# Top 50 Sports Angel Investors in India in June 2026

## Anupam Mittal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Internet

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.

## Kunal Shah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet

Kunal Shah

## Raghunandan G
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Apps

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.

## Ashish Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Himanshu Aggarwal
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Fitness, SaaS, Internet

Himanshu Aggarwal is the Chief Strategy Officer of SHL. He attended Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

## Mohit Burman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Sports, Fitness

Mohit Burman

## Sujeet Kumar
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce

Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan

## Namita Thapar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Retail

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.

## Arjun Vaidya
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Retail

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

## Aman Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing

Aman Gupta is based out of Delhi and is the Co-Founder and Director of boAt. Aman previously worked at HARMAN International as a Director of Sales. Aman Gupta attended the Indian School of Business. Aman Gupta has received the National Creator Award 2024.

## Amit Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series B
- Focus: Software, Apps, Fitness

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.

## Vineeta Singh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Food Processing

Vineeta Singh is the Co-founder and CEO of SUGAR Cosmetics. She previously worked at Quetzal Verify Private Limited as Director. Vineeta attended the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, where she took a Master of Business Administration (MBA). She also attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, where she took a B.Tech in ElectricalEngineering.

## Mohit Kumar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, Sports, Banking

Mohit Kumar - Founder & CEO @ Ultrahuman

## Suniel Shetty
- Type: Angel
- Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Wellness, Health Care, Fitness

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

## Priyank Shah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage

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

## Ashutosh Valani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage

Ashutosh Valani is the founder at Renee Cosmetics.

## Deep Bajaj
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Wellness, Fitness, Health Care

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.

## Prashant Malik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Apps, Mobile

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.

## Pankaj Chaddah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fitness, Health Care

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

## Utsav Somani
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Software, Financial Services

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

## Rajesh Yabaji
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Retail, E-Commerce, Marketplace

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.

## Vasim Akram
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cuddapah, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: eSports

An Entrepreneur & Student

## Deepinder Goyal
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Wellness, E-Commerce

Deepinder Goyal, Founder & CEO, Zomato, is the Founder and CEO of Zomato. Prior to starting Zomato, Deepinder worked as a management consultant with Bain and Company in New Delhi. It was at Bain that Deepinder conceived the idea of an online restaurant information service after seeing the demand for menu cards among his colleagues. He left Bainin 2008 to start Zomato (then foodiebay) out of his apartment and has since overseen strategy and product development. Deepinder graduated with a Mathematics and Computing degree from IIT Delhi in 2005 and hails from Muktsar in Punjab.

## Abhijeet Pai
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage

Abhijeet Pai is founder of Gruhas Proptech.

## Anjali Bansal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Software, Health Care

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

## Nagendra Bandaru
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Fitness, Hardware, Security

Nagendra Bandaru

## Ratan Tata
- Type: Angel
- Location: Houston, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care

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

## Vatsal singhal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Sports

vatsal singhal is the founder of Ultrahuman.

## Lakshmi Narayanan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Sports

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

## Rajesh Mane
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Mobile, Retail

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

## Kishore Ganji
- Type: Angel
- Location: Marlboro, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Software

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

## Ravi Bhushan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Goa, Goa, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Wellness, Marketing

Ravi Bhushan Founder & CEO at BrightChamps

## Aman Mishra
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: eSports

Aman Mishra

## Dipen Shah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care

Dipen Shah is a managing Director at VAG-Group.

## Sachin Anand
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care

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

## Harsh Shah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Gaming, Retail

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.

## Apoorva Patni
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Apps, Retail

Apoorva Patni is a Director and Founder of Currae Healthtech.

## Dr Ritesh Malik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Doctor turned Entrepreneur, Investor, Speaker & Philanthropist.

## Harsh Mani Tripathi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: News, Sports, Fitness

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

## Amit Ratanpal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, Health Care, Financial Services

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

## Ajeet Khurana
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Internet, E-Commerce

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.

## Alok Mittal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Marketplace, E-Commerce

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.

## Govind Rajan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care

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

## Kashish Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, Health Care

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

## Nithin Kamath
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, Fitness

Nithin Kamath is an entrepreneur and trader who is the founder and CEO at Zerodha, a large Indian broking house. He is also the CEO of Rainmatter Capital.

## Sukhbir Singh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, Mobile Apps, Food and Beverage

Sukhbir Singh

## Ankit Mehrotra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, Gaming, Food Processing

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.

## Sahil Jain
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Gaming, Apps, AgTech

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.

## Miten Sampat
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, SaaS, Internet

Miten Sampat - Building CRED @ CRED

## Rajan Anandan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

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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