Top 50 ESports Startup Investors in India in May 2026
Top 50 ESports Startup Investors in India in May 2026
| Investor | eSports India investments |
|---|---|
| SucSEED Indovation | 3 |
| Lead Angels Network | 3 |
| Vasim Akram | 2 |
| SOSV | 2 |
| Mumbai Angels | 2 |
| Info Edge | 2 |
| Unicorn India Ventures | 2 |
| TopYa Aspac LLC | 2 |
| Aman Mishra | 2 |
| Smile Group | 1 |
| Orbit Startups | 1 |
| Baldota Family Office | 1 |
| Pivot Ventures | 1 |
| Anjali Malhotra | 1 |
| Akshay Sasikumar | 1 |
| Arthayan | 1 |
| Boman Irani | 1 |
| Sequoia Capital | 1 |
| Better Capital | 1 |
| Anjan Kumar | 1 |
| Venture Highway | 1 |
| Lightbox | 1 |
| KOMLAY Group | 1 |
| Trevor Wright | 1 |
| North Base Media | 1 |
| Kunal Shah | 1 |
| Aarin Capital | 1 |
| Eximius Ventures | 1 |
| Kalaari Capital | 1 |
| Base Partners | 1 |
| Dhruv Chitgopekar | 1 |
| Prantik Dasgupta | 1 |
| Kwan Entertainment & Marketing Solutions | 1 |
| Intex Technologies | 1 |
| Abhinav Sinha | 1 |
| FJS Holdings Pvt. Ltd | 1 |
| Raveen Sastry | 1 |
| Maninder Gulati | 1 |
| SRI Capital | 1 |
| Rajesh Mane | 1 |
| Abhijeet Pai | 1 |
| Saravanan Sundaramoorthy | 1 |
| Sandeep Tandon | 1 |
| Manu Midha | 1 |
| India Quotient | 1 |
| First Cheque | 1 |
| Archana Priyadarshini | 1 |
| Aparna Rajkumar | 1 |
| Venu Palaparthi | 1 |
| JetSynthesys | 1 |
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Find investors — It's Free!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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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- India, United States
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- 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.
- Beat22 — Beat22 is an industry organization that provides computer infrastructure to music and sound creators so they may market, offer, monetize, and license their original beats and sounds.
- Str8bat Sport Tech Solutions — The str8bat cricket bat sensor is a lightweight, pocket-sized motion sensor that gives you instant, visual and actionable insights into your batting. Get
Lead Angels is India's first angel network focused on IITs.Founded by a team of three originally from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay including a retired professor, a recent graduate and an incubator manager.The network members provide time and money to disruptive startups across India. Its members are successful entrepreneursacross different sectors.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- India, United States
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- Healspan — At Healspan, we're dedicated to simplifying healthcare operations, particularly in claims management. Our tech-driven platform ensures hospitals can focus on what matters most - providing quality care.
- goStops — Book cool & affordable youth hostels with dorms across India. Social stays, great locations & Gen Z vibes with goSTOPS | Goa Rishikesh Mussoorie Nainital Bengaluru Delhi Coorg Ooty
- Nitro Commerce — Interested in turbocharging your sales with AI-enabled commerce? Discover the power of Nitro today.
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- eSports
- Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Flame Esports — Flame Esports is an organization that aims to provide opportunities in the world of esports games.
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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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- 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.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- India, United States, Singapore
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- Gramiyaa — First cold pressed oils. Fully traceable. Packed to stay fresh. Shop cold pressed groundnut, coconut, sesame and mustard oils from Gramiyaa. Fresh cold pressed cooking oils that bring out the natural flavours in your home cooked food, making meals delicious.
- 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.
- goStops — Book cool & affordable youth hostels with dorms across India. Social stays, great locations & Gen Z vibes with goSTOPS | Goa Rishikesh Mussoorie Nainital Bengaluru Delhi Coorg Ooty
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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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- India, United States
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- Anthriq — We create brain-computer interfaces using EEG to convert brain signals into commands to control technology using your thoughts. Transcending biological limits.
- Rumik.ai — Rumik.ai is an innovative AI company focused on creating AI beings that connect with humans on a deeply personal level. Their philosophy is that "the future of AI isn't artificial—it's human." rumik aims to bridge the gap between technology and human emotion by developing AI that can understand intent, infer emotions, andconverse naturally in multiple Indian languages.
- LegitQuest — LegitQuest is a legal-tech company that operates an AI-powered legal research platform with Indian case laws. The platform helps the stakeholders to research efficiently with the most advanced search engine developed through cutting edge technology as we have transformed complex data into a user-friendly form to make legal research faster.LegitQuest is run by a versatile team of tech-savvy attorneys, engineers and designers who aim to make the practice of law simpler for its end users.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, United Kingdom, United States
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- Netrasemi — Netrasemi is a semiconductor company that designs and develops system-on-chips.
- Vervesemi — Vervesemi is a fabless semiconductor company that creates ASICs and IPs for sensors and wireless applications by leveraging converter expertise and differentiated analog IPs. Their products include custom ASICs, 5G, and high precision data converters, consumer and industrial data converters, and generic analog IPs.
- PeLocal Fintech — Pelocal Fintech Private Limited offers digital solutions to empower local businesses and facilitate consumer payments.
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- EdTech, Sports, eSports
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- India
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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
Aman Mishra
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- eSports
- Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Flame Esports — Flame Esports is an organization that aims to provide opportunities in the world of esports games.
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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- Internet, Advertising, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, United Kingdom
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- 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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- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- India, Singapore, Pakistan
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- 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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- Gaming, Content, eSports
- Funding Round
- India
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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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- Gaming, Content, eSports
- Funding Round, Convertible Note
- India
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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.
- Power Gummies — Simplifying Good Health for Healthy Hair & Nails, the perfect beach body, & PMS Gummies Vitamins with a Natural Blend of Nutrition & Antioxidants.
Anjali Malhotra
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- Gaming, Content, eSports
- Seed, Angel
- India
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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.
- Auntie Fung’s — Auntie Fung’s is a quick-service restaurant (QSR) startup focused on food delivery only.
Akshay Sasikumar
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- Sports, eSports, Internet
- Pre-Seed
- India
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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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- Sports, Content, eSports
- Seed
- India
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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.
Boman Irani
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- Gaming, Content, eSports
- Angel
- India
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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.
We help the daring build We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. companies.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, China, India
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- Freed — Join thousands of happy clinicians saving 2+ hours a day. Use Freed's AI medical scribe for instant clinical documentation.
- Meter — Meter provides internet infrastructure for businesses. Its full-stack approach combines hardware, software, and operations so that any company can seamlessly run on a reliable and modern network. Its goal is to make secure enterprise-grade networks more accessible, and to help innovative organizations get and stay online seamlessly. Fullstacksambition is to turn Meter’s infrastructure into a turnkey utility––when a company moves into any commercial space, the internet and WiFi just works.
- Sierra — Sierra helps businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI.
Better is a global venture capital firm that backs bold innovators on day zero.
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- Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States, Singapore
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- 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.
- HyperTest — HyperTest is no-code API testing tool, it uses your API traffic to auto-generate integration tests that you can use to test every new commit. 100+ teams, half of them from the 10 large unicorns use HyperTest as their default automation tool to green-light all releases.
- 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.
Anjan Kumar
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- eSports
- Seed
- India
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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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- Software, SaaS, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- India, United States, Singapore
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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.
Lightbox is a Mumbai based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology-led consumer businesses that are shaping the future of consumption in India.
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- E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Internet
- Funding Round, Series A, Series C
- India, United Kingdom
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- Dunzo — Dunzo is a hyper-local delivery app that connects users to the nearest delivery partner. The delivery and e-commerce company offers services that include delivery of packages, groceries, food, medicines, pet supplies, and more. It strives to advance the retail landscape by providing micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) with digitaltools and solutions to streamline and facilitate eCommerce sales. Dunzo is backed by investors Alteria Capital, Google, Lightbox, Evolvence, LGT Lightstone Aspada, and S Korea's Hana Financial Investment.It was co-founded by Ankur Aggarwal, Dalvir Suri, Kabeer Biswas, and Mukund Jha in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India in 2015.
- 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.
- Zeno Health — Zeno Health is a healthcare brand that makes medicines affordable and accessible to all, we are on a journey to educate Indians about the value of generic medicines
KOMLAY Group
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- Sports, eSports, Digital Entertainment
- Seed
- India
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- The Esports Club — Founded in 2019, The Esports Club (TEC) is a leading platform driving esports experiences and grassroots gaming development across India and South Asia, with a team backed by 20+ years of industry expertise.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, India, Canada
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- 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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- Digital Media, Publishing, Advertising
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- Spectrm — charles is the Conversational Marketing AI and CRM platform for brands to attract, convert, and retain customers via AI agents and marketing automations.
- Vietcetera Media — Vietcetera Media - Understanding Vietnam
- Kaleidoscope — Kaleidoscope Content, bringing vivid stories from around the globe. Listen in color!
Kunal Shah
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States, Singapore
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- 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.
- Magical Nest — "At Magical Nest, we design the most important room in the house, the kids' room."Our vision is to become synonymous with excellence in creating exceptional kid-friendly homes and show our customers just how easy it is to bring functionality, style and inspiration altogether in that little precious space inside your four walls.For us, a "kid-friendly home" is all about designing that best possible environment at home that is very unique to your kids, their likings and their inclinations as well to you, your home and your interests.
- Arrowhead — India's leading AI voice agent that handles inbound & outbound calls in real time. Automate customer conversations with AI voice calling agent from Arrowhead AI.
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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- Education, Biotechnology, Software
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- India, United States, Singapore
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- 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.
Eximius Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund.
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- Gaming, Finance, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- India
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- Spybird — Spybird is a company that focuses on creating high-quality card-battling games inspired by Indian themes.
- Quicklend — Instant loan against Mutual Funds. Lowest interest rate guaranteed. Raghuram Trikutam Co-founder @ Quicklend.
- Triple Tap — Triple Tap is a game development studio, specializing in creating engaging titles.
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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- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- India, United States, Singapore
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- Microqual — Microqual
- Attero — Attero is a group dedicated the recycling of the electrical and electronic industry. To do justice to the name "Attero" (which means "waste" in Latin) Recycling, they look at e-waste as an important resource that can be made useful instead of shunning it as a social and environmental burden. As a reflection of their belief inwhat they do, Attero Recycling is the only e Waste recycling company in India which does complete processing of E Waste with zero landfill. Attero promises close technical collaboration with a leading US company for mechanical separation, a first-of-its kind indigenous metallurgical process developed in the separate R&D division, an highly automated facility for integrated e-waste recycling at Roorkee spread over 100,000 sqft.
- 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 globally in private technology companies and help them win in Latin America, Brazil first.
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- Software, FinTech, Payments
- Series A, Series C, Series E
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
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- 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.
Dhruv Chitgopekar
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- Gaming, Content, eSports
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, United States
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- 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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- Gaming, Content, eSports
- Angel
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Rooter — Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop.
- Ziptrrip — Experience seamless corporate travel management services & solutions with top travel agency in Mumbai. Book smarter business trips across India with Ziptrrip.
KWAN Entertainment & Marketing Solutions Pvt. Ltd. operates as an entertainment and marketing company in India. The company offers services in the areas of casting, talent management, fashion and modeling, sports management, and live entertainment. It owns a network of brands, ad.
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- Gaming, Apps, Content
- Seed, Angel
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Rooter — Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop.
- Gamezop — Gamezop develops HTML5 games. HTML5 games do not have to be installed as apps and are not tied to any particular operating system (i.e. these games work across Android, iOS, Windows, etc.). These games are device-agnostic as well and can run on feature phones, smartphones, desktops, smart TVs, in-flight entertainment systems, etc. The companyleverages the distribution network of various messengers, browsers, entertainment apps, telecom operators, and gaming websites to publish its games. These distribution partners get access to a rich product suite (APIs, SDKs, white-labeled PWA, bots, revenue, and analytics dashboard) during and after integration with Gamezop.
Now Explore a wide range of Consumer Electronics, LED TV, Speakers, Computer Accessories, Washing Machines, Mobiles more at Intex India.
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- Gaming, Content, eSports
- Angel
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Rooter — Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop.
Private Equity
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- EdTech, Sports, eSports
- Seed
- India
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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
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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- Internet, Education, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India
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- Fanspole — Fanspole allows users to create contests and play public as well as private games.
- Stoa — StoaMBA helps young professionals get into business roles at India's high-growth startups. Learn from top founders and 10x your career in just 6-months. Our program...
- Cusmat — We Enhance On Job Industrial Worker Performance Through Our Collaborative Physics-Realistic Logistics, Manufacturing and Mining Metaverse
Maninder Gulati joined Lightspeed Advisory Services India in 2012. He brings over eight years of operating, business building, entrepreneurship and consulting experience to the firm.Prior to Lightpseed, Maninder was an Associate at McKinsey & Company. At McKinsey, Maninder worked on several growth strategy and implementation engagementsacross various sectors including financial services, organized retail, digital music, data centers and building security/automation.Before McKinsey, Maninder co-founded a voice based life-streaming platform – lifeinlines.com, which allowed users to create a digital diary of their life. Prior to this entrepreneurial venture, Maninder worked at ITC Limited, India’s largest FMCG company. At ITC, Maninder was a part of the core team that launched ITC’s personal care business and he spearheaded key organization transformation initiatives such as Six-sigma for the tobacco business.Maninder graduated with a Dual degree (B.Tech and M.Tech) in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay, where he held key leadership positions including that of Head of ‘The Entrepreneurship Cell’. He holds an MBA from ISB, Hyderabad, where he was a part of the Dean and Merit list.
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- Internet, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States, Singapore
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- Bachatt — Bachatt is a daily savings led financial services platform. Bachatt aims to address a critical need for over 30 crore self-employed individuals in India. while self-employed individuals earn daily, their expenses often require large, infrequent payments, creating a major cash flow challenge. This, coupled with the inherent variability in dailyearnings, makes managing finances extremely difficult.Our vision is to become their trusted daily savings partner, helping them establish financial discipline. This strong foundation will then unlock access to a suite of financial products (loans, high-yield instruments, insurance, etc.) at more favorable terms.
- Fabrito — Fabrito is a B2B fabric marketplace that simplifies fabric sourcing for brands and garment manufacturers seeking reduced turnaround times (TAT), lower minimum order quantities (MOQs), and improved pricing. Fabrito provides a diverse range of readily available fabrics that can be quickly replenished.
- Finsire — Finsire Modern finances to embrace your financial desires
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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- Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, India, Sweden
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- Meddo — Meddo (Arctern Healthcare) are re-defining how primary and secondary healthcare is provided in India through a connected care delivery platform.
- Fakespot — Fakespot spots, analyzes and identifies fake reviews and counterfeits - helping you out when buying stuff online.
- Brown Foods — Brown Foods is to produce “real cow’s milk” in a laboratory.
An active investor in early stage startups across technology & CPG.
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- Internet, Mobile, Retail
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- India, United States
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- Cleardekho — Free ShippingFree Shipping for orders Money GuaranteeWithin 30 days Online Support24 hours a day, 7 days a week Flexible PaymentPay with Multiple Credit Cards Wear the Trend Our hottest collections Round Transparent Cat Eye Club Master Aviator Wayfarer Round Transparent Cat Eye Club Master Aviator Wayfarer Featured Eyeglasses Jon Snow Full Rim Wayfarer Frame Jon
- LiquiLoans — LiquiLoans is a company uses technology to match borrowers and lenders and in the process eliminates the margin which is charged by traditional banks and NBFCs, thus, making borrowing cheaper and investing a more lucrative opportunity as compared to traditional investment avenues.
- Impact Guru — ImpactGuru is a No.1 crowdfunding platform in India offering fundraising solutions for medical treatments, emergencies, NGOs & startups. Start a crowdfunding campaign now!
Abhijeet Pai is founder of Gruhas Proptech.
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- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India
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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.
- 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
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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- Sports, eSports, Internet
- Pre-Seed
- India
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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.
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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- Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- India, United States, Indonesia
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- 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.
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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- Trading Platform, Apps, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- India, Pakistan, Singapore
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- 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.
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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- Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- India, United States, Singapore
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- fleetx.io — Reduce transportation costs, improve safety, and boost productivity with Fleetx's unified AI platform for fleet and transportation operations.
- Novelty Wealth — Novelty Wealth is an AI-powered personal finance and wealth management platform that helps individuals and families plan, track, and grow their investments. Operating as a SEBI-registered investment adviser under FW Fintech Private Limited, the company offers unbiased, fee-only financial planning, portfolio tracking, tax optimization, andgoal-based wealth strategies through a secure and easy-to-use platform.
- Home Essentials — Buy affordable home organization, kitchen items & decor at Home Essentials. Buy durable, stylish, and functional products to enhance your home effortlessly.
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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- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India, United States
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- 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.
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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- SaaS, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India, United States, Canada
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- 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.
Aparna Rajkumar
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- Sports, eSports, Internet
- Pre-Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- TournamentOS — TournamentOS is the flagship product of Adya Sports Tech Pvt. Ltd. The aim of this innovative idea is to digitize sports and make its organization as transparent and efficient as possible. It creates a collaborative environment for everyone involved in sports to connect with each other including players, coaches, tournament organizers, referees,venue owners, fans, sponsors and more. The solutions TournamentOS presents to current issues in sports events and organization is what led it to being awarded the “Best Startup in Sports Sector” by the Confederation of Indian Industry.
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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- FinTech, Financial Services, Sports
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India
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- 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.
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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- Music, Events, Gaming
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Corporate Round
- India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- SonicJobs — Apply to your dream position with just one click, with the magic of AI. Sign up with SonicJobs today!
- Artium Academy — Artium Academy is an Online Music Education platform that makes learning fun and accessible to people of all ages.
- Jet Media Network — Jet Media Network is an exciting new venture between Box to Box Sports Marketing Ltd and JetEngage, part of an established and impressive group called the JetLine group
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