Top 50 Social Media Angel Investors in India in September 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Social media startups based in India. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social media companies from India. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Social Media Angel Investors in India in September 2025
Investor | Social Media India investments |
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Kunal Shah | 6 |
Vijay Shekhar Sharma | 4 |
Sujeet Kumar | 4 |
Gaurav Munjal | 3 |
Rajan Anandan | 3 |
Rajan Anandan | 3 |
Anupam Mittal | 3 |
Hemesh Singh | 2 |
Alvin Tse | 2 |
Girish Mathrubootham | 2 |
Rajul Garg | 2 |
Kunal Bahl | 2 |
Mukul Singhal | 2 |
Lovkesh Arora | 2 |
Sharad Sharma | 2 |
Jaynti Kanani | 2 |
Piyush Jain | 2 |
Ruchirans Jaipuria | 2 |
Pranav Pai | 2 |
Kalyan Krishnamurthy | 2 |
Roman Saini | 2 |
Maninder Gulati | 2 |
Rohit Bansal | 2 |
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 |
Vivek Desai | 1 |
Ankush Sachdeva | 1 |
Arjun Vaidya | 1 |
Ganesh Krishnan | 1 |
V Balakrishnan | 1 |
Sanjeev Barnwal | 1 |
Seetharaman Thiruvenkatam | 1 |
Rahul Chaudhary | 1 |
Sandeep Nailwal | 1 |
Rajesh Sawhney | 1 |
Ghazal Alagh | 1 |
Aadil Ebrahim | 1 |
Yuvraja C Singh | 1 |
Navin Fabiani | 1 |
Kunal Shah
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Mugafi — Create captivating stories, iconic characters, and legendary universes for the world to witness.
- Spense — Hi there, we understand creating a fintech is hard. It involves intricate processes, considerable expenses, and extensive time to launch. Our apis & platforms will enable your groundbreaking financial idea to materialize in a few months.
- Eyewear designed& labs — Eyewear designed& labs is a eyewear startup.
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.
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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
- 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!
Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan
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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.
Gaurav Munjal is the Co-Founder and CEO at Unacademy.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Hemesh Singh is a co-founder and CTO of Unacademy.com.
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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.
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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
Girish Mathrubootham is the CEO and Founder at Freshworks. Girish Mathrubootham attended University of Madras.
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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.
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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.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Peeko — Peeko is a quick commerce platform that specializes in baby care products and accessories, promising 60-minute delivery.
- 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.
Mukul Singhal - Co-founder & Partner @ Pravega Ventures
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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 — Main slot Vegas88 sekarang makin gampang. Akses cepat tanpa VPN, koleksi game lengkap, dan jackpot selalu siap menyambut dengan hadiah meledak.
- 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.
Lovkesh Arora
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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.
Sharad Sharma is the Co-Founder of the iSPIRT Foundation. He attended Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University.
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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
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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.
Piyush Jain
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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.
Ruchirans Jaipuria - Managing Director @ Jaipuria Group
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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.
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).
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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.
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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.
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Peeko — Peeko is a quick commerce platform that specializes in baby care products and accessories, promising 60-minute delivery.
- 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.
- 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.
Rohit Bansal - Co-Founder @ Snapdeal
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Peeko — Peeko is a quick commerce platform that specializes in baby care products and accessories, promising 60-minute delivery.
- Equal Identity — Equal Identity operates as an ID-sharing platform.
- Eyewear designed& labs — Eyewear designed& labs is a eyewear startup.
Abhishek Goyal is a Co-Founder at Tracxn. He attended the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
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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
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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.
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Investment focus
- Chemical, Wholesale
- Seed
- India
Nirav Choksi - Non Executive Director @ Roll Mafia
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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- Online Portals, News, Education
- Angel, Seed
- India
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- 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.
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- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- India
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- 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.
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- Internet, Food and Beverage, Education
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India
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- 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.
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- Video, Internet, Real Estate
- Angel
- India
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- 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.
Vivek Desai is the CEO & Director of Systems Plus Transformations
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- Advertising, Social Media, Digital Marketing
- Seed
- India
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- 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.
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- Internet, Wellness, Apps
- Seed, Series A
- India
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- 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.
Arjun Vaidya is the Founder of Verinvest Corporation. Attended Brown University.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States
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- 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.
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- Gaming, Sports, Construction
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- India
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- 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.
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- Enterprise Software, Information Technology, Pet
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- India
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- 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.
Sanjeev Barnwal is Founder and CTO at Meesho.
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- Internet, Apps, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, Kenya, Vietnam
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- 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.
- Pep — Learn live & buy digital products with lifetime recording at affordable price
- Bluelearn — Find co-founders & teammates, apply to gigs, learn new skills, and meet passionate people.
Seetharaman Thiruvenkatam is a managing Director at Shri hari venkateshwara paper mills.
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- EdTech, Communities, Social Media
- Pre-Seed
- India
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- 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.
Rahul Chaudhary is Founder at Treebo. Before this, he worked at Myntra (now part of Flipkart) and McKinsey & Company.
Rahul studied at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and at Indian Institute of Technology -Roorkee.
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- Apps, Information Technology, B2B
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States
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- Airblack — Learn makeup, beauty and culinary skills from India's top experts and get professionally certified. Join a student community of 35,000+ students.
- Zenode — AI PreCAD companion tool for Electrical Engineers
- Wishlink — Wishlink by promoting brands through its storefront enables social media content providers to monetise their influence.
Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
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- Defx — Defx is a non-custodial perps venue. We're built on Arbitrum, and will be coming to Solana very soon.
- Veda — Veda is the largest vault infrastructure platform in DeFi, enabling institutions to launch and manage onchain financial products at scale.
- RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization
Rajesh is the co-founder and CEO of InnerChef and Super Angels.
He holds a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering from Delhi University, and a master's degree in management from Mumbai University.
He has also done a fellowship in 'Globalisation and Leadership' from the London School of Economics and Social Sciences.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India, United States, Singapore
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- Fambo — Fambo is a technology-based food service company that offers semi-processed foodstuffs to restaurants and cloud kitchens.
- CargoFL — CargoFL is a B2B logistics technology platform that offers transport management software for enterprises in retail, pharma, and manufacturing sectors. It provides a cloud-based enterprise resource planning platform that focuses on capturing the logistics market by digital technology, automates dispatches, consolidates truckers, and provides supplychain visibility and vehicle tracking.
- ProcureYard — ProcureYard aims to revolutionize B2B raw materials procurement by modernizing traditional processes with cutting-edge AI technology, creating a transparent and reliable marketplace that reduces costs and simplifies sourcing for businesses.
Ghazal Alagh is based out of Gurgaon, Haryana, and is the Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Honasa Consumer Pvt Ltd. Ghazal previously worked at dietexpert. in as a Founder. Ghazal Alagh attended New York Academy of Art.
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- Fashion, E-Commerce, Women's
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India
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- OUTZIDR — Trendy GenZ western wear. Vacation, Party & Casual Wear. FREE Shipping on All Orders. COD Available. Easy 7-Days & Returns. Code OUT400 for FLAT 400 OFF.
- Dressfolk — Sustainable, Handcrafted, Block Printed, Organic Cotton, Bamboo Fabrics, Artisanal, Handloom, Handwoven, Saree, Sarees, Saris, Blouse, Fabrics
- True Diamond — Exquisite SOLITAIRES - SAVE BIG | Lifetime Buyback & Exchange | FREE All-India delivery | FREE 1 year jewellery Insurance | Sustainable & conflict free Lab grown diamond jewellery made using Type IIa CVD diamonds | Designs from daily wear to bridal jewellery | IGI / GIA / SGL / BIS Hallmark Certifications available.
Aadil Ebrahim
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- Beauty, Fashion, Lifestyle
- Seed, Series C
- India
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- 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.
Yuvraja C. Singh is co-founder of the DMI Group, where he is jointly responsible for all aspects of the firm’s activities.Mr. Singh brings over two decades of experience in finance to his role, with an expertise in fixed income structuring, trading and risk management. He began his career in the risk management department at CommoditiesCorporation, a leading commodity and futures trading firm, now a part of Goldman Sachs. In 1995, he moved to Wall Street, trading mortgage-backed securities at Lehman Brothers and eventually running the firm’s mortgage derivatives desk. In 2000, he took on a new challenge and followed his entrepreneurial passion, becoming partner at Compro Technologies, a small software development firm in India. In 2003, Mr. Singh returned to Wall Street and joined the Fixed Income Department at Citigroup, where as a Managing Director he oversaw the agency CMO fixed rate and IO/PO trading Desks.Mr. Singh is a graduate from Princeton University’s class of 1994, with a B.A in Economics. He currently serves on the Board of Governors of The British School in New Delhi and on the Founders Council of the MS Chadha Center for Global India at Princeton University. He lives in New Delhi with his family
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- Apps, Social, Internet
- Seed
- India
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- 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.
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