Harish Bahl
Founder & Chairman @ Smile Group
Gurgaon, India
Harish Bahl is a seed investor at Smile Group in Gurgaon focused on Advertising and Internet. Harish Bahl is the Founder and Chairman of Smile Group. He previously worked at Airseva as a Co-Founder and Local JV Partner. Harish Bahl attended SDM College of Engineering and Technology.
- Total investments:
- 18
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Harish Bahl invests in
Stages Harish Bahl invests in
Countries Harish Bahl invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $300k–$3M
- Series A
- $5M–$359M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Advertising 5 (28%)
- Internet 4 (22%)
- Apps 2 (11%)
- Marketing 2 (11%)
- E-Commerce 2 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (28%)
- Series A 3 (17%)
- Funding Round 3 (17%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (17%)
- Angel 2 (11%)
Country
- India 11 (61%)
- United States 2 (11%)
- Hong Kong 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Hapbee Technologies offers a wearable technology solution to guide the mind and body to the desired mental state. | $537.9K / Post-IPO Equity / Aug 18, 2025 | ||
| Punt Partners is a company that provides marketing technology services. It provides results through the use of proprietary data, technology, and services. | Angel / Dec 18, 2022 | ||
| Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models. | $358.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 18, 2022 | ||
| Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models. | $358.9M / Series C / Jan 18, 2022 | ||
| Creative Galileo is an Edtech startup that focuses on the early learning of children, plans to use the funds for scaling, product development, and enhancement, creating new engaging content, forging partnerships with leading animation houses, and hiring talent. With its smart tech-driven platform parents can track their child's progressthrough the various educational games and levels. | $2.5M / Seed / Oct 12, 2021 | ||
| ProfitWheel focuses on creating a customer data-led marketing intelligence platform for the new direct-to-consumer world.ProfitWheel makes digital advertising more effective by finding and winning the most profitable customers. | $3M / Seed / Oct 07, 2021 | ||
| MitronTV is a free Short Video and Social Platform. It is designed for people to showcase their innovative videos inline with our theme of light humor. | $5M / Series A / Aug 17, 2020 | ||
| Zupee is a game publisher specializing in online skill-based games and gamification for learning and skilling. | $8M / Series A / Apr 08, 2020 | ||
| CityMall is a community commerce platform focused on 300 million new to internet users living in small cities, towns, and villages in India. CityMall is focused on Grocery, Fresh and Packaged FMCG, Electronics, Fashion categories. So far e-commerce has primarily benefited residents of the top 8 metropolitan cities in India. Key reasons for this arelack of trust, lack of familiarity with browsing and transacting online, low average order values (which makes economic viability a challenge for the platforms), lack of credit in online channels (which neighbourhood stores offer).CityMall is a highly efficient channel to serve these consumers through "Community Leaders". They are the "Social" & "Geographical" connectors between end consumers and CityMall. They help us in customer acquisition, localized sales & marketing to capture customers' share of wallet, and the last mile logistics in their communities, thus making the community-led model more suitable for small towns, cities, and villages. Founded by IIT Delhi and IIT Roorkee alumni with 8+ years of entrepreneurial experience, Citymall aims to create hundreds of thousands of such micro-entrepreneurs and empower them to create the go-to e-commerce platform for Bharat.CityMall is backed by top-tier VCs like General Catalyst, Elevation, Accel, Jungle Ventures and Waterbridge. | $300K / Seed / Oct 03, 2019 | ||
| Zupee is a game publisher specializing in online skill-based games and gamification for learning and skilling. | $999.7K / Seed / Apr 11, 2019 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Smile Group
Smile is Asia’s leading platform that builds internet businesses with passionate entrepreneurs. We partner with fast-growing companies for their expansion and invest in disruptive companies.Business Building We build and operate companies across multiple domains such as digital media, consumer internet, SaaS and more. We operate Tyroo, APAC’sLargest Multi-Screen Performance Network and SingleInterface, a location-based marketing company for multi-location enterprise retail brands. Some notable ones are as follows: -> Quasar sold to WPP -> SVG Media sold to Dentsu Aegis Network -> Squad Digital sold to Scan GroupPartnerships (Katalyzers) We partner with fast growing technology companies to expand their business overseas. Our partnerships include Airbnb, WPP(Prodigi/Hogarth India), WPP Africa and moreInvestments We enable entrepreneurship by investing in disruptive companies. Our investments include Letsbuy.com, HackerEarth, Scoopwhoop, Yumlane, Rapido, Wealthy, The Man Company, Bira 91, Little Eye Labs and more Say Hello! info@smile.co.in
Smile Group Contacts
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Abhijeet Singh
Senior Associate
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Harish Bahl
Founder & Chairman
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Manish Vij
Co-Founder
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FAQ
What does Harish Bahl invest in?
Harish Bahl invests primarily in Advertising, Internet and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Harish Bahl's check size?
Harish Bahl typically joins rounds of $300k–$3M at Seed and $5M–$359M 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 Harish Bahl participates in.
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When did Harish Bahl last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Harish Bahl closed in Aug 2025. Shizune tracks 18 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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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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