Top 10 Sporting Goods Startup Investors in India in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Sporting goods startups based in India. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sporting goods companies from India. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Sporting Goods Startup Investors in India in May 2025

Investor	Sporting Goods India investments
YourNest Venture Capital	2
Arpit Bhardwaj	1
Sahil Jain	1
Dream Capital	1
Ankit Mehrotra	1
Kalaari Capital	1
Khalid Qazi	1
FiNC Technologies	1
GetVantage	1
Inflection Point Ventures	1

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Investor list

Early-stage, DeepTech, Enterprise, Startup Funding, B2B, AI, ML, IoT, VR, AR, Blockchain, Tech-enabled, Nurture Capital, Venture Capital

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Map My Crop — Boost crop yields with MapMyCrop's AI-powered satellite Crop monitoring software. Access real-time data on soil health, water stress, and disease detection, delivered via WhatsApp in local languages. Join 3 million global users in achieving sustainable agriculture
Perkant Tech — Empowering Healthcare through Novel Medical Technology
Presage Insights — Presage Insights operates as an one stop solution for predictive maintenance and asset management. Presage Insights provides end-to-end scalable and cost effective solution to reduce unplanned machine downtime and increase reliability of the maintenance operations.

Arpit Bhardwaj

Investment focus

Shopping, E-Commerce, Sporting Goods
Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Kibi Sports — The Company KIBI Sports Pvt. Ltd. is incorporated in Sep 2020. We at KIBI sports are creating a whole new digital sports ecosystem which will act as a one-stop solution for all sporting needs of the whole sports fraternity. KIBI Sports is working towards bridging the networking gap between the stake holders in the sports industry through digitalisation.

Sahil is an alumnus of B.M.E College of Engineering, with a strong foundation in Engineering. He further went to IIM Kozhikode to study MBA in finance, strategy, and marketing. He has enjoyed a fruitful career of over 13 years in information technology and data analytics space. Focusing especially on building innovative and scalable techproducts, Sahil is spearheading the product development and growth retention strategies at Dineout. Sahil, along with the other 3 Co-founders, has successfully led Dineout to India’s largest dining out and restaurant tech platform which seats over 3.5 million diners every month and has 45,000 restaurants on its platform. Before Co-founding Dineout, Sahil served as a senior marketing analyst for NexTag and was settled in Chicago. He has also worked with globally recognized data analytics firm Mu Sigma as a senior business analyst and managed a team responsible for revenue management.

Investment focus

Gaming, Apps, AgTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
India

Portfolio highlights

Eggoz — Welcome to the World of Eggoz Nutrition, where you will get bright Orange Yolk Eggs which is an indicator of better nutrition.
MetaShot — As seen on Shark Tank. Immersive Cricket Console Game - Fun for the Whole Family.
Bullspree — Bullspree is an experiential stock market gaming and learning mobile app.

Dream Capital is a corporate venture capital and M&A arm of Dream Sports.

Investment focus

Health Care, Sports, Fitness
Series A, Funding Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Fittr — Fittr is a health and wellness startup. Fittr believes in giving back to the society and has volunteers all over the world who take part in social and charitable causes including blood donation, tree plantation, health awareness camps, cleanliness drives and so on. We believe in walking the talk and being the change we want to see in the world.
Healtharc — We built HealthArc because we wanted to enable providers and patients to have better experiences and better health outcomes. We make it easy to create profitable Remote Patient Monitoring programs that enable better care.
Elevar Sports — Combining comfort and design, ELEVAR makes innovative sneakers, sports shoes & equipment using high quality materials and premium construction. Free shipping & returns.

Ankit Mehrotra is the CEO & one of the four Co-founders of Dineout, India’s largest dining out and restaurant tech solutions platform in B2C and B2B front offering the most comprehensive suite of F&B tech products. An engineer by a degree and a technology lover at heart, Ankit started Dineout with his friends in 2012 to change thelandscape of the dining industry in India. Before turning into a passionate entrepreneur, Ankit lived in London for 10 years and worked for 7 years with BNP Paribas in London in various divisions including Investment Banking & Wealth Management, managing a portfolio of UHNWI while also studying for the CFA charter, which he got in 2011. He has enjoyed a fruitful career of over 10 years in the internet product space, including e-commerce marketplaces, online payments, operations and trade logistics.Ankit’s work has led him to be a winner of the 2016 Education UK Alumni Awards, Entrepreneur of the Year award 2016, and Young Entrepreneur of the year award in the year 2012.

Investment focus

SaaS, Gaming, Food Processing
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
India

Portfolio highlights

Samaaro — Award-winning end-to-end event management software solution that empowers global brands to manage and execute their events seamlessly.
MetaShot — As seen on Shark Tank. Immersive Cricket Console Game - Fun for the Whole Family.
Bullspree — Bullspree is an experiential stock market gaming and learning mobile app.

Kalaari is a $160 million venture capital fund with a strong advisory team in Bangalore investing in early-stage, technology-oriented companies in India.Kalaari Capital invests in the unknown Indian entrepreneur who is poised to become tomorrow’s global leader. They are India’s leading investor in early-stage businesses, nurturing them throughevery aspect of growth on the transformative journey toward success.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Figr — Figr is a startup that uses artificial intelligence to transform the product design process. It reduces friction in the creation of digital products by leveraging AI to improve design research, rapidly iterate interfaces, and collaborate with the goal of making product design more accessible.
Triple Tap — Triple Tap is a game development studio, specializing in creating engaging titles.
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Khalid Qazi is a founders of Dineout

Investment focus

SaaS, AgTech, Events
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
India

Portfolio highlights

Eggoz — Welcome to the World of Eggoz Nutrition, where you will get bright Orange Yolk Eggs which is an indicator of better nutrition.
Samaaro — Award-winning end-to-end event management software solution that empowers global brands to manage and execute their events seamlessly.
MetaShot — As seen on Shark Tank. Immersive Cricket Console Game - Fun for the Whole Family.

FiNC combines data analysis, rich content, and social elements to help users log, understand, manage, and improve their health and wellness.

Investment focus

Mobile, Fitness, Software
Seed, Series B
Japan, India

Portfolio highlights

fitmeln — TOP Meretrice All escort in Rome
alma — alma is a community platform to learn design.
Goodpatch — Goodpatch is a Tokyo-based company developing and designing user interfaces for web companies.

GetVantage is a revenue based finance platform provides alternative financing solutions for startups & digital brands to drive sales and increase revenue.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Food Delivery
Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Fitsol — Green Logistics & packaging solutions that reduces your carbon footprint! Fitsol is a tech-first, lower emission logistics service provider with a commitment to help build a greener and healthier planet. Fitsol's AI-powered innovative products and services provide a sustainable way to effectively manage supply chain operations, and mapcarbon footprint across the value chain. Fitsol enables web3 based data storage building trust in your carbon footprint data. #greenlife #carbonfootprint
InCruiter — InCruiter is crowdsource based SAAS hiring platform in the field of HR sector. InCruiter speed up hiring process by 10x by using crowdsourcing solution and providing Interview as a Service Platform
Celcius Logistics Solutions — India's Largest 'ONLINE " cold chain network.Book reefer vehicles, Cold Storages or get booking for your vehicle and cold storages across India instantly with the best price

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