Top 50 eSports Startup Investors in India (June 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 Angels Network
VC Fund
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3 | India, United States | Seed, Angel | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $82k–$1.5M |
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Unicorn India Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | India, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $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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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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TopYa Aspac LLC
VC Fund
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2 | India | Seed, Pre-Seed | EdTech, Sports, eSports | |
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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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Aman Mishra
Angel
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2 | India | Seed | eSports | $1k–$1.2k |
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Abhijeet Pai
Angel
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1 | India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage | $500k–$6M |
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Sandeep Tandon
Angel
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1 | India, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Angel | Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet | $810k–$10M |
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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 | $500k–$32M |
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Aparna Rajkumar
Angel
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1 | India | Pre-Seed | Sports, eSports, Internet | |
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JetSynthesys
VC Fund
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1 | India, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Corporate Round | Music, Events, Gaming | $750k–$3M |
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Boman Irani
Angel
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1 | India | Angel | Gaming, Content, eSports | |
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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 | $5.5M–$190M |
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Better Capital
VC Fund
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1 | India, United States, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, Information Technology | $261k–$20M |
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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 | $850k–$26M |
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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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Prantik Dasgupta
Angel
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1 | India | Angel | 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, Pakistan, Singapore | 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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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 | $136k–$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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Akshay Sasikumar
Angel
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1 | India | Pre-Seed | Sports, eSports, Internet | |
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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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Raveen Sastry
Angel
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1 | India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Internet, Education, Information Technology | $250k–$6.3M |
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Saravanan Sundaramoorthy
Angel
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1 | India | Pre-Seed | Sports, eSports, Internet | |
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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–$15M |
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Khalid AlTawil
Angel
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1 | Egypt, India, United Arab Emirates | Seed | Gaming, eSports, Rental | $165k–$600k |
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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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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–$8M |
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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–$16M |
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Anjali Hegde
Angel
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1 | India | Angel | Gaming, Content, eSports | |
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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: 77
- Round size: Seed $15k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $4k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $12M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Anantadi — Anantadi - Welcome to the future of advertising, an Un-interrupted, Un-skippable, Un-avoidable ads. In-Video Advertisement (Virtual Product Placement) backed by AI to analyze, find and insert branded products/signages virtually into video content. On-demand virtual product/signage placement across the entire entertainment content.
- 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.
- 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.
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: 98
- Round size: Seed $135k–$1.5M; Angel $82k–$595k
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grest — Buy your dream iPhone at an affordable price. Grest offers best in class certified premium refurbished iPhone with 6 month warranty at the best prices in India.
- 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
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 95
- Round size: Seed $286k–$3M; Series A $715k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Nava — AI-native cloud infrastructure designed for intelligent workloads. Deploy, scale, and manage your AI systems with autonomous cloud computing.
- ForeignAdmits — ForeignAdmits is an AI Powered CRM and Platform for Study Abroad Consultants and Student for enabling end to end Study Abroad Journey.
- 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: 211
- Round size: Seed $357k–$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
- BabyChakra — If you're thinking of getting pregnant or researching on how to conceive - you're in the right place. Here you'll learn about ovulation, signs of pregnancy, fertility and guidelines on when to be concerned about a possible fertility problem.
- WittyParrot — Is a sustainable and innovative company that provides residential & commercial waste collection services to rural America.
- 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.
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: 113
- Round size: Seed $298k–$3.5M; Series A $1.9M–$10M; Series B $2.3M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Aisle — Aisle connects the new generation of single independent Indians from around the world looking for meaningful relationships.
- 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.
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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
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.
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: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flame Esports — Flame Esports is an organization that aims to provide opportunities in the world of esports games.
Abhijeet Pai is founder of Gruhas Proptech.
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- Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $500k–$2.8M; Pre-Seed $800k–$1M; Series A $500k–$6M
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% 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.
- 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.
- The New Shop — 24x7 omnichannel convenience retail stores for the "New" India
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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- Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: India, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $810k–$6M; Series A $3M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dukaan® — Dukaan operates as a platform that enables small merchants to set up online stores in a process that it claims can be done within 30 seconds.
- 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.
- Genius Teacher — Genius Teacher is a full-stack ed-tech company which creates engaging educational content for K-10, delivers a fun learning experience to the students and provides real-time insights to the teachers. It has an ecosystem of educational and analytics apps that make learning more engaging and results in better learning outcomes.The products are usedby teachers to teach board curriculum with exemplary stories and fun facts from the world. Besides the class, students also use the product at home to revise and learn the topics in depth with practical applications. Students' interaction with content provides real-time analytics and insights to the teacher on what they can do to enhance learning.It currently works with schools and learners in APAC regions, soon launching in EMEA regions too.
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: 175
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3.3M; Series A $2M–$8.8M; Series B $4.6M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Luru — Luru is your omni present revenue workspace that increases Sales Rep productivity and helps implement practical playbooks that accelerate sales velocity
- 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.
- Furnishka — Furnishka is a furniture industries that provides wide range of products for home decor items, sofa, coffee tables and dining tables.
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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.
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: 6
- Round size: Seed $750k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
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
Boman Irani
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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.
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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: 1689
- Round size: Series A $5.5M–$45M; Series B $10M–$100M; Series C $12M–$190M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Sourcepulse — Sourcepulse is the internal status page for software delivery, alerting teams before costly delays. We collect anonymous feedback from project members to identify exactly what to fix, just like how Sentry captures system details for production errors.
- Decart — Decart is an AI platform significantly improves the training and inference of large generative models.
- Faire — Faire helps local stores discover and try thousands of unique items risk-free.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 183
- Round size: Seed $476k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $261k–$1.5M; Series A $4.3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Turns — Turns is the best laundromat and cleaners software, POS (Point of Sale) for modern Laundromats and dry cleaners to manage and grow their business. Book free demo today.
- Gullak.Money — Gullak helps you create wealth starting with the first step of automating your savings. Gullak automatically saves money from your account via UPI autopay & invest these savings into wealth-creating assets, starting with digital gold investments.
- Honestly — Honestly is an AI-enhanced beauty and personal care platform that uses technology to provide individualized suggestions and improves the user experience through innovation.
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: 219
- Round size: Seed $850k–$4M; Series A $2M–$12M; Series B $4M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Hyperbots — Hyperbots specializes in developing AI-powered finance assistants that automate and transform repetitive tasks.
- Peer Robotics — Discover the latest cutting-edge robotics solutions at Peer Robotics. We offer innovative products and services to revolutionize industries.
- SimpliContract — SimpliContract is the industry's most capable AI-first CLM platform, purpose-built for enterprises' legal, sales, and procurement teams. Learn more now.
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: 32
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3M; Series A $1M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $45M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Meddo — Meddo (Arctern Healthcare) are re-defining how primary and secondary healthcare is provided in India through a connected care delivery platform.
- 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.
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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.
Prantik Dasgupta
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- Industry: Gaming, Content, eSports
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% 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.
- Ziptrrip — Experience seamless corporate travel management services & solutions with top travel agency in Mumbai. Book smarter business trips across India with Ziptrrip.
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: 30
- Round size: Seed $250k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $178k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% 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
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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
Manu invests in early stage companies through Whitehill Ventures. As part of this executive role he heads Middle East Region for OYO Hotels. He started OYO business in 2018 and scaled it to more than 200 hotels across KSA, UAE, Oman and Bahrain markets. He has travelled extensively across ME and developed strong relationships. He is credited withtwo successful exits in e-commerce, Infibeam through IPO and Souq through acquisition by Amazon. He headed Electronics business for Souq.com in UAE. Prior to Souq, Manu was Vice President, Planning and Strategy at Infibeam. He was responsible for launching and growing BuildaBazaar in India and Middle East.
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- Industry: Trading Platform, Apps, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: India, Pakistan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% 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.
- Kissan Pro — Kissan Pro provides an all-in-one platform to empower farmers through technology, design, and data science. While it develops and promotes the effective use of the most advanced technology, it has also help centers in every cluster where farmers can visit and get all necessary support.
- Tournafest — Tournafest™️ is the one-stop destination created by the gamers for the gamers. Tournafest is reinventing the Esports ecosystem with a seamless and motivating platform where gamers can enhance their skills with a network alike.
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
- Findeed — Findeed operates as a consumer-focused Fintech firm. Findeed intends to make modern financial services more accessible to the underserved population in India by leveraging advanced data analytics, other innovative technology, and community partnerships.
- 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.
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.
Lakshmi Narayanan is the Chief Executive Officer at Cognizant Technology Solutions.
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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: 30
- Round size: Seed $136k–$5.3M; Series A $2.5M–$4.4M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Pivot Robots — Easy robot automation for all. Intimidated by the overhead of robots? Call us today and we'll use our obedient robot arms to save you money from day one.
- 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.
- Acko — Buy Car, Bike, Health, Term & Travel Insurance online on ACKO. Zero commission, cashless claims, and more. Trusted by Millions
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
- Woovly Shop Socially — Top Beauty, Skincare, Hygiene & Wellness Brands At Amazing Prices. Shop Online Now! Best Prices Ever. Amazing Cashback Offers & Freebies.
- 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.
We help the daring build legendary companies.
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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.
Potential Ventures operates as a venture capital firm.
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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
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- 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.
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.
- Power Gummies — Simplifying Good Health for Healthy Hair & Nails, the perfect beach body, & PMS Gummies Vitamins with a Natural Blend of Nutrition & Antioxidants.
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- Industry: Sports, eSports, Internet
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
Arthayan is a fundraising platform for startups that offers startup acceleration, strategic tie-ups, and incubation setup services.
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- Industry: Sports, Content, eSports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
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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
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- 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.
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
- 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!
- Cusmat — We Enhance On Job Industrial Worker Performance Through Our Collaborative Physics-Realistic Logistics, Manufacturing and Mining Metaverse
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.
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: 100
- Round size: Seed $150k–$3M; Angel $30k–$650k; Series A $3.6M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- NAYAN — NAYAN is a computer vision platform, providing Hyperlocal data in the form of visuals and analytics. We gather visual data via multiple assets and transform it into actionable insight using artificial intelligence. Our suite of products - Hybrid Enterprise Solutions for large clients and our Direct to Customer Search Platform - empowers Businesses,Governments and Individuals to supervise infrastructure, monitor people and events of interest, monitor inventory, analyze conditions and usage, and efficiently supervise the progress of multiple projects. We enable our clients worldwide to objectively assess and manage assets using our Technology
- Freshtohome — Freshtohome is an online grocery store that sells a range of seafood and meat to its users.The website’s range of products include fish, poultry, mutton, steaks, and fillet. Fish consists of shell, freshwater, and marine. Furthermore, it enables suppliers to supply their seafood and meat to the website.Freshtohome was launched in 2015 by ShanKadavil and is based in Bangalore.
- 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: Gaming, eSports, Rental
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Egypt, India, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $165k–$600k
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% 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).
- 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.
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.
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: 57
- Round size: Seed $75k–$3.6M; Series A $2M–$8M; Series B $2M–$6.5M
- 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.
- PENTA Football — PENTA Football distributes football highlights.
- Kaleidoscope — Kaleidoscope Content, bringing vivid stories from around the globe. Listen in color!
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: 253
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $350k–$2M; Series A $1.2M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hoggy — Founded by IITians and invested- in by unicorn founders like Kunal Shah and Sameer Pitalwala, Hoggy is a Kid’s learning app that focuses on providing interactive learning for kids aged between 2 to 5 years, while maintaining an absolutely safe space for kids. Through this platform, we've made it possible for creators of kids' content tomonetize their content and earn independently of ads and sponsored content. Hoggy serves as a brilliant platform where such content creators can find their niche target audience and grow the number of their true fans exponentially.
- 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.
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