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Top 25 Mobile Advertising Startup Investors in India

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 25 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Mobile advertising startups based in India. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Mobile advertising companies from India. We update this investor list every month.

Top 25 Mobile Advertising Startup Investors in India

Investor	Mobile Advertising India investments
Pix Vine Capital	1
Threshold	1
Rajesh Sawhney	1
CIO Angel Network	1
Vijay Shekhar Sharma	1
Kae Capital	1
Nexus Venture Partners	1
VenturEast	1
Murugavel Janakiraman	1
Anoop Mathur	1
Indian Angel Network	1
K2 Global	1
Peepul Capital LLC	1
TA Ventures	1
Siddharth Talwar	1
Rajesh Kamat	1
Anupam Mittal	1
Aloke Bajpai	1
Norwest Venture Partners	1
Harish Bahl	1
Samir Bangara	1
Sanjay Nath	1
Naveen Tewari	1
Samir Sood	1
MediaTek	1

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Pix Vine Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in startups in the areas of Info-Tech, Med-Tech, and Eco-Tech. It allows investments in disruptive technologies and bridging startup ecosystems across the world to partner, fund, and grow startups and high caliber teams. The portfolio businesses of the company are Calore, MoolahSense, WSC,ZAPR, and playbuzz. Collaborative partnerships with other investors, incubators, accelerators, tertiary institutions, and research laboratories world over through co-investment and cross-pollination of ideas are hallmarks of their investment and growth models. It began operation in 2007.

Investment focus

Health Care, Internet, News
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Vietnam, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

ViCare — ViCare collectives are working hard to help the Vietnamese mission to reach the health services and the best health care.Millions of Vietnam had difficulty in finding medical solutions and appropriate health care.
Homedy.com — Homedy Incorporation (ref: Homedy Inc.) was established in 2015 by co-founders are highly experienced in the field of internet / mobile marketing, along with a team of professional - passionate editors, leading experts in the field of Real Estate (Real Estate).With the foundation is providing digital marketing solutions for comprehensivereal estate market, They aim to be the leading real estate portal on the Internet / Mobile in Vietnam market & International. Homedy.com creation, They would like to bring to users a perfect experience of finding informations in the field of Real Estate: "easy searching - diverse selections - reliable results."Users coming to Homedy.com will always get the updated, completed, accurate informations about real estate market in local as well as international countries; from details about the types of real estate, the market situations, trend purchases, prices ... Because they commit to always do its best to maintain its role as an effective bridge and reliable choice of not only real estate businesses but also the users - the customers - the most premium in all fields.Slogan "More choice, more life ... "
ElastiMed — ElastiMed offers the next generation of smart medical devices. Combining innovative material technology, ElastiMed’s first application is a smart, wearable, active compression device for improving circulation in the legs.ElastiMed has developed a wearable medical device, that is designed to improve circulation in the legs, for the treatment ofvenous and lymphatic diseases. Based on proprietary technology, that utilizes innovative smart materials, ElastiMed’s sock compresses and massages the legs when stimulated by an electric pulse. The smart sock is expected to provide patients with a comfortable, easy-to-wear, effective and affordable treatment option to help prevent symptoms such as swelling, blood clots, and leg ulcers.

Threshold is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on a high-conviction investment strategy. The firm partners with entrepreneurs building innovative consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies. Threshold was founded in 2019 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Israel, India

Portfolio highlights

ODAIA — Empowering Pharma's Next Generation of Engagement with HCPs
CloudZero — CloudZero is the only cloud cost intelligence platform that puts engineering in control by connecting technical decisions to business results.
Salvo Health — Salvo Health is a digital care team for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), GERD, SIBO, and other chronic gut health conditions. Sign up today!

Rajesh is the co-founder and CEO of InnerChef and Super Angels. He holds a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering from Delhi University, and a master's degree in management from Mumbai University. He has also done a fellowship in 'Globalisation and Leadership' from the London School of Economics and Social Sciences.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, 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.

CIO Angel Network supports seed stage startups by providing fundraising support and customer discovery.

Investment focus

Education, Recruiting, Advertising
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

PayTunes — PayTunes helps you run audio ads on famous audio platforms like Spotify, Gaana, Jio Saavan, and many more in India using the DSP.
Skillenza — Skillenza is the optimum gap filler between required market-ready skills and the current college student skillset. We directly address the growing concerns of students & job seekers while connecting the right person with the right opportunity.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, News, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Yoho — Yoho manufactures orthopaedic lightweight footwear.
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.
Jimmy's Cocktails — Jimmy's Cocktails makes premium cocktails.

Kae Capital is a pioneer of early-stage investing in India, focused on tech startups, and has been investing in India for 10+ years.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

SuperAGI — Research lab dedicated to explore and pursue Generalized Super Intelligence
GobbleCube — GobbleCube's AI-powered copilot automates revenue monitoring and RCA, allowing revenue staff to focus on execution.
InviroNext — InviroNext Is building power of Decentralized Applications (DApps) with Artificial Intelligence (AI) prowess is heralding a new era of technological synergy.

Nexus Venture Partners is a venture capital firm established by ex-entrepreneurs in enterprise technology and consumer internet. The firm was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
India, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Giga ML — AI first customer service
Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.
Liquidnitro Games — India's flagship Games & Live Services Company. Founded by industry veterans who led some of the biggest and most iconic game franchises for over a decade.

Ventureast is one of India's longest standing venture capital firms investing in Indian businesses since the late 90s.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Software
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

ekincare — ekincare is a patent-pending AI-powered integrated health benefits platform helping organizations and Employees with a Preventive, Predictive and Highly Personalised Healthcare solution.Trusted by many fortune 500 companies ekincare redefines healthcare by being India's first personal health assistant using technology, analytics, andcurated services.Our integrated platform provides access to a multitude of online and offline healthcare services such as 24*7 chat with a doc, health check-ups, medicines purchase and delivery, Health coach programs, Mental wellness programs, Gyms & Fitness services, etc
InviroNext — InviroNext Is building power of Decentralized Applications (DApps) with Artificial Intelligence (AI) prowess is heralding a new era of technological synergy.
Infinite Uptime — Infinite Uptime provides predictive maintenance services and plant-reliability solutions to global manufacturing and asset-intensive industries. Book a demo NOW.

Murugavel Janakiraman is the Founder and CEO at Matrimony.com.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Settlin — Search, Visit, Check Legal, Negotiate and Buy - all at one place.
MoneyyApp — We at MoneyyApp are helping Creators to grow their businesses. The struggle of the creators trying to make a mark has been tiring, and we understand that! The inception of MoneyyApp lays the foundation for creators’ atrocities.
Beautywise — Beautywise is a dermatology-led supplement brand with the purpose of empowering everyone to embrace unique beauty by embracing long-term, evidence-based treatments that operate from inside.

Anoop Mathur - Founder & Investor @ CIO Angel Network

Investment focus

Security, Advertising, Mobile Apps
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Spare8 — Spare8 is a micro-investment app for investing money in digital gold, enabling everyone to start their investment journey through its flagship feature- micro-investment.
BugBase — Discover, manage, and proactively address vulnerabilities with BugBase's comprehensive suite of services. Our offerings include managed bug bounties, Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS), Automated Scanning, and VDP solutions. Enhance your security posture today.
KloudMate — Application Performance Monitoring and Observability platform for microservices-based distributed applications. Create dashboards, analyze logs, trace requests, monitor errors, setup alarms and get insightful metrics. Get started for free!

Started in April 2006, the Indian Angel Network is a unique concept which brings together highly successful entrepreneurs and CEOs from India and around the world who are interested in investing in startup / early stage ventures which have the potential of creating disproportionate value.The Network, in addition to money, provide constantaccess to high quality mentoring, vast networks and inputs on strategy as well as execution. The Network members, because of their background are better able to assess the potential and risks at the early stage.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Noccarc — One of the best ICU Ventilators in India, NOCCARC V310 is a solution to a wide range of respiratory problems. With 3000+ ventilators installed, Noccarc is a promising brand involved in the development & manufacturing of medical equipment (ICU equipment including ventilators & other respiratory devices)
Scandalous Foods — Scandalous Foods offers food preparation services such as 6-month preservative-free sweets in single-serve sizes.
Pandorum Technologies — TISSUE ENGINEERING & REGENERATIVE MEDICINE Building blocks of life... Learn More BIO-ENGINEERED CORNEA Advanced therapies for Cornea Regeneration Learn More 3D

K2 Global is a venture capital firm based in Singapore and Miami that invests in high growth technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Food and Beverage
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

OpenAI — Introducing Sora: Creating video from text
Biofire — Sign up by April 13th to be the First to Experience the Future of Firearms.
Farmdar — We give you the power of precision agriculture, by providing accurate data on your crops.

Peepul Capital is a private equity firm that offers early- and expansion-stage investment services to its clients. It was founded by Srini Raju and is based in Port Louis.

Investment focus

Advertising, Video, Digital Media
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Komli Media — Komli Media is Asia Pacific’s leading media technology company with solutions across display, mobile, social, and video for marketers, agencies and publishers. Komli is building next-generation platforms that leverage the power of programmatic buying to make advertising across display, mobile and social simpler and transparent.
klay schools — Is your child ready for preschool? Then head out to KLAY Schools and daycare for holistic education and childcare. Explore to know more about KLAY Schools!
24 Mantra Organic — 24 Mantra Organic is a specialty food shop for farmers, livelihood, customers a sustainable lifestyle, and a sustainable planet. It also offers products such as Masala Mixes, Snacks, Cereals, Culinary Pastes, Juices, Oils, Flakes, Spices, Health Foods, and Spice Powders.Today, they are India’s largest organic foods brand and work with 45,000farmers in 15 states on 2,25,000 acres to make a positive difference to their lives. All the 24 Mantra products are also offered in larger packs for foodservice.24 Mantra Organic was founded in 2004 and is based in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.

TA Ventures is globally-minded and network-driven VC firm investing in early-stage tech startups in Europe and North America shaping the industries of tomorrow. Our ticket size starts from $100k up to $1M. We offer speed of execution, proactive support, and access to a broad international network. Drawing upon our network, we support our portfoliocompanies by proactively soliciting large, growth-minded co-investors in subsequent rounds. We utilize our industry knowledge and network to give portfolio companies and partner VCs access to the highly skilled and cost-effective R&D outsourcing teams in Central and Eastern Europe.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Giza — Giza changes this by using zero-knowledge cryptography to bring model inferencing on-chain, unlocking a new depth for smart contract design.
Utorg — Utorg is a fintech company that offers а modern on/off-ramp and web3 consumer infrastructure to deliver а top-notch user experience. The company is EU-based and holds a license for providing a virtual currency service, in particular exchanging a virtual currency against fiat currency, virtual currency wallet service, and exchanging virtualcurrency against a virtual currency.Utorg was founded in 2020 and is based in Tallinn, Estonia.
Cube3.ai — CUBE3.AI is a web3 security platform that provides real-time transaction protection for smart contracts, safeguarding against cyber exploits, fraud, and compliance risks.

Siddharth Talwar - Co-Founder & Partner @ Lightbox

Investment focus

News, Lifestyle, Advertising Platforms
Series A, Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

ZAPR — ZAPR, is one of the world's first media consumption repositories and cross-targeting platforms. ZAPR's technology platform auto-detects comprehensively all offline media content being viewed by millions of people. ZAPR is currently over 1000x larger than any audience measurement database in India and they're rapidly growing. Forthe very first time, a brand can bridge its offline advertising strategy with its social.mobile.digital strategies, by identifying their audiences, understanding their media habits and targeting the same user base across all mediums - offline and online - mobile and social. Users who are watching TV, but ignoring the commercials, can now be retargeted across social and mobile platforms, to ensure that a brand's wasted TV impressions are reinforced by the second screen. ZAPR is quickly expanding on all fronts - its user base, various media formats (live TV, radio, movies-in-theater, VOD, internet media) as well as geographic presence. ZAPR is a VC funded media-tech startup and is backed by iconic angel and institutional investors from India, Singapore, Europe and US.
Rooter — Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop.
Cityflo — Cityflo is a premium daily commute service for urban India, currently operating in Mumbai & Delhi NCR. We offer comfortable rides to work in AC Benz buses, for corporate professionals.

Listed as India’s hottest 40 under 40 Business Leaders by Economic Times and Spencer Stuart, Rajesh was previously the COO of Peter Chernin’s Asia focused private equity fund CA Media. Kamat had formerly launched Viacom18’s popular Hindi GEC network COLORS. With a mix of disruptive and differentiated programming, accompanied by aggressive marketingand distribution strategies Kamat catapulted COLORS to a number 3 position in its very first week and the number 1 position 9 months after launch, breaking Star Plus’ stranglehold on the position after nine years of unchallenged dominance. Under Rajesh’s leadership COLORS continued its successful run and grew into a vibrant brand reaching 140mm Households. It is the only GEC to have reached an operating break-even in 15 months. He served as COO of Viacom 18 Group and CEO of COLORS. Prior to COLORS, he launched Endemol India and served as its Managing Director. He has also served as SVP of Commercial & Business Planning at STAR India and held various marketing positions at Coca-Cola and MTV India. Kamat has also been named Impact Media Person of Year in 2009 and ‘Outstanding Entrepreneurs of Asia Pacific for 2010. Rajesh is a Bachelor of Engineering and also holds a Master's in Business Administration.Rajesh is also an active board member in over 10 companies and enjoys contributing to the angel investor ecosystem

Investment focus

Mobile, Digital Entertainment, Social Media
Seed, Angel, Series B
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Thrill — Online meetings can be professionally transcribed by Transcriberry experts with 99% accuracy. No matter whether it'll be Skype, Zoom, Google Meets or other service.
Animeta — Animeta is the World's first Social Media Influencer collaboration platform for Digital Creators, TikTok stars, & everyone else - powered by AIJoin the revolution of influencers that make money with digital creator tech, empower the creator economy, and get famous faster.
Infinite Analytics — Infinite Analytics' AI platform, Sherlock democratizes data based consumer insights. It’s a SAAS platform that offers an easy-to-use UI for companies and individuals to analyze consumer behavior for their brands and action on it. Sherlock.ai does to AI-driven Consumer Insights Platform what AWS did to Data Centers. With Sherlock, companies(enterprise, medium and small) can now subscribe to consumer insights, along with recommendations of the actions required to grow their business, instead of spending time, labor and money on building complex data and analytics systems.Creating a technology stack to mine multiple data sets for signals on consumer behavior requires heavy investment, building a tech savvy and a data science team and a team with enough experience to manage infrastructure. It also requires a team to manage the interoperability of all the components of this entire infrastructure/technology stack. It takes years to get this stack together and a few more years to get it to provide the consumer insights and actions for it. This is usually only within consideration of large companies because of the significant investment in terms of capital both human and monetary. Such infrastructure also requires tremendous amounts of ongoing maintenance.Sherlock helps companies convert their Capital Expenses (on consumer insights) into Operational Insights.

Anupam started his entrepreneurial journey by founding People Group - A New Media & Entertainment group, which includes businesses such as Shaadi.com, Makaan.com, Mauj Mobile, and People Pictures. Today the group is recognized as one of the most innovative enterprises in the country. Besides his operational roles, Anupam is also one ofIndia's most active angel investors.He attended Boston College.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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 — ReFit Global converts electronic waste into affordable technological gems for a sustainable future. Their objective is to raise awareness and confidence among gadget users about reconditioned products.
GrayQuest — GrayQuest Education Finance Pvt. Ltd provides Parents and Students with the most convenient and easiest option to pay fees to their Institute.

Aloke Bajpai is ixigo.com’s Co-Founder and CEO. Aloke graduated from IIT Kanpur in 2001 and started his career at Amadeus in Europe where he held key product and technology roles, building and managing large scale web-based products and networks for the first four years of his career. He then went to INSEAD for his MBA, and returned to India tolaunch ixigo.com in 2007. Under Aloke’s leadership over the last 7 years, ixigo has gone from a bootstrapped startup to India’s leading travel search and planning business, with over 20 million active users every month across mobile and web. Aloke is a TiE charter member and a mentor and advisor with several startups and accelerators.

Investment focus

Mobile, SaaS, Apps
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

MealHopper — Find your domain name at HugeDomains. Start using this domain right away.
AppVirality — AppVirality is a plug-and-play growth hacking toolkit for mobile applications that helps app developers in identifying and implementing the right growth techniques, no coding required. Its referral marketing solution helps customize, launch, and automate referral campaigns for mobile apps and SaaS products. Its tools work through a softwaredevelopment kit and dashboard and customizable application referral programs to help boost a brand its app installs and engagement that enable mobile-focused companies to identify and implement the right growth techniques without having to write new code.AppVirality was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.
OnlineTyari — OnlineTyari.com helps you prepare and take online mock tests for govt exams like SSC, IAS, Bank PO, Railways. We keep student updated with latest study material including GK and current affairs 2019 in India. We provide study material (online Mock tests, E-Books, Video classes and Practice questions). Highly recommended for students preparing for competitive exams like civil services (IAS, CSAT), engineering services, PSU jobs exams.Get current affair 2019 and free mock tests to start preparation.

Growing together every step of the way. We empower great leaders throughout the journey of growth.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Anomalo — Anomalo allows users to continuously inspect and validate the data coming into their warehouses.
Ediphi — The most advanced cloud-based estimating solution.
tvScientific — tvScientific is the first performance platform for CTV. It combines the power of television with the precision of digital marketing.

Harish Bahl is a Founder and Chairman of Smile Group. He previously worked at Quasar Media Private as a Founder and CEO. Harish Bahl attended SDM College of Engineering and Technology.

Investment focus

Advertising, Internet, Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
India, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

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.
Creative Galileo — Creative Galileo is an Edtech startup that focuses on the early learning of children, plans to use the funds for scaling, product development, and enhancement, creating new engaging content, forging partnerships with leading animation houses, and hiring talent.

Samir Bangara - Co-Founder & Managing Director @ Qyuki

Investment focus

Mobile, Apps, Digital Media
Seed, Angel
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

POKKT — POKKT is an Alternate Mobile Payment Platform that helps owners of Paid Digital Goods and Services to monetise thier users through an advertiser-funded Model. Develpoers and Publishers of Digital content can significantly increase monetization and convert non-paying users into paying users.
Thrill — Online meetings can be professionally transcribed by Transcriberry experts with 99% accuracy. No matter whether it'll be Skype, Zoom, Google Meets or other service.
My Child — Enjoy millions of the latest Android apps, games, music, movies, TV, books, magazines & more. Anytime, anywhere, across your devices.

Sanjay Nath - Co-founder & Managing Partner @ Blume Ventures

Investment focus

Internet, Machine Learning, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Raena — RAENA adalah platform reseller kecantikan terbesar di Indonesia yang memberikan peluang bisnis rumahan yang menjanjikan. Dropshipper & Reseller produk kecantikan
Petasense — Founded with a vision of making industrial machines smarter, Petasense is an Industrial IoT startup based in Silicon Valley. The company offers an end-to-end solution – comprised of a patent-pending wireless vibration sensor, cloud software and machine learning analytics – that helps with asset reliability and predictive maintenance. Customersare able to monitor, assess and predict the health of their critical machines in real-time. This helps them reduce unplanned downtime and lower repair costs. Petasense's clients include industry leaders like JLL, C&W Services, Silicon Valley Power and Stanford University. Petasense is backed by True Ventures, Felicis Ventures and top angel investors. The company is founded by serial entrepreneurs, Abhinav Khushraj and Arun Santhebennur, who have 25 years of combined experience in building enterprise companies, with degrees from MIT and IIT.To learn more about Petasense, visit www.petasense.com.
Obviously AI — The entire process of running Data Science - building Machine Learning algorithm, explaining results and predicting outcomes, packed in one single click.

Naveen is the founder of InMobi. His philosophy of constant innovation and disruption is embedded deep into the DNA of InMobians and is resonated across InMobi. His dream is to re-imagine advertising in a truly ‘user-first’ way and unlock the true potential of the mobile ecosystem.He has a Bachelor’s degree from Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur (IIT) and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Harvard Business School, where he was also bestowed with the Dean’s Award, for his exceptional leadership and contribution. In 2013, his alma mater, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur also honored him with the esteemed ‘Distinguished Alumnus Award’ for his excellence in entrepreneurship.Naveen is involved in the fueling of around 30 start-ups as yet in India and has personally invested and supported several start-ups like NestAway, SlideRule, Mettl, Moneysights, Bombay Canteen, Zimmber, Razorpay etc. A believer that start-ups will be the pillars of growing India, he co-founded iSPIRT, which is a change agent with the brain of a think tank and aims to address government policy, create market catalysts, and grow the maturity of product entrepreneurs in order to transform India into a hub for new generation software products.He also founded and chairs a U.S.-based nonprofit called India School Fund which funds and sets up schools in rural India, a cause he cares deeply for.Naveen is a board member at Paytm and has been recognized for his entrepreneurial skills at various platforms. He received several awards and recognitions over the last several years:>‘Future Leaders Award’ presented by Narendra Modi, Indian Prime Minister, 2015>Fortune’s ‘40 under 40’ most powerful, influential and important people in business, 2015>The ‘Pathbreaker of the Year’ Award, 2014>Forbes India Leadership Award for ‘Outstanding Start Up', 2014>‘100 Most Creative People’, 2014 across the world>The ‘Pathbreaker of the Year’ Award, 2013 presented by Narendra Modi, Indian Prime Minister>‘7th Most Important Person’ by Business Insider’s the Mobile Power List, 2013>‘Mobile Top 50’ in The Drum, 2013>‘2nd Most Important Person’ by Business Insider’s the Mobile Power List, 2012An avid fan of cricket, Naveen is a fitness enthusiast and his early morning routine alternates between a long run outdoors and a cycling trip around the less crowded parts of the city.Source (http://www.inmobi.com/organization/leadership/naveen-tewari#profile)

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Klub — India's leading Revenue Based Financing platform with a vision to revolutionize growth capital. Join the Klub for fast, fair & flexible funding.
Kaarva — Kaarva is India's first flexible salary platform which is not a salary advance but gives employees control to access a part of their earned salaries on their own whenever they need, multiple times a month.
Bright Money — A new system for financial planning to delete debt and build wealth. Pay Down Debt Faster, Build Savings and Boost your Credit Score.

Samir Sood is the Founder and All Things Business and Chief Believer at Venture Highway.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Internet
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Airwoot — Airwoot is a real-time customer support provider enabling brands to provide customer support on social media by notifying the customer engagement in real-time. The company reinvents the customer experience by transforming the way brands interact with their customers on social media. It is an intelligent customer experience platform using naturallanguage processing and machine learning to automatically identify customers who need engagement and help brands reduce response time, uncover business insights behind conversations, know the customers like never before, and increase customer satisfaction. It is used by many of the consumer internet companies of India to manage social media customer experience.
ShieldSquare — Forrester Research has ranked ShieldSquare as a Leader in their New Wave™: Bot Management Report for Q3 2018. ShieldSquare offers a non-intrusive API-based solution to detect and eliminate bad bot traffic from websites, mobile apps, and APIs in real-time. Our solution leverages intent-based deep behavior analysis, device fingerprinting, anddomain-specific detection technologies to identify and eliminate invalid traffic with zero false positives. We protect against automated attacks such as account takeover, application DDoS, API abuse, carding, content scraping, ad fraud, form spam, and other fraudulent activities. ShieldSquare safeguards over 80,000 internet properties owned by global online brands spread across 70 countries.
Cold Love Ice Cream — Delicious, creamy, satisfying flavors of Cold Love. Artisanal ice cream, handmade with all-natural ingredients.

MediaTek is another name for incredible innovation that powers the brands you love. From smartphones to smart homes, we are always by your side.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Semiconductor
Series A, Series B, Series D
China, Taiwan, Israel

Portfolio highlights

SweGaN — SweGaN's vision is to be a world leading supplier of nitride based HEMT structures. By integrating SweGaN´s technology into every single epitaxial wafer they deliver, they believe that your devices will fulfill all demands required in next generation's high power and high frequency devices.SweGaN's founders all come fromLinköping University and have more than 50 man-years experience in growth and characterization of GaN and SiC materials.SweGaN is in a highly expansive phase and they are always looking for skilled and very focused individuals with large experience in the field. If you are interested in working in a challenging and dynamic atmosphere please send us an e-mail.
UG Labs — UG Labs is developing an AI engine for voice-based digital engagement and conversation for young children. The company was founded in 2022.
Stathera — Stathera transforms the global timing market from Quartz-based to MEMS-based devices.

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