Top 50 Social Media Angel Investors in India in July 2025

Investor	Social Media India investments
Kunal Shah	6
Vijay Shekhar Sharma	4
Sujeet Kumar	4
Rajan Anandan	3
Rajan Anandan	3
Gaurav Munjal	3
Anupam Mittal	3
Sharad Sharma	2
Jaynti Kanani	2
Pranav Pai	2
Piyush Jain	2
Kalyan Krishnamurthy	2
Roman Saini	2
Maninder Gulati	2
Ruchirans Jaipuria	2
Mukul Singhal	2
Rohit Bansal	2
Hemesh Singh	2
Alvin Tse	2
Lovkesh Arora	2
Girish Mathrubootham	2
Rajul Garg	2
Kunal Bahl	2
Harsh Shah	1
Srinivas Anumolu	1
Tej Lalvani	1
Utsav Somani	1
Deep Kalra	1
Aakrit Vaish	1
Kavitha Seetharaman	1
Abhishek Goyal	1
Shivashish Chatterjee	1
Rishab Malik	1
Nirav Choksi	1
Ankit Agarwal	1
Venkat Rama Mohan Reddy	1
Sumit Jain	1
Brennan Loh	1
ARVIND JHA	1
Pavan Ongole	1
Priyank Shah	1
Ashish Hemrajani	1
Manpreet Singh	1
Nikhil Chinapa	1
Vivek Desai	1
Ankush Sachdeva	1
Anurakt Jain	1
Arjun Vaidya	1
Ganesh Krishnan	1
V Balakrishnan	1

Kunal Shah

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mugafi — Unlu offers pre-recorded certified online courses taught by Indian celebrities. Join us now and take your career to new heights by enjoying unlimited access to our videos.
Lorien Finance — Lorien Finance is a cross-border FinTech platform providing affordable student loans and retail banking services to immigrants (students and temporary workers) moving to the US.
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Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Paytm. He previously worked at India Today Group Online as a Tech head. Vijay Shekhar attended Delhi College of Engineering.

Investment focus

Internet, News, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Yoho — Yoho manufactures orthopaedic lightweight footwear.
Naxatra Labs — Light, Efficient, Powerful Made in India motors and controllers for Electric Vehicles
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Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

GoRally — GoRally operates a pickleball chain.
Pizza Wings — Pizza Wings is a pizza brand, known for fresh, high-quality pizzas and more, available for dine-in, takeout, or delivery.
Sarla Aviation — We're developing India's most sophisticated eVTOL, driving innovation for widespread adoption in urban air mobility. Our focus is on creating an affordable, clean, and safe aerial travel experience, revolutionizing the way urban India moves.

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

Smytten — Smytten is an online discovery platform for premium products & services. Smytten also offers assisted shopping, and for the more advanced shopper, customised offers and ability to build their own wishlist for regular purchases.
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.

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, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Smytten — Smytten is an online discovery platform for premium products & services. Smytten also offers assisted shopping, and for the more advanced shopper, customised offers and ability to build their own wishlist for regular purchases.
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.

Gaurav Munjal is the Co-Founder and CEO at Unacademy.

Investment focus

Internet, Health Care, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Snabbit — Snabbit is a platform that connects people who want to help with housework. Snabbit provides an application for finding information on professionals in household duties, allowing users to acquire rapid and dependable domestic assistance in just a few minutes.
BiteSpeed — Drive 10% of your Shopify store's revenue from WhatsApp & FB Messenger. Recover abandoned carts, send promotional & shipping messages. Trusted by 1500+ brands!
infinyte.club — The ultimate wealth product for intelligent investors: track your net worth, manage public and private market investments & grow wealth across traditional & new-age assets.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Food and Beverage
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Gaon — Gaon delivers authentic Indian food flavors.
HealthFab — Seen on Shark Tank India! Buy GoPadFree period panties & GopainFree Period relief cream online by HealthFab. Shop for best menstrual products!
Bambinos Learning Solutions Pvt. Ltd. — Join bambinos.live - India's biggest platform to learn English and math for kids aged between 4-12 years.

Sharad Sharma is the Co-Founder of the iSPIRT Foundation. He attended Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Minjar — Short term financing makes it possible to acquire highly sought-after domains without the strain of upfront costs. Find your domain name today.
Vebbler — Roulette Online merupakan permainan situs judi Live Casino Terpopuler di Indonesia. Mainkan Rolet online gampang menang hari ini.
Wishberry — Wishberry is a rewards-based crowdfunding platform that enables users to raise funds for their creative and innovative ideas. The platform focused on topics such as arts, design, film, music, theatre, publishing, technology, games, and applications.

Jaynti Kanani - Co-Founder @ Polygon

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Fermah — Fermah can generate proofs for any instance in which ZK is used. Fermah is credibly neutral and architected to support all proof systems. This includes zkVMs, zkEVMs, Groth16, and all other proof systems. It is optimized for cheap, fast, and reliable ZK proof generation.
Mythik — Mythik operates as an entertainment company with a vision to bring Eastern mythology, history and folktales.
NovaNet — NovaNet offers local verifiable computing and privacy protection applications, including AI, decentralized Internet of Things (DePIN), and games.

Pranav is the Founding Partner at 3one4 Capital - an early-stage venture capital fund that is based in Bangalore. As part of the 3one4 team, he is deeply involved with the startup ecosystem in India and he leads the fund's partnerships and co-investments in the San Francisco Bay-Area as well. Through 3one4, Pranav has invested in over 80companies in India and the US, having led rounds across sectors such as fintech, SaaS, consumer, deep tech, and digital media.Previously, he was the Sr. Product Manager at EdCast, an ed-tech startup in the Bay Area. He graduated with a Master's in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Pranav serves on the boards of and as an advisor to several of the companies he works most closely with. He also volunteers on the advisory boards and steering committees of non-profits that work in areas he is passionate about.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Vebbler — Roulette Online merupakan permainan situs judi Live Casino Terpopuler di Indonesia. Mainkan Rolet online gampang menang hari ini.
My Ally — My Ally is the world’s only AI-powered solution for automating the scheduling and coordination of candidate interviews. We manage the entire interview scheduling process—including communicating with candidates—with better-than-human speed and accuracy. Developed specifically for employers, recruiters, talent acquisition professionals, and HRdepartments, My Ally reduces time-to-hire and cost-per-hire while making the recruiting process more candidate-friendly. We’re not a general scheduling tool, and we don’t serve recruiting agencies. We fully automate the scheduling and coordination of candidate interviews so our clients can focus on the more strategic aspects of talent acquisition such as sourcing, screening and relationship building.
Yellow — Yellow aim to provide a simple, secure, and cost-effective solution for all Indians to protect and preserve their legacies.

Piyush Jain

Investment focus

Social Media, Artificial Intelligence, Media and Entertainment
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Explurger — Get Out Get Social with Explurger: the best social media app for explorers and travel addicts. Share your adventures, connect with fellow travelers, and earn rewards along the way.
Explurger — Get Out Get Social with Explurger: the best social media app for explorers and travel addicts. Share your adventures, connect with fellow travelers, and earn rewards along the way.

Mr. Kalyan Krishnamurthy is the CEO of Flipkart. Prior to joining Flipkart, Mr. Krishnamurthy served as the Director of Finance and Portfolio Companies at Tiger Global Management. Prior to Tiger Global, Mr. Krishnamurthy held various senior positions such as Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at eBay Asia-Pacific and Country FinanceDirector (South-east Asia, Hong Kong) at eBay. He worked at Procter & Gamble. Mr. Krishnamurthy holds an MBA degree from Asian Institute of Management, the Philippines, and another MBA in Finance from UIUC College of Business, Illinois (US).

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, B2B
Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Protonn — Protonn is an all-in-one solution to empower independent professionals
Turnip — Empowering online communities to run, discover and join interactive experiences.
The Whole Truth — Order online from The Whole Truth Foods with secure payment options and seamless online shopping experience.

Roman Saini is Co Founder at Unacademy.

Investment focus

Health Care, Apps, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Turnip — Empowering online communities to run, discover and join interactive experiences.
Upliance.ai — Up was founded by IIT Bombay alumni, Mahek Mody, ex-Chief of Staff at Ather Energy and Mohit Sharma, ex-head of engineering at Chaayos. React is at the forefront of transforming modern Indian households. As India’s first D2C, smart home appliance brand, their maiden product the R1 has been designed to change the way we cook and expand ourrepertoire of food. The smart cooking appliance offers 10 inbuilt functions - chop, stir, sauté, whisk, blend, boil, steam, cook, knead & self-clean, along with an integrated smart weighing scale. The onboard 8” touchscreen offers consumers a guided cooking experience, with access to hundreds of recipes from across the world. React’s CookClub.ai will also allow users tocreate and share their own recipes and give them access to thousands more as they are built. React will begin deliveries of the R1 in June, 2022.
Meme Chat Private Limited — Make memes, trends and money. All under one hood.

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

Bachatt — Bachatt is a daily savings led financial services platform. Bachatt aims to address a critical need for over 30 crore self-employed individuals in India. while self-employed individuals earn daily, their expenses often require large, infrequent payments, creating a major cash flow challenge. This, coupled with the inherent variability in dailyearnings, makes managing finances extremely difficult.Our vision is to become their trusted daily savings partner, helping them establish financial discipline. This strong foundation will then unlock access to a suite of financial products (loans, high-yield instruments, insurance, etc.) at more favorable terms.
Fabrito — Fabrito is a B2B fabric marketplace that simplifies fabric sourcing for brands and garment manufacturers seeking reduced turnaround times (TAT), lower minimum order quantities (MOQs), and improved pricing. Fabrito provides a diverse range of readily available fabrics that can be quickly replenished.
Dodo Payments — Dodo Payments is a FinTech company providing international payment solutions for businesses. It acts as a merchant of record, managing payments, taxes, compliance, subscriptions, and churn. The platform supports over 300 local payment methods in more than 100 currencies across 150+ countries.

Ruchirans Jaipuria - Managing Director @ Jaipuria Group

Investment focus

Apps, Retail, Banking
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

RevFin — RevFin is a digital lending company.
Explurger — Get Out Get Social with Explurger: the best social media app for explorers and travel addicts. Share your adventures, connect with fellow travelers, and earn rewards along the way.
Explurger — Get Out Get Social with Explurger: the best social media app for explorers and travel addicts. Share your adventures, connect with fellow travelers, and earn rewards along the way.

Mukul Singhal - Co-founder & Partner @ Pravega Ventures

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Apps, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Series B
India

Portfolio highlights

Twigly — Twigly Gurgaon offers a wide range of Grilled Sandwiches, Pasta, Fajitas, Grilled Chicke, Thai Curries and much more in the most healthiest way.
Playcez — Gabung di Vegas88 dan nikmati bonus referral serta chip gratis setiap kali mengajak teman bermain. Semakin banyak yang bergabung, semakin besar bonus.
Touchtalent — Touchtalent.com (commonly known as Touchtalent) is a global community of creative people. Today, creative users from 192 countries share their creativity under different categories on Touchtalent.The community is created to promote the interest of creative group. Touchtalent enables creation, secure storage, appreciation and monetization ofcreativity. All features are designed keeping the interest of creators in the mind. Features focusing on copyrights, sharing, quality enhancement, multiple uploads and network with other platforms are giving significant tractions to the community.

Rohit Bansal - Co-Founder @ Snapdeal

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Legistify — Legistify offers AI-powered legal operations software to streamline workflows, manage contracts, track legal cases and improve productivity for enterprise legal teams
Equal Identity — Equal Identity operates as an ID-sharing platform.
Eyewear designed& labs — Eyewear designed& labs is a eyewear startup.

Hemesh Singh is a co-founder and CTO of Unacademy.com.

Investment focus

Apps, Social Media, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

OpsLyft — The only cloud management platform that focuses on providing actionable insights for technology and financial leaders.
Pratilipi — A platform to read stories, write your own and share your favorite ones in Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, English, Urdu, Punjabi and Odia
Slick App — Go Slick, and declare your true feelings like nobody's watching!

Alvin Tse is the current General Manager of Xiaomi India. He previously worked at Xiaomi as a Head of Marketing, Xiaomi Europe. Alvin Tse attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Internet, Education, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

EduRev — EduRev is an e-learning platform that provides student the freedom to learn what they want. It is a free website where thousands of students, teachers and professors share, study and upload their notes, video lectures and books to help each other. The problem not only exists in the school, but also colleges, especially engineering colleges, wherethe last minute study counts for everything. One common place to find all such answers is www.edurev.in, a site that provides material that you need to obtain an edge in a world of cut throat competition. EduRev provides everything for free, from online videos of lectures, and ebooks in the pdf format. The unique feature of the website is it’s interaction capabilities. Students follow their teachers and friends, and create a network. The teachers can also interact with students from different institutions across the country and bond with the like-minded.
Interality.ai — Interality is a tech startup that helps in building virtual platforms.
Selligion Technologies — Selligion Praho is the world's first Hybrid cloud computing as a service - perhaps the first step towards delivering the last computer you'd ever need. A computer powered by the cloud - a computer that needs no upgrades - Selligion Praho offers the possibility of unlimited on-demand upgrades, and opportunities for life

Lovkesh Arora

Investment focus

Social Media, Artificial Intelligence, Media and Entertainment
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Explurger — Get Out Get Social with Explurger: the best social media app for explorers and travel addicts. Share your adventures, connect with fellow travelers, and earn rewards along the way.
Explurger — Get Out Get Social with Explurger: the best social media app for explorers and travel addicts. Share your adventures, connect with fellow travelers, and earn rewards along the way.

Girish Mathrubootham is the CEO and Founder at Freshworks. Girish Mathrubootham attended University of Madras.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

HuddleUp — HuddleUp is an AI-based team culture platform empowering Managers to boost team engagement & productivity using conversational AI, personalised learnings & peer connections. Build engaged, high-performing remote teams with HuddleUp. Book a demo now!
NocoDB — NocoDB is an open-source Airtable alternative that transforms existing databases into a smart spreadsheet. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Presentations.AI — Create stunning PowerPoint presentations in seconds with Presentations.AI - the ultimate AI presentation maker. Just type your idea and watch as we craft a professional PPT for you. Perfect for all: businesses, educators, and hobbyists. Dive in now, start for free!

Rajul co-founded GlobalLogic, sold for $420M in 2013 to Apax partners in the largest deal of the year in India. Rajul built the operation ground up in India and then expanded through global acquisitions, until 2008. Rajul then consulted with top tier venture capital firms such as Sequoia Capital and Aavishkaar, where he got exposed to the educationsector.Earlier, right out of college, Rajul founded Pine Labs, a leader in the Indian market in credit card transactions.Rajul serves on several Boards, including publicly traded S Mobility, a leader in digital mobility. He is an active mentor to several startups, a sought after angel investor and a participant in several industry bodies such as TiE, NASSCOM, IIT Mentors and othersRajul is a graduate from IIT Delhi.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Tripeur — Streamline your corporate travel management and expense processes in one app. Save time, gain efficiency, and reduce costs with this powerful, all-in-one solution.
Bulbulshop — Bulbulshop is a purchasing e-commerce app that provides health, gadgets, beauty, cosmetics, apparel, jewelry, home, kitchen, and bags. It was founded on November 28, 2018, and is based in Delhi, India.
Sunstone Education — Sunstone partners with top colleges and universities, to provide admission and top-notch placement support in PG & UG courses like MBA, MCA, B.Tech, BCA, BBA and more.

Kunal is a technology entrepreneur and investor.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Burger Bae — We are a sustainable streetwear clothing brand. Our vision is to diminish the line between high end fashion and streetwear to create a more unified clothing line!
Moderate — As seen on Shark Tank India. Clinically-backed formulas tested at AIIMS. Control post-meal sugar spikes, reduce glucose variability, reduce carb absorption and curb cravings with our science-backed, plant-based solutions for balanced energy and lasting wellness.
Eyewear designed& labs — Eyewear designed& labs is a eyewear startup.

Harsh Shah co-founded Shopsense Retail Technologies Private Limited in 2012. Harsh Shah is a Co-founder of Nova Global. He is Head of Entrepreneurship Cell. Harsh Shah studied at IIT Bombay in 2010.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

Podeum — Podeum helps to combine various pre- and post-game activities such as pre-match analysis, live-match commentary, online social media debates, and fantasy and prediction competitions into one platform.
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.
Intugine Technologies — Intugine Technologies-Logistics Through Innovation.

Co-Founder of Growth Story.

Investment focus

Apps, Content, Food Processing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ONWO — Discover premium sweeteners and trading solutions with Onwo, your trusted partner in international trade.
Podeum — Podeum helps to combine various pre- and post-game activities such as pre-match analysis, live-match commentary, online social media debates, and fantasy and prediction competitions into one platform.
Magma — Magma platform partners with factories and raw materials suppliers to offer supply chain services from the supplier to the customer.

Tej Lalvani is the CEO of Vitabiotics.

Investment focus

Fashion, Advertising, Beauty
Angel, Seed
India, Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

POPxo — POPxo is India's online community for women that deals everything from fashion, beauty, lifestyle, work, and etc.Reaching 9 million users every month with over 102 million monthly engaged content views. POPxo provides text and video content in an accessible manner, and reach them where they live their lives: on social media and on mobile.It focuses on reaching a highly targeted audience - the millions of young urban women in India who are growing in confidence, in independence and in spending power, it monetises by working across formats (native ads, social posts, events) with brands who want to reach this important and influential consumer base.I was launch in March 2014 it's become the go-to lifestyle resource for the female (18-34) demographic.
Gener8 — We believe that the advertising industry needs more transparency and that people should be able to control their own data. Our technology gives people the control that is currently missing. And if people choose to share their data with advertisers, we reward them for it. Consequently, people trust us and 83% of them share their data with us.Meaning that we have an incredible understanding about these people and their online behaviour. We work with companies (and their media agencies) in the capacity of a media owner to do three things: 1. Provide premium media for you to reach this highly defined audience.2. Use our proprietary first party data to unveil actionable insights about your customers, eg. their purchase habits.3. To promote your brand and drive an action from your audience.
Peachy Lean — Peachylean, is an Irish based athleisure business providing stylish, high quality, supportive, high waisted gym leggings. We want to support strong women who like to look good while working out in the gym.

Looking for - Passionate founders looking to target a market with tremendous future potential and stands to be disrupted by a new entrant. Crucial that the product / service is not easily replicable and the domain expertise of the company is a deterrent to fresh entrants.Keen interest in - Clean Technology, Consumer Internet, EnterpriseSoftware, Health Care, Mobile, SaaSSkills - Angel Investing, Financial Modelling & Valuation, Information Technology, Portfolio Management, Risk Management

Investment focus

Apps, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Cleevo — Cleevo offers products of cleaning with eco friendly, non toxic solutions to your home.
Ninecamp — Ninecamp is a food and beverage company. They anticipate creating new and unique brands with a strong emphasis on high-quality offerings in product, service, and design.
Covision Media — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.

Deep is the Founder and CEO of India's leading online travel company, MakeMyTrip.com. Launched in India in 2005, MakeMyTrip offered the convenience of online transactions coupled with great value prices, thus revolutionizing the way Indians research and purchase travel services. Under his stewardship, MakeMyTrip is today the largest e-commercebusiness in the country and the largest travel company in India and listed its shares on NASDAQ in August 2010.He also serves as a Board Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Delhi and is an active Angel Investor in the internet space. Deep is a founding member of “I am Gurgaon” - an NGO focused on improving the quality of life in Gurgaon.Prior to his entrepreneurial venture with MakeMyTrip, Deep has had corporate stints with GE Capital, AMF Bowling Inc. and ABN AMRO Bank. Deep holds an MBA (PGDM) degree from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi. His interests include swimming, yoga, quizzing, adventure sports and, of course, travelling.

Investment focus

Travel, Apps, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

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PlanetSpark — PlanetSpark platform leverages powerful technology to provide live online classes to K8 learners on Public Speaking and Creative Writing skills. PlanetSpark is on a journey to make the traditional and unorganized tuitions obsolete through its virtual classroom
Punt Partners — Punt Partners is a company that provides marketing technology services. It provides results through the use of proprietary data, technology, and services.

Aakrit Vaish is the co-founder and CEO of Haptik, who pioneered the wave of conversational AI starting back in 2013. Today, Haptik is one of the world's largest companies in the space with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Mumbai, Singapore, and clients that include names such as KFC, Starhub, Zurich Insurance, Ola Cabs, Hotstar, Oyo Rooms,Kotak Life. In April 2019, Reliance Industries acquired the majority shareholding in the company in a $100 million transaction, making Haptik one of the highest valued AI companies globally. Outside of Haptik, Aakrit is an investor in startups in the areas of consumer/consumer tech and B2B SaaS. Notable investments include Unacademy (valued at >$200 million), Pepper Content, Park+, Flat White Capital, Third Wave Coffee, Ayoconnect, Boxhub, Dataweave, Haikujam (Ligthtbox backed), Flatchat (sold to Commonfloor in 2014), Tookitaki, Dil Mil, Ayopop, iON Energy, Talent Litmus, among others.Prior to Haptik,Aakrit was an early member of the team at Flurry, one of the world's largest mobile analytics and advertising platforms, acquired by Yahoo in 2014. Aakrit received his BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign and was named as a contender to the Forbes India 30 under 30 list in 2015.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, Canada, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Creativefuel — Priorities brands should use Meme MarketingThis appropriate engagement that meme marketing brings out of the major reason why brands should use our meme marketing to advertise with us. Let’s target more folded advantages that Meme Marketing will have over any of its relative threshold counterparts.Here are 4 reasons why many advertisingbrands should use meme marketing over other basic methods of advert:1. Meme’s deliver by creative fuel out staged campaign eternal proven better engage rate than promoted avert on a social media If you, done a paid campaign to engage your result page, to optimized your ad result but, always track’ when you look at the engagement result and stats.2. If you are meme jacking do enclosed a disclaimer for your event, have an advantage over any other creatives that you always make a creative. Reason: The meme is already viral and ensures engaged you sour if you put your message through it in the right manner (WE CAN HELP). Whereas, if you produce a traditional Ad, it definitely cannot compete with the engagement rate of a meme’s.3. Brand major-related wings invest their major chunk of brand banner for advertising thinking there will be a brand awareness campaign containing social lead if nothing else. Campaign results may be right, but why limit the scope have just brand awareness when you can generate lead brands outsourced directly. People off, they relate with their meme post so well that it leaves a lasting impression of the brand page on them and initiates a Return a page conversation for the internet community standard organization.Often companies/brands have this reaction when ROI (return on investment) for their online campaign yields poor results:4. People spend time on the internet to consume good content as well as to skip brand communications. This is because they bring along them a FUZZ factor. Whereas, if the same message snippet can be delivered via meme in such a way that the person related enjoys looking at it. Well, it does look like an idea.What meme marketing feels like in Meme’s Marketing:A question might arise… What happens even if we create a Meme, Our Brand ‘awesome Handle in a million followers (Axis number) what trend’s follow and target out followers Meme Marketing related is not about linked posting Memes on your Brand Handle, All the Memes produced are seed’s on Social media via Meme Pages. These Meme Pages have their own massive and target audience and hence the idea is to leverage out that attention.
The Yarn Bazaar — The Yarn Bazaar is a Purpose-Led, Modern, Efficient, and Transparent managed Marketplace for yarn that allows yarn buyers and sellers to discover real-time yarn prices, information, and market trends in an instant. Our proprietary processes and flexible unsecured financing options enable yarn sellers to expand their reach and sales whilemaintaining higher margins, and buyers to discover and purchase high-quality yarn at unbeatable prices while reducing raw material and procurement costs, saving time, money, and effort.
GrayQuest — GrayQuest Education Finance Pvt. Ltd provides Parents and Students with the most convenient and easiest option to pay fees to their Institute.

Kavitha Seetharaman is a proprietor at Envirotech Services.

Investment focus

EdTech, Communities, Social Media
Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

XOOG — Xoog is a safe social platform with skill clubs for students to showcase their skills and achievements and learnings and earn rewards. Skill clubs available are Rubiks, Art, dance, Music etc.

Abhishek Goyal is a Co-Founder at Tracxn. He attended the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

Investment focus

Financial Services, B2B, Retail
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

ofScale — ofScale operates as a distribution-as-a-service platform.
Slick — Go Slick, and declare your true feelings like nobody's watching!
Neverinstall — Access a powerful computer from your browser in an instant, with all your applications already downloaded and installed.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, B2B
Seed, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

Mitsu — Mitsu's a guided self-therapy app helping people who feel anxious or depressed build skills to manage their mental health. Reach out. Reach for Mitsu.
HappyShappy — HappyShappy is a discovery platform for lifestyle ideas and the best products curated for India. It is also a universal cart and bookmarking tool where users save ideas, products, blogs, links and much more into their Dreamboards -- to save for themselves or to help others discover their fresh ideas.
Upswing Financial Technologies — Upswing is Providing Financial & Fintech products with easy to integrate API platform for financial institutions - Upswing Fintech Software Company

Rishab Malik is the co-founder and vice president of business development at Droom technology.

Investment focus

Chemical, Wholesale
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Nojoto — Know the world through Videos in Shayari, Poetry, Comedy, Talks, Opinions & Knowledge in Hindi, Urdu, English, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati (12 Languages)...
Distil — Your trusted partner for speciality chemicals

Nirav Choksi - Non Executive Director @ Roll Mafia

Investment focus

SaaS, Content, Photography
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

O4S — O4S is an AI and SaaS-driven platform that helps clients to digitize and automate the supply chain. It's a multi-module platform for manufacturing companies to enable traceability and automation across manufacturing, warehouses, and retail network to increase sales and performance. The solution optimizes downstream supply chain operation andbrand protection. It helps warehouses, distributors, retailers, and consumers on a single mobile app-based platform helping organizations optimize planning and production.
Roll Mafia — Where the rolls and the biryanis are criminally tasty. Where the traditions of the royal kitchens of Awadh are venerated and still kept alive. Where the cooking is slow, though the food is fast. Roll Mafia is a Mafia of Taste. Fresh and pure taste, with ingredients that are procured freshly daily and there is no freezing overnight. Nawabi, Lucknowiand Calcutta taste, authentic and traditional, but served with pizzazz that is all our own style.
Movense — Movense is a social Live photo capturing platform that enables people, brands and publishers to tell their stories to the world in an engaging manner through interactive Live Photos.We call these Living Images or Live Photos as Moves. Moves allow gesture based forward/backward motion flow in a picture. Thus you can bring a waterfallpicture in motion or make an airplane fly backwards. All in Moves.In short: if Jpegs were to capture moments, Moves are to relive them! ;)People across the globe are sharing their amazing world through Moves in the Movense community. Join us and see the world from the eyes of Movense.We envision to create an industry around these interactive images that can in near future become the base for creation of Augmented Reality and Interactive content.Connect with us at contact@movense.com

Ankit Agarwal - Partner @ Alteria Capital

Investment focus

Pet, Marketplace, Recreational Vehicles
Debt Financing, Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

StockGro — Learn stock market trading and investing from industry experts. Use our virtual trading platform to build your social trading circle and understand the stock market.
DrinkPrime — We make India's Smartest Water Purifiers and are redefining water purifier ownership. With us our customers never have to worry about installation, relocation, maintenance hassles. They just have to pay us for the amount of pure water they consume by subscribing to our easy subscription plans and leave their drinking water hassles to us.We're a young company combining the best of IoT and Water Purification technologies to make sure Urban India doesn't have to worry about drinking water again!
Slick — Go Slick, and declare your true feelings like nobody's watching!

Venkat Rama Mohan Reddy is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Taste Midco 2 Limited. He previously worked at NASSCOM as a Chairman. Venkat Rama Mohan Reddy attended the University of Michigan.

Investment focus

Software, Wellness, Health Care
Seed, Angel, Series A
India

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
Genylabs — Auris is an AI powered consumer insights and social listening platform. Get industry specific insights. Used by Fortune 500 companies. Try free for 15 days!
Kritsnam Technologies — Kritsnam Technologies is a company in the field of IoT with focus on water resource management solutions ' Incubated in SIDBI Innovation and Incubation Centre (SIIC) - IIT Kanpur Recognized by DIPP as an Official Start-up for Make In India initiative.

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.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

AdmitKard — Want to study abroad ? Get expert advice and information on colleges, courses, exams, admission, student visa, and application process to study overseas.
Fixcraft — Fixcraft is changing the way car owners get their car repair done. Its tech enabled startup which plans to bring "Quality Service at Fair Price" to every user. Currently, the market is ruled by Authorised workshops on one end which charge exorbitant amount in the name of brand on one end and local mechanics which is a sub-standard qualitywork at lower price.
All Is Well — All Is Well is a fitness platform powered by artificial intelligence.

Brennan Loh is the Director of Brand at Shopify

Investment focus

Apps, Publishing, Food and Beverage
Series A, Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

BlissClub — BlissClub is the community's first women's activewear brand.
Skillbee — Explore the latest abroad job opportunities for freshers & experienced candidates.
SolarSquare Energy — Visit Solarsquare, India's only UL-certified solar installation company for hassle-free commercial & residential solar panel installation at 0 cost EMI & PPA options.

ARVIND JHA

Investment focus

Content, Photography, Social Media
Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Notesgen —
Movense — Movense is a social Live photo capturing platform that enables people, brands and publishers to tell their stories to the world in an engaging manner through interactive Live Photos.We call these Living Images or Live Photos as Moves. Moves allow gesture based forward/backward motion flow in a picture. Thus you can bring a waterfallpicture in motion or make an airplane fly backwards. All in Moves.In short: if Jpegs were to capture moments, Moves are to relive them! ;)People across the globe are sharing their amazing world through Moves in the Movense community. Join us and see the world from the eyes of Movense.We envision to create an industry around these interactive images that can in near future become the base for creation of Augmented Reality and Interactive content.Connect with us at contact@movense.com

Pavan Ongole

Investment focus

Online Portals, News, Education
Angel, Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

The Ken — The Ken - Unrivaled analysis and powerful stories about businesses from across the globe brought to you by award-winning journalists.
Freshtohome — Freshtohome is an online grocery store that sells a range of seafood and meat to its users.The website’s range of products include fish, poultry, mutton, steaks, and fillet. Fish consists of shell, freshwater, and marine. Furthermore, it enables suppliers to supply their seafood and meat to the website.Freshtohome was launched in 2015 by ShanKadavil and is based in Bangalore.
Fastudent — Our mission is to provide efficient and effective solutions to the complete education fraternity for a priceless experience which we term as "Zoom Ahead with Education at your door".

Priyank Shah is the Founder at Renee Cosmetics. He attended IBS Ahmedabad in 2009.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
India

Portfolio highlights

VAMA — VAMA is a one-stop virtual platform that provides easy access to e-pujas, e-darshans, and astrology services, to devotees from across India and the world.
WickedGud — WickedGud is to make eating guilt-free, and change the way the world consumes comfort foods for the better by using indigenous, high nutrition ingredients.
Slick — Go Slick, and declare your true feelings like nobody's watching!

Ashish Hemrajani is the CEO and Founder at BookMyShow.

Investment focus

Internet, Food and Beverage, Education
Seed, Angel, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

Paz Care — One platform to comprehensively insure your employees. Plans include Group Health Insurance, Group Personal Accident Insurance, Group Term Life Insurance, and Liability insurance. Talk to us for a custom quote.
VS Mani & Co — Shop South Indian filter coffee, instant coffee that tastes almost like filter coffee, and wholesome snacks and spices at VS Mani & Co. Free delivery.
Punt Partners — Punt Partners is a company that provides marketing technology services. It provides results through the use of proprietary data, technology, and services.

Manpreet Singh is an Sikh Indian-American entrepreneur, philanthropist, asset manager, and one of the youngest people ever to receive the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in the United States and the world. He was named the "Most Ambitious" CFA Charterholder by the CFA Institute in 2006. He is frequently sought after as atechnology/investment expert by the media outlets, such as The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg TV, Bloomberg.com, TheStreet.com, MarketWatch, and many others.

Investment focus

Video, Internet, Real Estate
Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

BolRealty.com — Short term financing makes it possible to acquire highly sought-after domains without the strain of upfront costs. Find your domain name today.

Nikhil Chinapa

Investment focus

File Sharing, Social Media, Personalization
Seed, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Vebbler — Roulette Online merupakan permainan situs judi Live Casino Terpopuler di Indonesia. Mainkan Rolet online gampang menang hari ini.
OneGreen — OneGreen is Asia’s one-stop shop/marketplace for everything pure, safe, natural, and sustainable. Categories range from personal care, baby care, groceries, intimate hygiene, sexual wellness, home care, responsible apparel, clothing

Vivek Desai is the CEO & Director of Systems Plus Transformations

Investment focus

Advertising, Social Media, Digital Marketing
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Digimaze — A performance marketing agency where traditional boundaries fade. We seamlessly merge brand and performance in a digital realm, providing quantifiable insights for comprehensive results.

Ankush Sachdeva is the co-founder and CEO at ShareChat. He earned his degree at IIT Kanpur.

Investment focus

Internet, Wellness, Apps
Seed, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

Fanztar — Fanztar is a a Web3 platform for the creator economy.
Wishlink — Wishlink by promoting brands through its storefront enables social media content providers to monetise their influence.
General Autonomy — General Autonomy is a robotics firm on the cutting edge of manufacturing and automation for the future.

Anurakt Jain is a Co-founder & CEO of Klub. Anurakt attended the University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School.

Investment focus

Fashion, Internet, Lifestyle
Debt Financing, Seed, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

Vebbler — Roulette Online merupakan permainan situs judi Live Casino Terpopuler di Indonesia. Mainkan Rolet online gampang menang hari ini.
Neemli Naturals — Neemli Naturals offers eco-friendly, vegan skincare products, blending Ayurvedic formulas with modern bio-actives. Shop cruelty-free, sustainable beauty solutions for radiant skin. Explore our range of serums, moisturizers, and cleansers. Ethical skincare for conscious consumers.
Purple Style Labs — Purple Style Labs is an IIT-Bombay graduate and ex-banker with Deutsche. It aspires to be the biggest fashion house of India managing multiple designer brands in the premium, luxury as well as affordable retail segment.

Arjun Vaidya is the Founder of Verinvest Corporation. Attended Brown University.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Food and Beverage
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

P-TAL — P-TAL aims at reviving the dying craft form of the indigenous Thathera community of Jandiala Guru, Amritsar, which has the distinction of practicing India’s only UNESCO-listed craft form. The Thatheras of Jandiala Guru are a community of skilled craftsmen who specialize in the traditional technique of hammering brass and copper sheets intotraditional utensils.
hypergro — Hypergro provides the power of user-generated content, craft impactful UGC video ads designed to attract, engage, and convert.These video advertising act as a distinctive, tailored connection between the brand and potential clients, which boosts consumer traffic, app downloads, and revenue for your company.
hypergro — Hypergro provides the power of user-generated content, craft impactful UGC video ads designed to attract, engage, and convert.These video advertising act as a distinctive, tailored connection between the brand and potential clients, which boosts consumer traffic, app downloads, and revenue for your company.

K Ganesh, Partner at GrowthStory.

Investment focus

Gaming, Sports, Construction
Seed, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Podeum — Podeum helps to combine various pre- and post-game activities such as pre-match analysis, live-match commentary, online social media debates, and fantasy and prediction competitions into one platform.
YantraLive — YantraLive provides industry-first solutions for the trade-in and maintenance of heavy equipment by supply the right parts and services on time while redefining the ownership experience for heavy equipment. They offer Repair Services, Onsite Fitment Service, General inspection, and many more.

Mr. V. Balakrishnan, also known as Bala, is the Founder & Chairman of Exfinity, a Private Equity Fund focused on investing in the Technology space. Mr. Balakrishnan served as Head of BPO, Finacle & India Business Unit at Infosys Ltd. He served as the Chief Financial Officer of Infosys Ltd., from May 1, 2006 to October 31, 2012. Mr.Balakrishnan has significant experience in leadership positions in the finance domain, with expertise in Corporate Finance, International Taxation, Risk Management and Mergers & Acquisitions. He served as Secretary and Senior Vice President - Finance of Infosys Ltd., from joining it in 2001 to April 2006. He served as Vice President - Finance of Infosys Ltd and also served in various capacities in Finance department.

Investment focus

Enterprise Software, Information Technology, Pet
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

The Ken — The Ken - Unrivaled analysis and powerful stories about businesses from across the globe brought to you by award-winning journalists.
TaxSutra — Taxsutra provides real time, up-to-date news and case law analysis on Income tax from ITAT, and the High Courts and Supreme Court. We are also tracking important litigations, developments in Income Tax department, CBDT and Finance Ministry, with a view to keep tax professionals abreast of the latest trends therein.
TailsLife — TailsLife is a platform that connects Pet Owners, Services providers & Manufacturers - leveraging the latest technology to transform existing industry and create new ones. Our technology platform enables users, pet walkers, sitters and groomers to discover each other through an intelligent matching engine that analyses multiple data pointsincluding the availability, proximity and dozens of other parameters like pet type, breed, size, age, special needs etc. TailsLife also markets products such as Instant Dog Meal with its in-house brand D WoofPack & Furresh. Having tied up with retailers such as LULU, BigBasket, Food World, Future group and top pet stores.We are web & app based.