Top 50 ESports Startup Investors in India in February 2025

Investor	eSports India investments
SucSEED Indovation	3
Lead Angels Network	2
Lightbox	2
Unicorn India Ventures	2
Vasim Akram	2
Aman Mishra	2
Goal Ventures	2
TopYa Aspac LLC	2
SOSV	2
Mumbai Angels	2
Capital A	2
Info Edge	2
Denlow Private Trust	1
Maninder Gulati	1
Alpha Wave Global	1
SRI Capital	1
Astarc Ventures	1
First Cheque	1
Duane Park	1
Makers Fund	1
Peak XV Partners	1
Alpha Wave Global	1
Lakshmi Narayanan	1
Potential Ventures	1
Trifecta Capital Advisors	1
Akshay Sasikumar	1
APRIL Ventures	1
GVFL	1
Times Internet	1
Sajan Kurup	1
Rajesh Mane	1
Venture Highway	1
Archana Priyadarshini	1
Software Technology Parks of India	1
Rockstud Capital	1
Boman Irani	1
Shamsher Singh	1
Anjali Hegde	1
ADvantage	1
Rajan Anandan	1
Abhijeet Pai	1
Better Capital	1
Raveen Sastry	1
Urmin Group	1
Sequoia Capital	1
Global Play Media	1
Aparna Rajkumar	1
Saravanan Sundaramoorthy	1
Rajan Anandan	1
Christopher Sargunam	1

SucSEED Indovation offers access to capital for deep tech startups to scale and grow. SucSEED supports early-stage deep tech and tech-driven startups providing solutions to the large-scale needs of India and with the potential to serve global emerging market needs too.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

GameEon Studios — GameEon Studios is a creative game development and publishing company that specializes in creating games for an exciting and meaningful experience.
Biva — BIVA helps D2C Brands scale by offering1. Instant Connections (<10 hours) to all sources - API or non-API/ online or offline2. Curated & Pre-built Business Function-wise Dashboards and reports addressing 80% of use cases3. Custom calculations & Excel Add-in addressing other 20% of use cases4. Alerts and notifications fortimely actions
Str8bat Sport Tech Solutions — The str8bat cricket bat sensor is a lightweight, pocket-sized motion sensor that gives you instant, visual and actionable insights into your batting. Get

Lead Angels is India's first angel network focused on IITs.Founded by a team of three originally from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay including a retired professor, a recent graduate and an incubator manager.The network members provide time and money to disruptive startups across India. Its members are successful entrepreneursacross different sectors.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

MoMoney — Get baskets made for your goals. Auto-invest whenever you have extra cash. Get a credit limit against your investments.
Nitro Commerce — Nitro Commerce provides AI tools to help them reach their greatest potential.
Ghost Kitchens — Join the fastest growing restaurant company in the country

Lightbox is a Mumbai based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology-led consumer businesses that are shaping the future of consumption in India.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Series C
India, United Kingdom

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.
Furlenco — Rent furniture & appliances from India's first online furniture rental company. Furnish your home with our thoughtfully designed furniture. Start living better now!
Smartcoin — Need Urgent Cash? Sit back & relax. Just a few taps on your smartphone, and get money within hours. Instant Approval. Paperless & Reliable Process. Get Started

Unlock the Power of Innovation with Unicorn IVC - a leading venture capital firm committed to fueling innovation and transforming businesses. We are seed funding company for startups which visionary entrepreneurs pioneering innovations across sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

ExSURE — ExSURE develops a unique exosome- based targeted drug delivery platform that effectively eliminates cancer cells and cancer stem cells.
Hygnal — Building Tomorrow Today: The Vision of hygnal. In a world where technology evolves at an unprecedented pace, innovation is not just an advantage it’s a necessity. At hygnal, we are at the forefront of this evolution, harnessing the power of NextGen technologies to shape the future and redefine possibilities.A Mission to Transform Our journeybegan with a singular vision: to create groundbreaking solutions that empower individuals and industries to thrive in a world of constant change. At hygnal, we are not just responding to the challenges of today but anticipating the opportunities of tomorrow. Our mission is simple yet profound—to build technologies that bridge the gap between imagination and reality. Whether it’s reshaping how industries operate, enabling smarter cities, or enhancing the way individuals interact with the world, hygnal is committed to leaving a lasting impact.Pioneering NextGen Technologies hygnal’s core philosophy revolves around pushing boundaries and challenging the status quo. By leveraging advancements in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and transformative innovations, we aim to revolutionize industries ranging from healthcare to finance, logistics to entertainment, and beyond. Our solutions are designed with the future in mind, ensuring that every product and service we create is not just cutting-edge but also practical, scalable, and adaptable.Excellence as a Core Value At hygnal, excellence isn’t just a goal—it’s a way of life. From ideation to execution, we maintain an unwavering commitment to quality. Every project we undertake reflects our dedication to precision, creativity, and a relentless pursuit of perfection.This commitment ensures that our solutions not only meet expectations but consistently exceed them, earning us a reputation as a trusted partner in the technological revolution.Empowering Industries and Individuals The rapidly evolving technological landscape demands solutions that are as versatile as they are innovative. hygnal aims to empower industries to embrace these changes with confidence and individuals to harness technology to unlock their full potential.By addressing real-world challenges with next-generation technologies, we enable businesses to optimize operations, reduce costs, and achieve unparalleled efficiency. At the same time, we strive to enhance everyday experiences, making technology intuitive, accessible, and impactful.Shaping the Future As hygnal forges ahead, we remain steadfast in our commitment to innovation, growth, and transformative impact. With each breakthrough, we are building not just a company but a legacy—one that will inspire future generations to dream bigger and achieve more.At hygnal, the future is not something we wait for; it’s something we create. Together, we are paving the way for a new era of innovation, ensuring that tomorrow’s technologies are ready to meet the challenges and opportunities of the next generation. Founded by Jaswanth Raj during his academic journey in Bengalore.Hygnal is coming soon get ready to embrace the future of innovation!
Netrasemi — Embedding real-time AI on edge devices with a power-efficient Graph Stream Parallel Architecture.

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.

Goal Ventures is a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Gaming, Digital Entertainment, eSports
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, India, Israel

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.
Bebopbee — BebopBee crafts exceptional, emotive and enduring casual gaming experiences
Loupe — LOUPE is the #1 art streaming platform and service on connected TV and web with an integrated marketplace. The immersive visuals are available in and out of home, ad supported on living room TVs or with a commercial license for public display, and allows users to purchase the artwork, select prints & originals. Loupe launched exclusively onApple TV where it is ranked #1 Lifestyle app around the world, now with 25+ channels of art available on Amazon Fire, Android TV, Pluto TV, Samsung, Comcast Xfinity, Xumo and web streaming, with proprietary methods for user customization of the streams (patent pending). Loupe has 2M monthly active users, 80X audience growth in 2020, and more platforms launching in 2021.The company reaches an upscale mass market in OTT and OOH industries, consumer electronics, smart TV, home theater/home entertainment, interior design, art market, music streaming, and hospitality.

Venture Capital

Investment focus

EdTech, Sports, eSports
Seed, Pre-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

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

Mumbai Angels is an angle stage investment firm. Mumbai Angels has served as a breeding ground for both plug-in businesses for larger corporations and financial investors seeking incubated businesses ready to scale.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Hemptyful — Hemptyful's hemp seed-based goods include dips and cold-pressed oils made from premium hemp seeds, providing a high supply of protein, omega-3 fatty acids, and critical components for a healthy and balanced diet
ReCircle — ReCircle is a resource recovery enterprise. It works toward the circular economy and supports sustainable businesses through EPR and PNP services. India.
Big Bang Boom Solutions — Big Bang Boom Solutions is India's hottest new Startup in the Defence Sector. Founded by a couple of serial entrepreneurs who are comfortable in Deep Tech, it aims to co-create intellectual property that can reside within the borders of the country. The Founders have great connects in the Research Space which helps them develop technology thatbolsters the capability of the Indian Armed Forces.

Capital A is a venture fund for seed to early-stage start-ups.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Financial Services, Automotive
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

Taqtics — Taqtics offers one software with an all-in-one solution for retail & restaurant operations. From workflow to attendance management, it's all included.
Agrileaf — Agrileaf produces eco-friendly biodegradable dinnerware and packaging for sustainable living.
MatchLog — MatchLog optimises cargo, equipment and transport route, solving wastage in the supply chain.

Info Edge is an internet company that manages and operates online job portals. The company's mission is to address the middle east job market and have launched a Gulf version of the recruitment site. The company also launched a career counseling and guidance site, a professional networking site, and an education classified site.It wasfounded in 2016 and headquartered in Uttar, Pradesh.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Nexstem — We create brain-computer interfaces using EEG to convert brain signals into commands to control technology using your thoughts. Transcending biological limits.
LegitQuest — An online legal research platform with Indian case laws. Research on Indian Cases, Judgments & Acts with AI enabled, User friendly product features.
Clean Electric — Clean Electric builds Lithium-Ion Batteries with Liquid Immersion Cooling. Fast Charge. Long Life. Unparalleled Safety.

Denlow Private Trust operates as an investment firm.

Investment focus

Gaming, Content, eSports
Funding Round
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.

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

altM — altM is an alternate materials company on a mission to develop the future of materials to reduce carbon footprint and improve circularity in their supply chain.
Jodaro — Jodaro operates as an intermediary for trade that links customers and manufacturers directly.
Finsire — Finsire Modern finances to embrace your financial desires

Alpha Wave is an investment company that has three main verticals; private equity, private credit, and public markets. The objective of the private equity partnerships is to invest in best-in-class venture and growth stage companies and endeavors to be helpful, long-term partners to these exceptional founders and management teams; credit, whichincludes direct private lending to businesses looking for funding solutions; and public markets in an uncorrelated strategy.Alpha Wave has offices in New York, Miami, London, Monaco, Madrid, Abu Dhabi, Tel Aviv, Bangalore, and Sydney.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Series C
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Mitra Chem — Mitra Chem is innovating and commercializing iron-based cathode materials to enable mass-market electrification for electric vehicles, energy storage solutions and beyond.
Mstack Chemicals — A B2B platform connecting global companies for cost-effective chemical sourcing.
Marea Therapeutics — Marea Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology firm that uses the most recent advancements in human genetics to create first-in-class, next-generation medications for cardiometabolic illnesses.

SRI Capital is an early stage venture capital firm focused on funding innovative startups primarily in India and the US. We will also consider global startups that are looking to enter the Indian consumer market.Our three main areas of interest are: (1) Enterprise software and deep tech: We are interested in Indian/US startups developingapplications and technology for sale to the US enterprise and/or SME market, preferably in a subscription model with built-in scalability for rapid growth. We like capital efficient product development teams, led by technology founders, serving niche market segments. (2) Indian consumer market: Indian startups that are looking to capitalize on the Digital India story to bring innovative products and services to middle income Indian consumers are interesting to us. We especially like startups that fully leverage India Stack. (3) Cross-border innovation to serve the Indian consumer market: We realize that there is terrific IP and tech in the Nordics, Israel, and elsewhere. Given our deep ties to India and our networks there, we would love to fund startups that are well positioned to serve the Indian consumer market.We are usually the first institutional investor in a company. We invest between $500,000 and $1,000,000 for a meaningful minority interest and are happy to lead the round. We are active investors, providing support to the founders beyond just a board role. We may provide additional capital as a bridge or as a part of Series A, capping our investment in any one company at $5,000,000.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, India, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Meddo — Meddo (Arctern Healthcare) are re-defining how primary and secondary healthcare is provided in India through a connected care delivery platform.
Fakespot — Fakespot spots, analyzes and identifies fake reviews and counterfeits - helping you out when buying stuff online.
Brown Foods — Brown Foods is to produce “real cow’s milk” in a laboratory.

Astarc Ventures is a leading early stage venture capital (VC) fund based in India. It is a sector agnostic fund which invests across all geographies.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Zypp Electric — Zypp Electric is an EV delivery app that operates in the last-mile space. Zypp is working to convert all deliveries for e-commerce, grocery, medicine, and food verticals to go electric with an e-scooter sharing app. Making last-mile delivery more affordable, time-saving, and with zero emission. Zypp, through its continuous efforts to invest andstrategize toward the mission of zero-emission, has become the first EV logistics player to turn into an EBITDA-positive business.
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.
CytoReason — CytoReason is a tech company developing a computational model of the human body. The company collects proprietary data from pharma companies and uses it to simulate human diseases – tissue by tissue, cell by cell. With CytoReason’s massive database and AI-led platform, pharma and biotech companies identify new opportunities, shorten trial phases,reduce development costs and increase the likelihood of approval. To date, six of the world’s top ten pharma companies use CytoReason’s technology.

First Cheque Built and Exited Founders, Product Leaders, Growth Leaders, and also angel investors. A lot of change They bring is in how to think- based on first principles, based on data, building a data driven organisation, setting up teams for performance et al. Most importantly, They will help you graduate to the next level of your journey.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States

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!
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.
Blitz — Blitz is a delivery platform that helps to ecommerce business to get immediate delivery in India.

Duane Park specializes in providing custom planned events services. It primarily hosts events from bridal showers to retirement parties. Corporate clients include Millbank, American Express, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Citigroup.The company is available for daytime and evening hires for private events, photo and video shoots, celebrations,and corporate events.

Investment focus

Family, Gaming, Content
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
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.
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Ummeed Housing Finance — Ummeed Housing Finance offers affordable housing loan & Business Loan with a hassle-free documentation process and easy EMI's options for the low-income segment in INDIA.

Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment venture capital firm focused on early stage investments. The team supports founders through an extensive network and deep experience in the industry.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Hybe IM — HYBE INTERACTIVE MEDIA (HYBE IM) is broadening the scope of HYBE's entertainment offerings by creating games and publishing them for people all over the world. HYBE IM creates numerous contents and services by combining cutting-edge interactive media technology with music, artists, and entertainment components, resulting in new viewpoints andexperiences.
Rune — Rune is an automated friend or squad finder and voice chat for players on mobile games. Users can hang out and share amazing experiences together. The company builds the future of LFG for mobile gamers.
Thinkr — THINKR provides advertising, video production, content, UX design, and animation services.

We help the daring build legendary companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mindgrove — Discover the benefits of choosing Mindgrove Tech's System on Chip, backed by SHAKTI open-source processor program. Join the movement to put India on the map.
TrueFoundry — TrueFoundry provides Data Scientists and ML Engineers with the fastest framework for Post Model Pipeline. Using best DevOps practices, we enable instant monitored endpoints for models in 15 minutes!
Attentive — Get automated takeoffs, create first-of-its-kind instant quotes, and manage leads with a lightning fast CRM.

Alpha Wave is an investment company that has three main verticals; private equity, private credit, and public markets. The objective of the private equity partnerships is to invest in best-in-class venture and growth stage companies and endeavors to be helpful, long-term partners to these exceptional founders and management teams; credit, whichincludes direct private lending to businesses looking for funding solutions; and public markets in an uncorrelated strategy.Alpha Wave has offices in New York, Miami, London, Monaco, Madrid, Abu Dhabi, Tel Aviv, Bangalore, and Sydney.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
Series B, Series A, Series C
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Mitra Chem — Mitra Chem is innovating and commercializing iron-based cathode materials to enable mass-market electrification for electric vehicles, energy storage solutions and beyond.
Mstack Chemicals — A B2B platform connecting global companies for cost-effective chemical sourcing.
Marea Therapeutics — Marea Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology firm that uses the most recent advancements in human genetics to create first-in-class, next-generation medications for cardiometabolic illnesses.

Mr. Narayanan is a technology industry professional, with over 30 years of experience in Europe, India and the United States. His leadership experience includes corporate governance, customer relationship management and organization strategy. As a founding member of Cognizant, he has been responsible for providing leadership for the company’shigh-touch customer relationship and delivery excellence model. In his role as the Vice Chairman of Cognizant, Mr. Narayanan guides strategic programs around customer advocacy, education, training and leadership development.Mr. Narayanan is the past chairman of NASSCOM and was a member of the Board of U.S. India Business Council. He has received awards and recognition from the industry, media and academia. He is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Science and has pursuits in inclusive growth, education and non-profits through Cognizant Foundation and other institutions.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Sports
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

SIMBYM — An integrated "NO_CODING" collaborative platform for Work Management, ITSM /Agile Delivery and Business Process Management.
Monitra Healthcare — Monitra Healthcare is a Hyderabad based med-tech company developing solutions that capture cardiac events anytime anywhere. Our products detect cardiac arrhythmias and cardiovascular disease at real-time for pre-emptive treatments. Cardiac monitoring is widely used to identify heart disease, to monitor cardiac activity before and after surgery andother cardiac procedures, and to assess the effects of therapeutic drugs on cardiac activity. The Company’s vision is to dramatically reduce the effects of heart disease by making monitoring and pre-emptive cardiac care a seamless part of everyday life.
Astrome Technologies — Astrome is accelerating high speed internet through 5G and backhaul telecom infrastructure through its millimetre wave and satellite communication products.

Potential Ventures operates as a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Gaming, Content, eSports
Series C, Funding Round
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.
Curefoods — Curefoods democratizes access to food on a sustainable basis. They focus on operations management for cloud kitchens and the online food ordering market.
BetterPlace — People-centric HR technology, employee benefits management, upskilling platform and workforce fulfilment solution. We help organisations achieve operational excellence.

Trifecta Capital is India's leading alternate financing platform for startups across their life cycle. It manages three venture debt funds, a growth equity fund and a tech platform which helps startups with treasury management.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Debt Financing, Series C, Series B
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Servify — Servify offers the world's most advanced self-learning post-purchase service platform to deliver great customer experience. Integrating multiple partners of the post sales service ecosystem on a tech-driven unified intelligent platform, Servify provides Device Lifecycle Management Services for all devices that touch our daily lives.
WayCool — global video community
BharatPe — BharatPe is an Indian fintech company that primarily focuses on providing financial services to small and medium-sized merchants. It facilitates digital payments through the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and Point of Sale (POS) devices. Additionally, BharatPe offers various services such as business loans and other financial products to empowermerchants in managing their finances.

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.

Venture capital fund focused on multiple sectors

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, eSports
Seed, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

TutAR — TutAR helps teachers to guide students through simple AR visualizations of complex ideas so that students can understand the fundamentals instead of mugging up lessons.
GoodGudi — GoodGudi is a Lifestyle retail shopping destination. Our Stores sell Travel Accessories, Fashion Accessories, Home Improvement products, Toys and Cosmetics
Multiplayr — An esports infrastructure platform for team discovery and management, tournament creation with real-time stats, and global and local rankings.

Gujarat Venture Finance provides seed financing and early-stage and growth capital to small- and medium-sized companies based in India.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Software, Manufacturing
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

LetsDressUp — LetsDressUp is a platform that designs and customizes clothes, aims to be India’s version of US-based Stitch Fix.
Dice — Manage all your corporate spending with dice and make daily business operations fast and seamless.
Ghost Kitchens — Join the fastest growing restaurant company in the country

Times Internet builds premium digital products that simplify and enhance the everyday lives of people. We are India’s largest digital products company with presence in a wide range of categories across news, entertainment, marketplaces and transactions.Many of our products are market leaders and iconic brands in their own right. TOI, ET,Cricbuzz, Gaana, MX Player, Dineout, Indiatimes, MensXP, iDiva, NBT, Gradeup among others are products that bring you closer to your interests and aspirations. Website - http://www.timesinternet.in Industry - Internet Company size - 1,001-5,000 employees Headquarters Gurgaon, Haryana Type - Privately Held Founded 1999 Specialities e-commerce, Advertisement Solutions, News and Entertainment, Start-up acceleration, Music streaming services, AdTech, Merger & A, Acquisition, Sports, Classified, and Startup Investment

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Gaana — Gaana.com- Listen & Download latest MP3 songs online. Download new or old Hindi songs, Bollywood songs, English songs* & more on Gaana+ and play offline. Create, share and listen to streaming music playlists.
Pocket FM — Listen to Audio Books, Podcasts and read Novels on Pocket FM. We bring you over 10k+ popular audio shows in multi languages. Best audiobooks app
ShareChat — ShareChat is India's own social network in 14 Indian languages Install ShareChat from Google Play Store for FREE!

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.

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

Investment focus

Internet, Mobile, Fashion
Seed
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.
LiquiLoans — LiquiLoans is a company uses technology to match borrowers and lenders and in the process eliminates the margin which is charged by traditional banks and NBFCs, thus, making borrowing cheaper and investing a more lucrative opportunity as compared to traditional investment avenues.
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!

Venture Highway teams up with the next generation of entrepreneurs by providing guidance and capital to early-stage nascent ideas in technology.We are looking to team up with founders who demonstrate a passion and ability to create world-class businesses. If you’ve got the ability, drive, desire, passion, perseverance, and all that ‘good’ (butreally really painful) stuff then you’ve reached the right place.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Meragi — Meragi is an end to end wedding decor service taking care of all decor requirements from deisgn to execution, all at a great price
OrbitShift — Advanced AI operating system for actionable account insights, RFP response generation and targeted sales content
Kintsugi AI — Discover powerful Sales Tax Automation Software designed to simplify compliance, eliminate errors, and save your business time.

Archana Priyadarshini of Point One Capital.

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
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.

India has earned itself a reputation of an IT superpower. Software Technology Parks of India has played a seminal role in accomplishing this status. Today, STPIs across over the country are synonymous with excellent Infrastructure and Statutory support aimed at furthering growth of Information Technology in the country.Software Technology Parksof India (STPI), is a society set up by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India in 1991, with the objective of encouraging, promoting and boosting the Software Exports from India.STPI maintains internal engineering resources to provide consulting, training and implementation services. Services cover Network Design, System Integration, Installation, Operations and maintenance of application networks and facilities in varied areas.Process development is based on the Quality Management System. STPI centres also adhere to ISO 9001 certification.Software Technology Parks of India was established and registered as an Autonomous Society under the Societies Registration Act 1860, under the Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India on 5th June 1991 with an objective to implement STP Scheme, set-up and manage infrastructure facilities and provide other services like technology assessment and professional training.

Investment focus

Education, eSports, Wellness
Pre-Seed, Seed, Grant
India

Portfolio highlights

JoGenii — JoGenii is an online discovery platform for carefully curated outcome based learning products, toys, games and books for kids all ages. We carefully curate best Made in India learning and skill building games under one roof. From Montessori toys to Open Ended toys, to different theme based collections such as STEM
Yaraa AI — Yaraa AI is an AI-powered business suite that can reduce human cost and increase productivity with our Yaraa manager, Yaraa HR & Yaraa Assistance, etc.
Multiplayr — An esports infrastructure platform for team discovery and management, tournament creation with real-time stats, and global and local rankings.

Rockstud Capital is an early-stage sector-agnostic venture fund, focusing on pre-Series A stage. It focuses only on India-based investment opportunities, typically having a ticket-size of US$ 0.5 million; prefer companies that are operational for atleast 18-24 months, having minimum revenue of INR 1 crore.

Investment focus

Software, Industrial Automation, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

trezi — Discover the future of immersive technology with Trezi's Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) solutions in India. Contact us now to revolutionize your approach!
The Money Club — Money Club is a registered digital AI chit fund platform in India which lets you create peer-to-peer chit fund clubs. Download the safe & secure app now!
Fabheads Automation — Fabheads is India's leading carbon fiber part manufacturers & developed Asia's first continuous carbon fiber 3D printers.

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.

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.

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.

ADvantage Sports Tech Fund invests in early-stage technology companies aimed at shaping the future of sports. ADvantage is backed by leAD Sports, an initiative spearheaded by the grandchildren of Adi Dassler to further sports innovation, and global hybrid venture capital platform, OurCrowd. ADvantage is leveraging a strong global network to sourceleading opportunities in the spaces of fan engagement and experience, connected athletes and communities, and derivative sports (eSports, fantasy, and new sports).

Investment focus

Sports, eSports, PaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, India, Israel

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.
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Greenfly — Greenfly's short-form media orchestration software platform captures, collects, organizes & distributes videos & photos to drive fan engagement and boost revenue for sports and entertainment organizations.

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

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.

Abhijeet Pai is founder of Gruhas Proptech.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

Kofluence — AI-powered Ad-Tech influencer Marketing platform that empowers both brands and influencers to capitalize on the value of their social influence.
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.

Better is a micro venture firm that creates and invests in innovative business which deliver value & impact, and have a strong focus on profitability. Better Labs is our operating portfolio of product businesses that we create and fund and includes ReadyContacts, PicBackMan, DataDoctor, Magik, Simple wall, and Maroun Place.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

RapidClaims — Rapid Claims helps businesses autonomously code medical charts, find up-coding opportunities, improve the CDI process and reduce denials.
InCommon — Incommon assists fast-growing companies in setting up high-performance global teams by hiring the best talent across countries.
VoiceClub — We provide 1-1 on demand audio calling facilities with experts from categories like Astrology, Love, Career & Legal. Download VoiceClub App Now!

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, E-Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Fanspole — Fanspole allows users to create contests and play public as well as private games.
Lo! Foods — Lo! Foods is your go-to destination for all your Keto diet, Low Carb and Diabetes friendly snacking needs! Our specially formulated range of FMCG Low Carb and High Protein snacks and other products will definitely satiate those looking to go on a journey of healthy eating, with NO COMPROMISE on flavor!
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...

Urmin Group is a fully-integrated branded packaged food manufacturing and processing corporate specializing in FMCG products. Headquartered in Ahmedabad, India, the company boosts of dedicated production of premium quality food products, skilled technologists and state-of-the-art production facility.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Tea, Food Delivery
Seed, Funding Round, Series C
India

Portfolio highlights

GamerJi Esports — Gamerji is an online eSports gaming platform where tournaments are created for different games such as PUBG, Call of Duty Mobile, Free Fire, Asphalt 9, WCC Rivals, Clash Royale etc. Users participate in these tournaments which are conducted by the team of Gamerji and depending on their performance, stand a chance to win real money and prizes.Gamerji is an online eSports gaming platform based out of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India and founded by Soham Thacker and Valay Patel in Dec 2018.
WebEngage — WebEngage offers CDP, Omnichannel Campaign Manager and Web & App Personalization Engine - to help brands boost their revenue from existing customers.
DevX — DevX - Coworking Office Space & Start-up Community in Ahmedabad, Mumbai and More Locations

We help the daring build legendary companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

ElevenLabs — Create the most realistic speech with our AI audio tools in 1000s of voices and 32 languages. Easy to use API's and SDK's. Scalable, secure, and customizable voice solutions tailored for enterprise needs. Pioneering research in Text to Speech and AI Voice Generation.
Intryc — Sample tickets, evaluate human and AI agents, and unlock customer insights with the power of AI with Intryc.
Blind Insight — Unlock secure collaboration with compliance-ready privacy-enhancing technology. Real-time searchable encryption and fine-grained access control so you don't have to choose between data protection and innovation.

Global Play Media

Investment focus

Gaming, Content, eSports
Funding Round
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.

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.

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

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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.

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