Top 20 Celebrity Startup Investors in India in May 2025
A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Celebrity startups based in India. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Celebrity companies from India. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Celebrity Startup Investors in India in May 2025
Investor | Celebrity India investments |
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Vishal Ramchandani | 1 |
Proneur Network | 1 |
Roshan Abbas | 1 |
Shrishti Sahu | 1 |
Srishti Behl | 1 |
StartupXseed Ventures | 1 |
Swati Mohan | 1 |
Vinod Bhanushali | 1 |
Zubin Gandevia | 1 |
Kunal Shah | 1 |
Whiteboard Capital | 1 |
TiE Pune | 1 |
Mumbai Angels | 1 |
Supermorpheus | 1 |
Gemba Capital | 1 |
AET Fund | 1 |
Nexus Venture Partners | 1 |
Kalaari Capital | 1 |
Incisive Ventures | 1 |
Touchstone Equities | 1 |
Vishal Ramchandani is the current Chief Executive Officer of Excel Entertainment. He previously worked at NDTV Imagine as an On Air Presentation. Vishal Ramchandani attended Welingkar Institute of Management.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Celebrity, Social Media
- Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Mugafi — Unlu offers pre-recorded certified online courses taught by Indian celebrities. Join us now and take your career to new heights by enjoying unlimited access to our videos.
Proneur Network is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Celebrity, Social Media
- Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Mugafi — Unlu offers pre-recorded certified online courses taught by Indian celebrities. Join us now and take your career to new heights by enjoying unlimited access to our videos.
Roshan is founder of Encompass Events Pvt. Ltd.
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Investment focus
- Digital Entertainment, Internet, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Mugafi — Unlu offers pre-recorded certified online courses taught by Indian celebrities. Join us now and take your career to new heights by enjoying unlimited access to our videos.
- Dubdub.ai — Google translate for videos
- KathaVersse Media Network — KathaVersse Media Network is a universe and franchise-driven premium entertainment studio that develops social and over-the-top video IPs. KathaVersse Media Network develops content IPs with a minimum shelf life of seven years in order to maximize ROI for audiences, marketers, and over-the-top partners.
entrepreneur and investor in tech start-ups, crypto and public markets. Founded a fintech company, and was a part of the Investment Team of Lumis Partners (PeopleStrong, TalentEdge, Sheroes etc). Headed Startup Programs for Facebook for South Asia & India. Early backer of companies like Plum (health insurance for SME employees), Clickpost(logistics tech), Rupifi (credit for SMEs), WorkApps (Enterprise Collaboration), Chingari (Social Video), Kutumb (social communities for Bharat), DelightChat (customer support for D2C brands), 10Club (D2C e-commerce), UrbanYogi (mental health)
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Investment focus
- Internet, FinTech, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, Singapore, South Korea
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- Mugafi — Unlu offers pre-recorded certified online courses taught by Indian celebrities. Join us now and take your career to new heights by enjoying unlimited access to our videos.
- OnFinance AI — AI Agents to simplify, streamline, and strengthen your regulatory processes. We currently support regulators like SEBI, RBI, SEC, FINRA, FCA, SAMA, MAS, AMFI.
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Srishti Behl is the Founder of Rose Audio Visuals.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Celebrity, Social Media
- Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Mugafi — Unlu offers pre-recorded certified online courses taught by Indian celebrities. Join us now and take your career to new heights by enjoying unlimited access to our videos.
StartupXseed Ventures LLP is the Investment Manager of “Aaruha Technology Fund” registered with Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) as Category I - under Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) Regulations 2012.StartupXseed is a Strategic programme, for supporting the aspiring entrepreneurs with great ideas. StartupXseed is a uniqueprogramme combined with Seed fund, Strategic support, Market Access, Mentorship and closely supported by the Investor/advisory board of StartupXseed. It acts as a “Co-Founder/Seed Partner” in helping innovation to succeed in the Technology and Technology enabled areas across sectors in India.Backed by the team of pioneers of IT, Entrepreneurs, Educationist and Industrialist, the StartupXseed provides small business innovators with a complete structured help of Startup eco system to help navigate the unique challenges of building the sustainable growth businesses in India.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- India, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Mugafi — Unlu offers pre-recorded certified online courses taught by Indian celebrities. Join us now and take your career to new heights by enjoying unlimited access to our videos.
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Swati Mohan
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Investment focus
- Women's, Internet, Software
- Seed
- India
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Vinod Bhanushali
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Investment focus
- Internet, Celebrity, Social Media
- Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Mugafi — Unlu offers pre-recorded certified online courses taught by Indian celebrities. Join us now and take your career to new heights by enjoying unlimited access to our videos.
Zubin Gandevia
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Investment focus
- Internet, Celebrity, Social Media
- Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Mugafi — Unlu offers pre-recorded certified online courses taught by Indian celebrities. Join us now and take your career to new heights by enjoying unlimited access to our videos.
Kunal Shah
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States, Singapore
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- Mugafi — Unlu offers pre-recorded certified online courses taught by Indian celebrities. Join us now and take your career to new heights by enjoying unlimited access to our videos.
- Lorien Finance — Lorien Finance is a cross-border FinTech platform providing affordable student loans and retail banking services to immigrants (students and temporary workers) moving to the US.
- Presentations.AI — Create stunning PowerPoint presentations in seconds with Presentations.AI - the ultimate AI presentation maker. Just type your idea and watch as we craft a professional PPT for you. Perfect for all: businesses, educators, and hobbyists. Dive in now, start for free!
Whiteboard Capital is Mumbai based early stage investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States, Hong Kong
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- BiteSpeed — Drive 10% of your Shopify store's revenue from WhatsApp & FB Messenger. Recover abandoned carts, send promotional & shipping messages. Trusted by 1500+ brands!
- Mindgrove — Discover the benefits of choosing Mindgrove Tech's System on Chip, backed by SHAKTI open-source processor program. Join the movement to put India on the map.
- Perceptyne Robots — Perceptyne Robots is a deep-tech robotics firm developing dexterous, affordable, and contextually aware robots. Its robots are sector agnostic and can be used in applications like product assembly, kitchen automation, packing, and machine tending among others.
TiE Pune is a nonprofit network that fosters entrepreneurship through mentoring, networking, and education.The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), was founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley by a group of successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and senior professionals with roots in the Indus region. TiE Global is devoted to entrepreneurs in allindustries, at all stages, from incubation, throughout the entrepreneurial lifecycle.TiE connects the entire entrepreneurship ecosystem from early stage entrepreneurs, serial entrepreneurs, professionals at leading corporations, venture capital, angel investors, thought leaders among others. The organization emphasizes the spirit of giving in all aspects of their work.There are currently 11,000 members, including over 2,500 charter members in 60 chapters across 17 countries.
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Investment focus
- CRM, Internet, Software
- Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Mugafi — Unlu offers pre-recorded certified online courses taught by Indian celebrities. Join us now and take your career to new heights by enjoying unlimited access to our videos.
- ExtraaEdge — Streamline admissions with Admission CRM & Marketing Automation-manage leads, boost counselor efficiency, and simplify processes effectively.
Mumbai Angels is an angle stage investment firm. Mumbai Angels has served as a breeding ground for both plug-in businesses for larger corporations and financial investors seeking incubated businesses ready to scale.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- India, United States, Singapore
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- Gramiyaa — Pure, fresh cold-pressed cooking oils that bring out the natural flavors in your home cooked food, making meals delicious. Shop cold pressed groundnut, coconut, sesame and mustard oils from Gramiyaa.
- Hemptyful — Hemptyful's hemp seed-based goods include dips and cold-pressed oils made from premium hemp seeds, providing a high supply of protein, omega-3 fatty acids, and critical components for a healthy and balanced diet
- goStops — goSTOPS offers best option for backpackers or youth solo adventurers tour traveller cheap hostel stay room booking online in india. We are a chain of backpacker hostels accommodation that strives to provide social stays & experiential travels at every step for a youth tourism.
Supermorpheus is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States, United Kingdom
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- Volt14 — Volt14 Solutions develops ultra-high performance materials for Li-ion batteries - which will double the energy density of batteries mass-produced today.Volt14's anodes will boost battery energy density by upto 70% - and such a radical improvement would eliminate range anxiety and $/kWh storage costs by nearly 40%In comparison to otherbattery materials startups, Volt14 uses a wet chemistry approach - meaning a battery producer can use their existing production lines to mass produce our anodes, without any manufacturing bottlenecks.
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- The Money Club — Money Clubs wants to make saving, investing and borrowing money more efficient.Evidently saving within a group is more efficient than doing it by yourself. Each one of us has a social equity that is usually leveraged to borrow money quickly and efficiently in times of need and if they have an option to park money where they make more returnsthan a fixed deposit wont they be interested?The simplest way for anyone today is to be able to do this is on the mobile and on the move! So, MoneyClub is creating a mobile app that enables people to form closed and highly trusted clubs within which they can Save, Invest and borrow money more efficiently!
Gemba Capital is a micro VC focusing on early-stage tech investments in seed and pre-seed rounds.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States, Spain
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- Eternz — Explore our jewelry collection curated from exceptional brands and designers. Buy rings, earrings, bracelets, bangles, pendants & necklaces and get flat 200 off on first order.
- LightFury Games — India's true AAA game studio with a vision to pioneer a new era of gaming by creating groundbreaking AAA titles that entertain and inspire players worldwide.
- Navadhan Capital — Navadhan Capital offers capital to under-banked households.
AET Fund envisions a Heart Driven World by making the world a colorful place through entertainment.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Canada
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- Questt — School homework app by Questt helps teachers to assign homework to students. Download today on your smartphone.
- 3DC — 3DC develops and manufactures a new carbon material, graphene meso sponge (GMS), for electrodes in next-generation batteries, capacitors, fuel cells and other energy storage and generation devices.
- Stream Captain — Captain.tv makes games for streamers to play live with their viewers! Streamers are the hosts, and viewers play alongside them and each other live on sites like Twitch!
Nexus Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that helps founders build product-focused companies. The firm actively partners with founders at inception, seed, or series-A stages and stays involved throughout the company's growth. With $2.6 billion in capital, Nexus invests mainly in enterprise software in the US and digitally-drivenbusinesses in India.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- India, United States, United Kingdom
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- FurtherAI — FurtherAI is a domain-specific AI for the insurance industry. Our AI Assistant automates complex workflows like submission intake, policy comparisons, and underwriting audits—making teams faster, smarter, and more efficient.Leading insurers, reinsurers, MGAs, and brokers rely on FurtherAI to drive better decisions at scale. Backed by topinvestors including Y Combinator, Nexus, South Park Commons, and Converge, FurtherAI supports customers writing over $15B in premiums across all 50 states.
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Kalaari is a $160 million venture capital fund with a strong advisory team in Bangalore investing in early-stage, technology-oriented companies in India.Kalaari Capital invests in the unknown Indian entrepreneur who is poised to become tomorrow’s global leader. They are India’s leading investor in early-stage businesses, nurturing them throughevery aspect of growth on the transformative journey toward success.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- India, United States, Singapore
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- Figr — Figr is a startup that uses artificial intelligence to transform the product design process. It reduces friction in the creation of digital products by leveraging AI to improve design research, rapidly iterate interfaces, and collaborate with the goal of making product design more accessible.
- Triple Tap — Triple Tap is a game development studio, specializing in creating engaging titles.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Mexico
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- Grw AI — Grw AI offers scalable 1:1 coaching solutions that leverage AI to assist B2B sales teams complete deals.
- LeaseUp — LeaseUp is a real estate software company.
- LINK — Shoppinpal is a leading provider of connectors and integrations between cloud systems. Deep expertise in POS, ERP, Accounting, Ecommerce, Marketing, Stock replenishment, HR and Payroll systems. Shoppinpal builds seamless, scalable and low-cost integrations for global customers.
Touchstone, we believe in cyclical creative disruption that empowers innovators to extract maximum value from their solutions. We understand that resilient businesses are not built in a day and partner with a long term view of the sector.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Logistics, B2B
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- India, United States
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- Appsfly.io — MicroApps are apps in itself which mimic any native app that you find on AppStore / PlayStore, with a minimal functionality that is served right in the context of the publisher apps.They are building AppSteam platform to build and distribute MicroApps. AppSteam is capable of streaming micro apps onto any publisher app based on context andintent of the user.AppSteam built an IDE where one can develop micro-apps with ease, and deploy them to any publisher on demand. These micro-apps are completely streamed from outside, and it gives a hassle-free experience to user by not downloading and installing the app. In the context of AppSteam They are quickly interacting with multiple players in different segments and adding micro apps to add to their ecosystem to bring right context and contextual services together.
- Wysh — Wysh is a platform that connects users with their favourite celebrities. Wysh is a two-way engagement that enables fans to get personalised video messages from celebrities by sending a video request.
- Transporter.city — Transporter is a fleet of Line Haul carriers that makes moving cargo between two points ridiculously simple. For Businesses that have more committed cargo deliveries, Transporter is a 3PL provider that uses advanced asset mapping heuristic Algorithms to inventorise slack market capacity for user demand. As 3PL player it combines this with astandardisation of fleet movement to deliver users:a) simpler and zero-error access to right asset-type;b) 100% load placement with zero detention and;c) control on TAT and delivery timelines with advanced track-and-trace systems.In short, transporter is a 3PL player that standardises the best of market assets to meet user demand across variables like load, cargo type, delivery points and routes to promise the best cargo management window that the industry needs
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