# Neelesh Bhatnagar

> Neelesh Bhatnagar is a seed investor at NB Ventures backing Health Care and Apps. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [NB Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nb-ventures)
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 57%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neelesh-bhatnagar-a1000810

Neelesh Bhatnagar is a seed investor at NB Ventures focused on Health Care and Apps. NB Ventures is a VC fund created by Neelesh Bhatnagar to invest family wealth in Indian and Middle East Start ups

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 5 | 22% |
| Apps | 4 | 17% |
| Food and Beverage | 4 | 17% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 13% |
| Coffee | 2 | 9% |

42 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 43% |
| Series A | 6 | 26% |
| Series C | 1 | 4% |
| Series D | 1 | 4% |
| Series E | 1 | 4% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 14 | 61% |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 9% |
| United States | 1 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Purple Style Labs | Purple Style Labs is an IIT-Bombay graduate and ex-banker with Deutsche. It aspires to be the biggest fashion house of India managing multiple designer brands in the premium, luxury as well as affordable retail segment. | $40M | Series E | Mar 12, 2025 |  |
| Centricity | Centricity is a digital private wealth management platform-as-a-service for Investment Professionals & High Networth Investors. | $20M | Seed | Sep 12, 2024 |  |
| Purple Style Labs | Purple Style Labs is an IIT-Bombay graduate and ex-banker with Deutsche. It aspires to be the biggest fashion house of India managing multiple designer brands in the premium, luxury as well as affordable retail segment. | $8M | Series D | Nov 20, 2023 |  |
| Purple Style Labs | Purple Style Labs is an IIT-Bombay graduate and ex-banker with Deutsche. It aspires to be the biggest fashion house of India managing multiple designer brands in the premium, luxury as well as affordable retail segment. | $14M | Series C | Apr 12, 2023 |  |
| Bigspoon | We are an omni-channel multi-brand Cloud kitchen start-up, operational since September 2019 and headquartered out of Ahmedabad. Our main focus is on tier-2 markets, with a vision to minimize the delta between fine-dine and home-delivery experience for the customer and make great food accessible to all. Currently we have six live brands under theBigspoon umbrella - Makhni Brothers (Authentic North Indian Cuisine), Meals101 (Chinese and Global Meals-for-one), Oven & Grill (American Fast-food) and our latest offering, Thali Central (Thali meals ), The Wrap Co. (Roomali Wraps Brand) and The Monkey Fries (Fries brand) and have presence in 10 cities across Gujarat, MP, Maharashtra, Telengana, UP and RajasthanFounded by INSEAD and WGSHA alumni, with leadership experience at Uber, GoJek and ITC, we are on a mission to create the finest cloud kitchen start-up of Asia at scale. | $12.6M | Series A | Aug 09, 2022 |  |
| WickedGud | WickedGud is to make eating guilt-free, and change the way the world consumes comfort foods for the better by using indigenous, high nutrition ingredients. WickedGud is an online store that offers nutritious snacks from pizza to noodles. It creates a habitual indulgence made from nutrition-rich ingredients that are plant-based and have nopreservatives. WickedGud bridges the gap between tasty junk food and boring healthy food. It has no artificial colours, pro prortein and nutritious. | $1M | Seed | Apr 07, 2022 |  |
| Junio | Junio is a kids-focused digital pocket money-smart card that lets children make digital and physical purchases. | $6M | Seed | Mar 04, 2022 |  |
| Junio | Junio is a kids-focused digital pocket money-smart card that lets children make digital and physical purchases. | $5.4M | Seed | Mar 03, 2022 |  |
| Third Wave Coffee Ventures | Cool Cold Brew is a range of healthier chilled coffee drinks. The team has spent the last 18 months developing their drinks and have secured interest from 20 independent stores and 3 regional distributors. | $6M | Series A | Dec 15, 2021 |  |
| Practically | Practically is an edtech platform that focuses on STEM learning for students in grades 6 to 12.The company enables an experience for students from classes 6-12 that makes learning seem fun, engaging, and interactive. It provides an end-to-end solution to educational organizations consisting of a best-in-breed content-enabled learning platform,life-like VFX immersive 3D videos, interactive and experiential simulations, robust real-time assessment engine with built-in cutting-edge machine learning/AI. Practically is the brand name for all 3rdFlix's products.Practically, a product of 3rdFlix is based in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. | $5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 15, 2021 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Singularity AMC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/singularity-amc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [IAN Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/indian-angel-network) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Rajiv Dadlani Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rajiv-dadlani-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Signet Excipients](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/signet-chemical-corporation) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Adept Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adept-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About NB Ventures

VC Fund · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

NB Ventures is a Dubai based venture capital firm.

1 contacts available at NB Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Neelesh Bhatnagar | Managing Director & Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neelesh-bhatnagar |

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## FAQ

### What does Neelesh Bhatnagar invest in?

Neelesh Bhatnagar invests primarily in Health Care, Apps and Food and Beverage startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 23 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Neelesh Bhatnagar last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Neelesh Bhatnagar closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 23 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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