# Top 20 Crowdfunding Angel Investors in India in June 2026

## Rajan Anandan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Sharad Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Internet

Sharad Sharma is the Co-Founder of the iSPIRT Foundation. He attended Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University.

## Rajesh Mane
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Mobile, Retail

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

## Somdutta Singh
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, E-Commerce

Somdutta Singh is the Founder and CEO of Assiduus Global. She attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

## Utkarsh Singh
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Communities, Crowdfunding

Utkarsh Singh is Head- Business Development for Rajasthan Royals IPL team.

## Ajay Chandwani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Communities, Crowdfunding

Ajay Chandwani is Director on the board of Percept Limited since 2009. Ajay was CEO, Percept H advertising from 2005 TO 2009 looking after the agency that is a joint venture between Percept and Hakuhodo of Japan. He was earlier with Lowe Lintas as Director on the Management Committee , handling Unilever Personal Products and New BusinessDevelopment. He was instrumental in building Unilever brands Fair & Lovely, Pepsodent, Close Up and Pears apart from being Unilever international coordinator on Personal Products. Ajay founded SSC&B Lintas and was it’s President for 10 years. SSC&B Lintas at it’s peak became a 100 Cr agency with clients like Unilever Kwality Walls, Marico, Tata Motors, Mercedes Benz, Smirnoff, Green Label whisky, Tata Motors Hero Group, Hyundai, Vardhaman among others. SSC&B Lintas won over 100 International awards-Golds at the New York Festival, Montreux Festival, London Festival and many other prestigious awards. SSC& B Lintas was the first Indian agency ever to win a Cannes Gold in 1996. Ajay has been an Executive Member of the Ad Club Management Committee since 8 years and is currently Joint Secretary . Ajay has been on the awards jury of the New York festivals and the Montreux Advertising festival. He was the Chairman of the Abby Awards judging committee for 7 years upto 2010. After chairing the Creative Abby Award judging at Goafest for 3 years, Ajay is now a member of the Goafest Abby Award Governing Counci since last year. Ajay was Co–Chairman of DMAi Convention held in Mumbai in August 2012. Ajay is also on the Governing Board of DMAI and was Chairman of Echo Awards India in 2012. In the last 3 years Ajay has advised Percept Ltd on Corporate Strategy, New Business,Image building and new investment. He has also been also working independently as a Strategic Brand Consultant. Ajay is Member, Advisory Board of Miami Ad School, Mumbai. Ajay has keen interest in serious Photography (Wildlife & Travel), Collecting Art, Antiques and is an Audio & Music enthusiast with interest in Rock and Jazz.

## Shashank V Singh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Finance, Crowdfunding

Shashank V Singh is a Principal/Director Product Management at Axon. He Attended Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University during 2000-2004.

## Ness Wadia
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Events, Software

Ness Wadia

## Sandeep Nailwal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Sandeep Nailwal is based out of United States and is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as a Co-Founder and CEO. Sandeep Nailwal attended the Indian Institute of Management.

## Sunil Patil
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Finance, Crowdfunding

Sunil Patil

## Venkat S Raju
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Finance, Big Data, Crowdfunding

Venkat S Raju

## Jitendra Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

## Munish Jauhar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Apps

Founder/CEO GrayCell Technologies || Founder GrayCell Ventures || Entrepreneur || Seed Investor || Marathoner

## Alok Mittal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Amit Ranjan
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Amit heads the team that is building SlideShare.Amit has a previous background in product marketing, sales & consumer research. His last job was with PepsiCo; prior to PepsiCo, he worked with Asian Paints & Godrej. He holds an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies, Univ Of Delhi and a Mechanical Engineering degree fromREC/NIT, Jaipur.

## Sudhir Rao
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce

Sudhir Rao is the Founder and Founding Managing Partner at IndusAge Partners. Rao is also the Founder of IndusAge Advisors Limited, and over the last 13 years has built it as an enterprise development advisory services organization. He is a non-executive co-promoter minority shareholder. As an Active Non-Executive Observer he focus on enhancingcustomer & organization capital to deliver superior triple bottom line returns to all stakeholders at IndusAge. Rao was the Founder Director of Karvy Investor Services Limited. He is a Chartered Accountant (ICAI) and a Chartered Management Accountant (CIMA) with a Bachelors Degree in Commerce (Honours) from Kolkata University.

## Vaibhav Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Finance, Crowdfunding, SaaS

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## Pradyumna Dalmia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Crowdfunding, Legal

Pradyumna completed his MBA from London Business School (LBS) in 2012 and holds a BSc in Economics from the University of London. He is Managing Director, SSD Securities Pvt. Ltd, a leading stock-broking and financial services firm. The SSD group’s activities include proprietary trading (equity, derivatives, commodity and forex), PrincipalInvestments, financial advisory and real estate.Pradyumna is also past-President of the India Business Forum (IBF) and Family Business Club at LBS.

## Krishna Mehra
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS

Krishna Mehra Is the AI Partner of Elevation Capital. Krishna Mehra attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

## Shiladitya Bora
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Communities, Crowdfunding

Shiladitya Bora is the CEO of Drishyam Films, a global motion picture studio headquartered in Mumbai, India, that has produced critically acclaimed films such as Masaan (Fly Away Solo), a double winner at Cannes 2015, Dhanak (Rainbow), a double winner at Berlinale 2015 and Umrika, the audience award winner at Sundance 2015. At the helm of DrishyamFilms, Shiladitya is working on high quality indie cinema which travels far and wide across the world yet also engages with audiences within the country.A director, producer and distributor, Shiladitya is known for establishing PVR's Director's Rare, India's leading indie release banner. He also independently distributed Court, winner of multiple international awards and India's official submission for the 88th Annual Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

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