Top 10 Sporting Goods Startup Investors in India in May 2026

YourNest Venture Capital is a SEBI-registered early-stage venture capital fund that invests in deep technology, ‘Pre-Series A’ Start-Ups. Its first fund, YourNest Angel Fund which was established in 2012, has raised INR 90 cr. Fund I is fully deployed and has invested in 16 startups. Its second fund, YourNest India VC Fund II was launched in 2016.It is raising a corpus of INR 450 cr. The fund invests in the new, connected economy and Deep-Tech start-ups represented by the Internet of Things (IoT), Robotics, Electronic System Design, Enterprise SaaS comprising Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, among others, with start-ups having a B2B business model being the prime focus. YourNest believes in being a ‘Nurture Capital’ where its team of partners work as ‘enablers’ for investee companies in diverse fields across technology, marketing, global reach and leadership development.

Investment focus

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

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Wiom — Provides affordable and unlimited Internet to Middle and lower middle income households
Map My Crop — AI-powered crop monitoring with 1-meter satellite imagery. Detect farm boundaries, crop types & anomalies across 80+ countries. Trusted by 6.2M+ farmers globally. Start free.
Perkant Tech — Empowering Healthcare through Novel Medical Technology

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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 — Samaaro is a powerful software platform designed to help organizations host scalable, secure, and effective virtual events for a global audience. Samaaro's unique features & versatility allow it to host a variety of Virtual Events such as Virtual conferences, Virtual Summits, Virtual Fairs, Virtual Exhibitions & more. Samaaro wasdesigned to be completely customizable, enabling brands to make the platform their own, and host holistic and immersive events. Samaaro enables organizations to move away from webinars & communicate with their audience in a more holistic and engaging experience. The platform consists of exciting components such as a World-class Lobby, Conference Halls, Auditoriums, Exhibition Zones with exhibitor booths, Information Desk, Networking zones & more! The platform's focus on an engaging user experience translates to happy audiences & successful events. Samaaro also boasts of salient features such as in-depth analytics, robust security & privacy, resource sharing, and online games. With brands from all over the world trusting Samaaro to be their go-to Virtual Events Platform, it's time you do too. Go Virtual, Go Samaaro.
MetaShot — As seen on Shark Tank. Immersive Cricket Console Game - Fun for the Whole Family. Now play Cricket from the comfort of your Home!

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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, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
India, United States

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Fitsol — Fitsol helps businesses reduce emissions and improve supply chain efficiency with sustainable logistics solutions.
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

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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

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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.

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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

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Samaaro — Samaaro is a powerful software platform designed to help organizations host scalable, secure, and effective virtual events for a global audience. Samaaro's unique features & versatility allow it to host a variety of Virtual Events such as Virtual conferences, Virtual Summits, Virtual Fairs, Virtual Exhibitions & more. Samaaro wasdesigned to be completely customizable, enabling brands to make the platform their own, and host holistic and immersive events. Samaaro enables organizations to move away from webinars & communicate with their audience in a more holistic and engaging experience. The platform consists of exciting components such as a World-class Lobby, Conference Halls, Auditoriums, Exhibition Zones with exhibitor booths, Information Desk, Networking zones & more! The platform's focus on an engaging user experience translates to happy audiences & successful events. Samaaro also boasts of salient features such as in-depth analytics, robust security & privacy, resource sharing, and online games. With brands from all over the world trusting Samaaro to be their go-to Virtual Events Platform, it's time you do too. Go Virtual, Go Samaaro.
MetaShot — As seen on Shark Tank. Immersive Cricket Console Game - Fun for the Whole Family. Now play Cricket from the comfort of your Home!
Bullspree — Bullspree is an experiential stock market gaming and learning mobile app.

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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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Fabpad — Fabpad is an Indian startup specializing in sustainable menstrual hygiene and personal care products, headquartered in Kolkata with plans to open an office in Hyderabad. The company emphasizes eco-friendly, breathable, and chemical-free options like reusable and disposable pads.
ARX — ARX smart contracts and HaLo chips enable creators build decentralized, immutable and composable physical crypto assets.
ROADGRID — ROADGRID build EV charging network to create a sustainable electric vehicle ecosystem. It focuses on future-ready smart charging infrastructure at public city locations and intercity highways, featuring universal chargers. These integrate a customer-centric mobile app with secure payments, delivering fast, safe charging for all EV segments.

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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. Now play Cricket from the comfort of your Home!
Bullspree — Bullspree is an experiential stock market gaming and learning mobile app.

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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

Microqual — Microqual
Attero — Attero is a group dedicated the recycling of the electrical and electronic industry. To do justice to the name "Attero" (which means "waste" in Latin) Recycling, they look at e-waste as an important resource that can be made useful instead of shunning it as a social and environmental burden. As a reflection of their belief inwhat they do, Attero Recycling is the only e Waste recycling company in India which does complete processing of E Waste with zero landfill. Attero promises close technical collaboration with a leading US company for mechanical separation, a first-of-its kind indigenous metallurgical process developed in the separate R&D division, an highly automated facility for integrated e-waste recycling at Roorkee spread over 100,000 sqft.
Robosoft Technologies — Robosoft is a proven partner in design & development of digital product platforms with end-to-end solutions in Consulting, UI/UX, application development & embedded engineering.

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