Top 50 Sustainability Angel Investors in India

Akshay Singhal is the Co-Founder and CEO at Log 9 Materials a sub-organization of Log 9 Spill Containment.

Gopalakrishnan (Kris to his colleagues) is one of the founders of Infosys Technologies Limited. As Chief Executive Officer, he plays a key role in defining the company strategy and using technology and innovation continuously to maintain its leadership in the industry.On June 22, 2007, Kris took over from Nandan M. Nilekani as the CEO andManaging Director of Infosys Technologies Limited. Kris previously served as Chief Operating Officer (since April 2002), and as the President and Joint Managing Director (since August 2006). His responsibilities included customer services, technology, investments and acquisitions.Kris' initial responsibilities at Infosys included management of design, development, implementation and support of information systems for clients in the consumer products industry in the U.S. Between 1987 and 1994, he headed the technical operations of KSA/Infosys (a joint venture between Infosys and KSA at Atlanta, U.S.) as Vice President (Technical). In 1994, Kris returned to India and was appointed Deputy Managing Director of the company.Kris is currently the Chairman of the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM), Kerala, and Vice Chairman of the Board for Information Technology Education Standards (BITES) set up by the Government of Karnataka. Kris is the Vice Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industries(CII) Southern Regional Council. He is also a member of ACM, IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.Kris holds a master's degree in Physics and Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Fractal. He previously worked at Justin. tv as a Founder. Justin Kan attended Yale University.

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.

Sagar is a 6th Gen. young social researcher, sustainable explorer & energy investment partner from Netherlands & India Sub.Studied M.S (Associate - Executive Degree) in Business & Data Science with Specialization in Energy & Sustainable Technologies at Harvard University, an M.S (Executive) in Finance & Negotiation at YaleUniversity & M.Sc. degree in Management of Technology with Specialization in Entrepreneurship & Emerging Breakthrough Innovation at TU Delft, and Bachelors in Chemical & Biochemical Engineering.Previously he had been worked at Shell, Netherlands & London, Microsoft - Netherlands and Deloitte - the Edge Amsterdam. His recent association was with World Economic Forum, Netherlands, and Switzerland Sub as a Young Digital Associate. Currently he manages and work as a Joint Managing Director / Industrial Researcher at AASAN Group of companies - a family-owned business group of companies since 1988. Primarily focused over Large scale Industrial Management and Energy Audit, providing expertise over new renewable energy investments, sustainability and innovation tech solutions. As of now his current venture project is to create a next generation renewable energy park of 100 MW to create a sustainable fossil free energy living source for the Indian Subcontinent. Over global scenario he has achieved many Awards/Accomplishments listed below:Finalist as Entrepreneur / Startup leader at Outstanding Leadership Awards 2022 - Australia Nomine: Dutch Intrapreneur Award 2021 - Netherlands UN ECOSOC Youth Leader 2021 - New York Positive Change Ambassador - Erasmus Rotterdam University - April 2021 Wall of Changemakers 2030 - Catalyst London Antler's Copenhagen Founder's Program Feb Cohort 2022 Shortlisted @ World Startup Factory Scholarship Program 2021 | Rotterdam Speaker @ World Sustainable Development Teach In Day - Hamburg Winners @ Futurepreneurs Dutch Open 2020 Recognized as one of top 25 AI based Innovators @ Rockstart Accelerator AI 2019 - Netherlands Finalist of Global Biomimicry Design Challenge 2018-19 - Minneapolis, USA Winner of the worlds biggest Blockchain & AI Hackathon - Odyssey 2019 At present he also creating a global level smart and intelligent sustainable farmhouse. A digital solution of exploration and people's life storyline through building up to tomorrow's food for today's future! A brief storyline of creating a fossil-free sustainable living for the dutch sub. - BDF 1.0He also associated within other portfolio family run ventures such as: Habaple Partners, B'onwterp Labs, Spark Renewables LLP, Solwave Group of Companies.

Sanjiv Rangrass is the Venture Partner of Unitus Ventures. He previously worked at ITC Limited as a Group Head - R&D, Sustainability & Projects. Sanjiv Rangrass attended Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Naveen Kshatriya - Managing Partner, Founder @ Kshatriya ventures

Gaurav Juneja is Head - Digitisation at Google. He attended the Indian Institute of Management.

Mr. Qasar Younis is the Founder of Talkbin. Mr. Younis serves as a Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Y Combinator. He is responsible to manage all Y Combinator events, operations, finance and legal functions, as well as advise startups. Previously, he served as a Part-Time Partner at the firm.

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Ravi Nigam

Aprameya loves singing romantic songs and is the quintessential dreamer who doesn’t fear to experiment. He used to be the Head of Business Development for PDS at Jones Lang LaSalle India where he spent almost 3 years post his graduation from IIM Ahmedabad. He has worked at Infosys and has an Electronics engineering degree from NITK Surthkal andif all this has made you think he’s a geek, ask his close friends and they would say otherwise!

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.

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

Dr. Michael Gryseels is the President of True Digital Group, the innovation unit set up by True Corporation, part of the Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group. True Digital was set up to capture new growth opportunities from digital, analytics, IoT, robotics, and related technologies. True Digital is headquartered in Thailand but has subsidiaries inIndonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines, and investments in China, Myanmar, and Cambodia. Michael is also the Group Chief Digital Officer and a member of the Executive Committee of True's parent shareholder Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group, Thailand's largest private corporation and one of the largest conglomerates globally, operating across 13 industries and 20+ countries, employing over 300,000 people.

Gaurav Gupta

Anshuman Bapna is Founder at Terra.do.

Varsha Rao is the Executive Partner at Flare Capital Partners.Rao received her BS/BA in Economics/Math from the University of Pennsylvania. For two years following graduation, she worked at the Wasserstein Perella financial consulting firm, where she advised clients on private and public investment strategies. She then returned toschool to obtain an MBA from Harvard Business School.As a strong believer in the power of education, she contributes to various educational initiatives for underprivileged children and youth. Among them is Breakthrough, a program that works to motivate and empower K12 students to continue to higher education and excel academically and professionally.

Kiran currently works as President at TiE Pune.

Ratilal M. Bavarva is the Founding Member and Investor at Aasan Group of companies. He attended Lukhdhirji Engineering College, Morbi graduated with a degree in electrical engineering.

Shashank has a unique combination of business understanding, technical acumen and creative talent and has crafted customer experience of interactive systems for more than 15 years.Prior to co-founding Clarice, Shashank managed a multi-location team of 140 usability consultants at Human Factors International (HFI), the world's largestusability consulting company. He directed projects across Product Design, User-Interface Design & Usability evaluation.Before HFI, Shashank institutionalized usability as a function in Symantec (then VERITAS) with a high performing User-Centered Design (UCD) team of over 25 usability and design professionals. The team catalyzed usability evolution of over 15 major products; a large chunk of Symantec's product portfolio.In his career, Shashank has sensitized more than 500 professionals to UCD, in organizations like Symantec, Yahoo, CMC (now TCS), L&T, NASSCOM. He is a regular speaker at usability conferences across the country and is invited to teach at leading institutes including NID, Ahmedabad and IIT IDC, Mumbai.Shashank holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters in Industrial Design from the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad.

Ramakant plays a central role in driving all technological innovations that form the backbone of Livspace while also leading our operations team. Before founding Livspace, Ramakant was a core team member and Vice President of Engineering at Myntra, a leading fashion eCommerce startup in India (acquired by Flipkart). Ramakant, graduated from IITKanpur, and holds an MBA from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

Founding Partner at Upsparks

Rahul Agarwalla is Managing Partner at SenseAI Ventures

Pawan Munjal - Chairman, Managing Director & CEO @ HeroMotoCorp Ltd

Shashank is Founder VC and Co-Founder of 100X.VC - India's first venture fund to invest in early-stage startups using iSAFE Notes. Portfolio: https://www.100x.vc/. Investments through Randev Ventures Family Office in early-stage startups across India, SEA & USA with a keen interest in B2B Emerging technology, Deeptech,SaaS, Cleantech, and Web3. Randev Ventures is the private investment body of Randev Family Office. He brings entrepreneurial and investment understanding with 15+ years of cross-functional expertise. Previously, he was the Founding member and Vice President of VCCEdge, the SaaS data platform by VCCircle (acquired by News Corporation in 2015). He launched the SaaS platform, led revenue, product development, and growth initiatives for close to seven years at VCCEdge. He has additionally worked with NIIT Ltd. and Zensar Technologies Ltd.He is also an Angel Investor and Advisor with a keen interest and portfolio investments in B2B Emerging technology, Deeptech, SaaS, Cleantech, and Web3 startups. Shashank holds an undergraduate degree in Bachelor of Engineering from Nagpur University, and an MBA from International Management Institute (IMI), New Delhi.Shashank’s professional ability in developing, launching and making the first move when it comes to products and solutions is reflected in the novel model of 100X.VC. As a Co-Founder of 100X.VC, he is part of the Investment Committee and works closely with portfolio companies on how to improve the chances of new products succeeding. And helping them raise followon capital from growth stage VCs, CVCs, and family offices.Specialties: Entrepreneurship, Scaling up Startups, Angel & Seed Investment & Venture Capital

Milan Modi

Ashish Goel is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Urban Ladder.

Subramaniam Ramadorai is the Chairman of National Skill Development Agency & the National Skill Development Corporation, a Public Private partnership arm of the Government. Ramadorai has been in public service since February 2011. The NSDA is an autonomous body which coordinates and harmonizes the skill development efforts of the Government andthe private sector to achieve the skilling targets of the nation. He is also Chairman of the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), a Public Private Partnership arm of the Government of India for creating large, for-profit vocational institutions. In February 2011, the Government had appointed him as the Adviser to the Prime Minister in the National Council on Skill Development, in the rank of a Cabinet Minister. This Council was subsumed into the NSDA in June 2013. Recently, Subramaniam retired as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors at Tata Consultancy Services. Subramaniam has been associated with TCS for the past 36 years. Subramaniam took over as Chief Executive Officer of TCS in 1996 and has been instrumental in building TCS to a $5.7 Billion global IT services, business solutions and outsourcing company, with a talent base of over 1,16,000 people, geographical reach of 42 countries and an enviable client list which includes six of the top ten Fortune companies. Subramaniam set his sights on ensuring that TCS is among the Global Top Ten Software companies. In October 2006, TCS was recognized by the Economic Times as the company of the Year, a fitting tribute to its increasing global presence. Subramaniam's contributions to the industry have been well recognized through the numerous awards he has received. In 2002, Subramaniam was awarded with CNBC Asia Pacific's prestigious 'Asia Business Leader of the Year' Award. Subramaniam has been honoured with the position of "IT Advisor to Qingdao City', People's Republic of China. In November 2006, Ernst & Young awarded him with the prestigious 'Entrepreneur Manager of the Year' award. In the same year he was recognized by Computer Business Review in July 2006 as the sixth most influential IT leader in the world. In appreciation of his commitment and dedication to the IT industry, Subramaniam was also awarded the "Padma Bhushan" by the Government of India in January 2006. Subramaniam holds chairmanships and directorships of several Tata Group companies and is a Member of the Board of Directors at Hindustan Unilever Limited and Nicholas Piramal India Limited. Subramaniam is a Member of the Corporate Advisory Board, Marshall School of Business (USC) as well as the Said Business School at Oxford. Among his other distinctions, Subramaniam is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), The Computer Society of India (CSI) and the Indian National Academy of Engineering. Subramaniam holds a Bachelors degree in Physics from Delhi University, India, a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, and a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of California - UCLA, USA.

Shantanu Deshpande is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Bombay Shaving Company.

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.

Former CEO at GMR Energy Ltd Former Joint MD & CEO at JSW Energy Ltd Former MD at Jindal Praxair Ltd Former CEO at Asian Paints

Pramod Agarwal is a former CFO at Procter & Gamble.

Amit Khetan is a Founder at AfterFirst. He attended Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.

Priyavrata Mafatlal

Venkat Nekkanti

Sytse Zuidema - COO @ eBuddy

Kartik Hajela is the Co-founder and COO at Log 9 Materials a sub-organization of Log 9 Spill Containment.

Sachin Mehra is a Chief Financial Officer at Mastercard.

Joydeep Ponugoti

Shraddha Kapoor is an Indian actress and singer who works in Hindi-language films.

Nilesh Ved is the Co-founder and Chairman at Apparel Group. He graduated from Boston University with a Bachelor’s degree in Science Business Administration.

Deepak Jain is a partner at Bain and Co.

Rohit Chanana - Founder and Managing Partner @ Sarcha Advisors

Ritesh Arora is the CEO and Co-Founder of BrowserStack, the world’s leading software testing platform. Ritesh co-founded BrowserStack in 2011 with the vision to simplify testing for millions of developers globally. Today, BrowserStack helps companies like Microsoft, Twitter, Wells Fargo, Discovery, and Expedia deliver quality software at speed byproviding instant access to 3,000+ real mobile devices and browsers on its cloud platform. With over 50,000 global customers, BrowserStack is backed by marquee investors such as Accel, BOND, and Insight Partners and was recently valued at $4 billion.Ritesh is a serial entrepreneur and has started multiple companies after graduating in Computer Science from IIT Bombay. As the CEO, Ritesh has led Browserstack to win industry accolades such as Forbes Cloud 100, LinkedIn’s Top 25 India Startups, and Bootstrap Champ by Economic Times. Originally from Surat, Ritesh lives with his family in Mumbai. He is an angel investor and mentors several technology startups in India.

Shalini Chhabra is a Managing Partner at Incipia Advisors LL.

Akshay Kumar is the Co-Founder at Social Swag India.

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.

Nitish Mittersain is CEO & Founder of Nazara - a leading mobile games developer and publisher focused on the large mobile consumer base in India and emerging markets including the Middle East and Africa. In addition to developing a range of branded and original mobile games, Nazara operates unique services such as "Games Club" andalso serves as an exclusive distributor for key game developers such as Electronic Arts. Its customers include mobile carriers as well as handset manufacturers. Nazara also owns "Playcaso" - an iOs and Android developer/publisher brand, "nzLabs" - a work-for-hire apps studio & "gCity" - a social gaming platform.Nitish is also served as the Chairman of the Mobile Value Added Services Committee of the Indian Merchants Chambers - India's oldest business organization and has been widely recognized in the media for his contributions to the gaming and mobile vas industries in India

Ramesh is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Prizm Payments.Before joining Prizm Payments‚ Ramesh was the CFO of Optimus Global Services (subsidiary of Polaris Software) where he set-up the finance function for the Company.Ramesh has over 15 years of experience in the Banking & Financial Services Industry (BFSI) segment having workedwith reputed organizations such as AT&T‚ NCR and Optimus. Ramesh's expertise is to bring financial processes into early stage organisations, which he does with elan, having the experience of being a founding member in all of his previous ventures.Ramesh is an Chartered Accountant and Cost Accountant by education.