Top 50 Video Games Startup Investors in India in December 2024

Investor	Video Games India investments
SucSEED Venture Partners	3
SucSEED Indovation	2
Polygon	2
Better Capital	2
ah! Ventures	2
Cloud Capital	2
Lumikai	2
IndiGG	2
Clearstone Venture Partners	2
Unicorn India Ventures	2
Udaan	1
Kae Capital	1
Rajeev Chitrabhanu (MAGNETIC)	1
Sujeet Kumar	1
Dentsu Group	1
WEH Ventures	1
Nazara Technologies	1
Visionplus	1
Rebright Partners	1
Titan Capital	1
Lead Angels Network	1
3.0 Capital	1
Alexis Bonte	1
First Cheque	1
Bhupendra Sharma	1
Rajan Anandan	1
GameWith	1
Prosus Ventures	1
Nexus Venture Partners	1
SBI Investment	1
GVFL	1
Urmin Group	1
Shastra VC	1
Goodwater Capital	1
Flori Ventures	1
PointOne Capital	1
Force Ventures	1
Piyush Shah	1
Smile Group	1
Silicon Valley Bank	1
Stellaris Venture Partners	1
Paipal Ventures	1
Praveen Mothkuri	1
AngelList Quant Fund	1
Kane & Rao Group	1
iSeed	1
Rajan Anandan	1
Eximius Ventures	1
Polygon	1
Akshat Rathee	1

An Early Stage Investment Firm.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

AyuRythm — AyuRythm is a hyper-personalised digital companion for holistic wellness, with a blend of modern technologies with the ancient science of health assessment and care.
Biva — BIVA helps D2C Brands scale by offering1. Instant Connections (<10 hours) to all sources - API or non-API/ online or offline2. Curated & Pre-built Business Function-wise Dashboards and reports addressing 80% of use cases3. Custom calculations & Excel Add-in addressing other 20% of use cases4. Alerts and notifications fortimely actions
SpeEdLabs — SpeEdLabs is to provide a top-notch, technology-based Learning and Practice platform to students at an affordable price, thus empowering every student to grow into their full potential.

SucSEED Indovation offers access to capital for deep tech startups to scale and grow. SucSEED supports early-stage deep tech and tech-driven startups providing solutions to the large-scale needs of India and with the potential to serve global emerging market needs too.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

SportVot — Watch the latest live sports with scores, highlights, and your favourite sports players from India. Latest sports updates online from tennis cricket, football, kabaddi, basketball, volleyball, and all other sports
Endimension — Endimension develops AI solutions for medical image analysis. It helps to automatically detect abnormalities and diseases, via AI algorithms from medical scans, so as to reduce patient misdiagnosis and increase Radiologists’ efficiency.
Str8bat Sport Tech Solutions — The str8bat cricket bat sensor is a lightweight, pocket-sized motion sensor that gives you instant, visual and actionable insights into your batting. Get

Polygon is the most proven way to build and scale your decentralized application and projects on Ethereum, the world's largest blockchain ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

0G Labs — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
Kratos Gamer Network (KGeN) — Discover KGeN, where gaming meets the future. Dive into a world of cutting-edge technology and immersive experiences, designed for the next generation of gamers. Join us and redefine the way you play
Moonveil Entertainment — Moonveil Entertainment is a web3 game studio that uses cutting-edge technology to create authentic gaming experiences.

Better is a global venture capital firm that backs bold innovators on day zero.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Slikk — Slikk is a fashion brand that aims to deliver value within seconds and drip within minutes
Autodraft Ai — Autodraft Ai helps you craft compelling animations with unparalleled style and consistent character portrayal.
Honestly — Honestly is an AI-enhanced beauty and personal care platform that uses technology to provide individualized suggestions and improves the user experience through innovation.

ah! Ventures is India’s only curated, sector agnostic and the largest fundraising platform for early stage startups raising funds up to 10 MN USD. Very strong network of 3000+ Investors including 2000+ angel investors and 1000+ institutional investors & fund/family houses, Robust deal pipeline of more than 600 business plans/monthand Well-established brand as one of India’s premier aggregators with a cornucopia of offerings to catalyze startup growth.

Investment focus

Software, EdTech, Food and Beverage
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Settl. — Settl - Discover cozy city living with chic coliving spaces in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Gurgaon, and Chennai. Upgrade your homelife through our seamless app.
FlexifyMe — FlexifyMe is to achieve mental, physical, and spiritual harmony through live 1-on-1 and group sessions with our world-class yoga, meditation, and nutrition coaches.
Plan B — Our innerwear range includes underwear, boxers, trunks, camisoles, vests and training bras for children aged 1-12 years

Early-stage Venture Capital for the Cloud Economy

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

just words — Test infinite variations rapidly and serve content that resonates with users. Automated content refresh according to market trends. No more manual campaign tracking.
Felicity Games — Felicity Games place our users at the core of our gaming experience, believing that maximizing user satisfaction will in turn maximize lifetime value in the long term.
Oncare Cancer - Best Cancer Treatment Delhi — Oncare offers cutting-edge cancer therapies based on the latest research and studies. Furthermore, and more crucially, we focus on reducing the mental and emotional load that this trip may impose on you.

Lumikai curates and funds India's pioneering, lighthouse founders building the next wave of gaming & interactive media startups.

Investment focus

Gaming, Apps, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Frammer AI — Frammer AI is a media SaaS platform that uses AI to convert long-form video into monetizable shorts in one click. It claims to provide a 70% faster turnaround and 50% cheaper solutions for video content creation. It focuses on automating various tasks related to media content, including video editing, transcription, and multimedia contentoptimization. By leveraging machine learning and AI technologies, Frammer AI allows users to produce and distribute media content efficiently, saving time and resources while maintaining high quality.
Mayhem Studios — Mayhem Studios is a mobile gaming app. It is a arm of mobile premier league.
Deftouch — Deftouch is a game development company that currently focuses on winning the Cricket gaming market, by providing a billion cricket-mad followers with a platform to engage & interact with their daydreams with a social, Realtime multiplayer game.

IndiGG is an NFT based play-to-earn game in the web3 frontier. IndiGG is the India sub-decentralized autonomous organization(subDAO) of YGG.

Investment focus

Video Games, Gaming, eSports
Seed, Funding Round
India, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Fnatic — Fnatic is the world's leading esports organisation, with a winning legacy of 17 years and counting in over 28 different titles.
Treasure — Treasure is building a gaming and entertainment powerhouse, built and owned by all.
Metaverse Magna — Play the best games on the AppStore with friends & frenemies for prize money via PvP and multi-player eSport tournaments. Daily prize pools bigger than $1K.

Founded by Bill Elkus in 1998, Clearstone Venture Partners is a venture capital firm with offices in Santa Monica and Menlo Park, California. The firm manages over $650 million of committed capital in the technology sector, and has helped finance early-stage rounds in numerous successful companies such as eToys, Overture, PayPal, United Online,MP3.com, Jump and eMusic.Clearstone's limited partners include the investment affiliates of The State of California, JP Morgan, The University of California, The State of Michigan, The State of Pennsylvania, The University of Pittsburgh, Moore Capital and others.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, India, Afghanistan

Portfolio highlights

Vyng — Vyng has built a next-generation Caller ID platform that visualizes every call. Vyng is helping start better conversations between friends, family, and businesses for the next half billion smartphone users in India and beyond.Vyng boasts 4 billion videos played across 170 countries since its launch in 2018. The company has raised $7MM and isbacked by March Capital, Omidyar Network, a Sequoia Capital partner, and the founders of Giphy and GroupMe.
Tesloop — TESLOOP OVERVIEW: Tesloop’s manages and operates an expanding fleet of electric Tesla vehicles offering city-to-city shared-car transportation. Tesloop’s service, launched in July 2015, offers daily scheduled routes from LA and Orange County to Las Vegas. The Tesloop service model disrupts city-to-city travel by leveraging the low cost ofelectricity and a business model that immediately leverages new autonomous driving technology. The autonomous, computerized, electric platform creates unprecedented economic efficiencies and delivers a new level of consumer value vs. all other transportation alternatives. The service has received rave reviews from it’s growing customer base and is rapidly expanding with routes to Palms Springs and San Diego planned for this spring.Tesloop’s mission is to rapidly increase access to an amazing & sustainable travel experience. Tesloop's goal is to employ autonomous/electric vehicle technology towards its highest utilization thus creating the maximum environmental and health benefits of every vehicle.
Billdesk — BillDesk develops an integrated technology platform and unified APIs to make digital payments easy and accessible. BillDesk was created to help consumers leverage on the potential of electronic medium to better organize and manage their payments, while escaping some of the pitfalls of traditional bill payment services.

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Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ikin Global — Discover IKIN's smart locks for enterprises. Secure assets with our Smart GPS lock, container lock, bolt seal, and more. Enjoy live tracking and access control.
Stamp My Visa — Stamp My Visa is an online consultancy platform that simplifies the visa process and provides doorstep service for the document.
PeLocal Fintech — Pelocal Fintech Private Limited offers digital solutions to empower local businesses and facilitate consumer payments.

Udaan is a B2B trade platform that brings manufacturers, traders, retailers, and wholesalers into a single platform. The platform is about making business easy in India, about making B2B commerce convenient and efficient. They believe B2B is the new B2C in India. It connects retailers with wholesalers and traders who sell more than 15 lakh productsranging across categories from electronics and apparel to grocery and fresh produce.Udaan chat feature allows users to have a personal and secure conversation in real-time, in a language of your choice. It enables a direct connection between buyers and sellers which allows one-on-one discussions to negotiate terms of trade between transacting parties. India has 50m+ SMBs, who form the core of the Indian economy and society. They are the entrepreneurial pulse of India. They believe the internet is a great equalizing platform. They want to bring their energies together in bringing the power of the Internet to these millions of entrepreneurs.Udaan was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Learning, Hospitality
Seed, Series A, Series B
India

Portfolio highlights

Petpooja — The best restaurant POS software to manage your restaurant billing, KOTs, inventory, online order, menu, and customers.
OckyPocky — Learn English for free with online courses, apps, and websites. Improve your English speaking skills with interactive lessons and practice exercises

Kae Capital is a pioneer of early-stage investing in India, focused on tech startups, and has been investing in India for 10+ years.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Eternz — Explore our jewelry collection curated from exceptional brands and designers. Buy rings, earrings, bracelets, bangles, pendants & necklaces and get flat 200 off on first order.
Foxtale — Effective skincare products that show results on your skin! We believe happy skin is a fundamental right accessible to all irrespective of where you are in your skincare journey!
GobbleCube — GobbleCube's AI-powered copilot automates revenue monitoring and RCA, allowing revenue staff to focus on execution.

Rajeev Chitrabhanu (MAGNETIC)

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

Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Dentsu Group is a global advertising agency that provides marketing, media, PR, digital marketing, and promotion services.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Social Media, Software
Funding Round, Series A, Corporate Round
Japan, India

Portfolio highlights

MyDearest — MyDearest is a Full dive product planning and development company
Advance Composite — Advance Composite is a manufacturing company that develops composite materials and molten metal forging-based products.
SUSHI TOP MARKETING — SUSHI TOP MARKETING is an IT company that offers marketing, NFT utilization, and consulting services.

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Investment focus

Apps, B2B, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Flent — Flent offers fully furnished designer homes.
MasterChow — Shop MasterChow's Asli Chinese range of Noodles, Cooking Sauces, Condiments and more. Ghar pe banao Asli Chinese!
AppsForBharat — AppsForBharat is a product studio focused on building apps for spiritual and devotional needs of Indian users.

From a kid on a mobile screen to thousands in an arena, we understand what it takes to assemble a dedicated global gaming community, one move at a time.

Investment focus

Gaming, Social Media, Digital Entertainment
Corporate Round, Series A, Seed
India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Xigma Games — Xigma Games is an independent game development studio that creates fun, original, and innovative ideas.
Norian Games — Norian Games is developing Aldian of Ancients, a dinosaur survival simulation for PC and console.
Sportskeeda — Established in 2009, Sportskeeda the flagship brand of Absolute Sports, is a global sports media platform that covers the world's biggest sports and esports subjects and serves over 100 million fans every month. The Sportskeeda team comprises top content creators from around the world who produce hundreds of well-researched content pieces on adaily basis.In 2019, Nazara (NSE: NAZARA), a publicly listed diversified gaming and sports media platform picked up a majority stake in Sportskeeda.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pebble — Pebble is a electric vehicle manufacturing startup.
Transfluent — Professional translations for all business needs. Fast. Easy.
BetterDoctor — BetterDoctor helps validate and deliver accurate provider data to health plans, health systems, and hundreds of other companies via its API — from startups to publicly traded ones. This ultimately helps achieve the mission of helping consumers find the healthcare they need.Today, BetterDoctor's data platform and APIs power 9 health plans,350 companies, 1,500 developers, helping millions of people find the right doctor each month. Health Plans BetterDoctor uses multi-modal outreach to drive providers to attest their information on BetterDoctor's online portal. API PartnersBetterDoctor brings transparency to doctor data. Their real-time platform, master database and API services enable everyone to add doctor data to their systems, websites and applications. Today, BetterDoctor API and data tools power health insurance companies, healthcare startups and doctor search tools. https://betterdoctor.com/developers

Venture Capital Firm based in Singapore and Tokyo, focus on seed to early stage Internet & Mobile software Startups in Southeast Asia and India

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Niro — Niro is embedding personal credit products into leading consumer internet platforms. The fintech startup aims to disrupt the consumer lending ecosystem in the country by democratizing access to convenient and hassle-free embedded credit products for 624 million internet users in India.
LetsTransport — Lets transport is a “Last mile” logistics solution provider. Their solutions are reliable, professional, economical and structured to serve businesses as well as consumers. They currently provide Tata Ace on demand as well as on attachment basis.
ClickPost — ClickPost is a Logistics Intelligence Platform helping eCommerce companies select right courier partner, generate labels and track shipments leading a delightful customer experience and operations excellence.

Titan Capital invests behind world class entrepreneurs looking to create wide-scale positive impact on India and the World.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Convin — Learn how best sales leaders use Conversation Intelligence to analyze sales conversations and close bigger, better, and more sales.
LetsDressUp — LetsDressUp is a platform that designs and customizes clothes, aims to be India’s version of US-based Stitch Fix.
True Diamond — Exquisite SOLITAIRES - SAVE BIG | Lifetime Buyback & Exchange | FREE All-India delivery | FREE 1 year jewellery Insurance | Sustainable & conflict free Lab grown diamond jewellery made using Type IIa CVD diamonds | Designs from daily wear to bridal jewellery | IGI / GIA / SGL / BIS Hallmark Certifications available.

Lead Angels is India's first angel network focused on IITs.Founded by a team of three originally from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay including a retired professor, a recent graduate and an incubator manager.The network members provide time and money to disruptive startups across India. Its members are successful entrepreneursacross different sectors.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

oorja.energy — Simplify complex battery engineering from design to deployment with oorja's hybrid technology.
Nitro Commerce — Nitro Commerce provides AI tools to help them reach their greatest potential.
Ghost Kitchens — Join the fastest growing restaurant company in the country

3.0 Capital operates as an investment firm.

Investment focus

Video, Internet, Video Games
Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Chirrup — Chirrup enables friends and families to engage in a relaxed manner over multiplayer games and video calls. It wants to digitally recreate the experience of offline banter.

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.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
Finland, Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

First Cheque Built and Exited Founders, Product Leaders, Growth Leaders, and also angel investors. A lot of change They bring is in how to think- based on first principles, based on data, building a data driven organisation, setting up teams for performance et al. Most importantly, They will help you graduate to the next level of your journey.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wuri — Wuri is an AI firm that transform web stories into captivating audio-visual novels.
30 Sundays — Book personalized international tours, adventures, and accommodations designed specifically for couples. Perfect for honeymoons, anniversaries, and special celebrations.
BitScale — BitScale enables growth teams to create scalable AI operations. Bitscale is developing a new form of UI that allows sales and marketing professionals to automate their manual procedures, making them 10X more successful.

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.

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, 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.

GameWith is an online game information community that provides its users with hints and tips for smartphone games. Its initial focus is providing strategy guides for the rapidly expanding (and updating) mobile gaming market. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Minato, Japan.

Investment focus

Gaming, eSports, Video Games
Seed, Corporate Round
India, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Game Server Services — Game Server Services is an asset, game keeps important player data such as billing currency and character level.
GamingMonk — GamingMonk is an eSports gaming company based out of New Delhi, India. eSports or Competitive Gaming Tournaments are played across platforms such as PC, Console & Mobile. They currently have 2 verticals - Offline Tournaments & an Online eSports Portal.Offline Tournaments are held across India covering 8 cities so far with an expansionplan of covering 16 cities by next year.Online eSports Portal was launched in Aug 2017 with an idea of bringing the tournaments experience online & with a vision to reach out to every gamer in India.With a passion and a commitment to the best gaming experience, they at GamingMonk, have strived to create a community for gamers.A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, and gamers always know where to find an extra life.

Prosus Ventures is a venture investing arm of Prosus that invests in technology startups. They identify companies and founders with high potential and the ambition to scale globally correctly. Their goal is to help companies quickly impact the communities where they operate and provide them with tailored support that enables them to be leaders intheir chosen markets.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Neara — Predictive modeling software for proactive network governance. Quantify and prove network needs in any scenario. Run precise analyses in hours and days instead of months or years in the field.
FiberSense — FiberSense is providing cities and critical infrastructure operators with game changing real-time detection of objects and events.
Equal Identity — Equal Identity operates as an ID-sharing platform.

Nexus Venture Partners is a venture capital firm established by ex-entrepreneurs in enterprise technology and consumer internet. The firm was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Neysa — Neysa providers an integrated & seamless system to build, secure, monitor, & scale AI solutions. Full stack cloud AI platform and developer services.
ZITADEL — Zitadel provides everything developers need to incorporate identity management. It's as easy as pie. Because serverless, you'll be ready when you're ready. Because open-source, at your place or ours.
Zinc Money — A suite of comprehensive solutions to help families navigate international education for their children and ensure a sound financial foundation for their academic journey.

SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment. It manages and manages venture capital funds under the management philosophy of becoming a leading company responsible for the creation and development of core industries in the 21st century as a "new industry creator".SBIInvestment has invested in a total of 986 companies in the past, of which 169 (17.1% of investment companies) have exited through IPO or M & A.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
AI model — AI model specializes in the development and transformation of real-like virtual models for modeling on E-commerce platforms.
Ultra Social — Ultra Social offers marketing support, management creator production, and tiktok live production services.

Welcome to GVFL Ltd !GVFL Limited (formerly Gujarat Venture Finance Limited) is widely regarded as pioneer of Venture capital in India. It is an independent, autonomous Board managed venture finance company based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Software, Manufacturing
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

LetsDressUp — LetsDressUp is a platform that designs and customizes clothes, aims to be India’s version of US-based Stitch Fix.
Dice — At Dice, we are disrupting the way enterprises consume B2B goods and services, and manages corporate spend. We are redoing what SaaS stands for in a corporate setup - Spending as a Service.The modern corporate spending & consumption marketplace, built over unique UPI & banking architecture, integrates digital consumption APIs & B2Bmarketplaces with a no-code approval workflow. This enables all types of employee discretionary spend scenarios like commute, hotels, etc, and corporate spend scenarios like PO and Non-PO based vendor spend, through a single in-app open partner platform. No more cash. No more cards. No more reimbursements. No more offline invoices. Dice's super-app is used by more than 50,000 users pan-India, providing greater visibility into and control over how enterprises spend money, driving significant cost savings and profitability.
Ghost Kitchens — Join the fastest growing restaurant company in the country

Urmin Group is a fully-integrated branded packaged food manufacturing and processing corporate specializing in FMCG products. Headquartered in Ahmedabad, India, the company boosts of dedicated production of premium quality food products, skilled technologists and state-of-the-art production facility.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Tea, Food Delivery
Seed, Funding Round, Series C
India

Portfolio highlights

GamerJi Esports — Gamerji is an online eSports gaming platform where tournaments are created for different games such as PUBG, Call of Duty Mobile, Free Fire, Asphalt 9, WCC Rivals, Clash Royale etc. Users participate in these tournaments which are conducted by the team of Gamerji and depending on their performance, stand a chance to win real money and prizes.Gamerji is an online eSports gaming platform based out of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India and founded by Soham Thacker and Valay Patel in Dec 2018.
WebEngage — WebEngage offers CDP, Omnichannel Campaign Manager and Web & App Personalization Engine - to help brands boost their revenue from existing customers.
DevX — DevX - Coworking Office Space & Start-up Community in Ahmedabad, Mumbai and More Locations

Shastra VC is an early stage Micro VC, with proven investments in SaaS, Consumer Internet and New Age Commerce.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

SWIRL — Elevate Customer journey with Swirl's Video Commerce Solutions. Discover How We Help Businesses Thrive in the Digital Age - Visit Our Website!
Simplismart — Fine-tune and deploy GenAI models with Simplismart's fastest inference engine. Get started with our optimized deployment for generative AI models & MLOps workflow.
TrueGradient — TrueGradient build an AI platform to enhance supply chains with demand forecasting, inventory management, and pricing tools.

Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Buddy.ai — Buddy lets children practice spoken English by talking with a virtual AI-powered cartoon character in a mobile app. With its engaging virtual character, speech technology, and adaptive learning, Buddy is making speaking practice affordable for 500 million children around the globe by automating the mundane part of tutoring work at a fraction ofthe cost. This enables teachers and parents to give kids unlimited speaking practice, essential for mastering English.
Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.
Tembo Money — Need help boosting your budget or accessing lower rates? Voted Best Mortgage Broker 2023 & 2022, our award-winning service is available 7 days a week.

More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Mento Labs — Mento Labs is a decentralized EVM platform for launching and managing multi-currency stable assets.
Learn.xyz — Empower your team with learning they'll actually enjoy: Learn.xyz automatically turns your knowledge base into bite-sized learning modules that your employees will love
Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.

PointOne Capital focuses on pre-seed and seed-stage technology-enabled startups in emerging sectors. Our is to plug the early stage liquidity gap in the pre-seed market and provide active sector-specific expertise until a Series A round.

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

TurboML — Machine Learning Platform Reinvented for Real-Time.
Atomgrid — Atomgrid is a global company specializing in end-to-end manufacturing and sourcing specialty chemicals. We offer advanced tech platforms and expertise from R&D to bulk production and delivery, ensuring high quality, affordability, and speed. We serve industries such as pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and textiles, providing strategic partnerships, optimized sourcing, and comprehensive reaction capabilities.
GetCurious (formerly UserStudy) — Deeper user insights, faster

Force Ventures is a multi asset class investment firm. We aim to catalyze a startup’s journey by bringing domain expertise, deep empathy and providing risk capital. Our mission is to partner with game changing founders building impactful companies, while generating non-correlated return streams with an attractive risk-reward profile.

Investment focus

B2B, Health Care, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
Adukale — We make delicious and healthy Zero Preservatives, Zero Bad Fat Snacks (and more). Get authentic Sankethi Snacks and Ready-to-cook items delivered right at your door!
TransBnk — Transbnk | Revolutionizing 'Global Transaction Banking' for Enhanced Business Agility, Security, and Resilience

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, Angel, Pre-Seed
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?

Smile is Asia’s leading platform that builds internet businesses with passionate entrepreneurs. We partner with fast-growing companies for their expansion and invest in disruptive companies.Business Building We build and operate companies across multiple domains such as digital media, consumer internet, SaaS and more. We operate Tyroo, APAC’sLargest Multi-Screen Performance Network and SingleInterface, a location-based marketing company for multi-location enterprise retail brands. Some notable ones are as follows: -> Quasar sold to WPP -> SVG Media sold to Dentsu Aegis Network -> Squad Digital sold to Scan GroupPartnerships (Katalyzers) We partner with fast growing technology companies to expand their business overseas. Our partnerships include Airbnb, WPP(Prodigi/Hogarth India), WPP Africa and moreInvestments We enable entrepreneurship by investing in disruptive companies. Our investments include Letsbuy.com, HackerEarth, Scoopwhoop, Yumlane, Rapido, Wealthy, The Man Company, Bira 91, Little Eye Labs and more Say Hello! info@smile.co.in

Investment focus

Internet, Advertising, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Spyne — Remove background from any product image in seconds 100% automatically. No editing skills required! Single-click to change the image background.
Swiggy — Order food online from restaurants and get it delivered. Serving in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi, Gurgaon, Nagpur, Jaipur, Coimbatore, Chandigarh, Ahemdabad, Visakhapatnam, Lucknow, Noida, Mumbai, Pune, Indore, Kochi, Kolkata and Chennai. Order Pizzas, Burgers, Biryanis, Desserts or order from Subway, Pizza Hut, Dominos, KFC, McDonalds.
LanguifyAI — Boost Your Platform with our AI-driven Solutions. Enhance assessments, interviews, student communication and unlock the full potential of personalized education.

Silicon Valley Bank is the financial partner of the innovation economy; helping individuals and investors in the innovation ecosystem achieve extraordinary outcomes.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Debt Financing, Series B, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Bugcrowd — Bugcrowd teams with elite security researchers to reduce risk & improve security ROI through our bug bounty, pen testing, & vulnerability disclosure programs.
MoneyLion — Our financial app is an easy way to borrow, save, invest, and earn. An all in one mobile banking app. Take control of your financial future today. Join now!
Squire — Squire is a booking and payment platform that connects people with great barbers nationwide. Squire makes it easy to discover and book the best barbers wherever you are, in just a few taps. Squire is also the premier management platform for barbershops. Using Squire, barbers are able to engage their customers, process bookings and payments andbetter market their business through Squire’s “barbershop discovery” capabilities. Fully integrated with a point of sale, inventory management and payroll systems, Squire is a one-stop solution for barbershop owners to efficiently operate their business. With headquarters in New York and a presence in major cities in the United States and Canada, Squire has quickly become a market leader in technology solutions for the barbershop industry nationwide.For more information, please visit getsquire.com or download the Squire iOS app from the App Store.

We help fearless founders build legendary businesses. We are an early-stage, technology-focused, sector-agnostic investment firm. We lead our investments with deep conviction, committed to the journey of building a company from zero to one, and beyond.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Bangladesh

Portfolio highlights

Truva — Truva is a proptech company that specializes in home buying and selling. We have deep expertise in Powai and provide an unparallel customer experience when it comes to buying apartments that are up for resale. We have multiple properties in Hiranandani, Lake Homes, Nahar and Raheja Vihar
Punch — Start trading options with confidence. Punch is a broker with single-screen trading & safety tools for part-time traders. If you're new to options, download Punch app.
Circuit House Technologies — Circuit House Technologies is the next-gen Indian consumer tech company that provides cutting-edge home entertainment items that elicit excitement and joy.

Paipal Ventures is a founders first investment firm that provides capital to founders with scalable ideas.

Investment focus

Internet, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

ReDesyn — Customize and sell premium products, printed and shipped on demand, under your brand!
Phenomenon Array — Phenomenon Array is a computer system developer, dedicated to FPGA-based replacement of CPU for storage and computing.
TraceX Technologies — TraceX Technologies is a leader in AgriFood and ClimateTech solutions, dedicated to transforming how businesses achieve traceability, sustainability, and compliance

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

AngelList Quant Fund is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

baasi — Baasi offers an all-in-one solution for digital communication, enabling video calling, messaging, and large file sharing within a single platform. But that’s just the beginning. We envision a world where all communication platforms speak the same language, making it easier for people to connect.What sets Baasi apart is its ability to integratewith various tools seamlessly and connect users with popular communication platforms and solutions effortlessly, providing our customers with suitable tools to enhance their virtual interactions and bridging the gaps between different ecosystems that still remain isolated. Baasi offers its customers a user-friendly environment and a wide range of features, unlocking the door of advanced possibilities and providing them with customization options, enabling businesses and individuals to tailor our platform to their unique needs without a single line of code.But for additional customer requirements, Baasi API empowers developers to build custom applications, allowing enterprises to elevate their operations to the next level. And its unique billing model guarantees that users are billed solely for the services they utilize based on the precise duration of their usage.We understand that the requirements of remote workers, freelancers, individuals trying to interact with their friends and family, healthcare and educational centers, consulting companies, and multinational enterprises are diverse, dynamic, and constantly evolving. That's exactly what Baasi is built for. Our mission is to simplify and unify digital communication, making it easier for people and businesses to connect, collaborate, and grow.
MedGEO — MedGEO is tackling some of the most complex, outdated, and inefficient workflows in healthcare. By leveraging a first-of-its-kind patented computer vision and machine learning technology, the MedGEO platform significantly enhances performance reducing the need for manual, error-prone, disconnected and time-consuming processes throughout the healthcare system.
Field Complete — Free software for any field service company looking to improve operations and become more profitable! Get access to free home services management software.

Kane & Rao Group is a holding company investing in the Web3, Venture Capital and Private Equity space. Our global resources in recruiting, finance and accounting, sales and operations are made available to any team we work with. https://www.kanerao.com/investment-philosophy info@kanerao.com

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Private Equity
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Robylon AI — We resolve complex customer support queries through email, chat, and phone using AI and human expertise. We are so confident in our solution, we only charge for resolved queries.
Spectral — A Protocol For Programmable Creditworthiness
One World Nation — One World Nation is a Cryptoverse set on the planet Crypton, inhabited by clans of species called Cryptonites - each clan representing a Crypto.

iSeed is India's first micro-fund backed by top global founders and investors.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

APX — APX is a digital freight consolidator and transportation hub-and-spoke network that provides a fully integrated countrywide delivery service to and from everywhere.
BosonQ Psi — BosonQ Psi Pvt. Ltd. (BQP) is a state-of-the-art SaaS-based enterprise software venture leveraging the power of Quantum computing to speed up virtual simulations of Multiphysics and Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) nature. BosonQ Psi is at the forefront of this quantum revolution. Our vision is to become the premier multiphysics simulation softwareusing quantum computing. Our world-class software suite will include computational science fields of fluid dynamics, structural dynamics, thermal, chemical, and aeroacoustics. With such an innovative product, we will revolutionize the computational world by enabling high-fidelity simulations that are impossible to solve with current computing technology. Further, this product will aid aerospace, automotive, energy, manufacturing, biotechnology, civil engineering, and astrophysics industries in saving millions of dollars by reducing long turnaround times of simulations used in the design process and give higher accuracy to make significant design changes for giving rise to the next generation of an electric car, eVTOL, skyscraper, or even Mars Rover.The possibility to harness the power of quantum computers is endless, and we at BQP thrive on pushing the boundaries of quantum computing technologies to serve our clients. We have made it our mission to bring these possibilities into the hands of every person - from a researcher to a scientist, from a professor to a student. Our name, BosonQ Psi, pays tribute to the great Indian physicist Dr. Satyendra Nath Bose, after whose name the elementary particle in quantum mechanics, Boson, was named and further incorporates the fundamental quantity that describes the state of the quantum particle - Psi, thus symbolizing the company's fundamental goal to contribute in India's goal to be the leader in the Quantum realm and also become a global leader in Quantum paradigm shift in coming years.
Slick — Go Slick, and declare your true feelings like nobody's watching!

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, 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.

Eximius Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Finance, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Vegapay — Embrace the future of banking | Build & launch banking products at rapid speed
30 Sundays — Book personalized international tours, adventures, and accommodations designed specifically for couples. Perfect for honeymoons, anniversaries, and special celebrations.
Finarkein Analytics — Finarkein Analytics offers no-code workflow orchestration and data analytics platform for digital platforms.

Polygon is the most proven way to build and scale your decentralized application and projects on Ethereum, the world's largest blockchain ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Grant
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

0G Labs — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
Kratos Gamer Network (KGeN) — Discover KGeN, where gaming meets the future. Dive into a world of cutting-edge technology and immersive experiences, designed for the next generation of gamers. Join us and redefine the way you play
Moonveil Entertainment — Moonveil Entertainment is a web3 game studio that uses cutting-edge technology to create authentic gaming experiences.

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.

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