Top 10 Video Games Angel Investors in India
A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Video games startups based in India. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Video games companies from India. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Video Games Angel Investors in India
Investor | Video Games India investments |
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Praveen Mothkuri | 1 |
Prashant Sachan | 1 |
Bhupendra Sharma | 1 |
Rajan Anandan | 1 |
Alexis Bonte | 1 |
Rajan Anandan | 1 |
Sujeet Kumar | 1 |
Piyush Shah | 1 |
Akshat Rathee | 1 |
Rajeev Chitrabhanu (MAGNETIC) | 1 |
Praveen Mothkuri
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Learning, Video Games
- Angel
- India
Portfolio highlights
- OckyPocky — Their vision is to make learning fun and personalised. To facilitate brain developmentand skill development by taking advantage of kids' natural desire to learn.
Prashant Sachan is a Founder at AppsForBharat. He attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games
- Pre-Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Simple Viral Games — Simple Viral Games build simple and engaging games which is lightweight, simple in mechanics and free to play.
Bhupendra Sharma
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Investment focus
- Gaming, PC Games, Video Games
- Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Virtua Pirates Private Limited — We incorporated with a vision to redefine AR-gaming experience. We are currently developing a real-life money hunting game in a multiplayer battle royal format. Our venture has received a pre-seed backing of around 25K USD so far. We are currently raising a 320K USD seed round to refine the development and step in the market.
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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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, United States, Singapore
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- 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.
Alexis is a Venture Partner at Atomico advising on new investments in France, Spain & Portugal and Eastern Europe as well as sourcing and accelerating growth in the games, blockchain and travels vertical. He is passionate about high-impact, purpose-driven companies, and he currently serves on the boards of Bossa Studios and OhBiBi, Atomico’slatest game investment. He splits his time between London, Paris, Bucharest, Stockholm and Madrid.Alexis is co-founder and CEO of games company eRepublik Labs (eRepublik.com, Age of Lords, World at War, War and Peace) a “free-to-play” pioneer that he sold in June of 2017 to Stillfront Group. Alexis remains the company’s CEO, and is also the Group COO for Stillfront, giving him a unique mix of investor as well as operational expertise. Prior to Erepublik Labs, Alexis was part of the first wave of internet start ups and was with lastminute.com for six years right up to its $1.1B trade sale to Sabre in 2005.Alexis has numerous angel investments, mainly in Europe, and has been active in supporting the development of the European digital ecosystem through events and associations.Alexis is fluent in French, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Italian and understands basic Romanian if pushed. A long time ago he was a national sailing champion in Portugal, but now he prefers to stay dry and play chess with one of his three children.
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- Gaming, Video Games, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Finland, Portugal, United States
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- AudioMob — Monetizing mobile games non-intrusively using audio ads! AudioMob are the creators of Audio Enhanced Banners & Rewarded Audio
- Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
- StageZero Technologies — StageZero inserts in-app ‘MicroTasks’ into mobile games; bite-sized activities that users can complete in exchange for rewards and perks, including coins and extra lives.
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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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- 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.
Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore, Kenya
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- Vidyut — Vidyut offers end-to-end solutions for purchase and financing to resale which provide superior economics on electric vehicles compared to petrol & diesel vehicles.
- Mainstreet — Browse through our vast collection of premium streetwear like sneakers, apparel & accessories. Mainstreet is India's premiere hype outlet for all sneaker-heads out there!
- Third Wave Coffee — Third wave coffee is a manufacturer and distributor of easy coffee bags that help to make barista-quality coffee anytime without any equipment. The third wave roasts coffees in small batches and introduce specialty cofee.
Piyush Shah joined InMobi in October 2009 and serves as Vice President and General Manager for Performance Advertising and Developer Platforms. He is responsible for the overall vision, strategy and execution for InMobi's global performance advertising business - helping customers to acquire quality users through app installs and leadgeneration offerings. Piyush also heads InMobi’s Developer Platform initiatives and drives the roadmap to enable global app developers to effectively acquire, monetize and retain users.He brings to InMobi over 13 years of experience in entrepreneurship, strategy, business development, product management and operations. Prior to joining InMobi, Piyush had corporate stints as the Associate Vice President with Deutsche Bank and Product Manager at Citigroup. At Deutsche Bank, he was part of the core team that established their Payments & Private Banking business in India. He also founded LearningSpiral, an educational portal and youth marketing venture, and was awarded the accolade as one of India's Innovative Youth Entrepreneurs by Business World.Piyush is based in our Bangalore office. He graduated from the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad with an MBA in Strategy and Marketing and was elected President of the Mumbai Alumni Chapter. He received his Bachelors in Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, E-Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore, United States
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- 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!
- Studio Sirah — Studio Sirah is an Indie Gaming studio making core Indian content games
- Artium Academy — Artium Academy is an Online Music Education platform that makes learning fun and accessible to people of all ages.
Akshat Rathee is a serial-entrepreneur and the Managing Director of NODWIN Gaming, a venture by the NODWIN Group of Companies. NODWIN Gaming is the premier and most recognized esports company in India. It has played a pivotal role in developing the Indian esports scene in the country by playing an instrumental role in popularizing competitivegaming through its exclusive license partnerships with ESL and ESWC. NODWIN Gaming works actively to run other marquee esports IPs such as the Mountain Dew Arena, The CII India Gaming Show among others. NODWIN Gaming additionally produces online content on gaming and esports such as Esports Center, The Games & Gadget Show, The Cosplay Genie Show and Live content from pop culture events in India as well as abroad.Better known in the gaming community by his gaming nick “LordNOD”, Akshat has been an ardent gamer since his early school days. In fact, his gaming nick was inspired by his excellence as the NOD faction in the 2000s RTS game, Command and Conquer. Over the years, his love for strategy genre games grew and he lists titles such as Sid Meier’s Civilization, StarCraft, XCOM and Red Alert as his influences. It can be said that these challenging games moulded Akshat into a better strategian and the skills he imbibed helps him greatly in business development.Akshat graduated from the Manipal Institute of Technology with a Bachelors in Engineering (Computers). He also holds an MBA in International Business from Ecole des Ponts, France. He boasts of over 18 years of experience in the fields of entrepreneurship, business consultancy and strategy.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Internet, Music
- Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- STAGE — STAGE is an Indian language content platform for artist-led entertainment.
- Studio Sirah — Studio Sirah is an Indie Gaming studio making core Indian content games
- One Impression — One Impression helps you seamlessly activate and scale your Influencer Marketing Campaigns all in one place
Rajeev Chitrabhanu (MAGNETIC)
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Furniture
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Kratikal — Kratikal, India's best cyber security company, provides VAPT and Compliance audit services. Kratikal is CERT-In Empanelled Security Auditor.
- Innovist — Onesto Labs Private Limited is an unlisted private company. It was incorporated on 18 October, 2018 and is located in Central Delhi, Delhi. It is classified as a private limited company.The company has two directors - Rohit Chawla and Sifat Khurana.
- Skye Air Mobility — Skye Air provides an affordable and fast drone delivery service for online orders. We use drones to deliver products to consumers in just a few minutes
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