# Top 50 Music Angel Investors in India in June 2026 ## Vishal Maheshwari - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Apps, SaaS Vishal Maheshwari is a Member of the Investment Committee at 9Unicorns. He attended Chetana's R. K. Institute of Management & Research. ## Nandi Vardhan Mehta - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Apps Nandi Vardhan Mehta ## Hetal Sonpal - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, Music, Internet Hetal Sonpal is a Doctoral Student at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode. Hetal Sonpal attended SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS). ## Rajan Anandan - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Sachin Bhatia - Type: Angel - Location: Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Travel, Tourism, E-Commerce Sachin Bhatia - CEO & Co-founder @ Bulbulshop ## Abhishek Shah - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Food and Beverage, Apps Abhishek Shah is the Founder of D2C Insider. He previously worked at CarDekho as a Business Head Bikes.Abhishek Shah attended ICFAI Business School. ## Ashish Tulsian - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Apps, SaaS Ashish Tulsian - CEO and Co-Founder @ Posist ## Sawan Laddha - Type: Angel - Location: Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, Music, Retail Sawan Laddha is a Founder at Workie. ## Janarthan Balasubrramanian - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, Music, Content Creators Janarthan Balasubrramanian is an angel investor. ## Vijay Sharma - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, News, Software 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. ## Sushma Kaushik - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Apps, Banking Sushma Kaushik is the Partner at Aavishkaar Venture Capital. She is also a Board Member at Chqbook. ## Rohit Chanana - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Wellness, E-Commerce Rohit Chanana - Founder and Managing Partner @ Sarcha Advisors ## Giridhar Malpani - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, EdTech, Financial Services Giridhar Malpani is the Founder of Climber Capital. He previously worked at Rustomjee as a Project manager. Giridhar Malpani attended the RICS School of Built Environment, Amity University. ## Nitesh Kumar - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Music, Retail, Publishing Nitesh Kumar - Owner @ Desi Beats ## Nihal Mehta - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Mobile, SaaS Nihal Mehta is a Co-Founder at Eniac Ventures. He was an Angel Investor at Uber. He attended the University of Pennsylvania. ## Ranveer Allabadia - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, Information Technology, Music Ranveer Allabadia is a Founder of BeerBiceps & Co-founder of Monk Entertainment. ## Alagu Periyannan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Wellness, Health Care, Apps Alagu has over 20 years of research, product development, and strategy experience bringing innovative networking and video products to market. Prior to founding Blue Jeans Network, he held the position of Chief Technology Officer at Blue Coat Systems, a leader in network security and WAN optimization appliances. During his tenure at Blue Coat heheld various senior R&D management positions and was part of the management team responsible for leading the company through its successful repositioning from CacheFlow, a maker of web and video caching appliances, to Blue Coat. He also led the team that was responsible for the company's entry into the WAN optimization market. Prior to CacheFlow, Alagu was an early member of the management team at Entera, an Internet content delivery startup. He built an R&D team from the ground up to deliver streaming video caching products for the Content Delivery Network (CDN) market, culminating in a successful sale of the company to CacheFlow in 2000.Before joining Entera, Alagu spent eight years at Apple and held various research and product development roles in networking and video over networks in the Advanced Technology Group (ATG) and then as a founding member of the QuickTime Streaming Group. Alagu holds a Masters in Computer Science from North Carolina State University, Raleigh and a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani, India. ## Abhishek Deo - Type: Angel - Location: Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Food and Beverage, Software, Automotive A seed stage investor who invests in visionary Entrepreneurs, whose belief is " An Entrepreneur never fails, even if the idea or the startup fails".. ## Vaibhav Kapoor - Type: Angel - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance Vaibhav Kapoor ## Shubham Rangra - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Music, Retail, Publishing Shubham Rangra He became a well known public figure in the country of Haryana after his tremendous success on YouTube, which led him to get verified on the video-sharing platform in 2021. Currently, he is verified on various streaming platforms like Spotify, Jiosaavn, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Soundcloud, and many other Platforms. ## Ravi Trivedi - Type: Angel - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Mobile, News, SaaS Ravi is the founder of Srijan Capital, which is focused building startups, and angel investing.He is a board observer and board member for few startups in his portfolio. He is a Mentor for IIM-A's iAccelerator, and Microsoft Accelerator. Ravi is also an hands-on Digital Marketer with experience in running online businesses, and currentlylearning the ropes of SAAS business.Prior to this, he worked as a Principal at Southeast Interactive Technology Funds, an early stage technology venture capital fund in North Carolina, USA. Before Southeast Interactive Technology Funds, he worked as Equity Analyst with Bank of America, where he covered companies over $120B in market capitalization. He was part of the team that was ranked runners up in the Alpha Hedge Fund Research rankings.He started his career as a software engineer at Hewlett Packard and has global cross-functional experience in leading and managing technology functions. He worked in marketing, consulting and engineering functions at Hewlett Packard. Ravi co-authored the book Web Services Security, and participated in creating web services standards. He holds a Patent for "System and Methods for Recommending Third Party Services". Ravi completed his MBA from Duke University, Fuqua School of Business and has a Masters in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. ## Gajendra Jangid - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Service Industry, Music, Finance Gajendra Jangid is the Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of CARS24. ## Madhusudanan R - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, Financial Services Madhusudanan R is based out of Mumbai, Maharashtra and is the Co-founder and CEO of M2P Fintech. Madhusudanan previously worked at Visa as Director of Prepaid Products. Madhusudanan R attended Jaigopal Garodia Vivekananda Vidyalaya. ## Nitish Mittersain - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Financial Services, E-Commerce Nitish Mittersain is based out of Mumbai, Maharashtra and is the Founder & Managing Director of Nazara Technologies. Nitish previously worked at MEF Mobile as a Board Director. Nitish Mittersain attended the Bennett University. Nitish Mittersain has been Awarded Honorary Doctorate for contributions to gaming industry in India. ## Anupam Mittal - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Internet 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. ## Arihant Patni - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence Arihant is the Managing Director of Patni Financial Advisors, a wealth management company that advises high net worth families on a wide range of investment options. He is also Co-founder and Director at Nirvana venture Advisors. Arihant began his career at his family business, Patni Computer Systems, one of the leading Indian IT businesses of thetime, where he held positions in the computer software and human resources departments, as well as being a business development and marketing executive. Subsequently, Arihant worked as a Business Strategy Consultant for Fidelity Investments in Boston. ## Roman Saini - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Apps, Internet Roman Saini is Co Founder at Unacademy. ## Shivakumar Ganesan - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: 3D Technology, Augmented Reality, Music Shivakumar Ganesan is based out of Bengaluru, Karnataka and is the Co-Founder & CEO of Exotel. Shivakumar previously worked at Roopit as a Founder & Techie. Shivakumar Ganesan attended the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. Shivakumar Ganesan has been awarded Fortune's 40 under 40 and CNBC's Young Turk awards. ## Steven Lurie - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Industrial Automation, Robotics, Machine Learning Steven Lurie is the founder of Team Builder Ventures, which helps founders build and scale world-class teams. The fund invests in the Series A rounds of enterprise software and consumer Internet start-ups led by the top venture capital funds.Previously, Steven was at Zynga for over 4 years and was a member of the company’s Executive Staff. Mostrecently, he was the head of the International group after leading Studio I (India), a game group in Bangalore. Steven was the head of Zynga’s Mobile group before moving to India.Before Zynga, Steven was CEO of Advice Company, one of the Web’s leading legal and insurance advice sites, and worked at several venture-backed start-ups in executive roles and in venture capital. Steven received his JD from Harvard Law School and BA from Stanford University. ## Manish Vij - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketing Manish Vij is the Co-founder of Smile Group. He previously worked at Quasar Media Private as a Founder. Manish Vij attended Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya. ## Ankit Mathuria - Type: Angel - Location: Seattle, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, Music, Software Ankit Mathuria is a CTO at OYO Rooms. He attended PGDM Institution. ## Priyamvada Balaji - Type: Angel - Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Music, Mobile, Education Priyamvada Balaji ## Piyush Shah - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, Education Piyush Shah joined InMobi in October 2009 and serves as Vice President and General Manager for Performance Advertising and Developer Platforms. He is responsible for the overall vision, strategy and execution for InMobi's global performance advertising business - helping customers to acquire quality users through app installs and leadgeneration offerings. Piyush also heads InMobi’s Developer Platform initiatives and drives the roadmap to enable global app developers to effectively acquire, monetize and retain users.He brings to InMobi over 13 years of experience in entrepreneurship, strategy, business development, product management and operations. Prior to joining InMobi, Piyush had corporate stints as the Associate Vice President with Deutsche Bank and Product Manager at Citigroup. At Deutsche Bank, he was part of the core team that established their Payments & Private Banking business in India. He also founded LearningSpiral, an educational portal and youth marketing venture, and was awarded the accolade as one of India's Innovative Youth Entrepreneurs by Business World.Piyush is based in our Bangalore office. He graduated from the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad with an MBA in Strategy and Marketing and was elected President of the Mumbai Alumni Chapter. He received his Bachelors in Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering. ## Varun Alagh - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet Varun Alagh is based out of Gurgaon, Haryana, and is the Co-Founder, Chief Dad, and CEO of Honasa Consumer. Varun previously worked at The Coca-Cola Company as a Senior Brand Manager. Varun Alagh attended XLRI Jamshedpur. ## Seung Yoon Lee - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, B2B, B2C Seung-yoon Lee is a Global Strategy Officer at Kakao Entertainment. He attended University of Oxford. ## Bhaskar Raju Konduru - Type: Angel - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Music, Video, Fashion Bhaskar Raju Konduru ## Akash Agarwal - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Local, Music, Fitness Akash Agarwal is a veteran business executive in high technology with over 20 years experience spanning general management, marketing, product development, strategy, and sales. Akash's experience is in the mobile, enterprise and consumer Internet, at both small and large companies. Akash has been an entrepreneur, founding and running severalventure-backed Internet startups, and in management at HP (via Mercury acquisition) and Oracle Corporation. He holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Computer Science (with honors) from the University of Kent at Canterbury, England. Akash is also a Charter Member of TIE (The Indus Entrepreneur TiE).EducationMBA, Harvard Business School, General Management (1998)Bsc. Hons. Comp Science, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK (1990) ## Giri Malpani - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Apps, Music, EdTech Giri Malpani of Malpani Ventures. ## Aprameya Radhakrishna - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, Software, Retail 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! ## Shrishti Sahu - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, FinTech, Apps 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) ## Tom Varkey - Type: Angel - Location: Westfield, New Jersey, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: EdTech, Education, E-Learning Tom is a veteran in financial markets and is Principal at Stonehill Capital. Prior to this he has held positions with Lazard Asset Management & Fidelity Investments focusing on emerging markets and corporate debt. Tom is an MBA from Harvard Business School & has a MA in Quantitative Economics from Tufts University. ## Piyush Goel - Type: Angel - Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, News, Music Piyush brings more than 15 years of leadership, business development, and marketing experience to BeyondKey. As the CEO of the company, he makes sure that we deliver solution of high value and customer focus and adopting latest technology is his main focus area, he is responsible for driving BeyondKey’s global growth initiatives. ## Dhruv Rathee - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, Music, FinTech Dhruv Rathee is an Indian YouTuber. ## Akshat Rathee - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, Internet, Music Akshat Rathee is the Founder of Nova Play. He previously worked at Swabhimaanya as a Cofounder. Akshat Rathee attended École des Ponts Business School. ## Sarath Sura - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: SaaS, Music, Railroad Sarath Sura - Chairman @ GreyCampus ## Vikas Taneja - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Music, Mobile Vikas Taneja is an advisor to and investor in technology companies. He is a Partner & Managing Director with the Boston Consulting Group and a leader in BCG's Technology, Media, and Telecommunication practice. Vikas' investments with HT ventures include imedix, webchutney, Blip.tv, Quorus, Mashery, mobitrans, refinery29, 8tracks, andothers. Vikas received his MBA with Honors in Economics & Finance from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Computer Systems Engineering and Economic Development from Stanford University. Vikas is also on the Executive Committee of Pratham, an India-based organization that has helped over 2 million children achieve literacy and basic mathematics skills. ## Krishnan Akhileswaran - Type: Angel - Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Music, Video, Broadcasting Krishnan Akhileswaran ## Goverdhan Singh Jamwal - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Music, Video, Broadcasting Goverdhan Singh Jamwal ## Himanshu Aggarwal - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Fitness, SaaS, Internet Himanshu Aggarwal is the Chief Strategy Officer of SHL. He attended Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. ## Kshitij Khandelwal - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Music, Social Media Kshitij Khandelwal is a Co-founder of Pixxel. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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