Top 50 eSports Startup Investors in India (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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SucSEED Indovation
VC Fund
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3 | India, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $4k–$1.1M |
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Lead Invest
VC Fund
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3 | India, United States | Seed, Angel | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $82k–$1.5M |
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Aman Mishra
Angel
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2 | India | Seed | eSports | $1k–$1.2k |
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Unicorn India Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | India, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $286k–$12M |
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Mumbai Angels
VC Fund
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2 | India, United States, Singapore | Seed, Angel | Software, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage | $115k–$3M |
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Vasim Akram
Angel
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2 | India | Seed | eSports | $1k–$1.2k |
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TopYa Aspac LLC
VC Fund
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2 | India | Seed, Pre-Seed | EdTech, Sports, eSports | |
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Info Edge
VC Fund
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2 | India, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $298k–$33M |
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SOSV
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | |
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Dream Sports Investments
VC Fund
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1 | India | Series A | eSports, Analytics, Fantasy Sports | |
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Lakshmi Narayanan
Angel
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1 | India, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Sports | $30k–$16M |
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NuVentures
VC Fund
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1 | India, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Travel, Internet | $400k–$5.3M |
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Duane Park
VC Fund
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1 | India | Series A, Series B | Family, Gaming, Content | |
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Peak XV Partners
VC Fund
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1 | India, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce | |
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Potential Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | India | Series C | Gaming, Content, eSports | |
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APRIL Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | India | Seed, Pre-Seed | Retail, Fashion, eSports | |
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Smile Group
VC Fund
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1 | India, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Internet, Advertising, E-Commerce | |
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Orbit Startups
VC Fund
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1 | India, Singapore, Pakistan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software | |
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Baldota Family Office
VC Fund
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1 | India | Gaming, Content, eSports | ||
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Pivot Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | India | Convertible Note | Gaming, Content, eSports | |
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Arthayan
VC Fund
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1 | India | Seed | Sports, Content, eSports | |
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Anjan Kumar
Angel
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1 | India | Seed | eSports | |
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Venture Highway
VC Fund
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1 | India, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Internet | |
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Saravanan Sundaramoorthy
Angel
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1 | India | Pre-Seed | Sports, eSports, Internet | |
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North Base Media
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Digital Media, Publishing, Advertising | $75k–$23M |
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Shamsher Singh
Angel
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1 | India | Pre-Seed | Sports, eSports | |
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Eximius Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | India, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Finance, Apps, Gaming | $485k–$4.8M |
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Abhijeet Pai
Angel
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1 | India | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Food and Beverage, Financial Services, E-Commerce | $500k–$6M |
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India Quotient
VC Fund
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1 | India, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Series B | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | $481k–$32M |
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JetSynthesys
VC Fund
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1 | India, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Corporate Round | Music, Events, Gaming | $95k–$28M |
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Sequoia Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, China, India | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $6M–$200M |
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Kalaari Capital
VC Fund
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1 | India, United States, Singapore | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $800k–$25M |
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SRI Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Sweden | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning | $500k–$10M |
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Venu Palaparthi
Angel
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1 | India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Sports | $3M–$18M |
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Dhruv Chitgopekar
Angel
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1 | India, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Content, eSports | |
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Archana Priyadarshini
Angel
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1 | India, United States, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | SaaS, Financial Services, Information Technology | $178k–$3.1M |
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Aarin Capital
VC Fund
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1 | India, United States, Singapore | Series A, Seed | Education, Biotechnology, Software | $220k–$12M |
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FJS Holdings Pvt. Ltd
VC Fund
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1 | India | Seed | EdTech, Sports, eSports | |
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Manu Midha
Angel
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1 | India, United States, Pakistan | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Trading Platform, Apps, SaaS | |
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First Cheque
VC Fund
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1 | India, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Internet, Information Technology | $130k–$3M |
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Akshay Sasikumar
Angel
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1 | India | Pre-Seed | Sports, eSports, Internet | |
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Raveen Sastry
Angel
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1 | India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Internet, Education, Information Technology | $250k–$6.3M |
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Rajan Anandan
Angel
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1 | India, United States, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | $30k–$17M |
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Khalid AlTawil
Angel
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1 | Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | E-Commerce, Gaming, eSports | $165k–$1.2M |
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Trevor Wright
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Information Technology, Gaming | $25k–$10M |
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Kunal Shah
Angel
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1 | India, United States, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $350k–$15M |
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Anjali Hegde
Angel
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1 | India | Angel | Gaming, Content, eSports | |
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Christopher Sargunam
Angel
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1 | India | Seed | EdTech, Sports, eSports | |
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Anjali Malhotra
Angel
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1 | India | Seed, Angel | Gaming, Content, eSports | |
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Base Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Brazil, United Kingdom | Series A, Series C, Series E | Software, FinTech, Payments | $9.5M–$500M |
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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.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $60k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $4k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $12M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Edmingle — An Unified platform that helps training and learning businesses to build their courses, scale operations and manage the business without any technology hassles. Edmingle is the only tool you need to launch your digital academy.
- 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
- We360.ai — We360.ai is an employee monitoring and tracking software that tracks employee's activity and enhance productivity.
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.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: India, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Seed $100k–$1.5M; Angel $82k–$595k
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kidbea — Kidbea is India's first sustainable fashion-tech brand exclusively for kids. We make "certified organic, spill-proof, anti-bacterial, breathable, and softest" kids products. We aim to provide non-toxic sustainable products to the children and a relaxed parenting to every toddler's parent.
- Fundamento — Measure and develop critical future-ready behavioral skills so you can achieve unparalleled success in your careers
- EventBeep — EventBeep is an online events platform that provides all events information to students.
Aman Mishra
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- Industry: eSports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1k–$1.2k
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flame Esports — Flame Esports is an organization that aims to provide opportunities in the world of esports games.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 98
- Round size: Seed $286k–$2.7M; Series A $2.5M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Ikin Global — Discover IKIN's smart locks for enterprises. Secure assets with our Smart GPS lock, container lock, bolt seal, and more. Enjoy live tracking and access control.
- Qube Health — QubeHealth simplifies Employee Healthcare Benefits management for the Biggest Companies in India
- Deep Algorithms Solutions — Deep Algorithms Solutions IT Services and Consulting firm that offer solutions to their clients with AI, Cloud, IOT and Robotics.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: India, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 214
- Round size: Seed $298k–$3M; Angel $115k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- WittyParrot — Is a sustainable and innovative company that provides residential & commercial waste collection services to rural America.
- Insta Health — Insta by Practo is the best software for the Hospital Management System. It empowers you with a platform to run financial, clinical & operational processes
- The Parfait Co — The Parfait Co is a Mumbai-based dessert maker and manufacturer. Launched by Sharmeen Indorewala in October 2014, The Parfait Co offers a menu of twelve flavours of French style parfait, a frozen dessert made of whipped cream, eggs, and fruit.
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- Industry: eSports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1k–$1.2k
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flame Esports — Flame Esports is an organization that aims to provide opportunities in the world of esports games.
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- Industry: EdTech, Sports, eSports
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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
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.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: India, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Round size: Seed $298k–$3.5M; Series A $1.9M–$8.7M; Series B $2.3M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Gnani.ai — Empowering businesses to build Multilingual Conversational AI for customer service automation and omnichannel analytics.
- Growcoms — Growcoms comes with a collective people work experience of more than 30 years in the agri-commodity export industry.
- Yes Madam — Yes madam ( Notion online solutions Pvt Ltd.) is a customer focused tech platform, which aims to disrupt every service sector and provide complete transparency in each and every services on our platform with the help of technology . For us - the customers comes first , employees second , and we comes in the end .
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.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1482
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Dream Sports Investments makes investments in sports-tech businesses.
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- Industry: eSports, Analytics, Fantasy Sports
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FanCode — Live Cricket Match Streaming Online & Cricket Highlights & Videos with FanCode. Get Live Scores & Coverage, Ball by Ball Commentary, News, Fantasy Tips, Schedule, Videos, Match Highlights, Replays of ICC Cricket matches & more.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Sports
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $298k–$16M; Angel $30k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- QpiAI — QpiAI - Building Next-Generation AI Solutions and Quantum Software
- AGNIT Semiconductors — AGNIT Semiconductors offers ultra-efficient GaN RF solutions with Epi wafers, components & modules for telecom, defense & strategic applications.
- Clean Core Thorium Energy — Clean Core Thorium Energy develops advanced nuclear fuel for existing reactors.
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- Industry: Software, Travel, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: India, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $400k–$5.3M; Series A $2.5M–$4.4M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Flaunt — Flaunt is an AI-native SaaS platform that gives beauty, fashion and lifestyle brands a full team of AI agents to handle social media marketing end-to-end - from discovering what's trending, to creating on-brand content, to publishing it across every channel.The problem Brand teams spend weeks manually tracking social trends, briefingdesigners, managing creator collaborations, and scheduling posts across platforms. By the time content goes live, the moment has passed.The solution Flaunt replaces fragmented tools and manual workflows with 9 purpose-built AI agents across three categories:**Discovery:** Sentinel acts as your always-on social media analyst, monitoring trends, sentiment and engagements 24/7. The Fashion Trend Agent tracks emerging design patterns across runways, fashion weeks and social platforms. The Content Discovery Agent surfaces top-performing content by topic, hook, style and more.**Creation:** Generate on-brand social media visuals, banners and post templates. Enrich product catalogs with trending backgrounds and festive elements. Transform mannequin product shots into professional catalog-ready images with AI models.**Distribution:** Schedule and auto-publish posts, stories and reels to Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. Auto-enrich PDPs, landing pages and hero sections across e-commerce. Configure trending content for audience retargeting via email, WhatsApp and more.Why brands choose Flaunt - **150+ content attributes** tracked across millions of social media posts - **10M+ content processed** to power insights and recommendations - **98% accuracy** on trend detection and content analysis - **Purpose-built for beauty and fashion- not a generic marketing toolTrusted by brands including LEGO, TRENT Limited, Imagine Apple Stores, Westside, Samoh, AY Beauty, Gaga Skincare, Genebody Care, The Stupid Co., Chamee & Palak and more.Getting started: Connect your brand accounts, configure your agents, and go live in minutes. Try Flaunt at letsflaunt.com or book a demo at calendly.com/letsflaunt/30min.
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- Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
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.
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- Industry: Family, Gaming, Content
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: India, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 567
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Alex AI — Conduct real-time interviews with your AI Interviewer
- InVideo — Create & edit AI videos, AI Avatars, UGC product ads and much more!
- Truemeds — Buy medicines online with Truemeds. Get flat 25% off on your first order and save up to 51%* on genuine medicines delivered across India.
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- Industry: Gaming, Content, eSports
- Stage:Series C
- Geography: India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Venture capital fund focused on multiple sectors
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- Industry: Retail, Fashion, eSports
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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 — A new Esports platform that brings all of the Esports ecosystem in one place.
Smile is Asia’s leading platform that builds internet businesses with passionate entrepreneurs. We partner with fast-growing companies for their expansion and invest in disruptive companies.Business Building We build and operate companies across multiple domains such as digital media, consumer internet, SaaS and more. We operate Tyroo, APAC’sLargest Multi-Screen Performance Network and SingleInterface, a location-based marketing company for multi-location enterprise retail brands. Some notable ones are as follows: -> Quasar sold to WPP -> SVG Media sold to Dentsu Aegis Network -> Squad Digital sold to Scan GroupPartnerships (Katalyzers) We partner with fast growing technology companies to expand their business overseas. Our partnerships include Airbnb, WPP(Prodigi/Hogarth India), WPP Africa and moreInvestments We enable entrepreneurship by investing in disruptive companies. Our investments include Letsbuy.com, HackerEarth, Scoopwhoop, Yumlane, Rapido, Wealthy, The Man Company, Bira 91, Little Eye Labs and more Say Hello! info@smile.co.in
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- Industry: Internet, Advertising, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
- Moonrider — Moonrider is an electric tractor technology company focused on developing heavy-duty electric tractors designed to reduce farming costs and improve operational efficiency for farmers and fleet operators. With a focus on reliability and reduced upfront cost of ownership, Moonrider tractors enable sustainable farming practices with a mission toenhance farm profitability and productivity.
- Hapbee Technologies — Hapbee is the next generation of wearable wellness technology. Chemical-free and satisfaction guaranteed to improve your sleep, energy and mood. Naturally fall asleep faster, stay asleep all-night, improve your REM sleep and wake up feeling refreshed. Manage your focus and mood without stimulants or drugs.
Orbit Startups helps companies scaling breakthrough technologies across emerging and frontier markets to the regions with the most aggressive growth.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: India, Singapore, Pakistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 123
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- TAPPI — TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
- Braingaze — Braingaze solves major challenges around cognitive disorders of the brain. We use a patented neuro-biomarker based on small involuntary eye movements. These are triggered by functional games, the resulting signal is analysed using algorithms trained by Deep Learning based on actual real patient / control cases. We adress pre-symptomatic stagesof Alzheimer's disease and the most common child cognitive disorder ADHD. Our tools are on the market and covered by a CE Mark as a medical device. Our pipeline includes detection / diagnostic tools as well as digital therapy solutions that have shown to reduce symtoms by over 50%.
- Tappi — Convert one-time customers into loyal ones by getting discovered, growing leads and building your business reputation.
Baldota Family Office operates as a family investment office.
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- Industry: Gaming, Content, eSports
- Geography: India
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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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.
The domain name, pivot.asia, beckons the ambitious minds of startups seeking to navigate the ever-changing tides of business in the Asian market. It encapsulates the essence of adaptability, resilience, and strategic maneuvering. An evocati
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- Industry: Gaming, Content, eSports
- Stage:Convertible Note
- Geography: India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
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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- Industry: Sports, Content, eSports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Reckoning Esports — Reckoning Esports is a leading esports brand for Teams and Talent Management. We endeavour to create quality content to keep our audience, fans, communities growing and engaged We strive to identify unearthed talent from the world of esports, equip them with professional support and opportunities.
Anjan Kumar
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- Industry: eSports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Flame Esports — Flame Esports is an organization that aims to provide opportunities in the world of esports games.
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.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: India, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 96
- Lead/follow: no public data
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 — Kintsugi is the global sales tax automation and compliance platform for ecommerce and SaaS companies. Save 10+ hrs/month on manual work and thousands on tax costs.
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.
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- Industry: Sports, eSports, Internet
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
NBM is a specialized firm that successfully pioneered global digital-media investing over the last decade, backing successes like IDN Media in Indonesia, Pocket Aces in India, TheNewsLens in Taiwan and Capital Digital in Mexico. Its first venture fund, launched in 2015, consistently ranks in the top quartile of media and global venture funds. TheFund, which has been backed by several of the world’s leading media brands, is now open to other investors as its investment team moves to take advantage of the sudden rise of opportunities and new valuations in the global media landscape. NBM’s co-founders are Marcus Brauchli, the former top editor at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal; Sasa Vucinic, the longtime CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). The firm’s general counsel is Stuart Karle, former COO of Reuters and General Counsel of the Journal.
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- Industry: Digital Media, Publishing, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Seed $75k–$5.7M; Series A $2M–$8M; Series B $2M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $19M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Majarra — Majarra is an Arabic online content provider in the region.
- Rappler — Rappler is the Philippines' leading digital media company that's driven by uncompromising journalism, enabled by technology, and enriched by communities of action.
- Kaleidoscope — Kaleidoscope Content, bringing vivid stories from around the globe. Listen in color!
Shamsher Singh
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- Industry: Sports, eSports
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Eximius Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund.
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- Industry: Finance, Apps, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $485k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2021
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- ProLearn — ProLearn is an AI-native learning technology app that provides interactive AI tutor for K-12 learners and competitive test candidates.
Abhijeet Pai is founder of Gruhas Proptech.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $600k–$3.5M; Series A $500k–$6M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.2M–$4.2M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WedMeGood — WedMeGood is an online platform that allows its users to connect to each other and create a plan for a wedding. Its platform enables its clients to create accounts and browse for a photographer. The company utilizes vendors, marketing collaborations, and wedding submissions. Wed Me Good was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Haryana, India.
- SolarSquare Energy — Visit Solarsquare, India's only UL-certified solar installation company for hassle-free commercial & residential solar panel installation at 0 cost EMI & PPA options.
- Nao Spirits & Beverages — Discover the finest premium Craft Gins from Goa - Hapusa Himalayan Dry Gin and Greater Than London Dry Gin. Click to explore the best dry gins from India.
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.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: India, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 183
- Round size: Seed $481k–$3.3M; Series A $1.7M–$7.7M; Series B $4.6M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FAB BAG — FAB BAG (www.fabbag.com) is a beauty/grooming discovery and subscription platform. Every month thousands of members sign up to receive expert-recommended full and travel-sized products from top global brands that they can sample at home. Member benefits also include discounts on sampled products and detailed information on how to use theseproducts. FAB BAG also has an extensive range of premium & prestige products for sale online and frequently hosts offline workshops and product launches in collaboration with beauty brands.Launched in 2012 under the brand "Vellvette" (www.vellvette.com), the company rebranded to FAB BAG (www.fabbag.com) in late 2013.
- Gimi Michi — GimiMichi is an Indian food brand that brings authentic Korean-style ramen to consumers with bold, spicy, and flavorful noodle products inspired by Korean cuisine , offering premium taste and convenience at an affordable price. The brand focuses on delivering a quick, satisfying meal experience with rich broths, chewy noodles, and real vegetableingredients.
- General Autonomy — General Autonomy is a robotics firm on the cutting edge of manufacturing and automation for the future.
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.
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- Industry: Music, Events, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Corporate Round
- Geography: India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $750k–$19M; Corporate Round $95k–$28M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Woloo — Woloo is a tech enabled loo-discovery platform app that helps women to locate the nearest washroom, whenever they are away from their home.
- NODWIN Gaming — NODWIN Gaming is a global entertainment leader, specializing in youth culture, esports, gaming, music, anime, comics & comedy.
- Kratos Gamer Network (KGeN) — Discover KGeN, where gaming meets the future. Dive into a world of cutting-edge technology and immersive experiences, designed for the next generation of gamers. Join us and redefine the way you play
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, China, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1825
- Round size: Series A $6M–$54M; Series B $11M–$100M; Series C $12M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- ApnaPaisa — ApnaPaisa offers the Best Deals on Home Loans, Personal Loans, Credit Cards and EMI Calculators in India. EST'D 2007.
- Decolar.com — Decolar.com is an online travel agency that offers complete travel services, including tickets, tour packages, accommodation, and car rental. Since 1999, more than 2,000,000 people have bought their air tickets through this platform.Decolar.com is present in 21 countries, including Argentina, the U.S., and Spain. It has a partnership of more than500 airlines and 150,000 hotels worldwide. When purchasing an airline ticket or travel package, Decolar.com’s customers also receive discounts at restaurants and shops in the chosen destination, plus 10% discount on purchases in Duty Free.Decolar.com was launched in 1999 and is based in Guarulhos, Sao Paulo.
- Remote — Hire international talent in minutes. Remote is the most disruptive global payroll, tax, HR and compliance solution for distributed teams.
Kalaari is a $160 million venture capital fund with a strong advisory team in Bangalore investing in early-stage, technology-oriented companies in India.Kalaari Capital invests in the unknown Indian entrepreneur who is poised to become tomorrow’s global leader. They are India’s leading investor in early-stage businesses, nurturing them throughevery aspect of growth on the transformative journey toward success.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: India, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 226
- Round size: Seed $800k–$4M; Series A $2M–$12M; Series B $4M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
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- Possible — Possible is research and nutrition-based healthcare company that provides weight loss counseling and a wide range of effective superfoods for people from across India. The company intends to provide sustainable and healthy weight loss solutions focusing on healthy eating and not on machines, surgery, and weight loss pills.
- Robosoft Technologies — Robosoft is a proven partner in design & development of digital product platforms with end-to-end solutions in Consulting, UI/UX, application development & embedded engineering.
We invest in transformative companies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, robotics, and enterprise software, bridging innovation across the United States and India.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3M; Series A $1M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $45M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Yellowdig — Yellowdig offers educators a gameful learning digital solution to improve student engagement by building learning communities.
- Brown Foods — Brown Foods is to produce “real cow’s milk” in a laboratory.
- SoftWear Automation — SoftWear Automation, Inc. is an Atlanta-based machine vision and advanced robotics startup disrupting the $1.1 trillion apparel and textile industry. The company’s revolutionary, patented, fully-automated Sewbot technology was developed over nine years of R&D in collaboration with Georgia Tech and funding from DARPA, the Walmart Foundation,and Private Venture Capital.
Venu Palaparthi is the Chief Operating Officer of DriveWealth. He previously worked at Patomak Global Partners as a Managing Director. Venu Palaparthi attended The University of Texas at Arlington.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Sports
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $3M–$3M; Series A $18M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- YourPhysio — Fix Health (Previously YourPhysio) combines AI with physiotherapy expertise. 70+ best physiotherapists have done 100,000+ sessions online, in clinic & at home. Quality assured by BTA, UK.
- Juno — On-ramp to more than 20 chains with no holding period on crypto withdrawals
- American Cricket Enterprises — American Cricket Enterprises is a strategic partner of the professional T20 cricket league.
Dhruv Chitgopekar
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- Industry: Gaming, Content, eSports
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Praan — Praan builds the world's most advanced air purification technologies for commercial and industrial applications.
- Rooter — Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop.
Archana Priyadarshini is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Forward Slash Capital. She previously worked at PointOne Capital Fund 1 as a General Partner. Archana Priyadarshini attended Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
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- Industry: SaaS, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: India, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $275k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $178k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
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.
Who We Are Aarin Capital is a proprietary venture fund that invests in technology-intensive businesses in life-sciences & healthcare, education and other potentially large India-centric or India-first market opportunities. Technology and differentiation are key to the businesses that we invest in, led by passionate and driven founders. We aim to fund companies that
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- Industry: Education, Biotechnology, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: India, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $220k–$12M; Series A $3M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- 88academics — 88academics (INDIA) has been established with the social objective of making quality video-based learning material available to ALL Indian students. Technology, connectivity, and social media are rapidly changing the world of Education and we wish to lead the democratization of the tuition industry in India. The current tuition options available inthe market are expensive and cater only to the upper classes leaving students from middle and lower-income families at a disadvantage. We intend to leverage technology to level the playing field.
- Magic Crate — Magic Crate is an innovative early childhood learning company that is a pioneer and market leader in the area of discovery kits for young children. Magic Crate was set up in early 2014 by young parents from IIT, IIM, NID and Georgia Tech. as a subscription service that delivers activity boxes based on fresh new themes to their customer’s doorstepseach month.
- Foodlink F&B Holdings India Pvt. Ltd. — FOODLINK provides catering and banquet management services.
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- Industry: EdTech, Sports, eSports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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
Manu Midha is the Founder and CEO of Arnifi. He previously worked at Fincobox as a Founder and CEO. Manu Midha attended the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.
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- Industry: Trading Platform, Apps, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: India, United States, Pakistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OpsLyft — OpsLyft Inc. is a San-Francisco & Noida-based technology company working towards building the future of cloud infrastructure management for internet companies across the world. The company leverages artificial intelligence and analytics to deliver insights and automate routine workflows that help software teams build, test, and deploy anyworkload on any cloud with no downtimes and at the lowest possible cloud infrastructure spend. Our mission is to simplify cloud management for all internet companies across the world. We are currently working with some of the largest companies across India - Inshorts, Innovaccer, Purplle, Zenoti etc. and are rapidly expanding our presence in the US geography as well. In addition to it, we are backed by some of the top investors from Silicon Valley and India.
- Tournafest — Tournafest™️ is the one-stop destination created by the gamers for the gamers. Tournafest is reinventing the Esports ecosystem with a seamless and motivating platform where gamers can enhance their skills with a network alike.
- Hamilton Practice — Patient and Practice Management Platform
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.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: India, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 117
- Round size: Seed $200k–$3M; Pre-Seed $130k–$904k
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $4.5M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Lorazzo — India-led, design-first brand creating innovative and smart kitchen sinks online, bathroom accessories, and sanitary ware. Built for modern homes with style, practicality, and budget-friendly pricing. Shop now!
- 30 Sundays — Book personalized international tours, adventures, and accommodations designed specifically for couples. Perfect for honeymoons, anniversaries, and special celebrations.
- BitScale — BitScale enables growth teams to create scalable AI operations. Bitscale is developing a new form of UI that allows sales and marketing professionals to automate their manual procedures, making them 10X more successful.
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- Industry: Sports, eSports, Internet
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Raveen Sastry is a co-founder of Previously, Sastry co-founded Myntraand served the company as head of B2B and indirect sales.
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- Industry: Internet, Education, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6.3M; Angel $250k–$284k; Pre-Seed $250k–$877k
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cautio — Cautio is a Visual Telematics company that provides safety and security to drivers and passengers.
- Circle — A Smarter Way to Shop - Circle It!
- KayEss Square Consulting — KayEss Square Consulting is a business consulting firm specializing in transaction advisory, corporate services, and restructuring services.
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.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: India, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Seed $150k–$3M; Angel $30k–$650k; Series A $3.6M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Smytten — Discover Trial Packs from 1200+ top brands on Smytten. Explore 250+ lifestyle categories and try sample products across skincare, haircare, makeup, fragrances & more.
- 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.
Khalid AlTawil is a Board Member at Saudi Chemcial Company.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Gaming, eSports
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $165k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
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).
- Glamera — Glamera B2B2C: SaaS platform to power beauty salons, spa, Gym and barber shops, to optimize sales, booking, marketing, inventory and HR. Glamera White Label: Every service provider can create his own website, to help his customer in pre-booking his services. Glamera B2C: Mobile application for end user to book beauty and wellness appointment.
I am entrepreneur and operator. In the past, I co-Founded and sold Vitrue to Oracle for $300 M. I also co-Founded and sold Black Bag Advertising to WPP for $14 M. I was also on the founding team At Flycast Network which had an IPO and was later acquired for $2.2 B. I am currently an angel investor with company exists totaling over $1 B so far.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $25k–$9.4M; Series A $3M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ByteBrew — Trusted by over 2500 Game Developers! ByteBrew is the world's most powerful all-in-one game analytics platform that houses all your mobile game's analytics, retention, monetization tracking, player progression, remote configs, a/b testing, custom event tracking and attribution measurement in one lightweight SDK - all 100% free.
- HYPOTHETIC — Hypothetic builds technology and tools to benefit 3D creators. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Los Angeles, California, United States.
- Axie Infinity — Axie Infinity is a virtual world filled with cute, formidable creatures known as Axies. Axies can be battled, collected, and even used to mine tokens through gameplay.
Kunal Shah
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 258
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $350k–$2M; Series A $3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LiLLBUD — LiLLBUD is a premium toy brand committed to early skill acquisition in infants between 0–36 months. Driven by the Montessori philosophy, we create sensory-stimulating, age-perfect toys that facilitate motor, cognitive, and emotional development during a child's most important growth phase—the first 1000 days.Started by IIT Delhi alumniAbhishek Sharma and Ayush Bansal (also IIM Ahmedabad), LiLLBUD combines neuroscience-supported play and stunning craftsmanship to Indian homes. At LiLLBUD, our aim is to provide quality early learning in reach, even to nuclear family formations where social play may be restricted.We introduced ourselves in 2025 with a direct-to-consumer platform on www.lillbud.com and are establishing a trusted community of parents, pediatricians, and teachers who share a belief in play with purpose.
- Helium — Helium is a proptech/residential rental startup focused on gated society apartments in India.
- HireQuotient — With the vision to disrupt the hiring process for business roles globally, HireQuotient’s virtual interviewers help companies test business skills at scale in an engaging and realistic manner, saving clients millions of dollars and man-hours. It has been used by more than 30,000 candidates in over 42 countries, and generated significant timesavings for hiring organisations while improving candidate quality in interviews.
Anjali Hegde - Co-founder @ Interactive Avenues
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- Industry: Gaming, Content, eSports
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Christopher Sargunam
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- Industry: EdTech, Sports, eSports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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- 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
Anjali Malhotra
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- Industry: Gaming, Content, eSports
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Series A, Series C, Series E
- Geography: United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Series A $9.5M–$36M; Series C $93M–$500M; Series E $92M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $53M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Praso — Praso is a business-to-business platform that connects large food service producers with small shops such as bars, restaurants, cafés, and bakeries, offering a data-driven approach to demand generation, last-mile logistics, understanding purchase behavior, and a credit solution.
- Liquido — Liquido is an online payment platform developer that provides turn-key mobile payment solutions. The platform of company provides instant transactions, cross-border technical support, and pay-in and pay-out solutions, allowing clients to make payments with ease.
- Pledge — Pledge makes it simple for businesses of every size to measure, reduce and offset the climate impact of their products.
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