Nandan Nilekani
Bangalore, India
Nandan Nilekani is a Series B investor at UIDAI - Unique Identification Authority of India in Bangalore focused on B2B and Internet. Nandan Nilekani was the chairman of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), author of _Imagining India_, philanthropist, and former entrepreneur and co-founder of Infosys.
- Total investments:
- 27
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 44%
Last updated:
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Industries Nandan Nilekani invests in
Stages Nandan Nilekani invests in
Countries Nandan Nilekani invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Series A
- $2M–$10M
- Series B
- $3M–$21M
Investment Focus
Industry
- B2B 4 (15%)
- Internet 4 (15%)
- E-Commerce 4 (15%)
- Tourism 3 (11%)
- Health Care 3 (11%)
Stage
- Series B 6 (22%)
- Funding Round 6 (22%)
- Series A 4 (15%)
- Seed 2 (7%)
- Series C 2 (7%)
Country
- India 16 (59%)
- Singapore 1 (4%)
- United States 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Ninjacart
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Ninjacart operates an online business-to-business platform that connects farmers, manufactures, and brands to retailers directly through the lean and connected supply chain. Its platform enables the distribution of vegetables and fruits to retailers and restaurants across India. Ashutosh Vikram, Kartheeswaran K K, Sharath Loganathan, ThirukumaranNagarajan, and Vasu Devan founded Ninjacart in July 2015. It has its headquarters in Bengaluru in India. | $6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 02, 2026 | |
AppsForBharat
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AppsForBharat is a product studio focused on building apps for spiritual and devotional needs of Indian users. | $20.4M / Series C / Jul 01, 2025 | |
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AppsForBharat
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AppsForBharat is a product studio focused on building apps for spiritual and devotional needs of Indian users. | $18M / Series B / Sep 10, 2024 | |
ProcMart
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ProcMart is a B2B marketplace connecting buyers and sellers across various categories through an interactive and easy-to-use application.Buyers submit their purchase requirement through our platform . Our product specific questionnaire guides them through the key questions to consider. Sellers are handpicked, who submit their quotations for therequirement.At ProcMart we ensure a turnaround time of less than a day for every requirement thereby ensuring that the onerous B2B procurement process becomes much simpler and agile. | $3M / Series B / Mar 22, 2024 | |
Ayu Health
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Ayu Health is a network of hospitals that offers quality healthcare to the general public. Through Ayu Health’s proprietary technology, hospitals can serve patients at cheaper prices, give a better experience, and maintain medical quality standards. It is founded in 2019. | $21M / Series B / Apr 27, 2022 | |
RailYatri
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RailYatri's goal is to provide the most up to date information to the 25 million passengers who board a train every day. RailYatri mobile app provides real-time information on live train status, PNR Status, seat availability predictions, fare calculator, platforms/ facilities at stations, personalized alerts, access to essential travelservices like meals and taxi.... and much more.RailYatri provides information on over 9000 locations and 14500 trains (including long distance trains, local trains and metros). Within its first year of the launch, RailYatri's Android app has crossed 1 million downloads. The company has also partnered with taxi services firms across 20 cities and food vendors across 300 stations.RailYatri's mission is to simplify train travel and they are doing it one traveller at a time. | $14.3M / Series B / Feb 24, 2020 | |
IntrCity
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Manager- Corporate Communications | $14.3M / Series B / Feb 24, 2020 | |
TravelTriangle
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TravelTriangle.com is an exciting new way of buying trips online in India (currently). They promote local travel agents and get you best trips from them. They have created a marketplace where travelers can interact with local travel agents. This also empowers local travel agents to come online and compete with big fishes. Travelers on the otherhand get customized trips at cheap prices and also with a taste of local salt. The dreams of a heavenly vacation are often overshadowed by the nightmares of one that turns out to be total disaster due to technical hitches. A holiday today can be more taxing than your workplace if not planned right. The misfortunes like travel agent's craftiness, the discontent over the abode, all travel and no rest can actually be done without! It's a vacation after all! Bringing to the same platform an assortment of agents with the best they have to offer, traveltriangle.com gives the traveller a chance to compare and choose the one most suited to him. Once you have submitted your trip request, you're poured with options; competing quotes from travel agents on your desired holiday plan. Hence, you are saved the trouble of calling up and negotiating with travel agents individually. Also, the reasonable quotes of travel agents add to your delight! exclaims Sanchit, flaunting of the winning cards up his sleeve.While traveltriangle.com is soon going to expedite newer spaces, it is continually striving to improve its present services to give its visitors worldwide a splendid vacation! So, the next time you have so much as a thought of a holiday; let traveltriangle.com take care of the rest and you would be glad you did. | $13M / Series D / Nov 18, 2019 | |
PharmEasy
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PharmEasy is a health tech startup offering services such as teleconsultation, medicine deliveries, and diagnostic test sample collections.It also operates an online pharmacy that helps patients connect with local pharmacy stores and diagnostic centers in order to fulfill their extensive medical needs. The startup company is funded and backed byCaisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec (CDPQ), Ascent Health, Bessemer Venture Partners, Orios Venture Partners, Eight Roads Ventures, InnoVen Capital, and Temasek Holdings.PharmEasy was founded in 2015 by Dharmil Sheth, Mikhil Innani, and Dhaval Shah as a subsidiary of Ascent Health. | $50M / Series C / Sep 26, 2018 | |
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RailYatri
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RailYatri's goal is to provide the most up to date information to the 25 million passengers who board a train every day. RailYatri mobile app provides real-time information on live train status, PNR Status, seat availability predictions, fare calculator, platforms/ facilities at stations, personalized alerts, access to essential travelservices like meals and taxi.... and much more.RailYatri provides information on over 9000 locations and 14500 trains (including long distance trains, local trains and metros). Within its first year of the launch, RailYatri's Android app has crossed 1 million downloads. The company has also partnered with taxi services firms across 20 cities and food vendors across 300 stations.RailYatri's mission is to simplify train travel and they are doing it one traveller at a time. | $8M / Series B / Apr 27, 2018 | |
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Co-Investors
About UIDAI - Unique Identification Authority of India
Unique identification project was initially conceived by the Planning Commission as an initiative that would provide identification for each resident across the country and would be used primarily as the basis for efficient delivery of welfare services. It would also act as a tool for effective monitoring of various programs and schemes of theGovernment.
UIDAI - Unique Identification Authority of India Contacts
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Nandan Nilekani
Chairman
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Dr. Pramod Varma
Chief Architect
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J Satyanarayana
Chairman
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Vivek Raghavan
Advisor, Technology (Volunteer)
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FAQ
What does Nandan Nilekani invest in?
Nandan Nilekani invests primarily in B2B, Internet and E-Commerce startups, most often at Series B and Funding Round stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Nandan Nilekani's check size?
Nandan Nilekani typically joins rounds of $2M–$10M at Series A and $3M–$21M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Nandan Nilekani participates in.
When did Nandan Nilekani last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Nandan Nilekani closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 27 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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