# Top 50 Biotechnology Angel Investors in India in June 2026

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

Nagendra Bandaru

## 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.

## 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.

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

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

## 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.

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

Sabine Kapasi

## 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)

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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

## 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.

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

Jitendra Patel

## 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.

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

Deepank Kumar, CFA

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

Tanmay Bhat, SuperteamDAO.

## 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.

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

Nitin Zamre is an angel investor.

## Kishore Ganji
- Type: Angel
- Location: Marlboro, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Software

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

## 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.

## 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.

## David Rowan
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology

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.

## Hemanshu Jain
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Content, Health Care, Life Science

Hemanshu Jain is the Founder and CEO at Khyaal. He attended Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.

## 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.

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

Ajai Chowdhry - Founder @ HCL Infosystems

## 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

## Shantanu Agarwal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Houston, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Oil and Gas, Health Care, Medical

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

## Mirik Gogri
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: AgTech, Farming, Chemical

Mirik Gogri is the Sustainability Investor at Spectrum Impact.

## 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.

## Dr Vinay Tulla
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, Fitness, Wellness

Dr Vinay Tulla

## Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Angel
- Focus: Gaming, Mobile, Retail

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.

## Dr.Ajith Kamath
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Life Science, Biotechnology

Research Executive at Natural Remedies Private Limited

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

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.

## Ratan Tata
- Type: Angel
- Location: Houston, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care

Ratan Tata is the Founder and Managing Director of RNT Associates.

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

Chairman at Hero Enterprise

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

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.

## Rajesh Manthena
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Gaming, PC Games, Health Care

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

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

Uday Sodhi

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

Sarah Dhar

## 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.

## Arvind Singhal
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Wellness, Health Care, Biotechnology

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).

## Sanjay Jesrani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Delivery

Sanjay Jesrani

## Abhijeet Birewar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Diabetes, Health Care, Biotechnology

Abhijeet Birewar

## Jaideep Mehta
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, Artificial Intelligence

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

## 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.

## 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.

## Sunil Kant Munjal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series D, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care

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.
