# Neville Taraporewalla

> Neville Taraporewalla is a seed investor at Bennett Coleman and Co Ltd backing GPS and Apps. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Bennett Coleman and Co Ltd](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bennett-coleman-and-co-ltd)
- Location: Philadelphia, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Dec 2021
- Lead investor: 80%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nevilletaraporewalla

Neville Taraporewalla is a seed investor at Bennett Coleman and Co Ltd in Philadelphia focused on GPS and Apps. Former Executive Leader@Microsoft@Yahoo@Publicitas@The Times of India Group.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| GPS | 1 | 20% |
| Apps | 1 | 20% |
| Music | 1 | 20% |
| Mobile | 1 | 20% |
| FinTech | 1 | 20% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 20% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 40% |
| India | 1 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| what3words | 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 | Fintech.Tv is a fintech specialized in impact investing and digital asset media network for broadcast, over-the-top (OTT), and digital distribution. |  |  | Feb 08, 2021 |  |
| Fintech.TV | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AIV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aiv-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Brand Capital International](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brand-capital-international) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Castor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/castor-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Chang Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chang-com-0014) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [GSF](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gsf) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Kapor Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kapor-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Bennett Coleman and Co Ltd

VC Fund · Mumbai, India

Bennett Coleman and Co Ltd provides media publishing services. The company offers newspapers, magazines, internet, and electronic commerce information publication services.The company’s brands include The Economic Times, Times of India, Femina, Sandhya Times, Times FM, and Filmfare. The company also provides radio and television programsproduction and distribution, web portals operation, and mobile value added services.Bennett Coleman and Co Ltd was founded in 1892 and is based in Mumbai, India.

4 contacts available at Bennett Coleman and Co Ltd.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Neville Taraporewalla | President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neville-taraporewalla |
| Anurab Sharma | President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anurab-sharma |
| Esha Shah | Director, International Growth | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/esha-shah |
| Sandeep Bansal | Blog Contributor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sandeep-bansal |

## Similar investors

### Similar stage
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund
- [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund

## FAQ

### 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.

### When did Neville Taraporewalla last invest?

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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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.

# About Shizune
Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features:
- 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others)
- Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data
- Updated daily from public funding news
- CSV and Excel export

The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co