# Top 50 Cryptocurrency Angel Investors in India in June 2026

## Sandeep Nailwal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Ujjwal Sahay
- Type: Angel
- Location: Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Ujjwal Sahay is the Founder & CEO of Ment Tech Labs - An Enterprise Fintech Solution & Service Provider. Ujjwal backed Ment Tech Labs with $60,000 of seed round to start scaling the Fintech products globally which made Ment Tech Labs as the only complete Enterprise Fintech Solution & Service Provider.Ujjwal is a passionatetechnologist and successful startup executive with 5+ years of experience in Fintech Solutions Development, Engineering, and Marketing—focusing on lean methodology, design prototyping, mobile apps, SaaS platforms, and APIs. Ujjwal's leading advocated for customer-centric design, UX, and the thoughtful application of technological innovations. Ujjwal also led high-performing product launch, engineering, Dev-ops and QA teams—both on and off-shore.Fintech, Blockchain, Machine Learning & Cryptocurrency are few of his field of interest and expertise. Writing about the technology used to be his hobby always and this turned into a profession as well with two of his published books, Hack-X-Crypt and X-Shell.

## Sanjay Mehta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Sanjay Mehta is Member of the Board of Advisors at LogiNext Solution.

## Balaji Srinivasan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including anonline MOOC.

## Amrish Rau
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

## Sung Ho Choi
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Beauty, FinTech

Sung Ho C. is the Managing Director at Fubo Gaming. He attended University of Chicago.

## Nitish Mittersain
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Jaynti Kanani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet

Jaynti Kanani - Co-Founder @ Polygon

## Jitendra Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

## Rakesh Yadav
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Livestock

Rakesh Yadav is the co-founder and CTO at Koinex.

## Yan Wu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Cryptocurrency

Yan Wu is the Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer at Bond Financial Technologies, Inc . Yan Wu attended The Wharton School.

## Manit Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Web3, FinTech, Finance

Manit Gupta

## Anirudh Rastogi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Hospital, Software

Anirudh Rastogi

## Rafael Ugolini
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Rafael Ugolini

## Amey Mashelkar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Private Equity
- Focus: Bitcoin, E-Commerce, E-Learning

Amey Mashelkar

## Ramakant Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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).

## Justin Caldbeck
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, iOS

Justin Caldbeck is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Binary Capital since July 2014. In June 2017, Justin announced an indefinite leave of absence from Binary Capital.Previously, Justin was a Managing Director at Lightspeed Venture Partners from January 2011 to June 2014. Justin invested primarily in the Internet and mobile sectors with afocus on social media, e-commerce and enterprise software. Justin’s past investments include Bloomreach, GrubHub, PetFlow and TaskRabbit. Justin has also been a Board Member or Board Observer for numerous successful companies including TheFind, INRIX, Adready, Magazine Radar, Oyster.com and DNA Games. Before joining Lightspeed, Justin was a Partner at Bain Capital Ventures and was responsible for launching the firm’s West Coast office. Justin was both a Member of the Board of Directors and Board Observer for a wide variety of consumer internet, enterprise software, and business services companies, including BloomReach, TheFind, Adready, INRIX, DNA Games, Oyster.com, and Magazine Radar. Before Bain Capital Ventures, Justin was at McKinsey and Co. where he served consumer and media companies in a wide range of capacities. Justin holds a B.A. in Economics from Duke University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

## Ajeet Khurana
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Internet, E-Commerce

Ajeet Khurana is a leading name in the cryptocurrency industry. He is the former head of the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Committee, which as part of IAMAI is India's foremost industry body for cryptocurrency.Presently, as an advisor to several crypto projects, he is seen as a specialist in:
* Tokenomics: pools, structure, architecture,flow, utility, value
* Market Mechanisms: market making, liquidity, listing, volume
In addition he helps with increasing adoption, communication, evangelizing, ambassador programs, and digital outreach. Some crypto founders regard Ajeet as their personal friend, philosopher, and guide.Earlier, in his role as CEO of Zebpay (India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange at that time), he took it from being a one-country exchange to a global exchange. As CEO of the business incubator at IIT Bombay (India’s premier engineering school), he helped commercialise several ideas from concept stage. As an advisor to Venture Capital firms in India, China, US, and Canada, he has an eye for promising founders.Still earlier, Ajeet has authored several books with McGrawHill Education, been an entrepreneur twice, and taught at the University of Texas at Austin.Here is how he characterizes himself:WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED REPEATEDLY IN MY CAREER
Customer focus. Speed. Attracting and empowering the right people. Making hard decisions. Managing chaos and conflict. Smoothly navigating regulations & compliances. High governance standards. Cultivating relationships. Converting markets to communities. Negotiating deals. Continuous process and product improvement.WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR
A mandate that requires rapid growth and evolution. A role that requires backbone and heart. A non-bureaucratic system that expects a strong bias for action. An opportunity to learn, and create strong cultural underpinning.HOW I BUILD AND MANAGE TEAMS
Single minded focus on the customer. Choose people based on cultural fit and alignment of passion. Impart purpose. Select for potential, but advance for performance. Empower people to work. No busy work. No unending meetings. Don’t be hierarchy-minded. Encourage learning.

## Prashant Malik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Apps, Mobile

Prashant Malik is a Co-Founder and Co-Creator of Apache Cassandra and an Investor at Shadowfax, UrbanClap, Innov8 Coworking, and OfBusiness. He is a dynamic technologist, who focuses on building, leading and incubating teams. Prashant attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

## Kunal Shah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet

Kunal Shah

## Roman Saini
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Apps, Internet

Roman Saini is Co Founder at Unacademy.


## Rajesh Chelapurath
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Rajesh is Founder, President & Managing Member at Ceera Investments, LLC, a registered investment advisory firm that manages investment portfolios for individuals, trusts, pensions, and corporations. Prior to founding Ceera Investments, LLC in 2005, Rajesh began his career in investment management and research when he joined the BurnhamFinancial Group's Houston office in 1998. Rajesh has also held several marketing positions at the Medical Equipment Division of Larsen & Toubro Ltd in Mumbai, India. Rajesh currently serves as a Trustee, BITSAA Intl, and the Chief Investment Officer of BITSAA Investment Committee that oversees the investment fund of BITSAA. At BITS, he was actively involved in Oasis '91 (as STUCCAN, Art n Dee), Oasis '92 (as Ex-Officio STUCCAN), and in Apogee. He is a Charter Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), Houston Chapter and a member of the Houston Society of Financial Analysts and the CFA Institute. Rajesh graduated from BITS, Pilani in 1993 with a B.E. (Hons) in Electrical & Electronics and an M.Sc. (Hons) in Physics. In 1998, he completed an MBA (Finance) from the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University, New Orleans. Rajesh is based out of Houston, TX.

## Salil Deshpande
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS

Salil focuses on early-stage infrastructure software, open source, and crypto. Over the last 13 years he has invested $350M into 52 companies including MuleSoft, DynaTrace, DataStax, Tealium, Lending Club, Buddy Media, SpringSource, Redis Labs, SysDig, Frame, Basis, Compound, Jambool, Dropcam, Lightbend, Hazelcast, Groovy & Grails, Gradle,Sonatype, ZeroTurnaround, Chef, and Philz Coffee. Salil was on the Forbes Midas List of top 100 venture capitalists in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, and on the CB Insights list of The 100 Top Venture Capitalists in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.

## Subhash Ghai
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, E-Commerce, Cryptocurrency

Subhash Ghai

## Saurabh Agarwal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Bitcoin, E-Learning, Cryptocurrency

Saurabh Agarwal (Zebpay)

## Aaryaman Vir
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Internet, SaaS, Software

Aaryaman Vir is the Co-Founder of Prophetic Ventures.

## Sharan Nair
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Bitcoin, FinTech, Lifestyle

An early Bitcoin adopter and active speaker on cryptocurrencies. 

## Sandhya Patel
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Bitcoin, E-Learning, Cryptocurrency

Sandhya Patel

## Anupam Mittal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Hagop Hagopian
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Credit

Growth Marketing Expert 15+ Years,
Founder & Entrepreneur,
& Angel Investor

## Gaurav Munjal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Health Care, Apps

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

## Kunal Kapoor
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, E-Commerce, Cryptocurrency

He is the very cool, very chiseled face of Ketto. He doesn't really need an introduction but we enjoy talking about him, so we're going to. He's the Co-Founder and a brilliant film and theatre actor. He's also super clever. And he has a heart of pure, sunshiny gold. Our only complaint is that he's too busy doing good toshoot the breeze with us.

## Utsav Somani
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Software, Financial Services

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

## Brian Ma
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Real Estate, Property Management, FinTech

Brian Ma is the Founder and Managing Partner at Iterative Capital.

Co-Founder at Decide.com, recently acquired by Ebay.  He is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and advisor at various startups.

## Deepak Daftari
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Darknet, Military, Blockchain

Deepak Daftari

## Ganesh Swami
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, B2B, Privacy

Ganesh is the CEO & Co-founder of Covalent – a blockchain data analytics company. Covalent is bringing transparency and visibility to the blockchain space. Ganesh is a serial entrepreneur and has over a decade of experience in big data analytics. He started his career in building protein simulation algorithms to solve cancer.

## Anand Mahindra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Education, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence

Graduate, Harvard Univ. and Harvard Business School. Chairman and Managing Director, Mahindra Group. Thought leader in Indian business. Serves on many industry confederations. Initiated the Nanhi Kali programme to provide free education to economically underprivileged girls in India. Co-Founder, Naandi Danone, India's largest safe drinkingwater provider to rural areas. Life Trustee, Board of Naandi Foundation, which provides meals to 1.3 million children daily. Co-Chair, World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009. Named among World’s 50 Greatest Leaders, Fortune Magazine (2014); named one of the top 25 most powerful business people in Asia, Fortune Magazine (2011).

## Surojit Chatterjee
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain

Surojit Chatterjee is the Founder and CEO of Ema. He previously worked at Coinbase as a Chief Product Officer. Surojit Chatterjee attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

## Karn Nagpal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: 3D Technology, FinTech, Software

Karn Nagpal

## Alex Ratner
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Alex Ratner is a CEO of  Snorkel AI.

## Sathvik Vishwanath
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tumkur, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Bitcoin, FinTech, Lifestyle

Sathvik Vishwanath is the CEO, Co-Founder at Unocoin. He attended Melbourne Business School.

## Denis Yarats
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence

Denis Yarats is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Perplexity AI. He previously worked at Facebook as an AI Research Scientist. Denis Yarats attended New York University.

## Mohit Madan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Bitcoin, FinTech, Lifestyle

Mohit Madan - Co-founder and CEO @ Cloudrino

## Jatin Aneja
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Beauty, Retail

Jatin Aneja

## Hiro Mashita
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Financial Services, SaaS

Hiro Mashita - Founder & Director @ M&S Partners

## Nakul Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency

Nakul Gupta

## Sujeet Kumar
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce

Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan

## Alex Lin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking

Alex Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO at Stacked.

## Aadil Mamujee
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, Software, FinTech

Aadil has spent the last decade working in technology in Europe and USA. He was most recently VP of Product Management at Pocket Gems, a mobile entertainment company, where he was one of the founding employees and first product manager. He helped grow the company profitably to 200+ staff and 200M users. Previously Aadil worked in the early-stageinvestment team at Index Ventures and at Google in London. Aadil has a MEng from Cambridge University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Aadil was born and raised in Mombasa, Kenya.

## Venu Palaparthi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Sports

Venu Palaparthi is the Chief Operating Officer of DriveWealth. He previously worked at Patomak Global Partners as a Managing Director. Venu Palaparthi attended The University of Texas at Arlington.
