# Top 45 Social Angel Investors in India in June 2026 ## Ramakant Sharma - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 3 - 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). ## Kunal Shah - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet Kunal Shah ## Maninder Gulati - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## Rudy Gopalakrishnan - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Social, Content, E-Commerce Rudy Gopalakrishnan - Executive @ Fidelity ## Kashish Sharma - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Internet, Health Care Kashish Sharma is the Chief Equity Officer at EquityList. He attended Vellore Institute of Technology. ## Vignesh Ramanujam - Type: Angel - Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech Entrepreneur — Founder, Investor, Board Member, Operator, Advisor, Observer, Partner, Seeker, Friend. Publicly active in private markets & privately active in public markets. ## Shrishti Sahu - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, FinTech, Apps entrepreneur and investor in tech start-ups, crypto and public markets. Founded a fintech company, and was a part of the Investment Team of Lumis Partners (PeopleStrong, TalentEdge, Sheroes etc). Headed Startup Programs for Facebook for South Asia & India. Early backer of companies like Plum (health insurance for SME employees), Clickpost(logistics tech), Rupifi (credit for SMEs), WorkApps (Enterprise Collaboration), Chingari (Social Video), Kutumb (social communities for Bharat), DelightChat (customer support for D2C brands), 10Club (D2C e-commerce), UrbanYogi (mental health) ## Jitendra Gupta - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter. ## Fabrice Grinda - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com. ## Amrish Rau - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs. ## Anupam Mittal - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Vikas Malpani - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: EdTech, Events, Software Vikas Malpani is the CEO and Co-Founder of Leher App, an Indian live streaming platform for Video Discussions. Vikas co-founded CommonFloor.com in 2007 which was acquired by Quikr.com in 2016. He used to lead the “Apartment Management Software” (Referred to as CommonFloor Groups) division at CommonFloor. Prior to his current stint, Vikasworked with SAP Labs India.He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from VTU, Belgaum. Vikas was awarded MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35 in 2012. ## Shivashish Chatterjee - Type: Angel - Location: Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series C - Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, B2B Shivashish Chatterjee is a Co-Founder of the DMI Group where he is a driving force behind the group’s vision and strategy.A 25-year veteran of international financial markets, Shiv brings a wealth of experience in Global Fixed-Income trading and analytics that complements and informs DMI’s activities. Shiv spent the vast majority of his WallStreet days at Salomon Brothers, a storied fixed-income powerhouse that was eventually acquired by Citigroup Inc. One of the youngest-ever Managing Directors at Salomon Brothers and Citigroup Inc., Shiv held a wide variety of positions spanning core research in interest rate and prepayment modeling to trading a range of interest rate derivatives and mortgage-backed securities. He became Co-Head of all securitized products trading in North America in 2004 before leaving in 2008 to start DMI.He graduated from Harvard University in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, Magna Cum Laude in Applied Mathematics. He is very active in Harvard alumni activities in NY City including serving on the Schools Committee for the Greater NYC area. Shiv is very passionate about technology and is an active angel investor in technology startups ## Vivek Ramaswamy - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Internet, Security, Information Technology Vivek Ramaswamy is the Founder of Roivant Sciences and a Co-Founder and the Founder of Strive Asset Management. Vivek was the Founder of Genevant. He attended Yale Law School and Harvard University. ## Jasminder Gulati - Type: Angel - Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Apps, SaaS Co-Founder at NowFloats. ## Sweta Rau - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Women's Sweta Rau, founder of White Ventures ## Rajat Gupta - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Mobile Apps, Human Resources, B2B Rajat Kumar Gupta is a prominent Indian-American businessman and former corporate officer, board director and strategic advisor to a variety of notable public- and private-sector institutions.He is the first Indian-born CEO of a global corporation and served for nearly a decade as managing director of McKinsey and Company. He was a member ofthe board of directors of Goldman Sachs, Procter and Gamble, American Airlines, Harman International, and Genpact, among others.He was also active in other public sector institutions, including co-founder of the Indian School of Business and the America India Foundation and chairman of The Global Fund for AIDS, Malaria, and TB and special advisor to the United Nations. ## Phanindra Sama - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, SaaS, Software Phanindra Sama is the Advisor of WestBridge Capital. He previously worked at redBus as a Founder and CEO. Phanindra Sama attended Stanford University. ## Lalit Keshre - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech Lalit Keshre is based out of Bengaluru, Karnataka and is the Co-founder and CEO of Groww. Lalit previously worked at Flipkart in senior product management. Lalit Keshre attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Lalit Keshre has received the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award. ## Damandeep Soni - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: iOS, Mobile, Social Damandeep Singh Soni is the Chief Business Officer at Astrotalk. Previously he was the President and Chief Business Officer at GlobalBees. He holds degree from National Institute of Technology Rourkela and Indian School of Business. ## Pras Hanuma - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology CEO & President. An Advisor & Strategic Partner. Cross functional Director, CEO & a high Influencer with well planned Strategic Enterprise Management. ## Mohit Daga - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Social, FinTech Mohit Daga ## Giri Malpani - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Apps, Music, EdTech Giri Malpani of Malpani Ventures. ## Prasanna Sankar - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Human Resources, Information Technology Prasanna Sankar is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Rippling. ## Gaurav Munjal - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Health Care, Apps Gaurav Munjal is the Co-Founder and CEO at Unacademy. ## Giridhar Malpani - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, EdTech, Financial Services Giridhar Malpani is the Founder of Climber Capital. He previously worked at Rustomjee as a Project manager. Giridhar Malpani attended the RICS School of Built Environment, Amity University. ## Dhruv Patel - Type: Angel - Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Debt Financing - Focus: SaaS, Hotel, Social Dhruv Patel ## Rajan Anandan - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Pratik Patel - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Social, Real Time, Mobile Apps Pratik Patel is an individual investor ## Neerav Dad - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Social, Real Time, Mobile Apps Neerav Dad is an individual investor ## Nataraj Sindam - Type: Angel - Location: Seattle, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Internet, Education Nataraj Sindam ## Muthukumar Ayyakkannu - Type: Angel - Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Social, Content Muthukumar A is the Co-Founder of M2P Fintech. ## Sumit Jain - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, Mobile Apps, Apps Sumit Jain is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur, He started online real-estate portal commonfloor.com for property seekers in 2007. Prior to that, he used to work with Oracle. As the co-founder and CEO, Sumit is responsible for driving the strategic direction for Commonfloor.com as well as delivering on company goals Hisresult-oriented approach ensures a constant and relentless focus on end-user satisfaction. Sumit Jain finds solace in a game of billiards. The game not only relaxes him, it also helps him catch up with friends or at times, make new acquaintances. ## Kris Nair - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Events, Social, Software Kris Nair is the Founder of Kawa Space. Ex-Founder/CEO Exseed Space, ExseedSAT 01 ## Gokul Rajaram - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services Gokul Rajaram is a founding partner at Marathon Management Partners and Board of Director of Niural. ## Brian Norgard - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Consumer Brian Norgard is Chief Product—and team builder extraordinaire—at Tinder. Under his leadership, Tinder is the fastest growing mobile revenue company in consumer Internet history.In less than 3 years, Tinder became the top-grossing mobile app in the world, created over $11 billion dollars in market value and led to hundreds of millions ofconnections worldwide. Brian is considered one of the most authoritative voices in the dynamics surrounding subscription-based business models.As a creator of blockbuster products like Super Like, Boost, Tinder Gold, Super Likeable. Brian extinguished industry records and redefined the physics of the category. Brian's product philosophy of simple, fun and useful is utilized throughout the industry and has resulted in more than 200 million lifetime downloads. His product team is consistently lauded as world-class and best-in-industry with respect to experience design. Josh Elman of Greylock Partner stated, "Brian built the smartest business on top of an active consumer product that we have seen in ages. Maybe ever."At 25, Brian was the youngest GM/VP in the history of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp after the acquisition of his first company Newroo where he served as the GM of MySpace News and FIM Labs. In 2012 Brian built one of the fastest growing Facebook applications in history (Chill) which reached over 30MM people. Thereafter, his Kleiner Perkins funded mobile messaging application Tappy became Tinder’s first acquisition. Brian also co-founded advertising network Ad.ly which was acquired by Nestivity in 2014.A respected and savvy investor, Brian helped entrepreneurs ignite franchises from AngelList—where he was the first angel investor—to Tinder. Brian's investment vehicle, Norgard Fund, invests in startups ranging from Lyft to SpaceX. Brian graduated with honors from Brown University where he received a prestigious NCIIA Grant awarded to top collegiate innovators. ## Samuel Choi - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, Social, Internet Samuel Choi ## Sajid Rahman - Type: Angel - Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking Sajid currently works as Managing Partner at MyAsiaVC He attended London Business School. ## Raghunandan G - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Apps Raghu is the Founder of Zolve. He is an avid reader and an encyclopedia in his own rights. After a successful 3-year stint with Feedback Ventures as a Consultant, he decided to follow his heart which craved for him to become an entrepreneur. He has degrees from IIM Ahmedabad and NITK Surathkal and hasn’t lost touch with the technical prowess fromhis days back in Texas Instruments. ## Beerud Sheth - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, Software, Apps Beerud Sheth is the Co-Founder & CEO at Gupshup . ## Vaibhav Domkundwar - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Education, Information Technology Vaibhav Domkundwar - CEO @ Better Capital ## Priyank Parmar - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Social, Real Time, Mobile Apps Priyank Parmar is an individual investor ## Ryan Valles - Type: Angel - Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Social, E-Commerce, Information Services Ryan Valles ## Haresh Chawla - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Internet, Software, Education Haresh Chawla - Partner @ True North ## Harpreet Singh Grover - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, Education, Water Harpreet Singh Grover is a My home at Entrepreneur In Residence. Harpreet previously worked at CoCubes.com as a Co-Founder & CEO. He attended Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.Harpreet believes that the future of online assessments belongs to 'continuous evaluation' leading to a selection filter - till then quick and easytesting using rejection filters is a good tool. He previously worked with Inductis, a data analytics firm in the financial services domain. Harpreet graduated from IIT Bombay with a dual degree. Beyond work he is a published photographer, poet and an amateur mountaineer and follows the mantra - one life to live.