# Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in India in May 2026

## Better Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology

Better is a micro venture firm that creates and invests in innovative business which deliver value & impact, and have a strong focus on profitability.
Better Labs is our operating portfolio of product businesses that we create and fund and includes ReadyContacts, PicBackMan, DataDoctor, Magik, Simple wall, and Maroun Place.

## 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.

## Polychain
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

The emergence of bitcoin and subsequent blockchain technologies has generated a new digital asset class in which scarcity is based on mathematical properties. Through cryptographic verification and game-theoretic equilibrium, blockchain-based digital assets can be created, issued, and transmitted using the software. Polychain Capital is committedto exceptional returns for investors through actively managed portfolios of these blockchain assets.

## 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.

## Cloud Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Internet

Early-stage Venture Capital for the Cloud Economy

## 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.

## IndiGG
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2

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

## BEENEXT
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech

BEENEXT is a Venture Capital fund managed by serial entrepreneurs that focuses on assisting founders with its operational experience, network, trust, unique perspectives, and the capital. The team invests in early-stage tech start-ups that are focused on building the new digital platforms driven by the data network. BEENEXT aims to establish aplatform of founders, by the founders and for the founders across the globe, primarily in South East Asia, India and Japan. Since its establishment in 2015, the team has
invested in over 180 companies globally.

## Gossamer Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet

Gossamer is an early stage venture capital firm investing in startups that are building the future of dApps, DeFi, NFTs and the Metaverse.

## 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.

## Singapore Angel Network
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care

SGAN is an early stage VC anchored by the multi billion dollar Thakral Group of Companies and has investments across India, Singapore and the USA.

## Leonis Investissement
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Leonis Investissement offre des opportunités d’investissement en startups, basés sur un track record de qualité.

## Polygon
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

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

## 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

## 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

## Bain Capital Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, SaaS

Bain Capital Ventures invests in seed to growth-stage startups that are using tech to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones. The firm invests from seed to growth in enterprise software, infrastructure software, and industries being transformed by data. Bain Capital Ventures has helped launch and commercialize 200-plus companiessince 2000, including investments in DocuSign, Jet.com, Kiva Systems, LinkedIn, Rapid7, SurveyMonkey, Taleo, and TellApart. Bain Capital Ventures has more than $5.2 billion of assets under management with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Boston.

## Coinbase Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

## Flucas Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: West Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Flucas Ventures is a venture capital investor.

## 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.

## 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.

## Kube VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Kube VC is a global venture capital firm that invests in exceptional founders and category-defining companies.

## Saison Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

They invest in Seed to Series A companies across South East Asia and India. Although they have a sector agnostic fund mandate, they particularly like to work with founders that are building ecosystems with the potential to distribute financial services to the unbanked.

## LetsVenture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care

Connect with 10,000 plus angel investors. Raise funding seamlessly. Find startups to invest in. Easy to use & seamless technology platform for startup investing & funding.

## 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.

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

Nakul Gupta

## Inventus Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Analytics, E-Commerce

Inventus is a US-India venture capital firm managed by successful entrepreneurs and industry specific veterans offering venture capital in India and the US.

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

Kunal Shah

## Whiteboard Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Internet, Financial Services

Whiteboard Capital is Mumbai based early stage investment firm.

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

Amey Mashelkar

## Blockchain Founders Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.

## Polygon Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Information Technology, Gaming

Polygon Ventures is an investment firm that focuses on early-stage Web3 startups.

## Arkam Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Arkam Ventures is a Venture Capital firm.

## Blume Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Blume Ventures provides pre-series A and early stage funding to tech-focused/tech-enabled ventures. They are typically the first institutional investors in their portfolio companies and invest for about 8-10 years. They are proponents of a collaborative approach and like to co-invest with like-minded angels and seed funds. They then providefollow-on investments to their stellar portfolio companies.

## PremjiInvest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series C, Series D, Series E
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software

PremjiInvest is a multi-family office specializing in private equity and venture capital investments. It is a private equity fund owned by Azim Premji which manages his $1 billion personal portfolios.
In 2011, Azim Premji invested around $15 million in Vinod Khosla's clean-tech fund.

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

Sandhya Patel

## Hashed
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Hashed is a global, early stage venture fund focused on backing founders who are pioneering the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Hashed is based in Seoul and San Francisco.

## Trampoline Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Apps

Trampoline Ventures is an investment firm.

## Hash3
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Computer, Network Security

Hash3 is a pre-seed / seed-stage crypto-native fund investing in companies + protocols, globally.

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

Anirudh Rastogi

## Tykhe Block Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet

At Tykhe Block Ventures, we lead seed rounds into bold ventures and hold liquid investments within the blockchain sector with a focus on decentralisation technologies, digital assets and their key enabling infrastructure.

## Castle Island Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

Castle Island Ventures is a Cambridge, MA based early stage venture firm investing in startups building in the public blockchain industry.

## CoinSwitch
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

CoinSwitch is on a mission to Make Money Equal for All. India’s largest crypto investing app and a Great Place to Work®, CoinSwitch is creating an ecosystem that simplifies crypto and is trusted by over 1.8 crore registered users. Founded in 2017 by Ashish Singhal, Govind Soni, and Vimal Sagar Tiwari, and backed by blue chip investors includingAndreessen Horowitz (a16z), Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Ribbit Capital, Paradigm, and Coinbase Ventures, the company is evolving into a wealth-tech destination for every Indian. For more information, visit: www.coinswitch.co

## Ribbit Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

It takes money to change money

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

Rafael Ugolini

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

Saurabh Agarwal (Zebpay)

## C2 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Bridging the gap between founders and capital through content, connections and experience.  


## FTX Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

For builders, by builders. We back great teams building great products.

## Draper Dragon
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

We invest in the We Love Entreprenuers About Us Founded by Larry Li, Andy Tang, Bobby Chao, and Tim Draper in 2006, Draper Dragon is a cross-border venture fund that connects Silicon Valley and Asia. We have offices in Silicon Valley, Toronto, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Bangalore. We look for early-stage companies that would...

## Future\Perfect Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech

Future\Perfect Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm 2014 to invest globally in blockchain technology and crypto assets. FPV was founded by Jalak Jobanputra.

## DG Daiwa Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

DG Daiwa Ventures invests in start-up companies with next-generation technology and provides business development support. It is focused on blockchain, xR, AI, security, and BioHealth, as they are likely to be at the foundations of future businesses. In addition to the five core technologies, the fund will also focus on IoT technologies, whichoften overlap or serve as an application layer.

# About Shizune
Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features:
- 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others)
- Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data
- Updated daily from public funding news
- CSV and Excel export

The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co