# Top 45 Clean Energy Startup Investors in India in May 2026

## Godrej family office
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: Solar, Energy, CleanTech

Godrej family office is an investment firm.

## Sagar Ratilal Bavarva
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Private Equity, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Solar

Sagar is a 6th Gen. young social researcher, sustainable explorer & energy investment partner from Netherlands & India Sub.Studied M.S (Associate - Executive Degree) in Business & Data Science with Specialization in Energy & Sustainable Technologies at Harvard University, an M.S (Executive) in Finance & Negotiation at YaleUniversity & M.Sc. degree in Management of Technology with Specialization in Entrepreneurship & Emerging Breakthrough Innovation at TU Delft, and Bachelors in Chemical & Biochemical Engineering.Previously he had been worked at Shell, Netherlands & London, Microsoft - Netherlands and Deloitte - the Edge Amsterdam. His recent association was with World Economic Forum, Netherlands, and Switzerland Sub as a Young Digital Associate. Currently he manages and work as a Joint Managing Director / Industrial Researcher at AASAN Group of companies - a family-owned business group of companies since 1988. Primarily focused over Large scale Industrial Management and Energy Audit, providing expertise over new renewable energy investments, sustainability and innovation tech solutions. As of now his current venture project is to create a next generation renewable energy park of 100 MW to create a sustainable fossil free energy living source for the Indian Subcontinent. Over global scenario he has achieved many Awards/Accomplishments listed below:Finalist as Entrepreneur / Startup leader at Outstanding Leadership Awards 2022 - Australia
Nomine: Dutch Intrapreneur Award 2021 - Netherlands
UN ECOSOC Youth Leader 2021 - New York
Positive Change Ambassador - Erasmus Rotterdam University - April 2021
Wall of Changemakers 2030 - Catalyst London
Antler's Copenhagen Founder's Program Feb Cohort 2022
Shortlisted @ World Startup Factory Scholarship Program 2021 | Rotterdam
Speaker @ World Sustainable Development Teach In Day - Hamburg
Winners @ Futurepreneurs Dutch Open 2020
Recognized as one of top 25 AI based Innovators @ Rockstart Accelerator AI 2019 - Netherlands
Finalist of Global Biomimicry Design Challenge 2018-19 - Minneapolis, USA
Winner of the worlds biggest Blockchain & AI Hackathon - Odyssey 2019 At present he also creating a global level smart and intelligent sustainable farmhouse. A digital solution of exploration and people's life storyline through building up to tomorrow's food for today's future! A brief storyline of creating a fossil-free sustainable living for the dutch sub. - BDF 1.0He also associated within other portfolio family run ventures such as: Habaple Partners, B'onwterp Labs, Spark Renewables LLP, Solwave Group of Companies.

## Gaurav Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Solar, Energy, CleanTech

Gaurav Gupta

## Tarun Saraf
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Logistics, Mobile Apps, Clean Energy

Tarun Saraf is a Founder at Warehouse Now.

## Arjun Seth
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Electric Vehicle, Same Day Delivery, Delivery Service

Arjun Seth is a Member of the Indian Angel Network.

## Gaurav Juneja
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Electric Vehicle, Sustainability, News

Gaurav Juneja is Head - Digitisation at Google. He attended the Indian Institute of Management.

## Right Side Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Right Side Capital Management is a venture capital firm that helps startups build their company. It invests exclusively in the pre-seed round of technology startups and makes 75-100 investment per year. The firms prefers to invest in diversified technology sectors such as the internet and cloud companies.RSCM was established in 2010 and is basedin San Francisco, California.

## IAN Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Internet, SaaS

IAN FUND is a unique early stage fund. Over the years, IAN has become a revolution in the angel investment space. The logical next step was to create country’s largest horizontal platform for seed/early stage investments. With a customer & enterprise focus, leveraging India’s technology strengths & growing consumer markets the focus isnow to turn around Long term commitment on seed / early stage.

## We Founder Circle
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, Software, Health Care

WeFounderCircle - Seed Fund by founders, for founders. Backed by a community of successful founders & strategic angels, we help raise seed funding of $100K-$150K to early-stage founders

## Kashyap Deorah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software

Kashyap Deorah, a serial entrepreneur and the author of The Golden Tap, the story of the hyper-funded Indian startups, has started his fourth venture — HyperTrack.
HyperTrack has created a software which offers tracking services on B2B as well as C2C front. For example, businesses are using HyperTrack to track various aspects of their businesssuch as manpower, sales team and logistics among others. The consumer faced tracking service will allow individuals to track people in real time.

## Digital Futurists Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, EdTech, Video Chat

Digital Futurists Angels invest in start-ups.

## Neeraj Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Solar, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy

A first generation entrepreneur,Neeraj Gupta has teamed up with India Value Fund to create the finest radio taxi service in India under the Meru brand name. Under his guidance, now, Meru has become a synonym to radio taxi. His entrepreneur skills have made Meru, a single largest radio cab service in India with fleet size more than 3500 cabs.Gupta, prior to this venture, set up Mumbai's largest fleet service business, catering to the needs of some of the finest names in the media and outsourced services business.

## Engie
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar

ENGIE is a global energy player and an expert operator in the three key sectors of electricity, natural gas and energy services. The Group supports changes in society that are based as much on economic growth as on, social progress and the preservation of natural resources. ENGIE employs 152,900 people worldwide and achieved revenues of €74.7billion in 2014. The Group is listed on the Paris and Brussels stock exchanges (ENGI) and is represented in the main international indices: CAC 40, BEL 20, DJ Euro Stoxx 50, Euronext 100, FTSE Eurotop 100, MSCI Europe and Euronext Vigeo (World 120, Eurozone 120, Europe 120 and France 20). As a global energy player, ENGIE operates in close to 70 countries on 5 continents. While the Group still intends to maintain its position as a key player in Europe and a leader on the energy transition, it is now a benchmark energy provider in the emerging world.

## Blue Ashva Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy

We back sustainable and long-term profitable businesses which are solving real challenges and building lasting value in core sectors.

## VilCap Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech

VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges.

## CV Raman Global University
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Aerospace, GreenTech, Logistics

CV Raman Global University improve the scholastic ability and effectiveness of the quality education system across the globe.

## Riso Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Saratoga, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Riso Capital invests in, & helps bring the best & brightest start-ups in India to a global market.

## Anshuman Bapna
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: CleanTech, Fashion, Medical

Anshuman Bapna is Founder at Terra.do.

## Mark Joseph
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bethesda, Maryland, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Logistics, Transportation, Software

Mark Joseph is an experienced chief executive – leading and building Yellow Transportation (Baltimore) for 13 years, including its sale to a subsidiary of Veolia. Under his leadership, Veolia transportation grew $50M to $800M in revenue. Mark later became the CEO of Transdev North America (and then Chief Development Officer) with responsibility for20,000 employees and $1.5B in revenue. Mark now advises companies through his consulting firm Mobitas advisors and makes investments as an angel both in early and mid-stage growth stages.

## Karl Mehta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Email, Messaging, Mobile

Karl Mehta is a serial entrepreneur, investor, engineer, and civil servant with over 20 years of experience in founding, building, and funding technology companies in the U.S. and international markets. He is currently Founder & CEO of EdCast Inc., a next-generation knowledge platform and former Venture Partner at Menlo Ventures. He isFounder of Silicon Valley based tech-driven non-profit, CodeforIndia.org and serves on several non-profit boards for education impact worldwide.Previously, he was the Founder & CEO of PlaySpan Inc., acquired in the March of 2011 by Visa Inc. (NYSE:V), the world's largest payment network. PlaySpan is a global leader in payments and monetization for digital media, mobile apps, social networks, and online games. Karl served as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow, selected by the Obama Administration during the inaugural 2012-13 term. He was also recently appointed by Governor Brown to the Workforce Investment Board of the State of California. In 2010, Karl won the "Entrepreneur of the Year" award for Northern California from Ernst & Young. Karl is on the boards of Simpa Networks Inc., and the Chapman University Center for Entrepreneurship and advisor board of Intel Capital.He is co-author of the book 'Financial Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid" https://www.amazon.com/Financial-Inclusion-at-Bottom-Pyramid/dp/1460265521/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486813387&sr=8-1&keywords=financial+inclusion+at+the+bottom+of+the+pyramid

## Alok Nandan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Alok is a Partner at First Rays Venture Partners. Alok holds a Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, a Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA. Alok is also a co-inventor for three technology patents.

## OPIC - Overseas Private Investment Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Solar, Banking

The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) is a self-sustaining U.S. Government agency that helps American businesses invest in emerging markets. Established in 1971, OPIC provides businesses with the tools to manage the risks associated with foreign direct investment, fosters economic development in emerging market countries, and advancesU.S. foreign policy and national security priorities. OPIC helps American businesses gain footholds in new markets, catalyzes new revenues and contributes to jobs and growth opportunities both at home and abroad. OPIC fulfills its mission by providing businesses with financing, political risk insurance, advocacy and by partnering with private equity investment fund managers.OPIC services are available to new and expanding businesses planning to invest in more than 160 countries worldwide. Because OPIC charges market-based fees for its products, it operates on a self-sustaining basis at no net cost to taxpayers. All OPIC projects must adhere to best international practices and cannot cause job loss in the United States.

## Dholakia Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Surat, Gujarat, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Dholakia Ventures is an investment firm.

## Indian Angel Network
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Education, E-Commerce

Started in April 2006, the Indian Angel Network is a unique concept which brings together highly successful entrepreneurs and CEOs from India and around the world who are interested in investing in startup / early stage ventures which have the potential of creating disproportionate value.The Network, in addition to money, provide constantaccess to high quality mentoring, vast networks and inputs on strategy as well as execution. The Network members, because of their background are better able to assess the potential and risks at the early stage.

## Sheetal Bahl
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Automotive, Men's, Solar

Sheetal Bahl - MD @ growX ventures

## Ramakant Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce

Ramakant plays a central role in driving all technological innovations that form the backbone of Livspace while also leading our operations team. Before founding Livspace, Ramakant was a core team member and Vice President of Engineering at Myntra, a leading fashion eCommerce startup in India (acquired by Flipkart). Ramakant, graduated from IITKanpur, and holds an MBA from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

## Ajith R. Pai
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mysore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Solar, AgTech, Energy

Ajith R. Pai is the President at TiE Mysuru. Attended The University of Toledo.

## Amit Khetan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Energy, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy

Amit Khetan is a Founder at AfterFirst. He attended Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.

## Antler India
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Grant
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Medical

Antler India is a global early-stage VC helping build the defining companies of tomorrow by investing in the most exceptional people.

## Shivam Prasad
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Logistics, Marketing

Founding Partner at Upsparks

## Gruhas Proptech
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce

Gruhas Proptech is a venture capital firm founded by the founders of Zerodha and puzzolana and it specializes in proptech investments.

## Nanavati Family Office
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Logistics, Mobile Apps, Clean Energy

Nanavati Family Office is a family investment office.

## Bhuvan Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, B2B, Crowdsourcing

Bhuvan Gupta is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of OfBusiness. He previously worked at Snapdeal as a Vice President of Engineering. Bhuvan Gupta attended Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.

## Rainmatter Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed

Non-profit offering investments and grants to environment, climate change, green livelihood projects.

## Tikri Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Solar, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy

Tikri Investment is a venture capital firm.

## Ramesh Srinivasan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series D
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Aerospace

Ramesh is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Prizm Payments.Before joining Prizm Payments‚ Ramesh was the CFO of Optimus Global Services (subsidiary of Polaris Software) where he set-up the finance function for the Company.Ramesh has over 15 years of experience in the Banking & Financial Services Industry (BFSI) segment having workedwith reputed organizations such as AT&T‚ NCR and Optimus. Ramesh's expertise is to bring financial processes into early stage organisations, which he does with elan, having the experience of being a founding member in all of his previous ventures.Ramesh is an Chartered Accountant and Cost Accountant by education.

## Artesian VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.

## Elina Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Energy, E-Commerce, Clean Energy

Elina Investments is an investment firm.

## Anil Kumar GOEL
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Solar, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy

Anil Kumar Goel is an individual investor.

## SIDBI Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software

SIDBI Venture Capital is a venture capital arm of Small Industries Development Bank of India.

## Acumen
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture

Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.

## Kaushik Rajan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Energy, Clean Energy

Kaushik Rajan

## Amit Kumar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Solar, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy

Amit Kumar is the Founder and CEo of MSMEx. He has a master's degree in Business Administration at SPJIMR SP Jain Institute of Management & Research.

## R. Mohan Kumaramangalam
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Energy, Clean Energy

R. Mohan Kumaramangalam

## Rahul Khera
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Logistics, Mobile Apps, Clean Energy

Rahul Khera of AWL logistics.

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