# Top 30 ESports Angel Investors in India in June 2026 ## Aman Mishra - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: eSports Aman Mishra ## Vasim Akram - Type: Angel - Location: Cuddapah, Andhra Pradesh, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: eSports An Entrepreneur & Student ## Rami Essaid - Type: Angel - Location: Damascus, Dimashq, Syria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, Software, News Rami Essaid is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Finmark, a Venture Partner at IDEA Fund Partners, and an Extended Team Member of Ubiquity Ventures. He was the Co-Founder and Chairman of Distil. Rami helps enterprises embrace the cloud to improve their scalability and reliability while maintaining a high level of security.He attendedNorth Carolina State University where he majored in computer engineering. ## Anjali Malhotra - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Gaming, Content, eSports Anjali Malhotra ## Raveen Sastry - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, Education, Information Technology Raveen Sastry is a co-founder of Previously, Sastry co-founded Myntraand served the company as head of B2B and indirect sales. ## Kunal Shah - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet Kunal Shah ## Akshay Sasikumar - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Sports, eSports, Internet Akshay Sasikumar ## Venu Palaparthi - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Sports Venu Palaparthi is the Chief Operating Officer of DriveWealth. He previously worked at Patomak Global Partners as a Managing Director. Venu Palaparthi attended The University of Texas at Arlington. ## Dhruv Chitgopekar - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, Content, eSports Dhruv Chitgopekar ## Lakshmi Narayanan - Type: Angel - Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Sports Lakshmi Narayanan is the Chief Executive Officer at Cognizant Technology Solutions. ## Sandeep Tandon - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet 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. ## Saravanan Sundaramoorthy - Type: Angel - Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Sports, eSports, Internet 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. ## Khalid AlTawil - Type: Angel - Location: Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Gaming, eSports, Rental Khalid AlTawil is a Board Member at Saudi Chemcial Company. ## Abhijeet Pai - Type: Angel - Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage Abhijeet Pai is founder of Gruhas Proptech. ## Rajan Anandan - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago. ## Abhinav Sinha - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Education, Software, 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. ## Boman Irani - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Gaming, Content, eSports Boman Irani ## Maninder Gulati - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, FinTech 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. ## Trevor Wright - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Gaming 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. ## Rajesh Mane - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, Mobile, Retail An active investor in early stage startups across technology & CPG. ## Christopher Sargunam - Type: Angel - Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: EdTech, Sports, eSports Christopher Sargunam ## Siddharth Verma - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, B2B, Retail Siddharth Verma is the Co-Founder at OnJuno. ## Aparna Rajkumar - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Sports, eSports, Internet Aparna Rajkumar ## Anjan Kumar - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: eSports Anjan Kumar ## Shamsher Singh - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Sports, eSports Shamsher Singh ## Archana Priyadarshini - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: SaaS, Financial Services, Information Technology 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. ## Tiger Shroff - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Battery, eSports, Education Tiger Shroff is an Indian actor, martial artist, and dancer known for his work in Hindi films. ## Sajan Kurup - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: eSports Sajan Raj Kurup chairman and founder of Creativeland Asia. ## Manu Midha - Type: Angel - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Trading Platform, Apps, SaaS 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. ## Anjali Hegde - Type: Angel - Location: Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Gaming, Content, eSports Anjali Hegde - Co-founder @ Interactive Avenues