Rajesh Kamat
Managing Director & Co-Founder @ Emerald Media
Rajesh Kamat is a seed investor at Emerald Media focused on Mobile and TV. Listed as India’s hottest 40 under 40 Business Leaders by Economic Times and Spencer Stuart, Rajesh was previously the COO of Peter Chernin’s Asia focused private equity fund CA Media. Kamat had formerly launched Viacom18’s popular Hindi GEC network COLORS. With a mix of disruptive and differentiated programming, accompanied by aggressive marketingand distribution strategies Kamat catapulted COLORS to a number 3 position in its very first week and the number 1 position 9 months after launch, breaking Star Plus’ stranglehold on the position after nine years of unchallenged dominance. Under Rajesh’s leadership COLORS continued its successful run and grew into a vibrant brand reaching 140mm Households. It is the only GEC to have reached an operating break-even in 15 months. He served as COO of Viacom 18 Group and CEO of COLORS. Prior to COLORS, he launched Endemol India and served as its Managing Director. He has also served as SVP of Commercial & Business Planning at STAR India and held various marketing positions at Coca-Cola and MTV India. Kamat has also been named Impact Media Person of Year in 2009 and ‘Outstanding Entrepreneurs of Asia Pacific for 2010. Rajesh is a Bachelor of Engineering and also holds a Master's in Business Administration.Rajesh is also an active board member in over 10 companies and enjoys contributing to the angel investor ecosystem
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 27%
Last updated:
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Industries Rajesh Kamat invests in
Stages Rajesh Kamat invests in
Countries Rajesh Kamat invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Series B
- $50M–$65M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Mobile 3 (27%)
- TV 2 (18%)
- News 2 (18%)
- Internet 2 (18%)
- E-Commerce 2 (18%)
Country
- United States 4 (36%)
- Singapore 3 (27%)
- India 2 (18%)
- Thailand 1 (9%)
Investments
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Animeta
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Animeta is a Singapore-based creator tech company focused on creating and nurturing digital creators by helping them grow their communities and maximize their earnings across multiple social media platforms and customized brand solutions through the proprietary Animeta™ AI-based Self-Service Creator Tech platform. We offer our creator partnersfinancial investment, data analytics, business intelligence, content strategy, creative supervision, and brand, PR, and social media expertise, in addition to data-driven, result-oriented, authentic brand campaigns. To learn more, visit Animeta.ai. | Seed / Feb 08, 2023 | |
aCommerce
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aCommerce is an e-Commerce enabler that provides end-to-end technologies and solutions such as performance marketing, channel management, web store design and operations, order fulfillment and warehousing, delivery, and content production for brands, manufacturers, retailers, and startups in Southeast Asia.aCommerce was founded in 2013 and isheadquartered in Bangkok, Thailand. | $10M / Series C / Jul 22, 2019 | |
Global Sports Commerce
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Global Sports Commerce (GSC) is one of the world’s largest Sports Technology and Management Companies providing dynamic Solutions, Sponsorship & Commercial Management, and Premier Consulting Services to leading global sports stakeholders – including sports bodies, leagues, rights holders, stadiums and brands. GSC, headquartered in Singapore,consists of 13 subsidiary companies with offices in 16 cities, across 10 countries. | $80M / Mar 23, 2018 | |
Cosmos-Maya
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Cosmos-Maya is an animation production studio that produces high-quality 3D as well as 2D animation content. The market leader in original Indian animation content production the company has worked on several IPR and commissioned projects for Television and Digital platforms including Viacom18, Disney Networks, Turner International, Sony PicturesNetwork, Discovery Networks, YouTube, Netflix, ALT Balaji & Amazon Prime Video. The studio produces around 600 minutes (30 half hours) of animation on a monthly basis. Cosmos-Maya has produced over 20000 minutes of original animated content created in the last 5 years, (comprising of over 1000 half hour episodes) ready/currently on air. Launched in 2016, Cosmos-Maya’s YouTube channel WowKidz is one of the fastest growing kids’ platforms with an active subscriber base of over 2 Million and total view count of more than 2 Billion. | Series B / Jan 11, 2018 | |
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aCommerce
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aCommerce is an e-Commerce enabler that provides end-to-end technologies and solutions such as performance marketing, channel management, web store design and operations, order fulfillment and warehousing, delivery, and content production for brands, manufacturers, retailers, and startups in Southeast Asia.aCommerce was founded in 2013 and isheadquartered in Bangkok, Thailand. | $65M / Series B / Nov 20, 2017 | |
Amagi Media Labs
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Amagi Media Labs is a media technology company that offers cloud-based solutions for broadcast and connected TV. The company facilitates the geographic targeting of TV advertisements. It is a unique mix of media and innovation that has made way for a new TV-media advertising platform. Amagi brings services that are cost-effective, powerful,focused, and result-oriented.Headquartered in New York, Amagi was founded in 2008. | $35M / Series D / Dec 15, 2016 | |
YUPPTV
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YUPPTV is an online platform providing access to Indian TV channels and magazines of various languages. It provides a reliable, resilient, and scalable platform for all broadcasters and content providers to reach their target audience globally over 6 screens of connected TVs, STBs, PC, smartphones, tablets, and social networking sites like Facebook. | $50M / Series B / Oct 10, 2016 | |
Mezi
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Mezi is revolutionizing travel by giving you an AI assistant for all your travel needs. Just say where you want to go and Mezi helps you make it happen -- from booking your flight and hotel, to figuring out what to do, to handling your online check-in or changes of plans, to being your on-the-ground guide when you arrive. All through a simplemessaging app.Artificial intelligence is on the bleeding edge of technology, and we believe that the world has yet to be shown how it fits into their lives. Mezi aims to invent what that means for the everyday person. It envisions a world where anyone can travel with the ease and confidence knowing they have an assistant in their pocket wherever they go. | $2.8M / Seed / Dec 10, 2015 | |
Infinite Analytics
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Infinite Analytics' AI platform, Sherlock democratizes data based consumer insights. It’s a SAAS platform that offers an easy-to-use UI for companies and individuals to analyze consumer behavior for their brands and action on it. Sherlock.ai does to AI-driven Consumer Insights Platform what AWS did to Data Centers. With Sherlock, companies(enterprise, medium and small) can now subscribe to consumer insights, along with recommendations of the actions required to grow their business, instead of spending time, labor and money on building complex data and analytics systems.Creating a technology stack to mine multiple data sets for signals on consumer behavior requires heavy investment, building a tech savvy and a data science team and a team with enough experience to manage infrastructure. It also requires a team to manage the interoperability of all the components of this entire infrastructure/technology stack. It takes years to get this stack together and a few more years to get it to provide the consumer insights and actions for it. This is usually only within consideration of large companies because of the significant investment in terms of capital both human and monetary. Such infrastructure also requires tremendous amounts of ongoing maintenance.Sherlock helps companies convert their Capital Expenses (on consumer insights) into Operational Insights. | Seed / Jan 01, 2014 | |
Thrill
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Thrill is collectively the largest online dating platform in India. Our portfolio currently includes two properties, a mobile app by the same name available on iOS & Android and Fropper.com. Thrill is backed by fantastic investors in India, Singapore & the US, including Shaadi.com, Taurus Value Creation (Taurus Wealth Management) SamirBangara, Prem Kumar and Rajesh Kamat.Find out more here: http://www.thrillgroup.com Featured In:• Economic Times• CNBC (Young Turks)• Wall Street Journal• Times of India• DNA India• YourStory• NextBigWhat• Inc42• VCCircle• TechInAsia• ZDNet• EntrepreneurIndia | Seed / Aug 06, 2013 | |
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Co-Investors
About Emerald Media
Emerald Media is a pan-Asian platform established by KKR to invest in the fast-growing media and entertainment industries across Asia.
Emerald Media Contacts
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Mitesh Patel
Assistant Vice-President of Finance
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Nihir Nemani
Associate
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Paul Aiello
Managing Director, CEO & Co-Founder
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Praveen Sridharan
Vice-President
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Puruskar Gupta
Chief Financial Officer
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FAQ
What does Rajesh Kamat invest in?
Rajesh Kamat invests primarily in Mobile, TV and News startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Rajesh Kamat's check size?
Rajesh Kamat typically joins rounds of $50M–$65M 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 Rajesh Kamat participates in.
When did Rajesh Kamat last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Rajesh Kamat closed in Feb 2023. Shizune tracks 11 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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