead at Yahoo. He has extensive experience in architecting and building large-scale platforms and leading high- performance engineering teams.

Investment focus

Health Care, Life Science, Biotechnology
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Ahammune Biosciences — Ahammune Biosciences is an innovation-led drug discovery company started in 2016 which focuses on developing new treatment options for immune mediated diseases of the skin. Our current program is on the depigmenting disorder, Vitiligo.

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

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.

Part of the founding team of Seedfund, Paula Mariwala is the Executive Director at Seedfund. She has over 20 years of experience with technology companies in USA and India. In her role as the Executive Director since inception of Seedfund in 2006, Paula has worked extensively with the entrepreneurial ecosystem in India to source, evaluate andmentor start-up companies for Seedfund. She works closely with Portfolio companies to take them to their next stage of growth and has led investments in education, healthcare and mobile technology.Coming from a strong business background and a technocrat by profession, Paula has worked with companies like Photon Kinetics, Tektronix and Optivideo in USA and is Promoter and Director of The Hinditron Group of companies, one of India’s oldest technology company, where she has been responsible for managing the Telecommunication business of the Group and for driving new business initiatives. She is also an active angel investor, and has mentored and invested in several innovative companies across sectors.Paula holds an MS in Applied Physics from Stanford University, USA. She has several publications and patents to her credit in the fields of Astrophysics and Optical Communication.A Charter member of TiE, she is very active in the entrepreneurial ecosystem and is involved in various capacities with academic institutions and incubators. She is associated with professional organizations like IEEE (Life Member), Computer Society of India, Stanford University Alumni Association. Paula has a strong commitment and interest in education and also devotes time working with several schools and NGOs.

Investment focus

Internet of Things, EdTech, Toys
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

altM — altM is an alternate materials company on a mission to develop the future of materials to reduce carbon footprint and improve circularity in their supply chain.
Praan — Praan builds the world's most advanced air purification technologies for commercial and industrial applications.
Awaaz.De — Awaaz.De provides technology solutions and services for development sector organizations to connect with under served communities. It develops cost-effective, easy-to-use communication and data collection tools that work on mobiles and landlines, breaking language and literacy barriers. Awaaz.De clients use their applications for health, education,microfinance, and agriculture to increase the impact.Awaaz.De was founded on 2010 and is headquartered in Ahmedabad, India.

Shashank Mehta is the Director of Product Strategy at Razorpay.

Investment focus

Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
Angel, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

Ultrahuman — Ultrahuman is a London, Abu Dhabi and Bengaluru based longevity and health-monitoring platform that designs, manufactures and sells the Ultrahuman Ring Air health tracker, Ultrahuman M1 Continuous glucose monitor, pre-release Ultrahuman Home health monitor and related blood testing services like Blood vision.

Abhishek Ganguly is a Co Founder & CEO, Agilitas. Propelling a Generation through Sport.

Investment focus

Wellness, Health Care, Neuroscience
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Ivory — Neuroscience-backed assessments & games to improve your brain health and live your best life.

Jitendra Patel

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Hospitality
Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

iCardin — iCardin is a healthcare discovery platform that offers end-to-end care for patients with any neurological disorders.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Koinbasket — KoinBasket lets you invest in diversified cryptocurrency portfolios and indexes with Bitcoin, Ethereum, Altcoins and DeFi tokens on Binance, Coinbase and Huobi.
Intents Mobi — Mobile analytics, Logistics, Transportation, Fleet Management, Data Analytics

Nitin Zamre is an angel investor.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Prantae Solutions — Prantae Solutions is a biotechnology company that creates affordable technologies for rare and neglected disorders. They are backed by experienced and enthusiastic scientists and faculties from leading institutes and universities, legal advisors, clinicians, and media personnel in the country who are united by a single aim of creating better healthopportunities. They aim to channelize the entire profit into the development of new technologies and creating health awareness in the country.It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India.

Sarah Dhar

Investment focus

Genetics, Health Care, Health Diagnostics
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Mapmygenome — Mapmygenome is a molecular diagnostics company that makes people proactive about their health. Its products provide insights into the genetic basis that include traits, drug responses, inherited conditions, and diseases. By combining its genetic reports and health history with genetic counseling, Mapmygenome provides actionable steps forindividuals and their physicians towards a healthier life.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.

Nithin Kamath is an entrepreneur and trader who is the founder and CEO at Zerodha, a large Indian broking house. He is also the CEO of Rainmatter Capital.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Pee Safe — Discover Pee Safe, your go-to destination for top-quality hygiene products. Explore our extensive range of solutions in toilet hygiene, menstrual care, intimate care, grooming needs, and sexual wellness to ensure your comfort and well-being. Shop now for safe and effective hygiene essentials.
SatSure — SatSure is an innovative decision analytics company that leverages advances in satellites, machine learning, and big data analytics to help solve problems at the nexus of sustainability of food, water, and energy security.
Sparkl Edventure — For IB & Cambridge Board (Math & Science)

Lalit Keshre is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Groww.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

FirstClub — FirstClub's mission is to become a rapid commerce-first omnichannel retailer that uses offline experience stores to promote the quality of its items. FirstClub's goal is to create a platform that serves customers and offers brands a unique opportunity to connect with affluent homes.
Truva — Truva is a proptech company that specializes in home buying and selling. We have deep expertise in Powai and provide an unparallel customer experience when it comes to buying apartments that are up for resale. We have multiple properties in Hiranandani, Lake Homes, Nahar and Raheja Vihar
Theranautilus Private Limited — Theranautilus, is a nanorobotics company, translating the result of a decade of research and development in nanorobotics from laboratory to clinics. We are a hardware company specializing in instruments for fabricating nanorobots, safe deployment of nanorobots in living systems, and mechanisms to maneuver them to their target inside the bodyremotely.

Sanjay Jesrani

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Delivery
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

Param.ai — Param.ai is a predictive intelligence recruitment solution. Param helps companies to automate most of the hiring tasks using artificial intelligence. Param's recruiting software helps automate tedious, repetitive manual tasks like resume screening. It equips recruiters with the means to efficiently cater to increasingly complex recruitingdeliverables.Founded in 2017, Param.ai is headquartered in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.
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.
Aereo — Aereo provides end-to-end drone solutions with accurate surveys, analytics, and aerial intelligence; all powered by patented drone technology.

Shantanu Agarwal is a Co-Founder and President at Susteon.

Investment focus

Oil and Gas, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

docturnal — Docturnal offers custom content for diabetes, heart, cancer, Autism, and Arthritis for users who have a condition or their concerned ones. The company is a point of care screening and diagnostics provider of non-invasive and proactive detection of diseases. Docturnal’s product portfolio also includes solutions for CoPD and Asthma with a pipelineof lung based ailments that can be identified by an aural component. Docturnal products are designed to make detection of diseases easy and hassle-free. Essentially it means being accessible and affordable to the last mile.Docturnal was established in April 2016.
Ryse Health — Ryse Health is a care platform that helps individuals and families with chronic disease. Its platform provides therapeutics and technology, day-to-day support, coaching, and analytics related to diabetes, thereby enabling patients to have easy in-person and virtual access to an endocrinologist and full care team. It aims to create a world that isfree of the burden of chronic disease. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Arlington, Virginia.
Centricity — We at Centricity offer a simple yet cost-effective & transparent wealth management platform that helps investment professionals better manage their client portfolios.

Mr. Sunil Kant Munjal is a senior member of the $ 5.6 billion Hero Group and is responsible for developing growth strategy and implementation of new business plans for the Group. He was selected by ‘India Today’ – India’s largest English newsmagazine, as one of the “Faces of the Millennium” for business. He has received GlobScot Award from theScottish Government in Sept., 2012. His name has been inscribed on The Royal Society of Medicine’s Wall of Honour at London in recognition of his contribution in Affordable Healthcare as President of DMCH, Ludhiana in February, 2013.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care
Series D, Seed, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

GoMechanic — GoMechanic provides an online car servicing platform intended to help people to schedule their car servicing online in a desired time. Its platform offers to book services like denting and painting, exterior and interior car care services and cashless insurance repairs, enabling users to service their cars in a hassle-free manner.
Noccarc — One of the best ICU Ventilators in India, NOCCARC V310 is a solution to a wide range of respiratory problems. With 3000+ ventilators installed, Noccarc is a promising brand involved in the development & manufacturing of medical equipment (ICU equipment including ventilators & other respiratory devices)
Pandorum Technologies — TISSUE ENGINEERING & REGENERATIVE MEDICINE Building blocks of life... Learn More BIO-ENGINEERED CORNEA Advanced therapies for Cornea Regeneration Learn More 3D

Jaideep Mehta is a Chief Executive Officer at Mosaic Media Ventures Pvt. Ltd. Jaideep Mehta attended Alliance Manchester Business School.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Edmingle — An Unified platform that helps training and learning businesses to build their courses, scale operations and manage the business without any technology hassles. Edmingle is the only tool you need to launch your digital academy.
WorkOnGrid — Say goodbye to paper logs, cluttered spreadsheets and inflexible tools. Streamline your team's communications and increase efficiency.
1DigitalStack — Technology for brand growth on Ecommerce marketplaces We help brands dominate Ecommerce by leveraging marketplace data & AI-enabled media management Let's Connect

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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, a talent mobility platform connecting blue-collar workers to global opportunities and providing full support in financing.
Sarla Aviation — We're developing India's most sophisticated eVTOL, driving innovation for widespread adoption in urban air mobility. Our focus is on creating an affordable, clean, and safe aerial travel experience, revolutionizing the way urban India moves.

Gunavanth Vaid is a Founder at 4Gcapital venture.

Investment focus

Retail, Shoes, Fashion
Seed, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

Biofics — Biofics manufactures biogas plants and offers organic waste management services.
Dantech — Dantech is a dental prosthetics manufacturing company that strives to redefine the dental craftsmanship.
Matrix Gas & Renewables — Matrix Gas & Renewables offers a reliable and affordable natural gas supply from various sources. Matrix Gas aims to become the preferred natural gas supplier to Indian downstream customers, ensuring reliable, consistent supply. They offer flexible offtake contracts, flexible supply terms, and flexibility in take or pay and LC requirements.

Arvind is Chairman and Managing Director of Technopak. He started his career as a Management Trainee with the DCM Group in 1979 and then worked with DCM Data Products, VXL India Ltd. and Modern Suitings before founding Technopak in 1992. Technopak is one of India's leading management consulting firms focusing on the Retail, Consumer Products& E-tailing, Fashion - Textile & Apparel, Food Services & Agriculture, and Education sectors.Arvind is an active member of various professional associations and industry forums, and is also a regular contributor to various national and international publications. He has previously contributed a fortnightly column for the Business Standard and a monthly column for the Economic Times. He regularly addresses Indian and international conferences and has given guest lectures at leading educational and other institutions in India and abroad, including Harvard Business School (USA), Wharton (USA), ESADE (Barcelona), various IIMs and IITs, etc., and the Vatican (Italy).Arvind's personal social-sector interests are in the areas relating to Education, Healthcare, and Agriculture. He is an alumnus of UCLA, USA (MBA) and IIT-Roorkee (Engineering).

Investment focus

Wellness, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Clensta — Clensta is a biotechnology start-up to improve the National Hygiene condition whilst addressing the aspect of water conservation. Clensta is an Indian startup and in association with IIT Delhi, works to create innovative healthcare solutions to make hygiene accessible for anyone, anytime, and anywhere. Driven by their aim to create products thatpromote complete cleaning solutions without water.

Software Architect, Web Designer, Developer and SEO Expert.

Investment focus

Fashion, Fitness, Wellness
Angel, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

Styched — Styched is India's largest online youth fashion brand. Shop everything from tshirts, polos, hoodies to tops, dresses and a large range of fashion products online on Styched. Free delivery for all prepaid orders.
Ultrahuman — Ultrahuman is a London, Abu Dhabi and Bengaluru based longevity and health-monitoring platform that designs, manufactures and sells the Ultrahuman Ring Air health tracker, Ultrahuman M1 Continuous glucose monitor, pre-release Ultrahuman Home health monitor and related blood testing services like Blood vision.

Harsh Jain is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Groww. Prior to this, he served as a product manager at Flipkart.com.

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

Juleo — Juleo is a good model of a respectful and high-achieving society. They are a caring meritocracy, or sports team with a heart, where success is determined by teamwork and results.
Awaz — Awaz allows a job seeker to appear for video interview along with their resume based application, and uses Voice AI at recruiters end to rank applicants in order of fitment to the role. All applicants are also updated in real time on their application status. Effectively, Awaz is making recruitment process transparent and faster through Voice AI.
Tratoli — SaaS & AI-driven software solution for travel agencies

Maninder Gulati joined Lightspeed Advisory Services India in 2012. He brings over eight years of operating, business building, entrepreneurship and consulting experience to the firm.Prior to Lightpseed, Maninder was an Associate at McKinsey & Company. At McKinsey, Maninder worked on several growth strategy and implementation engagementsacross various sectors including financial services, organized retail, digital music, data centers and building security/automation.Before McKinsey, Maninder co-founded a voice based life-streaming platform – lifeinlines.com, which allowed users to create a digital diary of their life. Prior to this entrepreneurial venture, Maninder worked at ITC Limited, India’s largest FMCG company. At ITC, Maninder was a part of the core team that launched ITC’s personal care business and he spearheaded key organization transformation initiatives such as Six-sigma for the tobacco business.Maninder graduated with a Dual degree (B.Tech and M.Tech) in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay, where he held key leadership positions including that of Head of ‘The Entrepreneurship Cell’. He holds an MBA from ISB, Hyderabad, where he was a part of the Dean and Merit list.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bachatt — Bachatt is a daily savings led financial services platform. Bachatt aims to address a critical need for over 30 crore self-employed individuals in India. while self-employed individuals earn daily, their expenses often require large, infrequent payments, creating a major cash flow challenge. This, coupled with the inherent variability in dailyearnings, makes managing finances extremely difficult.Our vision is to become their trusted daily savings partner, helping them establish financial discipline. This strong foundation will then unlock access to a suite of financial products (loans, high-yield instruments, insurance, etc.) at more favorable terms.
Fabrito — Fabrito is a B2B fabric marketplace that simplifies fabric sourcing for brands and garment manufacturers seeking reduced turnaround times (TAT), lower minimum order quantities (MOQs), and improved pricing. Fabrito provides a diverse range of readily available fabrics that can be quickly replenished.
Dodo Payments — Dodo Payments is a FinTech company providing international payment solutions for businesses. It acts as a merchant of record, managing payments, taxes, compliance, subscriptions, and churn. The platform supports over 300 local payment methods in more than 100 currencies across 150+ countries.

Part of the founding team of Seedfund, Paula Mariwala is the Executive Director at Seedfund. She has over 20 years of experience with technology companies in USA and India. In her role as the Executive Director since inception of Seedfund in 2006, Paula has worked extensively with the entrepreneurial ecosystem in India to source, evaluate andmentor start-up companies for Seedfund. She works closely with Portfolio companies to take them to their next stage of growth and has led investments in education, healthcare and mobile technology.Coming from a strong business background and a technocrat by profession, Paula has worked with companies like Photon Kinetics, Tektronix and Optivideo in USA and is Promoter and Director of The Hinditron Group of companies, one of India’s oldest technology company, where she has been responsible for managing the Telecommunication business of the Group and for driving new business initiatives. She is also an active angel investor, and has mentored and invested in several innovative companies across sectors.Paula holds an MS in Applied Physics from Stanford University, USA. She has several publications and patents to her credit in the fields of Astrophysics and Optical Communication.A Charter member of TiE, she is very active in the entrepreneurial ecosystem and is involved in various capacities with academic institutions and incubators. She is associated with professional organizations like IEEE (Life Member), Computer Society of India, Stanford University Alumni Association. Paula has a strong commitment and interest in education and also devotes time working with several schools and NGOs.

Investment focus

Internet, Internet of Things, E-Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States

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altM — altM is an alternate materials company on a mission to develop the future of materials to reduce carbon footprint and improve circularity in their supply chain.
Praan — Praan builds the world's most advanced air purification technologies for commercial and industrial applications.
Awaaz.De — Awaaz.De provides technology solutions and services for development sector organizations to connect with under served communities. It develops cost-effective, easy-to-use communication and data collection tools that work on mobiles and landlines, breaking language and literacy barriers. Awaaz.De clients use their applications for health, education,microfinance, and agriculture to increase the impact.Awaaz.De was founded on 2010 and is headquartered in Ahmedabad, India.

Sharaf Yamani - Managing Director @ Windlesham Advisors

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Life Science
Seed
India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CyGenica — CyGenica uses a non-viral, non-toxic platform to develop in vitro and in vivo delivery solutions for drugs, gene editing components, and antibiotics.
Synthace — The Synthace Experiment Platform lets you design powerful experiments, run them in your lab, & gather automatically structured datasets. No code necessary.

Dr Aniruddha Malpani is an IVF specialist who passed out from Bombay University, winning over 20 gold medals during his academic career. His clinic at www.drmalpani.com attracts patients from all over the world. He also runs the world’s largest free patient education library, HELP , at www.healthlibrary.com. He has authored 4 books – How to Get theBest Medical Care ( www.thebestmedicalcare.com),Successful Medical Practise, How to Have a Baby and Using Information Therapy to Put Patients First. His passion is patient empowerment, and he believes that patients are the largest untapped healthcare resources, and we need to use patient power to heal our sick healthcare system. He has pioneered the use of innovative technology to educate infertile couples, using cartoon films, comic books and e-learning on his website- www.ivfindia.com. He is an investor in Plus91 ( www.plus91.in), an EMR and digital marketing provider, India’s market leader for creating digital media for patient education, and is on the Board of Inventurus Knowledge Solutions, a healthcare BPO which provides RCM solutions for the US market.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Retail, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Multibhashi — Language Learning Simplified
Biomoneta Research — Biomoneta is a health tech startup that aims to prevent the transmission of infection in the hospital and the community, and the spread of microbial contamination in commercial and academic laboratories. Our novel, extremely effective air decontamination technology traps and kills bacteria, mold and viruses that contaminate the environment andcause infection and product loss. Our energy efficient devices can be deployed near patient beds in the hospital and home, in biotech laboratories to create local zones of decontamination, and can be integrated into central air handling units to provide building-wide protection.
Creditas Solutions — Digital Debt Collections | Delinquency Management | Debt Recovery

Anand Deshpande is the Founder, Chairman, and Managing Director of Persistent Systems. He is responsible for the overall leadership, strategy, and management of the company. A true technology visionary, Anand’s strengths lie in identifying and investing in next-generation technologies early on and encouraging internal entrepreneurship to ensurethat Persistent stays at the forefront of technology innovation. Anand has been the driving force in growing Persistent from start-up to the publically-traded global company of today.Anand has been recognized for his technology and business leadership as well as his contributions to public welfare. His recent awards include the CSI Fellowship Award for outstanding achievement in the field of Information Technology, the Career Achievement Award from the School of Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington and the IIT Kharagpur Distinguished Alumnus Award.Active in various professional and charitable organizations, Anand has served as a member of the Executive Committee of NASSCOM Executive Council, and has served as President of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) India, President of SEAP (Software Exporters' Association of Pune), and Chairman of the Pune Chapter of CSI (Computer Society of India). He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the Dean’s Advisory Council of the School of Informatics of Indiana University and the Executive Committee of MCCIA (Maratha Chamber of Commerce Industries & Agriculture). Anand is currently co-chairing the VLDB 2016 (Very Large Data Bases) conference. With the vision of creating a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem in India, he is the founding member of iSPIRT, India’s first product think tank.Prior to founding Persistent Systems in 1990, Anand began his career at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California. Anand holds a B. Tech (Hons.) in Computer Science & Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, and a Master’s degree and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Anand is an avid reader who enjoys non-fiction, especially all things science and technology.

Investment focus

Health Care, Life Science, Biotechnology
Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Sushrut Designs —
Ahammune Biosciences — Ahammune Biosciences is an innovation-led drug discovery company started in 2016 which focuses on developing new treatment options for immune mediated diseases of the skin. Our current program is on the depigmenting disorder, Vitiligo.
Serigen Mediproducts — Serigen Mediproducts Private Limited is an unlisted private company incorporated on 03 February, 2015. It is classified as a private limited company and is located in Pune, Maharashtra. It's authorized share capital is INR 2.00 lac and the total paid-up capital is INR 1.52 lac.

Deepank Kumar, CFA

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Prantae Solutions — Prantae Solutions is a biotechnology company that creates affordable technologies for rare and neglected disorders. They are backed by experienced and enthusiastic scientists and faculties from leading institutes and universities, legal advisors, clinicians, and media personnel in the country who are united by a single aim of creating better healthopportunities. They aim to channelize the entire profit into the development of new technologies and creating health awareness in the country.It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India.

Layacharan Sandadi

Investment focus

Biotechnology
Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Phyx44 Labs — Phyx44 Labs develops cell-derived replacements to popular dairy products that are nature-identical. Founded in 2021 and is based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao holds Master's degrees in Business Administration from the IIM-Ahmedabad as well as the University of Chicago, US. He is a visiting faculty at both the institutions. He has been honoured with the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Chicago.He was also the Founder, Chairman and Managing Director ofMphasis during which time he was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award twice in 2001 & 2004, and the Karnataka State Rajyothsava Award in 2005. In the past,Rao has served as chairman of NASSCOM. He was with the Citicorp for 20 years in various capacities, including the Head of Citibank where he was primarily responsible for building one of the bank's Asian retail and credit card franchises, apart from working in various parts of the world.He has been an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Harvard Business School and lecturer at IIT, Bombay.He is on the Board of Trustees of the India Foundation of the Arts and of Sujaya Foundation.

Investment focus

Jewelry, Education, E-Commerce
Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A
India

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Kutuki — Gift your child the best learning with hundreds of fun videos, rhymes, games, activities and interactive live classes, the learning never stops.
Velvetcase — VelvetCase is the biggest online custom jewelry company in India. Certified | Superb Designs | Craftsmanship | Customers worlwide
Vitas Pharma — Vitas Pharma is a drug discovery company.

Akshay Singhal is the Co-Founder and CEO at Log 9 Materials a sub-organization of Log 9 Spill Containment.

Investment focus

Pet, AgTech, Battery
Seed, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Loopworm — Insect Biosciences and Biomanufacturing Company Sustainable Proteins & Fats for Animals Active Ingredients forPlant Biostimulants Silkworm Biofactories for Recombinant Proteins Pet Nutrition and Wellness We utilize insects as a bioresource.We develop technologies to process insects into value-added products.The world is moving towards alternative bioresources and we choose insects because they are sustainable and have an
Climes — The easiest way for individuals and brands to become climate-friendly. Take real climate action alongside everyday consumption. All in a single click.
SWIZZLE — SWIZZLE delivers cocktail kits at home.

Harshil Mathur co-founded Razorpay Software Private Limited in May 2014 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Harshil Mathur served as Wireline Field Engineer at Schlumberger from June 2013 to February 2014; and President at SDSLabs from July 2009 to May 2013. He studied Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) from IIT Roorkee from 2009 to 2013.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Zivy Inc — Turn your chaotic and noisy workplace communication into calm collaboration, with Zivy! Skim. Schedule. Tag. Todo. Take action on your messages in zen.
SiftHub — SiftHub AI Sales Engineer empowers sales and pre-sales teams to improve win rates and close deals faster. SEs and AEs use the SiftHub Platform to craft solutions and respond to security questionnaires, RFPs, and ad-hoc questions.
infinyte.club — The ultimate wealth product for intelligent investors: track your net worth, manage public and private market investments & grow wealth across traditional & new-age assets.

Aarti is the Managing Director of CMS Computers Ltd. and Director of the CMS Group of Companies.Aarti started her career as a Supply Chain Management Consultant at CSC, a Fortune 500 company. She later joined Systime, the world’s largest JD Edwards services company. Based out of San Francisco, she was instrumental in marketing the end-to-endretail management solution VersaPOS™.As Business Director for a JV project between CMS and Datacard, one of the largest global providers of secure identification and card issuance solutions, she worked out of New York for one and a half years.In 2004, Aarti joined Kaycee Industries Ltd. (a CMS Group Company acquired from The Bajaj Group of Companies.) She moved up the ranks quickly by formulating and implementing strategic Initiatives which resulted in increased overall productivity. Elevated to the position of Business Head of Kaycee Industries, she was responsible for turning around Kaycee, within a year’s time, with a 25% yoy growth rate. She also spearheaded the CMS Broadcast Division (CMS-NVL) for 3 years and by improving the processes, turned it into a profitable division for CMS.In her current role, Aarti drives company’s business operations and strategic decisions in accelerating overall growth of CMS, ensuring the company’s position as one of the leading IT services and solutions provider.Aarti holds an MBA from University of San Francisco, USA.

Investment focus

Apps, Genetics, Internet
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

MagicX — MagicX, has racked up 100,000 downloads since it was launched on Feb 24th 2016 and has also been the No. 1 new shopping app in Android.The app enables users to carry out day-to-day tasks like grocery shopping, bill payments, recharge, order food, book flight tickets and other utility services via a chat enabled, artificial intelligence platform andis currently available for free download in the Android store. MagicX has tied up with about 20 partners across e-commerce, bill payments, recharges, groceries, travel etc. In this short time, MagicX has successfully driven huge traffic to some of these partners – in some cases emerging among their top 10 transaction sources.
Mapmygenome — Mapmygenome is a molecular diagnostics company that makes people proactive about their health. Its products provide insights into the genetic basis that include traits, drug responses, inherited conditions, and diseases. By combining its genetic reports and health history with genetic counseling, Mapmygenome provides actionable steps forindividuals and their physicians towards a healthier life.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.

Dr. Ganesh Natarajan

Investment focus

Art, Health Care, Marketplace
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Peepul Tree — Peepul Tree is a platform for the hand-made artisanal works. Peepul Tree celebrates the rich and varied legacy that these artisans carry.
Ahammune Biosciences — Ahammune Biosciences is an innovation-led drug discovery company started in 2016 which focuses on developing new treatment options for immune mediated diseases of the skin. Our current program is on the depigmenting disorder, Vitiligo.

Chairman at Hero Enterprise

Investment focus

Health Care, Life Science, Biotechnology
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Ahammune Biosciences — Ahammune Biosciences is an innovation-led drug discovery company started in 2016 which focuses on developing new treatment options for immune mediated diseases of the skin. Our current program is on the depigmenting disorder, Vitiligo.

Sabine Kapasi

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Vgenomics — Your partner in newborn healthcare and diagnosis for rare diseases, your partner in whole genome and exome research.

Akshay Mittal

Investment focus

Diabetes, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

docturnal — Docturnal offers custom content for diabetes, heart, cancer, Autism, and Arthritis for users who have a condition or their concerned ones. The company is a point of care screening and diagnostics provider of non-invasive and proactive detection of diseases. Docturnal’s product portfolio also includes solutions for CoPD and Asthma with a pipelineof lung based ailments that can be identified by an aural component. Docturnal products are designed to make detection of diseases easy and hassle-free. Essentially it means being accessible and affordable to the last mile.Docturnal was established in April 2016.