# Dhruv Chitgopekar

> Dhruv Chitgopekar is a seed investor at BigBang.Social (Mumbai) backing Gaming and Content. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [BigBang.Social](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bigbang-social)
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jan 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chitgo83
- Website: https://x.com/chitgo
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chitgo

Dhruv Chitgopekar is a seed investor at BigBang.Social in Mumbai focused on Gaming and Content. Dhruv Chitgopekar is the founder and CEO of BigBang.Social. He previously worked at Mirabilis Advisory as a Senior Consultant. Dhruv Chitgopekar attended Sri Venkateswara University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gaming | 1 | 33% |
| Content | 1 | 33% |
| eSports | 1 | 33% |
| Hardware | 1 | 33% |
| Renewable Energy | 1 | 33% |

7 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Angel | 1 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 1 | 33% |
| United States | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Praan | Praan creates hyperlocal clean air zones within open areas on corporate campuses, schools, universities, hotels, hospitals, residential complexes, malls and industrial areas through a low-cost, filterless and artificially intelligent outdoor air purification technology, enabling individuals to breathe clean, healthy, fresh and safe air. | $1.6M | Seed | Jan 12, 2022 |  |
| Praan | Praan creates hyperlocal clean air zones within open areas on corporate campuses, schools, universities, hotels, hospitals, residential complexes, malls and industrial areas through a low-cost, filterless and artificially intelligent outdoor air purification technology, enabling individuals to breathe clean, healthy, fresh and safe air. | $1.9M | Pre-Seed | Jan 12, 2022 |  |
| Rooter | Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop. | $400K | Angel | May 20, 2017 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Avaana Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avaana-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Paradigm Shift Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paradigm-shift-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Social Impact Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/social-impact-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Aera VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aera-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Better Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Better Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-capital-e839) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About BigBang.Social

VC Fund



1 contacts available at BigBang.Social.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dhruv Chitgopekar | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dhruv-chitgopekar |

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## FAQ

### What does Dhruv Chitgopekar invest in?

Dhruv Chitgopekar invests primarily in Gaming, Content and eSports startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Dhruv Chitgopekar last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dhruv Chitgopekar closed in Jan 2022. Shizune tracks 3 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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