# Top 25 Wine And Spirits Angel Investors in India in June 2026 ## Nitin Kaushal - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, AgTech, Farming Nitin Kaushal co-founded Country Delight in 2015. Prior to that, he was the Vice President of Corporate Banking at Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. ## Vineeta Singh - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Seed, Debt Financing - Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Food Processing Vineeta Singh is the Co-founder and CEO of SUGAR Cosmetics. She previously worked at Quetzal Verify Private Limited as Director. Vineeta attended the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, where she took a Master of Business Administration (MBA). She also attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, where she took a B.Tech in ElectricalEngineering. ## Chakradhar Gade - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: AgTech, Fashion, Apps Chakradhar Gade co-founded Country Delight in 2015. He attended the Indian Institute of Management in Indore. ## Kunal Bahl - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce Kunal Bahl is based out of Delhi and is the Co-Founder of AceVector. Kunal Bahl attended the University of Pennsylvania. ## Rohan Mirchandani - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Beauty, Retail, Fitness Rohan Mirchandani is based out of Mumbai, Maharashtra, and is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Epigamia. Rohan Mirchandani attended The Wharton School. ## Shantanu Deshpande - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Food and Beverage, Internet, Apps Shantanu Deshpande is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Bombay Shaving Company. ## Srini Koppolu - Type: Angel - Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Apps, Mobile Srini Koppolu is the chairman of Setu Software and an angel investor based in Hyderabad, India. Prior to this, he was the Managing Director of Microsoft's India Development Center in Hyderabad and a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft.He joined Microsoft in 1989 as a software engineer and worked on various first generation products.In 1998, he moved to Hyderabad, India to start what eventually became Microsoft's largest development center outside. He left Microsoft on September 24, 2010 after working there for 21 years. ## Abhishek Goyal - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Retail, E-Commerce, Fashion Abhishek Goyal is a Co-Founder at Tracxn. He attended the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. ## Prashant Pansare - Type: Angel - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, Video, Mobile Entrepreneur, 3x Founder Bootstrapping, Business Strategy, Growth and Customer Success runs in my veins. ## Abhijeet Pai - Type: Angel - Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage Abhijeet Pai is founder of Gruhas Proptech. ## Mohit Srivastava - Type: Angel - Location: Seattle, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Distillery, Social Impact Mohit Srivastava is the Head of Product Management, Developer Advocacy, and Open Source Developer Experience at Amazon Web Services. ## Nikhil Vora - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Health Care Nikhil Vora is the Founder and CEO of Sixth Sense Ventures; India's first consumer centric domestic venture fund. Nikhil was earlier the Managing Director / Head of Research at IDFC Securities, and has been regarded as one of the strongest analytical minds in the country. The core of Sixth Sense lies in the belief that the next big waveof dysfunctional growth will be led by players who are going to be driven by completely different skill sets / capabilities and not necessarily capital. Sixth Sense vision is to identify and invest a ‘smart ass’ team with a ‘kick ass’ product in a ‘big ass’ market! Nikhil has been invited by the “Nestle Global Consumer Board” and the “Regional CFO forum” to give a presentation on the potential roadmap for Nestle India. He has also evolved a strategic road-map for Unilever, Aditya Birla Group, Marico, Godrej, NIIT, Navneet etc. His research has been accredited by some of the largest global funds like Capital, Fidelity, Alliance Bernstein, Putnam, Schroder’s etc. In the Asia Money polls 2012, Nikhil was voted as India’s No.1 analyst. He also has the rare distinction of being voted Asia’s Best Analyst by the Wall Street Journal in the same year. Along with advising clients, he also has been a venture capital investor and on the board of a few of his investee companies. Some of the earlier Venture Investments made by Nikhil Vora includes – One97 (PayTm), Vini Cosmetics (Fogg), Parag Milk (Go), Kangaroo Kids Education, BVG India, Technology Frontiers, Mannash Lifestyle (www.purplle.com), Infinite Analytics, Reznext Solutions, Intellisys Technologies, Rainmaker Legal, RoomsTonight etc. ## Rajesh Sawhney - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet Rajesh is the co-founder and CEO of InnerChef and Super Angels. He holds a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering from Delhi University, and a master's degree in management from Mumbai University. He has also done a fellowship in 'Globalisation and Leadership' from the London School of Economics and Social Sciences. ## Soumya Kant - Type: Angel - Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Brewing, Fitness, Wellness Soumya Kant ## Rana Daggubati - Type: Angel - Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Food and Beverage, Film, News Rana Daggubati is a Co-Founder at Social Swag India. ## Bhawna Bhatnagar - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Gaming, Apps, EdTech Bhawna Bhatnagar is Co-Founder of WeFounder Circle. She attended Beijing Language and Culture University. ## Ankit Bhati - Type: Angel - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Food and Beverage, EdTech, Wellness Ankit Bhati heads the technical aspects of Olacabs, ensuring a quick, convenient and instinctive experience for our customers and partners. He joined IIT Bombay in 2004 for Btech in Mechanical Engg and MTech in CAD and Automation. By 2009 he had already worked on several freelance projects & startups like Wilcom (http://wilcom.co.in),QED42 etc. and finally decided to give up his nomadic professional life for a start-up of his own. He joined the Olacabs journey in November 2010. ## Sameer Guglani - Type: Angel - Location: Puducherry, Puducherry, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Mobile Apps, SaaS, Retail Serial entrepreneur with 10+ years of professional experience, out of which 9+ years have been spent with startups.He has a broad and varied set of experiences and expertise. At the age of 27, Sameer co-founded Madhouse Media in 2004, India's first online/offline movie rentals company and successfully exited with acquisition by Seventymmin 2007. Post acquisition he was Vice President – Corporate Strategy, Seventymm for one year. Before this he has worked startups like Sonim Inc, Telephia, moblf across India, US and Europe.Sameer is also an independent film maker with film festivals movies to his credit. He has a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Thapar University, India. He loves meeting people, travelling and reading. Sameer is very bullish on Indian startups and believes that 5 years from now startups will contribute to a significant part of the Indian Economy ## Deepinder Goyal - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Wellness, E-Commerce Deepinder Goyal, Founder & CEO, Zomato, is the Founder and CEO of Zomato. Prior to starting Zomato, Deepinder worked as a management consultant with Bain and Company in New Delhi. It was at Bain that Deepinder conceived the idea of an online restaurant information service after seeing the demand for menu cards among his colleagues. He left Bainin 2008 to start Zomato (then foodiebay) out of his apartment and has since overseen strategy and product development. Deepinder graduated with a Mathematics and Computing degree from IIT Delhi in 2005 and hails from Muktsar in Punjab. ## Rohit Bansal - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Software Rohit Bansal is based out of Gurgaon and is the Co-founder of AceVector. Rohit previously worked at FICCI as a Chair. Rohit Bansal attended Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. ## Japan Vyas - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Mobile Japan Vyas is the Managing Partner and Founder of Roots Ventures. ## Prabhtej Singh Bhatia - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Brewing, Fashion, Handmade Prabhtej Singh Bhatia ## Ganesh Krishnan - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce Ganesh is a serial entrepreneur with four successful green field ventures and exits. Most recently, he founded and led TutorVista which was acquired by US and UK listed education leader Pearson for $ 213 MM in January 2011.He is a strategic investor / promoter of India based consumer Internet and ecommerce companies bluestone.com (onlinejewellery), Bigbasket.com (egrocery), MustseeIndia.com (travel packages and content), bookadda.com (academic focused online books) and delyver.com (hyper local delivery).Ganesh was also Chairman, Investor and Advisor in the data analytics BPO firm Marketics until March 2007, when the company was acquired by NYSE listed WNS for $ 63 MM. His earlier venture, CustomerAsset was started in mid 2000 and later acquired by ICICI (NYSE listed, India's largest bank) and is now publicly listed in India as First Source Solutions. In 1990, as his first entrepreneurial venture, he co-promoted IT&T. And as its Founder and CEO, he played a major role in making the company one of India's top multi-vendor IT service and support till the business was sold to iGate (a listed company) in 2003.He is also on the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and has a post-graduate degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi University. ## Ashish Dhawan - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Food and Beverage, Snack Food, Banking Ashish Dhawan is the Founder and Chairman of Central Square Foundation (CSF).He worked for twenty years in the investment management business and ran one of India’s leading private equity funds, ChrysCapital. In June 2012, he left his full time role at ChrysCapital to start CSF. Ashish is an MBA with distinction from Harvard University and adual bachelor’s (BS/BA) holder with Magna Cum Laude honours from Yale University. He is on the India Advisory Board of Harvard and a member of Yale’s Development Council.Ashish serves on the board of several non-profits including Akanksha Foundation, 3.2.1 Education Foundation, Teach For India, Centre for Civil Society, Janaagraha, India School Leadership Institute and Bharti Foundation. ## Roj Niyogi - Type: Angel - Location: Austin, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Education, Recruiting, Mobile Apps Roj Niyogi - Founder/CEO @ HomeBit # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co