Top 15 Local Angel Investors in India in January 2026
A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Local startups based in India. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Local companies from India. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Local Angel Investors in India in January 2026
| Investor | Local India investments |
|---|---|
| Sourabh Agarwal | 1 |
| Manish Vij | 1 |
| Ravi Kiran | 1 |
| Arihant Patni | 1 |
| Shravan Shroff | 1 |
| Anupam Mittal | 1 |
| Neeraj Goenka | 1 |
| Vishal Maheshwari | 1 |
| Akash Agarwal | 1 |
| Himanshu Aggarwal | 1 |
| Sanjay Mehta | 1 |
| Anirudh A Damani | 1 |
| Kishore Ganji | 1 |
| Pradeep Mittal | 1 |
| Amit Patni | 1 |
Sourabh Agarwal
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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.
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.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Marketing
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Ravi Kiran - Co-founder @ VentureNursery
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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.
- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Apps, 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.
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
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Investment focus
- Travel Accommodations, Travel, 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.
- HotelOnline — We Help You
Anupam started his entrepreneurial journey by founding People Group - A New Media & Entertainment group, which includes businesses such as Shaadi.com, Makaan.com, Mauj Mobile, and People Pictures. Today the group is recognized as one of the most innovative enterprises in the country. Besides his operational roles, Anupam is also one ofIndia's most active angel investors.He attended Boston College.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Offmint — Welcome to Offmint, where style is a personal statement and originality meets fashion. At Offmint, we think of clothes as a medium for self-expression.
- HealthFab — Seen on Shark Tank India! Buy GoPadFree period panties & GopainFree Period relief cream online by HealthFab. Shop for best menstrual products!
- HireForCare — HireForCare is a healthcare digital platform that offers screening tools and online therapy.
Neeraj Goenka
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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...
Vishal Maheshwari is a Member of the Investment Committee at 9Unicorns. He attended Chetana's R. K. Institute of Management & Research.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Photography
- 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 — Watch the latest Indian movies, web series, and original shows on STAGE. Stream in HD, discover new stories every week, and enjoy seamless online viewing.
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)
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Investment focus
- Local, Music, Fitness
- Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Near.in — India's Biggest Services Superstore
Himanshu Aggarwal - Chief Growth Officer, SHL Group @ SHL
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Fitness
- 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.
Sanjay Mehta is Member of the Board of Advisors at LogiNext Solution.
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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.
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.
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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.
Kishore Ganji is the Angel Investor & Mentor at Astir Ventures.
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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.
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- 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.
Pradeep Mittal - Director @ IndianMoney
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Investment focus
- Local, Travel, Tourism
- Series A
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Thrillophilia.com — Thrillophilia is a one stop solution for tours, activities and things to do in Indian subcontinent. Thrillophilia is the biggest activity travel curator for India. They simplify activity travel for the user by providing organized activity options while planning and unique local experiences while travelling.
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.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Artificial Intelligence, Local
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- MinHash — MinHash has created AILA. AILA brings the power of artificial intelligence to uncover emerging trends that are relevant and actionable. AILA detects fast growing topics across 1000s of media sources and helps marketers respond quickly, pulling together data in all forms - text, images, hashtags and urls, automatically crafting them into a campaignwith a relevant theme, unique messaging and the right audience.
- 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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