Top 50 Consumer Angel Investors in India in January 2026

Investor	Consumer India investments
Aman Gupta	14
Kunal Shah	14
Ramakant Sharma	12
Jitendra Gupta	10
Abhishek Goyal	9
Suhail Sameer	8
Varun Alagh	8
Kunal Bahl	8
Vineeta Singh	7
Revant Bhate	7
Anand Chandrasekaran	7
Binny Bansal	7
Arjun Vaidya	7
Anupam Mittal	7
Kishore Ganji	6
Rajesh Mane	6
Namita Thapar	6
Arihant Patni	6
Rohit Bansal	6
Peyush Bansal	6
Rohit Raj	5
Rajesh Sawhney	5
Arjun Purkayastha	5
Anirudh Somani	4
Ankit Nagori	4
Dhianu Das	4
Gaurav Munjal	4
Vivek Gupta	4
Vijay Shekhar Sharma	4
Utsav Somani	4
Alok Mittal	4
Rajesh Yabaji	4
Dheeraj Jain	4
Rajan Anandan	4
Amrish Rau	4
Abhay Hanjura	4
Sahil Barua	4
Sandeep Tandon	4
Karanpal Singh	4
Teruhide Sato	4
Sameer Mehta	4
Keki M Mistry	4
Rajan Anandan	4
Asish Mohapatra	4
Ritesh Agarwal	4
Vidur Talwar	4
Rathin Lahiri	3
Sameer Walia	3
Farid Ahsan	3
Priyank Shah	3

Aman Gupta - Co Founder & CMO @ boAt

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Offmint — Welcome to Offmint, where style is a personal statement and originality meets fashion. At Offmint, we think of clothes as a medium for self-expression.
HireForCare — HireForCare is a healthcare digital platform that offers screening tools and online therapy.
Naturik — Buy online 100% pure & natural instant oats, ragi and multigrain cheela mix at best prices on The Naturik Co. 100% secure payment & free shipping.

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.

Ramakant plays a central role in driving all technological innovations that form the backbone of Livspace while also leading our operations team. Before founding Livspace, Ramakant was a core team member and Vice President of Engineering at Myntra, a leading fashion eCommerce startup in India (acquired by Flipkart). Ramakant, graduated from IITKanpur, and holds an MBA from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ozi — Ozi operates as a quick commerce platform for parents.
Grexa AI — Grexa AI is creating a one-stop AI assisted mobile app designed to help local business owners grow with their revenue. Grexa helps business owners like clinics and dental practices, home service businesses such as plumbers, HVAC specialists, and pest control services, as well as salons, fitness centers, car service shops, restaurants, real estateagencies, and travel agents to effortlessly and affordably improve their digital presence and customer communication
Oolka — Oolka is a credit-building website that connects lenders and borrowers and shows credit scores.

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sipay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
Volopay — Volopay gives you control over your company's payments, expenses, budgets, and accounting. The best alternative for your business account. Join the hundreds of companies that trust Volopay.
CoinCRED Global — CoinCRED is a crypto exchange platform which has hundreds plus cryptocurrencies where traders can easily sell, buy, deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies. It is a platform which gives more priority to safe and secure transactions with privacy. CoinCRED has been here for years for its known features like high speed low transaction fees P2P KYC24/7 customer support with such features, it is also known as a crypto investment platform where users can easily trade and earn profits through their user-friendly interface. From beginners to experienced, any investor or trader can begin their crypto journey with the most trusted platform, CoinCRED.

Abhishek Goyal is a Co-Founder at Tracxn. He attended the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

Investment focus

Retail, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Oolka — Oolka is a credit-building website that connects lenders and borrowers and shows credit scores.
Heizen — Heizen is an AI-driven platform that automates software development tasks to speed up product creation and launch.
ContraVault AI — Transforming Tender and RFP Management using AI

Suhail Sameer is based out of Delhi, India and is the Founder and Managing Partner of OTP Ventures. Suhail previously worked at BharatPe as a Chief Executive Officer. Suhail Sameer attended Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Fashion
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cleevo — Cleevo offers products of cleaning with eco friendly, non toxic solutions to your home.
Nuuk — Out with the old, in with the NUUK! Welcome to Nuuk, where the cool vibes of Greenland's capital inspire our line of home and kitchen appliances.
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.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Retail
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Heizen — Heizen is an AI-driven platform that automates software development tasks to speed up product creation and launch.
Belong — Compare top NRI Mutual Funds & FD rates. Belong helps you invest in India securely, with tax-free USD returns and INR risk protection.
Powerhouse91 — Powerhouse91 operates as an eCommerce roll-up platform. Powerhouse91's business model relies on identifying high-potential consumer brands, acquiring, and scaling them through growth capital, shared resources, and e-commerce focused optimizations.

Kunal is a technology entrepreneur and investor.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Legistify — Legistify offers AI-powered legal operations software to streamline workflows, manage contracts, track legal cases and improve productivity for enterprise legal teams
Equal Identity — Equal Identity operates as an ID-sharing platform.
Eyewear designed& labs — Eyewear designed& labs is a eyewear startup.

Vineeta Singh is the Co-founder & CEO of SUGAR Cosmetics, India's fastest growing beauty brand which has clocked in 100+ Crores revenue in just its 5th fiscal year, with a distribution network of 2500+ branded retail outlets in more than 130 cities. She is a TEDx Speaker and alumnus of IIT Madras and IIM Ahmedabad. She is also a triathleteand ultramarathoner.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Food Processing
Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
India

Portfolio highlights

Offmint — Welcome to Offmint, where style is a personal statement and originality meets fashion. At Offmint, we think of clothes as a medium for self-expression.
HireForCare — HireForCare is a healthcare digital platform that offers screening tools and online therapy.
Naturik — Buy online 100% pure & natural instant oats, ragi and multigrain cheela mix at best prices on The Naturik Co. 100% secure payment & free shipping.

Revant Bhate is Chief Executive Officer at Mosaic Wellness.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Retail
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bidso — Bidso is a tech enabled contract manufacturer for outdoor toys. We make it easy & reliable for brands to source from Indian manufacturers.
Grexa AI — Grexa AI is creating a one-stop AI assisted mobile app designed to help local business owners grow with their revenue. Grexa helps business owners like clinics and dental practices, home service businesses such as plumbers, HVAC specialists, and pest control services, as well as salons, fitness centers, car service shops, restaurants, real estateagencies, and travel agents to effortlessly and affordably improve their digital presence and customer communication
ofScale — ofScale operates as a distribution-as-a-service platform.

Anand Chandrasekaran is a Partner at General Catalyst. He previously worked at Facebook and attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Jupiter — Jupiter is a grocery automation service that takes care of the shopping, delivery, and even meal-planning.
OpsLyft — OpsLyft Inc. is a San-Francisco & Noida-based technology company working towards building the future of cloud infrastructure management for internet companies across the world. The company leverages artificial intelligence and analytics to deliver insights and automate routine workflows that help software teams build, test, and deploy anyworkload on any cloud with no downtimes and at the lowest possible cloud infrastructure spend. Our mission is to simplify cloud management for all internet companies across the world. We are currently working with some of the largest companies across India - Inshorts, Innovaccer, Purplle, Zenoti etc. and are rapidly expanding our presence in the US geography as well. In addition to it, we are backed by some of the top investors from Silicon Valley and India.
Fold Health — Crafting the building blocks of modern primary care

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Posha — With our smart kitchen robot, Julia, we are making home cooking great again! Find out more about our story, technology, and Julia herself.
Curefoods — Curefoods democratizes access to food on a sustainable basis. They focus on operations management for cloud kitchens and the online food ordering market.
RISA Labs — We exist for humanity 2Win. Pioneering BOSS [Business (Operating System) as Service]. Trusted by Top Oncologists, we serve mission critical enterprises. Transforming key operations with AI-driven discipline. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, RISA has offices across the globe.

Arjun Vaidya is the Founder of Verinvest Corporation. Attended Brown University.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Peeko — Peeko is a quick commerce platform that specializes in baby care products and accessories, promising 60-minute delivery.
Wellopia — Clean, joyful wellness made just for kids. Thoughtfully crafted with simple ingredients. Safe, natural care parents can trust.
Lumov Health — Lumov Health provides a wide choice of goods intended for efficient pain management. We hope to enable everyone to move freely and live pain-free.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Offmint — Welcome to Offmint, where style is a personal statement and originality meets fashion. At Offmint, we think of clothes as a medium for self-expression.
HealthFab — Seen on Shark Tank India! Buy GoPadFree period panties & GopainFree Period relief cream online by HealthFab. Shop for best menstrual products!
HireForCare — HireForCare is a healthcare digital platform that offers screening tools and online therapy.

Kishore Ganji is the Angel Investor & Mentor at Astir Ventures.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India, United States, Bangladesh

Portfolio highlights

Lal10 — Lal10 enables creative manufacturing MSMEs to easily digitize, manage and sell their inventories for cross-border wholesale. Lal10 is Shopify + Alibaba for Indian MSMEs. Small manufacturers use Lal10’s Karigar application to digitize physical inventories which are available for RFQs on our global wholesale platform. We are creating a maker’srevolution by digitizing micro and small manufacturers to take their creative products to global markets. India has over 1.2mn such MSMEs involved in the manufacturing of apparel, home furnishings, decor products. We have digitized 30k SKUs to date and are the largest vertical platform for MSMEs for cross-border wholesale in India. Post pandemic layers of middlemen/ export houses and traditional channels of sales like exhibitions have been disrupted. We have created an efficient alternative with innovative technology-led solutions catering to these large and untapped supplies. We are seeing strong organic adoption of technology for quick market access by local manufacturers and pandemic has only accelerated its requirement. We believe that the future of retail is local. We are targeting small & medium-sized buyers in the US, UK, and Middle east using efficient data analytics and aggressive marketing. We provide them the benefits of a big-box retailer, i.e. affordable sourcing, contemporary design curation & assortment of products. These buyers are resellers on Amazon, Etsy, or Mom & Pop shops, Private labels, and have traditionally been only dependent tradeshows.
Teleport — Planning a trip? Say goodbye to visa hassles with Teleport! We've made applying for visas online super easy. Explore our site now to get started now!
Monitra Healthcare — Monitra Healthcare is a Hyderabad based med-tech company developing solutions that capture cardiac events anytime anywhere. Our products detect cardiac arrhythmias and cardiovascular disease at real-time for pre-emptive treatments. Cardiac monitoring is widely used to identify heart disease, to monitor cardiac activity before and after surgery andother cardiac procedures, and to assess the effects of therapeutic drugs on cardiac activity. The Company’s vision is to dramatically reduce the effects of heart disease by making monitoring and pre-emptive cardiac care a seamless part of everyday life.

An active investor in early stage startups across technology & CPG.

Investment focus

Internet, Financial Services, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cleardekho — Cleardekho is India's leading affordable eyewear brand. Get to shop a great variety of Eyeglasses, Sunglasses, Contact lens & much more.
LiquiLoans — LiquiLoans is a company uses technology to match borrowers and lenders and in the process eliminates the margin which is charged by traditional banks and NBFCs, thus, making borrowing cheaper and investing a more lucrative opportunity as compared to traditional investment avenues.
Impact Guru — ImpactGuru is a No.1 crowdfunding platform in India offering fundraising solutions for medical treatments, emergencies, NGOs & startups. Start a crowdfunding campaign now!

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.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

Vobble — Vobble offers a unique, immersive audio platform for children to listen to content from around the world.
Offmint — Welcome to Offmint, where style is a personal statement and originality meets fashion. At Offmint, we think of clothes as a medium for self-expression.
Symbionic — Symbionic is a developer of high-tech and affordable bionics for people with missing limbs. Through high-tech but low-cost bionics, it aims to help people with limb differences achieve functional independence and confidence. It also hopes to make assistive technology more widely available to the general public.

Arihant is the Managing Director of Patni Financial Advisors, a wealth management company that advises high net worth families on a wide range of investment options. He is also Co-founder and Director at Nirvana venture Advisors. Arihant began his career at his family business, Patni Computer Systems, one of the leading Indian IT businesses of thetime, where he held positions in the computer software and human resources departments, as well as being a business development and marketing executive. Subsequently, Arihant worked as a Business Strategy Consultant for Fidelity Investments in Boston.

Investment focus

Health Care, Apps, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Innovist — Onesto Labs Private Limited is an unlisted private company. It was incorporated on 18 October, 2018 and is located in Central Delhi, Delhi. It is classified as a private limited company.The company has two directors - Rohit Chawla and Sifat Khurana.
Punt Partners — Punt Partners is a company that provides marketing technology services. It provides results through the use of proprietary data, technology, and services.
The Yarn Bazaar — The Yarn Bazaar is a modern, efficient, and transparently managed marketplace for yarn buyers and sellers to discover real-time yarn prices, information, and market trends.

Rohit Bansal - Co-Founder @ Snapdeal

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Peeko — Peeko is a quick commerce platform that specializes in baby care products and accessories, promising 60-minute delivery.
Equal Identity — Equal Identity operates as an ID-sharing platform.
Eyewear designed& labs — Eyewear designed& labs is a eyewear startup.

Peyush Bansal is the Co-Founder, Chief Executive, and People Officer of Lenskart. He attended McGill University.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Offmint — Welcome to Offmint, where style is a personal statement and originality meets fashion. At Offmint, we think of clothes as a medium for self-expression.
HireForCare — HireForCare is a healthcare digital platform that offers screening tools and online therapy.
Naturik — Buy online 100% pure & natural instant oats, ragi and multigrain cheela mix at best prices on The Naturik Co. 100% secure payment & free shipping.

Rohit is a serial entrepreneur and an active angel investor and advisor to multiple startups. Rohit founded Glitch, one of the fastest-growing advertising agencies in the country, and successfully exited to WPP in 2017. He also set up, chtrbox.com, one of the leading influencer agencies in India in 2015 and has been actively involved in theirstrategic growth across products and markets.As an active player in the angel investment industry, Rohit has been a big advocate of a good mix of Marketing capital + Venture Capital and applies it across his investment thesis across various industries where he can add value. His notable investments/advisory positions include Ghost kitchens, The New Shop, Svami Beverages, Deciwood Audio among others.

Investment focus

Consumer, Apps, Shoes
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Quizy — Quizy Games is an online platform to participate in pool of quizzes and get earn money instantly. Try out your brain and luck together, earning money is fun.
Deciml — Deciml is an investment app in India that enables Indians to start investing young by investing the spare change from their online transactions. Download App.
Wyld — India's first social currency payment card that let's every digital content creator monetize their social network. Use your WYLD card to purchase your favorite brands, post about it on Instagram and earn massive cashbacks in exchange. Got Instagram? Get WYLD!

Rajesh is the co-founder and CEO of InnerChef and Super Angels. He holds a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering from Delhi University, and a master's degree in management from Mumbai University. He has also done a fellowship in 'Globalisation and Leadership' from the London School of Economics and Social Sciences.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Fambo — Fambo is a technology-based food service company that offers semi-processed foodstuffs to restaurants and cloud kitchens.
CargoFL — CargoFL is a B2B logistics technology platform that offers transport management software for enterprises in retail, pharma, and manufacturing sectors. It provides a cloud-based enterprise resource planning platform that focuses on capturing the logistics market by digital technology, automates dispatches, consolidates truckers, and provides supplychain visibility and vehicle tracking.
ProcureYard — ProcureYard aims to revolutionize B2B raw materials procurement by modernizing traditional processes with cutting-edge AI technology, creating a transparent and reliable marketplace that reduces costs and simplifies sourcing for businesses.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Retail
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wellopia — Clean, joyful wellness made just for kids. Thoughtfully crafted with simple ingredients. Safe, natural care parents can trust.
Moxie Beauty — Moxie Beauty offers the best hair care products. From shampoos to styling gels, find everything you need for perfect hair. Buy online now!
Tuco Kids — A natural personal care range for kids and teens with a vision to make this planet plastic free

Anirudh Somani is a Vice President at CLSA.

Investment focus

Consumer Goods, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
India

Portfolio highlights

Jimmy's Cocktails — Jimmy's Cocktails makes premium cocktails.

Ankit N. is the founder at Curefoods. Attended Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Software, Retail
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Darwix AI — Unlock the power of your revenue teams with CUR8. Elevate your business, optimize revenue streams, and stay ahead in the competitive landscape. Discover what's possible with CUR8.
Rabitat — Rabitat is a consumer product company that offers creative lifestyle solutions for customers through trusted brands. Merlin Brands was founded in 2016 and was headquartered in New Delhi, India.
House of Chikankari — House of Chikankari is a fashion company offering hand-embroidered chikankari kurtas, kurtis, palazzos, and dupattas for women and men.

Dhianu Das is a businessman par excellence with a mission to empower entrepreneurs & start-ups with investment, mentoring and capacity building to enable business development. With an extensive investment, operation, strategy & development experience he has mentored many startups into successful businesses and has effectively led majorbusiness turnarounds as well as set up new businesses all across India. A mentor with exceptional clarity and a strategist who can plan and help execute - Dhianu Das is the perfect combination of a dreamer, a mentor, a businessman, and a true Visionary. Das is an active angel investor in many startups that are involved in inventing and developing problem-solving products. He invests both his money and trust in the companies and people with idiosyncratic business ideas and the passion to change the world.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Automotive, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

FunkFeets — FunkFeets operates as a quirky sneaker startup. Funkfeets leverages the need to provide asymmetrical designs for sneakers on shoes so that buyers can connect with the elements on the footwear.
Puresh Milk — Puresh Milk providing natural cow milk from our dairy farm.
Power Gummies — Simplifying Good Health for Healthy Hair & Nails, the perfect beach body, & PMS Gummies Vitamins with a Natural Blend of Nutrition & Antioxidants.

Gaurav Munjal is the Co-Founder and CEO at Unacademy.

Investment focus

Internet, Health Care, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Snabbit — Snabbit is a platform that connects people who want to help with housework. Snabbit provides an application for finding information on professionals in household duties, allowing users to acquire rapid and dependable domestic assistance in just a few minutes.
BiteSpeed — Drive 10% of your Shopify store's revenue from WhatsApp & FB Messenger. Recover abandoned carts, send promotional & shipping messages. Trusted by 1500+ brands!
infinyte.club — The ultimate wealth product for intelligent investors: track your net worth, manage public and private market investments & grow wealth across traditional & new-age assets.

Vivek Gupta is the Co-Founder of Licious. He graduated at The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Pet
Series A, Seed, Series B
India

Portfolio highlights

Floryo — Floryo asserts that it offers daily household essentials that are freshly made. The company currently offers more than 40 different types of freshly processed flour that have been tailored to fulfil functional nutrition standards.
Rozana — Best Online Groceries Store in India: Rozana is India's best online supermarket where you can order groceries online at best prices. Free & same day home delivery.
Mokobara — Elevate the joy of travel with Mokobara. Shop thoughtfully designed luggage & suitcases, bags, duffels, and backpacks. Made for modern travel.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, News, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Yoho — Yoho manufactures orthopaedic lightweight footwear.
Naxatra Labs — Light, Efficient, Powerful Made in India motors and controllers for Electric Vehicles
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!

Looking for - Passionate founders looking to target a market with tremendous future potential and stands to be disrupted by a new entrant. Crucial that the product / service is not easily replicable and the domain expertise of the company is a deterrent to fresh entrants.Keen interest in - Clean Technology, Consumer Internet, EnterpriseSoftware, Health Care, Mobile, SaaSSkills - Angel Investing, Financial Modelling & Valuation, Information Technology, Portfolio Management, Risk Management

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Grexa AI — Grexa AI is creating a one-stop AI assisted mobile app designed to help local business owners grow with their revenue. Grexa helps business owners like clinics and dental practices, home service businesses such as plumbers, HVAC specialists, and pest control services, as well as salons, fitness centers, car service shops, restaurants, real estateagencies, and travel agents to effortlessly and affordably improve their digital presence and customer communication
Vetic — India's fastest-growing chain of pet care clinics offering comprehensive veterinary services, grooming, and emergency care for your beloved pets.
OTPless — Authenticate customers with WhatsApp, SMS, Email, Biometrics, and more, with a 98% conversion rate on signup and sign-in.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Marketplace, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Cleevo — Cleevo offers products of cleaning with eco friendly, non toxic solutions to your home.
Mistry.Store — Mistry.Store is a digital-first, exclusive platform for professionals simplifying home building materials purchases.
speakX — Yellow Class is an online hobby platform for young kids.

Rajesh is known for his energy and resilience, and one can see this in his enthusiasm for marathons, and more in his passion for building the world’s largest trucking network. As the Co-Founder and CEO of BlackBuck, Rajesh is charged with constantly moving the company forward. From finance discussions to brainstorming on new product design tobusiness development planning, Rajesh keeps himself involved in all areas of the business. An IIT Kharagpur graduate, Rajesh was heading the Supply Chain division of ITC’s Leaf Tobacco business before starting BlackBuck. He is an inspiring leader who likes to bring out the best in people and help them achieve greater heights by pushing the bar higher. Speaking about pushing the bar higher, Rajesh has been a pole vaulter too.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Retail, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Oolka — Oolka is a credit-building website that connects lenders and borrowers and shows credit scores.
Bonatra — Cair33 merupakan link daftar yang paling di cari hari ini yang telah berkerja sama dengan alternatif Telugu Flavours official, sudah di percaya di kalangan masyarakat dengan jackpot harian.
Covvalent — Source specialty chemicals directly from Indian manufacturers using Covvalent. We are your one stop shop for all chemical raw materials.

Dheeraj Jain is working as Director at Redciffe Capital based in London and Delhi/Gurgaon. He is also value partner at Nine River Capital, PE fund focused towards India and hedge fund manager at Numia Capital. In last 3 years, he was lead mandate holder towards structuring and financing numerous cross border acquisitions in the mining, metal,technology, security services, manufacturing, shipping, oil, renewable power sectors coving India, USA, UK, Africa. He himself is seasoned investor and have network of investors, banks and other financial institutes supporting on investment banking transaction done on his acumen of risk/reward and ability to stitching deal pieces together.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Candes — Candes provides top quality Home Appliances from TVs to Geysers. Transform your home into Smart Home with Candes Appliances. Buy Home Appliances Online now.
Fitspire — India's Best Vegan Health Supplement Brand. Shop 100% Authentic & Premium Vegan health supplements, plant-based protein powder & more online on Fitspire.
Yobee — Yobee is an emerging fintech building a suite of customisable solutions to boost growth & engagement in your business. Trusted by large organisations such as HDFC Sec, IIFL, Nuvama & more. Visit the site to learn more.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

NAYAN — NAYAN Offers High Precision Video Analytics and AI Data Driver Sleeping AI detects signs of driver drowsiness or sleeping to prevent accidents Using Mobile Phone Monitors and flags drivers using mobile phones while driving Wearing No Seatbelt Detects if the driver...
Freshtohome — Freshtohome is an online grocery store that sells a range of seafood and meat to its users.The website’s range of products include fish, poultry, mutton, steaks, and fillet. Fish consists of shell, freshwater, and marine. Furthermore, it enables suppliers to supply their seafood and meat to the website.Freshtohome was launched in 2015 by ShanKadavil and is based in Bangalore.
mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Sipay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.
Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.

Abhay Hanjura is the Founder of Licious. He graduatedat the Insurance Institute of India.

Investment focus

Health Care, Pet, Retail
Series A, Seed, Series B
India

Portfolio highlights

Floryo — Floryo asserts that it offers daily household essentials that are freshly made. The company currently offers more than 40 different types of freshly processed flour that have been tailored to fulfil functional nutrition standards.
Mokobara — Elevate the joy of travel with Mokobara. Shop thoughtfully designed luggage & suitcases, bags, duffels, and backpacks. Made for modern travel.
BlissClub — BlissClub is the community's first women's activewear brand.

Sahil Barua is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Delhivery. He previously worked at Bain & Company as a Consultant. Sahil Barua attended National Institute of Technology Karnataka.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Vidyut — Vidyut offers end-to-end solutions for purchase and financing to resale which provide superior economics on electric vehicles compared to petrol & diesel vehicles.
Crest — Crest helps D2C brands streamline their supply chain through Inventory planning and Replenishment planning to escape out of stock and fulfill every order.
The Souled Store — The Souled Store is an online retailer that sells a range of fashion items and accessories to its users.The platform's product portfolio consists of t-shirts, mobile covers, badges, boxers, pajamas, notebooks, mugs, posters, coasters, backpacks, socks, umbrellas, tote bags, painted shoes, and wristbands. Furthermore, it enables its users tocreate personalized t-shirts.The Souled Store was launched in 2013 by Rohin Samtaney, Aditya Sharma, and Vedang Patel and is based in Mumbai.

Sandeep Tandon Co-founded Accelyst Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in 2010 and has been its Chief Business Officer since September 1, 2015. Sandeep Tandon serves as Managing Director at Tandon Technology Ventures (Tandon Group).He serves as Managing Director and Chairman of the Board at Infinx Services Private Limited. Sandeep Tandon serves as the Chairman andManaging Director at Infinx Healthcare. He oversees the strategy and operations of all group companies. He has been involved in the technology industry for over 20 years. During this time he has contributed significantly to the growth of Information Technology exports from India. He was co-founder and a former director of IQBackOffice - a leading Accounts Payable Processing company. He was also a co-founder and Director at Freecharge.com - among India’s fastest growing internet commerce ventures. He is active in the Angel Investor community and serves as a mentor to various technology start-ups. He served as Chairman of the Electronics Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC) and is a member of Young President Organization (Mumbai Chapter). Sandeep Tandon completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Dukaan® — Dukaan operates as a platform that enables small merchants to set up online stores in a process that it claims can be done within 30 seconds.
Progcap — Progcap is revolutionising the way financial access is delivered to underserved segments of the Indian retail economy, through specialized financing and technology products that empower small and medium businesses (SMBs) to progress without obstacles.
Genius Teacher — Genius Teacher is a full-stack ed-tech company which creates engaging educational content for K-10, delivers a fun learning experience to the students and provides real-time insights to the teachers. It has an ecosystem of educational and analytics apps that make learning more engaging and results in better learning outcomes.The products are usedby teachers to teach board curriculum with exemplary stories and fun facts from the world. Besides the class, students also use the product at home to revise and learn the topics in depth with practical applications. Students' interaction with content provides real-time analytics and insights to the teacher on what they can do to enhance learning.It currently works with schools and learners in APAC regions, soon launching in EMEA regions too.

Karanpal Singh is a steel and mining industrialist and the founder of Hunch Ventures which has been investing in multi-stage companies since 2012.As these investments evolved into larger businesses, Hunch evolved into an organized venture fund and has now taken several large bets across multiple sectors. Hunch has been backing visionary foundersin various industries from Air Mobility, Fine Arts, Sustainable Food Supply chains and food security, Ports and Logistics, Healthtech, F&B, Lifestyle Media and several B2B SaaS platforms. It has investments in India, Canada, the US, Tanzania, Singapore, UAE and the United Kingdom and has now pivoted to environmentally conscious and sustainable businesses. Hunch is one of the largest independent aggregators of food-related infrastructure and technologies and has built the platform for global food technology companies to come to India and establish a local presence.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Skylark Drones — Drone data platform by Skylark Drones is used by surveying, volume measurement for construction & inspection teams in infrastructure, mining, solar energy, agriculture & utilities.
The Quorum Club — The Quorum Hyderabad A modern reflection of the city's DNA. Enjoy The Q Hyderabad's members-only lounge for work and relaxation in a cultural metropolis.
Green Frontier Capital — Green Frontier Capital is India's first investment firm that focuses on growth companies which are delivering breakthrough innovation in green industries.

Teruhide Sato is President and Group CEO of netprice.com, Ltd., a global internet and e-commerce business incubator group (Tokyo Stock Exchange 3328). Lead the group to deliver the latest experience in online shopping across Japan, US, Europe and Asia. Strongly believe in the power of entrepreneurship.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, Japan, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Zilingo — Zilingo was founded in 2015 by Ankiti Bose and Dhruv Kapoor with a vision to use technology to put fair and efficient business within everyone’s reach. Up until now, the fashion industry has favored a select few - if you had social, human and financial capital, you could get anything done. But we believe the future of fashion belongs to everyone.By using smart, technology-led solutions to bridge the gap between creators and producers, we’re re-imagining the fashion industry to make it accessible, connected and transparent for all. Find out more on business.zilingo.com.
InnerChef — InnerChef is an Indian food tech company that offers a mobile app for online food discovery and delivery. It allows users to order their favorite dishes which can be delivered within 20 minutes. The company offers ready-to-eat meals, gourmets do-it-yourself recipe kits (InnerChef DIY gourmet), detox cleanses, and healthy eats (InnerChef+) as wellas decadent desserts (Indulge by InnerChef). InnerChef has beverages ranging from cold coffees to thick shakes to fruit juices, all freshly prepared. The company also operates Indulge, a hyperlocal dessert marketplace where home bakers and neighborhood bakeries can offer their products to customers.
Pipa.Bella — Pipa.Bella currently offers custom-made and ready-made fashion jewelry at affordable prices to over 40,000 customers across India through an innovative online platform and aims to reach to 1.5 lakh customers over the next twelve months. With few branded players in the fashion jewelry segment, Pipa.Bella aims to solve a pain point that many womenface while shopping for jewelry - branded jewelry is either overpriced with high mark-ups, or unbranded jewelry is cluttered and lacks any proper curation or style guidance. Pipa.Bella launches approximately 100 new styles every week that are all priced well between INR 500 - 3000. The demand for fashion jewellery has grown significantly in the last few years due to high prices of gold and silver and is estimated to be a $6 billion market. The brand has hit operational profitability in FY 17-18 and is aiming to be cash flow positive in the next twelve months. Pipa.Bella targets the 22-35-year-old urban woman who is fashion-conscious, social media savvy and is quick to adapt to latest trends. Pipa.Bella derives its name from two European words that describe the company's range of products and customers. A typical "Pipa" woman is bold, edgy and always ready to experiment and a typical "Bella" woman is a classicist, graceful, more conservative. The brand celebrates the different styles that exemplify these two aesthetics through its product range, which consist of earrings, necklaces, bracelets and rings, sterling silver jewelry, charms, personalized jewelry, wedding jewelry Pipa.Bella is a recipient of the Google SMB Heroes 2017 Award, Top 25 Startups by Singapore's Javelin Startup-O Victory Fund, and Digital Women in E-Commerce 2017 Award by Shethepeople.tv. The brand has been worn on top Bollywood celebrities and has been featured in International fashion and business publications such as Vogue, Harpers, Femina, Grazia, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Economic Times, and Wall Street Journal.

Sameer Mehta - Co-Founder & Chief product officer @ boAt

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Textiles
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cultos — Our fully customizable white label solutions provides brands with a robust set of products to quickly launch a token-based loyalty program.
Anveshan — At Anveshan, we make food products that are natural, healthy and chemical free. Anveshan provides the best quality food products through the use of technological solutions. We have cold-pressed/wood pressed oils, A2 vedic bilona ghee and super seeds for healthy diet and immunity boosting.
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.

Keki M Mistry - Vice Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of HDFC @ HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company Limited

Investment focus

Accounting, Consulting, Consumer Goods
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

Scapia Technology private limited — Issued in partnership with Federal bank, the most rewarding credit card for the traveller in you. Get 10% rewards, zero forex, unlimited domestic lounge access and more at zero fees.
RAS Luxury Oils — 100% natural & Organic Skin Care. RAS Luxury Oils is an integration of ancient Ayurvedic practices eminent in Indian Culture and Scientific Research and development
Jimmy's Cocktails — Jimmy's Cocktails makes premium cocktails.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Smytten — Smytten is an online discovery platform for premium products & services. Smytten also offers assisted shopping, and for the more advanced shopper, customised offers and ability to build their own wishlist for regular purchases.
Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
PlusPin Healthcare — PlusPin aims to add substantial value to mom and pop pharmacies in making them a key component of the healthcare ecosystem. Pluspin powered pharmacies would provide convenient and optimal healthcare solutions to a large base of consumers from the middle of the pyramid segment. PlusPin has 3 major goals: ● Transform pharmacies into HealthcareSatellite centers that are accessible to the common man in both Urban and Rural areas. ● Launch and Diversify niche healthcare services at these centers, assisting in cost containment and care management. ● Increase earning potential of partner mom and pop pharmacies.

Asish Mohapatra is the Co-Founder and Head of Sales of OfBusiness. He previously worked at Matrix Partners as a Healthcare Investments Lead. Asish Mohapatra attended the Indian School of Business.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, B2B
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Kikibix — Relish what tastes like your childhood, loaded with an array of healthy ingredients for scrumptiously flavorful and healthy snacks. Born from the vision of a doctor to make a brilliant amalgamation of tasty and healthy. Made with love, baked to perfection, a home for healthy cookies that taste amazing!
Freakins — Looking for a wardrobe upgrade? Check out the collection of latest, trendy and stylish denim apparel by Freakins Online! Shop & enjoy Free delivery on all orders.
TyrePlex — Buy car and bike tyres. Best tyre price, features, reviews. Find right tyre size and tyre dealer details

Ritesh Agarwal is the Founder and Group Chief Executive Officer of OYO. He attended St. Johns Senior Secondary School.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Food Processing
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
India, Singapore, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Tribalveda — Discover Tribalveda's premium jamun products, ethically sourced by tribal women. From frozen fruits, jamun jam, jamun strips, jamun shots, jamun cubes to wellness teas, our preservative-free products empower India's tribal communities. Trusted by 1Lakh+ customers.
Speed Kitchen — Cost-Efficient. Plug-and-Play. Always Supported.
Culture Circle — Compare Jordans, Yeezys, Dunks, AirForce1s, Sneakers prices from all major marketplaces and instagram resellers, and find the cheapest and lowest prices for your favorite sneakers.

Vidur Talwar is a Managing Director at Mercedes Benz T & T Motors Ltd.

Investment focus

Consumer Goods, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
India

Portfolio highlights

Jimmy's Cocktails — Jimmy's Cocktails makes premium cocktails.

Rathin Lahiri

Investment focus

Retail, Consumer
Seed, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

The New Shop — 24x7 omnichannel convenience retail stores for the "New" India

Sameer Walia

Investment focus

Retail, Consumer
Seed, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

The New Shop — 24x7 omnichannel convenience retail stores for the "New" India

Farid Ahsan is a co-founder at ShareChat. He earned his degree at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Investment focus

Internet, Health Care, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Series B
India

Portfolio highlights

Fanztar — Fanztar is a a Web3 platform for the creator economy.
Pillow — Pillow is an investment app that allows users to earn the best interest on their crypto via DeFi with none of the associated hassles. Earn up to 18% on stablecoins and up to 7.05% on your BTC and ETH.
Blitz — Blitz is a delivery platform that helps to ecommerce business to get immediate delivery in India.

Priyank Shah is the Founder at Renee Cosmetics. He attended IBS Ahmedabad in 2009.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
India

Portfolio highlights

P-TAL — P-TAL aims at reviving the dying craft form of the indigenous Thathera community of Jandiala Guru, Amritsar, which has the distinction of practicing India’s only UNESCO-listed craft form. The Thatheras of Jandiala Guru are a community of skilled craftsmen who specialize in the traditional technique of hammering brass and copper sheets intotraditional utensils.
Slick App — Go Slick, and declare your true feelings like nobody's watching!
True Diamond — Exquisite SOLITAIRES - SAVE BIG | Lifetime Buyback & Exchange | FREE All-India delivery | FREE 1 year jewellery Insurance | Sustainable & conflict free Lab grown diamond jewellery made using Type IIa CVD diamonds | Designs from daily wear to bridal jewellery | IGI / GIA / SGL / BIS Hallmark Certifications available.