Top 50 ESports Startup Investors in India

Investor	eSports India investments
SucSEED Indovation	3
Unicorn India Ventures	2
Info Edge	2
Lead Angels Network	2
Aman Mishra	2
Vasim Akram	2
TopYa Aspac LLC	2
Lakshmi Narayanan	1
Venture Highway	1
First Cheque	1
Software Technology Parks of India	1
Capital A	1
Baldota Family Office	1
GameWith	1
Anjali Malhotra	1
Alpha Wave Global	1
SRI Capital	1
Khalid AlTawil	1
Argor Capital	1
Potential Ventures	1
Abhijeet Pai	1
Makers Fund	1
Anjali Hegde	1
KOMLAY Group	1
Saravanan Sundaramoorthy	1
Christopher Sargunam	1
Trifecta Capital Advisors	1
Raveen Sastry	1
ADvantage	1
Better Capital	1
Stellaris Venture Partners	1
Rajan Anandan	1
Rajesh Mane	1
JetSynthesys	1
Venu Palaparthi	1
Urmin Group	1
Lightbox	1
GVFL	1
SAMBAVANATH Group	1
Sajan Kurup	1
FJS Holdings Pvt. Ltd	1
Global Play Media	1
Boman Irani	1
Tiger Shroff	1
India Quotient	1
Archana Priyadarshini	1
Sandeep Tandon	1
Times Internet	1
Denlow Private Trust	1
RTP Global	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, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

SportVot — Watch the latest live sports with scores, highlights, and your favourite sports players from India. Latest sports updates online from tennis cricket, football, kabaddi, basketball, volleyball, and all other sports
esportsXO — esportsXO is a tournament discovery platform with largest pool of esports content creators and professional esports players. It owns several tournament IPs and country's largest, first of it's kind gaming house callee XOspace.
Cashvisory — We help you manage investments, insurance, loans, tax, expenses. An automated platform to create and execute your financial plan instantly. Try it free.

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

Information Technology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

HiWi — With HiWiPay, say goodbye to the long bank queues, paperwork hassles, and high markup fees. Transfer your money safely by completing the KYC ONCE and
Aurassure — Aurassure employs IoT-enabled intelligent systems to collect and analyze real-time data in order to provide accurate forecasts and updates on disasters and rapidly changing weather patterns such as floods, air pollution, and rainfall, as well as other climate data that can assist governments and citizens in making decisions for a healthy and safelifestyle.
Piscium Health Sciences — Piscium Health Sciences has been incubated at IIT Bombay. Our work on Nano Diamond Dental Burs has enabled us to gain DSIR-India recognition and grants from BIRAC

Info Edge provides online recruitment, matrimonial and real estate classifieds, and related services. 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 educationclassified site.It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Uttar, Pradesh.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Adda247 — Adda247 is India's largest vernacular learning platform with courses in more than 12 Indian languages. Adda247 is backed by marquee investors like Google, WestBridge Capital, Infoedge etc. Adda247 is on a mission to take quality education to the masses by providing online courses in local languages at a very affordable price.
Happily Unmarried — Happily Unmarried was anti established in 2003 with no vision and no business plan. Actually at somepoint they did make a business plan but according to that they should have retired 5 years ago.They make fun products, they do music festivals, they work with corporates when they want to do interesting work and lately they have been doing a lotof projects involving branding, communication, interiors, marketing all rolled into one (they are trying to think of a name for someone who does all that but no luck yet).
Startup Investments Holding — Startup Investments (holding) inolved in Legal, accounting, book-keeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy; market research and public opinion polling; business and management consultancy.

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, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

DOQFY — Doqfy offers online legal documentation , view encumbrance certificate,download,how to get encumbrance certificate & you require e-stamp paper with important documents.
oorja.energy — Simplify complex battery engineering from design to deployment with oorja's hybrid technology.
Ghost Kitchens — Join the fastest growing restaurant company in the country

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.

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.

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

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.

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, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ema — Ema is developing next-generation AI technologies to help every employee in the workplace be their most creative and productive. Ema is a seamless, accurate, and secure Enterprise Generative AI system that simplifies complex tasks using enterprise tools.
Grip Invest — Grip Invest is an alternative investment platform that offers Bonds, Commercial Real Estate, Invoice Financing & more with attractive returns. Explore Now!
Weekday — At Weekday, we help companies hire engineers who are vouched by other software engineers. We are enabling engineers to earn passive income by leveraging & monetizing the unused information in their head about the best people they have worked with.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Ellipsol — Our Next Generation Technologies generate and store more Green power by fundamentally enhancing the capabilities of existing PV systems
Ivory — Neuroscience-backed assessments & games to improve your brain health and live your best life.
oorja.energy — Simplify complex battery engineering from design to deployment with oorja's hybrid technology.

Baldota Family Office operates as a family investment office.

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.

GameWith is an online game information community that provides its users with hints and tips for smartphone games. Its initial focus is providing strategy guides for the rapidly expanding (and updating) mobile gaming market. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Minato, Japan.

Investment focus

Gaming, eSports, Video Games
Seed, Corporate Round
India, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Game Server Services — Game Server Services is an asset, game keeps important player data such as billing currency and character level.
GamingMonk — GamingMonk is an eSports gaming company based out of New Delhi, India. eSports or Competitive Gaming Tournaments are played across platforms such as PC, Console & Mobile. They currently have 2 verticals - Offline Tournaments & an Online eSports Portal.Offline Tournaments are held across India covering 8 cities so far with an expansionplan of covering 16 cities by next year.Online eSports Portal was launched in Aug 2017 with an idea of bringing the tournaments experience online & with a vision to reach out to every gamer in India.With a passion and a commitment to the best gaming experience, they at GamingMonk, have strived to create a community for gamers.A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, and gamers always know where to find an extra life.

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.

Alpha Wave Global provides asset classes, themes, and geographies from venture capital to public markets to credit. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Series B, Series A, Series C
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

HiBob — Hibob was founded in 2015 to modernize HR tech. Hibob's intuitive and data-driven platform, bob, was built for the way people work today: globally, remotely, and collaboratively. Since its launch, bob has achieved consecutive triple-digit year-over-year growth, and become the HRIS of choice for more than 1,000 modern, midsize and multinationalcompanies who understand that a powerful, agile HR tech suite is mission critical and a key driver of organizational success. Fast-growing companies across the globe rely upon bob to help HR and managers connect, engage, develop and retain top talent.
Bright Money — A new system for financial planning to delete debt and build wealth. Pay Down Debt Faster, Build Savings and Boost your Credit Score.
Acesion Pharma — Acesion Pharma ApS is a Danish biotech company founded in 2011 and based in Copenhagen. Acesion Pharma develops more efficacious and safe drugs for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common type of cardiac arrhythmia.

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.

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 — RentSher was established in 2016 and is an online platform for renting event furniture and services, electronics, medical and travel essentials. It manages order bookings, payments, deliveries and value added services.

Go-Ventures was initially conceived as a way for investors in Gojek to get exposure to the rapidly expanding technology ecosystem in Southeast Asia. The decision was ultimately made to set up an independent, but ecosystem-linked, fund that GoTo, its investors, and other value additive groups could invest in, which could deliver attractive financialreturns.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Food and Beverage
Series A, Seed, Series B
Indonesia, India, Uganda

Portfolio highlights

Paper.id — Atur tempo pembayaran bisnis serta kirim & terima pembayaran dengan kartu kredit, invoice juga langsung sah dengan e-Meterai. Coba Sekarang!
Fairatmos — Create your Green House Gasses sequestration project proposal, verify for credits, support projects and buy credits all in one platform.
PickUp Coffee — PickUp Coffee is a start-up that aims to increase the accessibility of espresso and milk-based beverages. PickUp Coffee is located in Taguig, Philippines.

Potential Ventures operates as a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Security, Training, Consulting
Series C
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 democratize access to good food on a sustainable basis. Good food is honest. They are in the business of selling food. To create the best food product out there, they assemble a team of people who are absolutely crazy about food.
BetterPlace — People-centric HR technology, employee benefits management, upskilling platform and workforce fulfilment solution. We help organisations achieve operational excellence.

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.

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

Forge — Forge is where gamers go to earn rewards and recognition from their achievements in gaming.
Blocklords — Be part of the most ambitious strategy game of our age.
Xixiang Ecological Chain Collection — Xixiang Ecological Chain Collection is a Web3 digital collection platform that includes encrypted art production, promotion, and collecting, as well as IP permission.

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.

KOMLAY Group

Investment focus

Sports, eSports, Digital Entertainment
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

The Esports Club — The Esports Club is an esports entertainment company that owns, operates, and partners with esports franchises.

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 — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!

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

Trifecta Capital Advisors India’s first independent venture debt firm.Venture debt is a form of specialty debt financing provided to companies that are not serviced by traditional lenders like Banks. The financing is usually structured as a combination of a loan along with limited equity investment rights (warrants). While established businesseshave many options for debt financing, new economy business have only had access to equity financing to fund their growth. We are here to change that.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Auxilo — Auxilo Finserve is a pro-education NBFC poised on serving the financing gaps in the Indian education sector, with its focus on students and scaling the education infrastructure through innovative financial solution delivery. At Auxilo, they effectively use technology to cater to the dynamic and challenging needs of the educational ecosystem andenable freedom of financial access throughout the nation by building inclusive financial algorithms and models that support the development of education. They aim to serve aspiring students across segments, be it Graduate or Post Graduate courses in India or abroad in countries like US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, Germany, Australia and any upcoming student-attractive countries.
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.
Atomberg Technology — Atomberg Technology aspires to be the "Tesla" of the world of household appliances. By combining the virtues of energy efficiency and Internet of Things, they will be coming up with smart, connected and intelligent appliances which will disrupt the appliances market forever.

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...

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, PaaS, Mobile Apps
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

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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.
RealFevr — Collect sports moments, battle against other players and earn rewards.

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!

We help fearless founders build legendary businesses. We are an early-stage, technology-focused, sector-agnostic investment firm. We lead our investments with deep conviction, committed to the journey of building a company from zero to one, and beyond.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Bangladesh

Portfolio highlights

Cirkla — Enabling brands to reduce their plastic footprint with sustainable packaging.
CARPL.ai — CARPL.ai is a discovery, exploration, validation, and deployment platform for medical imaging AI.
Dashtoon — Discover a diverse range of Manga and Manhwa, globalised for the world. Convert your stories into comics using our powerful Dashtoon Studio platform

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

NAYAN — NAYAN visual AI monitors and identifies real-time road events. NAYAN AI supports businesses and authorities by offering actionable insights on visual events, to make the world a safer place.
Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.

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!

Our aim is to build world class digital products, platforms and services in India, with a goal of impacting the daily digital lives of 1.3 Billion Indians. A billion+ reaching for their mobiles, we reach them through our products.

Investment focus

Music, Events, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed, Corporate Round
India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SonicJobs — Apply to your dream position with just one click, with the magic of AI. Sign up with SonicJobs today!
Artium Academy — Artium Academy is an Online Music Education platform that makes learning fun and accessible to people of all ages.
Jet Media Network — Jet Media Network is an exciting new venture between Box to Box Sports Marketing Ltd and JetEngage, part of an established and impressive group called the JetLine group

Venu Palaparthi

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Sports
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

YourPhysio — Patient satisfaction is our primary goal. Our clinic team of Physiotherapists. have some of the best expertise in Physiotherapy.
Juno — The easiest way to earn 5.00% on cash and access digital assets instantly. Terms and Conditions apply
American Cricket Enterprises — American Cricket Enterprises is a strategic partner of the professional T20 cricket league.

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...

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

Welcome to GVFL Ltd !GVFL Limited (formerly Gujarat Venture Finance Limited) is widely regarded as pioneer of Venture capital in India. It is an independent, autonomous Board managed venture finance company based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Evify — India's first carbon negative EV fleet
Video SDK — Video SDK is an API that enables developers to easily build live audio & video experiences in any platform within minutes. Try now - it's free!
Ghost Kitchens — Join the fastest growing restaurant company in the country

SAMBAVANATH Group

Investment focus

Sports, eSports, Digital Entertainment
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

The Esports Club — The Esports Club is an esports entertainment company that owns, operates, and partners with esports franchises.

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.

Private Equity

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

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.

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.

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 operates as a battery swapping network for e-rickshaws.
Revenant Esports — Welcome to Revenant Esports, The Biggest Esports Team in South Asia.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

Clinikk — Dedicated Care team of Doctors and Health Assistants, available 24/7.Budget friendly payment plans with comprehensive claim support.Holistic Healthcare coverage for the underserved.
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!

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.

A global, early-stage venture capital firm, backing founders who use technology to reimagine how the world works like Datadog, DeliveryHero and Cred.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Varaha — Varaha generates carbon credits through its tech solutions.
Recraft — The first generative AI design tool that lets users create and edit digital illustrations, vector art, icons, and 3D graphics in a uniform brand style.
International Battery Company — International Battery Company (IBC) is constructing unique I-NMC Prismatic cells in India at the planned non-captive Gigafactory. Because of their big form factor, IBC cells reduce battery complexity while providing 40% more energy density than LFP cells. They are also recyclable. These cells will be ideal for mobility applications (EVs). Thesupply chain will be localized and secure, allowing for energy independence.