Anand Mahindra
Chairman & Managing Director @ Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd
Mumbai, India
Anand Mahindra is a seed investor at Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd in Mumbai focused on Education and Social Media. Graduate, Harvard Univ. and Harvard Business School. Chairman and Managing Director, Mahindra Group. Thought leader in Indian business. Serves on many industry confederations. Initiated the Nanhi Kali programme to provide free education to economically underprivileged girls in India. Co-Founder, Naandi Danone, India's largest safe drinkingwater provider to rural areas. Life Trustee, Board of Naandi Foundation, which provides meals to 1.3 million children daily. Co-Chair, World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009. Named among World’s 50 Greatest Leaders, Fortune Magazine (2014); named one of the top 25 most powerful business people in Asia, Fortune Magazine (2011).
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Anand Mahindra invests in
Stages Anand Mahindra invests in
Countries Anand Mahindra invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $341k–$1M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Education 2 (17%)
- Social Media 2 (17%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (17%)
- Laser 1 (8%)
- Local 1 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (58%)
- Angel 2 (17%)
- Series A 1 (8%)
- Series D 1 (8%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (8%)
Country
- India 8 (67%)
- United States 1 (8%)
- United Kingdom 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Harvested Robotics is an ag-tech company that focuses on safeguarding farms from weeds and diseases by lasers, robotics, and AI technology. | $579.1K / Seed / Mar 19, 2025 | ||
| Agnikul is a space tech startup that designs, manufactures, tests, and launch orbital-class rockets for micro and nanosatellites. They currently work out of the National Center for Combustion R&D at IIT-Madras. Rocket scientists, engineers, ex-bankers and space lawyers are a part of their team. This unique blend of people is one of theirbiggest strengths. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. | $11M / Series A / May 19, 2021 | ||
| Agnikul is a space tech startup that designs, manufactures, tests, and launch orbital-class rockets for micro and nanosatellites. They currently work out of the National Center for Combustion R&D at IIT-Madras. Rocket scientists, engineers, ex-bankers and space lawyers are a part of their team. This unique blend of people is one of theirbiggest strengths. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. | Seed / Feb 10, 2021 | ||
| GenRobotic specializes in powered robotic exoskeletons with RC Controlled Humanoid Robotic Systems and Artificial Intelligence. The company designs and develops robots in order to find the best solution for social impotent issues. The company was founded in 2015 by a team of passionate engineers in Robotics and Defence engineering. They began asa student start-up with powered exoskeletons from the college and then focused on developing simple and compact exoskeleton for commercial purposes. Now the company has come with good research in robotics and powered exoskeleton and different control aspects and focusing on socially relevant issues. The company has been developed a smaller but stronger version of powered exoskeletons, G2 is the cheapest and strongest exoskeleton available in the world market. It has given them vast attention from all around the world. | $340.9K / Seed / Oct 07, 2020 | ||
| Genrobotics Medical & Mobility is a healthtech company that deals in medical services through AI and ML. | $340.9K / Seed / Oct 07, 2020 | ||
| Hapramp Studio is an internet company that specializes in the fields of blockchain, cryptocurrency, and social media. The company is currently building GoSocial a software platform for budding creators to grow and build community. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Haryana, India. | $1M / Seed / Jun 10, 2020 | ||
| Thinkerbell Labs is a Bengaluru-based startup that uses technology to help visually impaired kids self-learn their curriculum. | $475.9K / Seed / Nov 26, 2019 | ||
| NEST Education operates high quality Knowledge-Centers , catering to the knowledge demand of low and middle income group population of urban India.They use technology platforms to provide access to world class content to their students through different media such as Tablets and Interactive Screens.They believe that the best way totransform young lives with knowledge and education is to tap them early, and their programs start for children aged 6 years and above. | $600K / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 05, 2017 | ||
| Thinkerbell Labs is a Bengaluru-based startup that uses technology to help visually impaired kids self-learn their curriculum. | $202K / Angel / Jul 26, 2017 | ||
| FirstCry is an online portal for baby products and toys. They have over 20000+ items from 250+ top International and Indian brands like Mattel, Ben10, Pigeon, Funskool, Hotwheels, Nuby, Farlin, Medela, Pampers, Disney, Barbie, Gerber, Zapak, Mee Mee, and so on.The company provides best of the products and brands at the best prices with qualityonline shopping experience, fast and reliable delivery service, and a prompt customer care. FirstCry was founded in 2010 and is based in Pune, India. | $34M / Series D / Oct 17, 2016 | ||
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Co-Investors
Mahindra operates in key industries that drive economic growth.
Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd Contacts
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Jaspreet Bindra
SVP – Digital Innovation & ECommerce
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Martin J. Murray
Chief Technology Officer
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Rajesh Jejurikar
ED & CEO, Auto & Farm Sectors
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Anand Mahindra
Chairman & Managing Director
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J C Mahindra
Founder
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FAQ
What does Anand Mahindra invest in?
Anand Mahindra invests primarily in Education, Social Media and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Anand Mahindra invest in?
Anand Mahindra typically joins rounds of $341k–$1M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Anand Mahindra's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Anand Mahindra took part in.
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When did Anand Mahindra last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Anand Mahindra closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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