Top 50 Biotech Angel Investors in India in January 2025

Investor	Biotech India investments
Rajan Anandan	2
Rajan Anandan	2
Nagendra Bandaru	2
Sanjiv Rangrass	2
Rohit Gulati	1
Sandhya Sriram	1
Jaithirth Rao	1
Ratan Tata	1
Rajeev Singh	1
Sarah Dhar	1
Layacharan Sandadi	1
Neha Mudaliar	1
Adar C. Poonawalla	1
Harshil Mathur	1
Tanmay Bhat	1
Shashank Mehta	1
Preethi Kasireddy	1
Nithin Kamath	1
Neeraj Singh	1
Lalit Keshre	1
Ishan Bansal Dean	1
Harsh Jain	1
Balaji Srinivasan	1
David Rowan	1
Sanjay Jesrani	1
Aarti Grover	1
Shantanu Agarwal	1
Maninder Gulati	1
Abhishek Kabra	1
Anand Ladsariya	1
Sunil Kant Munjal	1
Nimesh Kampani	1
Uday Sodhi	1
Raman Roy	1
Abhijeet Birewar	1
Mirik Gogri	1
Jaideep Mehta	1
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala	1
Kishore Ganji	1
Binny Bansal	1
Rajesh Manthena	1
Abhishek Ganguly	1
Hemant Kanakia	1
Jitendra Patel	1
Gunavanth Vaid	1
Paula Mariwala	1
Arvind Singhal	1
Sharaf Yamani	1
Dr. Ganesh Natarajan	1
Anand Deshpande	1

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

NAYAN — NAYAN 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.

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.

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.

Rohit Gulati

Investment focus

Biotechnology
Seed
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.

Sandhya Sriram and Ka Yi Ling founded Shiok Meats in 2018, since which Sandhya has been serving as it chief executive officer.

Investment focus

Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Evo Foods — EVO foods is creating India’s first 100% plant based liquid egg
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

Portfolio highlights

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 — Mainkan slot online seru di KODOKEMAS77 dengan layanan pelanggan 24 jam yang siap membantu Anda kapan saja. Dapatkan pengalaman bermain yang aman, nyaman, dan tanpa gangguan, dengan peluang kemenangan yang menanti setiap saat. Bergabunglah sekarang dan raih kemenangan Anda!

Heading the Tata Group since 1991, Ratan Tata is the Chairman of Tata Sons, holding company of the Tata Group and major Group companies including Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Power and more. He is also Chairman of two of the largest private sector promoted philanthropic trusts in India. During his tenure, the Group hasfurther expanded its global reach, with its revenues growing over eleven-fold to around USD$70 billion, after the most recent acquisition of Jaguar Land Rover. Tata joined the Tata Group in December 1962. After serving in various companies, he was appointed the Director-in-Charge of the National Radio & Electronics Company Limited (Nelco) in 1971. In 1981, he was named Chairman of Tata Industries, the Group's other holding company, which he was responsible for transforming into the Group's strategy think-tank and a promoter of new ventures in high-technology businesses. He is associated with many organizations in India and abroad in varying capacities, some of which are the government of India’s Investment Commission, the Prime Minister’s Council on Trade and Industry, South Africa’s International Investment Council, several prestigious universities and several philanthropies. Tata received a Bachelor of Science degree in architecture from Cornell University in 1962, and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1975.The government of India honored Tata with one of its highest civilian awards, the Padma Vibhushan, this year.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

GOQii — GOQii is headquartered in California with offices in Mumbai and Shenzhen. It is dedicated to enabling a permanent shift to a healthier lifestyle with the combination of advanced wearable technology, the world's leading experts, coaches and karma. GOQii focuses on sustained engagement & goal reinforcement and offers a complete ecosystem asa single integrated solution, which is a powerful combination of technology and human connection. GOQii is a collaboration of some of the world's leading experts and an amazing management team who are driven by a passion for healthy sustainable living, and who believe that all of us contain boundless potential. GOQii's goal is to enable millions of people across the world to "be the force" by helping them unleash their untapped potential.
Repos energy — Repos energy is a e-commerce of Fuel to move towards a carbon neutral future.
Goodfellows — Goodfellows aims to offer companionship to lonely senior citizens.

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.

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.

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.

Neha Mudaliar is a individual investor.

Investment focus

Chemical, Biotechnology, Advanced Materials
Seed
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.

Adar C. Poonawalla is the CEO at poonawallafinance.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Post-IPO Equity
India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ImmunifyMe Healthcare Technologies Pvt Ltd — ImmunifyMe leverage BlockChain to monitor the immunization and maintain records of each and every child for their vaccination. It’s an ecosystem supported with a Mobile App and a smart Card. Our technology ensures no child goes unimmunized.
JetSynthesys — Our aim is to build world class digital products, platforms and services in India, with a goal of impacting the daily digital lives of 1.3 Billion Indians. A billion+ reaching for their mobiles, we reach them through our products.
Svasti Microfinance — Fulfilling their right to finance, Svasti offers Microfinance, MSME Loans, and Consumer Finance to over 2 lakh women across India

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.

Tanmay Bhat, SuperteamDAO.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology, Digital Entertainment
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Unikon.ai — Unikon.ai has solved the issue of access on this open-source platform. Every user has a personal profile that they can modify to include different prices for direct messaging, video calls, and audio calls."Unikon" means "you and I connect."
Offline — Offline is a private members' community for the top 10% tech founders and CEOs in India. Apply online to become a member.
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.

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.

Preethi Kasireddy

Investment focus

Blockchain, Fitness, Computer
Seed, Angel, Grant
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Huddle01 — Building the 1st decentralized real-time communication network. Leverage Huddle01's suite of developer-friendly SDKs to enable live audio & video experiences with just a quick plug-in.
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.
Push Protocol — Push (Previously EPNS) | Communication Protocol of Web3

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, FinTech, Education
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)

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.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
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.

Ishan Bansal is the Co-Founder of Groww. Before founding Groww, had unique investment experience in tech space (early stage and Exits/ M&A) and across geographies (India/ South Asia, South America and Africa).Worked in Corporate Development function at Flipkart. Led and closed multiple deals in supply chain, brand and paymentspace.Worked on M&A sourcing and execution with a focus on Online Travel Space for ibiboGroup/ Naspers in India. Experience in dealing with both Indian as well as global companies. Industry range from Horizontal OTAs, Hotel Focused OTAs, Bus ticketing, Technology Player for Hotels/Bus/Air, Agent focused platform, Payments, Classified etc.Client Banking and Deal Execution experience in across sectors like Hospitality, Consumer, Metal & Mining and BFSI. Have worked on both capital market products (IPO, OFS, QIP, NCDs, etc) and advisory products (M&A and Private Equity). Contact email: deanbridges99@gmail.com

Investment focus

Health Care, Gaming, Fitness
Series A, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

Plum — Best employee benefits and digital healthcare platform in India. Get transparent pricing & a quick online purchase experience with Plum Insurance.
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.
Turnip — Empowering online communities to run, discover and join interactive experiences.

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

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

The Arena — Arena. social is a cutting-edge SocialFi platform that is revolutionizing how content producers interact, network, and make money from their work.
Lica World — Hire Lica, AI Video Producer for Product, Sales, And Customer Success Teams
OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.

David Rowan is editor of the UK edition of WIRED magazine, which won 2009 Launch of the David Rowan is Editor of the WIRED UK, the technology and trends magazine covering online brands, gadgets and the culture that surrounds them. David has reported on technology for The Times and Channel 4 News, the latter requiring him to illustrate the newiPod Video from the set of a porn shoot. He's also written for The Sunday Times and Telegraph Magazines, and edited the Guardian's on-line content. David has curated an exhibition of British creative talent at the Government's Cabinet Forum conference. He has also addressed the TEDs, and frequently contributes on Newsnight and the Today programme. He also writes a monthly column for GQ. David is in touch with many of the world's leading trend-setters and spotters. In presentations he looks at how the net is disrupting almost every sector, how apps change consumer behaviour and why 'social commerce' is killing traditional marketing. He reveals the 10 trends that will change your market in the next decade - and what you should be doing now to protect yourself.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Germany, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

EWOR — EWOR is a platform dedicated to transforming aspiring entrepreneurs into successful startup founders through world-class education, mentorship, and investment opportunities.
Climate X — Climate X combines climate science and econometrics to deliver precise climate risk data without any black boxes.
Rhizocore Technologies — We develop high-performance strains of locally-sourced mycorrhizal fungi to improve tree growth, tree health and tree resiliency. We offer a sustainable solution to increase forest yields whilst improving the ability of trees to sequester carbon.

Sanjay Jesrani

Investment focus

Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Delivery
Seed, Angel
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.

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.

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.

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

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.
Jodaro — Jodaro operates as an intermediary for trade that links customers and manufacturers directly.
Finsire — Finsire Modern finances to embrace your financial desires

Before joining Samara in mid 2008, Abhishek was an equity analyst in Reliance Mutual Fund where he was actively analyzing and recommending listed companies in the infrastructure, cement, textiles and mid cap space for over 2 years. He has also worked as a credit administrator with Citifinancial Retail Services India Ltd for a year.Abhishekholds an MBA degree from S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai.He is also a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a Certified Treasury Manager from Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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

Uday Sodhi

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

pumpumpum — Pumpumpum is an asset-light fintech mobility platform. We are empowering pre-owned car users with an IoT-enabled smart car subscription model. Users can select a pre-owned car of their choice, without worrying about the price, financing, warranty, quality & depreciation of the car. We are building a risk-free & high-quality pre-owned carportfolio for our financial partners via the B2B2C approach.
ThinkMetal — ThinkMetal offers advanced metal 3D printing services for industrial applications. Discover our cutting-edge solutions for manufacturing high-quality metal parts.
ErlySign — ErlySign develops noninvasive home-based early detection test kits for fatal diseases like Oral cancer, Uterine cancer, Prostate cancer, Lung Cancer, Breast Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer and many more. With our next gen diagnostics solution we can identify the cancer even before a visible tumor or lesion appears.

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

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.
Zerone Microsystems Private Limited — Zerone Microsystems is a bleeding-edge payment fintech firm. Zerone Microsystems is the inventor of ZUP (Zerone Unified Payment) Technology, a cross-platform mobile app for frictionless payment between smartphones. ZUP Technology has enabled the smartphone to smartphone payments. We convert cheapest of smartphones into a POS machine using our ZUPproximity payment technology, with no additional hardware and no need for NFC. Replacing the entire POS Infrastructure through a VPOS on cheapest of Smartphones.

Abhijeet Birewar

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.
IGP — Online Gifts Delivery in 30 Mins across India - Buy/Send gifts to India with FREE Shipping from IGP Online Gift Shop. Unique Gift Items online Same Day delivery in 400+ cities. Order Now!

Mirik Gogri is the Sustainability Investor at Spectrum Impact.

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Chemical
Seed, Funding Round
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.
Eekifoods — Eekifoods develops a unique and proprietary vegetable growing technology, which allows it to produce completely residue-free, Indian and exotic vegetables and sell them profitably at near-market prices.
Kreedo Early Childhood Solutions — Kreedo Preschool Non-Franchise Solution | education development partner that helps create your preschool brand | Promotes with strong ROI.

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.ai — Technology for brand growth on Ecommerce marketplaces We help brands dominate Ecommerce by leveraging marketplace data & AI-enabled media management Let's Connect

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala is one of India’s better-known equity investors. A qualified Chartered Accountant (CA), he is a partner in his asset management firm, Rare Enterprises. He has been a keen and active participant in Indian capital markets since 1985.In 1998, Mr. Jhunjhunwala was profiled by Business India magazine as one of India’s five bestinvestors. His views are constantly sought-after by the media and he regularly interacts and shares his opinions with the investing community.Mr. Jhunjhunwala is also on the Board of Bilcare Limited, Concord Biotech Limited, Geojit Financial Services Limited, Innovasynth Technologies (I) Limited, Mid Day Multimedia Limited, Nagarjuna Construction Company Limited, Praj Industries Limited, Prime Focus Limited, Provogue India Limited, Viceroy Hotels Limited & Tops Security Limited, among others.

Investment focus

Gaming, Mobile Apps, Digital Entertainment
Funding Round, Series A, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Arrivae — Arrivae is a furniture and interior design solution company.
Tata Motors — About Us Tata Motors Limited, a USD 34 billion organisation, is a leading global automobile manufacturer with a portfolio that covers a wide range of cars, SUVs, buses, trucks, pickups and defence vehicles.
Fullife Healthcare — Fullife - a young company with Innovation in its DNA comprises of passionate Individuals who brings in Fresh Perspective to the Business. They focus on Novel Pharmaceuticals, Nutraceuticals, Medical Devices and Diagnostics that help people Live Life to the Fullest. Since their genesis in 2009, they have established an alliance driven businesscreating values for ourselves and their partners in International as well as Domestic Geographies.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

OppDoor — Launch your Amazon Brand into Thriving International Markets. OppDoor is a Growth Partner for Amazon Brands.
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.
Alltius — Alltius is an AI-driven platform for conversational assistance in software products primarily to help and guide users in their product journeys.

Rajesh Manthena is an Executive Director & Chief Development Officer at Cancer Centers of America.

Investment focus

Gaming, PC Games, Health Care
Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

ErlySign — ErlySign develops noninvasive home-based early detection test kits for fatal diseases like Oral cancer, Uterine cancer, Prostate cancer, Lung Cancer, Breast Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer and many more. With our next gen diagnostics solution we can identify the cancer even before a visible tumor or lesion appears.
Mobius Development Studio — automation, gaming, platform

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.

Hemant Kanakia is a Chairman at EtaCompute. Hemant previously worked at Columbia Capital as a Partner. He attended Stanford University.Kanakia has over 20 years of experience in the communications industry as an entrepreneur, executive, and most recently as an investor in early stage startups in India. Previously, Kanakia was a General Partnerwith Columbia Capital, a well-known U.S.-based venture capital firm. Kanakia has been on the Board of Directors of Enpirion, Teranetics, WiNetworks, and Tilera. He was previously founder and CEO of Torrent Networking Technology (acquired by Ericsson) and co-founder of Photuris (acquired by Meriton) and Gemplex, Inc. (acquired by Tata Telesystems). Prior to joining Columbia Capital, Hemant served on the Board of Directors of Photuris, Viagate, Price Hawk, Gemplex, and Torrent Networking Technology. Prior to founding Torrent, Hemant worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Tata Consultancy Services, India. Hemant received his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, his M.S. degree from Case Western Reserve University, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Kanakia is a member of the board of Trustees at Case Western Reserve University. He also has been a trustee at Virginia Polytechnic, and on several other non-profit boards in past.

Investment focus

Semiconductor, Wireless, Electronics
Series B, Series C, Series D
United States, India

Portfolio highlights

WedMeGood — WedMeGood is an online platform that allows its users to connect to each other and create a plan for a wedding. Its platform enables its clients to create accounts and browse for a photographer. The company utilizes vendors, marketing collaborations, and wedding submissions. Wed Me Good was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Haryana, India.
Skillenza — Skillenza is the optimum gap filler between required market-ready skills and the current college student skillset. We directly address the growing concerns of students & job seekers while connecting the right person with the right opportunity.
Vitas Pharma — Mainkan slot online seru di KODOKEMAS77 dengan layanan pelanggan 24 jam yang siap membantu Anda kapan saja. Dapatkan pengalaman bermain yang aman, nyaman, dan tanpa gangguan, dengan peluang kemenangan yang menanti setiap saat. Bergabunglah sekarang dan raih kemenangan Anda!

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.

Gunavanth Vaid is a Founder at 4Gcapital venture.

Investment focus

Retail, Shoes, Fashion
Seed, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

Biofics — Biofics a leading Biogas Plant Manufacturers in Surat, suppliers exporters offer Kitchen Waste Biogas Plant, OWC Machine, Satat Plant, Bio Fertilizer, etc
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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

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.