Ritesh Agarwal
Founder @ Aroa Venture Partners
New Delhi, India
Ritesh Agarwal is a seed investor at Aroa Venture Partners in New Delhi focused on Food and Beverage and Education. Ritesh Agarwal is the Founder and Group Chief Executive Officer of OYO and Anchor Board Member of the Texas Hotel & Lodging Association.
- Total investments:
- 63
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
Last updated:
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Industries Ritesh Agarwal invests in
Stages Ritesh Agarwal invests in
Countries Ritesh Agarwal invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $90k–$11M
- Angel
- $3k–$361k
Investment Focus
Industry
- Food and Beverage 10 (16%)
- Education 6 (10%)
- E-Commerce 6 (10%)
- EdTech 5 (8%)
- Retail 5 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 17 (27%)
- Funding Round 13 (21%)
- Angel 9 (14%)
- Series A 6 (10%)
- Debt Financing 5 (8%)
Country
- India 42 (67%)
- Singapore 3 (5%)
- United States 2 (3%)
- Japan 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Kreo is a consumer electronics brand that unleashes content creators, gamers and dreamers passion for gaming. | $110.2K / Seed / Feb 17, 2026 | ||
| Nima Goos Goos is a startup that sells Tisanes, a type of herbal tea that comes in a variety of flavours. It encourages the use of natural herbs and crops grown in the Himalayan region. | Sep 23, 2025 | ||
| Venture Catalysts is an early-stage investment platform for startups and investors. The company provides continuous capital and development support to its portfolio of companies. It also operates an exclusive community for investors to access the early-stage startup ecosystem. | $18M / Sep 08, 2025 | ||
| Kluisz.ai is an enterprise AI startup building an autonomous, AI-native private cloud platform designed to simplify and secure the operation of enterprise and AI workloads across hybrid, on-premise, edge, and sovereign cloud environments. | $9.6M / Seed / Jul 23, 2025 | ||
| Tribalveda is a company that focuses on preserving the knowledge and wisdom of India's tribal community. The company's main product line revolves around the Jamun fruit, also known as Java Plum or Indian Blackberry. They offer a variety of products made from this fruit, including Jamun Seed Powder, Jamun Strips, Jamun Green Tea, and JamunVinegar. These products are organically grown and hand-processed by tribal women. In addition to individual products, Tribalveda also offers combo packs for a more comprehensive health solution. | $57.3K / Mar 03, 2025 | ||
| We are India's leading manufacturers in sleeping bags, neck pillows, passport holders, air pillows and messenger bags category. We take all kinds of bulk order requests be it corporate gifting, exporting or reselling. Our travel products are loved by all our B2B clients.Moreover, Trajectory is the leading travel accessories brand on multipleonline marketplaces like Amazon, Flipkart etc. since 5 years serving close to 3.5 lakh customers across India. | Seed / Feb 28, 2025 | ||
| We are India's leading manufacturers in sleeping bags, neck pillows, passport holders, air pillows and messenger bags category. We take all kinds of bulk order requests be it corporate gifting, exporting or reselling. Our travel products are loved by all our B2B clients.Moreover, Trajectory is the leading travel accessories brand on multipleonline marketplaces like Amazon, Flipkart etc. since 5 years serving close to 3.5 lakh customers across India. | $57.2K / Debt Financing / Feb 28, 2025 | ||
| A startup working in the field of education and providing consulting, management services and solutions to rural schools in India. | $57.3K / Debt Financing / Feb 27, 2025 | ||
| Earthful is a plant-based nutrition brand that offers products that are science-backed nutrition supplements. The company's mission is to fight undernutrition in India through the power of plants. | $572.6K / Seed / Feb 27, 2025 | ||
| Bambinos is India’s #1 English learning platform for kids built by a team of IIM Graduates. Provides online phonics classes, public speaking courses, creative writing classes. Just 2 hours a week with bambinos will build essential communication skills in your child.We are empowering a million kids to be leaders in the new age world. Our uniquecurriculum focuses on Critical thinking, Communication, Character Building, Collaboration. Our programs are delivered live via highly trained educators in conjunction with a razor focus on outcome, which will empower each child to realise full potential and become winner. | $115.2K / Feb 11, 2025 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Aroa Venture Partners
Aroa Venture Partners was founded in 2020 with the vision of becoming India's foremost venture capital firm, backing mission-driven entrepreneurs who deliver both strong returns and positive societal impact. The firm's Partners are Gaurav Gulati, Nitin Wadhwa, and Sekhar Puli. At Aroa, we focus on early to growth-stage businesses acrosssectors. We believe that the long-term environment will always be favorable for making value-add investments in companies with proven unit economics and high potential to scale. Funds: Fund I - $15M: Private fund with single GP/LP. 35+ investments made across sectors and stages primarily in India Fund II - $50M: Regulated Alternative Investment Fund in India (SEBI Registered AIF Category-II Fund) w/feeder vehicles in Singapore and the US.
Aroa Venture Partners Contacts
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Gaurav Gulati
Founder & Managing Partner
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Ritesh Agarwal
Founder
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Sekhar Puli
General & Managing Partner
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FAQ
What does Ritesh Agarwal invest in?
Ritesh Agarwal invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Education and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 63 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Ritesh Agarwal's check size?
Ritesh Agarwal typically joins rounds of $90k–$11M at Seed and $3k–$361k at Angel. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ritesh Agarwal participates in.
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When did Ritesh Agarwal last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ritesh Agarwal closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 63 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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