Top 50 Finance Angel Investors in India in December 2024

Investor	Finance India investments
Kunal Shah	7
Amrish Rau	5
Rajan Anandan	4
Seth Weinstein	4
Rajan Anandan	4
Sharad Sharma	3
Dinesh Godara	3
Kishore Ganji	3
Mohit Goel	2
Ranjan Pai	2
Balesh Sharma	2
Sandeep Tandon	2
Parag Shah	2
Pratekk Agarwaal	2
Alex Lin	2
Dhruv Dhanraj Bahl	2
Anuj Ahuja	2
Somak Ghosh	2
Ratan Tata	2
Vaibhav Kapoor	2
Shrishti Sahu	2
Rajendra Lora	2
Nilesh Patel	2
Charlie Songhurst	2
Amit Jain	2
Shalini Chhabra	2
Karishma Thakkar	2
Tanmay Bhat	2
Aditya Talwar	2
Varun Alagh	2
Sunil Singhania	2
Alex K Babu	2
Ramakant Sharma	2
Hiro Mashita	2
Nitin Agarwal	2
Kumar Sudershan	2
Sameer Rastogi	2
Mukul Rustagi	2
Vikram Kailas	2
Raghunandan G	2
Binitha Dalal	2
Amit Nanavati	2
Bhavish Aggarwal	2
Manish Dabkara	2
Siddhartha Sharma	2
Mukund Modi	2
Arjun Sethi	2
Jatin Goel	2
Jitendra Gupta	2
Brad Flora	1

Kunal Shah

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Revrag — Revarg aims to automate tasks and increase sales efficiency by empowering revenue teams. Its first product, AI-BDR, will handle prospect outreach and meeting scheduling, allowing human salespeople to focus on client interactions. The AI agent will intelligently qualify leads, schedule meetings, and provide data-driven insights.
Zivy Inc — Turn your chaotic and noisy workplace communication into calm collaboration, with Zivy! Skim. Schedule. Tag. Todo. Take action on your messages in zen.
BiteSpeed — Drive 10% of your Shopify store's revenue from WhatsApp & FB Messenger. Recover abandoned carts, send promotional & shipping messages. Trusted by 1500+ brands!

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.
Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Seth Weinstein is a Managing Member at ZAX LLC.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

AiPrise — Combine identity verification, fraud protection and compliance in one single platform, allowing you to expand globally hassle free.
OpenSea — OpenSea is a peer-to-peer marketplace for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens. It includes collectibles, gaming items, and other virtual goods backed by a blockchain. On OpenSea, anyone can buy or sell these items through a smart contract.
Bedrock AI — Real-time forensic investment research. Bedrock AI is a web-portal for stock research. We extract red flags from SEC filings based on machine learned associations with downside risk.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Sharad Sharma is the Co-Founder of the iSPIRT Foundation. He attended Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Minjar — Short term financing makes it possible to acquire highly sought-after domains without the strain of upfront costs. Find your domain name today.
Vebbler — Roulette Online merupakan permainan situs judi Live Casino Terpopuler di Indonesia. Mainkan Rolet online gampang menang hari ini.
Wishberry — Wishberry is a rewards-based crowdfunding platform that enables users to raise funds for their creative and innovative ideas. The platform focused on topics such as arts, design, film, music, theatre, publishing, technology, games, and applications.

Dinesh Godara is the Co-Founder of Stealth Startup. He is a former Founder and CEO of WiFiStudy. Dinesh Godara attended Rajasthan Technical University.

Investment focus

B2B, Finance, Internet
Pre-Seed, Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Kutumb — Kutumb is a private social network for communities (think Reddit for Bharat). India, especially Bharat thrives on communities. India has a vast number of communities based on culture, creed, beliefs, interests, professions, etc. For example, there are more than 20000 social groups in India, 1000s of spiritual, religious, or other non-government organisations, and 100s of unique professions. We are creating a social network for millions of members inside each of these communities.
BankSathi — Earn Money online with Banksathi. Become a financial advisor and make a regular monthly income from home by sharing demat, loans & credit card leads.
IntelloSync — IntelloSync offers bespoke solutions to address the particular difficulties of B2B organizations. With Intellosync in place, you can leverage the power of data analytics and AI to eliminate repetitive tasks, human errors, and security risks.

Kishore Ganji is the Angel Investor & Mentor at Astir Ventures.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India, United States, Bangladesh

Portfolio highlights

Lal10 — Lal10 enables creative manufacturing MSMEs to easily digitize, manage and sell their inventories for cross-border wholesale. Lal10 is Shopify + Alibaba for Indian MSMEs. Small manufacturers use Lal10’s Karigar application to digitize physical inventories which are available for RFQs on our global wholesale platform. We are creating a maker’srevolution by digitizing micro and small manufacturers to take their creative products to global markets. India has over 1.2mn such MSMEs involved in the manufacturing of apparel, home furnishings, decor products. We have digitized 30k SKUs to date and are the largest vertical platform for MSMEs for cross-border wholesale in India. Post pandemic layers of middlemen/ export houses and traditional channels of sales like exhibitions have been disrupted. We have created an efficient alternative with innovative technology-led solutions catering to these large and untapped supplies. We are seeing strong organic adoption of technology for quick market access by local manufacturers and pandemic has only accelerated its requirement. We believe that the future of retail is local. We are targeting small & medium-sized buyers in the US, UK, and Middle east using efficient data analytics and aggressive marketing. We provide them the benefits of a big-box retailer, i.e. affordable sourcing, contemporary design curation & assortment of products. These buyers are resellers on Amazon, Etsy, or Mom & Pop shops, Private labels, and have traditionally been only dependent tradeshows.
Teleport — Planning a trip? Say goodbye to visa hassles with Teleport! We've made applying for visas online super easy. Explore our site now to get started now!
Monitra Healthcare — Monitra Healthcare is a Hyderabad based med-tech company developing solutions that capture cardiac events anytime anywhere. Our products detect cardiac arrhythmias and cardiovascular disease at real-time for pre-emptive treatments. Cardiac monitoring is widely used to identify heart disease, to monitor cardiac activity before and after surgery andother cardiac procedures, and to assess the effects of therapeutic drugs on cardiac activity. The Company’s vision is to dramatically reduce the effects of heart disease by making monitoring and pre-emptive cardiac care a seamless part of everyday life.

Mr. Mohit Goel is the CEO of one of India’s leading real estate firms – Omaxe Ltd. This second generation entrepreneur leveraged his sharp business acumen to bring about structural changes in Omaxe to essentially turn around the company at a time when the real estate sector had no traction and a tepid demand. Mohit is detail oriented and a sticklerfor punctuality.

Investment focus

Health Care, Internet, Retail
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Graviky Labs — At Graviky Labs you’ll find us fusing science with industrial design while developing prototypes and writing Python code at any given moment. They. Make. Magic.
Nurturing Green — Nurturing Green promotes green living and green gifting.We deal in plants for Home Decor, Office desk plants and Gifting plants for all occasions.
Basic Home Loan — Compare and apply online for best interest rates on home loan, loan against property, balance transfer. Calculate your EMI instantly.

Ranjan Pai is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Aarin Capital Partners.

Investment focus

Internet, Mobile Apps, Finance
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

InCred — InCred Finance a new-age tech and analytics-driven NBFC. It offers Personal loans, Education Loans and Business.
HerKey (formerly JobsForHer) — HerKey (formerly JobsForHer) is India’s largest career engagement platform that unlocks opportunities, learning, and communities for women in India by connecting them with career champions.HerKey has been at the forefront of developing scalable solutions to increase women's participation in the Indian workforce. Incepted in 2015, HerKey(formerly JobsForHer) works with over 10,000 companies across India that prioritize diversity and inclusion and has assisted them in engaging with and recruiting women. HerKey is dedicated to promoting the professional development of women in their careers. The platform connects women with the right jobs across levels, provides learning opportunities to enable them to upskill and reskill, and provides mentorship to women wanting to start, restart, or advance in their professions. The company's vision is to enable women to realize their full potential by connecting them with the right opportunities, learning, and communities.HerKey has grown to service over 3.5 million women across India and plans to scale to power 30 million women’s careers in India.HerKey seeks to be the dependable companion for every woman on her career journey, enabling her growth, opening up opportunities, creating meaningful engagement, and facilitating her career journey – onwards & upwards.HerKey - Your Career Companion at Every Phase of Life Because we understand that a woman’s career journey traverses through life phases. Opportunities | Learning | Communities
NewSpace — NewSpace is a Aerospace Research and Technologies Industry, It designs and develops Persistent Drones for Earth Observation and Communications.

Balesh Sharma

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Wellness
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

KarmaLifeAI — KarmaLifeAI is an AI-powered digital solution for the financial well being of blue-collar gig workers and micro-business. The company allows the user to pay directly for key expenditures and smoothen their consumption patterns. It offers real-time access to credit for gig workers, based on their payroll account, through partnerships with thedigital platforms they work for. It operates an interest-free subscription model in which the platform or the gig worker can pay a flat fee and access credit equalling up to one-third of their monthly income. The company analyzes alternative data points and payment behavior over time to unlock higher credit lines for the workers.
Healthledger Diagnostics — Healthledger Diagnostics focuses on intensive use of technology to automate the wellness diagnostics 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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Progcap — Progcap is revolutionising the way financial access is delivered to underserved segments of the Indian retail economy, through specialized financing and technology products that empower small and medium businesses (SMBs) to progress without obstacles.
Silkhaus — A seamless, sophisticated experience you can rely on. Choose from the wide variety of furnished Boutique Flats and apartments for short and long-term stays from Silkhaus.
ScratchNest — ScratchNest creates technologies from scratch, giving them a personalized touch, and exhilarating user experience. Striving in this direction, ScratchNest stands as the first Indian company to design, develop, and manufacture UHF RFID, NFC, BLE, and Datalogging devices in India. Founded in 2019, we are a culmination of innovation and hard work bya highly brilliant team of IITians consistently striving to provide you with the best worth of your time and money.We aim to extract the most and best out of technology so that the world relishes the power of automation. By developing the never-before technologies in India, ScratchNest aims to lay a milestone in the Make in India campaign.

Parag Shah is the Managing Partner of Mahindra Partners, the 1 Bn USD Private Equity and Venture Capital division of the 19 Bn USD Mahindra Group. In a career spanning over 20 years, Parag has held various positions with the Mahindra Group including Directorships across Group companies. He has extensive experience in building new businesses,startups, turn arounds, joint ventures and mergers & acquisitions.Prior to his current assignment, Parag worked for the Office of the Vice Chairman & Managing Director, and was involved in New Business Development and strategy for the Group. He joined the Group in 1999 as Chief Executive Officer of Officemartindia Ltd.Parag holds a BS Degree in Computer Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology with special electives in Psychology and Manufacturing Technology. He is also a graduate of the General Management Program from Harvard Business School.Parag has been recognized by Economic Times & Spencer Stuart as India’s Top 40 Business Leaders under the age of 40. He has also been featured by India Today as ‘Leaders of Tomorrow’. Parag is on the Executive Committee of several industry bodies like CII, FICCI, TIE, and has been invited as a regular speaker at various International forums.Parag is affiliated with various prestigious NGO associations such as Sabarkanta Relief Committee and JBS Trust. He is also a Founder Director of “Executives Without Borders”, an NGO based in USA.

Investment focus

Banking, Consumer Lending, Artificial Intelligence
Series A
United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Avaamo — Learn how to separate hype from reality, and turn artificial intelligence (AI) into real business value with our conversational AI platform.
ParkourSC — ParkourSC is redefining the way enterprises work.
Basic Home Loan — Compare and apply online for best interest rates on home loan, loan against property, balance transfer. Calculate your EMI instantly.

Pratekk Agarwaal Startup Advisor | Operator turned Investor | Ex CBO-BharatPe

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

Finsire — Finsire Modern finances to embrace your financial desires
Vegapay — Embrace the future of banking | Build & launch banking products at rapid speed
Decentro — Decentro provides banking and payment APIs that make it possible to quickly construct fintech solutions like banking, payment cards, neobanking, and collections and payout services.

Alex Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO at Stacked.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Flippy — Flippy is a social first assisted investment platform that makes makes crypto investing simple.
Thruster — Thruster is a DEX for the builders, yield seekers, and traders on Blast.
Basic Home Loan — Compare and apply online for best interest rates on home loan, loan against property, balance transfer. Calculate your EMI instantly.

Dhruv Dhanraj Bahl is the Chief Operating Officer at BharatPe. Attended INSEAD, MBA, General Management.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Apps, Logistics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

VECROS — VECROS is a robotics company that provides industrial inspections at scale using computer vision and autonomous systems. The company's drone agnostic operating system JETPIX aims to solve the issues of drone operations. Jetpix is an AI and computer vision-based system that can auto scan a large area and generate anomaly reports on the go. Theusers can secure their infrastructure very quickly with just a click of a button and nothing else.
VAMA — VAMA is a one-stop virtual platform that provides easy access to e-pujas, e-darshans, and astrology services, to devotees from across India and the world.
MetaMorphoSys Technologies — MetaMorphoSys Technologies is a SaaS-based digital insurance platform. MetaMorphoSys' is an end-to-end platform that takes care of the entire value chain, from customer acquisition to engagement, and provides a suite of products, including an underwriting engine, claims engine, customer engagement platform, AI/ML sales analytics engine,and others.

Anuj Ahuja is Founder and Chief Product Officer at Studybase. He attended Visvesvaraya Technological University.

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

BankSathi — Earn Money online with Banksathi. Become a financial advisor and make a regular monthly income from home by sharing demat, loans & credit card leads.

Somak Ghosh - Managing Partner @ Contrarian Drishti Partners

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Enterprise
Seed, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

Progcap — Progcap is revolutionising the way financial access is delivered to underserved segments of the Indian retail economy, through specialized financing and technology products that empower small and medium businesses (SMBs) to progress without obstacles.

Heading the Tata Group since 1991, Ratan Tata is the Chairman of Tata Sons, holding company of the Tata Group and major Group companies including Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Power and more. He is also Chairman of two of the largest private sector promoted philanthropic trusts in India. During his tenure, the Group hasfurther expanded its global reach, with its revenues growing over eleven-fold to around USD$70 billion, after the most recent acquisition of Jaguar Land Rover. Tata joined the Tata Group in December 1962. After serving in various companies, he was appointed the Director-in-Charge of the National Radio & Electronics Company Limited (Nelco) in 1971. In 1981, he was named Chairman of Tata Industries, the Group's other holding company, which he was responsible for transforming into the Group's strategy think-tank and a promoter of new ventures in high-technology businesses. He is associated with many organizations in India and abroad in varying capacities, some of which are the government of India’s Investment Commission, the Prime Minister’s Council on Trade and Industry, South Africa’s International Investment Council, several prestigious universities and several philanthropies. Tata received a Bachelor of Science degree in architecture from Cornell University in 1962, and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1975.The government of India honored Tata with one of its highest civilian awards, the Padma Vibhushan, this year.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

GOQii — GOQii is headquartered in California with offices in Mumbai and Shenzhen. It is dedicated to enabling a permanent shift to a healthier lifestyle with the combination of advanced wearable technology, the world's leading experts, coaches and karma. GOQii focuses on sustained engagement & goal reinforcement and offers a complete ecosystem asa single integrated solution, which is a powerful combination of technology and human connection. GOQii is a collaboration of some of the world's leading experts and an amazing management team who are driven by a passion for healthy sustainable living, and who believe that all of us contain boundless potential. GOQii's goal is to enable millions of people across the world to "be the force" by helping them unleash their untapped potential.
Repos energy — Repos energy is a e-commerce of Fuel to move towards a carbon neutral future.
Goodfellows — Goodfellows aims to offer companionship to lonely senior citizens.

Vaibhav Kapoor

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Falca — Falca is a rural AgTech supply chain startup offering one-stop solution for all farming needs. Falca aims to enhance the farmer lifecycle through farmer centric phygital (Physical + Digital) platform by providing Input Solutions, Advisory Solutions and Market Linkages.
Kikibix — Relish what tastes like your childhood, loaded with an array of healthy ingredients for scrumptiously flavorful and healthy snacks. Born from the vision of a doctor to make a brilliant amalgamation of tasty and healthy. Made with love, baked to perfection, a home for healthy cookies that taste amazing!
MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.

entrepreneur and investor in tech start-ups, crypto and public markets. Founded a fintech company, and was a part of the Investment Team of Lumis Partners (PeopleStrong, TalentEdge, Sheroes etc). Headed Startup Programs for Facebook for South Asia & India. Early backer of companies like Plum (health insurance for SME employees), Clickpost(logistics tech), Rupifi (credit for SMEs), WorkApps (Enterprise Collaboration), Chingari (Social Video), Kutumb (social communities for Bharat), DelightChat (customer support for D2C brands), 10Club (D2C e-commerce), UrbanYogi (mental health)

Investment focus

Internet, FinTech, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Singapore, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

OnFinance AI — OnFinance.ai is committed to harnessing the power of Generative AI for the betterment of the banking, wealth management, and insurance landscapes. Every Generative AI solution they develop is anchored in safety, efficiency, and the intricate nuances of their industry.NeoGPT, their in-house LLM (Large Language Model), and their flagship offering,embodies their belief in Generative AI's potential to redefine the financial sector. They provide secure AI Copilots, powered by NeoGPT, designed for internal teams at these institutions, boosting the efficiency of research, relationship management, sales, and customer support functions.
Thermoflyde — Refractory
leap.club — we are a powerful and private network of women leaders.

Entrepreneur

Investment focus

Finance, Snack Food, Food Delivery
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Boba Bhai — Boba Bhai is a bubble tea brand that provides an unique and interactive bubble tea experience in the market.
BankSathi — Earn Money online with Banksathi. Become a financial advisor and make a regular monthly income from home by sharing demat, loans & credit card leads.

Nilesh Patel - Founder and CEO @ LeadSquared

Investment focus

Finance, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Pencilton — Pencilton is a Web-based interactive tool based on gamification and experiential learning that lets the user learn the basics of money management in the easiest, most intuitive way by letting them make decisions using virtual currency.
Fieldproxy — Fieldproxy is the best field service management software to automate your field teams. Click here to get a free trial
BHIVE — Schedule a Call Now you can own a share of our business. Schedule a One on One meet with Your Dedicated Relationship Manager Fintech Investment Platform for Commercial Real Estate (CRE)

Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Stelia — Stelia stands at the forefront of the AI infrastructure revolution and is driving the transition from Internet 2.0, designed for data movement, to Internet 3.0, designed for data mobility, enabling the seamless flow and processing of data across diverse environments. With its ground-breaking HyperBand platform, Stelia enables businesses toharness the full potential of AI. The company's mission is to become the backbone of the next generation of data mobility, empowering organizations across industries to accelerate innovation, optimize operations, and drive transformative growth. Stelia will be at the gravitational centre of the AI infrastructure ecosystem – a trusted partner and catalyst for change that brings together forward-thinking businesses, technology leaders, and industry experts to shape the future of AI. It was founded in 2021 and is located in London, United Kingdom.
Lodestar — Lodestar is a next-gen robotics company building a fully-integrated solutions to construct, restore and protect high-value assets in space.
Briefcase — Briefcase is an AI-powered tool for bookkeeping and month-end automation designed specifically for professional services practices.

Amit Jain Investor & Group CEO at a Global Private Equity Group.

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, FinTech
Seed, Convertible Note
India

Portfolio highlights

Anveshan — At Anveshan, we make food products that are natural, healthy and chemical free. Anveshan provides the best quality food products through the use of technological solutions. We have cold-pressed/wood pressed oils, A2 vedic bilona ghee and super seeds for healthy diet and immunity boosting.
KarmaLifeAI — KarmaLifeAI is an AI-powered digital solution for the financial well being of blue-collar gig workers and micro-business. The company allows the user to pay directly for key expenditures and smoothen their consumption patterns. It offers real-time access to credit for gig workers, based on their payroll account, through partnerships with thedigital platforms they work for. It operates an interest-free subscription model in which the platform or the gig worker can pay a flat fee and access credit equalling up to one-third of their monthly income. The company analyzes alternative data points and payment behavior over time to unlock higher credit lines for the workers.
Healthledger Diagnostics — Healthledger Diagnostics focuses on intensive use of technology to automate the wellness diagnostics Industry.

Shalini Chhabra is a Managing Partner at Incipia Advisors LL.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Finance
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Tan90 — Instant cold gel ice pack! We are manufacturers of gel ice packs in India. A Reusable Ice Pack, Insulated Delivery Cooler Bags, Plastic Pads, or Tan90 High-Quality PCM cooling liquid are the refrigerant.
Haqdarshak — Haqdarshak is a technology-enabled platform working to transform how Indian citizens learn about, apply for, and benefit from, government schemes. The company is composed of a group of passionate social entrepreneurs using technology to impact the next billion. The team comprises of individuals from diverse background who have come together out ofcommon interest and passion. The investor community represents individuals holding prestigious positions in different companies across various sectors.
Planys Technologies — Planys Technologies is an IIT Madras incubated company that provides submersible robotic inspection and survey solutions using Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs). Planys has its head office in Chennai where it indigenously designs and manufactures compact ROVsPlanys brings world class technology and cutting-edge innovations in underwaterrobotics and diagnostics in the shallow-mid depth segment. Planys’ technology spans the domains of marine robotics, advanced Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE), and post-inspection analysis. Planys provides a holistic service offering to customers through a design level fusion of ROV manufacture, operations and structural diagnostics. Planys is the first and currently the only OEM of ROVs in the Indian Sub-continent.Planys was founded by IIT Madras alumni and faculty who have been working together on various projects since 2012.

Karishma Thakkar of Thakkar developers.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Finance
Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

Basic Home Loan — Compare and apply online for best interest rates on home loan, loan against property, balance transfer. Calculate your EMI instantly.

Tanmay Bhat, SuperteamDAO.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology, Digital Entertainment
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Unikon.ai — Unikon.ai has solved the issue of access on this open-source platform. Every user has a personal profile that they can modify to include different prices for direct messaging, video calls, and audio calls."Unikon" means "you and I connect."
Offline — Offline is a private members' community for the top 10% tech founders and CEOs in India. Apply online to become a member.
infinyte.club — The ultimate wealth product for intelligent investors: track your net worth, manage public and private market investments & grow wealth across traditional & new-age assets.

Aditya Talwar is the Director - Customer Success at Plivo. He attended Indian School of Business

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

BankSathi — Earn Money online with Banksathi. Become a financial advisor and make a regular monthly income from home by sharing demat, loans & credit card leads.

Varun Alagh is the Founder, Chief Dad, and Get Stuff Done Officer at Mamaearth.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Retail
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ninecamp — Ninecamp is a food and beverage company. They anticipate creating new and unique brands with a strong emphasis on high-quality offerings in product, service, and design.
Liquid Diamonds — Liquid Diamonds is a B2B online exchange for certified diamonds; think Nasdaq for diamonds.
Circuit House Technologies — Circuit House Technologies is the next-gen Indian consumer tech company that provides cutting-edge home entertainment items that elicit excitement and joy.

Founder of abakkus assest

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

BankSathi — Earn Money online with Banksathi. Become a financial advisor and make a regular monthly income from home by sharing demat, loans & credit card leads.

Alex K Babu is the Founder, Chairman & Managing Director of Hedge School of Applied Economics.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Angel, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

Haeal — Everyday Health, Naturally!
ZappyHire — Top rated recruitment automation software & ATS that empowers recruiters to screen, recruit and onboard the best talent faster.
Basic Home Loan — Compare and apply online for best interest rates on home loan, loan against property, balance transfer. Calculate your EMI instantly.

Ramakant plays a central role in driving all technological innovations that form the backbone of Livspace while also leading our operations team. Before founding Livspace, Ramakant was a core team member and Vice President of Engineering at Myntra, a leading fashion eCommerce startup in India (acquired by Flipkart). Ramakant, graduated from IITKanpur, and holds an MBA from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Doodhvale — Doodhvale is a brand owned by Sanjeevani Dairy Farms Private Limited (Formerly known as Sanjeevani Dairy Farms LLP). Doodhvale is recognized as a startup by Department for the promotion of industry and internal trade, Minister of Commerce & Industry, Government of India. Doodhvale allows a customer to walk away from the doodhiya’s un-reliable& poor quality milk and also from the stale and processed milk of big dairy companies.Doodhvale not only delivers the high quality of fresh & pure cow milk but their innovative technology platform i.e. mobile app welcome an easy relaxed way of pausing milk supply for the day so or change quantity of milk required at any time etc. Customers can manage the entire milk calendar just in few seconds through doodhvale.com mobile app and track its milk delivery boy.The company currently operates in Delhi & NCR and has dairy products like Cow Milk, Buffalo Milk, Cow Ghee, Buffalo Ghee, Brown Bread, Taaza Dahi, etc. More than 10000 satisfied customers in Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Sonipat and Ghaziabad enjoying Doodhvale’s product every day and striding towards the chemical-free life.
Truva — Truva is a proptech company that specializes in home buying and selling. We have deep expertise in Powai and provide an unparallel customer experience when it comes to buying apartments that are up for resale. We have multiple properties in Hiranandani, Lake Homes, Nahar and Raheja Vihar
Beyond Appliances — Beyond Appliances want to create appliances that not only make your culinary adventures more accessible but also elevate your kitchen environment to a place where you will truly enjoy being.

Hiro Mashita - Founder & Director @ M&S Partners

Investment focus

Internet, Financial Services, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Onmeta — Onmeta
AppEQ.AI — AppEQ enables account focused teams in sales, success and support organisation in B2B SaaS companies to get account information easily within their existing applications.
Sparrosense — Silversparro is a tech startup, founded by entrepreneurs from IIT Delhi. The objective is to solve business problems by using Deep Learning Technology, the most rapidly advancing component of Artificial Intelligence. Our product, Sparrosense AI Supervisor is a SaaS tool that provides new data and insights to solve delays, optimize processes anddrive productivity leveraging AI-powered Video Analytics on the shop floor for USD 14 trillion global manufacturing industry. We work for manufacturing, healthcare, banking and consumer internet companies specializing in Computer Vision And Natural Language Processing, Image Detection and Classification

Nitin is based in India and leads the product solutions team aimed at designing custom solutions for customers and new products. The team also works on the presales and marketing support initiatives needed for business development and sales teams. Nitin comes with a rich experience in building new products and solutions, business development inUS and EU markets. Prior to joining Wave Crest, he has over 10 years of industry experience and last worked for PayPal.

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services, Banking
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Buildd — Embedded Finance APIs for all developers. Design, Test and Deploy Finance Products in real time.
Doosra — When you sign up, we instantly give you a Doosra number, a 100% virtual number; meaning no SIM card or device or a separate phone is required
Zenpay Solutions — Zenpay is a fast-growing fintech firm that promotes digital banking solutions to revolutionize the ultimate banking experience.

Kumar Sudershan is an Indian industrialist and philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of Pitsune and President of Sudershan Industries

Investment focus

Finance, Asset Management, Quantum Computing
Private Equity
India

Portfolio highlights

Sudershan Industries — Sudershan Industries also known as Sudershan Unlimited and Sudershan International is a multinational conglomerate headquartered in New Delhi, India. It was created in December 2017 and is the parent company of The Phenoiz, Pitsune, and several other subsidiaries.

Sameer Rastogi is the current Managing Partner of India Juris. Sameer Rastogi attended Bangalore University.

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

BankSathi — Earn Money online with Banksathi. Become a financial advisor and make a regular monthly income from home by sharing demat, loans & credit card leads.

Mukul is the co-founder of Classplus, India's leading Edtech startup

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

BankSathi — Earn Money online with Banksathi. Become a financial advisor and make a regular monthly income from home by sharing demat, loans & credit card leads.
ElectricPe — ElectricPe are racing ahead to provide smart, affordable, and clean Electric Mobility to a billion Indians.

Vikram Kailas serves as the Co-founder, Managing Director and CEO of Mytrah Energy (India) Pvt. Ltd. His strong entrepreneurial streak, overarching strategies, and relentless determination helps the company to ace in the field of wind & solar energy. He has worked in the Energy & Utilities investment banking group at Credit Suisse in NewYork, where he was involved in a number of renewable energy transactions, including a US$ 6 bn exit financing for Calpine and a US$ 300 mn loan for First Energy. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Vikram Kailas worked for Deloitte Consulting in India. Vikram Kailas has a Bachelor in Engineering degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai and Master of Business Administration degree from Yale School of Management

Investment focus

EdTech, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series B
India

Portfolio highlights

NxtWave — CCBP 4.0 Certification Programs are designed to transform you into highly skilled software professional. NxtWave offers a comprehensive online learning ecosystem to make you Industry-Ready
KarmaLifeAI — KarmaLifeAI is an AI-powered digital solution for the financial well being of blue-collar gig workers and micro-business. The company allows the user to pay directly for key expenditures and smoothen their consumption patterns. It offers real-time access to credit for gig workers, based on their payroll account, through partnerships with thedigital platforms they work for. It operates an interest-free subscription model in which the platform or the gig worker can pay a flat fee and access credit equalling up to one-third of their monthly income. The company analyzes alternative data points and payment behavior over time to unlock higher credit lines for the workers.
Medfin India — Medfin is a Discovery platform for medical procedures and financing.The surgical process of removing enlarged veins and restoring normal blood flow in the scrotum is varicocelectomy. This surgery is carried out mainly for those individuals who are not able to conceive. Other than the difficulty to conceive, varicoceles do not pose any other threat.

Raghu is the Founder of Zolve. He is an avid reader and an encyclopedia in his own rights. After a successful 3-year stint with Feedback Ventures as a Consultant, he decided to follow his heart which craved for him to become an entrepreneur. He has degrees from IIM Ahmedabad and NITK Surathkal and hasn’t lost touch with the technical prowess fromhis days back in Texas Instruments.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Apps
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

GoalTeller — Goalteller aids you in planning for yours and your loved ones future. Make the best investment decisions that help you achieve your goals
Goodmeetings — Transform your sales and customer success teams. Record calls / customer meetings, review AI-curated reels of key meeting moments, human-level summaries / notes. Coach and collaborate with meeting insights
Method Financial — Method makes it easy for developers to embed debt repayment on their apps.

Binitha Dalal Head - Fund Raising at Rustomjee Group.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Finance
Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

Basic Home Loan — Compare and apply online for best interest rates on home loan, loan against property, balance transfer. Calculate your EMI instantly.

Amit Nanavati

Investment focus

Mobile, Banking, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series E
India

Portfolio highlights

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.
Gro Club — Gro Club, launched on January 13th, 2022, is India's pioneering circular D2C kids subscription brand, offering parents the opportunity to subscribe to products for their growing children. Beyond subscription Gro Club is an ecosystem which fosters holistic development of kids by teaching them responsible consumption. At Gro Club kids not onlyenjoy a brand new product experience, they also get access to a wide variety of digital and outdoor experiences. In recent years, the circular economy has gained significant momentum as a sustainable resource management approach, emphasizing waste reduction and responsible consumption.Within the Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) sector, brands hold a unique position to drive this transformative shift and embrace circular economy principles for responsible commerce. By prioritizing sustainable product design, implementing take-back initiatives, fostering collaborations, educating consumers, and ensuring transparency, D2C brands can make meaningful contributions to waste reduction and the establishment of a circular economy. Gro Club's mission is to revolutionize the D2C landscape through responsible practices, ultimately benefiting both businesses and the planet.
Basic Home Loan — Compare and apply online for best interest rates on home loan, loan against property, balance transfer. Calculate your EMI instantly.

Bhavish graduated with a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2008 and worked at Microsoft Research for 2 years after that, filing 2 patents and publishing 3 papers in International Journals. Sensing the need to change the way transportation is consumed in India and create a choice of reliable personal transportation in acountry that's as unique as India, Bhavish quit his job in August 2010 to start Ola! Within 3 years, Ola is India's largest network of personal transportation options and also the most popular app amongst customers and users in over 22 cities of its operations. Bhavish was featured as one of Hindustan Times’ 30 Achievers under 30 as well as in the Forbes India list of 30 under 30.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, FinTech, Transportation
Series A, Angel, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

Ola — Ola operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation for customers and driver partners in India. Its mobile application allows its customers to book a range of cabs, auto-rickshaws, bikes, and shuttle buses. Ola's mobile application allows customers to book city taxi, outstation travel, car rental, and corporatetravel services. Its mobile application is available on Windows, Android, and iOS platforms. Ankit Bhati and Bhavish Aggarwal founded Ola on December 1, 2010. It has its headquarters with additional offices in Bengaluru in India.
Virgio — Women's & Men's Clothing and Accessories | Shop Trendy Fashion Online
Krutrim — Krutrim SI Designs is an artificial intelligence (AI) firm that aims to focus on creating silicon chips and building a cloud infrastructure. The company is dedicated to constructing the nation's inaugural comprehensive AI computing infrastructure.

Manish Dabkara is the CMD and CEO at EKIESL. Manish Dabkara attended Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

BankSathi — Earn Money online with Banksathi. Become a financial advisor and make a regular monthly income from home by sharing demat, loans & credit card leads.

Siddhartha Sharma

Investment focus

Financial Services, News, Consumer Goods
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Below the Fold — Below the Fold uses machine learning to provide automatic context on any news article. Their product uses artificial intelligence to automatically surface the previous "chapters" of the news story, helping active news readers avoid a rabbit hole of Google searches. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in West Hollywood, California.
Ample Foods — Ample is a nutritious, full drinkable meal made from real food ingredients you can trust.
Arista Vault — Arista Vault is an Innovative Technology company making Hi-tech Smart Products/Gadgets, They have created first WALLET-Bot an Antilost Antitheft wallet with GPS feature few of their products are Smart desk, Y-pods, Smart consumer electronics, Health tech, Men's Gadget & She-Bot

Mukund Modi

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

BankSathi — Earn Money online with Banksathi. Become a financial advisor and make a regular monthly income from home by sharing demat, loans & credit card leads.

Arjun Sethi is the Co-CEO of Kraken Digital Asset Exchange. He attended the University of Maryland.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Nibiru Chain — Nibiru is a smart contract ecosystem with a high-performance, EVM-equivalent execution layer. Nibiru is engineered to meet the growing demand for versatile, scalable, and easy-to-use Web3 applications.
DAOLens — Tasks, Proposals, Bounties, and Payouts in one place
Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees

Jatin Goel Executive Director at Omaxe Ltd.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Finance
Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

Basic Home Loan — Compare and apply online for best interest rates on home loan, loan against property, balance transfer. Calculate your EMI instantly.

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
OTPless — Explore top-notch authentication solutions like WhatsApp, SMS or email-based Numeric codes and Magic Link with OTPless. High conversion, flexible integrations, and robust security features await you!
CoinCRED Global — CoinCRED is a crypto exchange platform which has hundreds plus cryptocurrencies where traders can easily sell, buy, deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies. It is a platform which gives more priority to safe and secure transactions with privacy. CoinCRED has been here for years for its known features like high speed low transaction fees P2P KYC24/7 customer support with such features, it is also known as a crypto investment platform where users can easily trade and earn profits through their user-friendly interface. From beginners to experienced, any investor or trader can begin their crypto journey with the most trusted platform, CoinCRED.

Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience. Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico, India

Portfolio highlights

SWAP — Swap empowers companies to transform their financial operation with an innovative approach, technology, and business model. SWAP’s APIs offer clients end-to-end, white-label, financial solutions. Connected to them, its clients are able to develop complete financial ecosystems including pre-paid cards, digital wallets, financial services and furthermonetize their platform while expanding their core experience. It removes barriers and generates new business lines for companies, effectively creating internal fintech.
Wallet.ng — Wallet.ng is a fintech startup that allows people and companies to send, receive, and make payments, using their phone numbers.The company's infrastructure also provides plugins and libraries for merchants to accept payments online with just a URL. Wallet.ng users can pay directly into bank accounts and Pay Utility Bills in Nigeria.Wallet.ng is a mobile payment solution, its core infrastructure is built using technologies which is adaptable for multiple countries across Africa.It was established in Lagos, Lagos by John Oluranti Oke and Joseph Benson-Aruna in 2018..
Wallets — Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts.