Top 15 Local Angel Investors in India in May 2026

Manish Vij is the Co-founder of Smile Group. He previously worked at Quasar Media Private as a Founder. Manish Vij attended Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketing
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India

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FREECULTR — Designed for the hygiene & comfort of Indian men & women.
ProfitWheel — The consumer intelligence is at the heart of what we do. ProfitWheel provides you with 1st party insights of your best audiences to build effective, product and marketing strategies.
Punt Partners — Punt Partners is a company that provides marketing technology services. It provides results through the use of proprietary data, technology, and services.

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Ravi Kiran - Co-founder @ VentureNursery

Investment focus

Local, Travel, Fashion
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Klip.in — Klip is a product discovery tool for interesting and off beat lifestyle products. It is for people who like things on and around them to reveal more of who they are.If you like standing out in the way you dress, if you like doing up your desk or home with things that have an edge about them or like to collect fun and quirky knick knacks orsimply have a taste for creative stuff that’s not main stream, then Klip is the perfect tool for you. It helps you find and create a virtual collection of these far out and quirky products.
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SeekSherpa — SeekSherpa is a Delhi-based mobile travel marketplace. SeekSherpa, which is still in test mode, was part of the January batch of VentureNursery. The accelerator conducts about two bootcamps a year for eight startups each.

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Arihant is the Managing Director of Patni Financial Advisors, a wealth management company that advises high net worth families on a wide range of investment options. He is also Co-founder and Director at Nirvana venture Advisors. Arihant began his career at his family business, Patni Computer Systems, one of the leading Indian IT businesses of thetime, where he held positions in the computer software and human resources departments, as well as being a business development and marketing executive. Subsequently, Arihant worked as a Business Strategy Consultant for Fidelity Investments in Boston.

Investment focus

Apps, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Innovist — Onesto Labs Private Limited is an unlisted private company. It was incorporated on 18 October, 2018 and is located in Central Delhi, Delhi. It is classified as a private limited company.The company has two directors - Rohit Chawla and Sifat Khurana.
Punt Partners — Punt Partners is a company that provides marketing technology services. It provides results through the use of proprietary data, technology, and services.
The Yarn Bazaar — The Yarn Bazaar is a modern, efficient, and transparently managed marketplace for yarn buyers and sellers to discover real-time yarn prices, information, and market trends.

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

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Travel, FinTech
Seed, Angel
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Kytchens — Kytchens is a full-stack "Kitchen as a Service" platform that empowers F&B brands to expand their footprint across the country with our cloud kitchens network.
Credit Fair — Credit Fair operates as a consumer lending fintech startup that aims to build a credit ladder for 550 million underserved Indians. It offers lending solutions to both businesses and private individuals.
NewsReach — NewsReach is a leading press release company that distributes to maximize brand exposure and engagement. Elevate your message with us.

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Sourabh Agarwal

Investment focus

Local, Travel, Leisure
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

ToRoots — ToRoots is a community driven platform for curated experiential travel.
Navia Life Care — Navia Life Care is a health technlogy company with a special focus on patient care. We believe in healthcare with simplicity. Our tools enable users to manage their health on their fingertips.Navia Life Care’s mission is to improve the lives of people through innovative products and services. We aim to provide simple tools enabling bettermanagement of a person’s health in the most convenient way.

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Shravan at various times has spoken at A league universities and campuses of the Symbiosis, IITs and IIMs. He has been sharing his thoughts and expertise on not just robust business models but also the unique worth of humane and ethical business practices in the process of value creation for the benefit of the coming management generation.Shravan’s efforts have not gone unnoticed as he is often acknowledged through numerous awards and recognitions including Society magazines Top 100 achievers(2005), India Today Young Guns Top 50(2005), STAR screen distribution and exhibition award and many more.Shravan’s name also figures in t Apart from this, Shravan is invited to address institutions like Chicago Business School, INSEAD, Symbiosis, IIT’s and IIM campuses from time to time and to speak at prestigious media events such as the IIFA Awards, FICCI and India Retail Summit.He is an active member of the Mumbai chapter of the Young Presidents Organisation (YPO) a US based non-profit organization, as well as Mumbai Angels, which is a unique platform to start up and very early stage companies by bringing them face to face with successful entrepreneurs, professionals and executives who are interested in and have the funds available to invest in start up companies.Shravan has also been chosen by the UB Group in its McDowell’s Signature Campaign as an ‘Icon of Success’. In 2005, Shravan was invited by the I& B Ministry to join the Censor Board of India as a member. Shravan was also the Co-Chairman of the Entertainment Sub-Committee of CII (Confederation of Indian Industries), Mumbai for the year 2004-2005.Shravan’s entrepreneurship has been recognised all over India.He lives in Mumbai with his wife Shunali and daughters Zara and Rania

Investment focus

Travel, Travel Accommodations, Local
Seed
India, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

InvenZone — Tiktaktogel adalah agent togel hongkong pools dengan hadiah terbesar di kelasnya situs idn, kini tiktaktogel menghadirkan live draw togel hongkong agar para bettor dapat menyaksikan secara langsung tanpa adanya manipulasi keluaran angka.
SeekSherpa — SeekSherpa is a Delhi-based mobile travel marketplace. SeekSherpa, which is still in test mode, was part of the January batch of VentureNursery. The accelerator conducts about two bootcamps a year for eight startups each.
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Akash Agarwal is a veteran business executive in high technology with over 20 years experience spanning general management, marketing, product development, strategy, and sales. Akash's experience is in the mobile, enterprise and consumer Internet, at both small and large companies. Akash has been an entrepreneur, founding and running severalventure-backed Internet startups, and in management at HP (via Mercury acquisition) and Oracle Corporation. He holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Computer Science (with honors) from the University of Kent at Canterbury, England. Akash is also a Charter Member of TIE (The Indus Entrepreneur TiE).EducationMBA, Harvard Business School, General Management (1998)Bsc. Hons. Comp Science, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK (1990)

Investment focus

Local, Music, Fitness
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Near.in — India's Biggest Services Superstore

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Himanshu Aggarwal - Chief Growth Officer, SHL Group @ SHL

Investment focus

SaaS, Fitness, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Trisu — India's first 22kt Gold Vermeil brand- Silver that stays Gold. We are the makers of India's finest gold alternatives - pioneers of the Gold Vermeil technique in India. Jewellery crafted for the ever-evolving and proudly rooted men and women of India
Reevoy — Reevoy offers SMEs a solution to solve the working capital gap.
Pepper Farms — Pepper Farms is an agritech startup that helps farmers in organizing the vegetable production lifecycle by building a network of farms with end-to-end virtual management, customized agronomy, and direct market linkages.

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Sanjay Mehta is Member of the Board of Advisors at LogiNext Solution.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Nuo — Earn daily interest on Ether or get instant crypto backed loans
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.
Naturally Yours — Naturally Yours is India's premier and leading online organic food and personal care store. They have a huge range of products in organic food, organic cosmetics, organic ayurvedic, organic supplements, and organic clothing. With a huge range in food, they cover the basics like organic rice, organic pulses, organic spices, organic grains, andmillets to organic honey, specialty herbal teas from India and all over the world.They work with hundreds of organic farmers and farmer groups across India to bring these high-quality products. They wanted their customers to be able to access organic stuff in one place. Founded by Vinod Kumar and Priya Prakash in March 2010.

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Anirudh Damani is an Investment Professional at Artha India Ventures. Anirudh Damani owns Artha Energy Resources and he is Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at Artha Group of Companies. He has set up a consultancy firm for facilitating investments into power projects across geographies and asset classes like wind, solar, hydro andbio-power. Anirudh Damani is an active angel investor at 25 startups. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Venture Catalysts. He has over 18 years of energy experience and procuring energy customers. Anirudh Damani holds a double major in economics and business administration from Austin College.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Supr Daily — GBO4D adalah bandar togel 4D resmi dengan pasaran lengkap, sistem login aman, serta layanan transparan. Nikmati pengalaman bermain nyaman dengan dukungan terpercaya setiap hari.
LenDenClub — LenDenClub is India's largest Peer-to-Peer lending investment platform by Innofin Solutions Pvt Ltd, an RBI registered NBFC-P2P. Join our community of 2M+ investors now.
ShabdaNagari — ShabdaNagari, a social media start up, started in January 2015 caters to the niche domestic and international Hindi consuming audience. With 15 employees, this Kanpur based start up has already received around 2 lakh unique hits and 8 lakh page views on the platform.

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Amit is Co-founder & Chairman at Nirvana Venture Advisors and is a promoter shareholder of Patni Computers. Patni Computers Ltd. was a pioneer in Indian ITES. The promoter family stake in Patni Computers was divested in May 2011 in a sale to iGate Corporation at value of $1.5 billion. Amit has 22 years’ experience in technology, software andprojects. He has extensive experience in the computer hardware and components market in India and overseas. In his various roles, Amit has independently ensured implementation of Greenfield projects and launched new business operations.As a Whole time Director of PCS Technologies Ltd., a listed Indian company in the computer hardware and manufacturing space, Amit was responsible for setting-up the copper clad laminates business. Subsequently he was Managing Director of PCS International Pvt. Ltd. with the responsibility of expanding PCS Technologies hardware business in UAE and Africa. Thereafter, Amit developed Health Management Systems, a healthcare software product that was marketed by PCS Technologies Ltd.Amit is a Director of the Board of Patni Financial Advisors the family office of the Patni Family. Amit has done his BS in Accounting and Masters from Babson College, USA.

Investment focus

Travel, Artificial Intelligence, Local
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

MinHash — MinHash.com - a great premium domain available for sale.
FindURClass — FindURClass is a search and discovery platform that provides its users with information on all extracurricular activities and hobby classes, in and around their area. The platform shortlists classes based on class type, location, age, and price. Its users also get access to user reviews and ratings and even book their classes online.FindURClasswas launched in 2013 and is based in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Wellness Forever Medicare — Wellness Forever the Leading online pharmacy in India. Order wide range of healthcare products and medicines online at you doorstep with Quick & hassle-free delivery!

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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, Food and Beverage, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

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.

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Neeraj Goenka

Investment focus

Local, Travel, Leisure
Seed, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

InvenZone — Tiktaktogel adalah agent togel hongkong pools dengan hadiah terbesar di kelasnya situs idn, kini tiktaktogel menghadirkan live draw togel hongkong agar para bettor dapat menyaksikan secara langsung tanpa adanya manipulasi keluaran angka.
SeekSherpa — SeekSherpa is a Delhi-based mobile travel marketplace. SeekSherpa, which is still in test mode, was part of the January batch of VentureNursery. The accelerator conducts about two bootcamps a year for eight startups each.
G.O.A.T Brand Labs — Purpose G.O.A.T is mono-maniacally focussed on the audacious goal of Making Indian D2C brands world...

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Vishal Maheshwari is a Member of the Investment Committee at 9Unicorns. He attended Chetana's R. K. Institute of Management & Research.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Apps, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Kiko Live — KIKO TV is India's first social commerce platform for "Assisted shopping" powered by AI. Dedicated team with a vision to connect buyers directly to sellers and build trust between them through digitisation of shops, stores and brands. Contact: shivam+contact@kiko.media
vPhrase — Phrazor, a reporting automation, and business intelligence platform makes your business reports easy-to-understand with insightful narratives using natural language generation.
STAGE — India's #1 platform for Haryanvi, Rajasthani, Bhojpuri & Gujarati movies and web series. Watch 2,000+ titles in HD. Start streaming free today.

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