# Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in India in June 2026

## Fireside Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 19
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage

Fireside Ventures is proposing a New Approach to Investing in Consumer Brands. Fireside Ventures invests in early stage consumer brands.

## Accel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

## Sauce.vc
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Retail, E-Commerce, Health Care

Sauce is a Early stage consumer VC fund with a high engagement model supported by a deep service partner network working across key support areas for scaling a brand in India.

## LVX Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

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## Inflection Point Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Health Care

Inflection Point Ventures, with over 3300 CXOs and professionals, HNIs and Family Offices, is India’s leading angel network investing in early-to-mid stage startups. IPV supports new-age entrepreneurs with not just capital but also uses its wide network of investors to provide startups with access to new markets, customers, guidance and mentorship.Inflection Point Ventures is democratizing angel investing with low membership fee, lowest investment ticket size (per investor), transparent investment process and extensive upfront due-diligence led by industry experts. IPV is industry agnostic, with a focus on committed and competent founders.

## 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: 10
- 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.

## The Chennai Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet

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.

## 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.

## Kae Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet

A destination for early stage companies to acquire capital for growth. Kae Capital is a sector agnostic fund and invests in companies which bring about innovative solutions for the existing gaps in the markets, backed by a great team. their focus – investing in Innovation, Leadership and Growth.They bring in the expertise of identifying andbuilding large companies even from a concept. Their team at Kae Capital has a wide range of experience in helping companies grow, fill gaps in the market and help create winning companies.They believe entrepreneurs can shape the future of the world. they want to partner with passionate and energetic entrepreneurs who have the drive to change the future.Technology excites us. they look for entrepreneurs who envision technology as a means to disrupt sectors such as Mobile, e-Commerce, Education, Healthcare, Consumer Internet and so on. they think technology holds the highest potential to shape their lives in a new future.They understand the importance of speed for a start-up and they carry out their process in the same spirit.

## Ankur Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: AgTech, Agriculture, Farming

Ankur Capital is an early stage venture capital fund investing in startups with transformative technologies for next billion Indians. The fund invests in non-conventional opportunities across sectors such as agritech, consumer food, healthcare, vernacular tech, fintech, logisitics, edtech, retail tech, digital inclusion and deeptech in these markets.

## 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.

## Stellaris Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

We help fearless founders build legendary businesses. We are an early-stage, technology-focused, sector-agnostic investment firm. We lead our investments with deep conviction, committed to the journey of building a company from zero to one, and beyond.

## Mumbai Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage

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## All in capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Apps

All In Capital is an Investment firm.

## Titan Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

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

## 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.

## IAN Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS

Started in April 2006, the Indian Angel Network is a unique concept which brings together highly successful entrepreneurs and CEOs from India and around the world who are interested in investing in startup / early stage ventures which have the potential of creating disproportionate value.The Network, in addition to money, provide constantaccess to high quality mentoring, vast networks and inputs on strategy as well as execution. The Network members, because of their background are better able to assess the potential and risks at the early stage.

## Blume Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Backing the next wave of revolutionary founders, from India, for the world.

## Huddle
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Haryana, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, E-Commerce

Huddle Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm in India, hyper-focused on Pre-Seed & Seed stage investments.

## 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.

## 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).

## 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.

## 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.

## Kalaari Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

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.

## Unitus Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, Health Care, Training

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

## Orios Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech

Orios Venture Partners is an early stage venture fund which primarily invests in software and technology enabled startups.

## First Cheque
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

First Cheque Built and Exited Founders, Product Leaders, Growth Leaders, and also angel investors. A lot of change They bring is in how to think- based on first principles, based on data, building a data driven organisation, setting up teams for performance et al. Most importantly, They will help you graduate to the next level of your journey.

## Fluid Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Retail, E-Commerce, Fashion

Fluid Venture aims to be the substitute to the angel investors and various angel platforms in the current startup ecosystem.

## 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.

## Eternal Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, B2B, Internet

Eternal Capital provides entrepreneurs to build top-tier products by merging financial, social, and intellectual 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.

## Sparrow Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Retail, Information Technology

Sparrow Capital is an investment firm.

## Stride Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet

We provide non-dilutive capital solutions & enables entrepreneurs to build and scale industry leading companies.

## Gemba Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet

Gemba Capital is a micro VC focusing on early-stage tech investments in seed and pre-seed rounds.

## Venture Highway
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Financial Services

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.

## India Quotient
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce

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.

## Elevation Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Elevation Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on consumers, enterprises, logistics, and B2B.

## Better Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology

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

## Rukam Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, E-Commerce

Rukam Capital invests in early-stage consumer products and services companies that have exceptional growth potential and substantial returns.
We invest in purpose-led founders obsessed with solving hard problems at scale by creating products and companies.

## Tracxn labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Human Resources

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

## AngelList India
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Health Care

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## Trifecta Capital Advisors
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series C, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services

Trifecta Capital is India's leading alternate financing platform for startups across their life cycle. It manages three venture debt funds, a growth equity fund and a tech platform which helps startups with treasury management.

## SucSEED Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Education

An Early Stage Investment Firm.

## Supermorpheus
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Puducherry, Puducherry, India
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

Supermorpheus is an investment firm.

## 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.

## 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.

## Brand Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Real Estate, E-Commerce, Internet

Over ten years, Brand Capital has partnered in the building of over 850+ indigenous brands. It has enabled the introduction of new concepts of print advertising in the form of jackets, panorama adverts and flaps, emulated across other print media. Since its inception, Brand capital has helped build several iconic brands and create immenseenterprise value. But most of all, Brand Capital has enabled the discovery of ‘Brand value’. Different from an archetypal Private Equity player, we succeed in contributing ‘Intellectual Capital’, thus supporting the creation of a brand strategy and planning media-spread to optimize value. We now have investments across sectors as wide as – Retail, FMCG, Consumer Durables, Realty, Digital and Mobile, E-Retail, Health & Wellness, Financial Services, Consumer Services and several more. Our invested value today stands at USD 2.5 Billion, driven by our disruptive innovation and the power of the media properties across "The Times Group". - See more at: http://brandcapital.co.in/#sthash.YJ6lB0CB.dpuf

## 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.

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