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Top 50 Sports Angel Investors in India in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Sports startups based in India. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from India. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Sports Angel Investors in India in January 2026

Investor	Sports India investments
Anupam Mittal	8
Kunal Shah	5
Aman Gupta	3
Amit Gupta	3
Arjun Vaidya	3
Sujeet Kumar	3
Mohit Burman	3
Namita Thapar	3
Raghunandan G	3
Ashish Gupta	3
Prashant Malik	2
Abhijeet Pai	2
Pankaj Chaddah	2
Rajesh Mane	2
Utsav Somani	2
Rajesh Yabaji	2
Vineeta Singh	2
Aman Mishra	2
Dipen Shah	2
Anjali Bansal	2
Vasim Akram	2
Ravi Bhushan	2
Dr Ritesh Malik	2
Nagendra Bandaru	2
Ratan Tata	2
Harsh Mani Tripathi	2
Apoorva Patni	2
Himanshu Aggarwal	2
Lakshmi Narayanan	2
Ajeet Khurana	2
Amit Ratanpal	2
Vatsal singhal	2
Kashish Sharma	2
Kishore Ganji	2
Deep Bajaj	2
Sukhbir Singh	2
Suniel Shetty	2
Alok Mittal	2
Sachin Anand	2
Harsh Shah	2
Govind Rajan	2
Sahil Jain	1
Miten Sampat	1
Rajan Anandan	1
Vijay Ghadge	1
Mohammed Shakeeb Anwar	1
Ganesh Krishnan	1
Kevin Lin	1
Anjali Malhotra	1
Alex Rodriguez	1

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

Portfolio highlights

Offmint — Welcome to Offmint, where style is a personal statement and originality meets fashion. At Offmint, we think of clothes as a medium for self-expression.
HealthFab — Seen on Shark Tank India! Buy GoPadFree period panties & GopainFree Period relief cream online by HealthFab. Shop for best menstrual products!
HireForCare — HireForCare is a healthcare digital platform that offers screening tools and online therapy.

Kunal Shah

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hoggy — Founded by IITians and invested- in by unicorn founders like Kunal Shah and Sameer Pitalwala, Hoggy is a Kid’s learning app that focuses on providing interactive learning for kids aged between 2 to 5 years, while maintaining an absolutely safe space for kids. Through this platform, we've made it possible for creators of kids' content tomonetize their content and earn independently of ads and sponsored content. Hoggy serves as a brilliant platform where such content creators can find their niche target audience and grow the number of their true fans exponentially.
Affluense AI — Affluense provides AI powered platform to help businesses discover and engage HNI and UHNI individuals with real-time, 360° profiles.
Eyewear designed& labs — Eyewear designed& labs is a eyewear startup.

Aman Gupta - Co Founder & CMO @ boAt

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Manufacturing
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Offmint — Welcome to Offmint, where style is a personal statement and originality meets fashion. At Offmint, we think of clothes as a medium for self-expression.
HireForCare — HireForCare is a healthcare digital platform that offers screening tools and online therapy.
Naturik — Buy online 100% pure & natural instant oats, ragi and multigrain cheela mix at best prices on The Naturik Co. 100% secure payment & free shipping.

Amit Gupta completed his undergraduate studies from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in Mechanical Engineering in the year 2000.Growing usage of mobile phones in the developing markets inspired Amit to co-found InMobi in 2007. Amit aspires for InMobi to be one of the most successful internet product companies across the global emerging outof India. Amit heads InMobi's Revenue and Operations and responsible for taking company to a sustainable profitability mark. He has played an instrumental role in expanding InMobi's footprint to multiple markets across 5 continents.Amit has been a serial entrepreneur, prior to InMobi, Amit founded Analyticsworks, a company that offered a platform for business intelligence. His professional experience include hot start ups like Andale where worked directly with the CEO to help initiate new areas of revenues for the company, Aditi that gave him hands on experience on building software and a large multinational bank Citigroup where he helped to start scalable business intelligence unit for their consumer finance business. Amit is passionate about entrepreneurship. He has been helping several young entrepreneurs by advising them on every aspect of running a start up. He has received a highly coveted Distinguish Alumni Award from his alma mater for his exceptional entrepreneurial achievements.Earlier in the year, InMobi was recognized by MIT Technology Review as one of the top 50 disruptive companies in the world for 2013.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Fitness
Seed, Angel, Series B
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

AltUni — A place where you can explore a range of programs & courses that will get you your dream job or the promotion that you are aiming for; a place where you can outdo your ambition.
InsideIIM — Join 100,000+ MBA aspirants on India's largest MBA community. Get comprehensive information on top MBA colleges, entrance exams, free mock tests, campus placements, and access to free CAT coaching.
Factors.AI — Factors.ai is an end-to-end marketing analytics and attribution platform that integrated across data silos to deliver actionable, privacy compliant, AI-powered insights. Try now!

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Peeko — Peeko is a quick commerce platform that specializes in baby care products and accessories, promising 60-minute delivery.
Wellopia — Clean, joyful wellness made just for kids. Thoughtfully crafted with simple ingredients. Safe, natural care parents can trust.
Lumov Health — Lumov Health provides a wide choice of goods intended for efficient pain management. We hope to enable everyone to move freely and live pain-free.

Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hoggy — Founded by IITians and invested- in by unicorn founders like Kunal Shah and Sameer Pitalwala, Hoggy is a Kid’s learning app that focuses on providing interactive learning for kids aged between 2 to 5 years, while maintaining an absolutely safe space for kids. Through this platform, we've made it possible for creators of kids' content tomonetize their content and earn independently of ads and sponsored content. Hoggy serves as a brilliant platform where such content creators can find their niche target audience and grow the number of their true fans exponentially.
Pizza Wings — Order Online from Your Favorite Pizza Wings - Powered By Uengage
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.

Mohit Burman

Investment focus

Health Care, Sports, Fitness
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Growfitter — Growfitter is a gamified digital health reward platform that adds financial benefits to your physical activity. Growfitter offers goal-based rewards (short, mid & long term) from consumer health and wellness brands and retail financial services from credit cards to health insurance for 30 mins walking, running, cycling, & health quiz on adaily basis. Growfitter partners with the best premium brands to bring an exciting buffet of lifestyle rewards on completing their fitness goals.
Qube Health — QubeHealth simplifies Employee Healthcare Benefits management for the Biggest Companies in India
X1 Racing league — Professional Motorsports League

Namita Thapar is an Executive Director at Emcure Pharmaceuticals. She previously worked as a senior manager at Abbott. She attended Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

Vobble — Vobble offers a unique, immersive audio platform for children to listen to content from around the world.
Offmint — Welcome to Offmint, where style is a personal statement and originality meets fashion. At Offmint, we think of clothes as a medium for self-expression.
Symbionic — Symbionic is a developer of high-tech and affordable bionics for people with missing limbs. Through high-tech but low-cost bionics, it aims to help people with limb differences achieve functional independence and confidence. It also hopes to make assistive technology more widely available to the general public.

Raghu is the Founder of Zolve. He is an avid reader and an encyclopedia in his own rights. After a successful 3-year stint with Feedback Ventures as a Consultant, he decided to follow his heart which craved for him to become an entrepreneur. He has degrees from IIM Ahmedabad and NITK Surathkal and hasn’t lost touch with the technical prowess fromhis days back in Texas Instruments.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Apps
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

NAKAD — NAKAD operates as a fintech startup. NAKAD, with its proprietary MicroBill technology infrastructure, offers invoice discounting services to MSMEs, which were previously unavailable to them from formal channels.
Goodmeetings — Transform your sales and customer success teams. Record calls / customer meetings, review AI-curated reels of key meeting moments, human-level summaries / notes. Coach and collaborate with meeting insights
Method Financial — Method makes it easy for developers to embed debt repayment on their apps.

Ashish Gupta seeks unexplored problem spaces to grow large companies from seed. His career spans “firsts” that include unstructured data aggregation (Junglee), BPOs (Daksh, acquired by IBM), online travel in India (MMYT), and an Indian venture fund (Helion). At Drishti (the first AI to empower factory workers instead of displacing them), he is apart-time co-founder and active board member guiding the team on a journey he’s traveled before.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Series B
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Lumov Health — Lumov Health provides a wide choice of goods intended for efficient pain management. We hope to enable everyone to move freely and live pain-free.
Breakout — Breakout is the always available agentic workforce that grows your inbound pipeline by Delivering personalized conversations to every website visitor Showing live demos based on the conversation Giving actionable insights to the GTM team on what your website visitors are looking for
First Coffee — Discover the best specialty coffee in India with our range of single origin Arabica beans and exclusive merchandise. Shop online at First Coffee for freshly roasted, quality blends.

Prashant Malik is a Co-Founder and Co-Creator of Apache Cassandra and an Investor at Shadowfax, UrbanClap, Innov8 Coworking, and OfBusiness. He is a dynamic technologist, who focuses on building, leading and incubating teams. Prashant attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Health Care, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Marrfa — Invest in premium off-plan properties in Dubai with guaranteed high yields. Access exclusive developments, secure financing, and expert investment guidance. Start your investment journey today.
FanTV AI — FanTV, the leading AI Agent platform for next-gen Content Creation and backed by Multicoin Capital, is where AI meets Crypto on Sui, leading with over 8 million On-chain Users (80k Creators) and 27 million transactions, processing more than 1.2 million hours of AI-powered content monthly. As the largest platform for content creation across allchains, FanTV contributes to more than 22% of active wallets on Sui.
FanTiger — OMI builds a holistic spiritual wellness platform that using the values of astrology, yoga, meditation, and Ayurveda. It is an astrology app that provides overall holistic wellness using age-old Indian traditions and modern-day scientific methods to solve various problems.

Abhijeet Pai is founder of Gruhas Proptech.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Hospitality, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Kofluence — Kofluence engages in the data-driven influencer marketing, social listening, creator discovery, workflow management and reporting industry.
The 1% Club — Achieve financial independence by joining The 1% Club community. Upskill to manage money by networking events, Sharan's finance courses and financial tools.
Nourish You — Get homegrown organic tasty snacks, breakfast, nut mixes and meal mixes at Nourish You. Buy super foods online with 15% off on your first order above Rs.199.

Pankaj Chaddah is the Co-Founder of Shyft. Pankaj graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from IIT Delhi in 2007.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fitness, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, France, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

sheerME — SheerME is Revolutionising the way people find, book, and pay for their Wellness and Beauty services powered by a benefit-based walletOur approach is based on Discovery, Transaction & Reward to create more online visibility, reach, conversion into new business, loyalty, and frequency through our wallet and cashback ecosystem, to all ourpartners in the beauty and wellness sectors.This made us a fresh and different option in this sector where there are mainly SaaS players, and we bring marketplace with no monthly fee, only a commission for business sent through our owned and partner channels.
Yoho — Yoho manufactures orthopaedic lightweight footwear.
Clean Electric — Clean Electric builds Lithium-Ion Batteries with Liquid Immersion Cooling. Fast Charge. Long Life. Unparalleled Safety.

An active investor in early stage startups across technology & CPG.

Investment focus

Internet, Financial Services, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cleardekho — Cleardekho is India's leading affordable eyewear brand. Get to shop a great variety of Eyeglasses, Sunglasses, Contact lens & much more.
LiquiLoans — LiquiLoans is a company uses technology to match borrowers and lenders and in the process eliminates the margin which is charged by traditional banks and NBFCs, thus, making borrowing cheaper and investing a more lucrative opportunity as compared to traditional investment avenues.
Impact Guru — ImpactGuru is a No.1 crowdfunding platform in India offering fundraising solutions for medical treatments, emergencies, NGOs & startups. Start a crowdfunding campaign now!

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

Portfolio highlights

Grexa AI — Grexa AI is creating a one-stop AI assisted mobile app designed to help local business owners grow with their revenue. Grexa helps business owners like clinics and dental practices, home service businesses such as plumbers, HVAC specialists, and pest control services, as well as salons, fitness centers, car service shops, restaurants, real estateagencies, and travel agents to effortlessly and affordably improve their digital presence and customer communication
Vetic — India's fastest-growing chain of pet care clinics offering comprehensive veterinary services, grooming, and emergency care for your beloved pets.
OTPless — Authenticate customers with WhatsApp, SMS, Email, Biometrics, and more, with a 98% conversion rate on signup and sign-in.

Rajesh is known for his energy and resilience, and one can see this in his enthusiasm for marathons, and more in his passion for building the world’s largest trucking network. As the Co-Founder and CEO of BlackBuck, Rajesh is charged with constantly moving the company forward. From finance discussions to brainstorming on new product design tobusiness development planning, Rajesh keeps himself involved in all areas of the business. An IIT Kharagpur graduate, Rajesh was heading the Supply Chain division of ITC’s Leaf Tobacco business before starting BlackBuck. He is an inspiring leader who likes to bring out the best in people and help them achieve greater heights by pushing the bar higher. Speaking about pushing the bar higher, Rajesh has been a pole vaulter too.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Retail, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Oolka — Oolka is a credit-building website that connects lenders and borrowers and shows credit scores.
Bonatra — Cair33 merupakan link daftar yang paling di cari hari ini yang telah berkerja sama dengan alternatif Telugu Flavours official, sudah di percaya di kalangan masyarakat dengan jackpot harian.
Covvalent — Source specialty chemicals directly from Indian manufacturers using Covvalent. We are your one stop shop for all chemical raw materials.

Vineeta Singh is the Co-founder & CEO of SUGAR Cosmetics, India's fastest growing beauty brand which has clocked in 100+ Crores revenue in just its 5th fiscal year, with a distribution network of 2500+ branded retail outlets in more than 130 cities. She is a TEDx Speaker and alumnus of IIT Madras and IIM Ahmedabad. She is also a triathleteand ultramarathoner.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Food Processing
Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
India

Portfolio highlights

Offmint — Welcome to Offmint, where style is a personal statement and originality meets fashion. At Offmint, we think of clothes as a medium for self-expression.
HireForCare — HireForCare is a healthcare digital platform that offers screening tools and online therapy.
Naturik — Buy online 100% pure & natural instant oats, ragi and multigrain cheela mix at best prices on The Naturik Co. 100% secure payment & free shipping.

Aman Mishra

Investment focus

eSports
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Flame Esports — Flame Esports is an organization that aims to provide opportunities in the world of esports games.

Dipen Shah is a managing Director at VAG-Group.

Investment focus

Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

FlexifyMe — FlexifyMe is to achieve mental, physical, and spiritual harmony through live 1-on-1 and group sessions with our world-class yoga, meditation, and nutrition coaches.

Anjali Bansal founder of Chairperson Avaana Capital. Anjali Bansal Columbia University in the City of New York.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Mudrex — Mudrex helps people invest in crypto like a hedge fund does. Pro traders build trading algorithms using Mudrex algorithmic trading platform. Mudrex builds portfolio bundle using top performing algorithms for different risk-reward profile. An investor simply choose a portfolio based on her risk-reward expectations. Mudrex then automatically buys andsells different crypto currencies on behalf of investors.
Qapita — Qapita is a market leader in India & SEA built to automate workflows around equity management process for CapTables, ESOPs, Due-diligence, and Transactions.
Anveshan — At Anveshan, we make food products that are natural, healthy and chemical free. Anveshan provides the best quality food products through the use of technological solutions. We have cold-pressed/wood pressed oils, A2 vedic bilona ghee and super seeds for healthy diet and immunity boosting.

An Entrepreneur & Student

Investment focus

eSports
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Flame Esports — Flame Esports is an organization that aims to provide opportunities in the world of esports games.

Ravi Bhushan Founder & CEO at BrightChamps

Investment focus

Internet, Wellness, Marketing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

Nected — Automate your backend flows, logics & experiments quickly within minutes using Nected's Rule Engine, Workflow automation & Experimentation Engine. Accelerate your innovation & growth. Highly Scalable, performing and customizable to adapt to any business needs and scale.
Mojocare — Mojocare is a digital-first judgement-free wellness platform.
Crib — Crib is an ultimate property management software for landlords, PG owners & hostel operators. Manage rent, tenants & tasks in one seamless dashboard.

Doctor turned Entrepreneur, Investor, Speaker & Philanthropist.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
India, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

HiWi — HiWiPay offers secure & fast international B2B payment solutions built for Indian exporters. HiWipay is RBI-compliant cross-border platform to receive global payments.
Kluisz.ai — Kluisz.ai is an enterprise AI startup building an autonomous, AI-native private cloud platform designed to simplify and secure the operation of enterprise and AI workloads across hybrid, on-premise, edge, and sovereign cloud environments.
SaveSage Club — Credit Card Rewards and Loyalty Programs can be optimally utilized with SaveSage Club. Also, manage your multiple Credit Cards with ease.

Nagendra Bandaru

Investment focus

Fitness, Hardware, Security
Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Transcell Biolife — Transcell is a Biotech company with a strong commitment to develop innovative and transformative stem cell based approaches in advancing evidence based practice in disease management. The in-house stem cell repository programs bridge the gap between the research and emerging discoveries in clinical applications.
SecurWeave Research Labs — SecurWeave is one of the most trusted and leading cyber security companies in India offering CHESS, which is designed to fill the gap in cyber defense against APTs. Malware

Ratan Tata is the Founder and Managing Director of RNT Associates.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

GOQii — GOQii is headquartered in California with offices in Mumbai and Shenzhen. It is dedicated to enabling a permanent shift to a healthier lifestyle with the combination of advanced wearable technology, the world's leading experts, coaches and karma. GOQii focuses on sustained engagement & goal reinforcement and offers a complete ecosystem asa single integrated solution, which is a powerful combination of technology and human connection. GOQii is a collaboration of some of the world's leading experts and an amazing management team who are driven by a passion for healthy sustainable living, and who believe that all of us contain boundless potential. GOQii's goal is to enable millions of people across the world to "be the force" by helping them unleash their untapped potential.
Repos energy — Repos energy is a e-commerce of Fuel to move towards a carbon neutral future.
Goodfellows — Goodfellows aims to offer companionship to lonely senior citizens.

Harsh Mani Tripathi is the chief product and strategy officer at Vatsana Technologies.

Investment focus

News, Sports, Fitness
Angel, Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Pee Safe — Discover Pee Safe, your go-to destination for top-quality hygiene products. Explore our extensive range of solutions in toilet hygiene, menstrual care, intimate care, grooming needs, and sexual wellness to ensure your comfort and well-being. Shop now for safe and effective hygiene essentials.
TapChief — Tapchief offers a cohesive platform to discover and schedule calls with experts to get advice across domains.We leverage technology to make the process of discovery seamless and provide end to end service in terms of scheduling and executing the phone calls.Tapchief is launching with a web interface with an intuitive interface to browse expertsand schedule the phone calls. The mobile applications are under constructions and will be launched in time when engagement strategies are in place.
WittyFeed — Professors? More like, transformers!

Apoorva Patni is a Director and Founder of Currae Healthtech.

Investment focus

Health Care, Apps, Retail
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

BorderPlus — BorderPlus, a talent mobility platform connecting blue-collar workers to global opportunities and providing full support in financing.
Masaba — Chain of Retail Stores - Designer Wear for Women
Uniqus Consultech — Uniqus Consultech offers Accounting & Reporting Consulting.

Himanshu Aggarwal - Chief Growth Officer, SHL Group @ SHL

Investment focus

SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Fitness
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Trisu — India's first 22kt Gold Vermeil brand- Silver that stays Gold. We are the makers of India's finest gold alternatives - pioneers of the Gold Vermeil technique in India. Jewellery crafted for the ever-evolving and proudly rooted men and women of India
Reevoy — Reevoy offers SMEs a solution to solve the working capital gap.
Pepper Farms — Pepper Farms is an agritech startup that helps farmers in organizing the vegetable production lifecycle by building a network of farms with end-to-end virtual management, customized agronomy, and direct market linkages.

Lakshmi Narayanan is the Chief Executive Officer at Cognizant Technology Solutions.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

QpiAI — QpiAI - Building Next-Generation AI Solutions and Quantum Software
AGNIT Semiconductors Private Limited — AGNIT Semiconductors offers ultra-efficient GaN RF solutions with Epi wafers, components & modules for telecom, defense & strategic applications.
Clean Core Thorium Energy — Clean Core Thorium Energy develops advanced nuclear fuel for existing reactors.

Ajeet Khurana is a leading name in the cryptocurrency industry. He is the former head of the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Committee, which as part of IAMAI is India's foremost industry body for cryptocurrency.Presently, as an advisor to several crypto projects, he is seen as a specialist in: * Tokenomics: pools, structure, architecture,flow, utility, value * Market Mechanisms: market making, liquidity, listing, volume In addition he helps with increasing adoption, communication, evangelizing, ambassador programs, and digital outreach. Some crypto founders regard Ajeet as their personal friend, philosopher, and guide.Earlier, in his role as CEO of Zebpay (India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange at that time), he took it from being a one-country exchange to a global exchange. As CEO of the business incubator at IIT Bombay (India’s premier engineering school), he helped commercialise several ideas from concept stage. As an advisor to Venture Capital firms in India, China, US, and Canada, he has an eye for promising founders.Still earlier, Ajeet has authored several books with McGrawHill Education, been an entrepreneur twice, and taught at the University of Texas at Austin.Here is how he characterizes himself:WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED REPEATEDLY IN MY CAREER Customer focus. Speed. Attracting and empowering the right people. Making hard decisions. Managing chaos and conflict. Smoothly navigating regulations & compliances. High governance standards. Cultivating relationships. Converting markets to communities. Negotiating deals. Continuous process and product improvement.WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR A mandate that requires rapid growth and evolution. A role that requires backbone and heart. A non-bureaucratic system that expects a strong bias for action. An opportunity to learn, and create strong cultural underpinning.HOW I BUILD AND MANAGE TEAMS Single minded focus on the customer. Choose people based on cultural fit and alignment of passion. Impart purpose. Select for potential, but advance for performance. Empower people to work. No busy work. No unending meetings. Don’t be hierarchy-minded. Encourage learning.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, Singapore, Panama

Portfolio highlights

Dapps — Join Dapps to discover and engage with digital communities that match your passions. Buy shares, and connect with like-minded individuals in a secure, decentralized platform that puts you in control.
TaxNodes — TaxNodes is a platform for crypto tax computation and ITR filing with expert assistance.
TableSprint — An AI-first SaaS B2B platform for you to build apps with no coding needed. Start now with versatile playbooks tailored for all businesses.

Amit Ratanpal is the Founder and Managing Director at BLinC Invest.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ambitio — Leap into a world of opportunities with our expert study abroad consultant. Grasp how to select the right course, manage visa applications, and adjust to life in a new country.
Bizloan — Bizloan provides financial support to micro, small and medium enterprises.
FlexifyMe — FlexifyMe is to achieve mental, physical, and spiritual harmony through live 1-on-1 and group sessions with our world-class yoga, meditation, and nutrition coaches.

vatsal singhal is the founder of Ultrahuman.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

GoRally — GoRally operates a pickleball chain.
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.
Punch — Start trading options with confidence. Punch is a broker with single-screen trading & safety tools for part-time traders. If you're new to options, download Punch app.

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

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

OSlash — Transform long URLs into memorable shortcuts. Make information easy to access, find, & share with others in an instant with a complete URL management solution
Even — Even is a health tech company and healthcare provider that partners directly with the top hospitals in the country to offer you unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and 50 lakh worth of hospitalisations all with one monthly subscription cost.
Chronicle — Chronicle is the modern, AI-powered presentation tool for creating stunning, interactive decks your audience will remember.

Kishore Ganji is the Angel Investor & Mentor at Astir Ventures.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India, United States, Bangladesh

Portfolio highlights

Lal10 — Lal10 enables creative manufacturing MSMEs to easily digitize, manage and sell their inventories for cross-border wholesale. Lal10 is Shopify + Alibaba for Indian MSMEs. Small manufacturers use Lal10’s Karigar application to digitize physical inventories which are available for RFQs on our global wholesale platform. We are creating a maker’srevolution by digitizing micro and small manufacturers to take their creative products to global markets. India has over 1.2mn such MSMEs involved in the manufacturing of apparel, home furnishings, decor products. We have digitized 30k SKUs to date and are the largest vertical platform for MSMEs for cross-border wholesale in India. Post pandemic layers of middlemen/ export houses and traditional channels of sales like exhibitions have been disrupted. We have created an efficient alternative with innovative technology-led solutions catering to these large and untapped supplies. We are seeing strong organic adoption of technology for quick market access by local manufacturers and pandemic has only accelerated its requirement. We believe that the future of retail is local. We are targeting small & medium-sized buyers in the US, UK, and Middle east using efficient data analytics and aggressive marketing. We provide them the benefits of a big-box retailer, i.e. affordable sourcing, contemporary design curation & assortment of products. These buyers are resellers on Amazon, Etsy, or Mom & Pop shops, Private labels, and have traditionally been only dependent tradeshows.
Teleport — Planning a trip? Say goodbye to visa hassles with Teleport! We've made applying for visas online super easy. Explore our site now to get started now!
Monitra Healthcare — Monitra Healthcare is a Hyderabad based med-tech company developing solutions that capture cardiac events anytime anywhere. Our products detect cardiac arrhythmias and cardiovascular disease at real-time for pre-emptive treatments. Cardiac monitoring is widely used to identify heart disease, to monitor cardiac activity before and after surgery andother cardiac procedures, and to assess the effects of therapeutic drugs on cardiac activity. The Company’s vision is to dramatically reduce the effects of heart disease by making monitoring and pre-emptive cardiac care a seamless part of everyday life.

Deep Bajaj is the Founder, CEO, and Partner of PeeBuddy and Sirona Hygiene and was an Insurance Officer (Bancassurance) at Birla Sun Life Insurance. He attended The Australian National University, Indian School of Business, and Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

Wellness, Fitness, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

GoOAT — Filled with protein and goodness from chia seeds, flax seeds without any refined sugar, GOAT Life Overnight Oats is the best meal to supercharge your breakfast. GOAT Life Protein Oats is available in multiple delicious flavors. It is very easy to prep oats, High Protein, and Overnight Oats which you can have on the go!
Nuuk — Out with the old, in with the NUUK! Welcome to Nuuk, where the cool vibes of Greenland's capital inspire our line of home and kitchen appliances.
Ritualistic — Buy unique home decor Items Online at Ritualistic. Shop from Wide Range of home decor items, Brass Lobans, Dhunis , Incense Holders and Wall plates & Wall Decor

Sukhbir Singh

Investment focus

Health Care, Food and Beverage, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

eBikeGo — eBikeGo allows users to move quickly, and in style. We aim to make world class electric mobility solutions that transform how people move. We are driven towards creating a suite of customer-centric electric mobility solutions empowering people to seize not just the moment, but the future.
ReDesyn — Customize and sell premium products, printed and shipped on demand, under your brand!
Fitspire — India's Best Vegan Health Supplement Brand. Shop 100% Authentic & Premium Vegan health supplements, plant-based protein powder & more online on Fitspire.

Sunil Veerappa Shetty is an Indian film actor, producer and entrepreneur who is predominantly active in Bollywood films.

Investment focus

Wellness, Health Care, Fitness
Angel, Seed, Funding Round
India, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Proxgy — Proxgy is providing the best Iot Based smart protective wearable gear, smart helmet, sleefe, audiopod, airhat and lockator(GPS e-Lock).
Pro Panja League — Pro Panja League is a professional Arm Wrestling tournament in India. The league was founded by Swen Entertainment in 2024.
Klassroom Edutech — Klassroom Edutech, a Mumbai-based hybrid (offline to online) tutoring platform.

Alok is Co-founder and CEO of Indifi, India's leading full-stack platform for enabling debt financing for small businesses. Alok is also an active angel investor, co-founder of Indian Angel Network, and on the board of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Delhi. Prior to starting Indifi, Alok setup and ran Canaan Partners' venture investmentbusiness. Earlier, Alok co-founded JobsAhead.com, a leading web-based recruitment business in India.Alok earned a BE in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and a MS in computer science from UC Berkeley.

Investment focus

Internet, Marketplace, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Cleevo — Cleevo offers products of cleaning with eco friendly, non toxic solutions to your home.
Mistry.Store — Mistry.Store is a digital-first, exclusive platform for professionals simplifying home building materials purchases.
speakX — Yellow Class is an online hobby platform for young kids.

Sachin Anand is a sales Director, APJ at Intel Corporation.

Investment focus

Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

FlexifyMe — FlexifyMe is to achieve mental, physical, and spiritual harmony through live 1-on-1 and group sessions with our world-class yoga, meditation, and nutrition coaches.

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, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

Tamasha — Tamasha offers a platform for influencers to host live, video based, real money contests and games.
Eekifoods — Eekifoods develops a unique and proprietary vegetable growing technology, which allows it to produce completely residue-free, Indian and exotic vegetables and sell them profitably at near-market prices.
GlobalFair — We offer top quality at guaranteed best rates. Technology-led operations, the minimum expense for the company and thus a maximum benefit to our customers

Govind Rajan is the COO of Cuemath. Govind Rajan attended Indian Institute of Foreign Trade.

Investment focus

Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
Angel, Seed, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

Wint Wealth — GrowFix offers high net-worth individuals and retail investors, asset-backed fixed income products that offer higher returns than fixed deposits.
Dawaa Dost — Dawaa Dost specializes in the pharmacy retail chain of generic medicines in India. The company focuses on the availability of affordable generic medicines. Dawaa Dost was founded by Amit Choudhary and Yash Harlalka and is based in India.
Wellversed — Wellversed enables you to customize your nutrition according to what your body needs. Different body types need different type of nutrition depending on ethnicity, age, health conditions, disease predisposition and metabolic capacity.

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.

Miten Sampat - Building CRED @ CRED

Investment focus

Health Care, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Tratoli — SaaS & AI-driven software solution for travel agencies
The Yarn Bazaar — The Yarn Bazaar is a modern, efficient, and transparently managed marketplace for yarn buyers and sellers to discover real-time yarn prices, information, and market trends.
GrayQuest — GrayQuest Education Finance Pvt. Ltd provides Parents and Students with the most convenient and easiest option to pay fees to their Institute.

As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

NAYAN — NAYAN visual AI monitors and identifies real-time road events. NAYAN AI supports businesses and authorities by offering actionable insights on visual events, to make the world a safer place.
Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.

Vijay Ghadge is the Vice President of Ferns N Petals.

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, Fitness
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Shuttl — App Based Office Bus
Medinfi Healthcare — Medinfi is India's first pure-play healthcare content platform which offers verified and genuine information on nearby doctors and clinics to its users. Medinfi has an easy-to-use Android mobile application and website which helps users locate the nearest doctors and hospitals for their every-day check-ups. The applications also offers richcollection of blogs written by qualified professionals on variety of health & lifestyle topics. Medinfi recently crossed 2 million user mark with Medinfi’s Mobile Website contributing 90% of the users. The company has now extended its services for the users in 31 Indian cities and has witnessed high user engagement through 300+ blogs written on health & lifestyle related issues faced by the users in day-to-day life.

Mohammed Shakeeb Anwar

Investment focus

Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Bonatra — Bonatra is holistic men's health company creating a convergence of medical science, data science and technology to manage and reverse chronic men's diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, and other issues.

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 — Buy genuine heavy machinery spare parts from India's first platform for parts and services. YantraLive offers services for all types of equipments.

Lin is the COO of Twitch, the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers. He was instrumental in the 2011 launch of the platform when he joined Justin.tv in 2008. His role included attracting the site’s largest broadcasters and building out the partnership team among other activities which have helped grow the Twitch brand.Currently more than 100 million gamers gather every month on Twitch to broadcast live video, watch and chat about gaming, making the platform an industry leader.

Investment focus

Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy
Blacktop Hoops — Blacktop Hoops is a streetball-inspired multiplayer VR basketball game. Chain together flashy dribble tricks, shots, and high-flying dunks to finish off AI opponents or players across the globe in epic streetball matches.
Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.

Anjali Malhotra

Investment focus

Gaming, Content, eSports
Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Rooter — Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop.
Auntie Fung’s — Auntie Fung’s is a quick-service restaurant (QSR) startup focused on food delivery only.

Alex Rodriguez is the Co-Founder of Mojo. He previously worked at New York Yankees as a Third Baseman.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Mojo — Refer your friends for a chance to win $1,000. Mojo is a sports stock market that lets you invest in athletes like stocks. 24/7/365 price movement. Buy & sell anytime. Turn your sports knowledge and passion into profit.
Ranger Insurance — The future of home insurance is knocking.
Professional Fighters League — The Professional Fighters League (PFL) presents MMA in the sports-season format where individual fighters compete in a Regular Season, Playoffs, and Championship.

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