Top 50 Hardware Angel Investors in India in November 2024

Anand Chandrasekaran is a Partner at General Catalyst. He previously worked at Facebook and attended Stanford University.

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

Kunal Shah

Kunal is a technology entrepreneur and investor.

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.

Rohit Bansal - Co-Founder @ Snapdeal

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.

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.

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.

SunilKumar Singhvi is the managing partner at Singhvi Heritage LLP.

Aman Gupta - Co Founder & CMO @ boAt

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.

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!

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.

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.

Prashant Pitti is the cofounder of EaseMyTrip & Optimo. Prashant Pitti attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

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.

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Phanindra Sama is the Advisor of WestBridge Capital. He previously worked at redBus as a Founder and CEO. Phanindra Sama attended Stanford University.

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.

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

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

Entrepreneur — Founder, Investor, Board Member, Operator, Advisor, Observer, Partner, Seeker, Friend. Publicly active in private markets & privately active in public markets.

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.

Ajay Gupta - Vice President and Head of Strategy and Marketing @ Ericsson

Vijay Kedia

Dhruvil is one of the co-founders LogiNext. He has worked with elite organizations like Deloitte,Ernst & Young and Tata Group and studies at Carnegie Mellon and Nirma University.

Entrepreneur, investor. Advising global tech companies navigate through MENA+ regulatory environments, market entry and scaling

Nitin Passi

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

Lakshmi Narayanan is the Chief Executive Officer at Cognizant Technology Solutions.

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

Gaurav Munjal is the Co-Founder and CEO at Unacademy.

Charlie Feng

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).

Angel Investor & Philanthropist

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

Varsha Rao is the CEO of Nurx, which is revolutionizing healthcare by home-delivering prescriptions, medication, and screening tests. She is a Board Member at ViaSat Inc., and the former COO of Clover Health, a health insurance startup developing an innovative platform that collects and analyzes long-term medical data to improve the healthmanagement and wellbeing of its clients. Varsha previously served as Head of Global Operations at Airbnb, where she was responsible for managing 16 offices across the globe and leading the company’s customer service and trust and safety teams in Oregon, Portland, Singapore, Dublin and San Francisco. Under her leadership, the company’s operations in Asia expanded, with many new hosts and visitors joining the Airbnb family.However, her entrepreneurial journey began much earlier, in 1998 when she founded Eve.com together with Mariam Naficy. Eve.com quickly became the leading e-commerce retailer for beauty and accessories. Within two years the company grew to 125 employees. Eve.com was sold to Idealab in early 2000 for $110M. In 1999, Fortune Magazine named the company as the 6th Best e-commerce site.Between founding Eve.com and landing at Airbnb, Rao has held a variety of senior roles. She was appointed VP, Category Marketing at Keen/Ingenio (acquired by AT&T) in 2001 and managed P&L for new and emerging major categories. In 2004-2008, she was VP, General Manager for OldNavy.com, the online division of Gap, Inc., where she led the company’s product development, marketing and merchandising efforts, resulting in a 60% increase in revenues.Rao went on to join SingTel as CEO, Digital Media in 2008 and led the team to launch its local search & reviews business inSing.com. After 3 years at SingTel she left to become Senior Vice President, International for LivingSocial where she was the first LivingSocial employee in Asia. As Senior VP, Rao managed more than 2,000 employees in the company’s network of offices in Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America and Europe. Varsha is a Sequoia Capital Scout, and a mentor for the KStart Catalyst, an incubator and seed investment program for early stage startups in India. She herself has also invested in several startups in various fields including e-commerce, finance and renewable energy.In 2014, she was named by San Francisco Business Times as one of the 'Most Influential Business Women' in the Bay Area and in 2016 she featured in The Boardlist's top 20 list of women every Silicon Valley tech company should be adding to their board.Rao received her BS/BA in Economics/Math from the University of Pennsylvania. For two years following graduation, she worked at the Wasserstein Perella financial consulting firm, where she advised clients on private and public investment strategies. She then returned to school to obtain an MBA from Harvard Business School.As a strong believer in the power of education she contributes to a variety of educational initiatives for underprivileged children and youth. Among them Breakthrough, a program that works to motivate and empower K12 students to continue to higher education and excel academically and professionally.

Flam is a Board Member of Flam. He attended the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.

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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.

Rajesh is known for his energy and resilience, and one can see this in his enthusiasm for marathons, and more in his passion for building the world’s largest trucking network. As the Co-Founder and CEO of BlackBuck, Rajesh is charged with constantly moving the company forward. From finance discussions to brainstorming on new product design tobusiness development planning, Rajesh keeps himself involved in all areas of the business. An IIT Kharagpur graduate, Rajesh was heading the Supply Chain division of ITC’s Leaf Tobacco business before starting BlackBuck. He is an inspiring leader who likes to bring out the best in people and help them achieve greater heights by pushing the bar higher. Speaking about pushing the bar higher, Rajesh has been a pole vaulter too.

Saurabh Srivastava is one of India’s leading IT entrepreneurs, angel investors and venture capitalists. He founded and chaired IIS Infotech which was ranked amongst the top 20 Indian software companies within 4 years of inception and was the first Indian company International Quality certified. He continued to chair the board in India and served onthe Main Board of Xansa plc (post acquisition). He has since founded/invested in over 50 start up ventures. He is a cofounder and past Chairman of NASSCOM, the Indian Software Industry Association as also NASSCOM Foundation, the IT industry's community service arm. He is also on the National Executive Committees of the two apex industry chambers in India, CII (Confederation of Indian Industries) and FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry). He serves on the boards of some publicly listed companies in India and the UK, such as Naukri.com, India’s largest Consumer Internet company, Spice Digital in the Mobile space and Xchanging plc. He also chairs the Indian board of CA Technologies Inc, a $ 4.5 Bill US software MNC.He founded and chaired India's first and extremely successful early stage Venture Capital fund in the private sector, Infinity Ventures and also co founded the Indian Angel Network, India's first and largest business angel group with over 200 investor members comprising the who's who of successful Indian entrepreneurs and CEOs. He chaired the Indian Venture Capital Association for a decade and is Chairman Emeritus of TIE Delhi. TiE is the world's largest organisation devoted to entrepreneurship with 16,000 members in 54 chapters across 14 countries.He serves / has served on several government committees / task forces / boards such as the Indo EU Round Table, PM’s National Innovation Council, IT Ministry’s Committee on software exports, Planning Commission and SEBI Committees on Venture Capital, National and State VC Funds, Media Lab Asia, Railway Expert Committee, CSIR Tech Ltd(set up by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research to commercialise its technologies), Government’s Multimodal Transport Task Force and Task Forces for two of India's largest states, UP and Bihar.He serves/has served on the Advisory Board of Imperial College Business School, London, on the Entrepreneurship / Incubation boards of IIT Delhi and IIT Kanpur and on the Advisory boards of Uttarakhand and Himachal Universities. He has a Masters from Harvard University and a B Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. Awards include “Distinguished Alumnus” from IITK, Honorary Doctorate in Technology from the University of Wolverhampton, UK and Lifetime Achievement award from the IT Industry in India.

Kedar Gavane is the Vice President at comScore, Inc., overseeing business operations and expanding the India footprint. Kedar is a founding member of the comScore India office and has been instrumental in making India one of the fastest-growing global markets for comScore. Kedar has more than 13 years of experience and has helped several clientsbuild sustainable online businesses. Kedar has served key positions in companies at Reliance ADAG and Ananda Bazaar Patrika.Kedar is an active member of the digital community and a frequent contributor at various industry conferences including ad:tech Delhi, iMedia Brand Summit,He also serves on the advisory board for ad:tech India.Kedar holds a Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science degree from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science as well as an MBA from the Indian School of Business.

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.

Sumesh k menon is the Founder / Managing Director of Winds Business Solutions pvt ltd.,

Sri Peddu is the Co-Founder, General Partner & Managing Director at Powerhouse Ventures.

Hiro Mashita - Founder & Director @ M&S Partners

Mitesh began his career with Mandhana Industries Limited, an apparel manufacturing company in 2001, where he handled various projects including the company’s IPO in 2010 and its exclusive global licensing deal with Salman Khan’s Being Human brand. He joined Ola as CFO in December 2013 and played a pivotal role in the evolution of one of the biggeststart-up stories of India. Then came Bookmyshow, where he spearheaded the finance department and played an active role in strategic business management. With his vast experience in the start-up world, Mitesh is now a mentor to many young entrepreneurs guiding their startup journey apart from helping them with angel Investment.

Mrunal Jhaveri of Icebreaker Tech LLP