Siddharth Parekh
Senior Partner @ Paragon Partners, India
Mumbai, India
Siddharth Parekh is a angel investor at Paragon Partners, India in Mumbai focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Siddharth has over 12 years of work experience across the US, UK and India, a majority of which involved investing in emerging markets. Prior to founding Paragon Partners in 2015, Siddharth served as a Principal in the Mumbai office of Actis, a leading emerging markets private equity fund with a growing portfolio of investments in Asia, Africa andLatin America and US$6 billion of funds under management. Siddharth joined Actis’ London office in 2008 and focused primarily on investing in the Financial Services industry. He completed 6 investments across a number of sectors and geographies, managed 8 companies in Actis' Indian portfolio and executed 6 exits. Siddharth has also been an active participant on the angel network in India, having invested in a number of start-ups engaged in the financial technology and health & fitness sectors. Prior to joining Actis, Siddharth was an Investment Analyst at the International Finance Corporation based in Washington D.C. focusing on investing in the Global Manufacturing & Services sectors and also spent 2 years as a Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group in New York. He has an MBA and Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s degree in Finance and Management from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries Siddharth Parekh invests in
Stages Siddharth Parekh invests in
Countries Siddharth Parekh invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Angel
- $39k–$405k
- Series A
- $2M–$56M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 5 (50%)
- FinTech 4 (40%)
- Banking 3 (30%)
- Finance 3 (30%)
- Lending 2 (20%)
Stage
- Angel 2 (20%)
- Series A 2 (20%)
- Funding Round 2 (20%)
- Seed 1 (10%)
- Series B 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Saarathi Finance provides small and medium business credit solutions. | $55.6M / Series A / May 28, 2025 | ||
| SMEcorner is a financial lending firm that focuses on providing quick access to business loans to micro, small, and medium enterprises. The companys mission is to fill India's SME lending gap with the use of an online platform that combines machine learning, data science, and artificial intelligence. SME owners can fund their business throughtheir 2 different products which are the unsecured business loans and loan against property. SMEcorner's lending process is based on a combination of traditional and new alternate data, with strong use of decision science.SMEcorner was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. | $30M / Series B / Mar 01, 2020 | ||
| InCred is a financial services platform that leverages technology and data-science to make lending quick and easy. It uses technology and data-science to make lending quick, simple and hassle-free. InCred offers a broad portfolio of products that cuts across affordable home loans, personal loans, education loans and SME business loans. | $41.9M / Nov 24, 2018 | ||
| Named after the universal word that children use for food, The Mumum Co. is a company built on a mother's love and one that embodies the playfulness of a child. They are also two mums that love a little word play – so “mumum" took on another happy little meaning for us. Get it? Mumum! | $405K / Angel / Jul 13, 2018 | ||
| Chai Point is an omni-channel beverage brand that brings a perfectly brewed cup of chai that is made with fresh and natural ingredients. Its anchor beverage offering is Chai but increasingly coffee is becoming very strong in its portfolio.Chai Point is present in eight cities offering varieties of hot and iced chai, shakes, and bite-sized chaisnacks that perfectly accompany morning and evening chai rituals. | $20M / Series C / Apr 19, 2018 | ||
| HandyTrain helps organizations effortlessly train their dispersed workforces using bite-sized content delivered on its mobile-first platform.HandyTrain has trained 300,000+ users in 15 Countries spanning 5 Continents in 12 different languages.Industry-leading organizations like HDFC Group, Grameen Foundation, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank,Cars24, HomeTown (part of the Future Group), Dr Lal PathLabs, India Infoline (Housing Finance), DTDC, Mahindra Insurance Brokers and Sleepwell, among others count on HandyTrain to train and engage their employees, partners, vendors and franchisees. | $1M / Seed / Nov 29, 2016 | ||
| At CreditVidya we believe in the power of alternate data and technology to help lenders make more accurate credit decisions. Our mission is simple: To enable access to fair and transparent credit to 800 million un-scored Indians. We are a bunch of engineers with a sole mission to enable access to fair and transparent credit to 800 million+un-scored Indians. Traditional methods of credit assesment have failed miserably in India. These outdated methods only look at the repayment history of individuals to give them a credit score. We at CreditVidya are harnessing the power of big data and advance machine learning techniques to re-imagine and re-build credit scoring. | $2M / Series A / Jun 08, 2016 | ||
| IndiaLends is a digital lending and borrowing marketplace that connects consumers and small businesses looking for low-rate loans with institutional lenders looking for good returns. Available on both the web and mobile, the company also provides value-add services such as big-data analytics, credit risk assessment and verification, and automatedwork-flows for loan origination and management to lenders while borrowers can apply for unsecured personal loans online, get access to their credit reports for free and manage their daily spends via the IndiaLends Mobile App.Launched in 2015, the company is based in New Delhi, India. | $1M / Oct 05, 2015 | ||
| At CreditVidya we believe in the power of alternate data and technology to help lenders make more accurate credit decisions. Our mission is simple: To enable access to fair and transparent credit to 800 million un-scored Indians. We are a bunch of engineers with a sole mission to enable access to fair and transparent credit to 800 million+un-scored Indians. Traditional methods of credit assesment have failed miserably in India. These outdated methods only look at the repayment history of individuals to give them a credit score. We at CreditVidya are harnessing the power of big data and advance machine learning techniques to re-imagine and re-build credit scoring. | $59.2K / Angel / Nov 01, 2014 | ||
| At CreditVidya we believe in the power of alternate data and technology to help lenders make more accurate credit decisions. Our mission is simple: To enable access to fair and transparent credit to 800 million un-scored Indians. We are a bunch of engineers with a sole mission to enable access to fair and transparent credit to 800 million+un-scored Indians. Traditional methods of credit assesment have failed miserably in India. These outdated methods only look at the repayment history of individuals to give them a credit score. We at CreditVidya are harnessing the power of big data and advance machine learning techniques to re-imagine and re-build credit scoring. | $39.1K / Angel / Sep 23, 2014 |
Co-Investors
About Paragon Partners, India
To be a leading India-focused mid-market private equity investor
Paragon Partners, India Contacts
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Shweta Agrawal
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
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Siddharth Parekh
Senior Partner
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Sumeet Nindrajog
Co-Founder & Partner
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FAQ
What does Siddharth Parekh invest in?
Siddharth Parekh invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Banking startups, most often at Angel and Series A stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Siddharth Parekh's check size?
Siddharth Parekh typically joins rounds of $39k–$405k at Angel and $2M–$56M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Siddharth Parekh participates in.
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When did Siddharth Parekh last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Siddharth Parekh closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 10 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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