# Top 50 Biotech Angel Investors in India in June 2026

## Nagendra Bandaru
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Fitness, Hardware, Security

Nagendra Bandaru

## Ashish Kacholia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: Retail, Manufacturing, Health Care

Ashish Kacholia is the founder and Director - Research at Lucky Investment Managers.

## Rajan Anandan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

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.

## Sanjiv Rangrass
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: AgTech, Farming, Food Processing

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.

## Sharaf Yamani
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Software, Life Science

Sharaf Yamani - Managing Director @ Windlesham Advisors

## Sunil Kant Munjal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series D, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Manufacturing, Travel

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.

## Rohit Chanana
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Wellness, E-Commerce

Rohit Chanana - Founder and Managing Partner @ Sarcha Advisors

## Sami Mikati
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Software, Life Science

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.

## Vaibhav Hegde
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biopharma, Life Science, Biotechnology

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.

## Nimesh Kampani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Lalit Keshre
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, Software

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

## Gunavanth Vaid
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, Shoes, Fashion

Gunavanth Vaid is a Founder at 4Gcapital venture.

## Layacharan Sandadi
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Biotechnology

Layacharan Sandadi

## Harshil Mathur
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Financial Services

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.

## Samir Kalia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology

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## Balaji Srinivasan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

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.

## Nithin Kamath
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, Wellness

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.

## Neeraj Singh
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Fashion, Fitness, Wellness

Software Architect, Web Designer, Developer and SEO Expert.

## Harsh Jain
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Wellness, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Anand Deshpande
- Type: Angel
- Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, FinTech, Finance

Anand Deshpande is the Founder, Chairman, and Managing Director of Persistent Systems. Anand attended Indiana University Bloomington.

## Akshay Singhal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Pet, AgTech, Battery

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

## Ujwal Sutaria
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Solar, Energy, Retail

Ujwal Sutaria is the Founding Partner at TDV Partners. Ujwal previously worked as Associate Director at InnoVen Capital. He attended Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology.

## Ishan Bansal Dean
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Gaming, Fitness

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

## Preethi Kasireddy
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, Quintana Roo, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Grant
- Focus: Blockchain, FinTech, Fitness

Preethi Kasireddy is based out of Sugar Land, Texas and is the co-founder of Ferta. Preethi was the co-founder and CEO of TruStory.

## Sandhya Sriram
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Pet, Veterinary, Biotechnology

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

## Tushar Vashisht
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Wellness, Health Care, Neuroscience

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.

## Abhishek Ganguly
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Wellness, Health Care, Neuroscience

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

## Jitendra Patel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Hospitality

Jitendra Patel

## Nitin Zamre
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology

Nitin Zamre is an angel investor.

## Sarah Dhar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Genetics, Health Care, Health Diagnostics

Sarah Dhar

## Deepank Kumar, CFA
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology

Deepank Kumar, CFA

## Akshay BD
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Health Care

Akshay BD is an Advisor at Solana Foundation.

## Tanmay Bhat
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Information Technology, Digital Entertainment

Tanmay Bhat, SuperteamDAO.

## Sameer Brij Verma
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Information Services

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)

## Sabine Kapasi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology

Sabine Kapasi

## Rohit Gulati
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology

Rohit Gulati

## Abhishek Kabra
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Wellness, Health Care, Neuroscience

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.

## Binny Bansal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

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.

## Paula Mariwala
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Internet of Things, EdTech

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.

## Adar C. Poonawalla
- Type: Angel
- Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

Adar C. Poonawalla is the CEO at poonawallafinance.

## Hemant Kanakia
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series D
- Focus: Semiconductor, Wireless, Electronics

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.

## Aniruddha Malpani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Retail, Internet, Health Care

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.

## Neha Mudaliar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Chemical, Biotechnology, Advanced Materials

Neha Mudaliar is a individual investor.

## Suman Kant Munjal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Logistics, Health Care

Chairman at Hero Enterprise

## Anand Ladsariya
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Travel, FinTech

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.

## Maninder Gulati
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, FinTech

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.

## Uday Sodhi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Machine Learning

Uday Sodhi

## Raju Reddy
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Big Data

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

## Abhijit Pawar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Life Science, Biotechnology

Abhijit Pawar is a Chairman of AP Globale.

## Ajai Chowdhry
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Ajai Chowdhry - Founder @ HCL Infosystems

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