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Top 30 Photography Startup Investors in India in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 30 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 30 Photography Startup Investors in India in November 2024

Investor	Photography India investments
Info Edge	6
First Round Capital	3
Rajesh Mane	2
Sherpalo Ventures	2
ARVIND JHA	1
Gund Investment, LLC	1
Vikas Kapoor	1
Rajeev Saraf	1
Sanjay Jesrani	1
100X.VC	1
Nirav Choksi	1
Dholakia Ventures	1
Lightbox	1
CerraCap Ventures	1
Vishal Maheshwari	1
Daud Ali	1
Artha Group	1
Ranjit Radhakrishnan	1
First Cheque	1
YourNest Venture Capital	1
Aakrit Vaish	1
GenNext Ventures	1
Flipkart Ventures	1
DotIn	1
Vinod K. Dham	1
Manmeet Singh	1
John Ason	1
Harmeet Singh	1
Sunny Rao	1
Raman Roy	1

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Info Edge provides online recruitment, matrimonial and real estate classifieds, and related services. The company's mission is to address the middle east job market and have launched a Gulf version of the recruitment site. The company also launched a career counseling and guidance site, a professional networking site, and an educationclassified site.It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Uttar, Pradesh.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Adda247 — Adda247 is India's largest vernacular learning platform with courses in more than 12 Indian languages. Adda247 is backed by marquee investors like Google, WestBridge Capital, Infoedge etc. Adda247 is on a mission to take quality education to the masses by providing online courses in local languages at a very affordable price.
Clean Electric — Clean Electric builds Lithium-Ion Batteries with Liquid Immersion Cooling. Fast Charge. Long Life. Unparalleled Safety.
Happily Unmarried — Happily Unmarried was anti established in 2003 with no vision and no business plan. Actually at somepoint they did make a business plan but according to that they should have retired 5 years ago.They make fun products, they do music festivals, they work with corporates when they want to do interesting work and lately they have been doing a lotof projects involving branding, communication, interiors, marketing all rolled into one (they are trying to think of a name for someone who does all that but no luck yet).

First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Reducto — Reducto is an API that provides high quality data ingestion for large language models (LLMs). It works with any vector database or embedding system. It can parse PDFs, Excel, PowerPoint, and more.
Omnea — The all-in-one procurement platform. Request purchases, automate approvals, and streamline your procurement process in one centralised solution.
Prepared — We are harnessing the power of everyday technology to enhance the way that people communicate during emergencies.

An active investor in early stage startups across technology & CPG.

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!

Sherpalo Ventures is an early-stage investment firm that partners with visionary founders to build transformative companies.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Aisera — Aisera's AI Service Management (AISM) solution helps enterprises to automate IT tasks & workflows to deliver exceptional service experience.
Acryl Data — Bring clarity to your data.
Skyroot Aerospace — Skyroot Aerospace is an aerospace manufacturer and launch service provider developing launch vehicles for cost-effective access to space. Skyroot builds technologies for responsive, reliable, and economic access to space. They envision a future where spaceflight is as regular, reliable, and affordable as air flight.

ARVIND JHA

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

Private investment firm of Gordon Gund, principal owner of Cleveland Cavaliers National Basketball Association team and member of Board of Governors of National Basketball Association, Cleveland Rockers Womens National Basketball Association franchise, San Jose Sharks National Hockey League team also principal owner and chairman of NationwideAdvertising Service, Inc. and director of Kellogg Company and Corning> Gund also prominent philanthropist, blind since 1970 from retinitis pigmentosa, co-founder with wife and chairman of The Foundation Fighting Blindness, leading private supporter of research focused on discovering causes, treatments, preventions and cures for retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration, Usher syndrome, and other retinal degenerative diseases> Investments include Align Technology, Silicon Valley company developed invisible alternative to orthodontic braces.

Investment focus

Eyewear, Medical, Computer
Series C, Funding Round
United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Zoomin — ZoomIn, India's #1 online photo service, is about connecting people and their moments of magic.
Ophthonix — Great prices on a large selection of domains. Find the pefect domain for your new startup.
Bionano Genomics — Discover how Bionano is striving to elevate health and wellness for all through optical genome mapping (OGM) solutions that transform the way the world sees the genome.

Vikas Kapoor serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Mezocliq LLC. He serves as Company Secretary at USV Limited. Prior to Mezocliq, Vikas Kapoor served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of iQor, Inc. He was a Management Consultant of A.T. Kearney, Inc. and McKinsey & Company, Inc. He served as Chief Executive Officer ofOpera Solutions, LLC from August 2002 to August 2003; Delano Technology Corporation from October 2001 to July 2002 and Opera Ventures, LLC from December 2000 to September 2001. He also served as President at Delano Technology Corporation. He served as President of Walker Digital, LLC from March 2000 to November 2000 and also served as its Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer, including Priceline. From September 1999 to March 2000, Vikas Kapoor served as a Member of the Senior Management Team of USWeb/CKS Corporation. He co-founded Mitchell Madison Group, LLC in 1994. At Mitchell Madison, he doubled revenue virtually every year, established a global presence and led the management buyout of the financial services practice of A.T. Kearney. He started his career with McKinsey & Co. He served as an Executive Director of iQor Holdings Inc. Vikas Kapoor is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Trustee of the Newport Jazz Festival and a Director of Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc. He serves as a Trustee of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. He served as a Director of iQor, Inc. since September 2003. He served as a Director of Greenfield Online Inc. from April 2004 to May 10, 2005. Vikas Kapoor holds a B.A. from Princeton University, an M.A. in Philosophy from Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADrE-OIgZp8

Investment focus

FinTech, Internet, Software
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

iNICU —
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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.

Rajeev Saraf

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

Sanjay Jesrani

Investment focus

Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Delivery
Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

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.

100X.VC, a venture capital firm created a new model for funding early stage startups in India. 100X.VC is a SEBI Registered AIF.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

GoCodeo — GoCodeo is an AI agent for white-box software testing. We empower companies to perform early testing of the code itself using techniques like unit, integration, regression and penetration testing. Our AI agent is autonomous, capable of learning and acting on its own. It integrates with the existing developer workflows to help them build quality products and prevent post-production errors. GoCodeo's AI agent specialises in understanding the code context and it helps eradicate bugs from the early stages of development.
FUTR STUDIOS — Meet India's first virtual influencer, Kyra, at FUTR Studios
EasyReplenish — EasyReplenish is an inventory optimization software for Apparel and Accessory E-commerce businesses. EasyReplenish uses over 20 data points to determine what to stock, when to stock, and how much to stock.

Nirav Choksi - Non Executive Director @ Roll Mafia

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

Dholakia Ventures is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Portfolio highlights

Nitro Commerce — Nitro Commerce provides AI tools to help them reach their greatest potential.
Ghost Kitchens — Join the fastest growing restaurant company in the country
WTF Gyms and Technology — WTF: Revolutionizing the Fitness Landscape in IndiaIn today's fast-paced world, maintaining a healthy lifestyle has become increasingly challenging. Traditional gym models often fail to cater to the diverse needs and preferences of the modern fitness enthusiast. This is where WTF steps in, with a mission to redefine the gym experience inIndia and make fitness more accessible, engaging, and enjoyable for everyone.WTF aims to address the common pain points in the fitness industry by offering innovative solutions that combine cutting-edge technology, personalized fitness plans, and expert coaching. By integrating virtual classes, AI-powered coaching, and tailored workout plans, WTF creates a unique fitness ecosystem that transcends conventional gym models and provides a comprehensive, personalized approach to health and wellness.The impact of WTF's approach is evident in the impressive growth statistics of its partner gyms. About 50% of the WTF gyms have experienced remarkable growth of at least 70% during the last 12 months, while 30% have seen growth anywhere between 20 to 40%. These figures showcase the power of WTF's partnership and the mutual benefits that arise from their collaboration with gym owners.In conclusion, WTF is on a mission to revolutionize the fitness industry in India by addressing the challenges faced by gym-goers and gym owners alike. Through the use of innovative technology, personalized fitness offerings, and a strong emphasis on community-building, WTF is poised to transform the way India stays fit and healthy.

They invest in disruptive companies with potential to dominate global markets. They look for companies and entrepreneurs with fundamentally strong business model. They take the time and effort to understand each idea and decide on its merits and potential through Their comprehensive evaluation process.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Zive AI — Don't endure the pain of legacy fund admin platforms any longer. Switch to Zive today and experience the difference.
Cuéntame — Cuéntame develops tools designed for employees' emotional wellbeing.
Proxtera — Bridging Global Trade Proxtera is building an open global digital ecosystem of MSMEs with trusted credentials to enable global, cross-border trade through services for financing & fulfilment. Get in Touch Watch Video "BSB (Business sans Borders) is designed to connect different platforms globally to help SMEs seamlessly access a much larger ecosystem of buyers and

Vishal Maheshwari is a Member of the Investment Committee at 9Unicorns. He attended Chetana's R. K. Institute of Management & Research.

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.

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.

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

Artha India Ventures' league of member Angel Investors mentor and invest in nascent ventures with business ideas that create value by participating in the entrepreneurial process. AIV have invested in more than 47 start-ups and has diversified portfolio ranging from last minute hotel bookings (HotelsAroundYou.com), to classes aggregators(FindUrClass.com), cosmetic ecommerce (Purplle.com) and at home salon services (The Home Salon). From microfinance credit rating platforms (Inventure) to online interview platforms (Talview), electronic repair & insurance companies (PickMeIndia.com), Cloud Telephone (Exotel.com) and Cab Aggregators (BookMyCab.com) the portfolio has it all.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Futwork — With Futwork, learn for free and get a telecaller job. Find Work from Home jobs in India. Flexi hours & work suitable for freshers and women. Earn from home now!
GetWork — Looking to hire top talent for your organization? GetWork is the platform for you! With a candidate pool of 1.9M+ job seekers, you can easily post your job and find the perfect candidate for your needs. Sign up today and start hiring with GetWork.
KarmaLifeAI — KarmaLifeAI is an AI-powered digital solution for the financial well being of blue-collar gig workers and micro-business. The company allows the user to pay directly for key expenditures and smoothen their consumption patterns. It offers real-time access to credit for gig workers, based on their payroll account, through partnerships with thedigital platforms they work for. It operates an interest-free subscription model in which the platform or the gig worker can pay a flat fee and access credit equalling up to one-third of their monthly income. The company analyzes alternative data points and payment behavior over time to unlock higher credit lines for the workers.

Ranjit Radhakrishnan - Chief Product Officer @ BYJU’S

Investment focus

Internet, TV, Gaming
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

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.

First Cheque Built and Exited Founders, Product Leaders, Growth Leaders, and also angel investors. A lot of change They bring is in how to think- based on first principles, based on data, building a data driven organisation, setting up teams for performance et al. Most importantly, They will help you graduate to the next level of your journey.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Dubpro.ai — Deepsync Dub allows you to translates your videos into major languages and auto-syncs it in 5 minutes! Supports voice cloning.
Crux — Delight your enterprise accounts with instant answers & insights from their business data
BitScale — BitScale enables growth teams to create scalable AI operations. Bitscale is developing a new form of UI that allows sales and marketing professionals to automate their manual procedures, making them 10X more successful.

Early-stage, DeepTech, Enterprise, Startup Funding, B2B, AI, ML, IoT, VR, AR, Blockchain, Tech-enabled, Nurture Capital, Venture Capital

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Opkey — The codeless Test Automation Platform for enterprise continuous testing accelerates release cycles , reduces costs, and decreases risk out of software releases
EtherealX — EtherealX designs develops, and manufactures next-generation launch vehicles and spacecraft.
DeepMatrix — DeepMatrix is a fully managed cloud-native SAAS Platform for all geospatial-related data. DeepMatrix "singularity" solution has end-to-end capabilities for ingesting, analyzing and visualizing this data. We are passionate about leveraging geospatial data effectively to increase resource productivity, reduce costs and enhance safety.Anytime. Anywhere.

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.

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.

GenNext Ventures is a venture capital firm specialized in early stage investments.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
Seed, Funding Round, Series B
India, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

CamCom — CamCom is an award-winning, industry agnostic AI powered platform for visual inspections built on a Computer Vision stack. We are pioneers in leveraging CV and associated technologies in the visual inspection process.
LegalDesk — LegalDesk.com is a “Do It Yourself” service that lets you prepare various legal documents and contracts online. All you have to do is select the document template, fill in your details, check the document preview and execute the most up to date paperwork for your statutory requirements. They help you with printing documents on Stamp paper anddelivering it to your doorstep.LegalDesk.com is built, operated and owned by Desk Nine Pvt. Ltd. The team is based in Bengaluru, Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, and Kolkata. It includes legal consultants, product designers, software engineers, content creators, sales honchos and true blue digital marketers along with customer engagement specialists.
Conexstra Technologies Pvt. Ltd. — Conexstra - Consumer Experience Strategy is all about delivering innovative and disruptive user experience solutions.

Flipkart Ventures is the venture arm of Flipkart.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Wellness, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Rightbot — Rightbot is a warehouse automation and AI-driven robotics platform. Rightbot’s plug & play G2P robotic solution is compatible with existing flooring, racking, shelving, deploy 10x faster with negligible installation capex.
FlexifyMe — FlexifyMe is to achieve mental, physical, and spiritual harmony through live 1-on-1 and group sessions with our world-class yoga, meditation, and nutrition coaches.
Tune AI — Save up to $600k annually and go to market 90% faster with NimbleBox.ai. Avail our commitment-free trial period of 14 days!

DotIn is closed-door network of Investors, aiming to Partner with and invest in early-stage businesses.

Investment focus

Brewing, Fitness, Wellness
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
India

Portfolio highlights

Algomage — Algomage uses artificial intelligence to automate post-production.
Nirmalaya — Fragrance & Incense products made from temple flower | Charcoal Free Products
Bored Beverages Company — Bored Beverages presents its first product in the Indian market, No Label Original Mead, an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey at 7% ABV.

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.

Investment focus

Mobile, Semiconductor, Content
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Minekey — Minekey is a silicon valley based startup with core expertise in personalized search and social collaboration technologies. Minekeyâ€™s technology is at the heart of leading edge services mentioned below.Twezr is a personal organizer â€“ the best way to stay in sync with close friends and co-workers. Twezr organizes all the contacts and all thecontent theyâ€™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.Minekeyâ€™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.Minekeyâ€™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 userâ€™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, ISGNâ€™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.

Manmeet Singh

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.

John has been an Angel Investor for over 15 years. Prior to investing he worked for over 25 years at AT&T, both doing engineering and international business. He made over 100 trips to the far east and was working on “bleeding edge” technology. He grew up in Chicago and graduated from IIT with degrees in Mathematics and Anthropology.

Investment focus

Internet, Mobile, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, 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.
TWOSENSE.AI — Eliminating Multi-Factor Authentication Friction For Millions Of Users Around The World with Continuous Authentication and Passive Biometrics
MOMO BOARD — We bring people together and help them communicate efficiently from desktop and mobile by combining message board, chat and cloud storage in a single platform, community communication made super easy.MOMO BOARD is a powerful all-in-one message board for your community that’s FREE and works on any platforms, allowing anyone to create a communitymessage board to help members connected and engaged. It comes with a built-in chat function for real time collaboration and 10 Gb of cloud storage for archiving files. We focus on enhanced privacy, archiving and search for more appropriate and efficient communication. - Free 10GB cloud storage for each account - Permanently archive any uploaded files, images, videos. - Community privacy setting (Public/Private) - Community admin features (Dismiss members, Delete board posts, Transfer admin) - Designate staff admin members and co-manage your community - Unlimited posts/members - Create 1:1 or Group chat room - Attach files, image, video when you're posting or sending chat messages. - Permanently delete your own chat messages from all sidesStay simple, relevant and efficient. Save time and effort running your community.

Harmeet Singh

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.

Sunny Rao is Partner at Lightbox

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Photography
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Zoomin — ZoomIn, India's #1 online photo service, is about connecting people and their moments of magic.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, SaaS, Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

HireACamp — HireACamp is an online marketplace that lets travelers easily Search and book camps with local camp owners.
SP Robotic Works Pvt Ltd — 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.
Zerone Microsystems Private Limited — Zerone Microsystems is a bleeding-edge payment fintech firm. Zerone Microsystems is the inventor of ZUP (Zerone Unified Payment) Technology, a cross-platform mobile app for frictionless payment between smartphones. ZUP Technology has enabled the smartphone to smartphone payments. We convert cheapest of smartphones into a POS machine using our ZUPproximity payment technology, with no additional hardware and no need for NFC. Replacing the entire POS Infrastructure through a VPOS on cheapest of Smartphones.

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