# Varun Alagh

> Varun Alagh is a seed investor at Honasa Consumer (Gurgaon) backing Retail and E-Commerce. See 65 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Honasa Consumer](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/honasa-consumer)
- Location: Gurgaon, India
- Total investments: 65
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/varunalagh84
- Website: https://x.com/varunalagh
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/varun.alagh

Varun Alagh is a seed investor at Honasa Consumer in Gurgaon focused on Retail and E-Commerce. Varun Alagh is based out of Gurgaon, Haryana, and is the Co-Founder, Chief Dad, and CEO of Honasa Consumer. Varun previously worked at The Coca-Cola Company as a Senior Brand Manager. Varun Alagh attended XLRI Jamshedpur.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $300k–$4M |
| Pre-Seed | $332k–$500k |
| Series A | $1.5M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Retail | 9 | 14% |
| E-Commerce | 9 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 9% |
| Internet | 5 | 8% |
| Software | 5 | 8% |

91 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 44 | 68% |
| Series A | 6 | 9% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 6% |
| Series E | 2 | 3% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 54 | 83% |
| United States | 3 | 5% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MeMeraki | MeMeraki is India first culture-tech platform using technology to empower the artisan creator economy and shopping and retail and fashion. | $110.4K |  | Feb 14, 2026 |  |
| The Binge Town | The Binge Town is an entertainment venue company that offers theater bookings, event hosting, and customized celebration services. | $110.4K |  | Feb 11, 2026 |  |
| The Binge Town | The Binge Town is an entertainment venue company that offers theater bookings, event hosting, and customized celebration services. | $110.4K | Debt Financing | Feb 11, 2026 |  |
| Truth & Hair | Truth & Hair is an e-commerce platform offering natural, organic, and plant-based hair care products from various global brands. | $272.7K |  | Jan 31, 2026 |  |
| Japam | Japam seems to have carved out a niche for itself in providing top-notch spiritual items and resources. Japam is always beneficial when platforms can meet the needs of spiritual seekers effectively. | $165.4K | Seed | Jan 16, 2026 |  |
| MYPB | MYPB is an Indian peanut butter brand that offers powdered peanut-based products. | $77.5K | Angel | Jan 15, 2026 |  |
| Smylo | Smylo is an Indian pet nutrition brand specializing in natural, preservative-free wet cat food for kittens and adults, using human-grade ingredients with fresh meat content (tuna, salmon, chicken, mackerel, liver), superfoods (pumpkin, pomegranate, rosemary, cranberry), and moisture for hydration. | $83K | Seed | Jan 14, 2026 |  |
| Rotoris | Rotoris is an Indian watchmaker that manufactures and markets high-quality watches. With in-house design team, Rotoris offers finest automatic and quartz watches. | $3M | Seed | Dec 15, 2025 |  |
| All Things People | All Things People HR firm uses AI, people science to help organizations attract, engage, and grow talent. | $792.7K | Seed | Sep 22, 2025 |  |
| Heizen | Heizen is an AI-driven platform that automates software development tasks to speed up product creation and launch. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Jul 30, 2025 |  |

10 of 65 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Titan Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/titan-capital) — VC Fund, 26 deals together
- [Stellaris Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stellaris-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Whiteboard Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/whiteboard-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [7Square Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/7square-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [100Unicorns](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/9unicorns) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Roots Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roots-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Honasa Consumer

VC Fund · Gurgaon, India

Honasa Consumer is a group of brands that consists of an extensive number of digital-first brands. The company is driven to build an FMCG conglomerate across the personal development and beauty sectors by promoting brands that use safe and quality-assured products. The in-house portfolio of the company comprises brands like Mamaearth, The DermaCo., and BBlunt.

5 contacts available at Honasa Consumer.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Varun Alagh | Co-Founder, Chief Dad and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/varun-alagh |
| Ghazal Alagh | Co-Founder & CIO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ghazal-alagh |
| Kaustav Guha | Vice-President of R&D | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kaustav-guha-d93b |
| Nilesh Kotalwar | SVP, Online Revenue | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nilesh-kotalwar-462b |
| Vipul Maheshwari | SVP Product and Data Analytics | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vipul-maheshwari |

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## FAQ

### What does Varun Alagh invest in?

Varun Alagh invests primarily in Retail, E-Commerce and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 65 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Varun Alagh's check size?

Varun Alagh typically joins rounds of $300k–$4M at Seed, $332k–$500k at Pre-Seed and $1.5M–$10M 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 Varun Alagh participates in.

### When did Varun Alagh last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Varun Alagh closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 65 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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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