Top 50 Digital Media Startup Investors in India

Investor	Digital Media India investments
Vijay Shekhar Sharma	3
VilCap Investments	2
Sorabh Agarwal	2
Info Edge ventures	2
Peepul Capital LLC	2
Orbit Startups	2
Chiratae Ventures	2
Helion Venture Partners	2
Rebright Partners	2
Jungle Ventures	1
V Balakrishnan	1
Core91 Fund	1
Nexus Venture Partners	1
SoftBank Capital	1
Sujit Jha	1
Navin Fabiani	1
Aprameya Radhakrishna	1
Angel List	1
Roshan Abbas	1
Rajesh Rege	1
Pavan Ongole	1
Sol Primero	1
Hindustan Media Venture	1
Girish Mathrubootham	1
Puneet Chandra	1
Rahul Varma	1
Hyderabad Angels	1
DAOL Investment	1
Dholakia Ventures	1
Norwest Venture Partners	1
Mahesh Pratapneni	1
India Quotient	1
Blume Ventures	1
Zodius Capital	1
Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman	1
Airtel	1
Rajan Anandan	1
Aadil Ebrahim	1
Sprout Venture Partners	1
Ankur Warikoo	1
Samit Garg	1
Accel	1
Netcore Cloud	1
Wubba Lubba Dub Dub	1
Nitin Madan	1
Gaurav Kapur	1
Rajan Anandan	1
Matrix	1
Quess Corp	1
Vaibhav Kapoor	1

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, Lifestyle
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

RAAHO — Raaho is the most reliable trucking partner in India. Loved for our transparent and 24*7 super friendly customer service.
Crib — Crib is building India's first digital ecosystem aimed at redefining how landlords operate, tenants stay and market sells.
Jimmy's Cocktails — Jimmy's Cocktails makes premium cocktails.

VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Vexi — Vexi issues, operates and processes credit cards for young underbanked population on a mission to make credit accessible, through a 100% digital onboarding and unparalleled customer experience
SatSure — SatSure, they are on a mission to evolve crop insurance products and provide accurate risk assessment of crop yield by integrating climatic variables with geospatial and economic datasets.
Altro (fka Perch) — Perch Credit (also known as Perch), is a fin-tech mobile app that allows users to take common recurring expenses, such as their subscriptions & rent, and turn these into creditworthy data points. Perch is currrently live on iOS and plans to be on Android in the coming months.Perch recently graduated YC (S20) and closed 2.5M in their mostrecent round.

Sorabh Agarwal

Investment focus

Tea, Travel, Internet
Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Tea Trunk — Celebrate Teas of India - Finest tea leaves blended with 100% natural ingredients that keep health benefits intact. So you can enjoy tea like it should be.
Do Your Thng — Do Your Thng is an influencer app that goes beyond helping creators make money, we help you grow and be better content creators.
goStops — goSTOPS offers best option for backpackers or youth solo adventurers tour traveller cheap hostel stay room booking online in india. We are a chain of backpacker hostels accommodation that strives to provide social stays & experiential travels at every step for a youth tourism.

Info Edge ventures, the investment arm of Info Edge started in 2008 as a mission to fuel the digital revolution by partnering with upcoming entrepreneurs and be an active participant in transforming the consumer experience and delivering superior value through world-class platforms.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

DGV — India's First Dairy Neo-Banking Platform.
Airblack — Learn makeup, beauty and culinary skills from India's top experts and get professionally certified. Join a student community of 35,000+ students.
Ascend Capital — Ascend Capital is a FinTech company that provides automotive loan services.

Peepul Capital is a private equity firm that offers early- and expansion-stage investment services to its clients. It was founded by Srini Raju and is based in Port Louis.

Investment focus

Advertising, Video, Digital Media
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Komli Media — Komli Media is Asia Pacific’s leading media technology company with solutions across display, mobile, social, and video for marketers, agencies and publishers. Komli is building next-generation platforms that leverage the power of programmatic buying to make advertising across display, mobile and social simpler and transparent.
klay schools — Is your child ready for preschool? Then head out to KLAY Schools and daycare for holistic education and childcare. Explore to know more about KLAY Schools!
24 Mantra Organic — 24 Mantra Organic is a specialty food shop for farmers, livelihood, customers a sustainable lifestyle, and a sustainable planet. It also offers products such as Masala Mixes, Snacks, Cereals, Culinary Pastes, Juices, Oils, Flakes, Spices, Health Foods, and Spice Powders.Today, they are India’s largest organic foods brand and work with 45,000farmers in 15 states on 2,25,000 acres to make a positive difference to their lives. All the 24 Mantra products are also offered in larger packs for foodservice.24 Mantra Organic was founded in 2004 and is based in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Orbit Startups helps companies scaling breakthrough technologies across emerging and frontier markets to the regions with the most aggressive growth.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
India, Singapore, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

TAPPI — TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
esportsXO — esportsXO is a tournament discovery platform with largest pool of esports content creators and professional esports players. It owns several tournament IPs and country's largest, first of it's kind gaming house callee XOspace.
Tappi — Convert one-time customers into loyal ones by getting discovered, growing leads and building your business reputation.

IDG Ventures India is a leading technology venture capital fund in India. The fund is part of IDG Ventures, a global network of technology venture funds with over $6 billion under management with over 220 investee companies and 10 offices across Asia and North America. IDG Ventures has been an investor in companies including Funzio, Ctrip, Tencent,Baidu, Netscape, BabyCenter, Sohu, Vancl and VinaGame. In India, IDG Ventures has invested in companies such as Flipkart, Myntra, Yatra, Newgen, Brainbees (FirstCry.com), Vserv, Manthan Software, Valyoo (Lenskart.com), Actoserba (Zivame.com), NestAway and Hiree. More information about IDG Ventures is available at www.idgvcindia.com

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

HealthifyMe — HealthifyMe is an application that allows its users to achieve their fitness and weight loss goals from their computers and smartphones.The application enables its users to track their calories, nutrition, and fitness activities; track their weight and determine if they are healthy; set healthy goals and work toward meeting them; share theirdata with experts; and get expert advice and suggestions on their lifestyles.HealthifyMe was developed and launched by a team of doctors, nutritionists, and fitness trainers in 2012. It is based in Bangalore, India.
Ergos — Ergos is building an integrated supply chain by setting up micro warehouses. Ergos is a transformational bank for the farmer which leverages technology to seamlessly provide custodial services (warehousing, loans, and market-linkages, enabling the farmer to convert his produce to a financial asset.Through their grid of digitally connected ruralmicro warehouses, they enable farmers to store their produce, avoid distress sales during harvest season, reduce wastage by scientific warehousing, tide over their immediate liquidity/ financing needs by working with NBFCs/ Banks, and thereby empower farmers to sell their produce as and when they desire, thereby resulting in farmers achieving 25%-30% higher incomes. Ergos was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Patna, Bihar.
Cavli Wireless — Build, Connect and scale your IoT Solutions with Cavli Wireless Cellular IoT Modules and Cavli Hubble IoT connectivity platform

Helion Venture Partners is a stage independent, India-focused venture fund, investing in high growth technology powered businesses and consumer services.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wooplr — A free & easy way to start an online store, Wooplr today empowers 80,000+ store owners to earn on average Rs. 30,000 a month. In just a minute, be ready to go live with 50,000+ products that can be added to the store and sold to friends, family or followers. Wooplr takes care of all the hard work - finding products and brands, technology,payments and refunds, delivery and returns, and a world-class customer care team. Imagine having your own ready-made store with nothing to worry about at all.The company received $5 million in Series-A funding from Helion Ventures and has several strategic investments from industry leaders. The company also has investments from industry veterans like Co-founders of InMobi who include Naveen Tewari, Jaspreet Bindra, Astarc Ventures, Abhay Singhal, and Amit Gupta and Piyush Shah, Chief Product Officer at InMobi, Raghunandan G, Co-founder - Taxi for Sure, and ex-Puma India CEO Rajiv Mehta.
Slintel — Slintel captures technographic-powered buying intent and helps companies uncover 3% of active buyers in their target market. It evaluates over 100 billion data points and analyzes factors such as buyer journeys, technology adoption patterns, and other digital footprints to deliver market & sales intelligence.Slintel's customers haveaccess to the buying patterns and contact information of more than 17 million companies and 70 million decision-makers across the world.It was established in 2016 and is based in Mountain View, California.
Whatfix — Provide employees with a personalized user onboarding experience and drive digital adoption of your enterprise applications.

Venture Capital Firm based in Singapore and Tokyo, focus on seed to early stage Internet & Mobile software Startups in Southeast Asia and India

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Crib — Crib is building India's first digital ecosystem aimed at redefining how landlords operate, tenants stay and market sells.
Monster API — MonsterAPI brings Access to LLMs with Generative AI APIs, No-code LLM Finetuning and LLM Deployment as an API with Python, NodeJS SDKs
Essenvia — Essenvia is the only RIM Platform that drives business value and guides you toward regulatory excellence.

Jungle Ventures is one of Southeast Asia's largest independent venture capital firms based in Singapore. We invest in early and growth-stage startups in Southeast Asia and India, focused on building category-defining businesses that stand the test of time.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
Singapore, India, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

NirogStreet — NirogStreet is the best platform for Ayurveda doctors. Learn and Earn from top Ayurveda Experts and get authentic Ayurvedic medicines at the best deals.
LiveIn — LiveIn is a hospitality company that offers long term room rental. Enjoy quality assured room, cleaning services, maintenance and community activities. Find out more!
Walko — Walko Food Company owns the fast-growing natural ice cream brand NIC. The company operates a manufacturing plant in Pune and retails in over 50 cities across India, via multiple sales channels like food delivery platforms, Modern Trade, Parlors. The ice cream flavors range from fruit, dry fruit variants to international tastes like sea saltedcaramel, Madagascar chocolate, French Vanilla, and the ones inspired by Indian sweetmeats like Gulab Jamun, sheer khurma, til gud, gajar halwa to name a few. The company has also recently launched the desi kulfi brand GRAMEEN.

Mr. V. Balakrishnan, also known as Bala, is the Founder & Chairman of Exfinity, a Private Equity Fund focused on investing in the Technology space. Mr. Balakrishnan served as Head of BPO, Finacle & India Business Unit at Infosys Ltd. He served as the Chief Financial Officer of Infosys Ltd., from May 1, 2006 to October 31, 2012. Mr.Balakrishnan has significant experience in leadership positions in the finance domain, with expertise in Corporate Finance, International Taxation, Risk Management and Mergers & Acquisitions. He served as Secretary and Senior Vice President - Finance of Infosys Ltd., from joining it in 2001 to April 2006. He served as Vice President - Finance of Infosys Ltd and also served in various capacities in Finance department.

Investment focus

Enterprise Software, Information Technology, Pet
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

The Ken — The Ken - Unrivaled analysis and powerful stories about businesses from across the globe brought to you by award-winning journalists.
TaxSutra — Taxsutra provides real time, up-to-date news and case law analysis on Income tax from ITAT, and the High Courts and Supreme Court. We are also tracking important litigations, developments in Income Tax department, CBDT and Finance Ministry, with a view to keep tax professionals abreast of the latest trends therein.
TailsLife — TailsLife is a platform that connects Pet Owners, Services providers & Manufacturers - leveraging the latest technology to transform existing industry and create new ones. Our technology platform enables users, pet walkers, sitters and groomers to discover each other through an intelligent matching engine that analyses multiple data pointsincluding the availability, proximity and dozens of other parameters like pet type, breed, size, age, special needs etc. TailsLife also markets products such as Instant Dog Meal with its in-house brand D WoofPack & Furresh. Having tied up with retailers such as LULU, BigBasket, Food World, Future group and top pet stores.We are web & app based.

Core91 Fund is a seed fund that invests in unconventional concepts and passionate founders. They invest in pre-seed to Series A firms founded by Indians throughout the world who are developing sophisticated B2B SaaS products with great enthusiasm and user empathy.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Spyne — Remove background from any product image in seconds 100% automatically. No editing skills required! Single-click to change the image background.
Togai — Launch any pricing model 10x faster with customized metering, pricing and billing solutions.
Mason — The all-in-one AI shopping copilot for ecommerce businesses. Convert browsers to buyers faster with customer-centric stores!

Nexus Venture Partners is a venture capital firm established by ex-entrepreneurs in enterprise technology and consumer internet. The firm was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
India, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Giga ML — AI first customer service
Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.
Liquidnitro Games — India's flagship Games & Live Services Company. Founded by industry veterans who led some of the biggest and most iconic game franchises for over a decade.

SoftBank Group provides venture funding and strategic support to exceptional entrepreneurs building disruptive enduring businesses. They are a small team of experienced entrepreneurs and investors who take an "active" approach to helping their companies reach their full potential. They manage $600 million across three funds and investacross a company’s lifecycle, from early to growth stages. Through their close ties to a number of Asia’s leading mobile, internet and technology companies – including strategic partners SoftBank Corp, Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba Group – SoftBank Capital offers unique expertise to businesses seeking to address the Asian market. Since 1995, SoftBank Capital has partnered with internet pioneers such as Criteo, Gilt Groupe, OMGPOP (Zynga), betaworks, BuzzFeed, Buddy Media (Salesforce.com), Huffington Post (AOL), Associated Content (Yahoo!), Danger (Microsoft), Geocities (Yahoo!), E*Trade and Yahoo!.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Advertising
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

Birdie — Transform thousands of user feedback into insights with our Feedback Analytics Platform and take faster product decisions
Energy Vault — Energy Vault creates gravity and kinetic energy-based, long-duration energy storage solutions that are transforming the world's approach to energy storage.
Telexistence — TELEXISTENCE Inc. aims to be the systematic innovator of scale in robotics. Innovator means new stuff. And scale means big, systematic ways of looking things done in a way that’s reproducible.

Sujit Jha

Investment focus

Education, Blockchain, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Uppskill — Uppskill is the Top Digital Marketing Training Institute in India. Enroll today & upscale your career options with a Digital Marketing certification and placement assistance.
Freshsharp.com — Freshsharp.com is an e-commerce company that focuses on fresh meat and ready-to-cook products.
KathaVersse Media Network — KathaVersse Media Network is a universe and franchise-driven premium entertainment studio that develops social and over-the-top video IPs. KathaVersse Media Network develops content IPs with a minimum shelf life of seven years in order to maximize ROI for audiences, marketers, and over-the-top partners.

Navin Fabiani - Real Estate Developer @ Grupo SURA

Investment focus

Apps, Music, Beauty
Angel, Series B
India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

POPxo — POPxo is India's online community for women that deals everything from fashion, beauty, lifestyle, work, and etc.Reaching 9 million users every month with over 102 million monthly engaged content views. POPxo provides text and video content in an accessible manner, and reach them where they live their lives: on social media and on mobile.It focuses on reaching a highly targeted audience - the millions of young urban women in India who are growing in confidence, in independence and in spending power, it monetises by working across formats (native ads, social posts, events) with brands who want to reach this important and influential consumer base.I was launch in March 2014 it's become the go-to lifestyle resource for the female (18-34) demographic.
Music Messenger — Shellanoo Group is a technology company specializing in mobile applications, Internet related services and interactive artificial intelligence with cognitive solutions.Introducing a modern way to invest in technology. Shellanoo Group offers investors the range of a diversified IT portfolio with the simplicity of investing in a single company.Shellanoo Group builds, operates and manages products and services that challenge the status quo, all of which are wholly owned by the Company.Founded in mid-2014 in Israel, Shellanoo Group has grown into one of Israel’s more appealing technology firms, combining both business expertise and technological strength.

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!

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Apps
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, Croatia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

GoodGudi — GoodGudi is a Lifestyle retail shopping destination. Our Stores sell Travel Accessories, Fashion Accessories, Home Improvement products, Toys and Cosmetics
Basil — Lunch has never been so fun! India's first stainless steel & leakproof bento lunch boxes and insulated water bottles! Designed for today's kids and the child in you!
Evolved Foods — Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins. Did you find apk for android? You can find new Free Android Games and apps.

Angel Network

Investment focus

Analytics, SaaS, Audio
Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

VTION — 1. VTION is a Digital Consumer Behaviour Intelligence company which collects its own data on a first party basis from a Opt In, GDPR compliant & paid panel. Data is collected from Android Smartphones with a SDK / App combination using a method that is patent granted in India and US. 2. We have built a panel of 40,000 consumers in Indiaproportionately representing almost 300 Mn people in India. 3. We get more than 24 Mn lines of data per day of more than 1200 Apps, detailing App Availability, App Usage, Time Spent and Cross Tabs with other Apps. All this is in Real Time. Using Data Science Technologies on this collected data, VTION serves various stakeholders in the market like Advertising Agencies, Publishers, Research Agencies, DMP & Programmatic Platforms and Brands, providing Research Insights on App Usage, Content consumption, Personalisation opportunities and Activation of select audience segments on Ad Networks via DMPs.
ClearForce — ClearForce is an analytic technology company and leading provider of Behavioral Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS). ClearForce enables organizations to discover and act upon early behavioral indicators that signal risk to the organization, customers, co-workers, and self-harm. Our solution extends to any public or private sector use case where people createrisk.

Roshan is founder of Encompass Events Pvt. Ltd.

Investment focus

Digital Entertainment, Internet, Food and Beverage
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Dubdub.ai — Google translate for videos
MoneyyApp — We at MoneyyApp are helping Creators to grow their businesses. The struggle of the creators trying to make a mark has been tiring, and we understand that! The inception of MoneyyApp lays the foundation for creators’ atrocities.
KathaVersse Media Network — KathaVersse Media Network is a universe and franchise-driven premium entertainment studio that develops social and over-the-top video IPs. KathaVersse Media Network develops content IPs with a minimum shelf life of seven years in order to maximize ROI for audiences, marketers, and over-the-top partners.

Rajesh Rege is a former president of Honeywell India.

Investment focus

Digital Media, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

KathaVersse Media Network — KathaVersse Media Network is a universe and franchise-driven premium entertainment studio that develops social and over-the-top video IPs. KathaVersse Media Network develops content IPs with a minimum shelf life of seven years in order to maximize ROI for audiences, marketers, and over-the-top partners.

Pavan Ongole

Investment focus

Online Portals, News, Education
Angel, Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

The Ken — The Ken - Unrivaled analysis and powerful stories about businesses from across the globe brought to you by award-winning journalists.
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.
Fastudent — Our mission is to provide efficient and effective solutions to the complete education fraternity for a priceless experience which we term as "Zoom Ahead with Education at your door".

Incorporated in 2014, Sol Primero is an early stage investment firm dedicated to partnering with ambitious entrepreneurs addressing large opportunities that require innovation. They are industry agnostic and focus on high growth, emerging businesses that can demonstrate the ability to scale quickly.Their investment philosophy is founded on thebelief that backing big ideas pays off, but backing the right team that can implement the idea is the winning strategy.They are long-term partners with the resources to support their portfolio companies through various stages of their journey. As entrepreneurs ourselves, they want each one of their companies to succeed and are willing to leverage their skills and networks to act as a multiplier on to the efforts of their founding teams.They act with strong conviction and make quick investment decisions, typically getting back to the opportunities they are evaluating within 2 weeks.

Investment focus

Apps, Music, File Sharing
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Reach App — Reach is a cross platform mobile application which gives you access to files across the mobiles and tablets of your friends.Their P2P technology frees you of your dependence on peers to upload files you want and lets you access them directly at your convenience. They know you love music, so do they. Their Beta version is out for Musicfiles. You can view playlists of friends, stream all the music live and easily maintain the logs in your Reach Queue. The Beta version is launched on Android, but you’ll find us on iOS very soon.

HMVL is the publisher of ‘Hindustan’, the second largest Hindi newspaper daily based on total readership. The newspaper has a strong readership base in Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh. HMVL is a 75% subsidiary of the HT Media group.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, Video
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Expertrons — Expertrons is an upskilling platform that offers advanced training programs | BSFI | HR | Marketing and many more to assure 100% professional success.
DataTrained — DataTrained is an ed-tech company dedicated to providing high-quality programs in emerging technologies such as Data Science, Analytics, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Development, DevOps, Digital Marketing, Management, Engineering, and others.The company's goal is to provide access to quality learningin emerging technologies, which has always been a challenge for the majority of the world's demographics.
Aqex Technologies — Welcome to Aquarius Exchange Fastest Exchange | Fair Price | Free Trading

Girish Mathrubootham is the CEO and Founder at Freshworks. Girish Mathrubootham attended University of Madras.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

HuddleUp — HuddleUp is an AI-based team culture platform empowering Managers to boost team engagement & productivity using conversational AI, personalised learnings & peer connections. Build engaged, high-performing remote teams with HuddleUp. Book a demo now!
NocoDB — NocoDB is an open-source Airtable alternative that transforms existing databases into a smart spreadsheet. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
PickYourTrail — Personalize your vacation packages online. International trips in 3 easy steps, at best rates guaranteed. Experience a hassle-free vacation.

Puneet Chandra is the Co-Founder and Director at Skootr Global Private Limited.

Investment focus

Tea, Internet, Advertising
Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Tea Trunk — Celebrate Teas of India - Finest tea leaves blended with 100% natural ingredients that keep health benefits intact. So you can enjoy tea like it should be.
Do Your Thng — Do Your Thng is an influencer app that goes beyond helping creators make money, we help you grow and be better content creators.
Vendor Infra — A Unique B2B Digital Collaboration cum Supply Chain Community Platform for Infrastructure & Construction Industry to Meet, Collaborate & Construct

Rahul Varma

Investment focus

Internet, Advertising, Health Care
Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Do Your Thng — Do Your Thng is an influencer app that goes beyond helping creators make money, we help you grow and be better content creators.
Navia Life Care — Navia Life Care is a health technlogy company with a special focus on patient care. We believe in healthcare with simplicity. Our tools enable users to manage their health on their fingertips.Navia Life Care’s mission is to improve the lives of people through innovative products and services. We aim to provide simple tools enabling bettermanagement of a person’s health in the most convenient way.

We are a network of leading entrepreneurs who have successfully built and run enterprises across several domains and industries and are keen to invest in the new stage businesses having the potential to create value for mankind. Meet our Angels.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Proost69 — Proost69 offers a premium quality beer with a smooth taste.
Enso Logic — Ensologic Commerce is an online marketplace that simplifies sales and distribution of consumer products in India for overseas Brands, Manufacturers or Aggregators. We have an extensive network of sellers and distributors that use our services and technology platform to sell to both online and offline consumers across India.
ImmersiveLabz — We have built two innovative learning products - SimuLab (virtual science lab) and Cadaviz (virtual human dissection table).

DAOL Investment is a venture capital investment firm.

Investment focus

Retail, Digital Media, Digital Entertainment
Series A, Series B, Series C
South Korea, India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Rusk Media — Rusk Media is India's leading digital media organization. We create engaging content for new age audiences and offer high impact advertising solutions to our clients. Rusk Media Private Limited owns and operates Alright!, Hattke, Recharge, Champions and LIT.
Qli5 Therapeutics — Qli5 Therapeutics develops a new class of proteasome inhibitors with high selectivity and unique, non-covalent binding properties.
Onconic Therapeutics — Onconic Therapeutics specialises in the research and development of cancer treatments.

Dholakia Ventures is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Portfolio highlights

hypergro — Hypergro provides the power of user-generated content, craft impactful UGC video ads designed to attract, engage, and convert.These video advertising act as a distinctive, tailored connection between the brand and potential clients, which boosts consumer traffic, app downloads, and revenue for your company.
Neverinstall — Access a powerful computer from your browser in an instant, with all your applications already downloaded and installed.
hypergro — Hypergro provides the power of user-generated content, craft impactful UGC video ads designed to attract, engage, and convert.These video advertising act as a distinctive, tailored connection between the brand and potential clients, which boosts consumer traffic, app downloads, and revenue for your company.

Growing together every step of the way. We empower great leaders throughout the journey of growth.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Anomalo — Anomalo allows users to continuously inspect and validate the data coming into their warehouses.
Ediphi — The most advanced cloud-based estimating solution.
tvScientific — tvScientific is the first performance platform for CTV. It combines the power of television with the precision of digital marketing.

Mahesh specializes in incubating product companies in the education, healthcare, and data/analytics sectors. He is focused on helping launch, re-engineer and support small and mid-sized technology driven businesses. He is known for building outstanding global teams and creating value by leveraging his experience in product visualization,development and management; and his expertise in building global delivery models.Currently, serves as Executive Director of MedGenome and is on the boards of Impelsys, Logicserve and Saksin Life Sciences.His previous experiences include serving as EVP of CalSoft Group; SVP of OneWest Bank and IndyMac Bank; and CTO of Ocwen, Financial Services.Mahesh earned his undergraduate degree in electronics and communications from IIT Madras, and his MBA from IIM Calcutta.

Investment focus

SEM, Internet, Advertising
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Logicserve Digital — LS Digital earlier known as Logicserve Digital is a Global Digital Marketing Transformation group. We help clients across Media , UI/UX, Creative, Data Analytics and Insights, Customer Experience using Adtech and Martech and Tech and Innovations.

India Quotient is a new type of early stage investor. We fund companies building disruptive businesses aimed at Indian consumers. We're creating a powerful network of start-up enthusiasts.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Reo.Dev — Reo is a Revenue Intelligence tool for Developer focused Go-To-Market and allows you to map developer activity and convert it into revenue pipeline.
BharatAgri — BharatAgri Krushi Dukan is one stop Agri Shop for all your fertilizers, seeds, pesticides or equipments. Free Delivery. Best Quality Products Guaranteed. Delivery in 5-7 Days.
General Autonomy — General Autonomy is a robotics firm on the cutting edge of manufacturing and automation for the future.

Blume Ventures provides pre-series A and early stage funding to tech-focused/tech-enabled ventures. They are typically the first institutional investors in their portfolio companies and invest for about 8-10 years. They are proponents of a collaborative approach and like to co-invest with like-minded angels and seed funds. They then providefollow-on investments to their stellar portfolio companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kusho — AI agent for API testing.
Nurturev — Revenue intelligence is the process of analyzing & interpreting sales data to make informed business decisions. Transform your sales conversations, gain insights, & drive revenue growth.
Interview Kickstart — Interview Kickstart, established in 2014, is the gold standard for Technical Interview Preparation. Our 500+ instructors, drawn from tech giants like Google and Amazon, have guided 15,000+ engineers beyond skill enhancement- from mock interviews and real-world projects to effective salary negotiation. The outcome? Alumni landing jobs with $300K+ offers, and the highest compensation at a whopping $1.28 Million.

Zodius builds exceptional market defining businesses in new and high growth areas where an exciting new market is emerging and there is no leader in place to drive the market. Operational since 2011, Zodius typically develops one company every six months and works intensively with its portfolio company teams to “speed up” and “shape up” forexceptional growth and profitability.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
Series B, Series C, Funding Round
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

CYFIRMA — Cybersecurity company that provides attack surface discovery, vulnerability intelligence, brand intelligence, cyber intelligence to mitigate cyber risk, cyber threats and avert cyberattacks.
Onsitego — Get quick & easy repair and maintenance services for your electronic devices and appliances. Instant repairs, damage protection & AMC plans available. Act now!
Zivame.com — Online Shopping for women Innerwear & Lingerie. Get best deals on ladies undergarments, bras, panties, nightwear, shapewear, beauty products, jewellery, etc. @ Zivame Online Store

Angel / Sophisticated Investor and Trader (Ex London Stock Exchange(LSE), Deutsche Bank, London Clearing House(LCH) ) , Invested in 60+ Startups / 4 successful exits (with Avg 20x) and counting more. (Web3 -> udaybs.ETH )Invested in following asset classes from past 2 decades across UK / India / US / Europe / -Private Equity (Seed / Growth / VC/ Acquisition / Merger) - Equity Markets - Real Estate - FX - Commodity - Bonds - Fintech, Blockchain, Crypto Market, Web3 , DeFi, NFT - Derivative Markets / Hedging / F&O / CFDGrowing Wealth in bumpy economic rides - There is no secret formula. Investment is an art. Being vigilant, dynamic, connecting dots, evaluating risk with constant change, loads of patience and visualising medium to long term.Private Equity Investments across globe in following domains / categories: - Energy - EV / Carbon Footprint - Blockchain / FinTech / AI / ML / Web3 / DeFi - D2C / B2C - Food & Beverages - Pharma - Media & Entertainment

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Agnikul — Agnikul is a space tech startup that designs, manufactures, tests, and launch orbital-class rockets for micro and nanosatellites. They currently work out of the National Center for Combustion R&D at IIT-Madras. Rocket scientists, engineers, ex-bankers and space lawyers are a part of their team. This unique blend of people is one of theirbiggest strengths. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Log 9 Materials — The spirit of innovation remains the cornerstone of every mission here at Log9. We have failed numerous times in this mission of ours, only to learn from them
Toffee Ride - Learning App for Classes I - IV — Toffee Ride is a learning App that is singularly focused on helping your child develop a thorough understanding of fundamental concepts.

Bharti Airtel Limited, commonly known as Airtel, is an Indian multinational telecommunications services company headquartered in New Delhi, India. It operates in 20 countries across South Asia, Africa, and the Channel Islands. Airtel has a GSM network in all countries in which it operates, providing 2G, 3G and 4G services depending upon the countryof operation.Airtel is the largest provider of mobile telephony and second largest provider of fixed telephony in India, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services. It offers its telecom services under the "airtel" brand, and is headed by Sunil Bharti Mittal. Bharti Airtel is the first Indian telecom service provider to achieve Cisco Gold certification. It also acts as a carrier for national and international long distance communication services. The company has a submarine cable landing station at Chennai, which connects the submarine cable connecting Chennai and Singapore.

Investment focus

Telecommunications, Energy, Enterprise Software
Corporate Round, Seed, Series A
India, Bangladesh

Portfolio highlights

Indus Towers — As One of the largest telecom tower companies in the world, Indus Towers brings 4G Cell Phone Tower connectivity to parts of World where roads and electricity are yet to reach.
Avaada — Business and sustainability can go hand-in-hand. Their unique strategy interweaves business goals with environmental sustainability and social responsibility, producing mutually beneficial results. By contributing to community’s socio-economic development in the short-term, they foresee delivery of continual value to their shareholders. Throughtheir community engagement initiatives, they are contributing to uplift the lifestyle of communities they work with.
Lavelle Networks — Lavelle Networks accelerates networks for the digital economy by offering software defined networking solutions that solve the biggest challenges in the WAN for distributed enterprises. With a 100% software defined architecture, the ScaleAOn SD-WAN solution by Lavelle Networks, enables seamless network experience, ensuring enterprises in turn areempowered to deliver the best customer experience at the branch. Lavelle Networks SD-WAN solutions are designed for Scale, Speed and Security. Enterprises that are using, or plan to use hybrid WAN or cloud applications and are on the path to digital transformation. For more information reach us at www.lavellenetworks.com.

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, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

NAYAN — NAYAN visual AI monitors and identifies real-time road events. NAYAN AI supports businesses and authorities by offering actionable insights on visual events, to make the world a safer place.
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.
mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.

Aadil Ebrahim

Investment focus

Beauty, Fashion, Lifestyle
Seed, Series C
India

Portfolio highlights

POPxo — POPxo is India's online community for women that deals everything from fashion, beauty, lifestyle, work, and etc.Reaching 9 million users every month with over 102 million monthly engaged content views. POPxo provides text and video content in an accessible manner, and reach them where they live their lives: on social media and on mobile.It focuses on reaching a highly targeted audience - the millions of young urban women in India who are growing in confidence, in independence and in spending power, it monetises by working across formats (native ads, social posts, events) with brands who want to reach this important and influential consumer base.I was launch in March 2014 it's become the go-to lifestyle resource for the female (18-34) demographic.

Sprout Venture Partners Fund is a SEBI registered Category-I Alternative Investment fund. It has been created to institutionalise India’s active angel investing market and is backed by prominent first and second generation entrepreneurs.Sprout seeks to invest and work with founders having powerful vision, attentive execution, and resoluteambition to solve problems addressing large markets by building scaleable businesses.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

ExtraaEdge — Powerful CRM & Marketing automation software that helps education Institutions increase, manage and predict admissions.
Rusk Media — Rusk Media is India's leading digital media organization. We create engaging content for new age audiences and offer high impact advertising solutions to our clients. Rusk Media Private Limited owns and operates Alright!, Hattke, Recharge, Champions and LIT.
Scribble Data — Scribble Data is an MLOps company. Its modular feature store provides a number of pre-built feature engineering apps to help data teams cut time-to-market for each data science use case including unified metrics, customer behavioral modeling, and recommendations.

Ankur Warikoo is the Co-founder and Board Member of Nearbuy.

Investment focus

Financial Services, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kredmint — Explore Kredmint's financial solutions, including business loans, Working capital loans, term loan, Embedded Finance,supply chain finance, trade finance and invoice discounting. We offer tailored funding options to support your business growth.
wealth42 — wealth42 helps you create a plan to be wealthy. It is the fastest financial planning app on the planet, available on iOS and Android. Get productive with your money with planned investments, loans, expenses, savings, and insurance.
Josh Talks — By leveraging our expertise in research and storytelling, we create exclusive content in regional languages to help brands tell their story better and reach their target audience.

Samit Garg is the Co-Founder & Director of E Factor Experiences. He previously worked at Pinnacle Events as a CEO. Samit Garg attended Jaipuria Institute of Management.

Investment focus

Digital Media, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

KathaVersse Media Network — KathaVersse Media Network is a universe and franchise-driven premium entertainment studio that develops social and over-the-top video IPs. KathaVersse Media Network develops content IPs with a minimum shelf life of seven years in order to maximize ROI for audiences, marketers, and over-the-top partners.

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rasa — Build contextual AI assistants and chatbots in text and voice with our open source machine learning framework. Scale it with our enterprise grade platform.
Vocode — Vocode is an open-source library for building voice-based LLM applications.
Oasis Communication Technologies — Oasis is a unique system integrator in the design, implementation, and maintenance of highly complex telecommunications systems.Oasis offer proactive maintenance and support services.Oasis focuses on three main fields: Data systems infrastructure, communication networks and perimeter security.

Netcore Cloud's customer experience platform helps marketers increase conversions, user engagement, and retention on websites & apps

Investment focus

Advertising, Audio, Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Corporate Round
India

Portfolio highlights

VTION — 1. VTION is a Digital Consumer Behaviour Intelligence company which collects its own data on a first party basis from a Opt In, GDPR compliant & paid panel. Data is collected from Android Smartphones with a SDK / App combination using a method that is patent granted in India and US. 2. We have built a panel of 40,000 consumers in Indiaproportionately representing almost 300 Mn people in India. 3. We get more than 24 Mn lines of data per day of more than 1200 Apps, detailing App Availability, App Usage, Time Spent and Cross Tabs with other Apps. All this is in Real Time. Using Data Science Technologies on this collected data, VTION serves various stakeholders in the market like Advertising Agencies, Publishers, Research Agencies, DMP & Programmatic Platforms and Brands, providing Research Insights on App Usage, Content consumption, Personalisation opportunities and Activation of select audience segments on Ad Networks via DMPs.
Easyrewardz Software Services — Unified CRM solutions, powered by Customer Data Platform to boost Customer Engagement & Loyalty, Manage Feedback, Sell via WhatsApp. Trusted by Leading Brands.
ProfitWheel — The consumer intelligence is at the heart of what we do. ProfitWheel provides you with 1st party insights of your best audiences to build effective, product and marketing strategies.

We are india's largest meme marketing company!

Investment focus

Digital Media, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

KathaVersse Media Network — KathaVersse Media Network is a universe and franchise-driven premium entertainment studio that develops social and over-the-top video IPs. KathaVersse Media Network develops content IPs with a minimum shelf life of seven years in order to maximize ROI for audiences, marketers, and over-the-top partners.

Nitin Madan is a media entrepreneur and founder of Knit-inK Digital.

Investment focus

Digital Media, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

KathaVersse Media Network — KathaVersse Media Network is a universe and franchise-driven premium entertainment studio that develops social and over-the-top video IPs. KathaVersse Media Network develops content IPs with a minimum shelf life of seven years in order to maximize ROI for audiences, marketers, and over-the-top partners.

Gaurav Kapur is an individual investor and TV presenter.

Investment focus

Digital Media, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

KathaVersse Media Network — KathaVersse Media Network is a universe and franchise-driven premium entertainment studio that develops social and over-the-top video IPs. KathaVersse Media Network develops content IPs with a minimum shelf life of seven years in order to maximize ROI for audiences, marketers, and over-the-top partners.

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

NAYAN — NAYAN visual AI monitors and identifies real-time road events. NAYAN AI supports businesses and authorities by offering actionable insights on visual events, to make the world a safer place.
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.
mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.

We're an early stage VC firm that leads pre-seed through Series A rounds and works with founders to help them win.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, SaaS
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

GRVT — Trade on the next-gen hybrid derivatives exchange 100% self-custody. 0% counterparty risk. Traditional finance meets the power of blockchain.
Objective — Objective provides AI-native search for every website and application, delivered via a simple, scalable API platform.
Krutrim — Unlock the power of intelligent conversations with Ola Krutrim. Immerse yourself in intelligent conversations tailored to your native language, as our Native Language AI and India AI synergize to create a uniquely personalized experience.

Quess Corp Ltd., India’s largest business services provider established in 2007. Headquartered in Bengaluru, the company has over 1,10,000 employees, serves over 1500 customers across 8 countries in more than 8000 locations. It has presence across 5 segments namely, Global Technology Solutions Group, Industrial Asset Management Group, IntegratedFacilities Management Group, People Services & Logistics Group and Growth Businesses Group.

Investment focus

Staffing Agency, Software, Marketing
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Taskmo — TASKMO is a tech driven on-demand staffing platform that connect companies with pre screened deployable temporary workers, part time workers, manpower, promoters.
workat.in — Workat empowers businesses to scale effectively by providing on - demand task completion at scale via platform taskforce for use cases like field sales , field marketing , recruitment , field operations and telecalling . Workat.in removes the overhead of recruiting , training and managing the workforce . Workats technology driven processes ensurebusinesses get the desired results with high standards of quality . We have 750,000+ platform taskforce across 100+ cities in India ready to complete tasks on earn per task basis . With our technology , we are able to guide the taskforce at scale to ensure business outcomes for large enterprises . The enterprises only pay for results and not for taskforce deployed . Key business outcomes delivered for enterprises : Lead Generation Lead Qualification Merchant onboarding Merchant engagement Seller acquisition Seller engagement Merchant / Seller retention Merchant / Seller activation Field marketing Field brand activation BTL activities Collateral distribution Customer engagement Audits Surveys Mystery audits Telecalling operations Telesales Telemarketing Content audit Content moderation Insurance sales Insurance lead gen BFSI operations Ecommerce operations Real - estate operations For all the use - cases , enterprises are assured of high outcome . Faster growth for our partner enterprises is the key . We do not compromise on the skills and quality of taskforce ensuring desired results . Enterprises ' priorities are our priority and we make sure to achiever desirable business outcomes in the planned timeline . Outsourcing has been made simple and trustworthy with our tech platform . Dedicated workflows , Al capabilities , robust dashboard and quality assurance through automated RPM technologies have been the differentiator since long for Workat. Enterprises across industries like Ecommerce , Telecom BFSI , Real-estate Foodtech , EdTech ,Manufacturing and FMCG have trusted us through out our Journey to grow Faster.
ZobHunger — Build your brand's success

Vaibhav Kapoor

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Falca — Falca is a rural AgTech supply chain startup offering one-stop solution for all farming needs. Falca aims to enhance the farmer lifecycle through farmer centric phygital (Physical + Digital) platform by providing Input Solutions, Advisory Solutions and Market Linkages.
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!
MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.