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Top 50 Big Data Angel Investors in India in October 2023

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Big data startups based in India. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Big data companies from India. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Big Data Angel Investors in India in October 2023

Investor Big Data India investments
Rajan Anandan 3
Rajan Anandan 3
Bhupen Shah 2
Binny Bansal 2
Kunal Bahl 2
Rohit Bansal 2
Amit Singhal 2
Sachin Bansal 2
Nicholas Brathwaite 2
Krishna Mehra 1
Bharathram Thothadri 1
Sanjay Nath 1
Vikram Lakhotia 1
Rajesh Sawhney 1
Siddharth Talwar 1
Shalini Chhabra 1
Samir Sood 1
Rajesh Mane 1
Vijay Shekhar Sharma 1
Anand Ladsariya 1
Nihal Mehta 1
Atul Singh 1
Rajiv Dalal 1
Apurva Chamaria 1
Mitesh Shah 1
Jaspreet Bindra 1
Amit Ranjan 1
M Chandrasekaran 1
Nittin Passi 1
Neeraj Arora 1
Rajesh Ranavat 1
Samir Bangara 1
Sharad Sharma 1
Amit Manocha 1
Nitin Singhal 1
Pankaj Jain 1
Nelson Holzner 1
Ashvin Chadha 1
Lip-Bu Tan 1
Harish Bahl 1
Chirag Jain 1
Abhishek Gupta 1
Phanindra Sama 1
Tushar Singh 1
Sunil Kalra 1
Sachin Arora 1
Rajesh Kamat 1
Pran Mehra 1
Kishore Ganji 1
Hemendra Kothari 1

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Rajan Anandan
Angel

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

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.
  • PlusPin Healthcare — Let us provide you with high-quality care!
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Rajan Anandan
Angel

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, Pre-Seed
  • 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.
  • PlusPin Healthcare — Let us provide you with high-quality care!
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Bhupen Shah
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States

Bhupen Shah holds a Masters of Science degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He brings with him a great deal of expertise and experience.Bhupen Shah has over twenty-five years of experience in technology development, product development and engineering management in embedded digitalmedia and communication solutions at Sling Media, Emuzed, Dazzle, RealChip, Philips Semiconductors, IBM and other such heavyweights. Bhupen successfully built cost-effective India-based development organizations. He co-founded Sling Media, and as COO & VP Engineering, was instrumental in bringing award winning Slingbox products into the retail market. Sling Media was acquired by Echostar in 2007 and Bhupen currently plays the role of CTO at the same. Prior to Sling Media, Bhupen co-founded Emuzed, Inc., initially serving as COO and EVP of Engineering. His team delivered PC and embedded digital media products to worldwide tier-1 OEMs. Emuzed was then acquired by Flextronics. Bhupen was also a key contributor and VP of Software at Dazzle, the first company to deliver video capture devices to the consumer market. Dazzle was acquired by SCM Microsystems.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Big Data, Recruiting
  • Angel, Seed, Series A
  • India, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Tydy — From onboarding to offboarding - deliver the best Employee Experience, at scale. Tydy consolidates data from multiple systems and processes and uses artificial intelligence to send the right communication and notification to the right person at the right time.
  • ten3T — ten3T is a medical grade wearable device startup. ten3T builds a sophisticated self enclosed, real time monitoring device - a 9 cm triangular patch that the patient places on their chest - for as long as is required - from a minute to several days.
  • Locus.sh — Locus is an intelligent logistics automation and decision-making platform that comes with in-built route planning and vehicle allocation engine which improves consistency and efficiency of operations.The platform helps companies and enterprises in e-commerce, food delivery, FMCG, and other verticals to automate and optimize their logistics. Theproduct suite comprises a route deviation engine, order dispatch automation, a field user app, route optimizations, scheduling, tracking for end-customer, and predictive analytics. Offering the entire technology stack, in the form of a platform as a service.
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Binny Bansal
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 9 investments in the past 12 months

Binny Bansal is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart with Sachin Bansal (not related) and was serving as the Chief Operating Officer until 11 January 2016 and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer. In January 2017 he was promoted to Group CEO of Flipkart. Binny is fromChandigarh and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Virgio — Women's & Men's Clothing and Accessories | Shop Trendy Fashion Online
  • Leela Life — Timeless Indian wellbeing secrets for peaceful and joyful living
  • Alltius Inc. — Alltius is an AI-driven platform for conversational assistance in software products primarily to help and guide users in their product journeys.
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Kunal Bahl
Angel · New Delhi, Delhi, India · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Kunal is the co-founder and CEO of Snapdeal Private Limited, India's largest no-frills, value focused marketplace. Previously, he has also worked at companies such as Deloitte Consulting and Microsoft in the US. Kunal is an engineer from the University of Pennsylvania and holds a business degree from The Wharton School. He loves backpackingthrough remote parts of the world, savoring unique cuisines and studying development politics in India.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, E-Commerce, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • TyrePlex — Buy car and bike tyres. Best tyre price, features, reviews. Find right tyre size and tyre dealer details
  • BlueLearn — Find co-founders & teammates, apply to gigs, learn new skills, and meet passionate people.
  • Powerplay — Powerplay is India's 1st collaboration app built for construction companies that helps teams work together on infrastructure projects easily.
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Rohit Bansal
Angel · Gurgaon, Haryana, India · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Rohit Bansal - Co-Founder @ Snapdeal

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Investment focus

  • Internet, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • BlueLearn — Find co-founders & teammates, apply to gigs, learn new skills, and meet passionate people.
  • Powerplay — Powerplay is India's 1st collaboration app built for construction companies that helps teams work together on infrastructure projects easily.
  • Stable Money — Steady returns, untapped opportunities, and excellent long-term performance to aid your journey of wealth creation!
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Amit Singhal
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months

Amit Singhal is a senior vice president and software engineer at Google Inc., a Google Fellow, and the head of Google’s core ranking team. He has worked in the field of search for over fifteen years, first as an academic researcher and now as a Google engineer. His research interests include information retrieval, its application to web search, webgraph analysis, and user interfaces for search. Prior to joining Google in 2000, Amit was a senior member of technical staff at AT&T LabsSinghal is also the author of two publications: Efficient Multicast Algorithms for Switch based Irregular Heterogeneous Networks of Workstations and Terabit Switching: A survey of Techniques and Current Products.Singhal obtained his bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from IIT Roorkee, India, and his M.S. from the University of Minnesota. He also holds a Ph.D.in computer science from Cornell University.

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • India, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Fitspire — India's Best Vegan Health Supplement Brand. Shop 100% Authentic & Premium Vegan health supplements, plant-based protein powder & more online on Fitspire.
  • Chalo — Chalo develops a transport application that delivers real-time transit information such as live tracking, get the transit arrival time, and more. From live tracking buses to providing digital solutions focusing on cashless rides, Chalo dreams to make public transport accessible, affordable, and hassle-free for Indian commuters.The Chalo Appprovides live tracking of over 15,000 buses in 21 cities and has more than 70 lakh downloads as of July 2021. The Chalo Card, a contactless tap-to-pay travel card, is a successful bus travel card. Chalo also offers products like mobile tickets, mobile bus passes, and multi-trip 'Super Saver' plans that can be bought on the Chalo App as well as through the Chalo Card. Chalo partners with bus operators to deploy this technology and improve the bus travel experience.
  • ProfitWheel — The consumer intelligence is at the heart of what we do. ProfitWheel provides you with 1st party insights of your best audiences to build effective, product and marketing strategies.
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Sachin Bansal
Angel · Bangalore, Karnataka, India

After completion of his degree, Sachin Bansal joined Techspan company where he has served for few months. In 2006, he joined Amazon.com India as a Senior Software Engineer. Then he got Binny Bansal into Amazon.com and after 6 months they both decided to leave Amazon. They initially thought of starting a comparison search engine but realized thatthe market for E-commerce in India was very small. Hence, after leaving Amazon in 2007, they founded Flipkart as an E-commerce company.Sachin Bansal and his business partner Binny Bansal launched Flipkart from an apartment in Bangalore with 400,000 rupees ($6,500) cash. In 2007 during the early days of Flipkart Sachin Bansal and his business partner Binny Bansal used to deliver books across Bengaluru on their scooters and in October 2015 they showed up at the doorsteps of some customers, personally delivering goods in order to gain insights from the online buyers.And now, Sachin Bansal is the CEO of Chaitanya Rural Intermediation and Development Services.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Debt Financing, Seed, Series A
  • India, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Spare8 — Spare8 is a micro-investment app for investing money in digital gold, enabling everyone to start their investment journey through its flagship feature- micro-investment.
  • U Gro Capital — U Gro Capital is a fintech platform that provides lending services for SMEs. U GRO Capital is a BSE-listed, technology-focused, small business lending platform. The company is focused on addressing the capital needs of small businesses operating in select eight sectors by providing customized loan solutions.
  • Navi Technologies — Get instant Cash Loan, Home Loan, invest in Mutual Funds & buy Health Insurance policy in a 100% paperless manner with minimal documentation. Download the Navi app now!
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Nicholas Brathwaite
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Nicholas Brathwaite is the Founder and Managing Partner at Celesta Capital at Celesta Capital. He attended the University of Waterloo.

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Investment focus

  • Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Automotive
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, India, Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • AJUA — Start your first business web-page in minutes. Easily power online transactions, Buy Ads with your Airtime on Facebook, Instagram, and Google. Get ratings and reviews to build your business credibility, and enlarge your customer base.
  • BangDB — BangDB is an AI database platform with Graph and time-series data analysis. It is designed for modern use cases for edge computing
  • Exostellar — Exotanium, Inc. is a cloud resource optimization and management platform that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to help enterprises reduce spending in the cloud by up to 90%, while enhancing both operational security and performance.
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Krishna Mehra
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Krishna Mehra Is The Director of Engineering At Facebook. He attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Analytics, Big Data
  • Seed, Angel
  • India, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Cookifi — Looking for the best Catering Services in Bangalore for your HouseWarming, Wedding Function, Parties, Special Occasions, Kitty Party, Birthday Party, Bbq Party, Corporate Events? Extensive Menu & Customisable Catering options to choose from the best quotes. For more details call us today!
  • MCaffeine — MCaffeine is a personal care brand that offers caffein-infused face, body, and hair care products. Its personal care product portfolio includes shampoos, face washes, shower gels, body lotions, and face masks, which use caffeine as a major ingredient. MCaffeine won Nykaa Femina Beauty Awards 2020 for the best Coffee body scrub.It was founded byVikas Lachhwani and Tarun Sharma in 2015 and based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
  • Facets.cloud — Platform Engineering made easy for large and complex infra setups. Set Ops guardrails and enable developer self-service with Facets' Internal Developer Platform.
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Bharathram Thothadri
Angel · New Delhi, Delhi, India

Bharathram Thothadri - Chief Credit Officer @ American Express

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, FinTech, Big Data
  • Seed
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • Dataweave — DataWeave provides retailers with competitive intelligence and e-commerce analytics solutions. Contact us today to learn more or to request a demo.
  • Instamojo — Sell online easily and directly to consumers. Run your online business with integrated payment gateway, shipping, analytics & more. Powering 20,00,000+ Indian businesses with powerful eCommerce features.
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Sanjay Nath
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Sanjay Nath - Co-founder & Managing Partner @ Blume Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Machine Learning, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, India, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

  • Raena — RAENA adalah platform reseller kecantikan terbesar di Indonesia yang memberikan peluang bisnis rumahan yang menjanjikan. Dropshipper & Reseller produk kecantikan
  • Petasense — Founded with a vision of making industrial machines smarter, Petasense is an Industrial IoT startup based in Silicon Valley. The company offers an end-to-end solution – comprised of a patent-pending wireless vibration sensor, cloud software and machine learning analytics – that helps with asset reliability and predictive maintenance. Customersare able to monitor, assess and predict the health of their critical machines in real-time. This helps them reduce unplanned downtime and lower repair costs. Petasense's clients include industry leaders like JLL, C&W Services, Silicon Valley Power and Stanford University. Petasense is backed by True Ventures, Felicis Ventures and top angel investors. The company is founded by serial entrepreneurs, Abhinav Khushraj and Arun Santhebennur, who have 25 years of combined experience in building enterprise companies, with degrees from MIT and IIT.To learn more about Petasense, visit www.petasense.com.
  • Obviously AI — The entire process of running Data Science - building Machine Learning algorithm, explaining results and predicting outcomes, packed in one single click.
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Vikram Lakhotia
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Vikram Lakhotia is the Managing Director, Standard Coastal Shipping Pvt. Ltd. at Standard Chartered Bank. He attended SIM Global.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Mobile, FinTech
  • Seed
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • LenDenClub — LenDenClub is India's largest Peer-to-Peer lending investment platform by Innofin Solutions Pvt Ltd, an RBI registered NBFC-P2P. Join our community of 2M+ investors now.
  • Vahanalytics — Vahanalytics aims to create better drivers and safer roads by using cutting edge big data and machine learning techniques.
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Rajesh Sawhney
Angel · Gurgaon, Haryana, India · 3 investments in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Settlin — Search, Visit, Check Legal, Negotiate and Buy - all at one place.
  • TyrePlex — Buy car and bike tyres. Best tyre price, features, reviews. Find right tyre size and tyre dealer details
  • hypergro — Hypergro provides the power of user-generated content, craft impactful UGC video ads designed to attract, engage, and convert.These video advertising act as a distinctive, tailored connection between the brand and potential clients, which boosts consumer traffic, app downloads, and revenue for your company.
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Siddharth Talwar
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Siddharth Talwar - Co-Founder & Partner @ Lightbox

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Investment focus

  • News, Lifestyle, Advertising Platforms
  • Series A, Seed, Angel
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • ZAPR — ZAPR, is one of the world's first media consumption repositories and cross-targeting platforms. ZAPR's technology platform auto-detects comprehensively all offline media content being viewed by millions of people. ZAPR is currently over 1000x larger than any audience measurement database in India and they're rapidly growing. Forthe very first time, a brand can bridge its offline advertising strategy with its social.mobile.digital strategies, by identifying their audiences, understanding their media habits and targeting the same user base across all mediums - offline and online - mobile and social. Users who are watching TV, but ignoring the commercials, can now be retargeted across social and mobile platforms, to ensure that a brand's wasted TV impressions are reinforced by the second screen. ZAPR is quickly expanding on all fronts - its user base, various media formats (live TV, radio, movies-in-theater, VOD, internet media) as well as geographic presence. ZAPR is a VC funded media-tech startup and is backed by iconic angel and institutional investors from India, Singapore, Europe and US.
  • Rooter — Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop.
  • Cityflo — Cityflo is a premium daily commute service for urban India, currently operating in Mumbai & Delhi NCR. We offer comfortable rides to work in AC Benz buses, for corporate professionals.
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Shalini Chhabra
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Shalini Chhabra is a Managing Partner at Incipia Advisors LL.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Analytics, Finance
  • Seed
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • Tan90 — Instant cold gel ice pack! We are manufacturers of gel ice packs in India. A Reusable Ice Pack, Insulated Delivery Cooler Bags, Plastic Pads, or Tan90 High-Quality PCM cooling liquid are the refrigerant.
  • Haqdarshak — Haqdarshak is a technology-enabled platform working to transform how Indian citizens learn about, apply for, and benefit from, government schemes. The company is composed of a group of passionate social entrepreneurs using technology to impact the next billion. The team comprises of individuals from diverse background who have come together out ofcommon interest and passion. The investor community represents individuals holding prestigious positions in different companies across various sectors.
  • Finarkein Analytics — Finarkein Analytics offers no-code workflow orchestration and data analytics platform for digital platforms.
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Samir Sood
Angel · New Delhi, Delhi, India

Samir Sood is the Founder and All Things Business and Chief Believer at Venture Highway.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Software, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • India, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Airwoot — Airwoot is a real-time customer support provider enabling brands to provide customer support on social media by notifying the customer engagement in real-time. The company reinvents the customer experience by transforming the way brands interact with their customers on social media. It is an intelligent customer experience platform using naturallanguage processing and machine learning to automatically identify customers who need engagement and help brands reduce response time, uncover business insights behind conversations, know the customers like never before, and increase customer satisfaction. It is used by many of the consumer internet companies of India to manage social media customer experience.
  • ShieldSquare — Forrester Research has ranked ShieldSquare as a Leader in their New Wave™: Bot Management Report for Q3 2018. ShieldSquare offers a non-intrusive API-based solution to detect and eliminate bad bot traffic from websites, mobile apps, and APIs in real-time. Our solution leverages intent-based deep behavior analysis, device fingerprinting, anddomain-specific detection technologies to identify and eliminate invalid traffic with zero false positives. We protect against automated attacks such as account takeover, application DDoS, API abuse, carding, content scraping, ad fraud, form spam, and other fraudulent activities. ShieldSquare safeguards over 80,000 internet properties owned by global online brands spread across 70 countries.
  • Cold Love Ice Cream — Delicious, creamy, satisfying flavors of Cold Love. Artisanal ice cream, handmade with all-natural ingredients.
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Rajesh Mane
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

An active investor in early stage startups across technology & CPG.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Mobile, Fashion
  • Seed
  • India, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Orbo.ai — Orbo.ai provide contextual information and become a gateway to the world and not just stay limited to computational photography through our deep learning technology based solutions.Orbo’s face tracking technology can be implemented across devices to identify human emotions, transformative & augmented effects as well as one can build enhancedcamera centric applications.
  • LiquiLoans — LiquiLoans is a company uses technology to match borrowers and lenders and in the process eliminates the margin which is charged by traditional banks and NBFCs, thus, making borrowing cheaper and investing a more lucrative opportunity as compared to traditional investment avenues.
  • Impact Guru — ImpactGuru is a No.1 crowdfunding platform in India offering fundraising solutions for medical treatments, emergencies, NGOs & startups. Start a crowdfunding campaign now!
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Vijay Shekhar Sharma
Angel · New Delhi, Delhi, India · 2 investments in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, News, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Yoho — Yoho manufactures orthopaedic lightweight footwear.
  • Josh Talks — By leveraging our expertise in research and storytelling, we create exclusive content in regional languages to help brands tell their story better and reach their target audience.
  • Jimmy's Cocktails — Jimmy's Cocktails makes premium cocktails.
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Anand Ladsariya
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Mr. Anand Ladsariya is the CEO and promoter director of Everest Flavours Ltd., a privately owned company, manufacturer and exporter of Menthol, Peppermint Oil, flavours and fragrances. He is a Graduate, topper and gold medalist from Bombay University and Post Graduate MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad. He is also involved in various social activities. He isex-Chairman of CHEMEXCIL, a premium export promotion organisation established by Ministry of Commerce, Govt. of India, for promotion of exports.He looks forward to risk adjusted investments keeping in mind capital preservation, sound returns and growth possibilities. He has investments in equity, equity mutual funds, real estate, real estate mutual funds, corporate loans, debt and liquid funds. Other options are viewed regularly on an ongoing fashion.He is an active Angel Investor with both Mumbai Angels and Indian Angel Network. He has invested in over 35 start-ups till date and actively mentors and guides the promoters to reach the next level. He is also part of the Planning Commission’s “Committee on Angel Investment and Early Stage Venture Capital” which is guided by the Vice Chairman of Planning Commission.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Food and Beverage, Internet
  • Seed, Angel
  • India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Kytchens — Kytchens is a full-stack "Kitchen as a Service" platform that empowers F&B brands to expand their footprint across the country with our cloud kitchens network.
  • Credit Fair — Credit Fair operates as a consumer lending fintech startup that aims to build a credit ladder for 550 million underserved Indians. It offers lending solutions to both businesses and private individuals.
  • StayVista — Vista Rooms, to put it succinctly, is where you go when you want the privacy of a cozy home, the vibe of a fabulous vacation and the standards of a hotel. With its unique stay options across India and Sri Lanka, and stellar customer reviews, Vista Rooms has fast become synonymous with group getaways in the region. Vista Rooms has served over100,000 happy travellers on one end, and 100+ second home owners on the other, allowing them to maintain their properties and monetize them by giving them out to verified guests in a simple, hassle-free manner. A rigorous selection process means only 1 in 10 properties that we scout get on our list, but once selected, we are quick to upgrade it as per our standards, manage the services required and open doors to groups looking at a quick getaway. We also undertake various security measures to ensure the safety of the property as well as the guests. As managers of cherished homes and organizers of memorable getaways, trust is our most important asset and with our 24x7 customer care team, of which the founders are also a part, we take pride in keeping it strong.
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Nihal Mehta
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Nihal Mehta is a Co-Founder at Eniac Ventures. He was an Angel Investor at Uber. He attended the University of Pennsylvania.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Rocean — Rocean makes smart appliances to change how we consume water. Our first product the Rocean One is a seamless, reusable water ecosystem with best-in-class filtration that carbonates, flavors and enhances tap water. The Rocean One gives consumers more choice and convenience than they will find in their local supermarket.
  • Street FC — 100+ Street soccer games every month. Join a club or build one with us.
  • SportsIcon — Harnessing frontier technology to build innovative approaches in sports, media, and entertainment.
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Atul Singh
Angel

Atul Singh is Group President, Asia Pacific, The Coca-Cola Company, with oversight over the operations of 5 Business units: Greater China and Korea BU (GC&K), India & Southwest Asia (INSWA) and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Japan & South Pacific. He supervises operations in 36 markets, which include China, Korea,Taiwan, Mongolia, Hong Kong, Macau, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Maldives, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Japan, American Samoa, Australia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Northern Mariana Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga & Vanuatu.Atul joined The Coca-Cola Company in 1998 as Vice President, Operations of Coca-Cola, India Division. He led the Franchise Operations and Key Accounts group of the India Division from 1998 to 2001. He then moved to China and served as the President of the East, Central and South China Division. Under his leadership, mainland China operations were among the fastest growing Coca-Cola businesses. In September, 2005, Atul took over as the President of Coca-Cola India and South West Asia Business Unit. Under his stewardship, Coca-Cola’s business in India made strides in all facets of its operations, emerging amongst top 7 businesses in the Coca-Cola System Worldwide and delivering 32 consecutive quarters of growth.Prior to joining Coca-Cola, Atul worked with The Colgate Palmolive Company for 10 years and held several key positions including Country General Manager, Nigeria (1995-1998), Finance Director and then Country General Manager, Romania (1992-1995) and Finance Manager, Body Care Division, USA (1990-1992). Before joining Colgate, Atul worked as an Auditor with Price Waterhouse in New York.Atul is an independent Director on the Board of Compass Ltd (BATA international Board) and was also independent Director on the Board of Bata India Ltd for 3 years. He has been past Chairman of AMCHAM India on two occasions. In the last 8 years, Atul has chaired several committees on Environment, Water, Sports, Rural Development & CSR in India’s apex chambers of commerce, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Atul is a member of the Advisory Board of AIESEC in India, the world’s largest student organization and a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization, a global body dedicated to creating ‘Better Leaders through Education and Idea Exchange’. He is also on the advisory board of Catalyst in India, a leading global non-profit membership organization founded in 1962, focused on expanding opportunities for women and business.Atul is an alumnus of the prestigious St. Xavier’s College of Kolkata, India from where he majored in Commerce (Honors). Atul holds an MBA degree from Texas Christian University, USA. He has lived and worked in the four continents of Asia, Africa, Europe and North America.

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Investment focus

  • Big Data, Software, Analytics
  • Seed, Angel
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • Frrole — Consumer intelligence provider trusted by the world's leading brands, agencies, government organizations and technology products. Applies Artificial Intelligence to public social data and provides consumer intelligence and predictive analytics that is not available anywhere else.
  • Burgerama — Burgerama provides fast-casual, made for delivery burger experience.
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Rajiv Dalal
Angel

Rajiv Dalal

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Investment focus

  • News, Finance, Big Data
  • Series A
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • Heckyl — Heckyl provides real time financial information, news analytics, and heatmaps to get exclusive coverage of markets, companies, and businesses. The company helps businesses understand the past, analyse the present, and get insight into the future. Heckyl uses systems to simultaneously gather data from sources from all over the world and presentready-to-use, actionable intelligence to the user, in real time. The systems are engineered for performance, reliability, and accuracy.In essence, Heckyl helps users explore new ideas and keep pulse on the current business events and issues. With Heckyl, users will find a wealth of information that matters to them, streaming at their fingertips.
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Apurva Chamaria
Angel · Delhi, Delhi, India

Apurva Chamaria

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Investment focus

  • News, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Angel
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • ProEves — Find the List of Best Preschool, Playschools & Creche near me for kids with contact information, Counsellor Chat, Timings & Reviews. Book Appointment Now at the center with exact Address & Phone Number.
  • Josh Talks — By leveraging our expertise in research and storytelling, we create exclusive content in regional languages to help brands tell their story better and reach their target audience.
  • 1DigitalStack.ai — Technology for brand growth on Ecommerce marketplaces We help brands dominate Ecommerce by leveraging marketplace data & AI-enabled media management Let's Connect
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Mitesh Shah
Angel

Mitesh began his career with Mandhana Industries Limited, an apparel manufacturing company in 2001, where he handled various projects including the company’s IPO in 2010 and its exclusive global licensing deal with Salman Khan’s Being Human brand. He joined Ola as CFO in December 2013 and played a pivotal role in the evolution of one of the biggeststart-up stories of India. Then came Bookmyshow, where he spearheaded the finance department and played an active role in strategic business management. With his vast experience in the start-up world, Mitesh is now a mentor to many young entrepreneurs guiding their startup journey apart from helping them with angel Investment.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • India, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Qin1 — Qin1 is focuses on children between the ages of five and 14, provides personalised live classes across subjects. Qin1 creates a customised learning experience for each student – in terms of teacher selection, course design and medium of delivery. While edtech penetration has grown significantly in recent years, focus on kids in primary andpre-primary schools is missing.
  • PhableCare — Experience simplified chronic disease management with intelligent health insights. Manage diabetes and hypertension, with 24x7 assistance from your doctor.
  • Data Sutram — Data Sutram is an AI-based Location Intelligence Enterprise with a Cloud-based B2B product that works on a Data As A Service business model to help businesses 1. Pinpoint New Locations for Expansion 2. Improve the performance of their existing physical & digital assets. 3. Finding the right Audience for a business.They are currently focussedon Retail, E-Commerce, Agritech, Real Estate, BFSI.
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Jaspreet Bindra
Angel · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Jaspreet Bindra is a SVP – Digital Innovation & ECommerce at Mahindra & Mahindra.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, SaaS, Open Source
  • Seed, Angel
  • India, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Meesho — Meesho operates as an online reselling platform that enables anyone to start a business without investment. Meesho is a business platform trusted by more than 2.6 million resellers across India. The company was founded in 2015 by Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwa and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.
  • Octo.ai — The analytics hypervisor, an operating system to manage all your analytics needs and licensed under Apache 2.0 License.
  • Elemential — An open & accessible development platform to help future generations of blockchain innovators design, run & scale networks with exponentially lower overhead. We do for blockchain what Docker did for containerization.
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Amit Ranjan
Angel · New Delhi, Delhi, India

Amit heads the team that is building SlideShare.Amit has a previous background in product marketing, sales & consumer research. His last job was with PepsiCo; prior to PepsiCo, he worked with Asian Paints & Godrej. He holds an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies, Univ Of Delhi and a Mechanical Engineering degree fromREC/NIT, Jaipur.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Minko — Minko is a retail fintech platform that provides credit facilities to small shop and retail shop owners. Minko is a smart credit product that now allows retailers to access low-cost instant short-term loans to grow business.
  • Seekho — Seekho is a membership-based career accelerator platform. Start your 30-day trial and get unlimited access to Live Workshops, Courses, Certifications, Community to build your career in Product Management, Consulting, Finance, Analytics, Digital Marketing.
  • SalaryBox — SalaryBox is the best staff management app to manage employees. It automates your attendance, payroll, leave, shifts and more processees
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M Chandrasekaran
Angel

M Chandrasekaran

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Investment focus

  • EdTech, Big Data, Machine Learning
  • Seed
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • Kidovators (by GyanLab) — Kidovators is India's first 21st Century Competencies platform for school students. Through dedicated programs for 21st century skills such as creativity, innovation and critical thinking including annual courses, spotlight challenges, learning feed and more, Kidovators is working towards empowering over 1,000,000 school students with 21stcentury skills by 2025. Kidovators also conducts the world’s first Olympiads on creativity and critical thinking as well as works closely with schools to empower educators & parents with the knowledge of 21st century skills. With the world moving towards automation at an accelerated speed aided by advances in artificial intelligence, Kidovators is ensuring that school students are skilled for their future, not our past.
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Nittin Passi
Angel

Nittin Passi

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Investment focus

  • Travel, Tourism, Big Data
  • Angel, Pre-Seed
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • Shipsy — Shipsy is a comprehensive software suite that helps logistics and supply chain companies increase operational efficiency and service levels using actionable insights. The platform capitalizes on your company's existing data and provides you with critical business insights for your organization, empowering you to make better business decisions.Shipsy enables real time data processing and provides you with live alerts using scalable machine learning models.
  • Deyor — Find the best multi-day tour and book online. First time in India. India's first chatbot integrated experiential travel website.
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Neeraj Arora
Angel · Mountain View, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months

Neeraj Arora is responsible for “all things business at WhatsApp”. He is an IIT graduate as well as a management graduate from the Indian School of Business, gave up his high profile job managing global M&A at Google to join one of Silicon Valley’s hottest starts-ups. Arora served as the principal, corporate development, at Google and beforethat he was the chief manager at Times Internet Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series B, Angel
  • India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Zipy — Traditional tools might throw a list of bugs at you, but Zipy tells you which ones matter through real time customer journeys.
  • OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPLESS. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
  • PingSafe — PingSafe is a Unified Cloud Security Platform with CNAPP, CSPM, CWPP, and CDR solutions to secure your multi-cloud infrastructure.
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Rajesh Ranavat
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Rajesh Ranavat - Managing Director @ LF Europe

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Software, Logistics
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • Bold Care — Bold Care is a digital men’s health and wellness startup that offers free sexologist consultations and discreet delivery of holistic sexual wellness kits. It offers personalised treatment plans with prescription medicines and natural supplements. With unlimited post-consultation follow-ups, the startup helps find permanent solutions for men’swellness issues.
  • ThriveFNC — ThriveFNC is an alternative approach to creating holistic health through food and nutrition. ThriveFNC claims that it uses an innovative approach to reversing and curing chronic illnesses with a combination of science backed functional nutrition guidelines along with harnessing ancient wisdom from traditional medical systems.
  • Evolve — Evolve is a free meditation, anxiety & sleep app geared towards personal growth. Our approach towards meditation is refreshing & the meditation techniques are joyful!
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Samir Bangara
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Samir Bangara - Co-Founder & Managing Director @ Qyuki

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, Apps, Digital Media
  • Seed, Angel
  • India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • POKKT — POKKT is an Alternate Mobile Payment Platform that helps owners of Paid Digital Goods and Services to monetise thier users through an advertiser-funded Model. Develpoers and Publishers of Digital content can significantly increase monetization and convert non-paying users into paying users.
  • Thrill — Online meetings can be professionally transcribed by Transcriberry experts with 99% accuracy. No matter whether it'll be Skype, Zoom, Google Meets or other service.
  • My Child — Enjoy millions of the latest Android apps, games, music, movies, TV, books, magazines & more. Anytime, anywhere, across your devices.
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Sharad Sharma
Angel · Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Sharad Sharma is the Co-Founder of the iSPIRT Foundation. He attended Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Finance, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Minjar — Short term financing makes it possible to acquire highly sought-after domains without the strain of upfront costs. Find your domain name today.
  • Vebbler — Vebbler is a new personal networking startup for close relationships. It went into beta on July 23rd, 2013 in Mumbai, India and rolled out it's first Invites on 31st July, 2013.It is built with a mission to create a world where people can have more meaningful conversations with different relationships in their life, without one aspect oftheir life spilling into another.People across the World are radically shifting the way they share and express themselves online. They now understand that there are certain things that you cannot share in large open networks, which you could in more intimate groups. With parents, teachers, colleagues and even Bosses online today, there is a need for an evolved of way of connecting and sharing. Vebbler aims to address this problem of blind-sharing (sharing blindly without knowing which end users will be able to see your content) by creating layers for different relationships. They call it the 'Crowd Layering Model' and the company intends to implement it not only in the way people share, but across all features of the Site.In 30 days, Vebbler now has 5000 users from 51 countries and 370 cities.
  • Wishberry — Wishberry is a rewards-based crowdfunding platform that enables users to raise funds for their creative and innovative ideas. The platform focused on topics such as arts, design, film, music, theatre, publishing, technology, games, and applications.
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Amit Manocha
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Amit Manocha joined Everstone in 2006 and is responsible for leading deal teams within Southeast Asia. He also heads up The Investment Office, which is responsible for monitoring all investments within Everstone’s private equity group, and reports to the Chief Investment Officer. Amit has over 12 years’ experience in private equity, corporatefinance and financial management, including prominent roles at Coca-Cola, GE Capital and HCL Technologies. Amit holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Delhi and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School. He is also a qualified Chartered Accountant.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Banking, FinTech
  • Seed
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • Keito — Human-assisted low-code machine learning platform for information & document extraction, to break data silos for enterprises. Keito enables enterprises to go digital, and to leverage the power of information within days. We enable enterprises to classify emails/images, extract information, and discover information from large volumes,irrespective of the type of data-image, documents, emails, voice. This can be achieved with our self-configurable platform. Making AI systems easy to create, train, and validate, and deploy and configure on cloud or on-premise as per customer choice.Kapture - Intelligent Document Processing, Image Classification, and Extraction Ira - Intelligent Email & Other Communication Channel Management & Processing Discover - Data search and discovery for faster decision making
  • Chqbook — India's first Neo-Bank for Small Business Owners. Open Zero Balance Current Account. Keep Record of Pending Payments from Customers. Apply for Business Loan, Buy Insurance and Pay Your Monthly Bills.
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Nitin Singhal
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Nitin Singhal is the Founder and Managing Partner of Fresco Global. Nitin has an MBA from London Business School and a BTech from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and he is based in London, UK

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • 6to8 (B-Fresh by Baxi) — India's first truly hyperlocal delivery service.
  • LawRato.com — Consult & Hire the Best Lawyers in India. Top Rated Advocates available for Consultation by Phone, Meeting, Video Call, at your Home / office and through Email.
  • University Living — Explore millions of student rooms and dorms with verified reviews. UL offers students home to study abroad. Search by city, university, and property.
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Pankaj Jain
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Pankaj Jain is the Managing Partner at Saka Ventures. Previously, he was a Partner at 500 Startups, a California based seed fund and accelerator program. Pankaj focuses on investing in early stage startups across New York City, India, South Asia and has led investments in over fifty companies at 500 Startups across 6 countries.Pankaj spent over12 years in the Financial industry at firms such as JP Morgan, Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) and GlobeOp Financial Services in various operational roles including enterprise mortgage risk management, application development, market data infrastructure, trade management, pricing infrastructure and customer service areas.In 2007, Pankaj’s adventures in India began, where he started a company building an on-demand, employment marketplace for the under-served. In 2008, Pankaj became a co-founder of the HeadStart Network Foundation and the led the efforts in Delhi. In late 2010, he began setting up Startup Weekend in India.

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Investment focus

  • Analytics, SaaS, Mobile
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

  • WhizAI — One of the augumented analytics platform used for consumers purpose. Attend a trained session on life sciences data and other patient analytics as a sole! Hurry up to take a weekly demo on the life science by the best expertise on this field.
  • Cypherock — Welcome to Cypherock, where we are dedicated to building the world's safest cold wallet to protect your crypto. Discover Cypherock X1 with cutting-edge technology and robust security features.
  • Paperstreet — Write beautiful company updates to engage your investors, advisors, and users.
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Nelson Holzner
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Nelson Holzner is CEO and Co-Founder of MODIFI, a Fintech company solving global Trade Finance for small and medium-sized businesses. Prior to founding MODIFI, Nelson was CEO of AEVI, a German-based Fintech company providing an open B2B marketplace for business apps, SmartPOS devices and payment solutions to banks and acquires around the globe.Prior to joining AEVI, Nelson was founder and CEO of BillPay, a leading provider of payment by invoice or installments for e-commerce which was acquired by Klarna in 2017. He was Vice President at Cerberus Capital Management, an international investment firm. Nelson started his career as a lawyer at an international law firm. He is an active business angel in FinTech.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Banking, Big Data
  • Seed
  • India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Bitbond — Bitbond radically improves the issuance, settlement and custody of financial assets with the help of blockchain technology and tokenization.
  • ZestMoney — Enjoy the convenience of shopping for electronic gadgets, fashion, travel, education on EMI without credit card. No debit card or credit score required!
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Ashvin Chadha
Angel · Delhi, Delhi, India

Mr. Ashvin Chadha has spent over a decade working in the financial services industry both in India and the United States. He started his professional career as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley in New York. He then joined General Atlantic LLC, a worldwide private equity firm, where he was based in the New York City and Greenwich offices.Ashvin moved to India in 2006 to join the core team to set up the Mumbai office for India Equity Partners (IEP), a $350mm India focussed Private Equity Fund.In 2011, Ashvin moved to Delhi to set up his own family office to invest in debt securities of mid market Indian companies. He has successfully invested over INR 100cr of proprietary capital in debt securities across 20 companies in the last 5 years.Ashvin has served on the Board of Directors of several financial services companies including Manappuram Finance (until 2010) and Netafim Agricultural Finance Agency Private Limited (since 2012). He also serves as an advisor and Investment committee member for SEBI registered VC funds including Fulcrum Venture India LLP and Carpediem Capital Partners.Ashvin completed his education from Wesleyan University and The London School of Economics.

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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Retail
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • Deepsync — Deepsync Dub allows you to translates your videos into major languages and auto-syncs it in 5 minutes! Supports voice cloning.
  • Burgerama — Burgerama provides fast-casual, made for delivery burger experience.
  • KNAB Finance — KNAB Finance has one purpose in mind, how to use technology to find best and easy lending solutions for the customers. Started in 2015, it has served around
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Lip-Bu Tan
Angel · San Jose, California, United States · 6 investments in the past 12 months

Lip-Bu Tan is Chairman and Founder of Walden International and has been active in the venture capital industry for the past two decades. Additionally, he introduced and pioneered the U.S. venture capital concept in Asia and contributed towards the promotion of early-stage technology investing in the Asia-Pacific region.Prior to WI, he was VicePresident at Chappell & Co. and held management positions at EDS Nuclear and ECHO Energy. Mr. Tan concurrently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. and has been a member of the Cadence Board of Directors since 2004.He is also a board member of Flextronics (NASDAQ: FLEX), SINA (NASDAQ: SINA), SMIC (NYSE:SMI / HKSE:981), a member of the VC Advisory Board of Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), serves on the College of Engineering Advisory Board at University of California Berkeley, the School of Engineering Dean's Council at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), the School of Engineering Dean's Advisory Board and the Visiting Committee for the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a trustee of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and a member of the Committee of 100.He also served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of San Francisco for 9 years.He holds a B.S. in Physics from Nanyang University in Singapore, an M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an M.B.A. from the University of San Francisco.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Semiconductor, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series B, Series A, Seed
  • United States, Israel, China

Portfolio highlights

  • Alcion — Secure, intelligent, and intuitive backups for Microsoft 365. Delivered as a modern AI-driven SaaS platform.
  • Contextual AI — Contextual AI offers a pioneering approach to generative AI for the workplace.
  • Together — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
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Harish Bahl
Angel · Gurgaon, Haryana, India · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Harish Bahl is a Founder and Chairman of Smile Group. He previously worked at Quasar Media Private as a Founder and CEO. Harish Bahl attended SDM College of Engineering and Technology.

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Investment focus

  • Advertising, Internet, Apps
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • India, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

  • ProfitWheel — The consumer intelligence is at the heart of what we do. ProfitWheel provides you with 1st party insights of your best audiences to build effective, product and marketing strategies.
  • Punt Partners — Punt Partners is a company that provides marketing technology services. It provides results through the use of proprietary data, technology, and services.
  • Creative Galileo — Creative Galileo is an Edtech startup that focuses on the early learning of children, plans to use the funds for scaling, product development, and enhancement, creating new engaging content, forging partnerships with leading animation houses, and hiring talent.
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Chirag Jain
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Chirag Jain is a CEO of Ashika Group.

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Investment focus

  • Big Data, Software, Analytics
  • Seed
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • Finarkein Analytics — Finarkein Analytics offers no-code workflow orchestration and data analytics platform for digital platforms.
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Abhishek Gupta
Angel · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abhishek Gupta - Business Head & COO @ TLabs

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Investment focus

  • Big Data, Analytics, E-Commerce
  • Seed
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • Dataweave — DataWeave provides retailers with competitive intelligence and e-commerce analytics solutions. Contact us today to learn more or to request a demo.
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Phanindra Sama
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Co-Founder of Redbus.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, SaaS, Software
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Futwork — With Futwork, learn for free and get a telecaller job. Find Work from Home jobs in India. Flexi hours & work suitable for freshers and women. Earn from home now!
  • Jovian — Learn practical skills from Silicon Valley engineers, build real-world portfolio projects, and earn a certification. Kick start your data science career!
  • Bytebeam — Accelerate your IoT initiatives with Bytebeam - our platform makes it 10X simpler and quicker to build cutting-edge smart products
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Tushar Singh
Angel · Delhi, Delhi, India

Tushar Singh is a Managing Partner at Dominor Investment Holdings LLP.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Big Data, Financial Services
  • Seed
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • Deepsync — Deepsync Dub allows you to translates your videos into major languages and auto-syncs it in 5 minutes! Supports voice cloning.
  • The Money Club — Money Club is a registered digital AI chit fund platform in India which lets you create peer-to-peer chit fund clubs. Download the safe & secure app now!
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Sunil Kalra
Angel · New Delhi, Delhi, India · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Sunil Kalra - Managing Director @ Via Projects

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Angel, Series C
  • India, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Chargeup — Chargeup operates as a battery swapping network for e-rickshaws.
  • Medikabazaar — Medikabazaar is an online B2B marketspace for medical supplies and equipment. They are a single point of contact for all product-based needs, enabling medical institutions and individual practitioners alike to cut down on operational costs and making the best global brands available locally, all aided with the miracle that goes by the name oftechnology. They are connected with more than 50,000 medical establishments, 1,50,000 Independent Practitioners, and have partnered with 13,000+ suppliers all over India including ones in Tier 2, Tier 3 cities, and remoter locations to establish a strong foothold in India and simultaneously earn the respect of our clients. With the power of technology, we organized a haywire market in a country with perhaps the largest and most complex geographical structure in the world for this purpose. Our last-mile delivery system and 26 strategically placed Fulfilment Centres across India enable us to deliver essential medical supplies to healthcare facilities and help them nurture quality and timely patient care. With our first international office in the Middle East, we are transcending boundaries to deliver care, everywhere.
  • Pepper Farms — Pepper Farms is an agritech startup that helps farmers in organizing the vegetable production lifecycle by building a network of farms with end-to-end virtual management, customized agronomy, and direct market linkages.
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Sachin Arora
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Sachin Arora is a Co-founder at Chqbook.com.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Banking, FinTech
  • Seed, Angel
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • Chqbook — India's first Neo-Bank for Small Business Owners. Open Zero Balance Current Account. Keep Record of Pending Payments from Customers. Apply for Business Loan, Buy Insurance and Pay Your Monthly Bills.
  • AdPushup — We help web publishers grow their advertising revenue by using cutting-edge technology, premium demand partnerships.
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Rajesh Kamat
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Listed as India’s hottest 40 under 40 Business Leaders by Economic Times and Spencer Stuart, Rajesh was previously the COO of Peter Chernin’s Asia focused private equity fund CA Media. Kamat had formerly launched Viacom18’s popular Hindi GEC network COLORS. With a mix of disruptive and differentiated programming, accompanied by aggressive marketingand distribution strategies Kamat catapulted COLORS to a number 3 position in its very first week and the number 1 position 9 months after launch, breaking Star Plus’ stranglehold on the position after nine years of unchallenged dominance. Under Rajesh’s leadership COLORS continued its successful run and grew into a vibrant brand reaching 140mm Households. It is the only GEC to have reached an operating break-even in 15 months. He served as COO of Viacom 18 Group and CEO of COLORS. Prior to COLORS, he launched Endemol India and served as its Managing Director. He has also served as SVP of Commercial & Business Planning at STAR India and held various marketing positions at Coca-Cola and MTV India. Kamat has also been named Impact Media Person of Year in 2009 and ‘Outstanding Entrepreneurs of Asia Pacific for 2010. Rajesh is a Bachelor of Engineering and also holds a Master's in Business Administration.Rajesh is also an active board member in over 10 companies and enjoys contributing to the angel investor ecosystem

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, Digital Entertainment, Social Media
  • Seed, Angel, Series B
  • India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Thrill — Online meetings can be professionally transcribed by Transcriberry experts with 99% accuracy. No matter whether it'll be Skype, Zoom, Google Meets or other service.
  • Animeta — Animeta is the World's first Social Media Influencer collaboration platform for Digital Creators, TikTok stars, & everyone else - powered by AIJoin the revolution of influencers that make money with digital creator tech, empower the creator economy, and get famous faster.
  • Infinite Analytics — Become a supercharged AI Enabled Enterprise - deeply understand your consumers to best reach them with the right products in the right places and grow
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Pran Mehra
Angel

Pran Mehra

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Investment focus

  • Big Data, Telecommunications, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • Deepsync — Deepsync Dub allows you to translates your videos into major languages and auto-syncs it in 5 minutes! Supports voice cloning.
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Kishore Ganji
Angel · Marlboro, New Jersey, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • India, United States, Bangladesh

Portfolio highlights

  • Lal10 — Lal10 enables creative manufacturing MSMEs to easily digitize, manage and sell their inventories for cross-border wholesale. Lal10 is Shopify + Alibaba for Indian MSMEs. Small manufacturers use Lal10’s Karigar application to digitize physical inventories which are available for RFQs on our global wholesale platform. We are creating a maker’srevolution by digitizing micro and small manufacturers to take their creative products to global markets. India has over 1.2mn such MSMEs involved in the manufacturing of apparel, home furnishings, decor products. We have digitized 30k SKUs to date and are the largest vertical platform for MSMEs for cross-border wholesale in India. Post pandemic layers of middlemen/ export houses and traditional channels of sales like exhibitions have been disrupted. We have created an efficient alternative with innovative technology-led solutions catering to these large and untapped supplies. We are seeing strong organic adoption of technology for quick market access by local manufacturers and pandemic has only accelerated its requirement. We believe that the future of retail is local. We are targeting small & medium-sized buyers in the US, UK, and Middle east using efficient data analytics and aggressive marketing. We provide them the benefits of a big-box retailer, i.e. affordable sourcing, contemporary design curation & assortment of products. These buyers are resellers on Amazon, Etsy, or Mom & Pop shops, Private labels, and have traditionally been only dependent tradeshows.
  • Pension Box — PensionBox is India's most flexible & transparent way to plan retirement with the right pension. You can create your own personalized dream retirement plan in minutes and track down existing savings in simple clicks. Get Started Today!
  • Teleport — Make Visas simple, fast and anxiety free. Teleport makes the application process the shortest and most guaranteed.Teleport Visa Services.
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Hemendra Kothari
Angel

Hemendra Kothari

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Investment focus

  • Retail, Big Data, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • India

Portfolio highlights

  • Locus.sh — Locus is an intelligent logistics automation and decision-making platform that comes with in-built route planning and vehicle allocation engine which improves consistency and efficiency of operations.The platform helps companies and enterprises in e-commerce, food delivery, FMCG, and other verticals to automate and optimize their logistics. Theproduct suite comprises a route deviation engine, order dispatch automation, a field user app, route optimizations, scheduling, tracking for end-customer, and predictive analytics. Offering the entire technology stack, in the form of a platform as a service.
  • Apollo Pharmacy — Apollo Pharmacy Online Medical Store - Online Medicine Order - Buy medicines online from Apollo Pharmacy Store (India's largest pharmacy chain) and experience the fastest home delivery. All kinds of medicines, health products & equipment are available at our online medicine store.
  • Acko — Experience ZERO commission | Paperless Claims | Huge Benefits with every insurance across Car, Bike, Health, Travel and more @ACKO. Welcome Change!
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