Top 50 Sustainability Angel Investors in India in May 2025

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.

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.

Sagar Ratilal Bavarva is the Director and Researcher of Aasan Group of Companies. He previously worked at the World Economic Forum as a Digital Associate - Remote. Sagar Ratilal Bavarva attended Harvard Business School.

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

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.

Naveen Kshatriya - Managing Partner, Founder @ Kshatriya ventures

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

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.

Varsha Rao is the Executive Partner at Flare Capital Partners, former Head of Global Operations at Airbnb, CEO of Nurx and COO at Clover Health. She was the Co-Founder of Eve.com. Currently she is CEO & Founder of Zeal AI.Rao received her BS/BA in Economics/Math from the University of Pennsylvania. For two years followinggraduation, she worked at the Wasserstein Perella financial consulting firm, where she advised clients on private and public investment strategies. She then returned to school to obtain an MBA from Harvard Business School.She is an active angel investors with successful investments in Healthcare, Enterprise AI, Consumer Tech and more.

Shalini Chhabra is a Managing Partner at Incipia Advisors LL.

Founding Partner at Upsparks

Anshuman Bapna is Founder at Terra.do.

Rahul Agarwalla is Managing Partner at SenseAI Ventures

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gaurav Gupta

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

Karanpal Singh is a steel and mining industrialist and the founder of Hunch Ventures which has been investing in multi-stage companies since 2012.As these investments evolved into larger businesses, Hunch evolved into an organized venture fund and has now taken several large bets across multiple sectors. Hunch has been backing visionary foundersin various industries from Air Mobility, Fine Arts, Sustainable Food Supply chains and food security, Ports and Logistics, Healthtech, F&B, Lifestyle Media and several B2B SaaS platforms. It has investments in India, Canada, the US, Tanzania, Singapore, UAE and the United Kingdom and has now pivoted to environmentally conscious and sustainable businesses. Hunch is one of the largest independent aggregators of food-related infrastructure and technologies and has built the platform for global food technology companies to come to India and establish a local presence.

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

Milan Modi

Kiran currently works as President at TiE Pune.

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.

Bharat A. Jaisinghani is the Executive Director of Polycab .

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.

Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Stash. He previously worked at Atrium as a CEO. Justin Kan attended Yale University.

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

Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Paytm. He previously worked at India Today Group Online as a Tech head. Vijay Shekhar attended Delhi College of Engineering.

Ravi Nigam

Nimesh is the Founding Partner at 108 Capital, a Growth-stage venture fund partnering with founders building digital-first, scalable and sustainable businesses. Prior, Nimesh was the cofounder at trica, a full-stack technology platform for growth-stage investments and equity management. He has been an avid Investor in private markets and is alsofounding venture partner for India’s first $100Mn revenue based financing fund N+1 Capital and also advisor & Board member of Campus Fund – 1st dorm fund in India

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

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

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!

Gaurav Arora

Priyavrata Mafatlal

Venkat Nekkanti

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

Kiran C. Patel is an Indian-American philanthropist, cardiologist and businessman.

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

Sachin Mehra is a Chief Financial Officer at Mastercard.

Keshav Reddy

Arjun P Gupta is the Founder and CEO of Smart Joules Pvt. Ltd. Arjun P Gupta attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mohit Tandon is the CSO & Co-Founder at Delhivery.

Rohit Chanana - Founder and Managing Partner @ Sarcha Advisors

Atishe Chordia - CEO & Co-Founder @ doodleblue Innovations

SK Narvar is a Chairman at Capital India Corp.