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Top 30 Photography Startup Investors in India

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 30 angel investors and VC 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

Investor	Photography India investments
Info Edge	6
First Round Capital	3
Sherpalo Ventures	2
Rajesh Mane	2
GenNext Ventures	1
Vikas Kapoor	1
Harmeet Singh	1
Rajeev Saraf	1
Sanjay Jesrani	1
CerraCap Ventures	1
Daud Ali	1
Vinod K. Dham	1
Dholakia Ventures	1
Aakrit Vaish	1
First Cheque	1
YourNest Venture Capital	1
Manmeet Singh	1
John Ason	1
Sunny Rao	1
100X.VC	1
Vishal Maheshwari	1
Ranjit Radhakrishnan	1
AJ Ventures	1
Refex Capital Fund	1
Artha Group	1
Raman Roy	1
Nirav Choksi	1
Gund Investment, LLC	1
Lightbox	1
DotIn	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.
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).
Startup Investments Holding — Startup Investments (holding) inolved in Legal, accounting, book-keeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy; market research and public opinion polling; business and management consultancy.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

treet — Treet helps brands launch fully-branded recommerce sites where customers can buy & sell items from each other.
Cache — Holding on to individual stocks that make up a large percentage of your portfolio? Cache gives you access to the same advanced investing products used by the ultra-wealthy to manage concentrated wealth.
Loyal — Loyal is a biotechnology company developing medicines to extend dog lifespan. By developing drugs with the potential to slow the aging process, they aim to delay or prevent age-related diseases like cancer and dementia.

We guide and mentor exceptional entrepreneurs as they take their innovative ideas and disruptive technologies and turn them into successful businesses.

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.

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!

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 in a deeptech startup with primary focus on quality assessment, defect and damage detection , using computer vision
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.

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.

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.

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 — Let us provide you with high-quality care!
Aereo — Aereo provides end-to-end drone solutions with accurate surveys, analytics, and aerial intelligence; all powered by patented drone technology.

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

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
Gemelli Biotech — Our mission is to support the discovery of novel diagnostics and therapeutics for the human microbiome by bringing biotechnology innovations to market in a fiscally responsible and socially conscious way.

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

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.

Dholakia Ventures is an investment firm.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Neverinstall — Access a powerful computer from your browser in an instant, with all your applications already downloaded and installed.
Ghost Kitchens — Join the fastest growing restaurant company in the country
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.

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, Series A
India, Canada, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Creativefuel — Priorities brands should use Meme MarketingThis appropriate engagement that meme marketing brings out of the major reason why brands should use our meme marketing to advertise with us. Let’s target more folded advantages that Meme Marketing will have over any of its relative threshold counterparts.Here are 4 reasons why many advertisingbrands should use meme marketing over other basic methods of advert:1. Meme’s deliver by creative fuel out staged campaign eternal proven better engage rate than promoted avert on a social media If you, done a paid campaign to engage your result page, to optimized your ad result but, always track’ when you look at the engagement result and stats.2. If you are meme jacking do enclosed a disclaimer for your event, have an advantage over any other creatives that you always make a creative. Reason: The meme is already viral and ensures engaged you sour if you put your message through it in the right manner (WE CAN HELP). Whereas, if you produce a traditional Ad, it definitely cannot compete with the engagement rate of a meme’s.3. Brand major-related wings invest their major chunk of brand banner for advertising thinking there will be a brand awareness campaign containing social lead if nothing else. Campaign results may be right, but why limit the scope have just brand awareness when you can generate lead brands outsourced directly. People off, they relate with their meme post so well that it leaves a lasting impression of the brand page on them and initiates a Return a page conversation for the internet community standard organization.Often companies/brands have this reaction when ROI (return on investment) for their online campaign yields poor results:4. People spend time on the internet to consume good content as well as to skip brand communications. This is because they bring along them a FUZZ factor. Whereas, if the same message snippet can be delivered via meme in such a way that the person related enjoys looking at it. Well, it does look like an idea.What meme marketing feels like in Meme’s Marketing:A question might arise… What happens even if we create a Meme, Our Brand ‘awesome Handle in a million followers (Axis number) what trend’s follow and target out followers Meme Marketing related is not about linked posting Memes on your Brand Handle, All the Memes produced are seed’s on Social media via Meme Pages. These Meme Pages have their own massive and target audience and hence the idea is to leverage out that attention.
The Yarn Bazaar — The Yarn Bazaar is a Purpose-Led, Modern, Efficient, and Transparent managed Marketplace for yarn that allows yarn buyers and sellers to discover real-time yarn prices, information, and market trends in an instant. Our proprietary processes and flexible unsecured financing options enable yarn sellers to expand their reach and sales whilemaintaining higher margins, and buyers to discover and purchase high-quality yarn at unbeatable prices while reducing raw material and procurement costs, saving time, money, and effort.
GrayQuest — GrayQuest Education Finance Pvt. Ltd provides Parents and Students with the most convenient and easiest option to pay fees to their Institute.

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

Ambitio — Leap into a world of opportunities with our expert study abroad consultant. Grasp how to select the right course, manage visa applications, and adjust to life in a new country.
Crux — Delight your enterprise accounts with instant answers & insights from their business data
Medial — Stay updated with the latest Indian startup ecosystem news, including funding updates, layoffs, product launches, and industry developments on Medial.

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

Contiinex — Contiinex is an operator in the speech AI market. It analyzes audio files to assist organizations in better understanding their clients and making tactical business choices.
Datamotive.io — Datamotive is a firm that provides the seamless migration of workloads in a hybrid multi-cloud environment with a guaranteed SLA of 10 minutes. Its unique approach safeguards enterprises against data loss caused by cloud security misconfigurations, data breaches, or corporate network corruption.
Datoms — Industrial IoT Platform for OEMs & System Integrators

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.

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.

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

Buckmint — Buckmint is a regenerative finance firm focused on harnessing the potential of blockchain and web3.0 to solve climate change, assist conservation and biodiversity, and build a more fair and sustainable financial system.
Sprentzo — Sprentzo is a direct-to-consumer (D2C) rental marketplace that provides high-quality sports equipment on demand. They source their products from major manufacturers and store them in sports facilities where customers may obtain the gear via their platform.
Wastefull Insights — Pioneering automated waste segregation through Robotics and Computer Vision

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.

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.

Focus on Finanacial and consumer sector

Investment focus

Machine Learning, SaaS, FinTech
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.
HappyEMI — HappyEMI is a next-generation consumer finance company providing shoppers with instant financing at the point of-sale in-stores and online platforms making it Peopleless, Paperless financing platform. HappyEMI’s has an edge over others through its data-driven approach that underwrites risk beyond credit score to reach broader consumer base by usingalternative data points and has signed up major retail brands for smartphones. HappyEMI monetizes through subvention from Manufactures and Retailers and financing charges from Consumers. HappyEMI helps its Retail Partners improve sales conversions, boost basket sizes, and increase customer happiness.
Detect Technologies — Ensure continuous uptime with an integrated industrial AI platform. Maximize industrial productivity with Detect Technologies.

Refex Capital Fund is an early-stage technology startup investor. We invest in entrepreneurs who dare to dream and challenge the status quo. We invest across a variety of sectors including consumer technology, B2B enterprise, Health Tech, FinTech among others. We bring decades of experience across idea validation, business model refinement,customer & partner acquisition, strategy, and operations. We believe that your success is our success and hence we are committed to being honest and direct in all of our dealings with you.

Investment focus

Internet, Artificial Intelligence, Coffee
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.
Contiinex — Contiinex is an operator in the speech AI market. It analyzes audio files to assist organizations in better understanding their clients and making tactical business choices.
Rage Coffee — Rage Coffee’s blend of brain supplements sourced from plant extracts and natural compounds have been scientifically formulated to work synergistically with your coffee, offering you lasting mental energy and focus throughout the day. Rage Coffee contains only the best of ingredients that are carefully selected and have undergone years of clinicaltests and studies. All of the ingredients are considered safe by the FDA (Food and Drugs Association) and EMA (European Medicines Agency). Hence, the coffee is highly effective as well as safe for individuals of all ages. Furthermore, every ingredient used in Rage Coffee is 100% natural and does not pose any side effects.

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

Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
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.

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.

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

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.

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

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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.

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