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Top 20 Celebrity Startup Investors in India in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 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 January 2026

Investor	Celebrity India investments
Shrishti Sahu	1
Kunal Shah	1
Incisive Ventures	1
Touchstone Equities	1
AET Fund	1
Proneur Network	1
Swati Mohan	1
Mumbai Angels	1
Supermorpheus	1
Kalaari Capital	1
Srishti Behl	1
Gemba Capital	1
StartupXseed Ventures	1
Whiteboard Capital	1
TiE Pune	1
Nexus Venture Partners	1
Vishal Ramchandani	1
Roshan Abbas	1
Vinod Bhanushali	1
Zubin Gandevia	1

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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)

Investment focus

Internet, FinTech, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Singapore, South Korea

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.
Mugafi — Create captivating stories, iconic characters, and legendary universes for the world to witness.
Thermoflyde — Refractory

Kunal Shah

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Hoggy — Founded by IITians and invested- in by unicorn founders like Kunal Shah and Sameer Pitalwala, Hoggy is a Kid’s learning app that focuses on providing interactive learning for kids aged between 2 to 5 years, while maintaining an absolutely safe space for kids. Through this platform, we've made it possible for creators of kids' content tomonetize their content and earn independently of ads and sponsored content. Hoggy serves as a brilliant platform where such content creators can find their niche target audience and grow the number of their true fans exponentially.
Affluense AI — Affluense provides AI powered platform to help businesses discover and engage HNI and UHNI individuals with real-time, 360° profiles.
Eyewear designed& labs — Eyewear designed& labs is a eyewear startup.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

BizzTM — BizzTM is a company that provides a variety of e-commerce categories of products through an aggregated delivery model.
One Body — Automation and machine learning software to help physical therapy clinics reach their profit potential
UptimeHealth — UptimeHealth, headquartered in Boston, MA, is a fast-growing software startup that simplifies medical device service events, purchases, and compliance practices through automation and predictive analytics.

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Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Logistics, B2B
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

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

AET Fund envisions a Heart Driven World by making the world a colorful place through entertainment.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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!

Proneur Network is an investment firm.

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.
Mugafi — Create captivating stories, iconic characters, and legendary universes for the world to witness.

Swati Mohan

Investment focus

Women's, 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.
Mugafi — Create captivating stories, iconic characters, and legendary universes for the world to witness.
leap.club — we are a powerful and private network of women leaders.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Gramiyaa — Pure, fresh cold pressed cooking oils that bring out the natural flavours in your home cooked food, making meals delicious. Shop cold pressed groundnut, coconut, sesame and mustard oils from Gramiyaa.
BabyChakra — If you're thinking of getting pregnant or researching on how to conceive - you're in the right place. Here you'll learn about ovulation, signs of pregnancy, fertility and guidelines on when to be concerned about a possible fertility problem.
goStops — Book cool & affordable youth hostels with dorms across India. Social stays, great locations & Gen Z vibes with goSTOPS | Goa Rishikesh Mussoorie Nainital Bengaluru Delhi Coorg Ooty

Supermorpheus is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.
VS Mani & Co — Shop South Indian filter coffee, instant coffee that tastes almost like filter coffee, and wholesome snacks and spices at VS Mani & Co. Free delivery.
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!

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Figr — The first design agent that actually understands your product. Drop in context like industry benchmarks, user feedback, product flow, design systems to get production-ready UX backed by real app patterns. No guesswork. No endless revisions. Just ship.
Triple Tap — Triple Tap is a game development studio, specializing in creating engaging titles.
Deconstruct — Looking for 100% authentic dermatologically tested skin products? Build your skincare routine with Deconstruct's evidence based products for best results. Check now!

Srishti Behl is the Founder of Rose Audio Visuals.

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.
Mugafi — Create captivating stories, iconic characters, and legendary universes for the world to witness.

Gemba Capital is a micro VC focusing on early-stage tech investments in seed and pre-seed rounds.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Flick TV — Flick is reimagining digital entertainment for the short attention span era. We’re a mobile-first OTT platform built for snackable storytelling—think the emotional highs of television soap operas fused with the fast pace of Instagram Reels. Designed for phone screens and micro-moments, Flick delivers high-drama, low-commitment content inultra-short episodes—each just 30 to 90 seconds long. Our serialized vertical stories dive into themes like love, betrayal, crime, and family drama—anything that thrives on cliffhangers and keeps the dopamine flowing. Whether users are waiting in line, commuting, or taking a quick break, Flick transforms idle moments into mini binge sessions. We’re pioneering a new genre of entertainment: serialized vertical storytelling for the always-scrolling generation.
Pazy — Pazy provides a digital platform for managing business payments and financial operations. Its services include accounts payable, reimbursements, petty cash handling, and tax reporting. The platform supports vendor management, financial reporting, and invoice auditing. It also offers integrations for syncing with other business management tools.
Inamo — Transform your business with Inamo's innovative quick commerce solutions.

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.

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.
Mugafi — Create captivating stories, iconic characters, and legendary universes for the world to witness.
CloudSEK — CloudSEK leverages contextual AI to predict and prevent cyber threats. Keep your organisation safe and secure.

Whiteboard Capital is Mumbai based early stage investment firm.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Listed — Leading the way in building the Web 3.0 Creator Economy.
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.
leap.club — we are a powerful and private network of women leaders.

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.

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.
Mugafi — Create captivating stories, iconic characters, and legendary universes for the world to witness.
ExtraaEdge — Streamline admissions with the best Admission CRM to manage leads, boost counselor efficiency, and simplify processes effectively.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

DAOLens — Tasks, Proposals, Bounties, and Payouts in one place
Allo Health — Connect with best STI doctors in India. Explore doctor profiles, book appointments online, read user reviews to make informed choices about your sexual health.
Newton School — Earn 5-40 Lakh per annum salary in top-notch companies in India. Pay After Placement with Newton School. No charges if you won't get placed.

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.

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.
Mugafi — Create captivating stories, iconic characters, and legendary universes for the world to witness.

Roshan is founder of Encompass Events Pvt. Ltd.

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.
Mugafi — Create captivating stories, iconic characters, and legendary universes for the world to witness.
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.

Vinod Bhanushali

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.
Mugafi — Create captivating stories, iconic characters, and legendary universes for the world to witness.

Zubin Gandevia

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.
Mugafi — Create captivating stories, iconic characters, and legendary universes for the world to witness.

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