# Top 50 Digital Media Startup Investors in India in June 2026

## Vijay Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, News, Software

Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Paytm. He previously worked at India Today Group Online as a Tech head. Vijay Shekhar attended Delhi College of Engineering.

## Peepul Capital LLC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Port Louis Town, Port Louis, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Video, Advertising, AgTech

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.

## Helion Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Port Louis Town, Port Louis, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

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

## Blume Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Backing the next wave of revolutionary founders, from India, for the world.

## Info Edge ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce

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.

## Chiratae Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence

Chiratae Ventures India is an 18-year-old Indian technology venture capital fund advisor headquartered in Bengaluru. It has advised funds that collectively (across seven funds) have $1.3 Bn AUM, 130+ investments, 56 exits, eight Unicorns, four IPOs, and a track record of returning approximately $900 million capital to LPs in the last 13 years. It has been an early backer of companies such as Myntra, Lenskart, and FirstCry, among others.

## Sorabh Agarwal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Tea, Travel, Internet

Sorabh Agarwal

## Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Powai, Assam, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Manufacturing, Medical Device

SINE at IIT Bombay supports tech startups with incubation, mentorship, funding, and resources to turn innovative ideas into successful ventures.

## Dholakia Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Surat, Gujarat, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology

Dholakia Ventures is an investment firm.

## VilCap Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech

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

## Survam Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Augmented Reality

Survam Partners is an investment firm.

## SVQUAD
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

SVQUAD is an investment firm.

## SOSV
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates.
HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

## Orbit Startups
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cork, Cork, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software

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

## Pavan Ongole
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Online Portals, News, Education

Pavan Ongole

## Rebright Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

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

## Inventus Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

Inventus is a US-India venture capital firm managed by successful entrepreneurs and industry specific veterans offering venture capital in India and the US.

## Nexus Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Nexus Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that helps founders build product-focused companies. The firm actively partners with founders at inception, seed, or series-A stages and stays involved throughout the company's growth. With $2.6 billion in capital, Nexus invests mainly in enterprise software in the US and digitally-drivenbusinesses in India.

## Norwest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Norwest: venture capital and growth equity firm with 65+ years backing bold teams in biotech, SaaS, fintech, consumer, and healthcare.

## Kleiner Perkins
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.

## Priyanka Gill
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Advertising, Beauty, Fashion

Priyanka Gill is the Co-Founder and President of MyGlamm. She is also the Founder & CEO of POPxo, India's largest community of women.

## Nitin Madan
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Digital Media, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment

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

## Dhawal Gusain
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Digital Media, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment

Dhawal Gusain - Works at @ TVF

## Peak XV Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce

We help the daring build legendary companies.

## Z47
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Internet, Information Technology

We work with visionary founders of early-stage startups to amplify their intrinsic talent.

## Pontaq
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Pontaq, trading name of Anugraha Ventures Limited, is a UK registered venture capital fund, with a core USP of cross border technology transfer between UK and India. Since inception in 2015, the firm has been capitalizing on the massive opportunity of “#Innovation #Startup #Scaleup” through its UK India Innovation Funds (UIIF), whilst creatingsustainable economic development through jobs creation in both the economies.

## Roshan Abbas
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Digital Entertainment, Internet, Food and Beverage

Roshan is founder of Encompass Events Pvt. Ltd.

## Konglo Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kochi, Kerala, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, E-Commerce

Konglo Ventures LLP is a seed funding firm with its registered office in Cochin, India, and with partner offices in Dubai and New York. Our focus is to invest in early-stage startups with high growth and scale potential. Our team consists of professionals with experience in various sectors who can provide guidance and handhold young companies asper their needs.

## Techindia Infoway
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Cooking, Digital Media, Food and Beverage

Established in 2002, Techindia delivers world-class, enterprise healthcare management solutions that bridges the Intersection of Healthcare & Information technology to work more efficiently and collaboratively to deliver better health.

## Upsparks
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology

Upsparks is an early-stage venture fund focused on investing in technology startups and providing the needed support throughout a startup early growth. We invest in people first and are committed to creating value by leveraging our interpersonal networks, strategic partnerships, and deep industry experience. We collaborate and invest in forwardthinking entrepreneurs who work at the frontiers of digital innovation. Upsparks is devoted to early-stage investments and to building tomorrow's market leaders.

## Airtel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Corporate Round, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Telecommunications, Energy, Enterprise Software

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.

## Sundi Natarajan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Content, 3D Technology, Digital Media

Sundi Natarajan is the founder and CFO of Sparksoft. He previously worked at CometHR as a Board of Advisors. Sundi Natarajan attended the University of Mumbai.

## Aprameya Radhakrishna
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, Apps

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!

## Kwaish Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Water, Content

Kwaish Ventures is an investment firm.

## Jayan Ramankutty
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Content, Robotics, Advertising

Jayan Ramankutty

## Rajan Anandan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.

## Angel List
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Analytics, SaaS, Audio

Angel Network

## Raju Reddy
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Big Data

Flam is a Board Member of Flam. He attended the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.

## Twin Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology

Twin Ventures is an AI-focused Angel Investors that builds and fosters AI-first startups.Twin Ventures backs entrepreneurs who are building disruptive ventures, solving real-world problems. The company invests in companies that define new markets that can turn into category leaders through Applied AI. Twin Ventures invests in startups at an earlystage and acts as angel investors or pre-seed investors that offers a typical check size is $100,000 with follow-on investments of up to $150,000.

## BITS Spark Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Video, EdTech, Robotics

BITS Spark wants to make BITS Pilani among the top 3 institute of entrepreneurship in Asia.

## Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce

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

## Anchorage Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Solar, Energy, Consumer

Anchorage Capital Partners invest in startups, predominantly from Angel to Series A rounds.

## Samsung Venture Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Health Care

Samsung Venture Investment is plays the role of driving the discovery and development of new businesses and technologies.

## Smile Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Advertising, E-Commerce

Smile is Asia’s leading platform that builds internet businesses with passionate entrepreneurs. We partner with fast-growing companies for their expansion and invest in disruptive companies.Business Building
We build and operate companies across multiple domains such as digital media, consumer internet, SaaS and more. We operate Tyroo, APAC’sLargest Multi-Screen Performance Network and SingleInterface, a location-based marketing company for multi-location enterprise retail brands. Some notable ones are as follows:
-> Quasar sold to WPP
-> SVG Media sold to Dentsu Aegis Network
-> Squad Digital sold to Scan GroupPartnerships (Katalyzers)
We partner with fast growing technology companies to expand their business overseas. Our partnerships include Airbnb, WPP(Prodigi/Hogarth India), WPP Africa and moreInvestments
We enable entrepreneurship by investing in disruptive companies. Our investments include Letsbuy.com, HackerEarth, Scoopwhoop, Yumlane, Rapido, Wealthy, The Man Company, Bira 91, Little Eye Labs and more
Say Hello! info@smile.co.in

## Vaibhav Kapoor
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

Vaibhav Kapoor

## Agility Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Haryana, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Software

Agility Venture Partners is an angel network and a venture fund, investing in startups across the tech, service, and manufacturing sectors.

## Girish Mathrubootham
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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

## 3one4 Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

At 3one4, we are biased towards action and channel the relevant resources to support generational innovation engines out of India. We partner with early-stage companies that are mission-oriented and are setting new standards for inclusive value creation and sustainable growth.

## Vinners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Apps

Welcome to Vinners - your one stop hub for startup handholding 

## HT Media
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Content, B2C, Apps

HT Media Group: One of India's top media companies serving news, entertainment, ad solutions on print, digital & radio, enticing readers & listeners across India.

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