# Top 50 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in India in June 2026

## Vineeta Singh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 23
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Food Processing

Vineeta Singh is the Co-founder and CEO of SUGAR Cosmetics. She previously worked at Quetzal Verify Private Limited as Director. Vineeta attended the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, where she took a Master of Business Administration (MBA). She also attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, where she took a B.Tech in ElectricalEngineering.

## Anupam Mittal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Internet

Anupam started his entrepreneurial journey by founding People Group - A New Media & Entertainment group, which includes businesses such as Shaadi.com, Makaan.com, Mauj Mobile, and People Pictures. Today the group is recognized as one of the most innovative enterprises in the country. Besides his operational roles, Anupam is also one ofIndia's most active angel investors.He attended Boston College.

## Namita Thapar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Retail

Namita Thapar is an Executive Director at Emcure Pharmaceuticals. She previously worked as a senior manager at Abbott. She attended Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.

## Aman Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing

Aman Gupta is based out of Delhi and is the Co-Founder and Director of boAt. Aman previously worked at HARMAN International as a Director of Sales. Aman Gupta attended the Indian School of Business. Aman Gupta has received the National Creator Award 2024.

## Arjun Vaidya
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Retail

Arjun Vaidya is the Founder of Verinvest Corporation. Attended Brown University.

## Kunal Shah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet

Kunal Shah

## Peyush Bansal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Internet

Peyush Bansal is the Co-Founder, Chief Executive, and People Officer of Lenskart. He attended McGill University.

## Ritesh Agarwal
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Retail

Ritesh Agarwal is the Founder and Group Chief Executive Officer of OYO and Anchor Board Member of the Texas Hotel & Lodging Association.

## Amit Jain
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Retail

Amit Jain is based out of Jaipur, Rajasthan and is the CEO and Co-Founder	of CarDekho. Amit Jain attended the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

## Sujeet Kumar
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce

Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan

## KRS Jamwal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

KRS Jamwal is Executive Director, Tata Industries, and is responsible for the incubation of new ventures, as well as investments made by Tata Industries in new businesses and start-ups. Mr Jamwal is on the board of three other Tata companies – Advinus Therapeutics, where he serves as chairman of the board, Tata Advanced Materials, and TataUniStore. He is also a member on the board of Flisom AG and Apex Investments (Mauritius) Holding.

## Alok Mittal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Marketplace, E-Commerce

Alok is Co-founder and CEO of Indifi, India's leading full-stack platform for enabling debt financing for small businesses. Alok is also an active angel investor, co-founder of Indian Angel Network, and on the board of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Delhi. Prior to starting Indifi, Alok setup and ran Canaan Partners' venture investmentbusiness. Earlier, Alok co-founded JobsAhead.com, a leading web-based recruitment business in India.Alok earned a BE in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and a MS in computer science from UC Berkeley.

## Binny Bansal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Binny Bansal is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart with Sachin Bansal (not related) and was serving as the Chief Operating Officer until 11 January 2016 and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer. In January 2017 he was promoted to Group CEO of Flipkart. Binny is fromChandigarh and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering.

## Ramakant Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce

Ramakant Sharma is the Founder and CEO of Livspace. He previously worked at Jungle Ventures as an Operating Partner. Ramakant attended the Indian School of Business, where he earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA), and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, where he completed a Bachelor of Technology (BTech).

## Varun Alagh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet

Varun Alagh is based out of Gurgaon, Haryana, and is the Co-Founder, Chief Dad, and CEO of Honasa Consumer. Varun previously worked at The Coca-Cola Company as a Senior Brand Manager. Varun Alagh attended XLRI Jamshedpur.

## Ashvin Chadha
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Retail, FinTech

Mr. Ashvin Chadha has spent over a decade working in the financial services industry both in India and the United States. He started his professional career as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley in New York. He then joined General Atlantic LLC, a worldwide private equity firm, where he was based in the New York City and Greenwich offices.Ashvin moved to India in 2006 to join the core team to set up the Mumbai office for India Equity Partners (IEP), a $350mm India focussed Private Equity Fund.In 2011, Ashvin moved to Delhi to set up his own family office to invest in debt securities of mid market Indian companies. He has successfully invested over INR 100cr of proprietary capital in debt securities across 20 companies in the last 5 years.Ashvin has served on the Board of Directors of several financial services companies including Manappuram Finance (until 2010) and Netafim Agricultural Finance Agency Private Limited (since 2012). He also serves as an advisor and Investment committee member for SEBI registered VC funds including Fulcrum Venture India LLP and Carpediem Capital Partners.Ashvin completed his education from Wesleyan University and The London School of Economics.

## Abhishek Goyal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Abhishek Goyal is the Founder at Tracxn.

## Rajesh Sawhney
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

Rajesh is the co-founder and CEO of InnerChef and Super Angels.

He holds a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering from Delhi University, and a master's degree in management from Mumbai University. 

He has also done a fellowship in 'Globalisation and Leadership' from the London School of Economics and Social Sciences.

## Manish Choksi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, Information Technology

Manish Choksi is the Founder and CIO of Inoventures. He previously worked at Asian Paints as a Chief of corporate Strategy and CIO. Manish Choksi attended the University of Houston.

## Kanwaljit Singh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care

Kanwal Singh is a co-founder of Helion and has over 23 years of experience in the areas of venture investing, marketing and business development across multiple sectors in India. In addition to his role at Helion, he serves on the boards of NGPay, Hurix, Amba Research, HummingBird, YLG Salons, Qwikcilver, Mast Kalandar, Yepme, Attano and LifeCell.Prior to Helion, Kanwal spent four years as a director and co-head of The Carlyle Group's India venture operations. Before this, he worked as Head of Marketing for Intel South Asia. He joined Intel from Hindustan Unilever Ltd. where he spent over 10 years in various functions including sales, marketing and product innovation.Kanwal has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Punjab University and an MBA in marketing and finance from the Faculty of Management Studies, New Delhi.

## Nitin Singhal
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Nitin Singhal is the Founder and Managing Partner of Fresco Global.

Nitin has an MBA from London Business School and a BTech from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and he is based in London, UK

## Vaibhav Kapoor
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

Vaibhav Kapoor

## Vidur Talwar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Consumer Goods, Food and Beverage

Vidur Talwar is a Managing Director at Mercedes Benz T & T Motors Ltd.

## Sameer Mehta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Retail

Sameer Mehta - Co-Founder & Chief product officer @ boAt

## Anirudh Somani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Consumer Goods, Food and Beverage

Anirudh Somani is a Vice President at CLSA.

## Shantanu Deshpande
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Retail, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage

Shantanu Deshpande is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Bombay Shaving Company.

## Kunal Bahl
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Kunal Bahl is based out of Delhi and is the Co-Founder of AceVector. Kunal Bahl attended the University of Pennsylvania.

## Rahul Maroli
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Education, Food and Beverage, News

Rahul Maroli is a business leader with demonstrated ability of building businesses for profit, growth and scale. For over a decade and a half, he has been steering market-leading companies in the automotive services, e-commerce & start-up businesses. His expertise includes driving shareholder returns, business strategy, Operations, Sales &Marketing. Rahul heads Ola’s Rental, Shuttle (Mass Mobility) and Corporate Distribution businesses, apart from strategic supply programs. Earlier, he envisioned, started and led Ola's cab leasing business through a wholly owned subsidiary Ola Fleet Technologies, making Ola the world’s first ride-sharing company to have a successful fleet business.Prior to Ola, he led Sales, Marketing and Operations for LeasePlan India, a leading player in the business mobility industry.Rahul advises early stage start-up and is an active angel investor. His investments include PeeSafe, EdgeFx, Dibz, ShadiSaga, Coutloot, ASADEL Technologies, Digiora & KakCho.

## Revant Bhate
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Retail, E-Commerce, Health Care

Revant Bhate is Chief Executive Officer at Mosaic Wellness.

## Ashutosh Valani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage

Ashutosh Valani is the founder at Renee Cosmetics.

## Priyank Shah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage

Priyank Shah is the Founder at Renee Cosmetics. He attended IBS Ahmedabad in 2009.

## Ashish Kacholia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: Retail, Manufacturing, Health Care

Ashish Kacholia is the founder and Director - Research at Lucky Investment Managers.

## Asish Mohapatra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, B2B

Asish Mohapatra is the Co-Founder and Head of Sales of OfBusiness. He previously worked at Matrix Partners as a Healthcare Investments Lead. Asish Mohapatra attended the Indian School of Business.

## Anand Ladsariya
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Travel, FinTech

Mr. Anand Ladsariya is the CEO and promoter director of Everest Flavours Ltd., a privately owned company, manufacturer and exporter of Menthol, Peppermint Oil, flavours and fragrances. He is a Graduate, topper and gold medalist from Bombay University and Post Graduate MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad. He is also involved in various social activities. He isex-Chairman of CHEMEXCIL, a premium export promotion organisation established by Ministry of Commerce, Govt. of India, for promotion of exports.He looks forward to risk adjusted investments keeping in mind capital preservation, sound returns and growth possibilities. He has investments in equity, equity mutual funds, real estate, real estate mutual funds, corporate loans, debt and liquid funds. Other options are viewed regularly on an ongoing fashion.He is an active Angel Investor with both Mumbai Angels and Indian Angel Network. He has invested in over 35 start-ups till date and actively mentors and guides the promoters to reach the next level. He is also part of the Planning Commission’s “Committee on Angel Investment and Early Stage Venture Capital” which is guided by the Vice Chairman of Planning Commission.

## Sukhbir Singh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, Mobile Apps, Food and Beverage

Sukhbir Singh

## Rana Daggubati
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Coffee, Fashion

Rana Daggubati is a Co-Founder at Social Swag India.

## Ajinkya Rahane
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Fruit, Shoes

Ajinkya Rahane

## Jitendra Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

## Arjun Purkayastha
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Retail

Arjun Purkayastha is a purpose driven leader with extensive global experience managing diverse businesses and multi-cultural teams at FTSE Top 10 and Fortune 100 companies - Reckitt and P&G. He has a strong track record of building outperforming teams, iconic brands & innovative business models across 60+ countries having lived & workedin the UK, Singapore, South Korea.

## Dharamveer Singh Chauhan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Calcutta, West Bengal, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food Processing, Food and Beverage

Dharamveer Singh Chouhan is the co-founder and CEO of Zo World. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

## Ashish Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Delivery, Food Processing

Ashish Gupta is the Founder of Benori Ventures. Previously, he co-founded and served as the Chief Operating Officer and Global Business Unit Head of Financial Services at Evalueserve until April 2016. He started his career with McKinsey where he served as an Engagement Manager and spent about five years with them. He received his MBA from TheCarnegie Mellon University and B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He recently graduated from the senior executive leadership program at Harvard Business School. He is one of the founders and trustees of Ashoka University and also serves on the board of TiE Delhi.

## Aprameya Radhakrishna
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, Retail

Aprameya loves singing romantic songs and is the quintessential dreamer who doesn’t fear to experiment. He used to be the Head of Business Development for PDS at Jones Lang LaSalle India where he spent almost 3 years post his graduation from IIM Ahmedabad. He has worked at Infosys and has an Electronics engineering degree from NITK Surthkal andif all this has made you think he’s a geek, ask his close friends and they would say otherwise!

## Dhruv Toshniwal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food Processing, Food and Beverage

Dhruv Toshniwal is a Co-founder at The Pant Project.

## Kris Gopalakrishnan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Software

Gopalakrishnan (Kris to his colleagues) is one of the founders of Infosys Technologies Limited. As Chief Executive Officer, he plays a key role in defining the company strategy and using technology and innovation continuously to maintain its leadership in the industry.On June 22, 2007, Kris took over from Nandan M. Nilekani as the CEO andManaging Director of Infosys Technologies Limited. Kris previously served as Chief Operating Officer (since April 2002), and as the President and Joint Managing Director (since August 2006). His responsibilities included customer services, technology, investments and acquisitions.Kris' initial responsibilities at Infosys included management of design, development, implementation and support of information systems for clients in the consumer products industry in the U.S. Between 1987 and 1994, he headed the technical operations of KSA/Infosys (a joint venture between Infosys and KSA at Atlanta, U.S.) as Vice President (Technical). In 1994, Kris returned to India and was appointed Deputy Managing Director of the company.Kris is currently the Chairman of the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM), Kerala, and Vice Chairman of the Board for Information Technology Education Standards (BITES) set up by the Government of Karnataka. Kris is the Vice Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industries(CII) Southern Regional Council. He is also a member of ACM, IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.Kris holds a master's degree in Physics and Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

## Sanjiv Rangrass
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: AgTech, Farming, Food Processing

Sanjiv Rangrass is the Venture Partner of Unitus Ventures. He previously worked at ITC Limited as a Group Head - R&D, Sustainability & Projects. Sanjiv Rangrass attended Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

## Sunil Mishra
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: AgTech, Food Processing, Food and Beverage

Sunil Mishra

## Narendra Sankar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: AgTech, Food Processing, Food and Beverage

Narendra Sankar

## Harsh Pokharna
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Software

Harsh Pokharna founded OKCredit on April 2017 alongside Gaurav Kumar and Aditya Prasad.

## Roshan Abbas
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Digital Entertainment, Internet, Food and Beverage

Roshan is founder of Encompass Events Pvt. Ltd.

## Harsh Shah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Gaming

Harsh Shah co-founded Shopsense Retail Technologies Private Limited in 2012. Harsh Shah is a Co-founder of Nova Global. He is Head of Entrepreneurship Cell. Harsh Shah studied at IIT Bombay in 2010.

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