# Top 45 Cryptocurrency Angel Investors in India in May 2026

## Sandeep Nailwal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Sandeep Nailwal is the Co-Founder of Polygon. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Scopeweaver. He attended the National Institute of Industrial Engineering.

## Ujjwal Sahay
- Type: Angel
- Location: Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Ujjwal Sahay is the Founder & CEO of Ment Tech Labs - An Enterprise Fintech Solution & Service Provider. Ujjwal backed Ment Tech Labs with $60,000 of seed round to start scaling the Fintech products globally which made Ment Tech Labs as the only complete Enterprise Fintech Solution & Service Provider.Ujjwal is a passionatetechnologist and successful startup executive with 5+ years of experience in Fintech Solutions Development, Engineering, and Marketing—focusing on lean methodology, design prototyping, mobile apps, SaaS platforms, and APIs. Ujjwal's leading advocated for customer-centric design, UX, and the thoughtful application of technological innovations. Ujjwal also led high-performing product launch, engineering, Dev-ops and QA teams—both on and off-shore.Fintech, Blockchain, Machine Learning & Cryptocurrency are few of his field of interest and expertise. Writing about the technology used to be his hobby always and this turned into a profession as well with two of his published books, Hack-X-Crypt and X-Shell.

## Jaynti Kanani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet

Jaynti Kanani - Co-Founder @ Polygon

## Balaji Srinivasan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

## Nitish Mittersain
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Financial Services, Blockchain

Nitish Mittersain is CEO & Founder of Nazara - a leading mobile games developer and publisher focused on the large mobile consumer base in India and emerging markets including the Middle East and Africa. In addition to developing a range of branded and original mobile games, Nazara operates unique services such as "Games Club" andalso serves as an exclusive distributor for key game developers such as Electronic Arts. Its customers include mobile carriers as well as handset manufacturers. Nazara also owns "Playcaso" - an iOs and Android developer/publisher brand, "nzLabs" - a work-for-hire apps studio & "gCity" - a social gaming platform.Nitish is also served as the Chairman of the Mobile Value Added Services Committee of the Indian Merchants Chambers - India's oldest business organization and has been widely recognized in the media for his contributions to the gaming and mobile vas industries in India

## Jitendra Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

## Sanjay Mehta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Information Technology

Sanjay Mehta is Member of the Board of Advisors at LogiNext Solution.

## Amrish Rau
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

## Hiro Mashita
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Financial Services, SaaS

Hiro Mashita - Founder & Director @ M&S Partners

## Kunal Shah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet

Kunal Shah

## Sharan Nair
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Bitcoin, FinTech, Lifestyle

An early Bitcoin adopter and active speaker on cryptocurrencies. 

## Prashant Malik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, Apps, Blockchain

Prashant Malik is a Co-Founder and Co-Creator of Apache Cassandra and an Investor at Shadowfax, UrbanClap, Innov8 Coworking, and OfBusiness. He is a dynamic technologist, who focuses on building, leading and incubating teams. Prashant attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

## Anupam Mittal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services

Anupam started his entrepreneurial journey by founding People Group - A New Media & Entertainment group, which includes businesses such as Shaadi.com, Makaan.com, Mauj Mobile, and People Pictures. Today the group is recognized as one of the most innovative enterprises in the country. Besides his operational roles, Anupam is also one ofIndia's most active angel investors.He attended Boston College.

## Yan Wu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Cryptocurrency

Yan Wu is the Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer at Bond Financial Technologies, Inc . Yan Wu attended The Wharton School.

## Gaurav Munjal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Internet, Apps

Gaurav Munjal is the Co-Founder and CEO at Unacademy.

## Sujeet Kumar
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Health Care

Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan

## Kunal Kapoor
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, E-Commerce, Cryptocurrency

He is the very cool, very chiseled face of Ketto. He doesn't really need an introduction but we enjoy talking about him, so we're going to. He's the Co-Founder and a brilliant film and theatre actor. He's also super clever. And he has a heart of pure, sunshiny gold. Our only complaint is that he's too busy doing good toshoot the breeze with us.

## Ajeet Khurana
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Internet, Information Technology

Ajeet Khurana is a leading name in the cryptocurrency industry. He is the former head of the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Committee, which as part of IAMAI is India's foremost industry body for cryptocurrency.Presently, as an advisor to several crypto projects, he is seen as a specialist in:
* Tokenomics: pools, structure, architecture,flow, utility, value
* Market Mechanisms: market making, liquidity, listing, volume
In addition he helps with increasing adoption, communication, evangelizing, ambassador programs, and digital outreach. Some crypto founders regard Ajeet as their personal friend, philosopher, and guide.Earlier, in his role as CEO of Zebpay (India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange at that time), he took it from being a one-country exchange to a global exchange. As CEO of the business incubator at IIT Bombay (India’s premier engineering school), he helped commercialise several ideas from concept stage. As an advisor to Venture Capital firms in India, China, US, and Canada, he has an eye for promising founders.Still earlier, Ajeet has authored several books with McGrawHill Education, been an entrepreneur twice, and taught at the University of Texas at Austin.Here is how he characterizes himself:WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED REPEATEDLY IN MY CAREER
Customer focus. Speed. Attracting and empowering the right people. Making hard decisions. Managing chaos and conflict. Smoothly navigating regulations & compliances. High governance standards. Cultivating relationships. Converting markets to communities. Negotiating deals. Continuous process and product improvement.WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR
A mandate that requires rapid growth and evolution. A role that requires backbone and heart. A non-bureaucratic system that expects a strong bias for action. An opportunity to learn, and create strong cultural underpinning.HOW I BUILD AND MANAGE TEAMS
Single minded focus on the customer. Choose people based on cultural fit and alignment of passion. Impart purpose. Select for potential, but advance for performance. Empower people to work. No busy work. No unending meetings. Don’t be hierarchy-minded. Encourage learning.

## Ganesh Swami
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, B2B, Developer Tools

Ganesh is the CEO & Co-founder of Covalent – a blockchain data analytics company. Covalent is bringing transparency and visibility to the blockchain space. Ganesh is a serial entrepreneur and has over a decade of experience in big data analytics. He started his career in building protein simulation algorithms to solve cancer.

## Utsav Somani
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Software, Financial Services

Looking for - Passionate founders looking to target a market with tremendous future potential and stands to be disrupted by a new entrant. Crucial that the product / service is not easily replicable and the domain expertise of the company is a deterrent to fresh entrants.Keen interest in - Clean Technology, Consumer Internet, EnterpriseSoftware, Health Care, Mobile, SaaSSkills - Angel Investing, Financial Modelling & Valuation, Information Technology, Portfolio Management, Risk Management

## Roman Saini
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Health Care, Apps

Roman Saini is Co Founder at Unacademy.


## Salil Deshpande
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, FinTech

Salil focuses on early-stage infrastructure software, open source, and crypto. Over the last 13 years he has invested $350M into 52 companies including MuleSoft, DynaTrace, DataStax, Tealium, Lending Club, Buddy Media, SpringSource, Redis Labs, SysDig, Frame, Basis, Compound, Jambool, Dropcam, Lightbend, Hazelcast, Groovy & Grails, Gradle,Sonatype, ZeroTurnaround, Chef, and Philz Coffee. Salil was on the Forbes Midas List of top 100 venture capitalists in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, and on the CB Insights list of The 100 Top Venture Capitalists in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.

## Karn Nagpal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: 3D Technology, FinTech, Software

Karn Nagpal

## Jatin Aneja
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Beauty, Retail

Jatin Aneja

## Sathvik Vishwanath
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tumkur, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Bitcoin, FinTech, Lifestyle

Sathvik Vishwanath is the CEO, Co-Founder at Unocoin. He attended Melbourne Business School.

## Anirudh Rastogi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Hospital, Software

Anirudh Rastogi

## Anand Mahindra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Social Media, Education, Local

Graduate, Harvard Univ. and Harvard Business School. Chairman and Managing Director, Mahindra Group. Thought leader in Indian business. Serves on many industry confederations. Initiated the Nanhi Kali programme to provide free education to economically underprivileged girls in India. Co-Founder, Naandi Danone, India's largest safe drinkingwater provider to rural areas. Life Trustee, Board of Naandi Foundation, which provides meals to 1.3 million children daily. Co-Chair, World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009. Named among World’s 50 Greatest Leaders, Fortune Magazine (2014); named one of the top 25 most powerful business people in Asia, Fortune Magazine (2011).

## Rafael Ugolini
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Rafael Ugolini

## Venu Palaparthi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Sports

Venu Palaparthi

## Rajesh Chelapurath
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Rajesh is Founder, President & Managing Member at Ceera Investments, LLC, a registered investment advisory firm that manages investment portfolios for individuals, trusts, pensions, and corporations. Prior to founding Ceera Investments, LLC in 2005, Rajesh began his career in investment management and research when he joined the BurnhamFinancial Group's Houston office in 1998. Rajesh has also held several marketing positions at the Medical Equipment Division of Larsen & Toubro Ltd in Mumbai, India. Rajesh currently serves as a Trustee, BITSAA Intl, and the Chief Investment Officer of BITSAA Investment Committee that oversees the investment fund of BITSAA. At BITS, he was actively involved in Oasis '91 (as STUCCAN, Art n Dee), Oasis '92 (as Ex-Officio STUCCAN), and in Apogee. He is a Charter Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), Houston Chapter and a member of the Houston Society of Financial Analysts and the CFA Institute. Rajesh graduated from BITS, Pilani in 1993 with a B.E. (Hons) in Electrical & Electronics and an M.Sc. (Hons) in Physics. In 1998, he completed an MBA (Finance) from the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University, New Orleans. Rajesh is based out of Houston, TX.

## Saurabh Agarwal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Bitcoin, E-Learning, Cryptocurrency

Saurabh Agarwal (Zebpay)

## Surojit Chatterjee
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech

Surojit Chatterjee is an Angel Investor at Angel Investor. He attended MIT Sloan School of Management, the University at Buffalo, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

## Subhash Ghai
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, E-Commerce, Cryptocurrency

Subhash Ghai

## Amey Mashelkar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Private Equity
- Focus: Bitcoin, E-Commerce, E-Learning

Amey Mashelkar

## Nakul Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency

Nakul Gupta

## Mohit Madan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Bitcoin, FinTech, Lifestyle

Mohit Madan - Co-founder and CEO @ Cloudrino

## Sandhya Patel
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Bitcoin, E-Learning, Cryptocurrency

Sandhya Patel

## Alex Lin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking

Alex Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO at Stacked.

## Aaryaman Vir
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Internet, SaaS, Software

Aaryaman Vir is the Co-Founder of Prophetic Ventures.

## Sung Ho Choi
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Music, FinTech

Sung Ho C. is the Managing Director at Fubo Gaming. He attended University of Chicago.

## Aadil Mamujee
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, Cryptocurrency, Software

Aadil has spent the last decade working in technology in Europe and USA. He was most recently VP of Product Management at Pocket Gems, a mobile entertainment company, where he was one of the founding employees and first product manager. He helped grow the company profitably to 200+ staff and 200M users. Previously Aadil worked in the early-stageinvestment team at Index Ventures and at Google in London. Aadil has a MEng from Cambridge University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Aadil was born and raised in Mombasa, Kenya.

## Brian Ma
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Property Management, Real Estate, FinTech

Brian Ma is the Founder and Managing Partner at Iterative Capital.
Co-Founder at Decide.com, recently acquired by Ebay. He is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and advisor at various startups.

## Hagop Hagopian
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Credit

Growth Marketing Expert 10+ Years,
Founder & Entrepreneur,
& Angel Investor

## 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.

## Justin Caldbeck
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Transportation

Justin Caldbeck is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Binary Capital since July 2014. In June 2017, Justin announced an indefinite leave of absence from Binary Capital.Previously, Justin was a Managing Director at Lightspeed Venture Partners from January 2011 to June 2014. Justin invested primarily in the Internet and mobile sectors with afocus on social media, e-commerce and enterprise software. Justin’s past investments include Bloomreach, GrubHub, PetFlow and TaskRabbit. Justin has also been a Board Member or Board Observer for numerous successful companies including TheFind, INRIX, Adready, Magazine Radar, Oyster.com and DNA Games. Before joining Lightspeed, Justin was a Partner at Bain Capital Ventures and was responsible for launching the firm’s West Coast office. Justin was both a Member of the Board of Directors and Board Observer for a wide variety of consumer internet, enterprise software, and business services companies, including BloomReach, TheFind, Adready, INRIX, DNA Games, Oyster.com, and Magazine Radar. Before Bain Capital Ventures, Justin was at McKinsey and Co. where he served consumer and media companies in a wide range of capacities. Justin holds a B.A. in Economics from Duke University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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