Top 20 Celebrity Startup Investors in India in July 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 July 2025
Investor | Celebrity India investments |
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Proneur Network | 1 |
Shrishti Sahu | 1 |
Srishti Behl | 1 |
Swati Mohan | 1 |
Kunal Shah | 1 |
Gemba Capital | 1 |
AET Fund | 1 |
Incisive Ventures | 1 |
Touchstone Equities | 1 |
Vishal Ramchandani | 1 |
Roshan Abbas | 1 |
StartupXseed Ventures | 1 |
Vinod Bhanushali | 1 |
Zubin Gandevia | 1 |
Whiteboard Capital | 1 |
TiE Pune | 1 |
Mumbai Angels | 1 |
Supermorpheus | 1 |
Nexus Venture Partners | 1 |
Kalaari Capital | 1 |
Proneur Network is an investment firm.
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- Internet, Celebrity, Social Media
- Seed
- India
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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)
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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.
- Mugafi — Create captivating stories, iconic characters, and legendary universes for the world to witness.
- Thermoflyde — Refractory
Srishti Behl is the Founder of Rose Audio Visuals.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Celebrity, Social Media
- Seed
- India
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Swati Mohan
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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.
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!
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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- 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.
- Sanlayan — Sanlayan Technologies is a Bengaluru-based aerospace and defense electronics startup that specializes in designing and developing advanced electronic systems such as radar, electronic warfare, and mission-critical avionics, focusing on indigenous technology to enhance India's self-sufficiency in defense electronics.
- 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.
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!
Your partner for growth
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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.
- Moddule — Moddule is a supply chain software platform designed to simplify and automate supply chain operations for manufacturers, wholesalers, and distributors.
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
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
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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
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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.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
Vinod Bhanushali
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Investment focus
- Internet, Celebrity, Social Media
- Seed
- India
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Zubin Gandevia
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Investment focus
- Internet, Celebrity, Social Media
- Seed
- India
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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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- 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 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 — 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.
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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.
- 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!
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, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- India, United States, United Kingdom
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- Olto — Olto is an AI-native demo automation platform. It is designed to help sales teams create and deliver personalized live demos, product tours, and leave-behinds.
- Rapido — Rapido bike taxi provides the best intra-city commuting services and is currently operating in 100+ cities. It is considered as the most affordable choice.
- Zango — Zango is an AI-powered compliance automation platform designed to help financial services firms manage regulatory change across multiple regions, including the UK and EU. Leveraging cutting-edge AI, the platform performs real-time horizon scanning, automated gap analysis, and human validation to ensure accuracy and maintain security andtransparency. Backed by industry-leading investors, it empowers compliance teams to dramatically accelerate processes and reduce manual oversight.
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.
- Deconstruct — Looking for 100% authentic dermatologically tested skin products? Build your skincare routine with Deconstruct's evidence based products for best results. Check now!
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