Top 50 Hardware Angel Investors in India in January 2025

Investor	Hardware India investments
Anand Chandrasekaran	7
Dinesh Agarwal	6
Kunal Shah	6
Rajesh Sawhney	5
Binny Bansal	5
Rohit Bansal	5
Kunal Bahl	5
Aman Gupta	4
Dheeraj Jain	4
Kris Gopalakrishnan	4
Ramakant Sharma	4
Rajan Anandan	4
Aprameya Radhakrishna	4
Sunil Kumar Singhvi	4
Anupam Mittal	4
Prashant Pitti	4
Rajan Anandan	4
Krishna Kumar	3
Namita Thapar	3
Vignesh Ramanujam	3
Dhruvil Sanghvi	3
Nitin Passi	3
Peyush Bansal	3
Phanindra Sama	3
Wes Schwalje	3
Ajay Gupta	3
Walid Aradi	3
Kishore Ganji	3
Lakshmi Narayanan	3
Jitendra Gupta	3
Gaurav Munjal	3
Karanpal Singh	3
Vijay Kedia	3
Srinath Ramakkrushnan	2
Amrish Rau	2
Karn Nagpal	2
Saurabh Srivastava	2
Charlie Feng	2
Anand Mahindra	2
Manoj Mehta	2
Kedar Gavane	2
Sandeep Tandon	2
Sri Peddu	2
Shreya Ghorawat	2
Ashish Toshniwal	2
Andrew Ladouceur	2
Kumar Vembu	2
Raghunandan G	2
Swapnil Jain	2
Alex Lin	2

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Jupiter — Jupiter is a grocery automation service that takes care of the shopping, delivery, and even meal-planning.
OpsLyft — The only cloud management platform that focuses on providing actionable insights for technology and financial leaders.
Fold Health — Crafting the building blocks of modern primary care

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

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

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 — Enterprise-grade data orchestration in real-time or batches
QuickReply.ai — QuickRely.ai automates chat over Website, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp for Ecommerce Stores such as Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, and BigCommerce.

Kunal Shah

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zivy Inc — Turn your chaotic and noisy workplace communication into calm collaboration, with Zivy! Skim. Schedule. Tag. Todo. Take action on your messages in zen.
BiteSpeed — Drive 10% of your Shopify store's revenue from WhatsApp & FB Messenger. Recover abandoned carts, send promotional & shipping messages. Trusted by 1500+ brands!
FirstClub — FirstClub's mission is to become a rapid commerce-first omnichannel retailer that uses offline experience stores to promote the quality of its items. FirstClub's goal is to create a platform that serves customers and offers brands a unique opportunity to connect with affluent homes.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sustainiam — Digital Carbon Registration Platform and Carbon Exchange for compliance and voluntary markets plugged in with Enterprise SaaS API for Emission calculations and reporting.
Fairdeal Market — Seamlessly Sell Your Products Direct to Offline Retailers. Get Access To The Right Retailers Now.
hypergro — Hypergro provides the power of user-generated content, craft impactful UGC video ads designed to attract, engage, and convert.These video advertising act as a distinctive, tailored connection between the brand and potential clients, which boosts consumer traffic, app downloads, and revenue for your company.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

OppDoor — Launch your Amazon Brand into Thriving International Markets. OppDoor is a Growth Partner for Amazon Brands.
FirstClub — FirstClub's mission is to become a rapid commerce-first omnichannel retailer that uses offline experience stores to promote the quality of its items. FirstClub's goal is to create a platform that serves customers and offers brands a unique opportunity to connect with affluent homes.
Alltius — Alltius is an AI-driven platform for conversational assistance in software products primarily to help and guide users in their product journeys.

Rohit Bansal - Co-Founder @ Snapdeal

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Bluelearn — Find co-founders & teammates, apply to gigs, learn new skills, and meet passionate people.
Stable Money — Steady returns, untapped opportunities, and excellent long-term performance to aid your journey of wealth creation!
Equal Identity — Equal Identity operates as an ID-sharing platform.

Kunal is a technology entrepreneur and investor.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Bluelearn — Find co-founders & teammates, apply to gigs, learn new skills, and meet passionate people.
Legistify — Discover unparalleled legal management with our AI-powered platform, all-in-one solution for enterprise-level matter management, IPR, notices, and contracts
Stable Money — Steady returns, untapped opportunities, and excellent long-term performance to aid your journey of wealth creation!

Aman Gupta - Co Founder & CMO @ boAt

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Manufacturing
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

NemoCare — NemoCare is developing the smartest and most comprehensive patient monitoring and management system. It is an innovative, continuous vital sign data acquisition, analysis and prediction engine that combines unobtrusive wireless wearable sensors and networks, analytical algorithms and big data to provide affordable continuous, high resolutionmonitoring for all newborns in hospital, and at home.We use design thinking principles to build life-saving technologies that will transform the way healthcare is delivered. Our current area of work is in newborn and maternal care.
Medulance — Medulance is a GPS based technology platform for fast and reliable first point medical attention.
RaptorxAI — RaptorX.ai is a fraud prevention platform that utilizes machine learning and data analysis to safeguard businesses against transaction and identity fraud. It offers tailored solutions for user profiling, continuous identity verification, and vigilant fraud detection to enhance operational trust and safety. The platform simplifies processes andreduces costs while providing comprehensive protection against evolving threats.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
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.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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 an IIT Madras incubated company that provides submersible robotic inspection and survey solutions using Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs). Planys has its head office in Chennai where it indigenously designs and manufactures compact ROVsPlanys brings world class technology and cutting-edge innovations in underwaterrobotics and diagnostics in the shallow-mid depth segment. Planys’ technology spans the domains of marine robotics, advanced Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE), and post-inspection analysis. Planys provides a holistic service offering to customers through a design level fusion of ROV manufacture, operations and structural diagnostics. Planys is the first and currently the only OEM of ROVs in the Indian Sub-continent.Planys was founded by IIT Madras alumni and faculty who have been working together on various projects since 2012.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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!

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Apps
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, Croatia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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.

SunilKumar Singhvi is the managing partner at Singhvi Heritage LLP.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

OhLocal — OhLocal is AI enabled smart bidding platform connecting local buyers and sellers in real time.
Chai Waale — Chai Waale operates a tea-focussed quick-service restaurant brand. Chai Waale offers a range of specialty teas in both hot and cold variants, and serves savoury foods including noodles, sandwiches and Indian dishes such as poha and khakhras.
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.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Meragi — Meragi is an end to end wedding decor service taking care of all decor requirements from deisgn to execution, all at a great price
Gud Gum — Gud Gum is a food brand that offers plastic-free, all natural, and biodegradable chewing gum.
ReFit Global — Discover top-quality, certified refurbished phones at Refit Global. Enjoy premium devices at unbeatable prices with reliable performance.

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

Investment focus

Drones, Virtual World, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

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 Loan — 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!

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Retail Technology, Education, 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 provides Robotics Kits and Classes for Kids in a highly gamified manner to help kids learn future skills.
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

Namita Thapar

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

Chefling — Your hassle-free culinary solution for restaurant-style meals at home. Each kit includes all ingredients needed, from sauces to garnishes, eliminating the need to source multiple items. Skip the grocery store - we deliver quality ingredients straight to your door.
Medulance — Medulance is a GPS based technology platform for fast and reliable first point medical attention.
Pragmatech Healthcare Solutions — Pragmatech Healthcare Solutions is a company that focuses on the development of products that increase access to and adoption of the latest healthcare technologies. The company's mission is to innovate pragmatic, ergonomic, and cost-effective solutions to help address difficult healthcare challenges. Pragmatech Healthcare Solutions operates inthe In-Vitro/Molecular Diagnostics industry and is also a Medical Device Manufacturer. The company is also known as Pragmatech Solutions.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Supply Chain Management
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Basis — Basis is a financial services app designed for Indian women. Get 1:1 consultation, join communities & more. Join 1L+ women. Sign up Basis Now for Free
M2P Fintech — Core banking, lending and payment services from the leading fintech startup in India. We empower fintechs, banks, and businesses with custom APIs for a wide range of financial services
The Happy Company ® — Our mission at Chaicup is simple: to be among India's most trusted food & beverage brands. We want to put a smile on everyone's face when they eat or drink, and to be their cup of happiness. Chaicup's vision is of simple, delicious, and sustainable foods & beverages. We leverage unique product & customer insights to marry a world-class supply chain with a fast, friendly experience for both retail and enterprise.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Retail Technology, B2B
Seed, Series A
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Xeno — Xeno is a one-stop solution for any brand to build a deep customer understanding and create relevant marketing campaigns across SMS, email, Facebook and Instagram, Whatsapp.
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.
Vested Finance — Invest in alternative assets such as US Stocks, P2P Lending, Indian bonds & solar panels on Vested. Diversify your portfolio with alternative investments.

Nitin Passi

Investment focus

Retail, Shopping, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round
India

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.
Shoopy — Setup your online store in few minutes, create bills/invoices, manage inventory or account from mobile phone. Shoopy has integrated 100s of third party plugins for logistics, payments etc.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Food and Beverage
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

FarmDidi — On a mission to provide 100% natural, healthy pickles & chutneys while empowering 1 million rural women. Buy Homemade achars & chutneys at Didi's store.
Unikon.ai — Unikon.ai has solved the issue of access on this open-source platform. Every user has a personal profile that they can modify to include different prices for direct messaging, video calls, and audio calls."Unikon" means "you and I connect."
RaptorxAI — RaptorX.ai is a fraud prevention platform that utilizes machine learning and data analysis to safeguard businesses against transaction and identity fraud. It offers tailored solutions for user profiling, continuous identity verification, and vigilant fraud detection to enhance operational trust and safety. The platform simplifies processes andreduces costs while providing comprehensive protection against evolving threats.

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

Investment focus

Internet, Health Care, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Bitsila — Bitsila is an software company that allows retail shops to start and grow business through online platform.
Punt Partners — Punt Partners is a company that provides marketing technology services. It provides results through the use of proprietary data, technology, and services.
Billion Hearts — Did you sign-up for our beta launch?

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
Chhotastock — Chhotastock is an Investment Platform that aims to democratize stock trading and retail investing.

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

Investment focus

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.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, Nigeria, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Omnisient | Collaborative Consumer Intelligence — Privacy-Preserving Data Collaboration platform enabling businesses to collaborate while ensuring consumer privacy and data protection.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

QpiAI — QpiAI vertically integrates quantum computing and AI for solutions in manufacturing, industrial, transportation, finance, pharmaceuticals, and materials with diverse software platforms and products and provides impactful advances to generative AI and various industry verticals.
Raptee Energy — Emobility
AGNIT Semiconductors — AGNIT Semiconductors is to provide Gallium Nitride devices that are dependable, cost-effective, high-performing, and unique for the upcoming wireless systems. AGNIT Semiconductors is a semiconductor business that uses gallium nitride (GaN). AGNIT Semiconductors primary focus is on designing and producing electrical components and GaN materials(wafers) for use in radio-frequency applications. For the defense and telecommunications sectors, AGNIT's GaN components provide strong performance, cost, and footprint advantages.

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

Internet, Health Care, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

Vijay Kedia

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Robotics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

MobiKwik — MobiKwik is India’s leading fintech platform, operating businesses in consumer payments, payment gateway, and financial services. MobiKwik’s payments network is one of the largest in India with 120 million users, 3 million merchants, and 300+ billers. The vision of the company is to build accessible, and affordable digital financial services for aBillion Indians. Founded in 2009 by Bipin Preet Singh and Upasana Taku, the company has raised over $100M in funding from marquee investors. With 60% Indian ownership, MobiKwik is the Truly Indian Payments App.Having grown from its strength in payments, the company has transformed into a full-stack fintech platform offering financial products. Since 2018, MobiKwik has disbursed 19 lakh loans via its Digital Credit Line, which disburses money instantly to the user’s wallet. The company ventured into the mutual fund space with the acquisition of Mumbai-based Clearfunds.
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.

Srinath Ramakkrushnan is the Founder of Zetwerk. He previously worked at BlackBuck (Zinka Logistics Solutions Pvt. Ltd.) as a Business Head - Supply. Srinath Ramakkrushnan attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

Procol — Best Procurement Software in 2024. AI-powered procurement system built for efficiency and cost savings. Procurement analytics to streamline the purchasing process.
Boxs — Custom Interior Product Manufacturer
General Autonomy — General Autonomy is a robotics firm on the cutting edge of manufacturing and automation for the future.

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Karn Nagpal

Investment focus

3D Technology, FinTech, Software
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

CoinDCX — CoinDCX is India's largest and safest cryptocurrency exchange where you can buy and sell Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with ease. CoinDCX, with its #TryCrypto mission, provides Indian crypto audience with a simple cryptocurrency trading app for seamless crypto-to-crypto (c2c) and fiat-to-crypto (f2c) experience.
3DAiLY — Manage 3D character AI, wearables, and accessories for your projects. My3dMeta allows you to create 3D game models using your Google and Apple accounts. Start creating your own gaming project by signing up now.
My3dMeta(Formerly My3dselfie) — A 3d Selfie & Art Studio Which Uses Technology, Machine Learning And Digital Sculpting To Make Amazing 3D Printed Figurines & More! We Create, Manufacture 3D Printed figurines In Different Material Just From Your Photo. You Just Need send Us Few High Quality Images Of You Or Your Loved Ones & We Create Your 3D Figurine

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
India

Portfolio highlights

Process 9 — Process9 is India's leading localization technology company which enabled India's BFSI, eCommerce, and more to reach out to non-English speaking Indians.
Styledotme — Mirrar is a Augmented Reality (AR) SaaS platform from Styledotme which is the world's first Real time AR platform for Jewellery shopping.
Pepper Content — Pepper is a powerful content marketing stack that helps you create high-quality content at speed and scale. Build your dream team and manage all your content on our platform, designed for champions.

Charlie Feng

Investment focus

Content, Tax Preparation, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed
United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Haven — Bookkeeping, tax credits and tax services for growing businesses!
Haven — Bookkeeping, tax credits and tax services for growing businesses!
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!

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).

Investment focus

Social Media, Education, Local
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Hapramp Studio — Hapramp Studio is an internet company that specializes in the fields of blockchain, cryptocurrency, and social media. The company is currently building GoSocial a software platform for budding creators to grow and build community. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Haryana, India.
GenRobotic — Genrobotics: Leading the Way in Sustainable Robotics - Discover Bandicoot, Bandicoot Mini, Bandicoot Mobility Plus, Bandicoot Mobility, and GBeetle. Explore our innovative robotic solutions, embodying our commitment to sustainability and excellence.
Agnikul — Agnikul is a space tech startup that designs, manufactures, tests, and launch orbital-class rockets for micro and nanosatellites. They currently work out of the National Center for Combustion R&D at IIT-Madras. Rocket scientists, engineers, ex-bankers and space lawyers are a part of their team. This unique blend of people is one of theirbiggest strengths. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

Angel Investor & Philanthropist

Investment focus

Travel, FinTech, Lending
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Shoopy — Setup your online store in few minutes, create bills/invoices, manage inventory or account from mobile phone. Shoopy has integrated 100s of third party plugins for logistics, payments etc.
PaisaDukan — A P2P lending marketplace platform wherein borrowers can take loans from individual investors who are willing to lend their own money for an agreed upon interest rate. Their mission is to provide their clients with the finest financial platform to create a smart way of lending or borrowing money in a transparent way.
Deyor — Find the best multi-day tour and book online. First time in India. India's first chatbot integrated experiential travel website.

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.

Investment focus

SaaS, Events, Software
Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Samaaro — Award-winning end-to-end event management software solution that empowers global brands to manage and execute their events seamlessly.
Wildermart — Discover curated healthy & sustainable products sourced locally from the makers in Bangalore. Get clean alternatives to everyday grocery purchases ranging from certified organic staples, fruits & vegetables, preservative-free packaged foods, natural personal and home care. Your clean consumption journey begins here.

Sandeep Tandon Co-founded Accelyst Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in 2010 and has been its Chief Business Officer since September 1, 2015. Sandeep Tandon serves as Managing Director at Tandon Technology Ventures (Tandon Group).He serves as Managing Director and Chairman of the Board at Infinx Services Private Limited. Sandeep Tandon serves as the Chairman andManaging Director at Infinx Healthcare. He oversees the strategy and operations of all group companies. He has been involved in the technology industry for over 20 years. During this time he has contributed significantly to the growth of Information Technology exports from India. He was co-founder and a former director of IQBackOffice - a leading Accounts Payable Processing company. He was also a co-founder and Director at Freecharge.com - among India’s fastest growing internet commerce ventures. He is active in the Angel Investor community and serves as a mentor to various technology start-ups. He served as Chairman of the Electronics Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC) and is a member of Young President Organization (Mumbai Chapter). Sandeep Tandon completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

Investment focus

Commerce/Shopping, Other, Financial
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

Software, Hardware, Commerce/Shopping
Seed, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

Joolz — Joolz is a virtual jewellery store, that brings together the leading jewellery brands on a single and intuitive mobile application.
ORO Wealth — ORO Wealth lets retail investors access sophisticated advice and techniques that are available to high net worth individuals and institutions.Retail investors make three common mistakes which drag down returns or lead to expectations mismatch: paying too high commissions, under-diversification, and portfolio not aligned with riskpreferences/goals. ORO Wealth will take care of all three of these to provide a superior investment experience.
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

Shreya Ghorawat Manager, Strategy & Program Delivery - S&SA at Philip Morris International.

Investment focus

SaaS, Events, Software
Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Samaaro — Award-winning end-to-end event management software solution that empowers global brands to manage and execute their events seamlessly.

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. At a time when mobile was just taking off, Ashish and co-founder Sumit Mehra moved to Silicon Valley to start YMedia Labs. Carving a niche as an agency that could deliver both excellent design as well as the creative technology to successfully execute transformational experiences, they caught the attention of Steve Jobs and several top-tier companies around the world.Y Media Labs has since grown to a 250+ size global agency and has helped dozens of Fortune 500 companies successfully transition to the digital landscape. Recently partnered with MDC, Y Media Labs was selected by Forbes as one of the most promising companies in 2015. Other recent acknowledgements include Most Forward Thinking Company from Entrepreneur and Top 10 Fastest Growing Company in Silicon Valley by Business Journal.Ashish's greatest strength as a CEO is building strong teams and empowering them to succeed. He truly enjoys mentoring employees and other bright minds in the mobile space and is always looking to connect with other in the community."I believe that anyone can build a successful company if they believe in themselves, put the work in and invest in their own future." - Ashish Toshniwal

Investment focus

Software, Data and Analytics, Science/Engineering
Seed, Series A
United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Codingal — Personalized 1-on-1 online coding classes for Kids. Try a free coding class and start creating your own apps, websites, games, and much more.
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!
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

Andrew Ladouceur is the Chief Operating Officer at Bonsai. Andrew Ladouceur attended The University of British Columbia.

Investment focus

Retail Technology
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!

Kumar Vembu

Investment focus

Internet, Electronics, Information Technology
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Open App — Open Appliances Private Limited is a company that operates with IoT at it's core. We are in the business of democratising security. The company designs, develops and sells revolutionary smart locks, it's flagship product targeted at transforming devices into experiences, and technology into value.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

All things hardware, software, electronic, mechanical and more are under his purview and still makes time for photography.

Investment focus

Hardware, Smart Home, Internet of Things
Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Up — Up was founded by IIT Bombay alumni, Mahek Mody, ex-Chief of Staff at Ather Energy and Mohit Sharma, ex-head of engineering at Chaayos. React is at the forefront of transforming modern Indian households. As India’s first D2C, smart home appliance brand, their maiden product the R1 has been designed to change the way we cook and expand ourrepertoire of food. The smart cooking appliance offers 10 inbuilt functions - chop, stir, sauté, whisk, blend, boil, steam, cook, knead & self-clean, along with an integrated smart weighing scale. The onboard 8” touchscreen offers consumers a guided cooking experience, with access to hundreds of recipes from across the world. React’s CookClub.ai will also allow users tocreate and share their own recipes and give them access to thousands more as they are built. React will begin deliveries of the R1 in June, 2022.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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