Manish Agarwal
Angel Investor @ AVP
Mumbai, India
Manish Agarwal is a seed investor at AVP in Mumbai focused on Artificial Intelligence and Online Games. Manish Agarwal is based out of Bengaluru, Karnataka, and is the Non-Executive Director of NODWIN Gaming. Manish previously worked at Nazara Technologies as a CEO. Manish Agarwal attended the attended the National Institute of Technology, Warangal.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
Last updated:
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Industries Manish Agarwal invests in
Stages Manish Agarwal invests in
Countries Manish Agarwal invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $500k–$1.3M
- Pre-Seed
- $700k–$5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (25%)
- Online Games 2 (17%)
- Content Creators 2 (17%)
- iOS 1 (8%)
- SaaS 1 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (58%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (17%)
- Series A 1 (8%)
- Series B 1 (8%)
Country
- India 10 (83%)
- United States 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| UGX.ai is a manufacturing firm with real time traceability and AI based quality inspection for complete operational visibly. | $1M / Seed / Sep 18, 2025 | ||
| Sedai is the world’s first self-driving cloud.™ Our platform optimizes your cloud resources to reduce costs, boost performance, & improve availability. All on autopilot. Under the hood, Sedai uses patented ML models to learn how your apps actually behave — from traffic patterns to dependencies to golden signals. This application intelligencelets Sedai make safe changes to achieve your SLOs. With zero IaC drift. Zero toil. And 100% confidence. | $20M / Series B / Jun 16, 2025 | ||
| Sarla Aviation creates electric vertical take-off and landing eVTOL aircraft. | $10M / Series A / Jan 14, 2025 | ||
| Felicity Games place our users at the core of our gaming experience, believing that maximizing user satisfaction will in turn maximize lifetime value in the long term. | $700K / Pre-Seed / Jul 09, 2024 | ||
| BlackLight Studio Works brings classic multiplayer games such as cards and word-based games, to the mobile to create an interactive experience. | Seed / Nov 03, 2023 | ||
| DAOLens is a B2B Web3 company claims to have three live product offerings, which comprises a discovery portal, a contributor onboarding solution and community management tools. | Pre-Seed / Jul 14, 2022 | ||
| CloudFeather runs on a mission to uplift game developers and operators across the globe. | $1.3M / Seed / Jun 21, 2022 | ||
| DAOLens is a B2B Web3 company claims to have three live product offerings, which comprises a discovery portal, a contributor onboarding solution and community management tools. | $5M / Pre-Seed / Jun 15, 2022 | ||
| One Impression’s platform helps brands instantly discover and access over 7 Mil+ creators globally ranging from top-tier celebrities to regional nano creators. The platform also provides best-in-class creator pricing, facilitates compliant creator contracts, ensures seamless on-time delivery, automates creator payouts, and allows brands to trackcampaign performance in real time. The platform enables brands to reliably drive campaigns at scale and speed.The platform is currently active in over 14 countries including India, USA, UAE, Indonesia & more. It is trusted by over 500+ top brands including companies such as Unilever, Amazon, Nestle, Meta to name a few. One Impression was founded in July 2018 in Gurgaon, Haryana by Apaksh Gupta & Jivesh Gupta. | $1M / Seed / Jan 06, 2022 | ||
| ASQI stands for Advanced Statistical and Quantitative Intelligence It was founded in early 2019 as a carve-out from a global quant hedge fund. Our focus is to build a world-class technology platform that offers advisory, access and markets across equity, debt, multi-asset and alternate assets. We use quantitative analysis, artificial intelligenceand blockchain technology to achieve that. | $1M / Seed / Dec 13, 2021 | ||
| See all 12 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About AVP
AXA Venture Partners (AVP) is a venture capital fund investing in high-growth, technology-enabled companies. AVP has built a unique investment platform specialized in tech investments with $600 million of assets under management through three pillars of investment expertise: Early Stage Fund, Growth Stage Fund and Fund of Funds. To date, AVP hasinvested in 40 Early and Growth equity deals and 6 Fund investments. AVP team operates globally backed by offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Paris and Hong Kong. Beyond investments, AVP provides access to business development opportunities helping portfolio companies to scale globally and accelerate their growth.
AVP Contacts
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Alex Scherbakovsky
General Partner
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François Robinet
Managing Director
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Imran Akram
General partner
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Manish Agarwal
General Partner
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Marc Lewden
Partner
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FAQ
What does Manish Agarwal invest in?
Manish Agarwal invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Online Games and Content Creators startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed 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.
What is Manish Agarwal's check size?
Manish Agarwal typically joins rounds of $500k–$1.3M at Seed and $700k–$5M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Manish Agarwal participates in.
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When did Manish Agarwal last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Manish Agarwal closed in Sep 2025. 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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