Top 10 Video Games Angel Investors in India in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 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 in May 2025

Investor	Video Games India investments
Sujeet Kumar	1
Piyush Shah	1
Akshat Rathee	1
Bhupendra Sharma	1
Prashant Sachan	1
Praveen Mothkuri	1
Rajan Anandan	1
Alexis Bonte	1
Rajeev Chitrabhanu (MAGNETIC)	1
Rajan Anandan	1

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Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

GoRally — GoRally operates a pickleball chain.
Pizza Wings — Pizza Wings is a pizza brand, known for fresh, high-quality pizzas and more, available for dine-in, takeout, or delivery.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
Billion Hearts — Did you sign-up for our beta launch?

Akshat Rathee is the Founder of Nova Play. He previously worked at Swabhimaanya as a Cofounder. Akshat Rathee attended École des Ponts Business School.

Investment focus

Apps, Gaming, Internet
Seed, Corporate Round, Pre-Seed
India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

STAGE — STAGE is an Indian language content platform for artist-led entertainment.
One Impression — One Impression helps you seamlessly activate and scale your Influencer Marketing Campaigns all in one place
1312 Interactive — 1312 Interactive is a pioneering PC and console game publishing studio

Bhupendra Sharma

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.

Prashant Sachan is a Founder at AppsForBharat. He attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

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.

Praveen Mothkuri

Investment focus

Internet, E-Learning, Video Games
Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

OckyPocky — Learn English for free with online courses, apps, and websites. Improve your English speaking skills with interactive lessons and practice exercises

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, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Smytten — Smytten is an online discovery platform for premium products & services. Smytten also offers assisted shopping, and for the more advanced shopper, customised offers and ability to build their own wishlist for regular purchases.
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.