Top 15 Photography Angel Investors in India in April 2025
A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Photography startups based in India. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Photography companies from India. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Photography Angel Investors in India in April 2025
Investor | Photography India investments |
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Rajesh Mane | 2 |
Harmeet Singh | 1 |
Manmeet Singh | 1 |
Vinod K. Dham | 1 |
Vishal Maheshwari | 1 |
Kshitij Jain | 1 |
Rajeev Saraf | 1 |
Nirav Choksi | 1 |
ARVIND JHA | 1 |
Aakrit Vaish | 1 |
Daud Ali | 1 |
Raman Roy | 1 |
Sunny Rao | 1 |
Sanjay Jesrani | 1 |
Ranjit Radhakrishnan | 1 |
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!
Harmeet Singh
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Investment focus
- Internet, Photography, Machine Learning
- Seed
- India
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.
Manmeet Singh
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- Internet, Photography, Machine Learning
- Seed
- India
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.
As a pioneer in the technology industry, Vinod (Vin) Dham is the acknowledged "Father of the Pentium" microprocessor. He successfully executed on his previous fund, NewPath Ventures, and is building NEA-IndoUS Ventures on similar principles.Prior to NewPath Ventures, Vinod was the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer ofSilicon Spice Inc., which was acquired by Broadcom Corporation. Vin spent 16 years of his career at Intel Corporation where he held the position of Vice President and General Manager of the Microprocessor Products group. After Intel, Vin joined microprocessor start up "NexGen", as its Chief Operating Officer. At NexGen Vin was instrumental in redefining Nexgen's processor direction, and engineering the merger with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). At AMD Vin became the Group Vice President, and oversaw the launch of K6 the world's fastest windows processor at that time.In 1993, Vin was named as one of the top 25 executives in the computer industry in America. In 1999, he was named as one of the top 100 most influential Asian Americans of the decade. In 2000, Vin was appointed to serve on the US President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Currently he serves on the Boards of Satyam, Sasken, Hellosoft, InSilica, Minekey, Nevis, Telsima and Montalvo. Vin has co-authored numerous technical papers and patents.Vin has a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Semiconductor, Content
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, India
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- Minekey — Minekey is a silicon valley based startup with core expertise in personalized search and social collaboration technologies. Minekey’s technology is at the heart of leading edge services mentioned below.Twezr is a personal organizer – the best way to stay in sync with close friends and co-workers. Twezr organizes all the contacts and all thecontent they’ve shared over email, Facebook and Twitter in one place. Twezr is available for free in the iTunes app store. For more information visit: www.twezr.com.Minekey’s discussion network connects real people through real conversations. People from all over the world hang out on Minekey and discuss their opinions on various topics such as relationships, social and political issues, religion, pop culture and more. To date over 2.5 Million people have participated in Minekey community. For more information visit: http://discuss.minekey.com.Minekey’s content discovery service helps online publishers to improve user experience and engagement on their websites by serving the most relevant content based on the user’s interests and browsing history. For more information visit: http://reco.minekey.com.
- 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.
- ISGN Corporation — ISGN is a leading provider of mortgage technology and services. A fast-growing company with more than 1000 customers, including large global banks and many of the top ten lenders in the country, ISGN’s product line includes a complete range of solutions for lenders, brokers and servicers. ISGN is funded by the highly-regarded growth equity firmNEA Partners, and by the KK Birla Group, one of the largest and oldest business houses. Based in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, ISGN now employs more than 1,500 people across 8 domestic centers and two international facilities.
Vishal Maheshwari is a Member of the Investment Committee at 9Unicorns. He attended Chetana's R. K. Institute of Management & Research.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Photography
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Siftr Labs — We are a technology company and have built a photo-curation platform using cutting edge artificial intelligence and deep learning. SIFTR platform aims to provides photo curation services. Our first offering is for photographers and consumers who click a lot of photos, post them on social or backup platforms, but then have a hard time in findingthe relevant photos, when required.
- Kiko Live — KIKO TV is India's first social commerce platform for "Assisted shopping" powered by AI. Dedicated team with a vision to connect buyers directly to sellers and build trust between them through digitisation of shops, stores and brands. Contact: shivam+contact@kiko.media
- STAGE — STAGE is an Indian language content platform for artist-led entertainment.
Kshitij Jain - Founder & CEO @ Joveo
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- Apps, EdTech, Banking
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, United States
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- Zently — Pay rent, split bills and log fix-it requests with our free app for renters. Zently: the smart assistant for renters
- Faircent — Faircent helps in eliminating the high margins which intermediaries like banks and financial institutions make on our transactions. Banks have massive overheads, with thousands of employees to pay and hundreds of branches to maintain. Banks must take large margins on the money that passes through them. Whereas at Faircent.com people who have sparemoney lend it directly to people who want to borrow. There are no banks in the middle, no huge overheads
- HireHunch — HireHunch offers Interview as a Service that helps you streamline your hiring process, and discover the perfect candidates via candidate assessment tool.
Rajeev Saraf
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Investment focus
- Content, Photography, Social Media
- Seed, Angel
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Notesgen —
- Movense — Movense is a social Live photo capturing platform that enables people, brands and publishers to tell their stories to the world in an engaging manner through interactive Live Photos.We call these Living Images or Live Photos as Moves. Moves allow gesture based forward/backward motion flow in a picture. Thus you can bring a waterfallpicture in motion or make an airplane fly backwards. All in Moves.In short: if Jpegs were to capture moments, Moves are to relive them! ;)People across the globe are sharing their amazing world through Moves in the Movense community. Join us and see the world from the eyes of Movense.We envision to create an industry around these interactive images that can in near future become the base for creation of Augmented Reality and Interactive content.Connect with us at contact@movense.com
Nirav Choksi - Non Executive Director @ Roll Mafia
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Content, Photography
- Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- O4S — Maximize channel loyalty & engage partners with O4S. Customize your channel loyalty program for maximum ROI on loyalty schemes. Learn more.
- Roll Mafia — Where the rolls and the biryanis are criminally tasty. Where the traditions of the royal kitchens of Awadh are venerated and still kept alive. Where the cooking is slow, though the food is fast. Roll Mafia is a Mafia of Taste. Fresh and pure taste, with ingredients that are procured freshly daily and there is no freezing overnight. Nawabi, Lucknowiand Calcutta taste, authentic and traditional, but served with pizzazz that is all our own style.
- Movense — Movense is a social Live photo capturing platform that enables people, brands and publishers to tell their stories to the world in an engaging manner through interactive Live Photos.We call these Living Images or Live Photos as Moves. Moves allow gesture based forward/backward motion flow in a picture. Thus you can bring a waterfallpicture in motion or make an airplane fly backwards. All in Moves.In short: if Jpegs were to capture moments, Moves are to relive them! ;)People across the globe are sharing their amazing world through Moves in the Movense community. Join us and see the world from the eyes of Movense.We envision to create an industry around these interactive images that can in near future become the base for creation of Augmented Reality and Interactive content.Connect with us at contact@movense.com
ARVIND JHA
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Investment focus
- Content, Photography, Social Media
- Seed, Angel
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Notesgen —
- Movense — Movense is a social Live photo capturing platform that enables people, brands and publishers to tell their stories to the world in an engaging manner through interactive Live Photos.We call these Living Images or Live Photos as Moves. Moves allow gesture based forward/backward motion flow in a picture. Thus you can bring a waterfallpicture in motion or make an airplane fly backwards. All in Moves.In short: if Jpegs were to capture moments, Moves are to relive them! ;)People across the globe are sharing their amazing world through Moves in the Movense community. Join us and see the world from the eyes of Movense.We envision to create an industry around these interactive images that can in near future become the base for creation of Augmented Reality and Interactive content.Connect with us at contact@movense.com
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
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- 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.
Mr. Daud Ali is Managing Director of Peacock Industries Ltd – one of the major manufacturers of plastic lifestyle products in India. He has experience in manufacturing of plastic processing line and finance activities. He is an active angel investors & primarily invests in BFSI, Consumer Internet, E-learning, E-commerce, Healthcare,Manufacturing & Logistics.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Internet, Photography
- Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Siftr Labs — We are a technology company and have built a photo-curation platform using cutting edge artificial intelligence and deep learning. SIFTR platform aims to provides photo curation services. Our first offering is for photographers and consumers who click a lot of photos, post them on social or backup platforms, but then have a hard time in findingthe relevant photos, when required.
- LenDenClub — LenDenClub is India's largest Peer-to-Peer lending investment platform by Innofin Solutions Pvt Ltd, an RBI registered NBFC-P2P. Join our community of 2M+ investors now.
- Creditas Solutions — Digital Debt Collections | Delinquency Management | Debt Recovery
Raman is widely regarded as the pioneer and “guru” of the BPO industry (also called the ‘IT Enabled Services’ industry) in India. He has played a pivotal role over the last 14 years in promoting Indian BPO and proving that India can be a preferred location for Remote Processing.Raman is a pioneer four times over, having successfully led thecaptive/third party BPO initiatives of American Express, GE Capital (now Genpact) and Spectramind (now Wipro BPO) out of India before starting Quatrro mid 2006, which is launched to focus on high end BPO services.Raman is a Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Management Accountant with a doctorate in Management Accountancy. In his career spanning across 30+ years, Raman has a very hands-on approach to business and has first-hand experience and rare insights into servicing markets as diverse as North America, Europe, Japan, Asia Pacific and Australia.As a tribute to his contribution to the BPO industry, he was awarded the Dataquest Pathbreaker Award in 2002 for directly creating 35,000+ jobs in India and indirectly enabling the employment of over 410,000 people by creating the BPO industry.
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- E-Commerce, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- India
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- Workie — We offering the Perfect Commercial & Co-working Office Space which are Fully Furnished for Businesses, Startups & Freelancers.
- HireACamp — HireACamp is an online marketplace that lets travelers easily Search and book camps with local camp owners.
- SP Robotic Works — SP Robotic Works is India's #1 Edutainment Company that bundles Learning Robotics, Coding & other New age technologies with fun! Digital Learning Platform(AI assisted) coupled with Hands-on Kits helps students learn various Technologies like Robotics, Coding, Internet Of Things(IoT), Drones, Android App Building, Virtual Reality and manymore!! They deliver courses both on Online & Offline Smart classes mode via SP Robotics Maker Labs spread across 83 dedicated centres in 32 cities and 13 states.
Sunny Rao is Partner at Lightbox
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- Internet, E-Commerce, Photography
- Seed
- India
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- Zoomin — ZoomIn, India's #1 online photo service, is about connecting people and their moments of magic.
Sanjay Jesrani
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- Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Delivery
- Seed, Angel
- India
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- Param.ai — Param.ai is a predictive intelligence recruitment solution. Param helps companies to automate most of the hiring tasks using artificial intelligence. Param's recruiting software helps automate tedious, repetitive manual tasks like resume screening. It equips recruiters with the means to efficiently cater to increasingly complex recruitingdeliverables.Founded in 2017, Param.ai is headquartered in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.
- PlusPin Healthcare — PlusPin aims to add substantial value to mom and pop pharmacies in making them a key component of the healthcare ecosystem. Pluspin powered pharmacies would provide convenient and optimal healthcare solutions to a large base of consumers from the middle of the pyramid segment. PlusPin has 3 major goals: ● Transform pharmacies into HealthcareSatellite centers that are accessible to the common man in both Urban and Rural areas. ● Launch and Diversify niche healthcare services at these centers, assisting in cost containment and care management. ● Increase earning potential of partner mom and pop pharmacies.
- Aereo — Aereo provides end-to-end drone solutions with accurate surveys, analytics, and aerial intelligence; all powered by patented drone technology.
Ranjit Radhakrishnan - Chief Product Officer @ BYJU’S
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Investment focus
- Internet, TV, Gaming
- Seed
- India
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- Picxy — Picxy is the Stock Photo Company in South Asia aiming to provide you with authentic images exclusively, pertaining to the South Asian Context as a whole.
- Rheo TV — Rheo TV is a game-streaming platform that aims to make professional game streaming a mainstream career option in India by building an entertainment ecosystem that drives engagement and monetization.Today, India has nearly 200 million active gamers on smartphones. Ubiquitous internet infrastructure and affordable smartphones are leading to theincreasing popularity of multiplayer online gaming in India, and Rheo TV is tapping into this phenomenon.
- Vimobin Labs — Vimobin Labs is a deep technology company focused on bringing advances in mobile-access to users across the world.
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