Top 50 Social Startup Investors in India

Investor	Social India investments
Ramakant Sharma	3
Cloud Capital	3
Eagle10 Ventures	3
Venture Highway	3
ah! Ventures	3
Republic capital	3
Kunal Shah	3
LetsVenture	3
Kashish Sharma	2
OnMobile	2
Astarc Ventures	2
Orios Venture Partners	2
Maninder Gulati	2
Global Founders Capital	2
Kalaari Capital	2
iSeed	2
Incisive Ventures	2
Inflection Point Ventures	2
Aavishkaar Venture Capital	2
Gemba Capital	2
Rudy Gopalakrishnan	2
Shrishti Sahu	2
Accel India	2
Hill Harbour	1
Lightspeed India Partners	1
The Venture Collective	1
VenturEast	1
Giri Malpani	1
Lightrock india (Aspada)	1
Better Capital	1
JPIN Venture Catalysts	1
MVC Friends	1
Jitendra Gupta	1
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	1
Singapore Angel Network	1
3rd Creek Foundation	1
Amrish Rau	1
Rajan Anandan	1
Acequia Capital (AceCap)	1
Lumikai	1
Protocol Labs	1
Titan Capital	1
Sprint Vc	1
Elevar Equity	1
Times Internet	1
First Cheque	1
Rajan Anandan	1
Cowa Ventures	1
IAN Fund	1
Makan Investments	1

Ramakant plays a central role in driving all technological innovations that form the backbone of Livspace while also leading our operations team. Before founding Livspace, Ramakant was a core team member and Vice President of Engineering at Myntra, a leading fashion eCommerce startup in India (acquired by Flipkart). Ramakant, graduated from IITKanpur, and holds an MBA from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Jugyah — Jugyah is a technology company transforming how the next billion urban Indians rent their homes.Our pioneering, fin-tech powered business model is radically changing the long term home rental market.We believe there is a better place (”jugyah”) out there for both renters and property owners where they feel like they belong. Our goal is to takethem there.Backed by the largest real estate developers in the country and some of the top tier angels and VCs, we are currently in beta.
EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
General Autonomy — General Autonomy is a robotics firm on the cutting edge of manufacturing and automation for the future.

Early-stage Venture Capital for the Cloud Economy

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Phyllo — Easily access verified, creator-consented data such as identity, income, and engagement across hundreds of platforms through our API
wealth42 — wealth42 helps you create a plan to be wealthy. It is the fastest financial planning app on the planet, available on iOS and Android. Get productive with your money with planned investments, loans, expenses, savings, and insurance.
Laminar Global — The World's Most Advanced AVOD + SVOD + TVOD Streaming PaaS

Eagle10 Ventures

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Hospitality
Seed, Angel, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

Glamplus — Glamplus is a SAAS-enabled beauty marketplace for salons and spas in the SMB segment. Glamplus customized to suit salon,s needs. Glamplus offers Hassle-free digital appointment tracking, invoicing, customer engagement, revenue management & much more.
Bolo Live — Bolo Live is a live streaming platform that allows its users to broadcast daily activities, habits, and online services to their followers. It also enables content creators to monetize their content via virtual gifting. It aims to empower content creators by managing their 360-degree digital journey and support them to transform their socialcapital into financial independence. The company was founded in 2019 as Bolo Indya and rebranded as Bolo Live in 2021. It is headquartered in Gurgaon, India.
Life & Pursuits — Life & Pursuits offers a wide range of Internationally Certified Organic Beauty & Wellness Products. Our products are certified by USDA and India Organic. Shop online for 100% Safe and effective Wellness and Personal Care Products.

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

Portfolio highlights

Ema — Ema is developing next-generation AI technologies to help every employee in the workplace be their most creative and productive. Ema is a seamless, accurate, and secure Enterprise Generative AI system that simplifies complex tasks using enterprise tools.
Grip Invest — Grip Invest is an alternative investment platform that offers Bonds, Commercial Real Estate, Invoice Financing & more with attractive returns. Explore Now!
Weekday — At Weekday, we help companies hire engineers who are vouched by other software engineers. We are enabling engineers to earn passive income by leveraging & monetizing the unused information in their head about the best people they have worked with.

ah! Ventures is India’s only curated, sector agnostic and the largest fundraising platform for early stage startups raising funds up to 10 MN USD. Very strong network of 3000+ Investors including 2000+ angel investors and 1000+ institutional investors & fund/family houses, Robust deal pipeline of more than 600 business plans/monthand Well-established brand as one of India’s premier aggregators with a cornucopia of offerings to catalyze startup growth.

Investment focus

Software, EdTech, Education
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Settl. — Settl is a technology-driven accommodation platform focused on providing a convenient and high-quality living experience for young millennials; We take the daily hassle out of rental accommodation so our members have more time to do the things they're passionate about. From fully-furnished rooms, 24/7 power backups, enterprise internet,nominal deposit to all-inclusive rent, our coliving spaces will take care of all your needs.We have an all-inclusive and caring community where people bond over movie nights, barbeque nights, yoga sessions, etc. Our curated events aim to bring the Settlrs together to form a closely-knit family.We expertise in providing tech-enabled property management, residential solutions, convenient and community-driven platforms.
FlexifyMe — FlexifyMe is to achieve mental, physical, and spiritual harmony through live 1-on-1 and group sessions with our world-class yoga, meditation, and nutrition coaches.
Delta X Automotive — An Automotive startup based out of Bangalore, India

Republic Capital is driven by a multifaceted value proposition and invests in companies across deep tech, fintech, and web3.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Albedo — Aerial quality imagery - from space.
Utila — Utila is an enterprise-scale self-custody platform that manages your organization's crypto strategy with safe, chain-agnostic wallet infrastructure.
Sphere — Better cross-border payments through beautiful interfaces for businesses to buy, sell, send and manage stablecoins.

Kunal Shah

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Nurturev — Revenue intelligence is the process of analyzing & interpreting sales data to make informed business decisions. Transform your sales conversations, gain insights, & drive revenue growth.
SydeLabs — Secure your generative AI foundation with SydeLabs. Build with unshakeable confidence. Unleash the full potential of your applications.
Mave Health — Mave Health uses science-based interventions to provide a comprehensive solution that fits effortlessly into an individual's lifestyle and causes no inconvenience.

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

Vidyut — Vidyut offers end-to-end solutions for purchase and financing to resale which provide superior economics on electric vehicles compared to petrol & diesel vehicles.
Beautywise — Beautywise is a dermatology-led supplement brand with the purpose of empowering everyone to embrace unique beauty by embracing long-term, evidence-based treatments that operate from inside.
Ghost Kitchens — Join the fastest growing restaurant company in the country

Kashish Sharma is the Chief Equity Officer at EquityList. He attended Vellore Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

OSlash — Transform long URLs into memorable shortcuts. Make information easy to access, find, & share with others in an instant with a complete URL management solution
Even — Even is a health tech company and healthcare provider that partners directly with the top hospitals in the country to offer you unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and 50 lakh worth of hospitalisations all with one monthly subscription cost.
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.

OnMobile Global Limited provides telecommunications products and services in India and internationally.The company offers a range of applications that are delivered by its carrier customers to their end-user subscribers. Its products include network based in-call solutions, such as caller ringback tones, voicemail, and missed call alertservice. The company also provides voice-based multi-modal portal, which allows subscribers to access informational and entertainment content, including music, sports updates, news, and stock and commodity price updates in multiple languages using speech-based navigation. In addition, it offers interactive media solutions, such as tele-voting, interactive programming, mobile auditioning, and auctions, as well as on-device client software applications. Further, the company offers mobile commerce solutions, such as movie and railway ticketing, utility payments, and mobile marketing services, as well as business support solutions, including phone backup, and pre-paid and post-paid bill payments. It also offers MMP 2500, a multimodal platform, which integrates multiple delivery modes and payments, and subscription options for 2, 2.5, and 3G networks and handsets.

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Mobile
Corporate Round, Seed, Series A
India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

rob0 — Visual analytics for PC, VR and mobile game developers. Learn when and why players leave. Replay sessions, track bugs and improve game experience.
Chingari — Chingari is a short-video entertaining platform connecting talented Indians. It allows users to share the videos on third-party social platforms as well. The application is available for Android users. It monetizes through in-app advertisements.
VerSe Innovation — VerSe Innovation is a local language technology company that develops a discovery platform to consume and socialize with media. Its platform facilitates the curation of content and tracks user preferences through its vertical search and recommendation tools that provide users with personalized content and notifications.

Astarc Ventures is a leading early stage venture capital (VC) fund based in India. It is a sector agnostic fund which invests across all geographies.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Rooter — Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop.
Coutloot — We're a pack of young entrepreneurs creating the next wave of social commerce in India, CoutLoot is a leading mobile first C2C(Consumer-to-Consumer) tech platform! From offline shops, small vendors, individual sellers, newbies to celebs to your neighbours, everyone's selling online for the first time in their lives in under 30 seconds onthe CoutLoot app, while buyers from all over India can own their products by bargaining All of it, from the comfort of your couch! List. Earn. Chat. Loot.
The Money Club — Money Club is a registered digital AI chit fund platform in India which lets you create peer-to-peer chit fund clubs. Download the safe & secure app now!

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

BeatO — Effectively manage your diabetes with BeatO, India's #1 Diabetes Management Health Care Experts Online, and experience the convenience of smartphone glucometers for accurate and hassle free monitoring
Varaha — Varaha generates carbon credits through its tech solutions.
Hypd Marketing Technologies Pvt Ltd — Shop from your favourite Creator's recommendations directly from their store! | #ItsAFullTimeJob | #getHYPD

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

altM — altM is an alternate materials company on a mission to develop the future of materials to reduce carbon footprint and improve circularity in their supply chain.
Jodaro — Jodaro operates as an intermediary for trade that links customers and manufacturers directly.
Finsire — Finsire Modern finances to embrace your financial desires

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zocks — The Meeting Assistant made for Financial Advisors
Simplify — Simplify is a common application for jobs & internships. Autofill job applications anywhere on the web, get notified when new jobs open, & seamlessly track your applications.
Smartpay — Smartpay is the first free of charge BNPL payment option for Japanese consumers who have credit cards. There are no sign-up fees, interest fees, settlement fees, or late charges. The payment experience is also Japan’s first cross-merchant, cross-platform, and single-click checkout BNPL service, allowing consumers to checkout in as little as 10seconds. The BNPL payment solution is simple to understand, structured on 3 equal installments over 8 weeks. This means that unlike the existing BNPL services in Japan, customers do not need to go to the convenience store to make payments or pay any bank transfer fees.

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

EloElo — Look Good, Feel good daily with India’s #1 Short Videos App for Health, Beauty & Lifestyle ! 100% Made in India, Made for India App that lets you watch entertaining & informative 60 second videos and also win 100s of Products free
AuditCue — Reimagine how risk, audits & controls work together.
Zluri — Gain complete visibility and control across your SaaS stack - detect & manage shadow IT, optimize costs, govern user access in a single place

iSeed is India's first micro-fund backed by top global founders and investors.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

APX — APX is a digital freight consolidator and transportation hub-and-spoke network that provides a fully integrated countrywide delivery service to and from everywhere.
BosonQ Psi — BosonQ Psi Pvt. Ltd. (BQP) is a state-of-the-art SaaS-based enterprise software venture leveraging the power of Quantum computing to speed up virtual simulations of Multiphysics and Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) nature. BosonQ Psi is at the forefront of this quantum revolution. Our vision is to become the premier multiphysics simulation softwareusing quantum computing. Our world-class software suite will include computational science fields of fluid dynamics, structural dynamics, thermal, chemical, and aeroacoustics. With such an innovative product, we will revolutionize the computational world by enabling high-fidelity simulations that are impossible to solve with current computing technology. Further, this product will aid aerospace, automotive, energy, manufacturing, biotechnology, civil engineering, and astrophysics industries in saving millions of dollars by reducing long turnaround times of simulations used in the design process and give higher accuracy to make significant design changes for giving rise to the next generation of an electric car, eVTOL, skyscraper, or even Mars Rover.The possibility to harness the power of quantum computers is endless, and we at BQP thrive on pushing the boundaries of quantum computing technologies to serve our clients. We have made it our mission to bring these possibilities into the hands of every person - from a researcher to a scientist, from a professor to a student. Our name, BosonQ Psi, pays tribute to the great Indian physicist Dr. Satyendra Nath Bose, after whose name the elementary particle in quantum mechanics, Boson, was named and further incorporates the fundamental quantity that describes the state of the quantum particle - Psi, thus symbolizing the company's fundamental goal to contribute in India's goal to be the leader in the Quantum realm and also become a global leader in Quantum paradigm shift in coming years.
Slick App — Go Slick, and declare your true feelings like nobody's watching!

Your partner for growth

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Pulzaid — Platform for hybrid specialty care
Tangibly — Tangibly is a platform for businesses to manage their intellectual property by securing their trade secrets in legally enforceable form.
Pear Suite — Pear Suite enables anyone—community health workers, other healthcare staff, and volunteers—to assess and address the social drivers of health for older adults in a scalable, cost-effective, and person-centered way.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Maidaan — Maidaan is a social gaming platform that hosts LIVE Olympiads and Tournaments for schoolchildren. They are allowing parents of 100 million or more children to introduce their children to a peer group outside of school from an early age.
IndicWisdom — Find the best selection of wood pressed oils at Indic Wisdom, Mumbai's leading oil manufacturer. Delivering pan India.
Snap-E Cabs — Snap-E Cabs is an eco-friendly public electric transport service that allows people to travel safely.

With Impact Investing at its core, Aavishkaar Capital caters venture capital requirements to scale businesses in the new markets.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Manufacturing, Finance
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
India, Indonesia, United States

Portfolio highlights

AgroStar — AgroStar is India’s foremost AgTech start-up working on the mission of #HelpingFarmersWin by providing a complete range of agri solutions at the fingertips of farmers. AgroStar’s tech platform provides a combination of agronomy advice coupled with service and agri input products that enable farmers to significantly improve their productivity andincome.We use an extensive amount of data, technology and agronomy knowledge to give the right solutions (advice+products) to Indian farmers.AgroStar currently operates in the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Rajasthan and has over 5 Lakh farmers on its digital platform. Farmers in these states can avail agri solutions for their entire crop life-cycle with a simple “missed call” or through its Android app, which is amongst the highest rated farming focused apps in the country.Over the next 5 years, we plan to continue to provide incremental value to farmers in terms of wide range of inputs delivered at their doorsteps, world-class agronomy guidance and also access to market linkages and credit.
Altum Credo — Avail best home loans with simple and quick approval process, we make your dream home buying easier and hassle free.
Financepeer — Financepeer is a unique peer to peer lending platform designed to address financial needs of self-employed, entrepreneurs & salaried individuals through a highly secure, digital medium.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Volt Money — Volt Money operates as a platform for instant secured loans against mutual funds.
Showroom B2B — SHOWROOM B2B is building the largest B2B “Phygital” platform for India’s $108 Bn fashion industry by connecting Tier 2+ clothing retailers directly with small to mid-scale apparel manufacturers and providing all parties with solutions for distribution, credit, logistics, and marketing.Showroom works on “Touch & Feel” mode of selling where itsunique distribution model ensures that there is almost NO RETURN of products sold. It creates Experience Centres for its retailers which gives them the confidence to buy without any iota of doubt about product quality.Showroom's offerings = Better Margins for Clothing Retailers + Aggressive Growth for Clothing Manufacturers
Navadhan Capital — Navadhan Capital offers capital to under-banked households.

Rudy Gopalakrishnan - Executive @ Fidelity

Investment focus

Social, Content, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Murmur App — BG News Sports Menyediakan Tentang Berita dan Informasi Seputar Olah Raga

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)

Investment focus

Internet, FinTech, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Singapore, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

OnFinance AI — OnFinance.ai is committed to harnessing the power of Generative AI for the betterment of the banking, wealth management, and insurance landscapes. Every Generative AI solution they develop is anchored in safety, efficiency, and the intricate nuances of their industry.NeoGPT, their in-house LLM (Large Language Model), and their flagship offering,embodies their belief in Generative AI's potential to redefine the financial sector. They provide secure AI Copilots, powered by NeoGPT, designed for internal teams at these institutions, boosting the efficiency of research, relationship management, sales, and customer support functions.
Thermoflyde — Refractory
leap.club — we are a powerful and private network of women leaders.

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

Investment focus

Internet, B2B, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

VenWiz — Find and connect with vendors matched to your requirements and manufacturing plant based on their capabilities and experience
Brick&Bolt — Brick&Bolt is a construction company in bengaluru doing house construction, building construction, & commercial construction. House construction packages start at Rs 1580/sft
Rigi — Discover Rigi, the ultimate platform for content creators. Monetize your passion, connect with a thriving community, and unlock your creative potential. Customize your brand's digital presence with Rigi's white-label app. Elevate your community hosting with personalized custom apps!

Hill Harbour

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Mobile
Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

Chingari — Chingari is a short-video entertaining platform connecting talented Indians. It allows users to share the videos on third-party social platforms as well. The application is available for Android users. It monetizes through in-app advertisements.

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, Internet, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
India, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Rep3 — Rep3 is a Web3 community management application. Rep3 uses gamification methods to assist lps encryption projects in managing communities, members, and contributions.
Gushwork — Gushwork provides a platform for small and medium businesses to get on-demand access to cross-border, AI-augmented remote workforce. They are enabling a one-click process for businesses to delegate or automate their day to day mission-critical business workflows.
Officebanao — Officebanao provides AI-powered space planning, 3D walkthroughs, various product selections, and real-time collaboration. They also provide clients with transparency by offering a variety of product selection options at cheap prices. They are revolutionizing the journey of workplace design and implementation by expediting the process with the useof proprietary in-house technologies.

The Venture Collective (TVC) is a transformational, early-stage venture business that is on a mission to bridge the funding gap for underrepresented founders. They are supporting the first, milestone-driven investor who contributes capital, time, and networks to help positively impactful, fast-growing companies create long-lasting businesses. Atits core, we believe that diversity is not only good for business but necessary for societal advancement. Our experienced team is headquartered in New York City and London, but we are excited to meet founders across the United States and United Kingdom.The Venture Collective has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

Investment focus

Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Lopay — Lopay gives you more control, more flexibility, and instant access to the money you earn.
Arogga — Arogga App is the first Bangladeshi app that brought healthcare system to your doorstep. Easy and efficient. With a click of a button, upload your prescription and we will ensure safe delivery of your medicine at earliest possible time.
Orbillion Bio — At Orbillion Bio, we bring healthy, ethical and flavorful meats with a complete farm-to-table story to the modern consumer.

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

ekincare — ekincare is a patent-pending AI-powered integrated health benefits platform helping organizations and Employees with a Preventive, Predictive and Highly Personalised Healthcare solution.Trusted by many fortune 500 companies ekincare redefines healthcare by being India's first personal health assistant using technology, analytics, andcurated services.Our integrated platform provides access to a multitude of online and offline healthcare services such as 24*7 chat with a doc, health check-ups, medicines purchase and delivery, Health coach programs, Mental wellness programs, Gyms & Fitness services, etc
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.

Giri Malpani of Malpani Ventures.

Investment focus

Apps, Music, EdTech
Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

ByteLearn — ByteLearn is an AI-powered assistant for math teachers and students in managing curriculum. ByteLearn offers personalized, one on one attention by leveraging artificial intelligence technology and guides students when they get stuck on math problems, enabling them to connect with teachers, and grasp concepts better.
CreditDharma — Credit Dharma offers fast, secure, and affordable home loans. Get the lowest interest rates and get savings on your home loan in just 48 hours. Book a free consultation today. Experience a hassle-free homeownership journey with Credit Dharma
STAGE — Indian languages content platform for artist led entertainment, such as poetry, comedy and storytelling etc.

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

Better is a micro venture firm that creates and invests in innovative business which deliver value & impact, and have a strong focus on profitability. Better Labs is our operating portfolio of product businesses that we create and fund and includes ReadyContacts, PicBackMan, DataDoctor, Magik, Simple wall, and Maroun Place.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

RapidClaims — Rapid Claims helps businesses autonomously code medical charts, find up-coding opportunities, improve the CDI process and reduce denials.
InCommon — Incommon assists fast-growing companies in setting up high-performance global teams by hiring the best talent across countries.
VoiceClub — We provide 1-1 on demand audio calling facilities with experts from categories like Astrology, Love, Career & Legal. Download VoiceClub App Now!

JPIN Venture Catalysts is sector-agnostic in its approach of investment with a focus from Seed to Growth stage startups.

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Chingari — Chingari is a short-video entertaining platform connecting talented Indians. It allows users to share the videos on third-party social platforms as well. The application is available for Android users. It monetizes through in-app advertisements.
BioSapien — BioSapien is a pre-clinical biotech company developing novel biodegradable implantable products that deliver active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for oncology indications with reduced systemic side effects. The applications for this technology are currently under investigation for pancreatic cancer and lung cancer. The intended pipeline ofindications is expected to expand into other cancers such as colorectal, breast, and stomach cancers. BioSapien's 3D-printed MediChip delivers FDA-approved toxic high-dose systemic therapies in a localized slow-release biodegradable mesh which is able to target tissues while improving patients' quality of care and life.
Easy to Pitch — Easy to Pitch is one of the fastest-growing and one-stop pitching solutions for startup fundraising consultant.

MVC Friends

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Mobile
Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

Chingari — Chingari is a short-video entertaining platform connecting talented Indians. It allows users to share the videos on third-party social platforms as well. The application is available for Android users. It monetizes through in-app advertisements.

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

KUmar Pradeep — Cart Abandonment Rate is the percentage (%) of online visitors who add items to their shopping cart but then abandon it without making a purchase. It shows the rate at which your potential customers are leaving without buying.
OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPLESS. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
CoinCRED — CoinCRED allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies.

We are a nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Grant, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Picnic — Picnic is a fast-growing tech company that has developed the modern milkman, a mass-market home delivery system for fast moving consumer goods.
ProteinLogic — ProteinLogic develops a technology platform called ImmiPrint® that focuses on the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB).
C16 Biosciences — Decarbonizing the consumer products supply chain

SGAN is an early stage VC anchored by the multi billion dollar Thakral Group of Companies and has investments across India, Singapore and the USA.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Qyuki — Qyuki is the next big thing that's going to hit new media very soon. If you've got latent creative talent that's waiting for the right opportunity to come along, then this is your time. Wait no more, prepare to give your best to the company that is founded by some of the biggest names in the entertainment business the world over;Shekhar Kapur and A. R. Rahman.
MyCaptain — MyCaptain is an online learning and teaching platform offering online courses with placements and certification programs. Upskill industry knowledge in the fields of business, marketing, design, content, and more.
Dawaa Dost — Dawaa Dost specializes in the pharmacy retail chain of generic medicines in India. The company focuses on the availability of affordable generic medicines. Dawaa Dost was founded by Amit Choudhary and Yash Harlalka and is based in India.

3rd Creek Foundation is a small foundation focused on global poverty alleviation through grant-making and impact investing.

Investment focus

Social, Medical, Training
Seed, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Maitri — Maitri provides livelihood for home based caregivers through organizing, skill training and employment linkages.
Kleiner Device Labs — INTERBODY SPINAL FUSION SYSTEM

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

KUmar Pradeep — Cart Abandonment Rate is the percentage (%) of online visitors who add items to their shopping cart but then abandon it without making a purchase. It shows the rate at which your potential customers are leaving without buying.
OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPLESS. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
CoinCRED — CoinCRED allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies.

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.
mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.

We are a leading early-stage investment platform. We are at the center of a global ecosystem that attracts and fuels the technical founders and product teams building the next wave of global businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Magma — Join a community of 1mln+ artists and studios using Magma to brainstorm and ideate through digital painting on a shared canvas in real-time. Start collaboartive drawing session directly in your browser, no software installation required.
Magma — Join a community of 1mln+ artists and studios using Magma to brainstorm and ideate through digital painting on a shared canvas in real-time. Start collaboartive drawing session directly in your browser, no software installation required.
Atomic Industries — Building the future of manufacturing, end-to-end automation of tool and die making

Lumikai curates and funds India's pioneering, lighthouse founders building the next wave of gaming & interactive media startups.

Investment focus

Gaming, Mobile Apps, Video Streaming
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

EloElo — Look Good, Feel good daily with India’s #1 Short Videos App for Health, Beauty & Lifestyle ! 100% Made in India, Made for India App that lets you watch entertaining & informative 60 second videos and also win 100s of Products free
House X — We are changing how consumers buy. Currently in stealth.
QuriousBit — QuriousBit is a gaming studio that develops casual puzzle games for mobile platforms.

Protocol Labs is building the next generation of the internet.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Lumino — Lumino is an AI infrastructure startup whose mission is to enable the power of AI for every human.
Lava Network — Lava Network aims to be a marketplace for blockchain data.
Metropolis World Ltd — Welcome to Metropolis World, a Metaverse experience combining physical and digital realms!

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Neodocs — Meet Neodocs, the in-home wellness tracker that instantly and accurately uncovers what your body really needs.
Supertails — Shop for pet food, accessories, grooming essentials and more. Book online vet consultation and online training for your pets. Shop for all your pet needs at supertails.com
InPrime Finserv — InPrime Finserv offers the best products and services by analysing the changing financial needs of the unregulated prime market.

Sprint VC is a New York based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Freakins — Looking for a wardrobe upgrade? Check out the collection of latest, trendy and stylish denim apparel by Freakins Online! Shop & enjoy Free delivery on all orders.
Plus — India’s first true savings app
Kandle — Kandle offers ways to make money in Crypto & Stocks through fantasy trading games. Trusted globally by 180,000+ users and growing.

Elevar Equity fuels the economic resilience and vibrancy of underserved customers and low income communities by investing early growth capital in entrepreneurs building at the intersection of inclusivity, affordability and massive scale. Led by an entrepreneurial emerging markets team passionate about addressing issues of access and inequity, Elevar invests in businesses that demonstrate a direct correlation between high impact and returns. So far in its 15-year journey, the Elevar Method of investing has democratized essential products and services for over 45 million households and catalyzed billions of dollars of capital into 40+ companies across India and Latin America.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series C
India, Mexico, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Fairplay — Fairplay is a performance-based financing platform that supports and helps e-Commerce companies to grow by advancing revenue for marketing spend. It offers funding in exchange for a steady share of revenues until the capital is paid back plus a flat fee. Fairplay was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.
Niro — Niro is embedding personal credit products into leading consumer internet platforms. The fintech startup aims to disrupt the consumer lending ecosystem in the country by democratizing access to convenient and hassle-free embedded credit products for 624 million internet users in India.
TapFin — Tapfin is a sustainability platform that focuses on offering several services, including financing and insurance, to startups and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the sustainability ecosystem.

Times Internet builds premium digital products that simplify and enhance the everyday lives of people. We are India’s largest digital products company with presence in a wide range of categories across news, entertainment, marketplaces and transactions.Many of our products are market leaders and iconic brands in their own right. TOI, ET,Cricbuzz, Gaana, MX Player, Dineout, Indiatimes, MensXP, iDiva, NBT, Gradeup among others are products that bring you closer to your interests and aspirations. Website - http://www.timesinternet.in Industry - Internet Company size - 1,001-5,000 employees Headquarters Gurgaon, Haryana Type - Privately Held Founded 1999 Specialities e-commerce, Advertisement Solutions, News and Entertainment, Start-up acceleration, Music streaming services, AdTech, Merger & A, Acquisition, Sports, Classified, and Startup Investment

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Clinikk — Dedicated Care team of Doctors and Health Assistants, available 24/7.Budget friendly payment plans with comprehensive claim support.Holistic Healthcare coverage for the underserved.
Pocket FM — Listen to Audio Books, Podcasts and read Novels on Pocket FM. We bring you over 10k+ popular audio shows in multi languages. Best audiobooks app
ShareChat — ShareChat is India's own social network in 14 Indian languages Install ShareChat from Google Play Store for FREE!

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ambitio — Leap into a world of opportunities with our expert study abroad consultant. Grasp how to select the right course, manage visa applications, and adjust to life in a new country.
Crux — Delight your enterprise accounts with instant answers & insights from their business data
Medial — Stay updated with the latest Indian startup ecosystem news, including funding updates, layoffs, product launches, and industry developments on Medial.

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, Information Technology
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.
mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.

Cowa leverages its network and expertise to strategically unlock the blockchain ecosystem.

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Mobile
Series A
India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Chingari — Chingari is a short-video entertaining platform connecting talented Indians. It allows users to share the videos on third-party social platforms as well. The application is available for Android users. It monetizes through in-app advertisements.
BCB Group — BCB Group is Europe’s leading crypto-dedicated payment services provider, serving some of the industry’s largest clients including Bitstamp, Coinbase, Galaxy and Kraken. BCB Group provides payment services in 20+ currencies, FX, cryptocurrency liquidity and digital asset custody.

The International Avalanche Nest-Egg "IAN FUND" Promoting back country safety & helping families impacted by avalanche tragedy.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Series B
India, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

trezi — Trezi is an immersive design collaboration platform for architects, designers & building product manufacturers that allows people to work remotely using AR and VR.
Truemeds — Order medicine online with ease! Fastest online medicine delivery from your trusted online pharmacy - Truemeds. Convenient and reliable services for home medicine delivery near you.
WebEngage — WebEngage offers CDP, Omnichannel Campaign Manager and Web & App Personalization Engine - to help brands boost their revenue from existing customers.

Pre-Seed/Seed Investors

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Mobile
Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

Chingari — Chingari is a short-video entertaining platform connecting talented Indians. It allows users to share the videos on third-party social platforms as well. The application is available for Android users. It monetizes through in-app advertisements.