Top 50 Hardware Angel Investors in India in May 2026
Top 50 Hardware Angel Investors in India in May 2026
| Investor | Hardware India investments |
|---|---|
| Anand Chandrasekaran | 7 |
| Rajesh Sawhney | 6 |
| Dinesh Agarwal | 6 |
| Kunal Shah | 6 |
| Anupam Mittal | 5 |
| Aprameya Radhakrishna | 5 |
| Rohit Bansal | 5 |
| Peyush Bansal | 5 |
| Namita Thapar | 5 |
| Kunal Bahl | 5 |
| Sunil Kumar Singhvi | 4 |
| Binny Bansal | 4 |
| Walid Aradi | 4 |
| Ashish Kacholia | 4 |
| Kris Gopalakrishnan | 4 |
| Aman Gupta | 4 |
| Prashant Pitti | 4 |
| Dhruvil Sanghvi | 4 |
| Karanpal Singh | 4 |
| Rajan Anandan | 4 |
| Rajan Anandan | 4 |
| Aakrit Vaish | 3 |
| Mitesh Nandlaskar | 3 |
| Phanindra Sama | 3 |
| Kishore Ganji | 3 |
| Wes Schwalje | 3 |
| Vijay Kedia | 3 |
| Krishna Kumar | 3 |
| Sumesh Menon | 3 |
| Jitendra Gupta | 3 |
| Vignesh Ramanujam | 3 |
| Ajay Gupta | 3 |
| Ashish Toshniwal | 3 |
| Dheeraj Jain | 3 |
| Keshav Murugesh | 3 |
| Lakshmi Narayanan | 3 |
| Anand Mahindra | 3 |
| Gaurav Munjal | 3 |
| Ramakant Sharma | 3 |
| Vineeta Singh | 3 |
| Raman Roy | 2 |
| Hiro Mashita | 2 |
| Mrunal Jhaveri | 2 |
| Sanjiv Bajaj | 2 |
| Naveen Kshatriya | 2 |
| Gautam Ivatury | 2 |
| Nikhil Vora | 2 |
| Shivakumar Ganesan | 2 |
| Ankur Aggarwal | 2 |
| Girish Mathrubootham | 2 |
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Find investors — It's Free!Anand Chandrasekaran is based out of San Francisco, California and is the President of Crescendo. Anand previously worked at General Catalyst as Partner and Venture Advisor. Anand Chandrasekaran attended the Stanford University and PSG College of Technology, India. Anand Chandrasekaran has been awarded Young Global Leader by the World EconomicForum and was recognized as the #1 seed investor focused on the India – U.S. corridor by the HURUN India Report in their career.
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- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- OpsLyft — OpsLyft Inc. is a San-Francisco & Noida-based technology company working towards building the future of cloud infrastructure management for internet companies across the world. The company leverages artificial intelligence and analytics to deliver insights and automate routine workflows that help software teams build, test, and deploy anyworkload on any cloud with no downtimes and at the lowest possible cloud infrastructure spend. Our mission is to simplify cloud management for all internet companies across the world. We are currently working with some of the largest companies across India - Inshorts, Innovaccer, Purplle, Zenoti etc. and are rapidly expanding our presence in the US geography as well. In addition to it, we are backed by some of the top investors from Silicon Valley and India.
- ByteLearn — ByteLearn is an AI-powered assistant for math teachers and students in managing curriculum. ByteLearn offers personalized, one on one attention by leveraging artificial intelligence technology and guides students when they get stuck on math problems, enabling them to connect with teachers, and grasp concepts better.
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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.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Fambo — Fambo is a technology-based food service company that offers semi-processed foodstuffs to restaurants and cloud kitchens.
- CargoFL — CargoFL is a B2B logistics technology platform that offers transport management software for enterprises in retail, pharma, and manufacturing sectors. It provides a cloud-based enterprise resource planning platform that focuses on capturing the logistics market by digital technology, automates dispatches, consolidates truckers, and provides supplychain visibility and vehicle tracking.
- ProcureYard — ProcureYard aims to revolutionize B2B raw materials procurement by modernizing traditional processes with cutting-edge AI technology, creating a transparent and reliable marketplace that reduces costs and simplifies sourcing for businesses.
The man behind establishment of India’s largest online marketplace in 1996, Dinesh is the chief driving force behind IndiaMART and has been the front runner in steering the growth of the company. Under his leadership, IndiaMART today is a 2800 strong talented pool of human resource, with customers spanning across 200 nations and 35 offices acrossthe country. A vigorous advocate of Indian SMEs, he has been undertaking numerous initiatives to promote technology in the Indian SME space.Dinesh is a member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI).Dinesh pursued his B. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur. When he does not have his working boots on, he loves to spend time with his family, travelling to exotic locations and experiencing different cultures
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- Software, Internet, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- India, Singapore, United States
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- MoneyyApp — We at MoneyyApp are helping Creators to grow their businesses. The struggle of the creators trying to make a mark has been tiring, and we understand that! The inception of MoneyyApp lays the foundation for creators’ atrocities.
- Blockfenders — Blockfenders is a startup with a blockchain-powered platform that promises to help businesses share data more securely with one another.
- QuickReply.ai — QuickRely.ai automates chat over Website, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp for Ecommerce Stores such as Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, and BigCommerce.
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.
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.
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- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, France
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- Burger Bae — We are a sustainable streetwear clothing brand. Our vision is to diminish the line between high end fashion and streetwear to create a more unified clothing line!
- Cookie Cartel — Buy Cookie Cartel New York style chunky homemade cookies. Fresh baked cookies, beautifully packed and delivered all across India. Bite into the flavourful cookie bliss!
- Naturik — Buy online 100% pure & natural instant oats, ragi and multigrain cheela mix at best prices on The Naturik Co. 100% secure payment & free shipping.
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!
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- Internet, Software, Retail
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, Croatia, Singapore
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- GoodGudi — GoodGudi is a Lifestyle retail shopping destination. Our Stores sell Travel Accessories, Fashion Accessories, Home Improvement products, Toys and Cosmetics
- Basil — Lunch has never been so fun! India's first stainless steel & leakproof bento lunch boxes and insulated water bottles! Designed for today's kids and the child in you!
- Evolved Foods — Evolved Foods is a sustainable eatery manufacturing company that designs and delivers plant based proteins and edible nutritional products.
Rohit Bansal is based out of Gurgaon and is the Co-founder of AceVector. Rohit previously worked at FICCI as a Chair. Rohit Bansal attended Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Singapore
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- &Done — Multi-functional formulas tested in 150+ salons. Made for Indian hair. Try your &Done ritual today. This is your Power Move.
- Legistify — Legistify offers AI-powered legal operations software to streamline workflows, manage contracts, track legal cases and improve productivity for enterprise legal teams
- Eyewear designed& labs — Eyewear designed& labs is a eyewear startup.
Peyush Bansal is the Co-Founder, Chief Executive, and People Officer of Lenskart. He attended McGill University.
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- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- India, United States, France
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- Perfora — We understand the importance of healthy teeth. Explore Perfora's Oral Care Products to elevate your oral health.
- Seven — Seven is a consumer electronic D2C startup from India, building wearable smart ring products in the Fintech space.
- Naturik — Buy online 100% pure & natural instant oats, ragi and multigrain cheela mix at best prices on The Naturik Co. 100% secure payment & free shipping.
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.
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- Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Retail
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- India, Hong Kong
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- MeMeraki — MeMeraki is India first culture-tech platform using technology to empower the artisan creator economy and shopping and retail and fashion.
- Wholeleaf — Wholeleaf is a licensed therapeutics company backed by the science of Ayurveda. Our goal is to help people lead a healthier and happier life by offering them a better way to heal using all plant based natural extracts guided by modern science.
- Nootie — Nootie is the largest and most well-known pet retailer, fulfilling all of the needs of pets.
Kunal Bahl is based out of Delhi and is the Co-Founder of AceVector. Kunal Bahl attended the University of Pennsylvania.
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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Singapore
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- Speed Kitchen — Your Reliable Commercial Kitchen Space Provider
- Clapstore Toys — Clapstore Toys offers safe, eco-friendly Montessori-inspired busy boards and interactive toys that promote a screen-free childhood through hands-on play, skill-building, and developmental learning.
- Naturik — Buy online 100% pure & natural instant oats, ragi and multigrain cheela mix at best prices on The Naturik Co. 100% secure payment & free shipping.
SunilKumar Singhvi is the managing partner at Singhvi Heritage LLP.
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- Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Education
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- India, Israel, Singapore
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- Workie — We offering the Perfect Commercial & Co-working Office Space which are Fully Furnished for Businesses, Startups & Freelancers.
- Onetab — AI Agent for Software development Life Cycle and enterprises workflows.
- Matrix Gas & Renewables — Matrix Gas & Renewables offers a reliable and affordable natural gas supply from various sources. Matrix Gas aims to become the preferred natural gas supplier to Indian downstream customers, ensuring reliable, consistent supply. They offer flexible offtake contracts, flexible supply terms, and flexibility in take or pay and LC requirements.
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.
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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, United States, Singapore
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- Curefoods — Curefoods democratizes access to food on a sustainable basis. They focus on operations management for cloud kitchens and the online food ordering market.
- BorderPlus — BorderPlus supports nurses in building careers abroad, including Germany, through structured pathways, preparation, and long-term professional support.
- Equal Identity — Equal Identity operates as an ID-sharing platform.
Entrepreneur, investor. Advising global tech companies navigate through MENA+ regulatory environments, market entry and scaling
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- Information Technology, Internet, Health Care
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, United States, Nigeria
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- HelpNow — HelpNow Corporate Site
- Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
- Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
Ashish Kacholia is the founder and Director - Research at Lucky Investment Managers.
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- Retail, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Seed, Post-IPO Equity, Funding Round
- India, United States, Singapore
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- Aeroflex Industries — Durable Stainless Steel Flexible Hoses, Hose Assemblies & Expansion Joints & Bellows for high-performance systems. Get Metal Hoses & SS Fittings
- TimeTooth Technologies — TimeTooth Technologies offers new product development, engineering consulting, custom software, and process automation services.
- RN Kids care — RN Kids Care focuses on child‑care and nursing‑related services for children. The firm offers home‑care support tailored to pediatric needs. It also provides specialized nursing assistance for medically dependent or recovering children in home settings.
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.
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- E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, United States, Singapore
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- Vahdam Teas — Vahdam Teas is among the world’s first vertically integrated online-first tea brands that sources premium garden fresh teas. Established in 2015, Vahdam Teas have been already shipped to 76 countries with USA, Russia, and Europe being its top markets. The team shares a passionate vision to create India’s first home-grown global tea brand byleveraging technology.Vahdam Teas is a New Delhi-based company.
- JetSynthesys — 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.
- Planys Technologies — Planys Technologies is a global leader with 10+ years in underwater inspection services for critical infrastructure including dams, bridges, ports, jetties,
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.
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- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing
- Angel, Seed, Funding Round
- India, United States
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- ZOFF — Indian spice brand with cool grind technique to preserve the taste & smell of the spices. Packed in zip-lock bags for convenience. Buy quality spices, now!
- Phitku — Phitku is a personal-care company that offers crystal roll-on deodorants without any alcohol and harsh chemicals.
- Wholeleaf — Wholeleaf is a licensed therapeutics company backed by the science of Ayurveda. Our goal is to help people lead a healthier and happier life by offering them a better way to heal using all plant based natural extracts guided by modern science.
Prashant Pitti is the cofounder of EaseMyTrip & Optimo. Prashant Pitti attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
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- Drones, Organic, Delivery
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India
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- 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!
- Optimo Capital — Optimo Loan is committed to promoting financial inclusion in the small business community and having a positive social impact.Our financing solutions are designed to empower businesses, regardless of their size or background, to achieve their growth ambitions and drive economic progress.
- Zippee — ZFW Dark Stores enables 30 Min, 2 Hour, & Same-Day deliveries for E-commerce brands through next-gen fulfillment, network of dark stores, & last-mile infrastructure across India. This capital-light approach is helping brands like Epigamia, Unilever, Rage Coffee, NOTO, and Baskin Robbins expand without upfront capital, overheads, &headaches.Our platform integrates seamlessly with all industry platforms to provide brands with complete visibility into supply-chain ops & customers: significantly improving customer loyalty, RTOs, & costs.E-commerce is becoming increasingly competitive with shifting brand loyalties. Stay ahead of the curve & be closer to your customers by offering them super-fast deliveries.If you're a D2C brand in India that wants to boost profitability & customer experiences- reach out & say hi!
Dhruvil is the founder of LogiNext. As the founder of LogiNext, I have been leading a global SaaS company that provides logistics and supply chain technology platform to enterprises across various industries. Since 2015, we have grown to serve over 200 large clients live in 50 countries, being supported by our offices in the US, India, UAE, andMalaysia. We have also raised over $50 million in funding from marquee investors, and have been recognized by Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Deloitte as one of the fastest-growing and most innovative companies in our domain.My passion for entrepreneurship, technology, and social impact drives me to create products that solve real-world problems and create value for our customers and stakeholders. I have also been actively involved in the start-up ecosystem as a CEO, early-stage angel investor, mentor and co-founder of various initiatives that support and empower aspiring entrepreneurs, especially in US, UAE and India. I have invested in over 50 start-ups across sectors such as SaaS, fintech, edtech, healthtech, e-commerce, and media, and have mentored hundreds of founders and management teams through various platforms and programs.
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- Information Technology, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- SpotDraft — SpotDraft's contract management solution has been built from ground up to work with contract management processes of teams of all sizes. Bring your legal agreements to the 21st century with SpotDraft's award winning, AI-driven platform.
- 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
- Uniper-care Technologies — With Uniper, members can join the community, contribute at their own pace, and Connect to Life!
Karanpal Singh is a steel and mining industrialist and the founder of Hunch Ventures which has been investing in multi-stage companies since 2012.As these investments evolved into larger businesses, Hunch evolved into an organized venture fund and has now taken several large bets across multiple sectors. Hunch has been backing visionary foundersin various industries from Air Mobility, Fine Arts, Sustainable Food Supply chains and food security, Ports and Logistics, Healthtech, F&B, Lifestyle Media and several B2B SaaS platforms. It has investments in India, Canada, the US, Tanzania, Singapore, UAE and the United Kingdom and has now pivoted to environmentally conscious and sustainable businesses. Hunch is one of the largest independent aggregators of food-related infrastructure and technologies and has built the platform for global food technology companies to come to India and establish a local presence.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- India, United States, United Kingdom
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- Skylark Drones — Drone data platform by Skylark Drones is used by surveying, volume measurement for construction & inspection teams in infrastructure, mining, solar energy, agriculture & utilities.
- The Quorum Club — The Quorum Hyderabad A modern reflection of the city's DNA. Enjoy The Q Hyderabad's members-only lounge for work and relaxation in a cultural metropolis.
- Green Frontier Capital — Green Frontier Capital is India's first investment firm that focuses on growth companies which are delivering breakthrough innovation in green industries.
As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, United States, Singapore
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- NAYAN — NAYAN is a computer vision platform, providing Hyperlocal data in the form of visuals and analytics. We gather visual data via multiple assets and transform it into actionable insight using artificial intelligence. Our suite of products - Hybrid Enterprise Solutions for large clients and our Direct to Customer Search Platform - empowers Businesses,Governments and Individuals to supervise infrastructure, monitor people and events of interest, monitor inventory, analyze conditions and usage, and efficiently supervise the progress of multiple projects. We enable our clients worldwide to objectively assess and manage assets using our Technology
- Freshtohome — Freshtohome is an online grocery store that sells a range of seafood and meat to its users.The website’s range of products include fish, poultry, mutton, steaks, and fillet. Fish consists of shell, freshwater, and marine. Furthermore, it enables suppliers to supply their seafood and meat to the website.Freshtohome was launched in 2015 by ShanKadavil and is based in Bangalore.
- mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.
As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.
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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, United States, Singapore
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- Smytten — Discover Trial Packs from 1200+ top brands on Smytten. Explore 250+ lifestyle categories and try sample products across skincare, haircare, makeup, fragrances & more.
- Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
- PlusPin Healthcare — PlusPin aims to add substantial value to mom and pop pharmacies in making them a key component of the healthcare ecosystem. Pluspin powered pharmacies would provide convenient and optimal healthcare solutions to a large base of consumers from the middle of the pyramid segment. PlusPin has 3 major goals: ● Transform pharmacies into HealthcareSatellite centers that are accessible to the common man in both Urban and Rural areas. ● Launch and Diversify niche healthcare services at these centers, assisting in cost containment and care management. ● Increase earning potential of partner mom and pop pharmacies.
Aakrit Vaish is based out of Mumbai, Maharashtra and was the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Haptik. Aakrit previously worked at peercheque as a Managing Partner. Aakrit Vaish attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. .
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- Internet, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, Canada, Indonesia
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- SWIRL — Elevate Customer journey with Swirl's Video Commerce Solutions. Discover How We Help Businesses Thrive in the Digital Age - Visit Our Website!
- 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
- Relove — Relove offers resale technology that helps brands acquire new customers and build deep customer loyalty.
Mitesh Nandlaskar is a seasonal Angel investor and Private equity professional. He is known for investing in early to mid-market deals, late stage Pre IPO deals.
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- Manufacturing, Sports, Fitness
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- India, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Relata — Relata transforms realty sales for premium developers with the help of innovative technology placed at every step of property selling. Sounds Interesting? Schedule a demo today!
- Machaxi — Premium coaching & memberships in Bengaluru. Book trials, view batches, and join programs across sports.
- ParkMate — ParkMate is a Smart Parking Solution that provides users and businesses with a smooth parking experience. You will never have to look for or visit a parking lot again if you use the ParkMate app.
Phanindra Sama is the Advisor of WestBridge Capital. He previously worked at redBus as a Founder and CEO. Phanindra Sama attended Stanford University.
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- Internet, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Singapore
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- Kraftshala — Kraftshala is a online skilling platform for non-coding domains.
- Chai Bisket — The Telugu Culture Company! Our Family - Girl Formula, Boy Formula, Chai Bisket Food, Kiraak Style, Chai Bisket Podcasts and Chai Bisket Shorts.
- Eyewear designed& labs — Eyewear designed& labs is a eyewear startup.
Kishore Ganji is the Angel Investor & Mentor at Astir Ventures.
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- 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.
Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- VC Lab — We help idea-stage entrepreneurs and pre-seed startups get funding, build a team, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, and launch impactful businesses.
- HelpNow — HelpNow Corporate Site
- OlaClick (YC W21) — Create electronic menu boards for your restaurant or store. It is totally free. QR codes menu or digital menu boards. Digitalize your menu in an instant and start receiving orders !
Vijay Kedia
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- MobiKwik — MobiKwik offers a comprehensive range of financial products tailored for consumers and merchants, focusing on payments, digital credit, and investments. The platform utilizes big data analytics and machine learning to enhance user experiences while facilitating transactions for everyday needs across millions of merchants. MobiKwik aims to createaccessible payment and credit solutions for users in India.
- Upside AI — Upside AI uses machine learning to make better investing decisions than humans over the long term. This is because machines are unbiased, unemotional, and can follow standardized rules in market euphoria and panic. We teach machines how to understand, recognize, and buy companies that are not only fundamentally good businesses but also in-demandstocks.
- AiTrillion — AiTrillion Best eCommerce marketing platform offers the most advanced solutions for email marketing, loyalty rewards program, product reviews, live chat, and workflow automation.
Krishna Kumar founded Simplilearn.com in 2010 and serves as the CEO. Before this, Krishna worked at IAMAI- Edtech as the Chairman and attended the National Institute of Technology Karnataka.
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- Education, Retail Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- HappyCredit — HappyCredit is the shoppers new destination to find best active offers on all banks credit and debit cards for all brands. Your savings start with us!
- Playto Labs — Playto Labs offers online robotics classes and kits specially designed for kids. Your child can learn and build robots through play-based hands-on learning.
- 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
Sumesh Menon is the Co-Founder / Managing Director of U2opia Mobile Pte Ltd,
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- FinTech, Software, Lending
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Zenduty — Resolve critical product and downtime issues before your customers are impacted. Zenduty integrates with all your monitoring tools and alerts your engineers via Phone, Slack, Push notifications, Email, SMS, and Microsoft Teams. You can organize all your incident communications, manage your on-call, brings in all your playbooks, and analytics in one place, and resolve incidents blazingly fast.
- MoneyyApp — We at MoneyyApp are helping Creators to grow their businesses. The struggle of the creators trying to make a mark has been tiring, and we understand that! The inception of MoneyyApp lays the foundation for creators’ atrocities.
- 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
Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.
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- 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.
- Volopay — Volopay gives you control over your company's payments, expenses, budgets, and accounting. The best alternative for your business account. Join the hundreds of companies that trust Volopay.
- 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.
Entrepreneur — Founder, Investor, Board Member, Operator, Advisor, Observer, Partner, Seeker, Friend. Publicly active in private markets & privately active in public markets.
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- Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Kaching — Get your customers to get you customers. Get in touch if you're a restaurant, bar, or retail store to discover how Kaching can radically transform your word-of-mouth!
- Dezy — Smiles.ai is India's leading dental clinic with 100+ expert dentists and has 300+ dental care centers in major cities like Bangalore, Bhopal, Chennai, Delhi, Indore, Lucknow, and Kolkata. Find the best dentist nearby.
- HECCO Technologies Inc (Prescribe) — Prescribe is an IIT-M and IIM-C backed HealthTech start-up that aims at efficient digital healthcare delivery through powerful technologies and leveraging patient friendly platforms like WhatsApp.With the launch of the National Digital Health Mission in India, we, at Prescribe bring to you an easy way to digitalize your clinical practice andthereby increase patient retention.Prescribe allows the healthcare professional to provide personalized attention to each patient through every stage of consultation.Our goal, at Prescribe, is to provide a level of digital adoption, to every private practitioner and small-scale clinic in this country, which is at par with corporate hospitals.From digital generation of prescription, OPD queue management, Online appointment booking, to tele-consultation, we work towards a seamless communication over WhatsApp via a 24×7 virtual assistance integrated with our powerful modules and dashboards to deliver exceptional patient care.We have worked tirelessly since 2018 and have successfully developed our artificial intelligence enabled software suite to accomplish this objective.Prescribe, Has Been Trusted By The Pioneers In The Field Of Healthcare, Time And Again. A Few Of Our Partners Include:AyurVAID AyurVAID Hospitals is a pioneering chain of new generation Ayurveda hospitals, dedicated to applying Ayurveda to solve modern health problems.Arya Vaidya Sala, Kottakkal, (AVS) Arya Vaidya Sala, Kottakkal, (AVS) is an 117 years old Charitable Institution engaged in the practice and propagation of Ayurveda, the ancient health care science of India. AVS offers classical Ayurvedic medicines and authentic Ayurvedic treatments and therapies to patients from all over India and abroad.Apart from this, we have happily partnered with 100+ doctors, clinics and hospitals. We strive for the betterment of healthcare community and patients, everyday.
Ajay Gupta - Vice President and Head of Strategy and Marketing @ Ericsson
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- Software, Fashion, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Metadome.ai — Metadome is a metaverse that provides the no-code infrastructure to millions of creators and brands to build immersive experiences for the virtual world.Metadome is a persistent virtual world, and all experiences (including shopping) will be driven by 3D and AR/VR. Brands will be able to represent themselves in Metadome, and creators will beable to engage through tools that allow everyone to interact, collaborate, learn, play, work, create, trade, transact and buy virtual goods.
- Inex One — With Inex One, you become the expert at handling expert calls. You combine all your expert networks in one dashboard, with a clear overview of your requests and available experts.You get a larger pool of experts as more networks are supplying, yet you minimize the hassle in coordinating them. You get clarity on how relevant experts are, and thecosts involved.The team behind Inex One is former consultants, investment professionals and techies, wanting to help users better tap into the world's expertise.
- Styledotme — Mirrar is a Augmented Reality (AR) SaaS platform from Styledotme which is the world's first Real time AR platform for Jewellery shopping.
Ashish Toshniwal is CEO and co-founder of Y Media Labs, an investor in numerous mobile-first technology companies, and a frequent speaker on the future of mobile, emerging technologies, and business transformation in the digital age. Prior to that, he was a Manager at eBay. Ashish attended Purdue University.
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- Software, Apps, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A
- United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Zenduty — Resolve critical product and downtime issues before your customers are impacted. Zenduty integrates with all your monitoring tools and alerts your engineers via Phone, Slack, Push notifications, Email, SMS, and Microsoft Teams. You can organize all your incident communications, manage your on-call, brings in all your playbooks, and analytics in one place, and resolve incidents blazingly fast.
- Codingal — Codingal offers engaging & fun online coding & AI classes for kids & teens using the K12 Computer Science Framework. Sign up today to get a free class!
- Miles — Miles is a universal rewards app empowering anyone to earn miles automatically for all forms of travel and commute. You can then redeem your miles from retailers such as HP, Garmin, Shipt, Pandora, Chewy, Home Chef, and many more.Similar to a frequent flyer program, but for all forms of transportation, Miles delivers value for every miletraveled, across every mode of travel, anywhere in the world. Whether by car (as a driver, passenger or rideshare), plane, train, subway, bus, boat, bicycle, or on foot, the Miles app effortlessly awards users’ travel - regardless of where their journey takes them. Miles can be saved or redeemed at any time - with the value increasing every month as more merchants accept them as a form of payment. Download Miles today to start getting rewarded!
Dheeraj Jain is working as Director at Redciffe Capital based in London and Delhi/Gurgaon. He is also value partner at Nine River Capital, PE fund focused towards India and hedge fund manager at Numia Capital. In last 3 years, he was lead mandate holder towards structuring and financing numerous cross border acquisitions in the mining, metal,technology, security services, manufacturing, shipping, oil, renewable power sectors coving India, USA, UK, Africa. He himself is seasoned investor and have network of investors, banks and other financial institutes supporting on investment banking transaction done on his acumen of risk/reward and ability to stitching deal pieces together.
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- E-Commerce, Mobile, Travel
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Candes — Candes provides top quality Home Appliances from TVs to Geysers. Transform your home into Smart Home with Candes Appliances. Buy Home Appliances Online now.
- Fitspire — India's Best Vegan Health Supplement Brand. Shop 100% Authentic & Premium Vegan health supplements, plant-based protein powder & more online on Fitspire.
- Yobee — Yobee is an emerging fintech building a suite of customisable solutions to boost growth & engagement in your business. Trusted by large organisations such as HDFC Sec, IIFL, Nuvama & more. Visit the site to learn more.
Keshav Murugesh is the Chief Executive Officer at WNS (Holdings) Ltd. Keshav Murugesh attended The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
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- B2B, SaaS, Robotics
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Xperium — Discover Xperium By Repup: Your Ultimate Hospitality CRM Solution. Elevate guest experiences, streamline operations, and boost revenue with our cutting-edge AI-powered CRM platform. Learn how Xperium.ai can transform your hospitality business today.
- Miko — Discover the Miko Robot, your child's new best friend for learning and entertainment. This AI-powered educational robot is designed to engage, educate, and entertain kids while fostering their cognitive development. Explore the world of Miko and unlock a world of interactive adventures today!
Lakshmi Narayanan is the Chief Executive Officer at Cognizant Technology Solutions.
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- Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Sports
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, United States
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- QpiAI — QpiAI - Building Next-Generation AI Solutions and Quantum Software
- AGNIT Semiconductors Private Limited — AGNIT Semiconductors offers ultra-efficient GaN RF solutions with Epi wafers, components & modules for telecom, defense & strategic applications.
- Clean Core Thorium Energy — Clean Core Thorium Energy develops advanced nuclear fuel for existing reactors.
Graduate, Harvard Univ. and Harvard Business School. Chairman and Managing Director, Mahindra Group. Thought leader in Indian business. Serves on many industry confederations. Initiated the Nanhi Kali programme to provide free education to economically underprivileged girls in India. Co-Founder, Naandi Danone, India's largest safe drinkingwater provider to rural areas. Life Trustee, Board of Naandi Foundation, which provides meals to 1.3 million children daily. Co-Chair, World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009. Named among World’s 50 Greatest Leaders, Fortune Magazine (2014); named one of the top 25 most powerful business people in Asia, Fortune Magazine (2011).
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- Education, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, United States, United Kingdom
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- Agnikul — Agnikul Cosmos designs and manufactures orbital-class launch vehicles powered by 3D-printed engines. From custom payloads to affordable private launches, we make space access simple, scalable, and mission-focused.
- Harvested Robotics — Harvested Robotics is an ag-tech company that focuses on safeguarding farms from weeds and diseases by lasers, robotics, and AI technology.
- Genrobotics Medical & Mobility — India's top-rated gait trainer, G Gaiter! Our AI-powered, robot assisted gait trainer accelerates neurorehabilitation for faster recovery.
Gaurav Munjal is the Co-Founder and CEO at Unacademy.
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- Internet, Health Care, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, Singapore, United States
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- BiteSpeed — Drive 10% of your Shopify store's revenue from WhatsApp & FB Messenger. Recover abandoned carts, send promotional & shipping messages. Trusted by 1500+ brands!
- 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.
- LightFury Games — India's true AAA game studio with a vision to pioneer a new era of gaming by creating groundbreaking AAA titles that entertain and inspire players worldwide.
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).
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- Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Singapore
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- Oolka — Oolka is a credit-building website that connects lenders and borrowers and shows credit scores.
- Orange Sugar — Wrap your little ones in unparalleled comfort with our 100% breathable cotton baby and kids wear. Our collection, designed for newborns to 10-year-olds, combines modern design with timeless warmth. Explore our durable, hypoallergenic, & affordable essentials crafted with long-lasting Azo-free dyes.
- TPlusA India — TPlusA India specializes in high-quality furniture hardware and accessories, including wooden components, fixtures, fittings, door hardware, and related products.
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.
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- Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Food Processing
- Angel, Seed, Funding Round
- India
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- Freakins — Looking for a wardrobe upgrade? Check out the collection of latest, trendy and stylish denim apparel by Freakins Online! Shop & enjoy Free delivery on all orders.
- Warrior World — India's First Men's Army Base Men's Fashion Store. We Have All T-shirt,Over Size T-shirt,Full Sleeve T-shirt And Many More Fashion Products.We Provide All India Cash On Delivery With 7 Days Easy Return Policy
- 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.
Raman is widely regarded as the pioneer and “guru” of the BPO industry (also called the ‘IT Enabled Services’ industry) in India. He has played a pivotal role over the last 14 years in promoting Indian BPO and proving that India can be a preferred location for Remote Processing.Raman is a pioneer four times over, having successfully led thecaptive/third party BPO initiatives of American Express, GE Capital (now Genpact) and Spectramind (now Wipro BPO) out of India before starting Quatrro mid 2006, which is launched to focus on high end BPO services.Raman is a Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Management Accountant with a doctorate in Management Accountancy. In his career spanning across 30+ years, Raman has a very hands-on approach to business and has first-hand experience and rare insights into servicing markets as diverse as North America, Europe, Japan, Asia Pacific and Australia.As a tribute to his contribution to the BPO industry, he was awarded the Dataquest Pathbreaker Award in 2002 for directly creating 35,000+ jobs in India and indirectly enabling the employment of over 410,000 people by creating the BPO industry.
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- E-Commerce, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- India
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- Workie — We offering the Perfect Commercial & Co-working Office Space which are Fully Furnished for Businesses, Startups & Freelancers.
- HireACamp — HireACamp is an online marketplace that lets travelers easily Search and book camps with local camp owners.
- SP Robotic Works — SP Robotic Works is India's #1 Edutainment Company that bundles Learning Robotics, Coding & other New age technologies with fun! Digital Learning Platform(AI assisted) coupled with Hands-on Kits helps students learn various Technologies like Robotics, Coding, Internet Of Things(IoT), Drones, Android App Building, Virtual Reality and manymore!! They deliver courses both on Online & Offline Smart classes mode via SP Robotics Maker Labs spread across 83 dedicated centres in 32 cities and 13 states.
Hiro Mashita - Founder & Director @ M&S Partners
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- Internet, Financial Services, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, United States, Japan
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- 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
Mrunal Jhaveri of Icebreaker Tech LLP
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- E-Commerce, Apps, Mobile Devices
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Kredily — Kredily is a free cloud-based HR & Payroll software in India. Manage employee data, track leave, track attendance, and automate payroll.
- MobiGarage — More than 500 million people will get on the Internet for the first time in the next three years in India, mainly through low-cost refurbished smartphones. MobiGarage is innovating the US$40 billion dollar smartphone market by disrupting the second-hand mobile supply chain through Artificial Intelligence and selling refurbished smartphones withcertified components and warranty that are 70% cheaper than new smartphones. Catering to 100,000 smartphones a year, MobiGarage is growing 20% monthly. MobiGarage caters to the end user customer through online medium - E-commerce marketplace on MobiGarage.com and offline through unique hub and spoke model covering the multi billion dollar Tier 2, Tier 3 and Tier 4 markets
- Scandalous Foods — Scandalous Foods offers food preparation services such as 6-month preservative-free sweets in single-serve sizes.
Sanjiv Bajaj
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- Information Technology, Big Data, Electronics
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India
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- Clairco — Clairco provides enhanced air purification and real-time insights for WELLness of the occupants by Cleaner breathable air indoors, all year round.
- Dubpro.ai — Deepsync Dub allows you to translates your videos into major languages and auto-syncs it in 5 minutes! Supports voice cloning.
- Bigspoon — We are an omni-channel multi-brand Cloud kitchen start-up, operational since September 2019 and headquartered out of Ahmedabad. Our main focus is on tier-2 markets, with a vision to minimize the delta between fine-dine and home-delivery experience for the customer and make great food accessible to all. Currently we have six live brands under theBigspoon umbrella - Makhni Brothers (Authentic North Indian Cuisine), Meals101 (Chinese and Global Meals-for-one), Oven & Grill (American Fast-food) and our latest offering, Thali Central (Thali meals ), The Wrap Co. (Roomali Wraps Brand) and The Monkey Fries (Fries brand) and have presence in 10 cities across Gujarat, MP, Maharashtra, Telengana, UP and RajasthanFounded by INSEAD and WGSHA alumni, with leadership experience at Uber, GoJek and ITC, we are on a mission to create the finest cloud kitchen start-up of Asia at scale.
Gautam Ivatury is a Senior Advisor and Investment Committee Member at Encourage Capital.
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- Banking, FinTech, Lending
- Seed
- India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- LoveLocal (formerly m.Paani) — LoveLocal (formerly known as m.Paani) is the only app you need for all your daily needs fulfilled by your trusted local shops online. Now enjoy the convenience of online ordering, Fast home delivery, digital payments - all at a tap of a button. Shop anytime, anywhere from a vast range of products including fresh fruits, vegetables, groceries, OTCMedicines, Home and Personal Care Products, snacks, and much more. So LoveLocal!
- QUASH.AI — QUASH is the leading Credvertising™ Platform that allows Financial Institutions to improve their Return on Prospecting to new and existing borrowers by personalizing offerings based on credit risk. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.
Nikhil Vora is the Founder and CEO of Sixth Sense Ventures; India's first consumer centric domestic venture fund. Nikhil was earlier the Managing Director / Head of Research at IDFC Securities, and has been regarded as one of the strongest analytical minds in the country. The core of Sixth Sense lies in the belief that the next big waveof dysfunctional growth will be led by players who are going to be driven by completely different skill sets / capabilities and not necessarily capital. Sixth Sense vision is to identify and invest a ‘smart ass’ team with a ‘kick ass’ product in a ‘big ass’ market! Nikhil has been invited by the “Nestle Global Consumer Board” and the “Regional CFO forum” to give a presentation on the potential roadmap for Nestle India. He has also evolved a strategic road-map for Unilever, Aditya Birla Group, Marico, Godrej, NIIT, Navneet etc. His research has been accredited by some of the largest global funds like Capital, Fidelity, Alliance Bernstein, Putnam, Schroder’s etc. In the Asia Money polls 2012, Nikhil was voted as India’s No.1 analyst. He also has the rare distinction of being voted Asia’s Best Analyst by the Wall Street Journal in the same year. Along with advising clients, he also has been a venture capital investor and on the board of a few of his investee companies. Some of the earlier Venture Investments made by Nikhil Vora includes – One97 (PayTm), Vini Cosmetics (Fogg), Parag Milk (Go), Kangaroo Kids Education, BVG India, Technology Frontiers, Mannash Lifestyle (www.purplle.com), Infinite Analytics, Reznext Solutions, Intellisys Technologies, Rainmaker Legal, RoomsTonight etc.
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- Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Meolaa — Tired of overpaying for chemical-free and natural products? We got you! Meolaa.com is your shopping list in one place, the easiest way to shop better for you and your family! Discover over 750 trusted sustainable brands offering everything natural!
- Go Zero — Explore GoZero for guilt-free indulgence! Discover our range of delicious zero sugar, low-calorie High Protein vegan ice cream treats. Order now and enjoy the goodness guilt-free!
- Ginglani Distillers — Ginglani Distillers operates as a whisky startup. Ginglani Distillers is the maker of Black Bow whisky.
Shivakumar Ganesan - Co-Founder & CEO @ Exotel
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- Music, Content, Marketing
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- India
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- Futwork — With Futwork, learn for free and get a telecaller job. Find Work from Home jobs in India. Flexi hours & work suitable for freshers and women. Earn from home now!
- Homingos — Relive the special moments and surprise your loved ones with Flam. Why Create photos. Create Tangible Moments with FlamCard. Shop your FlamCard now!
- Humit — Discover conveniently, Share convincingly. Available on Play Store and Appstore
Ankur Aggarwal is the Co-Founder at Dunzo.
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- B2B, Gift, Credit
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Soptle — Founded in Sep 2021, Soptle started to establish an integrated technology to the neglected regional FMCG Manufacturers in India with a B2B Retail Commmerce App. It uses tech and data to distribute at scale and use necessary components (existing Distributor/Wholesaler) in the FMCG Supply Chain to build a high growth and profitable business.
- BharatX — BharatX is a Fin-Tech startup that enables any Consumer-facing app/website in India to offer Credit to their users by integrating its APIs. It can enable white-leballed journeys like of "Buy Now, Pay Later","Credit Line", "Try and Buy", "Pay in 3", "Postpaid", etc.
- Swageazy — Seamless solutions for managing and distributing your company's promotional merchandise.
Girish Mathrubootham is the CEO and Founder at Freshworks. Girish Mathrubootham attended University of Madras.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- HuddleUp — HuddleUp is an AI-based team culture platform empowering Managers to boost team engagement & productivity using conversational AI, personalised learnings & peer connections. Build engaged, high-performing remote teams with HuddleUp. Book a demo now!
- NocoDB — NocoDB is an open-source Airtable alternative that transforms existing databases into a smart spreadsheet. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
- Presentations.AI — Create stunning PowerPoint presentations in seconds with Presentations.AI - the ultimate AI presentation maker. Just type your idea and watch as we craft a professional PPT for you. Perfect for all: businesses, educators, and hobbyists. Dive in now, start for free!
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