# Ankur Warikoo

> Ankur Warikoo is a seed investor at nearbuy backing Financial Services and SaaS. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [nearbuy](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/groupon-india)
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/warikoo
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/warikoo
- Website: http://www.ankurwarikoo.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/awarikoo

Ankur Warikoo is a seed investor at nearbuy focused on Financial Services and SaaS. Ankur Warikoo is the Co-founder and Board Member of Nearbuy.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$3.5M |
| Angel | $2M–$2M |
| Series A | $1.1k–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 4 | 29% |
| SaaS | 2 | 14% |
| FinTech | 2 | 14% |
| Software | 2 | 14% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 14% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 29% |
| Series A | 4 | 29% |
| Angel | 1 | 7% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 7% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 10 | 71% |
| United States | 2 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alpha Bharat Trade | Alpha Bharat Trade – Redefining Stock Market Education Welcome to Alpha Bharat Trade – India’s most innovative and comprehensive platform for stock market learning, designed for beginners, active traders, and seasoned investors alike. We offer a never-seen, never-imagined variety of meticulously crafted courses that go beyond traditional financeeducation — blending cutting-edge strategy, real-world application, behavioral finance, and AI-powered insights. Whether you’re looking to understand candlestick patterns, master algorithmic trading, decode institutional moves, or build long-term wealth through value investing — Alpha Bharat Trade has a course tailored to your ambition. Our curriculum is built by market veterans, hedge fund strategists, and trading psychologists who bring decades of实战经验 (real-market experience) into every module | $1.1K | Series A | Oct 10, 2025 |  |
| NowPurchase | NowPurchase is currently focused on the 19B$ foundry and castings industry. We provide foundries with: 1. Smart: Proprietary software to optimize production process.2. Reliable: Complete ownership as a supplier. Reliable & strict quality check and inspection.3. Transparent: Real time stock and price availability through our WhatsAppBot.We deal with all core production inputs like Ferro Alloys, Additives, Nodularizers, Scrap & Pig Iron among others. | $6.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 19, 2024 |  |
| Kredmint | Kredmint provides a financial platform that supports medium and small businesses. | $2M | Angel | Dec 14, 2022 |  |
| Kredmint | Kredmint provides a financial platform that supports medium and small businesses. | $2M | Angel | Dec 13, 2022 |  |
| wealth42 | wealth42 helps you grow wealth and stay wealthy. You can create an investment plan with our proprietary Active Money Routing technology that lets you stay on track towards your financial goals and make changes on the go. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 15, 2022 |  |
| Josh Talks | Josh Talks is a startup that produces videos and events that that aims to empower each individual to dream big and achieve even bigger. Josh Talks was co-founded by Shobhit Banga & Supriya Paul in January 2015 with the goal of raising the aspirations of Young India. What started as a simple conference back then is now a robust media platformthat covers a wide array of subjects with speakers from every conceivable background, including entrepreneurship, public policy, sports, entertainment and social initiatives. Josh Talks passionately believes that a well-told story has the power to reshape attitudes, lives, and ultimately, the world. | $3.2M | Series A | May 10, 2022 |  |
| Josh Talks | Josh Talks is a startup that produces videos and events that that aims to empower each individual to dream big and achieve even bigger. Josh Talks was co-founded by Shobhit Banga & Supriya Paul in January 2015 with the goal of raising the aspirations of Young India. What started as a simple conference back then is now a robust media platformthat covers a wide array of subjects with speakers from every conceivable background, including entrepreneurship, public policy, sports, entertainment and social initiatives. Josh Talks passionately believes that a well-told story has the power to reshape attitudes, lives, and ultimately, the world. | $3.5M | Seed | May 10, 2022 |  |
| Vested Finance | Vested Finance is an online investment platform developing an avenue for Indian investors. It provides a low cost and easy-to-use platform that includes knowledge and insights to help clients make smart investment decisions. The company's zero-commission online platform requires no minimum balance and allows investment in U.S. stocks inminutes. Investors can choose individual stocks or ETFs, or select from a variety of curated portfolios created with various goals, themes, and risk levels in mind | $12M | Series A | Apr 05, 2022 |  |
| INDmoney | INDmoney is a mobile app that enables consumers to invest, save & plan for their financial future. The application is popularly known for enabling investing in US Stocks & its digital banking feature, Super Saver account. | $11M | Series D | Mar 28, 2022 |  |
| Leverage Edu | Leverage Edu is an AI-enabled marketplace designed to help students with their higher education and career growth plans. It is one of India's leading/fastest growing ed-tech companies, transforming access to an exponential career growth, by democratising mentorship, breaking traditional systems, & helping the new student of today jumpover the artificial high walls! | $22M | Series B | Mar 21, 2022 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [100Unicorns](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/9unicorns) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AngelList India](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angellist-india) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ankur Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ankur-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tiger Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiger-global) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [All in capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/all-in-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Artha Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artha-india-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About nearbuy

VC Fund · New Delhi, India

Formerly Known as Groupon India, Crazel & SoSasta. nearbuy is India’s first hyper-local e-commerce platform which is a one stop destination to buy just about anything. So, whether you want to dine at the finest restaurants, relax at the best spas, or just discover your city intimately, nearbuy makes it happen for you.

3 contacts available at nearbuy.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ankur Warikoo | Cofounder and Board Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ankur-warikoo |
| Ravi Shankar | Cofounder & COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ravi-shankar-c9d9 |
| Snehesh Mitra | Cofounder , CTO & COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/snehesh-mitra-5390 |

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## FAQ

### What does Ankur Warikoo invest in?

Ankur Warikoo invests primarily in Financial Services, SaaS and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Ankur Warikoo's check size?

Ankur Warikoo typically joins rounds of $500k–$3.5M at Seed, $2M–$2M at Angel and $1.1k–$12M 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 Ankur Warikoo participates in.

### When did Ankur Warikoo last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ankur Warikoo closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 14 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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