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Top 30 ESports Angel Investors in India in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 30 angel investors that invest in Esports startups based in India. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Esports companies from India. We update this investor list every month.

Top 30 ESports Angel Investors in India in July 2025

Investor	eSports India investments
Vasim Akram	2
Aman Mishra	2
Aparna Rajkumar	1
Dhruv Chitgopekar	1
Archana Priyadarshini	1
Lakshmi Narayanan	1
Sandeep Tandon	1
Saravanan Sundaramoorthy	1
Khalid AlTawil	1
Abhijeet Pai	1
Anjali Malhotra	1
Manu Midha	1
Rajan Anandan	1
Abhinav Sinha	1
Prantik Dasgupta	1
Rajan Anandan	1
Boman Irani	1
Kunal Shah	1
Raveen Sastry	1
Maninder Gulati	1
Trevor Wright	1
Rajesh Mane	1
Anjali Hegde	1
Shamsher Singh	1
Akshay Sasikumar	1
Shamsher Singh	1
Anjan Kumar	1
Christopher Sargunam	1
Sajan Kurup	1
Tiger Shroff	1

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An Entrepreneur & Student

Investment focus

eSports
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Flame Esports — Flame Esports is an organization that aims to provide opportunities in the world of esports games.

Aman Mishra

Investment focus

eSports
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Flame Esports — Flame Esports is an organization that aims to provide opportunities in the world of esports games.

Aparna Rajkumar

Investment focus

Sports, eSports, Internet
Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

TournamentOS — TournamentOS is the flagship product of Adya Sports Tech Pvt. Ltd. The aim of this innovative idea is to digitize sports and make its organization as transparent and efficient as possible. It creates a collaborative environment for everyone involved in sports to connect with each other including players, coaches, tournament organizers, referees,venue owners, fans, sponsors and more. The solutions TournamentOS presents to current issues in sports events and organization is what led it to being awarded the “Best Startup in Sports Sector” by the Confederation of Indian Industry.

Dhruv Chitgopekar

Investment focus

Gaming, Content, eSports
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Praan — Praan builds the world's most advanced air purification technologies for commercial and industrial applications.
Rooter — Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop.

Archana Priyadarshini is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Forward Slash Capital. She previously worked at PointOne Capital Fund 1 as a General Partner. Archana Priyadarshini attended Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Threado AI — Threado is the command centre for your online community. Measure engagement, get detailed insights and automate your operational tasks. Get early access!
Exprto Live — Exprto connects students directly with the IIT-JEE and NEET recent year toppers for personal guidance.
Metastable Materials — Metastable Materials which extract metals from end-of-life Lithium-ion batteries.

Lakshmi Narayanan is the Chief Executive Officer at Cognizant Technology Solutions.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

QpiAI — QpiAI - Building Next-Generation AI Solutions and Quantum Software
AGNIT Semiconductors Private Limited — AGNIT Semiconductors offers ultra-efficient GaN RF solutions with Epi wafers, components & modules for telecom, defense & strategic applications.
Clean Core Thorium Energy — Clean Core Thorium Energy develops advanced nuclear fuel for existing reactors.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Progcap — Progcap is revolutionising the way financial access is delivered to underserved segments of the Indian retail economy, through specialized financing and technology products that empower small and medium businesses (SMBs) to progress without obstacles.
Silkhaus — A seamless, sophisticated experience you can rely on. Choose from the wide variety of furnished Boutique Flats and apartments for short and long-term stays from Silkhaus.
ScratchNest — ScratchNest creates technologies from scratch, giving them a personalized touch, and exhilarating user experience. Striving in this direction, ScratchNest stands as the first Indian company to design, develop, and manufacture UHF RFID, NFC, BLE, and Datalogging devices in India. Founded in 2019, we are a culmination of innovation and hard work bya highly brilliant team of IITians consistently striving to provide you with the best worth of your time and money.We aim to extract the most and best out of technology so that the world relishes the power of automation. By developing the never-before technologies in India, ScratchNest aims to lay a milestone in the Make in India campaign.

Sarav as he is fondly known is a First Generation Serial Entrepreneur and Founder of skillangels.com.Prior to founding skillangels, Sarav had founded his first entrepreneurial venture eZeemath™ in 2007. He is a Certified Project Management Professional from PMI, USA & a Six Sigma Green Belt. Sarav has more than 14 years of total industryexperience working with Top Multinationals and has implemented Large Scale IT projects across geographies.He holds a M.B.A degree in Systems & Marketing from School Of Management, Pondicherry University.

Investment focus

Sports, eSports, Internet
Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

TournamentOS — TournamentOS is the flagship product of Adya Sports Tech Pvt. Ltd. The aim of this innovative idea is to digitize sports and make its organization as transparent and efficient as possible. It creates a collaborative environment for everyone involved in sports to connect with each other including players, coaches, tournament organizers, referees,venue owners, fans, sponsors and more. The solutions TournamentOS presents to current issues in sports events and organization is what led it to being awarded the “Best Startup in Sports Sector” by the Confederation of Indian Industry.

Khalid AlTawil is a Board Member at Saudi Chemcial Company.

Investment focus

Gaming, eSports, Rental
Seed
Egypt, India, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Rooter — Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop.
GBarena — GBarena is an online esports platform that serves the ecosystem stakeholders by the combination of a strong network of different esports communities, and a highly analytical tool to provide authentic value for all stakeholders (Publishers, Gamers, Tournament Organizers, Sponsors, Teams, and Media Partners).
RentSher Middle East — UAE Listings and Directories for Vape and Tobacco Shop in UAE

Abhijeet Pai is founder of Gruhas Proptech.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Hospitality, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Kofluence — Unlock the power of AI-led influencer marketing with Kofluence. Connect with 650K+ creators to drive impactful brand campaigns.
The 1% Club — Achieve financial independence by joining The 1% Club community. Upskill to manage money by networking events, Sharan's finance courses and financial tools.
Nourish You — Get homegrown organic tasty snacks, breakfast, nut mixes and meal mixes at Nourish You. Buy super foods online with 15% off on your first order above Rs.199.

Anjali Malhotra

Investment focus

Gaming, Content, eSports
Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Rooter — Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop.
Auntie Fung’s — Auntie Fung’s is a quick-service restaurant (QSR) startup focused on food delivery only.

Manu invests in early stage companies through Whitehill Ventures. As part of this executive role he heads Middle East Region for OYO Hotels. He started OYO business in 2018 and scaled it to more than 200 hotels across KSA, UAE, Oman and Bahrain markets. He has travelled extensively across ME and developed strong relationships. He is credited withtwo successful exits in e-commerce, Infibeam through IPO and Souq through acquisition by Amazon. He headed Electronics business for Souq.com in UAE. Prior to Souq, Manu was Vice President, Planning and Strategy at Infibeam. He was responsible for launching and growing BuildaBazaar in India and Middle East.

Investment focus

Trading Platform, Apps, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
India, Pakistan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

OpsLyft — The only cloud management platform that focuses on providing actionable insights for technology and financial leaders.
Kissan Pro — Kissan Pro provides an all-in-one platform to empower farmers through technology, design, and data science. While it develops and promotes the effective use of the most advanced technology, it has also help centers in every cluster where farmers can visit and get all necessary support.
Tournafest — Tournafest™️ is the one-stop destination created by the gamers for the gamers. Tournafest is reinventing the Esports ecosystem with a seamless and motivating platform where gamers can enhance their skills with a network alike.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Smytten — Smytten is an online discovery platform for premium products & services. Smytten also offers assisted shopping, and for the more advanced shopper, customised offers and ability to build their own wishlist for regular purchases.
Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.

Abhinav looks after operations at OYO. He is a chemical engineer from IIT Kharagpur and an MBA from Harvard. Abhinav has more than a decade of experience working with product and services companies. Prior to OYO, he was a Principal with Boston Consulting Group in Dallas, US.

Investment focus

Education, Software, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zyod — ZYOD is the most trusted B2B apparel sourcing and clothing manufacturing platform, providing end-to-end design to deliver solutions to fashion brands.
Bachatt — Bachatt is a daily savings led financial services platform. Bachatt aims to address a critical need for over 30 crore self-employed individuals in India. while self-employed individuals earn daily, their expenses often require large, infrequent payments, creating a major cash flow challenge. This, coupled with the inherent variability in dailyearnings, makes managing finances extremely difficult.Our vision is to become their trusted daily savings partner, helping them establish financial discipline. This strong foundation will then unlock access to a suite of financial products (loans, high-yield instruments, insurance, etc.) at more favorable terms.
Finsire — Finsire Modern finances to embrace your financial desires

Prantik Dasgupta

Investment focus

Gaming, Content, eSports
Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Rooter — Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop.
Ziptrrip — Experience seamless corporate travel management services & solutions with top travel agency in Mumbai. Book smarter business trips across India with Ziptrrip.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Smytten — Smytten is an online discovery platform for premium products & services. Smytten also offers assisted shopping, and for the more advanced shopper, customised offers and ability to build their own wishlist for regular purchases.
Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.

Boman Irani

Investment focus

Gaming, Content, eSports
Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Rooter — Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop.

Kunal Shah

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mugafi — Unlu offers pre-recorded certified online courses taught by Indian celebrities. Join us now and take your career to new heights by enjoying unlimited access to our videos.
Lorien Finance — Lorien Finance is a cross-border FinTech platform providing affordable student loans and retail banking services to immigrants (students and temporary workers) moving to the US.
Presentations.AI — Create stunning PowerPoint presentations in seconds with Presentations.AI - the ultimate AI presentation maker. Just type your idea and watch as we craft a professional PPT for you. Perfect for all: businesses, educators, and hobbyists. Dive in now, start for free!

Raveen Sastry is a co-founder of Previously, Sastry co-founded Myntraand served the company as head of B2B and indirect sales.

Investment focus

Education, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

OSSO — OSSO provides comprehensive treatment for a full range of orthopedic conditions.
Stoa — StoaMBA helps young professionals get into business roles at India's high-growth startups. Learn from top founders and 10x your career in just 6-months. Our program...
Billion Hearts — Did you sign-up for our beta launch?

Maninder Gulati joined Lightspeed Advisory Services India in 2012. He brings over eight years of operating, business building, entrepreneurship and consulting experience to the firm.Prior to Lightpseed, Maninder was an Associate at McKinsey & Company. At McKinsey, Maninder worked on several growth strategy and implementation engagementsacross various sectors including financial services, organized retail, digital music, data centers and building security/automation.Before McKinsey, Maninder co-founded a voice based life-streaming platform – lifeinlines.com, which allowed users to create a digital diary of their life. Prior to this entrepreneurial venture, Maninder worked at ITC Limited, India’s largest FMCG company. At ITC, Maninder was a part of the core team that launched ITC’s personal care business and he spearheaded key organization transformation initiatives such as Six-sigma for the tobacco business.Maninder graduated with a Dual degree (B.Tech and M.Tech) in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay, where he held key leadership positions including that of Head of ‘The Entrepreneurship Cell’. He holds an MBA from ISB, Hyderabad, where he was a part of the Dean and Merit list.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bachatt — Bachatt is a daily savings led financial services platform. Bachatt aims to address a critical need for over 30 crore self-employed individuals in India. while self-employed individuals earn daily, their expenses often require large, infrequent payments, creating a major cash flow challenge. This, coupled with the inherent variability in dailyearnings, makes managing finances extremely difficult.Our vision is to become their trusted daily savings partner, helping them establish financial discipline. This strong foundation will then unlock access to a suite of financial products (loans, high-yield instruments, insurance, etc.) at more favorable terms.
Fabrito — Fabrito is a B2B fabric marketplace that simplifies fabric sourcing for brands and garment manufacturers seeking reduced turnaround times (TAT), lower minimum order quantities (MOQs), and improved pricing. Fabrito provides a diverse range of readily available fabrics that can be quickly replenished.
Dodo Payments — Dodo Payments is a FinTech company providing international payment solutions for businesses. It acts as a merchant of record, managing payments, taxes, compliance, subscriptions, and churn. The platform supports over 300 local payment methods in more than 100 currencies across 150+ countries.

I am entrepreneur and operator. In the past, I co-Founded and sold Vitrue to Oracle for $300 M. I also co-Founded and sold Black Bag Advertising to WPP for $14 M. I was also on the founding team At Flycast Network which had an IPO and was later acquired for $2.2 B. I am currently an angel investor with company exists totaling over $1 B so far.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

ByteBrew — Trusted by over 2500 Game Developers! ByteBrew is the world's most powerful all-in-one game analytics platform that houses all your mobile game's analytics, retention, monetization tracking, player progression, remote configs, a/b testing, custom event tracking and attribution measurement in one lightweight SDK - all 100% free.
HYPOTHETIC — Hypothetic builds technology and tools to benefit 3D creators. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Axie Infinity — Axie Infinity is a virtual world filled with cute, formidable creatures known as Axies. Axies can be battled, collected, and even used to mine tokens through gameplay.

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

Investment focus

Internet, Mobile, Retail
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Orbo.ai — Orbo.ai provide contextual information and become a gateway to the world and not just stay limited to computational photography through our deep learning technology based solutions.Orbo’s face tracking technology can be implemented across devices to identify human emotions, transformative & augmented effects as well as one can build enhancedcamera centric applications.
Blowhorn — Grow your brand with same day delivery on our network using full stack solutions for all your logistics needs
Impact Guru — ImpactGuru is a No.1 crowdfunding platform in India offering fundraising solutions for medical treatments, emergencies, NGOs & startups. Start a crowdfunding campaign now!

Anjali Hegde - Co-founder @ Interactive Avenues

Investment focus

Gaming, Content, eSports
Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Rooter — Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop.

Shamsher Singh

Investment focus

Sports, eSports
Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Shaky Corps — Shaky Corps is an eSports Company that help peoples to play online video games and spirit to reach Brands/Companies name as a brand value to remote location areas.

Akshay Sasikumar

Investment focus

Sports, eSports, Internet
Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

TournamentOS — TournamentOS is the flagship product of Adya Sports Tech Pvt. Ltd. The aim of this innovative idea is to digitize sports and make its organization as transparent and efficient as possible. It creates a collaborative environment for everyone involved in sports to connect with each other including players, coaches, tournament organizers, referees,venue owners, fans, sponsors and more. The solutions TournamentOS presents to current issues in sports events and organization is what led it to being awarded the “Best Startup in Sports Sector” by the Confederation of Indian Industry.

Shamsher Singh

Investment focus

Sports, eSports
Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Shaky Corps — Shaky Corps is an eSports Company that help peoples to play online video games and spirit to reach Brands/Companies name as a brand value to remote location areas.

Anjan Kumar

Investment focus

eSports
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Flame Esports — Flame Esports is an organization that aims to provide opportunities in the world of esports games.

Christopher Sargunam

Investment focus

EdTech, Sports, eSports
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

NacFun — Art, craft, drawing, dance & music online competitions for students with prizes 2021. NacFun online contest in quiz, gk, sports, fun activities for kids adults

Sajan Raj Kurup chairman and founder of Creativeland Asia.

Investment focus

eSports
Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Revenant Esports — Welcome to Revenant Esports, The Biggest Esports Team in South Asia.

Tiger Shroff is an Indian actor, martial artist, and dancer known for his work in Hindi films.

Investment focus

Battery, eSports, Education
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

Sploot — Freadom is a learning platform for children aged 3-12 to strengthen their English reading, speaking, and conversation skills.
Chargeup — Chargeup is a full-stack EV Financing & Asset Management Platform. We enable last-mile drivers with ownership and higher earnings
Revenant Esports — Welcome to Revenant Esports, The Biggest Esports Team in South Asia.

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