Neville Taraporewalla
Angel Investor @ Brand Capital
Philadelphia, United States
Neville Taraporewalla is a seed investor at Brand Capital in Philadelphia focused on GPS and Apps. Former Executive Leader@Microsoft@Yahoo@Publicitas@The Times of India Group.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 80%
Last updated:
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Industries Neville Taraporewalla invests in
Stages Neville Taraporewalla invests in
Countries Neville Taraporewalla invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- GPS 1 (20%)
- Apps 1 (20%)
- Music 1 (20%)
- Mobile 1 (20%)
- FinTech 1 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (40%)
- Series A 1 (20%)
- Funding Round 1 (20%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (20%)
Country
- United States 2 (40%)
- India 1 (20%)
- United Kingdom 1 (20%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| what3words is the simplest way to talk about location. It has divided the world into a grid of 3m x 3m squares, each with a unique address made from 3 words. Now people can refer to any precise location – a delivery entrance, a picnic spot or a drone landing point – using three simple words. what3words is helping improve businesses around theworld, and paving the way for social and economic progress in developing nations. It can be used via the free mobile app or online map. what3words can also be built into any other app, platform or website, with just a few lines of code. | $10M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 14, 2021 | ||
| Fintech.Tv is a fintech specialized in impact investing and digital asset media network for broadcast, over-the-top (OTT), and digital distribution. | Series A / Feb 08, 2021 | ||
| Timesaverz.com is a mobile first marketplace connecting home service seekers with home service providers. This online platform is led by a group of angel investors, including Neville Taraporewalla and Rajesh Sawhney. The other investors of Timesaverz.com are Ashish Jhalani , Nitesh Kripalani, Dinesh Agarwal, and Nish Bhutani. When acustomer books a service on Timesaverz, it uses its proprietary algorithms to assign the right service provider to complete the task from its network of over 500 service providers. Timesaverz.com currently offers handyman and cleaning services and appliances repair. Mumbai-based Timesaverz was founded by Debadutta Upadhyaya and Lovnish Bhatia in 2013. | Seed / Oct 14, 2014 | ||
| SoundFocus was founded with the goal of building revolutionary audio processing technologies to empower millions of people to hear better in their everyday lives.SoundFocus lets you hear music in full fidelity when listening to your iPhone or iPod Touch by tuning the audio to your hearing pattern and compensating for the sound frequencies youdo not hear well. | $1.7M / Seed / Feb 20, 2014 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Brand Capital
Over ten years, Brand Capital has partnered in the building of over 850+ indigenous brands. It has enabled the introduction of new concepts of print advertising in the form of jackets, panorama adverts and flaps, emulated across other print media. Since its inception, Brand capital has helped build several iconic brands and create immenseenterprise value. But most of all, Brand Capital has enabled the discovery of ‘Brand value’. Different from an archetypal Private Equity player, we succeed in contributing ‘Intellectual Capital’, thus supporting the creation of a brand strategy and planning media-spread to optimize value. We now have investments across sectors as wide as – Retail, FMCG, Consumer Durables, Realty, Digital and Mobile, E-Retail, Health & Wellness, Financial Services, Consumer Services and several more. Our invested value today stands at USD 2.5 Billion, driven by our disruptive innovation and the power of the media properties across "The Times Group". - See more at: http://brandcapital.co.in/#sthash.YJ6lB0CB.dpuf
Brand Capital Contacts
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Deepak Verma
Dy General Manager
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Neha Jalan
Marketing and Communication: Deputy Chief Manager
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Piyush Arora
Investment Manager
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Rohit Khatua
Head of Marketing and Communications
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Shambhavi Mishra
Investor - VC & Growth Investments
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What does Neville Taraporewalla invest in?
Neville Taraporewalla invests primarily in GPS, Apps and Music startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Neville Taraporewalla closed in Dec 2021. Shizune tracks 5 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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