# Top 50 Community Angel Investors in India in June 2026 ## Kunal Shah - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 16 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet Kunal Shah ## Vijay Sharma - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 12 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, News, Software Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Paytm. He previously worked at India Today Group Online as a Tech head. Vijay Shekhar attended Delhi College of Engineering. ## Anupam Mittal - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Internet Anupam started his entrepreneurial journey by founding People Group - A New Media & Entertainment group, which includes businesses such as Shaadi.com, Makaan.com, Mauj Mobile, and People Pictures. Today the group is recognized as one of the most innovative enterprises in the country. Besides his operational roles, Anupam is also one ofIndia's most active angel investors.He attended Boston College. ## Rajan Anandan - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 9 - 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. ## Ramakant Sharma - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce Ramakant Sharma is the Founder and CEO of Livspace. He previously worked at Jungle Ventures as an Operating Partner. Ramakant attended the Indian School of Business, where he earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA), and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, where he completed a Bachelor of Technology (BTech). ## Aprameya Radhakrishna - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, Software, Retail Aprameya loves singing romantic songs and is the quintessential dreamer who doesn’t fear to experiment. He used to be the Head of Business Development for PDS at Jones Lang LaSalle India where he spent almost 3 years post his graduation from IIM Ahmedabad. He has worked at Infosys and has an Electronics engineering degree from NITK Surthkal andif all this has made you think he’s a geek, ask his close friends and they would say otherwise! ## Aman Gupta - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing Aman Gupta is based out of Delhi and is the Co-Founder and Director of boAt. Aman previously worked at HARMAN International as a Director of Sales. Aman Gupta attended the Indian School of Business. Aman Gupta has received the National Creator Award 2024. ## Kunal Bahl - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce Kunal Bahl is based out of Delhi and is the Co-Founder of AceVector. Kunal Bahl attended the University of Pennsylvania. ## Girish Mathrubootham - Type: Angel - Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Girish Mathrubootham is based out of Burlingame and is the Co -Founder of Hotline. Girish previously worked at Zoho Corporation as a Vice President - Product Management. Girish Mathrubootham attended University of Madras. ## Mohandas Pai - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Education, Information Technology Mohandas Pai - Co-Founder and Chairman @ Aarin Capital ## Mekin Maheshwari - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Apps, Internet Mekin Maheshwari - Advisor @ Mentr ## Nandan Nilekani - Type: Angel - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Tourism, Internet, E-Commerce Nandan Nilekani was the chairman of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), author of _Imagining India_, philanthropist, and former entrepreneur and co-founder of Infosys. ## Jitendra Gupta - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter. ## Maninder Gulati - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 5 - 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. ## Binny Bansal - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet 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. ## Kishore Ganji - Type: Angel - Location: Marlboro, New Jersey, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Software Kishore Ganji is the Angel Investor & Mentor at Astir Ventures. ## Peyush Bansal - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Internet Peyush Bansal is the Co-Founder, Chief Executive, and People Officer of Lenskart. He attended McGill University. ## Anand Chandrasekaran - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce Anand Chandrasekaran is based out of San Francisco, California and is the President of Crescendo. Anand previously worked at General Catalyst as Partner and Venture Advisor. Anand Chandrasekaran attended the Stanford University and PSG College of Technology, India. Anand Chandrasekaran has been awarded Young Global Leader by the World EconomicForum and was recognized as the #1 seed investor focused on the India – U.S. corridor by the HURUN India Report in their career. ## Amrish Rau - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs. ## Anirudh A Damani - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software Anirudh Damani is an Investment Professional at Artha India Ventures. Anirudh Damani owns Artha Energy Resources and he is Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at Artha Group of Companies. He has set up a consultancy firm for facilitating investments into power projects across geographies and asset classes like wind, solar, hydro andbio-power. Anirudh Damani is an active angel investor at 25 startups. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Venture Catalysts. He has over 18 years of energy experience and procuring energy customers. Anirudh Damani holds a double major in economics and business administration from Austin College. ## Alok Mittal - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Internet, Marketplace, E-Commerce Alok is Co-founder and CEO of Indifi, India's leading full-stack platform for enabling debt financing for small businesses. Alok is also an active angel investor, co-founder of Indian Angel Network, and on the board of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Delhi. Prior to starting Indifi, Alok setup and ran Canaan Partners' venture investmentbusiness. Earlier, Alok co-founded JobsAhead.com, a leading web-based recruitment business in India.Alok earned a BE in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and a MS in computer science from UC Berkeley. ## Rohit Bansal - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Software Rohit Bansal is based out of Gurgaon and is the Co-founder of AceVector. Rohit previously worked at FICCI as a Chair. Rohit Bansal attended Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. ## Namita Thapar - Type: Angel - Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Retail Namita Thapar is an Executive Director at Emcure Pharmaceuticals. She previously worked as a senior manager at Abbott. She attended Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. ## Varun Alagh - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet Varun Alagh is based out of Gurgaon, Haryana, and is the Co-Founder, Chief Dad, and CEO of Honasa Consumer. Varun previously worked at The Coca-Cola Company as a Senior Brand Manager. Varun Alagh attended XLRI Jamshedpur. ## Vineeta Singh - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Angel, Seed, Debt Financing - Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Food Processing Vineeta Singh is the Co-founder and CEO of SUGAR Cosmetics. She previously worked at Quetzal Verify Private Limited as Director. Vineeta attended the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, where she took a Master of Business Administration (MBA). She also attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, where she took a B.Tech in ElectricalEngineering. ## Rahul Mehta - Type: Angel - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Rahul Mehta is a Co-Founder at DST Global. He is the Managing Partner at DST Global. ## Sweta Rau - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Women's Sweta Rau, founder of White Ventures ## Arjun Vaidya - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Retail Arjun Vaidya is the Founder of Verinvest Corporation. Attended Brown University. ## Sanjay Mehta - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Sanjay Mehta is Member of the Board of Advisors at LogiNext Solution. ## Gaurav Munjal - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Health Care, Apps Gaurav Munjal is the Co-Founder and CEO at Unacademy. ## Abhishek Goyal - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Retail, E-Commerce, Fashion Abhishek Goyal is a Co-Founder at Tracxn. He attended the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. ## Ankit Nagori - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Retail, Software, Food and Beverage Ankit N. is the founder at Curefoods. Attended Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. ## Ishan Singh - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Retail, Women's, Wellness Ishan Singh is the MD and CEO of RevStart, a company dedicated to creating a nurturing and supportive ecosystem for emerging ventures, by providing quality Co-Working, Incubation, and Acceleration services out of a 100,000-sf campus in Delhi NCR. A hands-on entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience, Ishan is a go to person for firms looking forUS market entry and for international firms establishing business in India.Ishan is a globally well-regarded thought leader who is quoted in Media, seen on TV and invited to speak/ judge business plan competitions in India and the US. As someone who first tasted entrepreneurship as a high school student who sold Cable TV connections, he is committed to helping others succeed. Post his MBA in 96, he joined Reckitt Benckiser in OTC global category management, before moving to New York. In 1997, he found work with Equitable Life (Axa Advisors) and in his first year of living in the USA, won the “Rookie of the Year - No. 1 sales person in New York” and was placed 7th nationally. In 1999 he started itechglobal a fintech firm whose clients included Ameritrade where he closed $2 million in first year revenue.Post 9/11, Ishan merged itechglobal with a listed firm and returned to India. At that time, at age 32, he acquired development rights on 2.5m sf and started www.outsourcetoindia.com, an outsourcing advisory firm. In that process, he met a group of EIR’s at Warburg Pincus and joined them to Head Marketing at WNS Global Services which grew from 800 to 12,000 employees in 4 years and listed on the NYSE with a $2 billion market cap in 2006.In 2015, Ishan started investing in start-ups. Since then he has had 3 successful exits and 4 in his portfolio have raised follow on investments. He has led investments with Indian Angel Network, Mumbai Angels and Let’s Venture and CIIE at IIM-A. He is a venture partner at India’s leading provider of co-working spaces. Most recently, he has lead $2m in investment in Iwi - Women’s wellness & hygiene products, WeDoSky – drone data science firm, University Living - student marketplace and Bookeventz - venue management firm where he serves on their boards. Ishan is the 5th generation of his family to have graduated from St. Stephens College in Delhi. He holds an MBA from The University of Manchester/ Kelly School at Indiana University and has attended executive educations at New York University and Harvard Business School. He has a food blog and has travelled over 60 countries. ## Rohit Chanana - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Wellness, E-Commerce Rohit Chanana - Founder and Managing Partner @ Sarcha Advisors ## Apurva Salarpuria - Type: Angel - Location: Kolkata, West Bengal, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Restaurants, Coffee, Lifestyle Apurva Salarpuria - Owner @ Salarpuria Sattva Group ## Nimesh Kampani - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 3 - 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 ## Vignesh Ramanujam - Type: Angel - Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Supply Chain Management Entrepreneur — Founder, Investor, Board Member, Operator, Advisor, Observer, Partner, Seeker, Friend. Publicly active in private markets & privately active in public markets. ## KRS Jamwal - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software KRS Jamwal is Executive Director, Tata Industries, and is responsible for the incubation of new ventures, as well as investments made by Tata Industries in new businesses and start-ups. Mr Jamwal is on the board of three other Tata companies – Advinus Therapeutics, where he serves as chairman of the board, Tata Advanced Materials, and TataUniStore. He is also a member on the board of Flisom AG and Apex Investments (Mauritius) Holding. ## Niraj Singh - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Transportation, Travel, Apps Niraj Singh - Founder & CEO @ Spinny ## Vaibhav Domkundwar - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Education, Information Technology Vaibhav Domkundwar - CEO @ Better Capital ## Nitish Mittersain - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Financial Services, E-Commerce Nitish Mittersain is based out of Mumbai, Maharashtra and is the Founder & Managing Director of Nazara Technologies. Nitish previously worked at MEF Mobile as a Board Director. Nitish Mittersain attended the Bennett University. Nitish Mittersain has been Awarded Honorary Doctorate for contributions to gaming industry in India. ## Roman Saini - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Apps, Internet Roman Saini is Co Founder at Unacademy. ## Archana Priyadarshini - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: SaaS, Financial Services, Information Technology Archana Priyadarshini is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Forward Slash Capital. She previously worked at PointOne Capital Fund 1 as a General Partner. Archana Priyadarshini attended Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. ## Mohit Saxena - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Mobile, Software, Advertising Mohit Saxena is the Founder and Group CTO at InMobi Group. He oversees all CTO's leading the tech at various InMobi Group Companies.Prior to InMobi InMobi, Mohit managed technology operations at Virgin Mobile, designing and deploying their post-paid billing system and their pre-paid revenue recognition system. Mohit earlier worked at AT&Tand has contributed to many patents filed in the telecommunications area.Fascinated by small ideas that turned into global powerhouses, and innovation, simplicity, and the potential of technology have always been his passions. InMobi is a both a passion and a dream come true for him.Mohit has a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.Mohit’s passion for technology doesn’t stop at work and is always on the look-out for ways that he can use it to make his life easier. ## Tej Kapoor - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Logistics, E-Commerce Tej Kapoor is the Managing Partner and Managing Director of IvyCap Ventures. He previously worked at Fosun as a Fosun Global Partner, Co- Executive President Fosun RZ Capital (India & SEA). Tej Kapoor attended The Wharton School. ## Ankur Nagpal - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Apps Ankur Nagpal Founder of Fedora and Co-Founder of Vibe VC. He attended University of California, Berkeley in 2006. ## Arjun Purkayastha - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Retail Arjun Purkayastha is a purpose driven leader with extensive global experience managing diverse businesses and multi-cultural teams at FTSE Top 10 and Fortune 100 companies - Reckitt and P&G. He has a strong track record of building outperforming teams, iconic brands & innovative business models across 60+ countries having lived & workedin the UK, Singapore, South Korea. ## Sushil Sharma - Type: Angel - Location: Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Education, Retail, E-Commerce Sushil Sharma is the Founder and CEO of Marwari Catalysts Ventures. He previously worked at DreamTeam Technologies as a DIRECTOR. ## Qasar Younis - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Transportation Mr. Qasar Younis is the Founder of Talkbin. Mr. Younis serves as a Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Y Combinator. He is responsible to manage all Y Combinator events, operations, finance and legal functions, as well as advise startups. Previously, he served as a Part-Time Partner at the firm. ## Vlad Tenev - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech Vlad Tenev is based out of Menlo Park, California, and is the Co-Founder, CEO, President, and Chair of Board of Director of Robinhood. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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