# Top 50 Retail Angel Investors in India in June 2026 ## Aman Gupta - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing Aman Gupta is based out of Delhi and is the Co-Founder and Director of boAt. Aman previously worked at HARMAN International as a Director of Sales. Aman Gupta attended the Indian School of Business. Aman Gupta has received the National Creator Award 2024. ## Namita Thapar - Type: Angel - Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Retail Namita Thapar is an Executive Director at Emcure Pharmaceuticals. She previously worked as a senior manager at Abbott. She attended Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. ## Arjun Vaidya - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Retail Arjun Vaidya is the Founder of Verinvest Corporation. Attended Brown University. ## Anupam Mittal - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Internet Anupam started his entrepreneurial journey by founding People Group - A New Media & Entertainment group, which includes businesses such as Shaadi.com, Makaan.com, Mauj Mobile, and People Pictures. Today the group is recognized as one of the most innovative enterprises in the country. Besides his operational roles, Anupam is also one ofIndia's most active angel investors.He attended Boston College. ## Kunal Shah - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet Kunal Shah ## Revant Bhate - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Retail, E-Commerce, Health Care Revant Bhate is Chief Executive Officer at Mosaic Wellness. ## Vineeta Singh - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Angel, Seed, Debt Financing - Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Food Processing Vineeta Singh is the Co-founder and CEO of SUGAR Cosmetics. She previously worked at Quetzal Verify Private Limited as Director. Vineeta attended the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, where she took a Master of Business Administration (MBA). She also attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, where she took a B.Tech in ElectricalEngineering. ## Ramakant Sharma - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce Ramakant Sharma is the Founder and CEO of Livspace. He previously worked at Jungle Ventures as an Operating Partner. Ramakant attended the Indian School of Business, where he earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA), and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, where he completed a Bachelor of Technology (BTech). ## Abhishek Goyal - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Retail, E-Commerce, Fashion Abhishek Goyal is a Co-Founder at Tracxn. He attended the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. ## Varun Alagh - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet 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. ## Nikhil Bhandarkar - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Retail, Fashion, Health Care Nikhil Bhandarkar is the Founder of Panthera Peak Capital. ## Kunal Bahl - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce Kunal Bahl is based out of Delhi and is the Co-Founder of AceVector. Kunal Bahl attended the University of Pennsylvania. ## Rajesh Yabaji - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Retail, E-Commerce, Marketplace Rajesh is known for his energy and resilience, and one can see this in his enthusiasm for marathons, and more in his passion for building the world’s largest trucking network. As the Co-Founder and CEO of BlackBuck, Rajesh is charged with constantly moving the company forward. From finance discussions to brainstorming on new product design tobusiness development planning, Rajesh keeps himself involved in all areas of the business. An IIT Kharagpur graduate, Rajesh was heading the Supply Chain division of ITC’s Leaf Tobacco business before starting BlackBuck. He is an inspiring leader who likes to bring out the best in people and help them achieve greater heights by pushing the bar higher. Speaking about pushing the bar higher, Rajesh has been a pole vaulter too. ## Ashish Kacholia - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Post-IPO Equity - Focus: Retail, Manufacturing, Health Care Ashish Kacholia is the founder and Director - Research at Lucky Investment Managers. ## Rohit Bansal - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Software Rohit Bansal is based out of Gurgaon and is the Co-founder of AceVector. Rohit previously worked at FICCI as a Chair. Rohit Bansal attended Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. ## Ritesh Agarwal - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Retail Ritesh Agarwal is the Founder and Group Chief Executive Officer of OYO and Anchor Board Member of the Texas Hotel & Lodging Association. ## Peyush Bansal - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Internet Peyush Bansal is the Co-Founder, Chief Executive, and People Officer of Lenskart. He attended McGill University. ## Arjun Purkayastha - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Retail Arjun Purkayastha is a purpose driven leader with extensive global experience managing diverse businesses and multi-cultural teams at FTSE Top 10 and Fortune 100 companies - Reckitt and P&G. He has a strong track record of building outperforming teams, iconic brands & innovative business models across 60+ countries having lived & workedin the UK, Singapore, South Korea. ## Aprameya Radhakrishna - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, Software, Retail Aprameya loves singing romantic songs and is the quintessential dreamer who doesn’t fear to experiment. He used to be the Head of Business Development for PDS at Jones Lang LaSalle India where he spent almost 3 years post his graduation from IIM Ahmedabad. He has worked at Infosys and has an Electronics engineering degree from NITK Surthkal andif all this has made you think he’s a geek, ask his close friends and they would say otherwise! ## Ankit Nagori - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Retail, Software, Food and Beverage Ankit N. is the founder at Curefoods. Attended Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. ## Rajul Garg - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Travel Rajul co-founded GlobalLogic, sold for $420M in 2013 to Apax partners in the largest deal of the year in India. Rajul built the operation ground up in India and then expanded through global acquisitions, until 2008. Rajul then consulted with top tier venture capital firms such as Sequoia Capital and Aavishkaar, where he got exposed to the educationsector.Earlier, right out of college, Rajul founded Pine Labs, a leader in the Indian market in credit card transactions.Rajul serves on several Boards, including publicly traded S Mobility, a leader in digital mobility. He is an active mentor to several startups, a sought after angel investor and a participant in several industry bodies such as TiE, NASSCOM, IIT Mentors and othersRajul is a graduate from IIT Delhi. ## Rathin Lahiri - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Retail, Consumer Rathin Lahiri ## Tejinderpal Miglani - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Retail, Fitness, Consumer Tejinderpal Miglani - Co-Founder @ Incedo Inc. ## Kishore Ganji - Type: Angel - Location: Marlboro, New Jersey, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Software Kishore Ganji is the Angel Investor & Mentor at Astir Ventures. ## Sameer Walia - Type: Angel - Location: Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Retail, Consumer Sameer Walia ## Shantanu Deshpande - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Retail, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage Shantanu Deshpande is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Bombay Shaving Company. ## Amrish Rau - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs. ## Mukesh Bansal - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Retail, Financial Services, Apps Mukesh Bansal is the Executive Chairman of Cult.fit. He previously worked at Myntra as a Founder. Mukesh Bansal attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. ## Anand Chandrasekaran - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce Anand Chandrasekaran is based out of San Francisco, California and is the President of Crescendo. Anand previously worked at General Catalyst as Partner and Venture Advisor. Anand Chandrasekaran attended the Stanford University and PSG College of Technology, India. Anand Chandrasekaran has been awarded Young Global Leader by the World EconomicForum and was recognized as the #1 seed investor focused on the India – U.S. corridor by the HURUN India Report in their career. ## Sahil Barua - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care Sahil Barua is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Delhivery. He previously worked at Bain & Company as a Consultant. Sahil Barua attended National Institute of Technology Karnataka. ## CK Ranganathan - Type: Angel - Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Retail, Manufacturing, Shopping Mr. CK Ranganathan, the Founder Chairman of CavinKare, was born in the small coastal town of Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, to parents with a primary interest in education. After obtaining his Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry and a brief stint in the family business, he set out to carve his own path in business.After a challenging start, he finally set upChik India in 1983 with an initial investment of Rs. 15,000 and Chik Shampoo as his introductory product. The company was renamed as Beauty Cosmetics Pvt. Ltd. in 1990 and was subsequently rechristened as CavinKare Pvt. Ltd. in 1998.A pioneer of innovation, Mr. CK Ranganathan has shaped the company to create innovative products by combining the best of nature and technology to improve the lifestyle of consumers. Under his inspiring leadership, the company while expanding into Personal Care, also diversified into Food, Beverages, Dairy and Snacks categories, both in domestic and international markets.Under Mr. CK Ranganathan’s guidance, Trends in Vogue has pioneered the concept of ‘family salons’ in India and is the first to channel this industry into an organized salon chain sector with its specialist brands – Limelite and Green Trends. Trends in Vogue has a clear-cut focus of providing grooming and personal styling solutions to men, women and children. Mr. CK Ranganathan was conferred the prestigious, Entrepreneur of the Year Award by the Economic Times in 2004. He was also the Winner of 2018 “ICIS World Surfactants Awards” for an outstanding contribution to the Surfactant Industry Globally.He was the Chairman of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Tamil Nadu State Council for the year 2009-10. He is the former president of the Madras Management Association.Mr. CK Ranganathan is one of the founding members of the Ability Foundation – an NGO working towards the rehabilitation of the physically challenged. He also instituted the CavinKare Ability Awards in 2003 to celebrate the exemplary spirit of individuals who have risen above their physical limitations to display great achievements in life.In order to encourage the spirit of entrepreneurship, Mr. CK Ranganathan has instituted the Chinnikrishnan Innovation Awards in 2011 in memory of his father, the late Shri. R. Chinnikrishnan. The award seeks to identify and promote entrepreneurs running small businesses built on innovative ideas.Mr. CK Ranganathan’s endeavour of philanthropy and giving back to society has also extended to the field of education. CavinKare patronizes a few public charitable trusts that run schools and colleges. Notable among them, the CK School of Practical Knowledge, a one-of-a-kind school in India that offers practical education to students from classes pre-kg to the 12th standard; the CK College of Engineering & Technology and an MBA institute in Cuddalore, both with the aim of providing world class professional education to people in the rural and coastal regions of Tamil Nadu.Management ## Rohit Chanana - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Wellness, E-Commerce Rohit Chanana - Founder and Managing Partner @ Sarcha Advisors ## Gunavanth Vaid - Type: Angel - Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Retail, Shoes, Fashion Gunavanth Vaid is a Founder at 4Gcapital venture. ## Maninder Gulati - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, FinTech Maninder Gulati joined Lightspeed Advisory Services India in 2012. He brings over eight years of operating, business building, entrepreneurship and consulting experience to the firm.Prior to Lightpseed, Maninder was an Associate at McKinsey & Company. At McKinsey, Maninder worked on several growth strategy and implementation engagementsacross various sectors including financial services, organized retail, digital music, data centers and building security/automation.Before McKinsey, Maninder co-founded a voice based life-streaming platform – lifeinlines.com, which allowed users to create a digital diary of their life. Prior to this entrepreneurial venture, Maninder worked at ITC Limited, India’s largest FMCG company. At ITC, Maninder was a part of the core team that launched ITC’s personal care business and he spearheaded key organization transformation initiatives such as Six-sigma for the tobacco business.Maninder graduated with a Dual degree (B.Tech and M.Tech) in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay, where he held key leadership positions including that of Head of ‘The Entrepreneurship Cell’. He holds an MBA from ISB, Hyderabad, where he was a part of the Dean and Merit list. ## Bala Sarda - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Retail, Delivery, Textiles Bala Sarda is Founder at Vahdam Teas. ## Roopa Nath - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Apps, Retail Roopa Nath - Member @ Mumbai Angels ## Teruhide Sato - Type: Angel - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Apps Teruhide Sato is President and Group CEO of netprice.com, Ltd., a global internet and e-commerce business incubator group (Tokyo Stock Exchange 3328). Lead the group to deliver the latest experience in online shopping across Japan, US, Europe and Asia. Strongly believe in the power of entrepreneurship. ## Sangeet Agrawal - Type: Angel - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Retail, Fashion, Baby Sangeet Agrawal - Founder @ Mokobara ## Rajesh Sawhney - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet Rajesh is the co-founder and CEO of InnerChef and Super Angels. He holds a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering from Delhi University, and a master's degree in management from Mumbai University. He has also done a fellowship in 'Globalisation and Leadership' from the London School of Economics and Social Sciences. ## Shilpa Shetty - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Retail, E-Commerce, Health Care Shilpa Shetty ## Jitendra Gupta - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter. ## Rohit Raj - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Consumer, Apps, Shoes Rohit is a serial entrepreneur and an active angel investor and advisor to multiple startups. Rohit founded Glitch, one of the fastest-growing advertising agencies in the country, and successfully exited to WPP in 2017. He also set up, chtrbox.com, one of the leading influencer agencies in India in 2015 and has been actively involved in theirstrategic growth across products and markets.As an active player in the angel investment industry, Rohit has been a big advocate of a good mix of  Marketing capital + Venture Capital and applies it across his investment thesis across various industries where he can add value. His notable investments/advisory positions include Ghost kitchens, The New Shop, Svami Beverages, Deciwood Audio among others. ## Asish Mohapatra - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, B2B Asish Mohapatra is the Co-Founder and Head of Sales of OfBusiness. He previously worked at Matrix Partners as a Healthcare Investments Lead. Asish Mohapatra attended the Indian School of Business. ## Sameer Mehta - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Textiles Sameer Mehta - Co-Founder & Chief product officer @ boAt ## Binny Bansal - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce Binny Bansal is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart with Sachin Bansal (not related) and was serving as the Chief Operating Officer until 11 January 2016 and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer. In January 2017 he was promoted to Group CEO of Flipkart. Binny is fromChandigarh and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering. ## Amod Malviya - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, B2B, Open Source Amod Malviya is a Co-Founder and Engineer at UDAAN. ## G Ravishankar - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Retail, Nutrition, Food Processing G Ravishankar ## Kaushal Vora - Type: Angel - Location: Udipi, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Shoes, Retail, Fashion Kaushal Vora is the managing Director at Massilly India Packaging Private Limited & Genesis Packaging. ## Ankit Somani - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Retail, Shoes, Fashion Ankit Somani is the Chief Product Officer at HireVue. He is responsible for leading the Product, Business Intelligence, Data Science, and I/O Psychology Teams.Before joining HireVue, Ankit co-founded AllyO, an innovative chatbot and conversational AI tool that was acquired by HireVue to help deliver personalized, automated conversations forhigh volume recruitment. He has 10+ years of Product Management and Software Engineering experience at Google and Oracle. Ankit holds an MS in Thermal-Fluid Sciences & Economic Decision Analysis from the Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as a B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. ## Hari Kumar - Type: Angel - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Digital Media, B2B, Social Media Hari Kumar - Partner @ LionRock Capital # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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