# Rakesh Kapoor

> Rakesh Kapoor is a Series A investor at 12 Flags Group backing Food and Beverage. See 9 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Firm: [12 Flags Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/12-flags-group)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 56%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rakeshkapoorrb

Rakesh Kapoor is a Series A investor at 12 Flags Group in London focused on Food and Beverage and Retail. Rakesh Kapoor joined Reckitt & Colman in 1987, serving in various roles including Regional Sales Manager, North India, General Manager, Indian Southern Region and Regional Marketing Director, South Asia. In 1999, he was appointed Global Category Director, Pest Control. Following the merger, he assumed the role of, Senior Vice President, HomeCare. He was appointed SVP, Regional Director, Northern Europe in 2001 and in July 2006, he was promoted to EVP, Category Development. Rakesh became CEO in September 2011

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 3 | 33% |
| Retail | 2 | 22% |
| Snack Food | 2 | 22% |
| Coffee | 1 | 11% |
| EdTech | 1 | 11% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 33% |
| Series B | 2 | 22% |
| Seed | 1 | 11% |
| Series C | 1 | 11% |
| Secondary Market | 1 | 11% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sumosave | Sumosave is an omni-channel grocery retailer focused on providing groceries to middle-income consumers. | $5.2M | Series B | Jul 10, 2026 | https://sumosave.in/index.php |
| KNOT | KNOT is a rapidly expanding quick commerce fashion platform. | $5M | Series A | Dec 10, 2025 | https://knotnow.co/ |
| Codeyoung | Codeyoung is an online education company that provides live, instructor-led classes for children aged 5 to 17. Their class offerings cover a broad spectrum of subjects such as coding (including Scratch, web development, and Python), mathematics, English, science, robotics, and AI. They use a proprietary “Sandbox” platform that lets students writecode in real time, share projects, and collaborate with mentors. The learning model is personalized and adaptive—each student works with a dedicated mentor, and AI-driven systems help guide their progress. Codeyoung also provides progress-tracking tools so parents can monitor their child’s learning journey. The curriculum is designed to be hands-on, with each module culminating in a tangible project rather than passive theory. | $5M | Series A | Nov 14, 2025 | https://www.codeyoung.com/ |
| Codeyoung | Codeyoung is an online education company that provides live, instructor-led classes for children aged 5 to 17. Their class offerings cover a broad spectrum of subjects such as coding (including Scratch, web development, and Python), mathematics, English, science, robotics, and AI. They use a proprietary “Sandbox” platform that lets students writecode in real time, share projects, and collaborate with mentors. The learning model is personalized and adaptive—each student works with a dedicated mentor, and AI-driven systems help guide their progress. Codeyoung also provides progress-tracking tools so parents can monitor their child’s learning journey. The curriculum is designed to be hands-on, with each module culminating in a tangible project rather than passive theory. |  | Secondary Market | Nov 14, 2025 | https://www.codeyoung.com/ |
| Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters | Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters provides an online marketplace specifically to sell roasted coffee. Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters operates as a specialty coffee e-tailer for sourcing single-estate Arabica coffee beans from Indian coffee estates, burns them on an order basis, and delivers directly to customers, allowing customers to order online or visittheir particular retail stores. Blue Tokai focuses on sourcing coffee beans from specific regions or estates, highlighting the unique flavor profiles of each coffee origin. They offer a variety of single-origin coffees, including beans from Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and other coffee-growing regions in India. In addition to selling coffee beans online, Blue Tokai operates cafes in select cities across India. These cafes serve a variety of coffee beverages and provide a space for customers to enjoy freshly brewed coffee. | $25M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 01, 2025 | http://bluetokaicoffee.com/ |
| Beyond Snáck | Beyond Snacks sells real banana chips in a variety of flavors. It is prepared from sensational super fruits Jackfruit and Banana and is made with high-quality raw materials and adheres to strict hygiene standards. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Kerala, India. | $8.3M | Series A | Jan 09, 2025 | http://beyondsnack.in/ |
| Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters | Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters provides an online marketplace specifically to sell roasted coffee. Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters operates as a specialty coffee e-tailer for sourcing single-estate Arabica coffee beans from Indian coffee estates, burns them on an order basis, and delivers directly to customers, allowing customers to order online or visittheir particular retail stores. Blue Tokai focuses on sourcing coffee beans from specific regions or estates, highlighting the unique flavor profiles of each coffee origin. They offer a variety of single-origin coffees, including beans from Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and other coffee-growing regions in India. In addition to selling coffee beans online, Blue Tokai operates cafes in select cities across India. These cafes serve a variety of coffee beverages and provide a space for customers to enjoy freshly brewed coffee. | $35M | Series C | Aug 31, 2024 | http://bluetokaicoffee.com/ |
| Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters | Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters provides an online marketplace specifically to sell roasted coffee. Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters operates as a specialty coffee e-tailer for sourcing single-estate Arabica coffee beans from Indian coffee estates, burns them on an order basis, and delivers directly to customers, allowing customers to order online or visittheir particular retail stores. Blue Tokai focuses on sourcing coffee beans from specific regions or estates, highlighting the unique flavor profiles of each coffee origin. They offer a variety of single-origin coffees, including beans from Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and other coffee-growing regions in India. In addition to selling coffee beans online, Blue Tokai operates cafes in select cities across India. These cafes serve a variety of coffee beverages and provide a space for customers to enjoy freshly brewed coffee. |  | Series B | Apr 09, 2024 | http://bluetokaicoffee.com/ |
| Slurrp Farm | Slurrp Farm story begins when both of us (Meghana Narayan and Shauravi Malik) first started to look for high quality and healthy food options for their own children. Upon intensive research, they found a similar sentiment being shared by parents of other young children too. Realising the huge gap of available options that passed their own scrutiny,they decided to embark on a journey to provide healthy, tasty and natural food for children. | $1M | Seed | Jun 01, 2018 | http://slurrpfarm.com/ |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [A91 Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a91-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Anicut Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anicut-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Enzia Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enzia-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Verlinvest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/verlinvest) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Acsys Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acsys-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Boundless Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boundless-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Rakesh Kapoor invest in?

Rakesh Kapoor invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Retail and Snack Food startups, most often at Series A and Series B 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.

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### When did Rakesh Kapoor last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rakesh Kapoor closed in Jul 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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