# Ashish Gupta

> Ashish Gupta is a angel investor at Benori Ventures backing Food and Beverage and Food Delivery. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Benori Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benori-ventures)
- Location: Gurgaon, India
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Nov 2019
- Lead investor: 63%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/ashish-gupta-125b0b5

Ashish Gupta is a angel investor at Benori Ventures in Gurgaon focused on Food and Beverage and Food Delivery. Ashish Gupta is the Founder of Benori Ventures. Previously, he co-founded and served as the Chief Operating Officer and Global Business Unit Head of Financial Services at Evalueserve until April 2016. He started his career with McKinsey where he served as an Engagement Manager and spent about five years with them. He received his MBA from TheCarnegie Mellon University and B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He recently graduated from the senior executive leadership program at Harvard Business School. He is one of the founders and trustees of Ashoka University and also serves on the board of TiE Delhi.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Angel | $94k–$298k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 4 | 50% |
| Food Delivery | 2 | 25% |
| Food Processing | 2 | 25% |
| Tea | 1 | 13% |
| Retail | 1 | 13% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Angel | 4 | 50% |
| Seed | 2 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fastudent | Our mission is to provide efficient and effective solutions to the complete education fraternity for a priceless experience which we term as "Zoom Ahead with Education at your door". |  | Seed | Nov 30, 2019 |  |
| Dibz | Dibz is your gateway to the best deals & offers at the most exclusive restaurants and hotels in your city. Call Dibz on Happy Hours all day long!Before you leave for a dinner date, a team lunch or just for casual dining, check Dibz App to get irresistible deals at the top restaurants and pubs in town. No more sad surprises, they guarantee anawesome dining experience every time! Dibz deals are currently available in Varanasi, Lucknow, Allahabd, Gurgaon & Delhi - bringing to you over 500 deals at the top 150+ restaurants, hotels and pubs. | $93.6K | Angel | Sep 01, 2017 |  |
| Biryani By Kilo | Biryani By Kilo offers a variety of biryani options, including Hyderabadi, Lucknowi, and Kolkata styles, alongside a selection of kebabs and meal combos. Customers can conveniently place orders online for their favorite dishes, ensuring a seamless dining experience. The company emphasizes authentic flavors and traditional recipes, appealing tobiryani enthusiasts. Biryani By Kilo focuses on expanding its presence and enhancing the accessibility of biryani as a complete meal choice. | $298K | Angel | Feb 20, 2017 |  |
| Tpot | Tpot is a global tea and bites startup based out of New Delhi in India. Tpot uses technology to make tea and bites available to customers. Tpot's products include chai, ice chai, shakes, and different varieties of nastha. Tpot was founded on 2013. |  | Seed | Nov 17, 2016 |  |
| Sattviko | Sattviko is a traditional food products brand where traditional recipes meet with modern food technology to provide a new realization of delicious and healthy snacks.Sattvik food is light, nutritious, easy to digest, and always freshly prepared. The foods chosen for this diet bring clarity and balance both internally in the body as well asexternally in the universe. A wholesome meal that doesn’t leave customers feeling drowsy for hours later. Vegetables and fruits bursting with flavour, complementing each other in exotic preparations, all this and more is what customers can expect as you walk into Sattviko.Whether it is a quick post-workout bite or a weekend dinner treat, Sattviko promises to be a vibrant space customers want to return to. The first Quick Service Restaurant chain serving Sattvik food in the country, each dish prepared here is as fresh as the concept itself.Sattviko offers the perfect balance of new and familiar tastes with the additional promise of dishing out food that is packed with nutrition. | $135K | Angel | Nov 02, 2016 |  |
| KleverMind | KleverMind has now come up with a new set of services for tracking in real time. They thrive to provide the best-in-class service with most advanced technology, because KleverMind believes in building business relationships, with a hint of Personal Touch in it….! They stand firm with all their associated partners as they are for them, by them andalso one of them. |  | Angel | Aug 01, 2016 |  |
| Tpot | Tpot is a global tea and bites startup based out of New Delhi in India. Tpot uses technology to make tea and bites available to customers. Tpot's products include chai, ice chai, shakes, and different varieties of nastha. Tpot was founded on 2013. |  | Seed | May 31, 2016 |  |
| Fastudent | Our mission is to provide efficient and effective solutions to the complete education fraternity for a priceless experience which we term as "Zoom Ahead with Education at your door". |  | Seed | Nov 26, 2015 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Chandigarh Angels Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chandigarh-angelsnetwork) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Benori Ventures

VC Fund · Gurgaon, India

Benori Ventures is an investment firm that incubates, accelerates, and invests in Indian startups. They invest in early stage startups based in Delhi/NCR and mentor entrepreneurs who have the potential to impact the lives of millions of people. They like to think of ourselves as founder investors and partner up with their portfolio companiesfor the longer term.

1 contacts available at Benori Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ashish Gupta | CEO & Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashish-gupta-8 |

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## FAQ

### What does Ashish Gupta invest in?

Ashish Gupta invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Food Delivery and Food Processing startups, most often at Angel and Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Ashish Gupta's check size?

Ashish Gupta typically joins rounds of $94k–$298k at Angel. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ashish Gupta participates in.

### When did Ashish Gupta last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ashish Gupta closed in Nov 2019. Shizune tracks 8 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?

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