# Social Alpha

> Social Alpha is a VC fund in Bangalore backing Health Care and Farming. See 59 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, India
- Total investments: 59
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 27%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/social-alpha/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/socialalphain
- Website: https://www.socialalpha.org/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SocialAlphaIN/

Social Alpha is a VC fund in Bangalore focused on Health Care and Farming. Social Alpha has been designed as a multistage innovation curation and venture development platform for science and technology start-ups that aim to address the most critical social, economic and environmental challenges. Social Alpha supports entrepreneurs through a network of innovation labs, startup incubators, accelerator programmes, seed fundsand market access mechanisms. Selected startups get access to infrastructure, sandbox for pilots and validations, product management guidance, technical, business and regulatory expertise, early-stage risk capital and entrepreneurial mentoring. Social Alpha raises financial resources to support these programmes from a number of philanthropic, government and corporate partnerships.Since its inception in 2016, Social Alpha has nurtured more than 200 start-ups including 60+ seed investments.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 11 | 19% |
| Farming | 8 | 14% |
| Waste Management | 8 | 14% |
| Medical Device | 7 | 12% |
| Agriculture | 5 | 8% |

81 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 39 | 66% |
| Pre-Seed | 8 | 14% |
| Grant | 6 | 10% |
| Series A | 2 | 3% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 52 | 88% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Manoj Kumar | Founder | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manoj-kumar-2 |
| Suresh Nair | Chief Technology Advisor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/suresh-nair-ca84 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| VoltSeal | VoltSeal provides smart battery energy storage systems (BESS) designed for commercial and industrial businesses to optimize energy efficiency. The company's technology enables energy arbitrage, peak demand shaving, reduction of diesel generator reliance, and green electric vehicle charging solutions. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Jun 04, 2026 |  |
| RNT Health Insights | RNT Health Insights developing an AI-assisted tool to aid endoscopists in the real-time detection of upper gastrointestinal lesions. |  | Grant | Nov 11, 2024 |  |
| Wundrsight Healthcare | Access to effective psychological therapies has been hampered by a shortage of clinicians and the problem is especially acute for people in India where more than 150 Mn people are in need of therapy.With Wundrsight, we are building a Mixed Reality & AI based Comprehensive Care Digital Therapeutics platform to improve treatment outcomes,engagement and ease of care for delivery of neurocognitive, mental and behavioural health solutions.Backed by Meta, IIT Mandi Catalyst, iHUB HCI Foundation, NASSCOM 10k, Venture Centure, CIE IIIT-H, KIIT-TBI, TCS Digital Impact Square. | $400K | Seed | Sep 12, 2024 |  |
| Proximal Soilsens Technologies | Agriculture remains at the forefront of mitigating climate change. However, suboptimal use of resources like fertilizer and water degrades land and reduces productivity. Precision agriculture is the solution to these problems. Soilsens have indigenously built smart moisture meters (SoilSens Station and SoilSens Go) for precise irrigation and apalm-size glucometer-like device called NutriSens for instant and rapid onsite soil health (nutrients, pH, EC) analysis. These devices send the soil data to the cloud in real time. Our decision support platform helps in making the right decisions. With the help of the dashboard and mobile apps, the farmer instantly gets the soil health info and recommendation about precise water and fertilizer usage. Our technologies are affordable and easy to use without compromising on quality. SoilSens is the only Company providing sensors for weather, soil moisture, and soil nutrition under one platform. In addition, our products are indigenously developed and patented. |  | Seed | Mar 30, 2024 |  |
| Samarth Life Management | India's largest community of active seniors and provider of trusted eldercare services and products. | $1.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 21, 2024 |  |
| LogiXair | Building Aerial Pickup Trucks for Sustainable Logistics | $16K | Grant | Sep 15, 2023 |  |
| Tan90 | Tan90 help companies to transport perishables in a cost-effective, monitored, and safe manner. Tan90 are environmentally friendly and pocket friendly. Get in touch with our experts to get cold storage solutions for transporting vegetables, fruits, dairy products, meat, and fish. | $1.4M | Seed | May 31, 2023 |  |
| Padcare Labs | PadCare is an unprecedented hygiene management solution that completes the loop of menstrual hygiene economy by generating harmless, recyclable output out of soiled pads. | $604.9K | Seed | Feb 08, 2023 |  |
| Rechargion Energy | Rechargion Energy is an industrial manufacturer of sustainable energy storage solutions based on sodium-ion energy. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Vidcare Innovations | Vidcare Innovations is a startup that develops portable health tests to make diagnostic testing convenient, accessible, and available to everyone. | $300K | Pre-Seed | Aug 25, 2022 |  |

10 of 59 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [IIMA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ciie-iim-ahmedabad) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Impact India Investment Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/impact-india-investment-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Lavni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lavni-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Spectrum Impact](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spectrum-impact) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Venture Center](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venture-center-d17f) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Be An Angel Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/be-an-angel-network) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Social Alpha invest in?

Social Alpha invests primarily in Health Care, Farming and Waste Management startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 59 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Social Alpha?

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### Who are the partners at Social Alpha?

The team at Social Alpha includes Manoj Kumar (Founder) and Suresh Nair (Chief Technology Advisor). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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