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Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in India in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Recruiting startups based in India. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Recruiting companies from India. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in India in May 2025

Investor	Recruiting India investments
Unitus Ventures	6
Tracxn labs	4
Better Capital	3
LetsVenture	3
Peak XV Partners	3
Titan Capital	3
Francisco Arcilla	2
The Chennai Angels	2
Chiratae Ventures	2
Pallav Nadhani	2
Rocketship.vc	2
Cloud Capital	2
Phanindra Sama	2
Zephyr Acorn	2
Malpani Ventures	2
100X.VC	2
Monish Darda	2
Athera Venture Partners	2
Mumbai Angels	2
Aneesh Reddy	2
Pentathlon Ventures	2
Hyderabad Angels	2
Spacecadet Ventures	2
GTMfund	2
3one4 Capital	2
Anand Chandrasekaran	2
Kalaari Capital	2
Venture Highway	2
Samir Khosla	2
VenturEast	2
Bhupen Shah	2
Lightspeed India Partners	2
Raju Reddy	1
Pontaq	1
Zillionize	1
Zia Mody	1
India Quotient	1
Nandan Reddy	1
Archana Kumari	1
Mohit Saytanand	1
Lightrock india (Aspada)	1
Info Edge	1
Asymmetry Ventures	1
Khosla Impact	1
Rajan Anandan	1
University Ventures	1
Prahlad Rao	1
ImpactAssets	1
Krishna Mehra	1
WaterBridge Ventures	1

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Unitus Ventures is India’s leading impact venture fund investing in startups innovating for the masses across healthcare, education and fintech sectors. Founded in 2012, Unitus Ventures is a part of Capria Network, the leading global network of venture fund managers investing in emerging markets of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Unitus Venturesis based in Bangalore and Seattle. Capria has offices in Bangalore, Jakarta, Nairobi, and Seattle. More at: https://unitus.vc and http://capria.vc

Investment focus

Education, Health Care, Training
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Eduvanz — Eduvanz is NBFC and private finance company offers low interest student, education, career, skill development loan in Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Hyderabad and Bangalore.
Cusmat — We Enhance On Job Industrial Worker Performance Through Our Collaborative Physics-Realistic Logistics, Manufacturing and Mining Metaverse
BetterPlace — People-centric HR technology, employee benefits management, upskilling platform and workforce fulfilment solution. We help organisations achieve operational excellence.

Tracxn Labs is a California-based company that offers a startup research platform which tracks startups across many sectors.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Human Resources
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Lohum — LOHUM is a Leading Eco-friendly battery material leader Specializing in Lithium-Ion Battery recycling. Simplifying sustainability. Enquire now!
Stockal — Stockal helps retail investors in India, Middle East and South East Asia “globalize” their savings and wealth by saving and/or investing money in mature international markets such as US, UK, Germany, HK and Japan. Using Stockal, people can, digitally, open, own and operate overseas investing accounts - digitally and affordably. Additionally,investing on Stockal is backed by big data-based automated research and analysis that helps investors make smarter investing decisions. Stockal helps investors manage their portfolio better, keep track of its health, make better investing decisions and discover interesting stocks and investing themes every day so that they don't have to scour through reams of data or depend on unreliable guesswork.
HireSure — HireSure enables companies to transform their candidate experience with AI. This reduces time to hire, increases join ratio and gives candidates a delightful joining experience.

Better is a global venture capital firm that backs bold innovators on day zero.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Mili — The most secure meeting assistant for wealth advisors. Transform client meetings into organized notes and actionable follow-ups instantly.
Astra Security — Uncover vulnerabilities in your apps with our Pentest Suite. Protect your business in real time with Website Protection (Firewall & Malware Scanner)
Misfits — Explore your hobbies, find your tribe. Misfits is a platform for interest based clubs where club members, club leaders and venues come together to form healthy thriving communities and foster real life, offline connections.

Connect with 10,000 plus angel investors. Raise funding seamlessly. Find startups to invest in. Easy to use & seamless technology platform for startup investing & funding.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Vayudh — Vayudh's aim is to create next-generation nanodrones and swarming technologies for modern defense and security applications.
NOTO — NOTO is a brand that makes healthy, low-calorie, low sugar, and high-protein ice-cream.
Just Deliveries(JD) — JustDeliveries: Efficient B2B Intra-city logistics for fresh, frozen, and chilled products across India. Contact us today!

We help the daring build legendary companies.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

PagarBook — PagarBook is a staff's salary, work, and attendance management app for small and medium enterprises.The easy-to-use mobile and desktop application manage the attendance, salary, advance payment, bonuses, overtime, and work done per piece or work basis staff, enabling SMEs to handle all their employee-related tasks in a single app thatsynchronizes across multiple devices in real-time.It was established in Bangalore City, Karnataka in 2019 by Arya Gautam, Adarsh Kumar, and Rupesh Mishra.
Relevance AI — Developer-first vector platform for rapid experimentation. Build great vector-based applications with flexible developer tools for storing, querying and experimenting with vectors.
SquareX — SquareX keeps you safe, anonymous, and private online! Unlike existing products that block access to files and websites, SquareX allows you to open even suspicious or malicious resources fearlessly!

Titan Capital invests behind world class entrepreneurs looking to create wide-scale positive impact on India and the World.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

91Trucks — 91trucks is India youngest and fastest growing automotive website that aims to be a one-stop solutions for all needs automotive.
ContraVault AI — Transforming Tender and RFP Management using AI
Be Clinical — Be Clinical is a science-backed skincare brand specializing in advanced anti-ageing solutions, with a strong focus on clinically validated, medical-grade formulations. The brand is committed to transparency, efficacy, and innovation, targeting evolving skin needs at every life stage, particularly for Indian Gen Z and Millennial consumers seekingearly and effective anti-ageing care

Francisco is a finance and investment professional with over 25 years' experience, who brings deep knowledge of capital markets and alternative investments to TNF. Francisco has led teams of investors and advisors across multiple locations, most recently as a management board member for a leading global Asset Management firm.

Investment focus

Software, B2B, PaaS
Seed, Series A
India, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

NAX Group — NAX enables a corporate partner to realize the full potential of its proprietary assets through the development of new asset-backed ventures and securities. From seed to securitization, NAX co-leads the commercialization of these initiatives alongside its partners. It has three distinct but complementary platforms to repurpose corporate assets:(i) a development platform, (ii) a technology platform and a (iii) securitization platform. NAX maintains its headquarters in Manhattan Beach, CA and has offices in Palo Alto, New York, London, Paris, Zurich and Frankfurt.
Equip Sport — Gain access to the fastest growing network of rental lockers worldwide. Equip gives you instant access to SUP and sports rental anywhere, anytime.
TurboHire — Discover our step-by-step guide to mastering Boolean search for effective candidate discovery in hiring. Unlock the secrets to smarter recruitment.

The Chennai Angels is an Angel Investment Group in India with over 140 individual, corporate and institutional members. The Chennai Angels invests in early stage startups and also provide mentorship for their portfolio companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Tummoc — Tummoc — the first Made-in-India Transit Application to help you with real-time public transport information and last-mile connectivity.With Tummoc, you can access actionable information for all modes of public transport and book rides for your first and last mile. Soon, you will also be able to enjoy single-source tickets across multiple modesof transport.
Proost69 — Proost69 offers a premium quality beer with a smooth taste.
goStops — goSTOPS offers best option for backpackers or youth solo adventurers tour traveller cheap hostel stay room booking online in india. We are a chain of backpacker hostels accommodation that strives to provide social stays & experiential travels at every step for a youth tourism.

Chiratae Ventures is a global network of venture capital funds with approximately $3.6 billion under management and a portfolio of over 220 companies built over the last 15 years. The Chiratae Ventures network is comprised of five independent partnerships managing funds in North America and Asia. Each partnership makes investments on behalf of itslimited partners, including International Data Group (IDG), the world's largest IT media company. By combining the IDG platform – an unparalleled combination of global publishing, market research (IDC), and conferences and exhibition resources – with years of hands-on experience in early-stage company building, each Chiratae Ventures fund helps companies understand their markets better and penetrate them faster than their competition.With partnerships in the USA, Korea and multiple locations throughout China, India and Vietnam, the IDG Ventures network offers the international perspective and the local market expertise to help companies grow from start-ups to global success stories.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
India, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Expertia.AI — AI-powered screening and assessments: find and interview top candidates from 100+ platforms and hire in 24 hours, all at <10% of the cost.
Curefoods — Curefoods democratizes access to food on a sustainable basis. They focus on operations management for cloud kitchens and the online food ordering market.
Dezy — Smiles.ai is India's leading dental clinic with 100+ expert dentists and has 300+ dental care centers in major cities like Bangalore, Bhopal, Chennai, Delhi, Indore, Lucknow, and Kolkata. Find the best dentist nearby.

Pallav Nadhani is the Managing Partner at Seeders Venture Capital.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Gallabox — Gallabox is a no-code workspace that unlocks the power of WhatsApp to scale your business with Shared Inbox, WhatsApp no-code Chatbot, WhatsApp Broadcasts and more
Bookee — Bookee is the new way yoga, boutique fitness studios and gyms win & retain clients. Start your free trial now.
Facets.cloud — Platform Engineering made easy for large and complex infra setups. Set Ops guardrails and enable developer self-service with Facets' Internal Developer Platform.

rocketship.vc is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in companies using models built through data science. Their proprietary Escape Velocity algorithm identifies companies with a Sustainable Growth Engine at their core. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Los Altos, California, United States.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Tessell — Differentiated Infrastructure. Delightful Management.
Mindgrove — Discover the benefits of choosing Mindgrove Tech's System on Chip, backed by SHAKTI open-source processor program. Join the movement to put India on the map.
SILQ — SILQ is a platform dedicated to bridging economies and empowering businesses to trade, grow, and navigate new frontiers. By enabling seamless commerce, logistics, and finance, SILQ unlocks opportunities in emerging economies, fueling ambitions and redefining global trade.The name SILQ is a modern tribute to the legendary Silk Road—reimagined forthe digital age. The distinctive “Q” comes from Souq, the Arabic word for marketplace, symbolizing our commitment to fast, accessible, authentic, and reliable commerce.SILQ aspires to transform local products and manufacturers into global brands by connecting them with entrepreneurs in emerging markets across the Gulf, South Asia, and beyond.

Early-stage Venture Capital for the Cloud Economy

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

just words — An AI-first modern enterprise marketing stack that sets you in an always-on, set-and-forget motion. Increase your experimentation velocity and keep your team lean! Say goodbye to manual campaign management.
Felicity Games — Felicity Games place our users at the core of our gaming experience, believing that maximizing user satisfaction will in turn maximize lifetime value in the long term.
Oncare Cancer - Best Cancer Treatment Delhi — Oncare offers cutting-edge cancer therapies based on the latest research and studies. Furthermore, and more crucially, we focus on reducing the mental and emotional load that this trip may impose on you.

Phanindra Sama is the Advisor of WestBridge Capital. He previously worked at redBus as a Founder and CEO. Phanindra Sama attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Internet, Health Care, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Bitsila — Bitsila is an software company that allows retail shops to start and grow business through online platform.
Punt Partners — Punt Partners is a company that provides marketing technology services. It provides results through the use of proprietary data, technology, and services.
Billion Hearts — Did you sign-up for our beta launch?

Zephyr Management is a global emerging markets investment manager, specializing in the creation & management of highly focused private equity and venture capital funds.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Kenya, India, Uganda

Portfolio highlights

Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
Power — Putting individuals on the path towards financial health

We fund frugal Innovation in India

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Iyaso — Guided speech therapy for stuttering
clodura.AI — Boost sales with GenAI powered sales prospecting platform. Streamline lead generation and engagement. Sign up Clodura.AI for free today!
the EleFant — Rent toys for kids online from The EleFant Toy. Choose from a variety of educational, fun, and unique toys. Best toy rental service for kids online in India

100X.VC, a venture capital firm created a new model for funding early stage startups in India. 100X.VC is a SEBI Registered AIF.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

PlaySuper — PlaySuper is the core values of a mobile app or game and used to see in product page and should convey the app’s purpose and benefits.PlaySuper is building commerce in games, specifically focusing on revolutionizing in-game commerce by enabling gaming studios to integrate rewards and brands to reach gaming audiences
Baylink — Baylink makes it easy for consumer brands to sell their products in stores. Get more customers and reach a wider audience with our simple, effective solutions.
FUTR STUDIOS — Meet India's first virtual influencer, Kyra, at FUTR Studios

Monish has more than 20 years of experience in application and systems software development and the architecting of enterprise distributed systems.Monish is the CTO of Icertis Inc. A leading provider of enterprise solutions in the Microsoft Cloud.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, B2B
Seed, Series A
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ExtraaEdge — Streamline admissions with Admission CRM & Marketing Automation-manage leads, boost counselor efficiency, and simplify processes effectively.
SuperGaming — At SuperGaming, we are putting India on the global gaming map.
TurboHire — Discover our step-by-step guide to mastering Boolean search for effective candidate discovery in hiring. Unlock the secrets to smarter recruitment.

Athera Venture Partners is an early-stage Venture Capital firm that invests in Seed to Series A rounds in technology focussed companies

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Beacon.li — Replace your zillion onboarding + nudging + conversion + analytics + NPS + Help Center tools with a unique no-code & AI-first adoption and conversion assistant Beacon
Hyperbots — Hyperbots specializes in developing AI-powered finance assistants that automate and transform repetitive tasks.
VuNet Systems — Our full-stack AI/ML, and Big Data analytics platform monitors data at scale for better customer experience and unified business journey observability.

Mumbai Angels is an angle stage investment firm. Mumbai Angels has served as a breeding ground for both plug-in businesses for larger corporations and financial investors seeking incubated businesses ready to scale.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Gramiyaa — Pure, fresh cold-pressed cooking oils that bring out the natural flavors in your home cooked food, making meals delicious. Shop cold pressed groundnut, coconut, sesame and mustard oils from Gramiyaa.
Hemptyful — Hemptyful's hemp seed-based goods include dips and cold-pressed oils made from premium hemp seeds, providing a high supply of protein, omega-3 fatty acids, and critical components for a healthy and balanced diet
goStops — goSTOPS offers best option for backpackers or youth solo adventurers tour traveller cheap hostel stay room booking online in india. We are a chain of backpacker hostels accommodation that strives to provide social stays & experiential travels at every step for a youth tourism.

Aneesh Reddy is the co-founder & Chief Executive Officer at Capillary Technologies. With his global vision and focused mentorship, Aneesh leads a team that helps enterprise customers engage with their consumers intelligently, delivering personalized communications to the right consumers at the right time.Aneesh is a featured expert at globalretail, marketing, and technology forums and works closely with acclaimed institutions towards creating a sustained product ecosystem in India. He is also a featured entrepreneur in leading publications such as Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and The Economic Times. He is also an Independent Director at HR technology firm Darwinbox.Prior to founding Capillary, Aneesh worked with ITC Limited and was involved in their facility management division. Aneesh holds a Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Flent — Flent offers fully furnished designer homes.
Threado AI — Threado is the command centre for your online community. Measure engagement, get detailed insights and automate your operational tasks. Get early access!
Facets.cloud — Platform Engineering made easy for large and complex infra setups. Set Ops guardrails and enable developer self-service with Facets' Internal Developer Platform.

A seed stage venture fund based in Pune, investing in B2B SaaS companies from India. Our founder-friendly approach and focus on enterprise digital transformation make us a top choice for entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

DOQFY — DOQFY is an online platform with simple and user-friendly website through which individuals and businesses can access excellent professional and legal ancillary services.They provide end-to-end support for all your professional needs, right from starting and managing your business, tax registrations and filings, documentation, licenseregistrations, protecting your intellectual property and many more.
Vodex — Automate outbound calls with Vodex's Gen AI-powered voice agents that sound human. Perfect for use cases like lead qualification, follow-ups, reminders, and more.
QuickReply.ai — QuickRely.ai automates chat over Website, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp for Ecommerce Stores such as Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, and BigCommerce.

Hyderabad Angels invest in early-stage companies to create tangible as well as intangible value. Hyderabad Angels (HA) takes pride in being a platform for connecting seasoned angel investors and emerging business leaders with cutting-edge venture ideas. Venture capitalists, business leaders, and entrepreneurs who have a strong commitment tosupporting the Indian and global start-up ecosystem are among the investors in the company.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Proost69 — Proost69 offers a premium quality beer with a smooth taste.
Skippi Ice Pops — Buy Skippi Ice Pops, The Best Frozen Popsicles In India. 100% Natural Flavours, Natural Colours, Natural Preservatives, and No Artificial Sweeteners too.
Skye Air Mobility — Skye Air provides an affordable and fast drone delivery service for online orders. We use drones to deliver products to consumers in just a few minutes

We join forces to ignite great leaps forward.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Psyrin — Psyrin is a healthcare company specializing in AI-enabled care for serious mental illness.
Athenic AI — Athenic AI is a data analytics platform that gets you mission critical insights in seconds, not days. Its platform also offers intuitive data infrastructure, data unification, creating pipelines that measure business, use machine learning for accurate predictions, and sharing dashboards to visualize results.
Cassidy — Create customized AI-assistants to streamline tasks, enhance productivity, and adopt AI across your entire organization.

Let us help you go from 0 to IPO. We're investing $10 million per year into early-stage companies (pre-Series A), specializing in B2B SaaS.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

AI or Not — AI or Not is an AI detector company that checks for AI generated content in images, audio, KYC identity documents and more.
Paid — Paid is a business platform for AI agents.
Indigo — Indigo is an AI-powered home buying and selling platform for agents. Featuring an offers platform with built in seller preferences, commissions, forms & contracts.

At 3one4, we are biased towards action and channel the relevant resources to support generational innovation engines out of India. We partner with early-stage companies that are mission-oriented and are setting new standards for inclusive value creation and sustainable growth.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Scimplify — Scimplify delivers innovative specialty chemical solutions as a trusted manufacturer and global supplier to industries including pharma, food, and cosmetics
Rezolv — Rezolv revolutionizes debt recovery with AI-driven strategies, automation, and human-centric communication. Maximize recovery while preserving customer relationships.
Felicity Games — Felicity Games place our users at the core of our gaming experience, believing that maximizing user satisfaction will in turn maximize lifetime value in the long term.

Anand Chandrasekaran is a Partner at General Catalyst. He previously worked at Facebook and attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Jupiter — Jupiter is a grocery automation service that takes care of the shopping, delivery, and even meal-planning.
OpsLyft — The only cloud management platform that focuses on providing actionable insights for technology and financial leaders.
Fold Health — Crafting the building blocks of modern primary care

Kalaari is a $160 million venture capital fund with a strong advisory team in Bangalore investing in early-stage, technology-oriented companies in India.Kalaari Capital invests in the unknown Indian entrepreneur who is poised to become tomorrow’s global leader. They are India’s leading investor in early-stage businesses, nurturing them throughevery aspect of growth on the transformative journey toward success.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Figr — Figr is a startup that uses artificial intelligence to transform the product design process. It reduces friction in the creation of digital products by leveraging AI to improve design research, rapidly iterate interfaces, and collaborate with the goal of making product design more accessible.
Triple Tap — Triple Tap is a game development studio, specializing in creating engaging titles.
Deconstruct — Looking for 100% authentic dermatologically tested skin products? Build your skincare routine with Deconstruct's evidence based products for best results. Check now!

Venture Highway teams up with the next generation of entrepreneurs by providing guidance and capital to early-stage nascent ideas in technology.We are looking to team up with founders who demonstrate a passion and ability to create world-class businesses. If you’ve got the ability, drive, desire, passion, perseverance, and all that ‘good’ (butreally really painful) stuff then you’ve reached the right place.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Meragi — Meragi is an end to end wedding decor service taking care of all decor requirements from deisgn to execution, all at a great price
OrbitShift — Advanced AI operating system for actionable account insights, RFP response generation and targeted sales content
Kintsugi AI — Automating sales tax for businesses globally

Samir is an entrepreneur who has built and led five successful ventures across four continents over the last two decades. While his entrepreneurial journey started in software technology, his follow-on ventures spanned multiple industries including construction, oil & gas, and human resources. While he has studied engineering, management, andfinance, he is a technologist at heart. Samir serves as a board member on select TNF investee companies.

Investment focus

B2B, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A
India, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MSMEx — MSMEx: Leading SME IPO consultants in India, offer tailored strategies and expert guidance for small and medium businesses navigating IPO complexities.
Metaphysiks — Metaphysiks is a groundbreaking immersive technology company combining world leading neuroscience and robotics to create multisensory experiences.
TurboHire — Discover our step-by-step guide to mastering Boolean search for effective candidate discovery in hiring. Unlock the secrets to smarter recruitment.

Ventureast is one of India's longest standing venture capital firms investing in Indian businesses since the late 90s.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Software
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Lohum — LOHUM is a Leading Eco-friendly battery material leader Specializing in Lithium-Ion Battery recycling. Simplifying sustainability. Enquire now!
InviroNext — InviroNext Is building power of Decentralized Applications (DApps) with Artificial Intelligence (AI) prowess is heralding a new era of technological synergy.
Infinite Uptime — Infinite Uptime provides predictive maintenance services and plant-reliability solutions to global manufacturing and asset-intensive industries. Book a demo NOW.

Bhupen Shah holds a Masters of Science degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He brings with him a great deal of expertise and experience.Bhupen Shah has over twenty-five years of experience in technology development, product development and engineering management in embedded digitalmedia and communication solutions at Sling Media, Emuzed, Dazzle, RealChip, Philips Semiconductors, IBM and other such heavyweights. Bhupen successfully built cost-effective India-based development organizations. He co-founded Sling Media, and as COO & VP Engineering, was instrumental in bringing award winning Slingbox products into the retail market. Sling Media was acquired by Echostar in 2007 and Bhupen currently plays the role of CTO at the same. Prior to Sling Media, Bhupen co-founded Emuzed, Inc., initially serving as COO and EVP of Engineering. His team delivered PC and embedded digital media products to worldwide tier-1 OEMs. Emuzed was then acquired by Flextronics. Bhupen was also a key contributor and VP of Software at Dazzle, the first company to deliver video capture devices to the consumer market. Dazzle was acquired by SCM Microsystems.

Investment focus

Software, Big Data, Enterprise Software
Angel, Seed, Series A
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tydy — From onboarding to offboarding - deliver the best Employee Experience, at scale. Tydy consolidates data from multiple systems and processes and uses artificial intelligence to send the right communication and notification to the right person at the right time.
ten3T — ten3T is a medical grade wearable device startup. ten3T builds a sophisticated self enclosed, real time monitoring device - a 9 cm triangular patch that the patient places on their chest - for as long as is required - from a minute to several days.
Locus.sh — Locus is an intelligent logistics automation and decision-making platform that comes with in-built route planning and vehicle allocation engine which improves consistency and efficiency of operations.The platform helps companies and enterprises in e-commerce, food delivery, FMCG, and other verticals to automate and optimize their logistics. Theproduct suite comprises a route deviation engine, order dispatch automation, a field user app, route optimizations, scheduling, tracking for end-customer, and predictive analytics. Offering the entire technology stack, in the form of a platform as a service.

Lightspeed Venture Partners has invested in direct and cross-border. They invest across several stages and sectors, including technology-led businesses as well as non-technology opportunities in sectors such as advertising and media, business services, financial services, healthcare, education, and retail.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Bachatt — Bachatt is a daily savings led financial services platform. Bachatt aims to address a critical need for over 30 crore self-employed individuals in India. while self-employed individuals earn daily, their expenses often require large, infrequent payments, creating a major cash flow challenge. This, coupled with the inherent variability in dailyearnings, makes managing finances extremely difficult.Our vision is to become their trusted daily savings partner, helping them establish financial discipline. This strong foundation will then unlock access to a suite of financial products (loans, high-yield instruments, insurance, etc.) at more favorable terms.
Slikk — Slikk is a fashion brand that aims to deliver value within seconds and drip within minutes
Zolve — Best neo bank in India offering international banking & financial services online. Apply for a US bank account, credit card & student education loan with Zolve!

Flam is a Board Member of Flam. He attended the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Big Data
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Budy — Budy is your AI Powered Sidekick for SaaS Professional Services
Homingos — Relive the special moments and surprise your loved ones with Flam. Why Create photos. Create Tangible Moments with FlamCard. Shop your FlamCard now!
Locus.sh — Locus is an intelligent logistics automation and decision-making platform that comes with in-built route planning and vehicle allocation engine which improves consistency and efficiency of operations.The platform helps companies and enterprises in e-commerce, food delivery, FMCG, and other verticals to automate and optimize their logistics. Theproduct suite comprises a route deviation engine, order dispatch automation, a field user app, route optimizations, scheduling, tracking for end-customer, and predictive analytics. Offering the entire technology stack, in the form of a platform as a service.

Pontaq is the first UK-India venture capital fund investing in startups across both countries headquartered in London.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, News, Legal
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

RTIwala — RTIwala is a citizen-centric Legaltech startup, empowering the masses through sensible content & affordable legal solutions. File Online RTI or Anonymous RTI Online on RTIwala.
Upraised — Upraised offers comprehensive recruitment solutions, utilizing cognitive and task-based evaluation to match and rank candidates.
Attron Automotive — Attron automotive is India's first company on a mission to produce long-range efficient EV components at a cost-effective manner

Zillionize is a seed round startup investor. We focus on early-stage investing in founders who see the future and startups that create the future. We are self funded experienced operators. Our team live and breath enterprise software on a day to day basis and are equally as passionate about other areas of technology.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tavus — Programmatically create thousands of videos of yourself, without saying a word. AI generated videos for sales, product, marketing, recruiting, and more
Metriport — Metriport helps digital health companies access and manage patient health and medical data, through an open-source and universal API.
Thera — All things money movement. Built for global teams. Thera is an ecosystem of apps designed to save you money - Payroll, Banking, AP/AR. Whether you're looking to use one of our products or the full suite, we've got you covered.

Zia Mody - Founder & Managing Partner @ AZB & Partners

Investment focus

Retail, Lifestyle, E-Learning
Seed
India

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HerKey (formerly JobsForHer) — HerKey (formerly JobsForHer) is India’s largest career engagement platform that unlocks opportunities, learning, and communities for women in India by connecting them with career champions.HerKey has been at the forefront of developing scalable solutions to increase women's participation in the Indian workforce. Incepted in 2015, HerKey(formerly JobsForHer) works with over 10,000 companies across India that prioritize diversity and inclusion and has assisted them in engaging with and recruiting women. HerKey is dedicated to promoting the professional development of women in their careers. The platform connects women with the right jobs across levels, provides learning opportunities to enable them to upskill and reskill, and provides mentorship to women wanting to start, restart, or advance in their professions. The company's vision is to enable women to realize their full potential by connecting them with the right opportunities, learning, and communities.HerKey has grown to service over 3.5 million women across India and plans to scale to power 30 million women’s careers in India.HerKey seeks to be the dependable companion for every woman on her career journey, enabling her growth, opening up opportunities, creating meaningful engagement, and facilitating her career journey – onwards & upwards.HerKey - Your Career Companion at Every Phase of Life Because we understand that a woman’s career journey traverses through life phases. Opportunities | Learning | Communities
Gingercrush — Shop for highest quality personalized gifts, custom products & decor. Personalize your favorite product, as a gift to others or a treat to yourself. We help you collect memories, not things.

India Quotient is a new type of early stage investor. We fund companies building disruptive businesses aimed at Indian consumers. We're creating a powerful network of start-up enthusiasts.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States, Singapore

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Furnishka — Furnishka is a furniture industries that provides wide range of products for home decor items, sofa, coffee tables and dining tables.
Blitz — Blitz is a delivery platform that helps to ecommerce business to get immediate delivery in India.
Agrim Wholesale — Agrim Wholesale is a b2b e-commerce market for manufacturers and retailers.

Nandan Reddy MSc Physics (Hons.) from BITS Pilani with a penchant for great food and operational efficiency.

Investment focus

Health Care, Fitness, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Mave Health — Mave Health's cutting-edge, drug-free treatments for Depression, Anxiety & OCD. Join our 12-week program featuring the ARC wearable to achieve lasting wellness and improve your quality of life.
Felicity Games — Felicity Games place our users at the core of our gaming experience, believing that maximizing user satisfaction will in turn maximize lifetime value in the long term.
SuperNova — Supernova is an online learning platform with byte-sized lessons, live quizzes, interactive worksheets & competitions on Maths, Science, English & Brain Games for kids in LKG, UKG & Classes 1-6.

Archana Kumari

Investment focus

Catering, Recruiting, Food Delivery
Seed
India

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Cookifi — Looking for the best Catering Services in Bangalore for your HouseWarming, Wedding Function, Parties, Special Occasions, Kitty Party, Birthday Party, Bbq Party, Corporate Events? Extensive Menu & Customisable Catering options to choose from the best quotes. For more details call us today!

Mohit Satyanand Chairman and founder at Teamwork Arts. He attended Delhi School of Economics 1975-1977.

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, News
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

F5 Refreshement — Link sbobet dari agen sbobet88 resmi. Main judi bola online di situs taruhan bola sbobet dengan link alternatif dan layanan terbaik.
Praan — Praan builds the world's most advanced air purification technologies for commercial and industrial applications.
Artinci — Artinci is an online store that sells a wide variety of ice creams, chocolates, sweets, cookies and cakes.

Lightstone Aspada is an India focused impact investment platform. Formed in partnership with Aspada and LGT in August 2019, Lightstone-Aspada is the India focused effort of LGT' Lightstone. Lightstone is LGT Group's impact investing initiative to build a global multi-billion dollar direct investing

Investment focus

Agriculture, Health Care, Financial Services
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
India

Portfolio highlights

Neogrowth — Neogrowth operates as a non-banking financial company in India. It is focused on meeting the financial needs of small businesses which sell goods and services to consumers. It offers business financing services to small- and medium-sized retail companies that sell apparel, consumer durables and electronic items, footwear and accessories,handicrafts, gifts, and optical goods as well as to restaurants, beauty salons, hotels, gymnasiums, and health diagnostic centers. NeoGrowth began its commercial operations in 2013.
Chalo — Chalo develops a transport application that delivers real-time transit information such as live tracking, get the transit arrival time, and more. From live tracking buses to providing digital solutions focusing on cashless rides, Chalo dreams to make public transport accessible, affordable, and hassle-free for Indian commuters.The Chalo Appprovides live tracking of over 15,000 buses in 21 cities and has more than 70 lakh downloads as of July 2021. The Chalo Card, a contactless tap-to-pay travel card, is a successful bus travel card. Chalo also offers products like mobile tickets, mobile bus passes, and multi-trip 'Super Saver' plans that can be bought on the Chalo App as well as through the Chalo Card. Chalo partners with bus operators to deploy this technology and improve the bus travel experience.
MediBuddy — Find the list of doctors, diagnostic labs, clinics, hospitals, and best packages at MediBuddy.in. Book an appointment for the best treatment and consultation

Info Edge provides online recruitment, matrimonial and real estate classifieds, and related services. The company's mission is to address the middle east job market and have launched a Gulf version of the recruitment site. The company also launched a career counseling and guidance site, a professional networking site, and an educationclassified site.It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Uttar, Pradesh.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Adda247 — Adda247 is India's largest vernacular learning platform with courses in more than 12 Indian languages. Adda247 is backed by marquee investors like Google, WestBridge Capital, Infoedge etc. Adda247 is on a mission to take quality education to the masses by providing online courses in local languages at a very affordable price.
Clean Electric — Clean Electric builds Lithium-Ion Batteries with Liquid Immersion Cooling. Fast Charge. Long Life. Unparalleled Safety.
Happily Unmarried — Happily Unmarried was anti established in 2003 with no vision and no business plan. Actually at somepoint they did make a business plan but according to that they should have retired 5 years ago.They make fun products, they do music festivals, they work with corporates when they want to do interesting work and lately they have been doing a lotof projects involving branding, communication, interiors, marketing all rolled into one (they are trying to think of a name for someone who does all that but no luck yet).

Asymmetry Ventures invests in scalable early-stage companies with exceptional defensibility.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

TransCrypts — We all have that file box where we throw all our important documents. Our goal at TransCrypts is to make that box digital and have all the documents secured through the blockchain. We currently offer industry leading privacy and security standards on our file storage and sharing platform and have solutions for individuals all the way to enterprises.
Reforged Labs — Reforged Labs | The world's first AI copilot For mobile game marketers
Coreshell Technologies — Battery Capacity Unlocked

Khosla Impact's mission is to assist great entrepreneurs developing products and services for the three billion people at the bottom of the world’s economic pyramid.Khosla Impact assists high-impact entrepreneurs who open up markets, increase productivity, and improve standards of living for the bottom half of the world economy.Weinvest in world-class entrepreneurs who are passionate about solving challenging, often intractable socio-economic problems through careful application of science, technology, and design or through creative business models. We believe in experimentation and encourage this approach among our entrepreneurs. We evaluate a wide range of opportunities but are primarily focused on for-profit enterprises serving people at the bottom half of the world’s economic pyramid: low-income laborers, farmers and families, as well as small businesses in emerging markets. Given our experience, South Asia is our initial, but not exclusive, geography of focus. We welcome entrepreneurs and business plans from all countries and regions.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
India, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

iMerit — iMerit's end-to-end data labeling solutions combined with Ango Hub data annotation tool is a best-in-class platform to scale your AI and machine learning data pipelines.
Neogrowth — Neogrowth operates as a non-banking financial company in India. It is focused on meeting the financial needs of small businesses which sell goods and services to consumers. It offers business financing services to small- and medium-sized retail companies that sell apparel, consumer durables and electronic items, footwear and accessories,handicrafts, gifts, and optical goods as well as to restaurants, beauty salons, hotels, gymnasiums, and health diagnostic centers. NeoGrowth began its commercial operations in 2013.
Smile ID (formerly Smile Identity) — Smile ID provides the best onboarding, identity verification, and user authentication service for fast growing businesses and startups in Africa.

As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

NAYAN — NAYAN visual AI monitors and identifies real-time road events. NAYAN AI supports businesses and authorities by offering actionable insights on visual events, to make the world a safer place.
Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
PlusPin Healthcare — Let us provide you with high-quality care!

University Ventures is the only investment firm focused exclusively on the global higher education sector. UV pursues a differentiated strategy of innovation from within. UV has the deepest respect for the missions and traditions of colleges and universities around the world and is confident that through innovation, these same institutions will besuccessful in fulfilling and expanding their missions.

Investment focus

Education, Higher Education, EdTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Cyprus, India

Portfolio highlights

Edu101 — 101 builds mobile-first teaching and assessment tools specifically for college STEM courses. Its first app, Chem101, replaces the clicker and provides tools for chemistry professors to engage their students in the classroom. Chem101 features a module that allows students to intuitively draw and visualize Lewis structures on their mobile devices.Its mobile platform enables instructors to engage students in the classroom, assign homework, and provide on-the-go reinforcement.101 Edu was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
PeopleGrove — At PeopleGrove, we believe the way students experience and value their education has changed. They are seeking an academic experience that addresses:- Job outcomes, not just a degree - Social and digital, not isolated and static - Experiential, not theoreticalIn fact, many are questioning the value of a college education. Only half of USalumni strongly agree their education was worth the cost. Meanwhile, supportive relationships most influenced, even doubled, graduates’ perception that their education was worth the cost.We believe relationships and community are key to student success and engaged alumni. That's why we built PeopleGrove: a unified solution for relationship-driven career success. By making mentors, advisers and coaches accessible, we help students from all walks of life access new opportunities and achieve their career goals.PeopleGrove is on a mission to connect every student and professional with the mentors, advisers and network needed to realize their full potential and find a fulfilling career. PeopleGrove's mentorship and advising platform has been successfully launched at the world's leading institutions, including Stanford, UMUC, K-State and many more.It turns out the student journey aligns with a new hire journey. We're excited to be working with Intuit, Qualcomm and CooperVision so that there employees can better access experts and coaching within their own organizations.
Techtonic — Techtonic Group is a full service software development services company that also creates talent through a Department of Labor certified Apprenticeship program. The company is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, United States.

Prahlad Rao is a Founder Director at Thomas Assessments Pvt Ltd. He attended the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.

Investment focus

Internet, Recruiting, Social Recruiting
Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

CBREX — CBREX is a technology platform that helps recruitment firms across countries collaborate and earn. It allows its users to post jobs, exchange messages, send resumes, close positions, and receive payments. Recruiting firms in the business of permanent placements, search firms, and HR professionals who want to start a business of their own can joinCBREX.The first membership contract that the company signs are valid for a period of two years from the date of signing and then it is renewed for a period of three years thereafter. The company’s members are based around the world.CBREX is an India-based company that was founded in 2015 by Gautam Sinha and Anand Karunjay.

ImpactAssets is the preeminent partner for impact investing and philanthropic giving for individuals, families and a range of organizations that want to create positive change for the world.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Mali

Portfolio highlights

Goodr — Goodr is a sustainable food surplus management platform that leverages technology to reduce food waste and combat hunger. They provide an end-to-end solution for businesses seeking to earn money from their edible food waste by donating it to local nonprofit organizations. Their platform provides the logistics, analytics, and security for businessesto earn deductions under the PATH act in compliance with the Internal Revenue Services. Goodr’s blockchain-enabled platform also provides an IRS audit-friendly donation record, real-time food waste analytics, and community impact reports. Their model aims to provide a triple-win situation: improve business’ bottom line through tax deductions, reduce greenhouse emissions from landfills, and use edible food waste to reduce hunger.
Mad capital — Mad Capital is not your normal lender.
Cropin — CropIn is a leading AI and Data-led agri-tech organization that provides SaaS solutions to agribusinesses globally. CropIn’s unique suite of products enables various stakeholders in the agri-ecosystem to adopt and drive digital strategy across their operations. Using cutting-edge technology like big data analytics, artificial intelligence,machine learning, and remote sensing, CropIn creates an interconnected network of all these stakeholders at different levels of the agriculture ecosystem, enabling clients to analyze and interpret data to derive real-time actionable insights on standing crop. Businesses can thus leverage technology to effectively drive their initiatives around Digitization, Predictability, Compliance, Sustainability and Traceability. With the vision to ‘maximize per acre value’ and the mission to ‘make every farm traceable’, CropIn adds value to agri-businesses by increasing efficiency, scaling productivity, and strengthening sustainability across the board. Thus far, CropIn has digitized over 5.5 million acres of farmland and enriched the lives of nearly 2.1 million farmers, while gathering data on 380+ crops and 3,600+ crop varieties in 46+ countries on 6 continents.

Krishna Mehra Is The Director of Engineering At Facebook. He attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Investment focus

Analytics, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

getcrux — Delight your enterprise accounts with instant answers & insights from their business data
MCaffeine — MCaffeine is a personal care brand that offers caffein-infused face, body, and hair care products. Its personal care product portfolio includes shampoos, face washes, shower gels, body lotions, and face masks, which use caffeine as a major ingredient. MCaffeine won Nykaa Femina Beauty Awards 2020 for the best Coffee body scrub.It was founded byVikas Lachhwani and Tarun Sharma in 2015 and based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Facets.cloud — Platform Engineering made easy for large and complex infra setups. Set Ops guardrails and enable developer self-service with Facets' Internal Developer Platform.

We help entrepreneurs build generational companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Education, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, Canada, Morocco

Portfolio highlights

Atlan — Atlan is an active metadata platform for modern data teams, that helps them discover, understand, trust, and collaborate on data assets.
Fairdeal Market — Seamlessly Sell Your Products Direct to Offline Retailers. Get Access To The Right Retailers Now.
Trampoline — Trampoline is a B2B design-led home decor brand.

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