Top 10 Celebrity VC (Venture Capital) Funds in India in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 10 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 10 Celebrity VC (Venture Capital) Funds in India in May 2025

Investor	Celebrity India investments
Gemba Capital	1
TiE Pune	1
Nexus Venture Partners	1
Supermorpheus	1
Kalaari Capital	1
Mumbai Angels	1
Incisive Ventures	1
AET Fund	1
Whiteboard Capital	1
Touchstone Equities	1

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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

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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.

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.
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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, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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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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 — 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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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

E-Commerce, Software, 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 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.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

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!

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

BiteSpeed — Drive 10% of your Shopify store's revenue from WhatsApp & FB Messenger. Recover abandoned carts, send promotional & shipping messages. Trusted by 1500+ brands!
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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.

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.