Ananth Narayanan
Founder @ Mensa Brands
Bengaluru, India
Ananth Narayanan is a seed investor at Mensa Brands in Bengaluru focused on Education and E-Commerce. Ananth Narayanan - Founder @ Mensa Brands
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 30%
Last updated:
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Industries Ananth Narayanan invests in
Stages Ananth Narayanan invests in
Countries Ananth Narayanan invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $200k–$2.7M
- Series A
- $3M–$9.9M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Education 3 (30%)
- E-Commerce 3 (30%)
- E-Learning 3 (30%)
- Apps 2 (20%)
- EdTech 2 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (30%)
- Series A 3 (30%)
- Funding Round 2 (20%)
- Angel 1 (10%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (10%)
Country
- India 9 (90%)
- United Kingdom 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Renee Cosmetics
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Renee Cosmetics is an Indian makeup brand that’s redefining beauty with its range of high-quality, 100% cruelty-free, innovative range of products. Renee believes in empowering women to own and enjoy their bold, ambitious persona and let their glam do the talking. Founded by Aashka Goradia, the famed actress and her brand both believe that the artof cosmetics is a true liberator and a beautiful form of expressing oneself in hues, tones, and shades. | $9.9M / Series A / Feb 11, 2022 | |
Stage 3
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STAGE 3 is focused on the design and manufacturing of clothing and accessories. STAGE 3 offers an online platform that enables women to find and rent its products. | $2.7M / Seed / Dec 08, 2021 | |
Elda Health
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Elda Health is a women’s healthcare platform that is tailored for the mid-life urban woman. | $1.5M / Seed / Aug 26, 2021 | |
Doji
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Doji is an online real-time marketplace for used goods. The company utilises the proven stock exchange model and advanced machine learning to maximize the value for both buyers and sellers of used goods, while eliminating all the hassle and persevering the environment by reducing the need to buy new. Founded in 2020 by Fernando Montera Filho,Bilal Ishaq Khan, and Satyen Fakey during their Masters programme at the University of Oxford, Doji began its operations in the UK. | $800K / Pre-Seed / Sep 01, 2020 | |
Lido Learning
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Lido Learning is an ed-tech company that revolutionizes education through an immersive online platform for every child in India. With their exciting and fun live online classes for students, it builds cutting edge content like animated videos and interactive games, a personalized platform for homework, tests, challenges, and inspiring teachers. Itprovides interactive content to keep the students engaged and a personalized platform to improve results.Lido was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. | $3M / Series A / Nov 11, 2019 | |
Vogo
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Vogo is a dockless scooter rental company that lets customers rent scooters for short one-way trips. The company's VOGO box is attached to each scooter and lets customers access the key without any human intervention and start riding. Vogo is the fastest commute option available today in India at a fraction of the cost of other alternatives.Vogo is currently available at limited pick-up and drop-off points across Bangalore and Hyderabad. | Jun 18, 2019 | |
Cult.fit
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CureFit is a health and fitness company offering digital and offline experiences across fitness, nutrition, and mental well-being.With the aim to make fitness fun and easy, CureFit gives workouts a whole new meaning with a range of trainer-led, group workout classes. It makes workouts fun, daily food is healthy and tasty, mental fitness easy withyoga and meditation, and medical and lifestyle care hassle-free.Co-founded by Mukesh Bansal and Ankit in Nagori 2016, the company is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. | Apr 16, 2018 | |
Unacademy
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Unacademy is a learning platform that provides content for major competitive examinations as well as offers short lectures in the form of videos on different subjects which can be accessed for free. It allows aspiring students to better prepare for their competitive examinations and promote self-learning.Unacademy was originally created in 2010via YouTube channel and was officially launched in 2015. The company is based in Bangalore, India. | $4.5M / Series A / Jan 13, 2017 | |
Makkajai
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makkajai builds fun and smart educational games that successfully engage kids and improve their learning outcome. Our mission is to make education more fun and personalised using educational games. Monster Math is our first iPad game. It is a beautiful journey that secretly improves math skills. | $200K / Seed / Aug 16, 2016 | |
Revv
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Revv is an Indian car-rental startup that offers multiple options to meet all your self-drive needs. The company was founded in 2015 and currently operates in 11 cities in India namely: Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune, Delhi NCR, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Vizag, Mysore, and Coimbatore.To date, Revv has a fleet of around 1,000 vehicles andclaims have served around 300,000 users. It has its main office located at Gurgaon, India. | Angel / Aug 05, 2015 |
Co-Investors
About Mensa Brands
Mensa Brands is an investment firm that partners with entrepreneurs to build digital brands and scale them. The firm's business model involves investing working capital and picking up equity in other D2C startups and scaling their brands' presence online. Its platform helps expertise in driving growth, product, merchandising, technology,supply chain, product, and access to global markets that help founders get a lucrative financial exit while they transform their business through a successful partnership.
Mensa Brands Contacts
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Ananth Narayanan
Founder
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Aniket Nikumb
Co-founder
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Pawan Kumar Dasaraju
Co-founder
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FAQ
What does Ananth Narayanan invest in?
Ananth Narayanan invests primarily in Education, E-Commerce and E-Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Ananth Narayanan's check size?
Ananth Narayanan typically joins rounds of $200k–$2.7M at Seed and $3M–$9.9M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ananth Narayanan participates in.
When did Ananth Narayanan last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ananth Narayanan closed in Feb 2022. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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