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Top 50 Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in India in November 2024

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Media (entertainment) startups based in India. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Media (entertainment) companies from India. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in India in November 2024

Investor Media (entertainment) India investments
Kunal Shah 15
Kunal Shah 15
Rajan Anandan 11
Vijay Shekhar Sharma 11
Rajan Anandan 11
Rajan Anandan 11
Vijay Shekhar Sharma 11
Rajan Anandan 11
Anupam Mittal 8
Rajesh Sawhney 8
Anupam Mittal 8
Gaurav Munjal 8
Rajesh Sawhney 8
Gaurav Munjal 8
Binny Bansal 7
Sujeet Kumar 7
Sujeet Kumar 7
Binny Bansal 7
Roman Saini 6
Roman Saini 6
Rajesh Mane 5
Phanindra Sama 5
Girish Mathrubootham 5
Rajesh Mane 5
Phanindra Sama 5
Girish Mathrubootham 5
V Balakrishnan 4
Hemesh Singh 4
Utsav Somani 4
Jitendra Gupta 4
Vaibhav Domkundwar 4
Alvin Tse 4
Aakrit Vaish 4
Raghunandan G 4
Aprameya Radhakrishna 4
Rahul Maroli 4
Shrishti Sahu 4
Utsav Somani 4
Rohit Chanana 4
Jitendra Gupta 4
V Balakrishnan 4
Shrishti Sahu 4
Aakrit Vaish 4
Raghunandan G 4
Rahul Maroli 4
Alvin Tse 4
Aprameya Radhakrishna 4
Vaibhav Domkundwar 4
Hemesh Singh 4
Rohit Chanana 4
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Kunal Shah Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 22 investments in the past 12 months
Kunal Shah
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Revrag — Revarg aims to automate tasks and increase sales efficiency by empowering revenue teams. Its first product, AI-BDR, will handle prospect outreach and meeting scheduling, allowing human salespeople to focus on client interactions. The AI agent will intelligently qualify leads, schedule meetings, and provide data-driven insights.
  • 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.
  • 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.
Kunal Shah Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 27 investments in the past 12 months
Kunal Shah
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Revrag — Revarg aims to automate tasks and increase sales efficiency by empowering revenue teams. Its first product, AI-BDR, will handle prospect outreach and meeting scheduling, allowing human salespeople to focus on client interactions. The AI agent will intelligently qualify leads, schedule meetings, and provide data-driven insights.
  • 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.
  • infinyte.club — A New World Of Wealth. Where access to new-age wealth-creation opportunities is not just for the ultra-wealthy
Rajan Anandan Angel
As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Apps
  • 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.
Vijay Shekhar Sharma Angel · New Delhi, Delhi, India · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Paytm. He previously worked at India Today Group Online as a Tech head. Vijay Shekhar attended Delhi College of Engineering.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, News, Social Media
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Vahan — Vahan's AI-Driven virtual assistant helps field sales teams and frontliners do better work at scale. A web-based dashboard allows employers to track usage data that can be used for business intelligence. Their virtual assistant is completely customizable to align with employers' support, training, communication, and reporting needs.
  • Vahan.ai — Vahan uses Artificial Intelligence to match job seekers with employers inside messaging apps
  • TechEagle Innovations — TechEagle is India's pioneer and lead manufacturer of long range, high Speed, heavy payload delivery Drone solutions. Founded in 2015 by IIT Kanpur alumni, It became one of the very first companies to receive approvals from DGCA, MoCA, AAI & MHA to conduct BVLOS trials for package delivery in India.
Rajan Anandan Angel
As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.
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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.
Rajan Anandan Angel
As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.
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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.
Vijay Shekhar Sharma Angel · New Delhi, Delhi, India · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Paytm. He previously worked at India Today Group Online as a Tech head. Vijay Shekhar attended Delhi College of Engineering.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, News, Social Media
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Vahan — Vahan's AI-Driven virtual assistant helps field sales teams and frontliners do better work at scale. A web-based dashboard allows employers to track usage data that can be used for business intelligence. Their virtual assistant is completely customizable to align with employers' support, training, communication, and reporting needs.
  • Vahan.ai — Vahan uses Artificial Intelligence to match job seekers with employers inside messaging apps
  • TechEagle Innovations — TechEagle is India's pioneer and lead manufacturer of long range, high Speed, heavy payload delivery Drone solutions. Founded in 2015 by IIT Kanpur alumni, It became one of the very first companies to receive approvals from DGCA, MoCA, AAI & MHA to conduct BVLOS trials for package delivery in India.
Rajan Anandan Angel
As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Apps
  • 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.
Anupam Mittal Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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, 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
  • Nasher Miles — Shop Good Quality Premium Luggage Bags, Suitcases & Laptop Backpacks online on Nasher Miles. Wide Range of Small & Medium Cabin Bags, Travel Luggage Bags Sets in different Colours & Designs.
  • ReFit Global — Discover top-quality, certified refurbished phones at Refit Global. Enjoy premium devices at unbeatable prices with reliable performance.
Rajesh Sawhney Angel · Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Rajesh is the co-founder and CEO of InnerChef and Super Angels. He holds a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering from Delhi University, and a master's degree in management from Mumbai University. He has also done a fellowship in 'Globalisation and Leadership' from the London School of Economics and Social Sciences.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • 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.
Anupam Mittal Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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, 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
  • Nasher Miles — Shop Good Quality Premium Luggage Bags, Suitcases & Laptop Backpacks online on Nasher Miles. Wide Range of Small & Medium Cabin Bags, Travel Luggage Bags Sets in different Colours & Designs.
  • ReFit Global — Discover top-quality, certified refurbished phones at Refit Global. Enjoy premium devices at unbeatable prices with reliable performance.
Gaurav Munjal Angel · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Gaurav Munjal is the Co-Founder and CEO at Unacademy.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Internet, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Emversity — Beyond Odds focuses on upskilling the workforce and offers support to yhe healhcare industry.
  • 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.
Rajesh Sawhney Angel · Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Rajesh is the co-founder and CEO of InnerChef and Super Angels. He holds a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering from Delhi University, and a master's degree in management from Mumbai University. He has also done a fellowship in 'Globalisation and Leadership' from the London School of Economics and Social Sciences.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • 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.
Gaurav Munjal Angel · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Gaurav Munjal is the Co-Founder and CEO at Unacademy.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Internet, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Emversity — Beyond Odds focuses on upskilling the workforce and offers support to yhe healhcare industry.
  • infinyte.club — A New World Of Wealth. Where access to new-age wealth-creation opportunities is not just for the ultra-wealthy
  • 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.
Binny Bansal Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Binny Bansal is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart with Sachin Bansal (not related) and was serving as the Chief Operating Officer until 11 January 2016 and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer. In January 2017 he was promoted to Group CEO of Flipkart. Binny is fromChandigarh and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering.
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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.
  • Leela Life — Timeless Indian wellbeing secrets for peaceful and joyful living
  • Alltius — Alltius is an AI-driven platform for conversational assistance in software products primarily to help and guide users in their product journeys.
Sujeet Kumar Angel · New Delhi, Delhi, India · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan
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Investment focus
  • Internet, E-Commerce, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • India, Singapore, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Vidyut — Vidyut offers end-to-end solutions for purchase and financing to resale which provide superior economics on electric vehicles compared to petrol & diesel vehicles.
  • Pizza Wings — Pizza Wings is a pizza brand, known for fresh, high-quality pizzas and more, available for dine-in, takeout, or delivery.
  • Third Wave Coffee — Third wave coffee is a manufacturer and distributor of easy coffee bags that help to make barista-quality coffee anytime without any equipment. The third wave roasts coffees in small batches and introduce specialty cofee.
Sujeet Kumar Angel · New Delhi, Delhi, India · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan
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Investment focus
  • Internet, E-Commerce, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • India, Singapore, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Vidyut — Vidyut offers end-to-end solutions for purchase and financing to resale which provide superior economics on electric vehicles compared to petrol & diesel vehicles.
  • Pizza Wings — Pizza Wings is a pizza brand, known for fresh, high-quality pizzas and more, available for dine-in, takeout, or delivery.
  • Third Wave Coffee — Third wave coffee is a manufacturer and distributor of easy coffee bags that help to make barista-quality coffee anytime without any equipment. The third wave roasts coffees in small batches and introduce specialty cofee.
Binny Bansal Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Binny Bansal is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart with Sachin Bansal (not related) and was serving as the Chief Operating Officer until 11 January 2016 and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer. In January 2017 he was promoted to Group CEO of Flipkart. Binny is fromChandigarh and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering.
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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.
  • Leela Life — Timeless Indian wellbeing secrets for peaceful and joyful living
  • Alltius — Alltius is an AI-driven platform for conversational assistance in software products primarily to help and guide users in their product journeys.
Roman Saini Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Roman Saini is Co Founder at Unacademy.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Health Care, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Turnip — Empowering online communities to run, discover and join interactive experiences.
  • 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.
  • Meme Chat Private Limited — Make memes, trends and money. All under one hood.
Roman Saini Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Roman Saini is Co Founder at Unacademy.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Health Care, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Turnip — Empowering online communities to run, discover and join interactive experiences.
  • 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.
  • Meme Chat Private Limited — Make memes, trends and money. All under one hood.
Rajesh Mane Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
An active investor in early stage startups across technology & CPG.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Mobile, Fashion
  • Seed
  • India, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Orbo.ai — Orbo.ai provide contextual information and become a gateway to the world and not just stay limited to computational photography through our deep learning technology based solutions.Orbo’s face tracking technology can be implemented across devices to identify human emotions, transformative & augmented effects as well as one can build enhancedcamera centric applications.
  • LiquiLoans — LiquiLoans is a company uses technology to match borrowers and lenders and in the process eliminates the margin which is charged by traditional banks and NBFCs, thus, making borrowing cheaper and investing a more lucrative opportunity as compared to traditional investment avenues.
  • Impact Guru — ImpactGuru is a No.1 crowdfunding platform in India offering fundraising solutions for medical treatments, emergencies, NGOs & startups. Start a crowdfunding campaign now!
Phanindra Sama Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Phanindra Sama is the Advisor of WestBridge Capital. He previously worked at redBus as a Founder and CEO. Phanindra Sama attended Stanford University.
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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?
Girish Mathrubootham Angel · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Girish Mathrubootham is the CEO and Founder at Freshworks. Girish Mathrubootham attended University of Madras.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • HuddleUp — HuddleUp is an AI-based team culture platform empowering Managers to boost team engagement & productivity using conversational AI, personalised learnings & peer connections. Build engaged, high-performing remote teams with HuddleUp. Book a demo now!
  • NocoDB — NocoDB is an open-source Airtable alternative that transforms existing databases into a smart spreadsheet. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
  • PickYourTrail — Personalize your holiday packages online. International trips in 3 easy steps, at best rates guaranteed. Experience a hassle-free vacation.
Rajesh Mane Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
An active investor in early stage startups across technology & CPG.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Mobile, Fashion
  • Seed
  • India, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Orbo.ai — Orbo.ai provide contextual information and become a gateway to the world and not just stay limited to computational photography through our deep learning technology based solutions.Orbo’s face tracking technology can be implemented across devices to identify human emotions, transformative & augmented effects as well as one can build enhancedcamera centric applications.
  • LiquiLoans — LiquiLoans is a company uses technology to match borrowers and lenders and in the process eliminates the margin which is charged by traditional banks and NBFCs, thus, making borrowing cheaper and investing a more lucrative opportunity as compared to traditional investment avenues.
  • Impact Guru — ImpactGuru is a No.1 crowdfunding platform in India offering fundraising solutions for medical treatments, emergencies, NGOs & startups. Start a crowdfunding campaign now!
Phanindra Sama Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Phanindra Sama is the Advisor of WestBridge Capital. He previously worked at redBus as a Founder and CEO. Phanindra Sama attended Stanford University.
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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?
Girish Mathrubootham Angel · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Girish Mathrubootham is the CEO and Founder at Freshworks. Girish Mathrubootham attended University of Madras.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • HuddleUp — HuddleUp is an AI-based team culture platform empowering Managers to boost team engagement & productivity using conversational AI, personalised learnings & peer connections. Build engaged, high-performing remote teams with HuddleUp. Book a demo now!
  • NocoDB — NocoDB is an open-source Airtable alternative that transforms existing databases into a smart spreadsheet. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
  • PickYourTrail — Personalize your holiday packages online. International trips in 3 easy steps, at best rates guaranteed. Experience a hassle-free vacation.
V Balakrishnan Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Mr. V. Balakrishnan, also known as Bala, is the Founder & Chairman of Exfinity, a Private Equity Fund focused on investing in the Technology space. Mr. Balakrishnan served as Head of BPO, Finacle & India Business Unit at Infosys Ltd. He served as the Chief Financial Officer of Infosys Ltd., from May 1, 2006 to October 31, 2012. Mr.Balakrishnan has significant experience in leadership positions in the finance domain, with expertise in Corporate Finance, International Taxation, Risk Management and Mergers & Acquisitions. He served as Secretary and Senior Vice President - Finance of Infosys Ltd., from joining it in 2001 to April 2006. He served as Vice President - Finance of Infosys Ltd and also served in various capacities in Finance department.
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Investment focus
  • Enterprise Software, Information Technology, Pet
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • India
Portfolio highlights
  • The Ken — The Ken - Unrivaled analysis and powerful stories about businesses from across the globe brought to you by award-winning journalists.
  • TaxSutra — Taxsutra provides real time, up-to-date news and case law analysis on Income tax from ITAT, and the High Courts and Supreme Court. We are also tracking important litigations, developments in Income Tax department, CBDT and Finance Ministry, with a view to keep tax professionals abreast of the latest trends therein.
  • TailsLife — TailsLife is a platform that connects Pet Owners, Services providers & Manufacturers - leveraging the latest technology to transform existing industry and create new ones. Our technology platform enables users, pet walkers, sitters and groomers to discover each other through an intelligent matching engine that analyses multiple data pointsincluding the availability, proximity and dozens of other parameters like pet type, breed, size, age, special needs etc. TailsLife also markets products such as Instant Dog Meal with its in-house brand D WoofPack & Furresh. Having tied up with retailers such as LULU, BigBasket, Food World, Future group and top pet stores.We are web & app based.
Hemesh Singh Angel · Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Hemesh Singh is a co-founder and CTO of Unacademy.com.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Social Media, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • India, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • OpsLyft — The only cloud management platform that focuses on providing actionable insights for technology and financial leaders.
  • Pratilipi — A platform to read stories, write your own and share your favorite ones in Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, English, Urdu, Punjabi and Odia
  • Slick App — Go Slick, and declare your true feelings like nobody's watching!
Utsav Somani Angel · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Looking for - Passionate founders looking to target a market with tremendous future potential and stands to be disrupted by a new entrant. Crucial that the product / service is not easily replicable and the domain expertise of the company is a deterrent to fresh entrants.Keen interest in - Clean Technology, Consumer Internet, EnterpriseSoftware, Health Care, Mobile, SaaSSkills - Angel Investing, Financial Modelling & Valuation, Information Technology, Portfolio Management, Risk Management
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • India, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Supply6 — Supply6 is the perfect balance of the 6 essential micro and macro nutrients in one wholesome meal.
  • Ninecamp — Ninecamp is a food and beverage company. They anticipate creating new and unique brands with a strong emphasis on high-quality offerings in product, service, and design.
  • Alt Carbon — Alt Carbon operates as a climate tech platform.
Jitendra Gupta Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.
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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.
Vaibhav Domkundwar Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
Vaibhav Domkundwar - CEO @ Better Capital
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Investment focus
  • Software, Education, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • India, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Zipy — Traditional tools might throw a list of bugs at you, but Zipy tells you which ones matter through real time customer journeys.
  • OSlash — Transform long URLs into memorable shortcuts. Make information easy to access, find, & share with others in an instant with a complete URL management solution
  • Josh Talks — By leveraging our expertise in research and storytelling, we create exclusive content in regional languages to help brands tell their story better and reach their target audience.
Alvin Tse Angel
Alvin Tse is the current General Manager of Xiaomi India. He previously worked at Xiaomi as a Head of Marketing, Xiaomi Europe. Alvin Tse attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Education, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • EduRev — EduRev is an e-learning platform that provides student the freedom to learn what they want. It is a free website where thousands of students, teachers and professors share, study and upload their notes, video lectures and books to help each other. The problem not only exists in the school, but also colleges, especially engineering colleges, wherethe last minute study counts for everything. One common place to find all such answers is www.edurev.in, a site that provides material that you need to obtain an edge in a world of cut throat competition. EduRev provides everything for free, from online videos of lectures, and ebooks in the pdf format. The unique feature of the website is it’s interaction capabilities. Students follow their teachers and friends, and create a network. The teachers can also interact with students from different institutions across the country and bond with the like-minded.
  • Interality — Interality is a tech startup that helps in building virtual platforms.
  • Selligion Technologies — Selligion Praho is the world's first Hybrid cloud computing as a service - perhaps the first step towards delivering the last computer you'd ever need. A computer powered by the cloud - a computer that needs no upgrades - Selligion Praho offers the possibility of unlimited on-demand upgrades, and opportunities for life
Aakrit Vaish Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Aakrit Vaish is the co-founder and CEO of Haptik, who pioneered the wave of conversational AI starting back in 2013. Today, Haptik is one of the world's largest companies in the space with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Mumbai, Singapore, and clients that include names such as KFC, Starhub, Zurich Insurance, Ola Cabs, Hotstar, Oyo Rooms,Kotak Life. In April 2019, Reliance Industries acquired the majority shareholding in the company in a $100 million transaction, making Haptik one of the highest valued AI companies globally. Outside of Haptik, Aakrit is an investor in startups in the areas of consumer/consumer tech and B2B SaaS. Notable investments include Unacademy (valued at >$200 million), Pepper Content, Park+, Flat White Capital, Third Wave Coffee, Ayoconnect, Boxhub, Dataweave, Haikujam (Ligthtbox backed), Flatchat (sold to Commonfloor in 2014), Tookitaki, Dil Mil, Ayopop, iON Energy, Talent Litmus, among others.Prior to Haptik,Aakrit was an early member of the team at Flurry, one of the world's largest mobile analytics and advertising platforms, acquired by Yahoo in 2014. Aakrit received his BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign and was named as a contender to the Forbes India 30 under 30 list in 2015.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • India, Canada, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Creativefuel — Priorities brands should use Meme MarketingThis appropriate engagement that meme marketing brings out of the major reason why brands should use our meme marketing to advertise with us. Let’s target more folded advantages that Meme Marketing will have over any of its relative threshold counterparts.Here are 4 reasons why many advertisingbrands should use meme marketing over other basic methods of advert:1. Meme’s deliver by creative fuel out staged campaign eternal proven better engage rate than promoted avert on a social media If you, done a paid campaign to engage your result page, to optimized your ad result but, always track’ when you look at the engagement result and stats.2. If you are meme jacking do enclosed a disclaimer for your event, have an advantage over any other creatives that you always make a creative. Reason: The meme is already viral and ensures engaged you sour if you put your message through it in the right manner (WE CAN HELP). Whereas, if you produce a traditional Ad, it definitely cannot compete with the engagement rate of a meme’s.3. Brand major-related wings invest their major chunk of brand banner for advertising thinking there will be a brand awareness campaign containing social lead if nothing else. Campaign results may be right, but why limit the scope have just brand awareness when you can generate lead brands outsourced directly. People off, they relate with their meme post so well that it leaves a lasting impression of the brand page on them and initiates a Return a page conversation for the internet community standard organization.Often companies/brands have this reaction when ROI (return on investment) for their online campaign yields poor results:4. People spend time on the internet to consume good content as well as to skip brand communications. This is because they bring along them a FUZZ factor. Whereas, if the same message snippet can be delivered via meme in such a way that the person related enjoys looking at it. Well, it does look like an idea.What meme marketing feels like in Meme’s Marketing:A question might arise… What happens even if we create a Meme, Our Brand ‘awesome Handle in a million followers (Axis number) what trend’s follow and target out followers Meme Marketing related is not about linked posting Memes on your Brand Handle, All the Memes produced are seed’s on Social media via Meme Pages. These Meme Pages have their own massive and target audience and hence the idea is to leverage out that attention.
  • 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.
  • GrayQuest — GrayQuest Education Finance Pvt. Ltd provides Parents and Students with the most convenient and easiest option to pay fees to their Institute.
Raghunandan G Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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.
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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.
Aprameya Radhakrishna Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Aprameya loves singing romantic songs and is the quintessential dreamer who doesn’t fear to experiment. He used to be the Head of Business Development for PDS at Jones Lang LaSalle India where he spent almost 3 years post his graduation from IIM Ahmedabad. He has worked at Infosys and has an Electronics engineering degree from NITK Surthkal andif all this has made you think he’s a geek, ask his close friends and they would say otherwise!
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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 — Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins. Did you find apk for android? You can find new Free Android Games and apps.
Rahul Maroli Angel · Delhi, Delhi, India
Rahul Maroli is a business leader with demonstrated ability of building businesses for profit, growth and scale. For over a decade and a half, he has been steering market-leading companies in the automotive services, e-commerce & start-up businesses. His expertise includes driving shareholder returns, business strategy, Operations, Sales &Marketing. Rahul heads Ola’s Rental, Shuttle (Mass Mobility) and Corporate Distribution businesses, apart from strategic supply programs. Earlier, he envisioned, started and led Ola's cab leasing business through a wholly owned subsidiary Ola Fleet Technologies, making Ola the world’s first ride-sharing company to have a successful fleet business.Prior to Ola, he led Sales, Marketing and Operations for LeasePlan India, a leading player in the business mobility industry.Rahul advises early stage start-up and is an active angel investor. His investments include PeeSafe, EdgeFx, Dibz, ShadiSaga, Coutloot, ASADEL Technologies, Digiora & KakCho.
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Investment focus
  • Education, Food and Beverage, News
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • India
Portfolio highlights
  • Exprto Live — Exprto connects students directly with the IIT-JEE and NEET recent year toppers for personal guidance.
  • Advantage Club — Enhance staff engagement with our cutting-edge platforms and tools. Boost team productivity and morale effortlessly. Explore now!
  • Fashion is One — Fashion is One is a collaborative and community centric one-stop platform for fashion and design.
Shrishti Sahu Angel · 2 investments in the past 12 months
entrepreneur and investor in tech start-ups, crypto and public markets. Founded a fintech company, and was a part of the Investment Team of Lumis Partners (PeopleStrong, TalentEdge, Sheroes etc). Headed Startup Programs for Facebook for South Asia & India. Early backer of companies like Plum (health insurance for SME employees), Clickpost(logistics tech), Rupifi (credit for SMEs), WorkApps (Enterprise Collaboration), Chingari (Social Video), Kutumb (social communities for Bharat), DelightChat (customer support for D2C brands), 10Club (D2C e-commerce), UrbanYogi (mental health)
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Investment focus
  • Internet, FinTech, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • India, Singapore, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • OnFinance AI — OnFinance.ai is committed to harnessing the power of Generative AI for the betterment of the banking, wealth management, and insurance landscapes. Every Generative AI solution they develop is anchored in safety, efficiency, and the intricate nuances of their industry.NeoGPT, their in-house LLM (Large Language Model), and their flagship offering,embodies their belief in Generative AI's potential to redefine the financial sector. They provide secure AI Copilots, powered by NeoGPT, designed for internal teams at these institutions, boosting the efficiency of research, relationship management, sales, and customer support functions.
  • Thermoflyde — Refractory
  • leap.club — we are a powerful and private network of women leaders.
Utsav Somani Angel · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Looking for - Passionate founders looking to target a market with tremendous future potential and stands to be disrupted by a new entrant. Crucial that the product / service is not easily replicable and the domain expertise of the company is a deterrent to fresh entrants.Keen interest in - Clean Technology, Consumer Internet, EnterpriseSoftware, Health Care, Mobile, SaaSSkills - Angel Investing, Financial Modelling & Valuation, Information Technology, Portfolio Management, Risk Management
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • India, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Supply6 — Supply6 is the perfect balance of the 6 essential micro and macro nutrients in one wholesome meal.
  • Ninecamp — Ninecamp is a food and beverage company. They anticipate creating new and unique brands with a strong emphasis on high-quality offerings in product, service, and design.
  • Alt Carbon — Alt Carbon operates as a climate tech platform.
Rohit Chanana Angel · Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Rohit Chanana - Founder and Managing Partner @ Sarcha Advisors
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Broadcasting, Electric Vehicle
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • India
Portfolio highlights
  • Vgenomics — Your partner in newborn healthcare and diagnosis for rare diseases, your partner in whole genome and exome research.
  • BatX Energies — BatX Energies is the India's largest Lithium(Li) Ion Battery Recycling Company which produces battery grade materials to create eco-friendly sustainable energy source.
  • goStops — goSTOPS offers best option for backpackers or youth solo adventurers tour traveller cheap hostel stay room booking online in india. We are a chain of backpacker hostels accommodation that strives to provide social stays & experiential travels at every step for a youth tourism.
Jitendra Gupta Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.
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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.
V Balakrishnan Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Mr. V. Balakrishnan, also known as Bala, is the Founder & Chairman of Exfinity, a Private Equity Fund focused on investing in the Technology space. Mr. Balakrishnan served as Head of BPO, Finacle & India Business Unit at Infosys Ltd. He served as the Chief Financial Officer of Infosys Ltd., from May 1, 2006 to October 31, 2012. Mr.Balakrishnan has significant experience in leadership positions in the finance domain, with expertise in Corporate Finance, International Taxation, Risk Management and Mergers & Acquisitions. He served as Secretary and Senior Vice President - Finance of Infosys Ltd., from joining it in 2001 to April 2006. He served as Vice President - Finance of Infosys Ltd and also served in various capacities in Finance department.
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Investment focus
  • Enterprise Software, Information Technology, Pet
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • India
Portfolio highlights
  • The Ken — The Ken - Unrivaled analysis and powerful stories about businesses from across the globe brought to you by award-winning journalists.
  • TaxSutra — Taxsutra provides real time, up-to-date news and case law analysis on Income tax from ITAT, and the High Courts and Supreme Court. We are also tracking important litigations, developments in Income Tax department, CBDT and Finance Ministry, with a view to keep tax professionals abreast of the latest trends therein.
  • TailsLife — TailsLife is a platform that connects Pet Owners, Services providers & Manufacturers - leveraging the latest technology to transform existing industry and create new ones. Our technology platform enables users, pet walkers, sitters and groomers to discover each other through an intelligent matching engine that analyses multiple data pointsincluding the availability, proximity and dozens of other parameters like pet type, breed, size, age, special needs etc. TailsLife also markets products such as Instant Dog Meal with its in-house brand D WoofPack & Furresh. Having tied up with retailers such as LULU, BigBasket, Food World, Future group and top pet stores.We are web & app based.
Shrishti Sahu Angel
entrepreneur and investor in tech start-ups, crypto and public markets. Founded a fintech company, and was a part of the Investment Team of Lumis Partners (PeopleStrong, TalentEdge, Sheroes etc). Headed Startup Programs for Facebook for South Asia & India. Early backer of companies like Plum (health insurance for SME employees), Clickpost(logistics tech), Rupifi (credit for SMEs), WorkApps (Enterprise Collaboration), Chingari (Social Video), Kutumb (social communities for Bharat), DelightChat (customer support for D2C brands), 10Club (D2C e-commerce), UrbanYogi (mental health)
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Investment focus
  • Internet, FinTech, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • India, Singapore, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • OnFinance AI — OnFinance.ai is committed to harnessing the power of Generative AI for the betterment of the banking, wealth management, and insurance landscapes. Every Generative AI solution they develop is anchored in safety, efficiency, and the intricate nuances of their industry.NeoGPT, their in-house LLM (Large Language Model), and their flagship offering,embodies their belief in Generative AI's potential to redefine the financial sector. They provide secure AI Copilots, powered by NeoGPT, designed for internal teams at these institutions, boosting the efficiency of research, relationship management, sales, and customer support functions.
  • Thermoflyde — Refractory
  • leap.club — we are a powerful and private network of women leaders.
Aakrit Vaish Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Aakrit Vaish is the co-founder and CEO of Haptik, who pioneered the wave of conversational AI starting back in 2013. Today, Haptik is one of the world's largest companies in the space with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Mumbai, Singapore, and clients that include names such as KFC, Starhub, Zurich Insurance, Ola Cabs, Hotstar, Oyo Rooms,Kotak Life. In April 2019, Reliance Industries acquired the majority shareholding in the company in a $100 million transaction, making Haptik one of the highest valued AI companies globally. Outside of Haptik, Aakrit is an investor in startups in the areas of consumer/consumer tech and B2B SaaS. Notable investments include Unacademy (valued at >$200 million), Pepper Content, Park+, Flat White Capital, Third Wave Coffee, Ayoconnect, Boxhub, Dataweave, Haikujam (Ligthtbox backed), Flatchat (sold to Commonfloor in 2014), Tookitaki, Dil Mil, Ayopop, iON Energy, Talent Litmus, among others.Prior to Haptik,Aakrit was an early member of the team at Flurry, one of the world's largest mobile analytics and advertising platforms, acquired by Yahoo in 2014. Aakrit received his BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign and was named as a contender to the Forbes India 30 under 30 list in 2015.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • India, Canada, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Creativefuel — Priorities brands should use Meme MarketingThis appropriate engagement that meme marketing brings out of the major reason why brands should use our meme marketing to advertise with us. Let’s target more folded advantages that Meme Marketing will have over any of its relative threshold counterparts.Here are 4 reasons why many advertisingbrands should use meme marketing over other basic methods of advert:1. Meme’s deliver by creative fuel out staged campaign eternal proven better engage rate than promoted avert on a social media If you, done a paid campaign to engage your result page, to optimized your ad result but, always track’ when you look at the engagement result and stats.2. If you are meme jacking do enclosed a disclaimer for your event, have an advantage over any other creatives that you always make a creative. Reason: The meme is already viral and ensures engaged you sour if you put your message through it in the right manner (WE CAN HELP). Whereas, if you produce a traditional Ad, it definitely cannot compete with the engagement rate of a meme’s.3. Brand major-related wings invest their major chunk of brand banner for advertising thinking there will be a brand awareness campaign containing social lead if nothing else. Campaign results may be right, but why limit the scope have just brand awareness when you can generate lead brands outsourced directly. People off, they relate with their meme post so well that it leaves a lasting impression of the brand page on them and initiates a Return a page conversation for the internet community standard organization.Often companies/brands have this reaction when ROI (return on investment) for their online campaign yields poor results:4. People spend time on the internet to consume good content as well as to skip brand communications. This is because they bring along them a FUZZ factor. Whereas, if the same message snippet can be delivered via meme in such a way that the person related enjoys looking at it. Well, it does look like an idea.What meme marketing feels like in Meme’s Marketing:A question might arise… What happens even if we create a Meme, Our Brand ‘awesome Handle in a million followers (Axis number) what trend’s follow and target out followers Meme Marketing related is not about linked posting Memes on your Brand Handle, All the Memes produced are seed’s on Social media via Meme Pages. These Meme Pages have their own massive and target audience and hence the idea is to leverage out that attention.
  • 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.
  • GrayQuest — GrayQuest Education Finance Pvt. Ltd provides Parents and Students with the most convenient and easiest option to pay fees to their Institute.
Raghunandan G Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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.
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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.
Rahul Maroli Angel · Delhi, Delhi, India
Rahul Maroli is a business leader with demonstrated ability of building businesses for profit, growth and scale. For over a decade and a half, he has been steering market-leading companies in the automotive services, e-commerce & start-up businesses. His expertise includes driving shareholder returns, business strategy, Operations, Sales &Marketing. Rahul heads Ola’s Rental, Shuttle (Mass Mobility) and Corporate Distribution businesses, apart from strategic supply programs. Earlier, he envisioned, started and led Ola's cab leasing business through a wholly owned subsidiary Ola Fleet Technologies, making Ola the world’s first ride-sharing company to have a successful fleet business.Prior to Ola, he led Sales, Marketing and Operations for LeasePlan India, a leading player in the business mobility industry.Rahul advises early stage start-up and is an active angel investor. His investments include PeeSafe, EdgeFx, Dibz, ShadiSaga, Coutloot, ASADEL Technologies, Digiora & KakCho.
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Investment focus
  • Education, Food and Beverage, News
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • India
Portfolio highlights
  • Exprto Live — Exprto connects students directly with the IIT-JEE and NEET recent year toppers for personal guidance.
  • Advantage Club — Enhance staff engagement with our cutting-edge platforms and tools. Boost team productivity and morale effortlessly. Explore now!
  • Fashion is One — Fashion is One is a collaborative and community centric one-stop platform for fashion and design.
Alvin Tse Angel
Alvin Tse is the current General Manager of Xiaomi India. He previously worked at Xiaomi as a Head of Marketing, Xiaomi Europe. Alvin Tse attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Education, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • EduRev — EduRev is an e-learning platform that provides student the freedom to learn what they want. It is a free website where thousands of students, teachers and professors share, study and upload their notes, video lectures and books to help each other. The problem not only exists in the school, but also colleges, especially engineering colleges, wherethe last minute study counts for everything. One common place to find all such answers is www.edurev.in, a site that provides material that you need to obtain an edge in a world of cut throat competition. EduRev provides everything for free, from online videos of lectures, and ebooks in the pdf format. The unique feature of the website is it’s interaction capabilities. Students follow their teachers and friends, and create a network. The teachers can also interact with students from different institutions across the country and bond with the like-minded.
  • Interality — Interality is a tech startup that helps in building virtual platforms.
  • Selligion Technologies — Selligion Praho is the world's first Hybrid cloud computing as a service - perhaps the first step towards delivering the last computer you'd ever need. A computer powered by the cloud - a computer that needs no upgrades - Selligion Praho offers the possibility of unlimited on-demand upgrades, and opportunities for life
Aprameya Radhakrishna Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Aprameya loves singing romantic songs and is the quintessential dreamer who doesn’t fear to experiment. He used to be the Head of Business Development for PDS at Jones Lang LaSalle India where he spent almost 3 years post his graduation from IIM Ahmedabad. He has worked at Infosys and has an Electronics engineering degree from NITK Surthkal andif all this has made you think he’s a geek, ask his close friends and they would say otherwise!
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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 — Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins. Did you find apk for android? You can find new Free Android Games and apps.
Vaibhav Domkundwar Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
Vaibhav Domkundwar - CEO @ Better Capital
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Investment focus
  • Software, Education, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • India, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Zipy — Traditional tools might throw a list of bugs at you, but Zipy tells you which ones matter through real time customer journeys.
  • OSlash — Transform long URLs into memorable shortcuts. Make information easy to access, find, & share with others in an instant with a complete URL management solution
  • Josh Talks — By leveraging our expertise in research and storytelling, we create exclusive content in regional languages to help brands tell their story better and reach their target audience.
Hemesh Singh Angel · Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Hemesh Singh is a co-founder and CTO of Unacademy.com.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Social Media, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • India, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • OpsLyft — The only cloud management platform that focuses on providing actionable insights for technology and financial leaders.
  • Pratilipi — A platform to read stories, write your own and share your favorite ones in Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, English, Urdu, Punjabi and Odia
  • Slick App — Go Slick, and declare your true feelings like nobody's watching!
Rohit Chanana Angel · Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Rohit Chanana - Founder and Managing Partner @ Sarcha Advisors
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Broadcasting, Electric Vehicle
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • India
Portfolio highlights
  • Vgenomics — Your partner in newborn healthcare and diagnosis for rare diseases, your partner in whole genome and exome research.
  • BatX Energies — BatX Energies is the India's largest Lithium(Li) Ion Battery Recycling Company which produces battery grade materials to create eco-friendly sustainable energy source.
  • goStops — goSTOPS offers best option for backpackers or youth solo adventurers tour traveller cheap hostel stay room booking online in india. We are a chain of backpacker hostels accommodation that strives to provide social stays & experiential travels at every step for a youth tourism.
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