# Deepak Gupta

> Deepak Gupta is a seed investor at Equity Crest (Mumbai) backing E-Commerce and Internet. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Equity Crest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/equity-crest-2)
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/deepak-gupta/4/233/166

Deepak Gupta is a seed investor at Equity Crest in Mumbai focused on E-Commerce and Internet. Deepak Gupta has been with Intel since 2000. He rejoined the Intel Capital group in early 2010. Since then he has led Intel investments in Omnesys (M&A ), Telibrahma and Savaari Car Rentals. Prior to this, Deepak was the Revenue & Strategic Controller for Intel Asia- Pacific where he was supporting the revenue management for the AsiaRegion. Deepak has ~12 years of experience in the investments area including fixed income investments management, venture capital and private equity advisory. Earlier in his career, Deepak was with Intel Capital where he was responsible for investments including Sasken (IPO), Tejas Networks, Future Software (M&A) and Career Launcher(sale to founder). Deepak holds a B.Tech from IIT Bombay and an MBA and MS (Finance) from the University of Maryland.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 25% |
| Internet | 2 | 17% |
| Video | 1 | 8% |
| Retail | 1 | 8% |
| FinTech | 1 | 8% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 42% |
| Series A | 2 | 17% |
| Angel | 1 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MasterChow | MasterChow is a ready-to-cook Asian cuisine brand. | $6.5M | Series A | Nov 30, 2024 |  |
| SustVest (Formerly SolarGridX) | SustVest is an Investment platform allowing individuals to invest in renewable energy assets with just INR 5000 | $250K | Seed | Nov 21, 2023 |  |
| MasterChow | MasterChow is a ready-to-cook Asian cuisine brand. | $1.2M | Seed | May 17, 2022 |  |
| MasterChow | MasterChow is a ready-to-cook Asian cuisine brand. | $460.2K | Seed | Dec 14, 2021 |  |
| Trell | Trell is a community-based platform for discovering lifestyles through videos in Indian Languages. It enables people to create visual collections of their lifestyle experiences. The community shares new ideas, experiences, and product recommendations with each other in multiple Indian languages and over 7 different lifestyle categories includingFashion, Beauty, Movies & TV Series, Recipes, Travel & Personal Care. 100M + users create around 5M+ visual & textual blogs that get over 10 Billion views on the app every month. | $11.5M | Series A | Aug 17, 2020 |  |
| Trell | Trell is a community-based platform for discovering lifestyles through videos in Indian Languages. It enables people to create visual collections of their lifestyle experiences. The community shares new ideas, experiences, and product recommendations with each other in multiple Indian languages and over 7 different lifestyle categories includingFashion, Beauty, Movies & TV Series, Recipes, Travel & Personal Care. 100M + users create around 5M+ visual & textual blogs that get over 10 Billion views on the app every month. | $4M | Seed | Mar 03, 2020 |  |
| Trell | Trell is a community-based platform for discovering lifestyles through videos in Indian Languages. It enables people to create visual collections of their lifestyle experiences. The community shares new ideas, experiences, and product recommendations with each other in multiple Indian languages and over 7 different lifestyle categories includingFashion, Beauty, Movies & TV Series, Recipes, Travel & Personal Care. 100M + users create around 5M+ visual & textual blogs that get over 10 Billion views on the app every month. | $2M | Seed | Dec 14, 2019 |  |
| Trell | Trell is a community-based platform for discovering lifestyles through videos in Indian Languages. It enables people to create visual collections of their lifestyle experiences. The community shares new ideas, experiences, and product recommendations with each other in multiple Indian languages and over 7 different lifestyle categories includingFashion, Beauty, Movies & TV Series, Recipes, Travel & Personal Care. 100M + users create around 5M+ visual & textual blogs that get over 10 Billion views on the app every month. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Jul 26, 2018 |  |
| Selekt.in | Selekt is a chat app for shopping. It is an interactive assistant that helps in finding products suiting the needs of the user using simple natural language interactions. Based on the needs stated out by the user, it recommends a list of products with the features, specification, application etc. Has a chat plus browse interface where a user canconverse and view the product results on the same page. Uses machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence to interpret the needs and recommend right products. |  | Seed | Dec 01, 2016 |  |
| DRIVOJOY.COM | Your vehicle problems not only interfere with your time and peace of mind, but often dig a hole in your pocket as well. As a solution to this problem, we started DrivoJoy in March of 2015 with the vision of empowering people with an affordable, convenient, and transparent approach to auto repair and maintenance. No negotiating, no trips to theservice center, no surprises and what’s more – we perform all services right at your doorstepWe believe that seamless, automatic service trumps last minute, on-demand requests and with our less than 30-seconds booking process, secure payment, and a 100% money-back guarantee, DrivoJoy aims to be the easiest and most convenient way to provide your vehicle the service it deserves. | $600K | Seed | Mar 23, 2016 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fosun RZ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fosun-rz-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [KTB Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ktb-network-2) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Sprout Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sprout-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Surge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/surge-ahead) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Anicut Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anicut-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BEENEXT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bee-next) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Equity Crest

VC Fund · Mumbai, India

Equity Crest provides a platform that enables efficient discovery and engagement between investors and startups. They only support strong companies, who have good scalable business models, run by committed entrepreneurs.

1 contacts available at Equity Crest.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Deepak Gupta | Co-Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deepak-gupta-7 |

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## FAQ

### What does Deepak Gupta invest in?

Deepak Gupta invests primarily in E-Commerce, Internet and Video startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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.

### When did Deepak Gupta last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Deepak Gupta closed in Nov 2024. 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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