# Rahul Garg

> Rahul Garg is a pre-seed investor at Kalaari Capital (Mumbai) backing Gaming and Apps. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Kalaari Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kalaari-capital)
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 56%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahul/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/grahul19
- Website: https://x.com/grahul19
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rahul.garg.9235199

Rahul Garg is a pre-seed investor at Kalaari Capital in Mumbai focused on Gaming and Apps. Rahul focuses on Consumer (Tech & Brands), Digital Content, Education & Blockchain opportunities at Kalaari. Rahul Garg is a partner at General Catalyst,He led investments in Vogo (Bike Rental), Shop101 (Social Commerce), and WinZO (Gaming & Entertainment). He is on the board of 8 companies and is a secondary support on 3 companies.Rahul has led Kalaari’s thought leadership report on India Opportunity. He has also played an instrumental role in building Kalaari’s knowledge & understanding of two new sectors which include Blockchain and Consumer Brands. Here are his recent thoughts on Consumer Brand Opportunity in India.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gaming | 2 | 22% |
| Apps | 1 | 11% |
| Audio | 1 | 11% |
| Grocery | 1 | 11% |
| eSports | 1 | 11% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 22% |
| Series A | 2 | 22% |
| Seed | 1 | 11% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |
| Series G | 1 | 11% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 4 | 44% |
| Turkey | 1 | 11% |
| United States | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mission Control Games | Mission Control Games is a mobile game studio focused on the casual puzzle genre | $4M | Pre-Seed | Apr 15, 2026 |  |
| Zepto | Zepto is a quick-commerce platform that delivers groceries and daily essentials within minutes through a network of stores. It is an online store that offers a range of fruits, vegetables, snack food, and electronics. It provides a service that enables access to various grocery products. Zepto serves industries such as retail, food and beverage,and logistics. | $450M | Series H | Oct 16, 2025 |  |
| Zepto | Zepto is a quick-commerce platform that delivers groceries and daily essentials within minutes through a network of stores. It is an online store that offers a range of fruits, vegetables, snack food, and electronics. It provides a service that enables access to various grocery products. Zepto serves industries such as retail, food and beverage,and logistics. |  | Secondary Market | Oct 16, 2025 |  |
| Pronto | Pronto is a business that allows users to order and receive cleaning, laundry, and home services within 10 minutes. It is available 24/7 and enables users to book services instantly or schedule them for later, including recurring appointments. | $11M | Series A | Aug 11, 2025 |  |
| Billion Hearts | Billion Hearts is a company that creates simple digital consumer products for the global market. | $3.7M | Seed | Nov 20, 2024 |  |
| Zepto | Zepto is a quick-commerce platform that delivers groceries and daily essentials within minutes through a network of stores. It is an online store that offers a range of fruits, vegetables, snack food, and electronics. It provides a service that enables access to various grocery products. Zepto serves industries such as retail, food and beverage,and logistics. | $340M | Series G | Aug 14, 2024 |  |
| EzDubs | EzDubs increases viewership and engagement, enables real-time cross-border knowledge sharing, and breaks down language barriers across the internet by enabling publishers and streamers to broadcast to multiple geographies. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Apr 05, 2023 |  |
| WinZO | WinZO is a mobile e-sports social gaming platform that offers monetary benefits and prizes to players.The platform offers nearly 70+ games including carrom, cricket, bubble shooter, fruit samurai, knife up, memory mania, fantasy league, and trivia-based questions. WinZO hosts all its games on a single platform across multiple formats in 12+regional languages and 60% of content on our platform is consumed in non-English languages.It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in New Delhi, Delhi, India by Paavan Nanda and Saumya Singh Rathore. | $18M | Series B | Sep 03, 2020 |  |
| WinZO | WinZO is a mobile e-sports social gaming platform that offers monetary benefits and prizes to players.The platform offers nearly 70+ games including carrom, cricket, bubble shooter, fruit samurai, knife up, memory mania, fantasy league, and trivia-based questions. WinZO hosts all its games on a single platform across multiple formats in 12+regional languages and 60% of content on our platform is consumed in non-English languages.It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in New Delhi, Delhi, India by Paavan Nanda and Saumya Singh Rathore. | $5M | Series A | Feb 22, 2019 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Avenir](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avenir-growth-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [avra](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avra-7592) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Glade Brook Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/glade-brook-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Blume Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blume-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Kalaari Capital

VC Fund · Bangalore, India

Kalaari is a $160 million venture capital fund with a strong advisory team in Bangalore investing in early-stage, technology-oriented companies in India.Kalaari Capital invests in the unknown Indian entrepreneur who is poised to become tomorrow’s global leader. They are India’s leading investor in early-stage businesses, nurturing them throughevery aspect of growth on the transformative journey toward success.

5 contacts available at Kalaari Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Abhishek Tiwari | Investment Fellow | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abhishek-tiwari-6 |
| Karthik Nageswaran | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karthik-nageswaran |
| Kumar Shiralagi | MD, India | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kumar-shiralagi |
| Rahul Garg | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rahul-garg-caa9 |
| Rajesh Raju | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rajesh-raju |

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## FAQ

### What does Rahul Garg invest in?

Rahul Garg invests primarily in Gaming, Apps and Audio startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Rahul Garg last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rahul Garg closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 9 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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