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Top 50 Digital Media Angel Investors in India (May 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in India Digital Media startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in India Digital Media startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Vijay Shekhar Sharma
Angel
3 India, United States, Singapore Seed, Angel Internet, News, Software $150k–$3.2M
Sorabh Agarwal
Angel
2 India Angel Tea, Travel, Internet
Samit Garg
Angel
1 India Seed Digital Media, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment
Rajesh Rege
Angel
1 India Seed Digital Media, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment
Gaurav Kapur
Angel
1 India Seed Digital Media, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment
Rahul Varma
Angel
1 India Seed, Angel Internet, Advertising, Health Care
Puneet Chandra
Angel
1 India Angel Tea, Internet, Advertising $150k–$238k
Navin Fabiani
Angel
1 India, Israel Angel, Series B Apps, Music, Beauty
Tej Lalvani
Angel
1 India, Ireland, United Kingdom Angel, Seed Fashion, Advertising, Beauty
Saumya Meattle
Angel
1 India Seed SaaS, Software, Social Media
Sanjay Nath
Angel
1 United States, India, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Internet, Machine Learning, Information Technology $300k–$2.5M
Siddharth Talwar
Angel
1 India Series A, Seed, Angel News, Lifestyle, Advertising Platforms $7.7M–$23M
Kamal Haider
Angel
1 India, United Kingdom Seed, Angel Beauty, Mobile, Banking
Girish Mathrubootham
Angel
1 India, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Angel Software, SaaS, Information Technology $125k–$4.5M
Ambarish Raghuvanshi
Angel
1 India Seed, Angel, Series A SaaS, Software, E-Commerce $245k–$2.1M
Deepak Natraj
Angel
1 India Angel News, Journalism, Social Media
Nitin Madan
Angel
1 India Seed Digital Media, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment
Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman
Angel
1 United Kingdom, India, United States Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce $349k–$20M
Sujit Jha
Angel
1 India Pre-Seed, Seed Education, Blockchain, E-Commerce $30k–$100k
Roshan Abbas
Angel
1 India, Singapore, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Food and Beverage, Internet, Gaming $120k–$1.7M
Sachin Bansal
Angel
1 India, United States Debt Financing, Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $350k–$5.8M
Aadil Ebrahim
Angel
1 India Seed, Series C Beauty, Fashion, Lifestyle
Ankur Warikoo
Angel
1 India, United States Seed, Series A, Angel Financial Services, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $500k–$3.2M
Alok Mittal
Angel
1 India, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B Internet, Marketplace, E-Commerce $240k–$12M
Rajan Anandan
Angel
1 India, United States, Singapore Seed, Angel, Series A Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $30k–$5.2M
LD Sharma
Angel
1 India, United States Seed, Series A SaaS, Video, Internet
Vaibhav Kapoor
Angel
1 India, Kenya Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $300k–$3.5M
Aakrit Vaish
Angel
1 India, Canada, Indonesia Seed, Angel, Series A Internet, Health Care, E-Commerce $130k–$2M
Mithun Sacheti
Angel
1 United States, India Seed, Angel Software, CRM, Sales $400k–$1.2M
Hussein Kanji
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $1M–$20M
Sandeep Tandon
Angel
1 India, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Angel Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet $500k–$5M
Naveen Tewari
Angel
1 India, Singapore, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $80k–$1.2M
Raman Roy
Angel
1 India Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, SaaS, Software $300k–$5.1M
Ajai Chowdhry
Angel
1 India, United States Seed, Angel, Series A Information Technology, Software, Information Services $35k–$600k
Samir Sood
Angel
1 India, United States Seed, Angel, Series A SaaS, Software, Internet $297k–$3.2M
Prashant Mehta
Angel
1 India, Singapore Series A, Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Advertising, Ad Targeting $4.5M–$7M
Ranjit Radhakrishnan
Angel
1 India Seed Internet, TV, Gaming $130k–$2M
Anupam Mittal
Angel
1 India, United States, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services $60k–$2.7M
Kunal Shah
Angel
1 India, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $150k–$13M
Aprameya Radhakrishna
Angel
1 India, Croatia, Singapore Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, Software, Apps $200k–$2.5M
Mahesh Pratapneni
Angel
1 India Seed SEM, Internet, Advertising
Binny Bansal
Angel
1 India, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Apps $480k–$18M
Pallab Chatterjee
Angel
1 India Seed SEM, Internet, Software $500k–$5M
Shan Krishnasamy
Angel
1 India Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed News, Software, Journalism
Pavan Ongole
Angel
1 India Angel, Seed Online Portals, News, Education
Murugavel Janakiraman
Angel
1 India, Singapore Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, Internet $925k–$1.7M
V Balakrishnan
Angel
1 India Seed, Angel Enterprise Software, Information Technology, Pet $161k–$1.7M
Rajesh Kamat
Angel
1 India, Singapore, United States Seed, Angel, Series B Mobile, Digital Entertainment, Social Media
Pallav Nadhani
Angel
1 India, United States Seed, Angel SaaS, Software, Information Technology $100k–$4M
Harish Bahl
Angel
1 India, Hong Kong Seed, Series A Advertising, Internet, Apps $300k–$359M
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Vijay Shekhar Sharma
Angel · New Delhi, Delhi, India · 3 investments in India Digital Media startups

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

  • Industry: Internet, News, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: India, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $440k–$3.2M; Angel $150k–$420k
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

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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Sorabh Agarwal
Angel · 2 investments in India Digital Media startups

Sorabh Agarwal

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Tea, Travel, Internet
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Tea Trunk — Celebrate Teas of India - Finest tea leaves blended with 100% natural ingredients that keep health benefits intact. So you can enjoy tea like it should be.
  • Do Your Thng — Do Your Thng is an influencer app that goes beyond helping creators make money, we help you grow and be better content creators.
  • goStops — goSTOPS offers best option for backpackers or youth solo adventurers tour traveller cheap hostel stay room booking online in india. We are a chain of backpacker hostels accommodation that strives to provide social stays & experiential travels at every step for a youth tourism.
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Samit Garg
Angel · Delhi, Delhi, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Samit Garg is the Co-Founder & Director of E Factor Experiences. He previously worked at Pinnacle Events as a CEO. Samit Garg attended Jaipuria Institute of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Digital Media, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KathaVersse Media Network — KathaVersse Media Network is a universe and franchise-driven premium entertainment studio that develops social and over-the-top video IPs. KathaVersse Media Network develops content IPs with a minimum shelf life of seven years in order to maximize ROI for audiences, marketers, and over-the-top partners.
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Rajesh Rege
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Rajesh Rege is a former president of Honeywell India.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Digital Media, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KathaVersse Media Network — KathaVersse Media Network is a universe and franchise-driven premium entertainment studio that develops social and over-the-top video IPs. KathaVersse Media Network develops content IPs with a minimum shelf life of seven years in order to maximize ROI for audiences, marketers, and over-the-top partners.
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Gaurav Kapur
Angel · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Gaurav Kapur is an individual investor and TV presenter.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Digital Media, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • KathaVersse Media Network — KathaVersse Media Network is a universe and franchise-driven premium entertainment studio that develops social and over-the-top video IPs. KathaVersse Media Network develops content IPs with a minimum shelf life of seven years in order to maximize ROI for audiences, marketers, and over-the-top partners.
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Rahul Varma
Angel · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Rahul Varma

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Advertising, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Do Your Thng — Do Your Thng is an influencer app that goes beyond helping creators make money, we help you grow and be better content creators.
  • Navia Life Care — Navia Life Care is a health technlogy company with a special focus on patient care. We believe in healthcare with simplicity. Our tools enable users to manage their health on their fingertips.Navia Life Care’s mission is to improve the lives of people through innovative products and services. We aim to provide simple tools enabling bettermanagement of a person’s health in the most convenient way.
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Puneet Chandra
Angel · Gurgaon, Haryana, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Puneet Chandra is the Co-Founder and Director at Skootr Global Private Limited.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Tea, Internet, Advertising
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Angel $150k–$238k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tea Trunk — Celebrate Teas of India - Finest tea leaves blended with 100% natural ingredients that keep health benefits intact. So you can enjoy tea like it should be.
  • Do Your Thng — Do Your Thng is an influencer app that goes beyond helping creators make money, we help you grow and be better content creators.
  • Vendor Infra — Vendor Infra is a business-to-business (B2B) platform for the infrastructure and construction industry.
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Navin Fabiani
Angel · Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Navin Fabiani - Real Estate Developer @ Grupo SURA

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Music, Beauty
  • Stage:Angel, Series B
  • Geography: India, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • POPxo — POPxo is India's online community for women that deals everything from fashion, beauty, lifestyle, work, and etc.Reaching 9 million users every month with over 102 million monthly engaged content views. POPxo provides text and video content in an accessible manner, and reach them where they live their lives: on social media and on mobile.It focuses on reaching a highly targeted audience - the millions of young urban women in India who are growing in confidence, in independence and in spending power, it monetises by working across formats (native ads, social posts, events) with brands who want to reach this important and influential consumer base.I was launch in March 2014 it's become the go-to lifestyle resource for the female (18-34) demographic.
  • Music Messenger — Shellanoo Group is a technology company specializing in mobile applications, Internet related services and interactive artificial intelligence with cognitive solutions.Introducing a modern way to invest in technology. Shellanoo Group offers investors the range of a diversified IT portfolio with the simplicity of investing in a single company.Shellanoo Group builds, operates and manages products and services that challenge the status quo, all of which are wholly owned by the Company.Founded in mid-2014 in Israel, Shellanoo Group has grown into one of Israel’s more appealing technology firms, combining both business expertise and technological strength.
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Tej Lalvani
Angel · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Tej Lalvani is the CEO of Vitabiotics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, Advertising, Beauty
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: India, Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • POPxo — POPxo is India's online community for women that deals everything from fashion, beauty, lifestyle, work, and etc.Reaching 9 million users every month with over 102 million monthly engaged content views. POPxo provides text and video content in an accessible manner, and reach them where they live their lives: on social media and on mobile.It focuses on reaching a highly targeted audience - the millions of young urban women in India who are growing in confidence, in independence and in spending power, it monetises by working across formats (native ads, social posts, events) with brands who want to reach this important and influential consumer base.I was launch in March 2014 it's become the go-to lifestyle resource for the female (18-34) demographic.
  • Gener8 — We believe that the advertising industry needs more transparency and that people should be able to control their own data. Our technology gives people the control that is currently missing. And if people choose to share their data with advertisers, we reward them for it. Consequently, people trust us and 83% of them share their data with us.Meaning that we have an incredible understanding about these people and their online behaviour. We work with companies (and their media agencies) in the capacity of a media owner to do three things: 1. Provide premium media for you to reach this highly defined audience.2. Use our proprietary first party data to unveil actionable insights about your customers, eg. their purchase habits.3. To promote your brand and drive an action from your audience.
  • Peachy Lean — Peachylean, is an Irish based athleisure business providing stylish, high quality, supportive, high waisted gym leggings. We want to support strong women who like to look good while working out in the gym.
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Saumya Meattle
Angel · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Saumya started his career working for Merrill Lynch International Bank in London. He subsequently founded Module One, a UI/UX design firm. In addition, he is an independent financial advisor and also manages the Paharpur Business Centre

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Wizikey — Wizikey is a SaaS PR tool for business to discover, identify, and connect with the relevant media journalists & social influencers. It helps businesses identify relevant journalists and create meaningful relationships with them and grow their business.Wizikey’s mission is to organize the communications industry by providing a global standardwith the most cutting edge technology and enable meaningful relationships. Wizikey was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.
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Sanjay Nath
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Machine Learning, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

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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Siddharth Talwar
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Siddharth Talwar - Co-Founder & Partner @ Lightbox

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Lifestyle, Advertising Platforms
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Series A $7.7M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow

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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Kamal Haider
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Kamal Haider - Founder @ Market Securities

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Mobile, Banking
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • OFF3R — Launched in 2015, OFF3R is a mobile crowdfunding aggregator that operates as an access point to the alternative investment market. It helps its users discover and track opportunities across multiple crowdfunding platforms. The platform collates investment opportunities from various crowdfunding platforms and displays them in a Tinder-style swipeformat. It also offers the latest insights and news about the alternative finance industry. OFF3R is operated from London, United Kingdom.
  • POPxo — POPxo is India's online community for women that deals everything from fashion, beauty, lifestyle, work, and etc.Reaching 9 million users every month with over 102 million monthly engaged content views. POPxo provides text and video content in an accessible manner, and reach them where they live their lives: on social media and on mobile.It focuses on reaching a highly targeted audience - the millions of young urban women in India who are growing in confidence, in independence and in spending power, it monetises by working across formats (native ads, social posts, events) with brands who want to reach this important and influential consumer base.I was launch in March 2014 it's become the go-to lifestyle resource for the female (18-34) demographic.
  • O-Teas
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Girish Mathrubootham
Angel · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Girish Mathrubootham is the CEO and Founder at Freshworks. Girish Mathrubootham attended University of Madras.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: India, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$2.5M; Angel $250k–$500k; Series A $125k–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HuddleUp — HuddleUp is an AI-based team culture platform empowering Managers to boost team engagement & productivity using conversational AI, personalised learnings & peer connections. Build engaged, high-performing remote teams with HuddleUp. Book a demo now!
  • NocoDB — Free & Open Source Airtable alternative. Turns any SQL database into a smart spreadsheet. Supports MySQL, Postgres, SQL server, MariaDB & SQLite.
  • PickYourTrail — Personalize your vacation packages online. International trips in 3 easy steps at best rates guaranteed. Experience a hassle-free vacation.
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Ambarish Raghuvanshi
Angel · New Delhi, Delhi, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Ambarish Raghuvanshi is working as an Angel Investor (active through the Indian Angel Network), start-up mentor, and helping organizations planning an IPO. Also, on the Advisory Board of Info Edge (India) Ltd. He has invested in Process Nine (local language), Manash Lifestyle (purplle.com), design bids, roadhouse hostels, drivojoy, grey orangerobotics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $245k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MaxWholesale — Max Wholesale.in is India's first online B2B platform for sourcing all inventory needs for local General Store merchants.The FMCG supply chain as they know it is in dire need of technology infusion. Less than 0.1% of retailers of India - who they identify as Kirana stores - use POS terminals. With 8 million stores, India surpasses evencountries like China, and the demand that originates from these stores is highly fragmented. They are individually small but collectively very largeWith their data science driven approach they are changing the way business is done at these stores. Their friends - the moms and pops at these stores - need a hint of the right technology and tools which could help them increase efficiency and return-on-effort.At MaxWholesale, Their proprietary algorithms help you predict your demand, procure better, larger variety and more reliably, reduce wastage, and enable you with the right working capital based on your payment history.
  • Board Infinity — Are you looking to build a great career in data science & digital marketing? Board Infinity is your one-stop shop for Learning, Career coaching and assured job opportunities.
  • Shyft — Shyft provides personalized wellness solutions for specific health conditions like pregnancy care, chronic ailments, etc. through nutrition, yoga & meditation.
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Deepak Natraj
Angel · Bangalore, Karnataka, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Deepak manages Aarin Capital (www.aarincapital.com), which has made several large & mid-size, and seed investments. Aarin's investments include focused molecular research, implantable & external medical devices, mobile-medicine, gene testing, test-prep, software products, eCommerce and tablet based platform learning in India &overseas, travel and consumer facing businesses.Deepak works closely with founders to help and facilitate them create value and grow their businesses from idea through exit. He has also ideated, structured, set-up & raised capital for several of the funds anchored by Aarin and for co-investments. He is on the board and investment committees of some of the investee companies and funds.From early 2008 to early 2010, Deepak was CFO at a Sequoia funded tech start-up, later sold to a leading mid-tier Indian outsourcer. Since mid-2000 Deepak headed strategic initiatives at Infosys and was its first CRO. He deployed +$100m in various initiatives, including cross-border acquisitions, led pricing on outsourcing deals and implemented SoX404. He started his career in early-1990 with the Big Four.Aarin is a proprietary fund co-founded by Dr Ranjan Pai (Manipal Education & Medical Group), and Mohandas Pai (Chief Advisor to the Manipal Group, Board Member, also formerly of Infosys). Deepak set up the fund and has been with it since. Additionally, Aarin has anchored funds in IT, both early stage and venture capital, Digital Media and Financial Services, the confluence of mobile and consumer, in derivatives and also late stage and listed equities.Deepak is an honours Commerce graduate from Delhi University and is a Chartered Accountant (1989). He is keen on science fiction, plays golf and does yoga. Deepak also invests in his own capacity and works closely with founders helping them build their businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Journalism, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • The Ken — The Ken publishes one original story from India every weekday for its subscribers. From technology, startups, business, science & healthcare.
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Nitin Madan
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Nitin Madan is a media entrepreneur and founder of Knit-inK Digital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Digital Media, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KathaVersse Media Network — KathaVersse Media Network is a universe and franchise-driven premium entertainment studio that develops social and over-the-top video IPs. KathaVersse Media Network develops content IPs with a minimum shelf life of seven years in order to maximize ROI for audiences, marketers, and over-the-top partners.
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Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Angel / Sophisticated Investor and Trader (Ex London Stock Exchange(LSE), Deutsche Bank, London Clearing House(LCH) ) , Invested in 60+ Startups / 4 successful exits (with Avg 20x) and counting more. (Web3 -> udaybs.ETH )Invested in following asset classes from past 2 decades across UK / India / US / Europe / -Private Equity (Seed / Growth / VC/ Acquisition / Merger) - Equity Markets - Real Estate - FX - Commodity - Bonds - Fintech, Blockchain, Crypto Market, Web3 , DeFi, NFT - Derivative Markets / Hedging / F&O / CFDGrowing Wealth in bumpy economic rides - There is no secret formula. Investment is an art. Being vigilant, dynamic, connecting dots, evaluating risk with constant change, loads of patience and visualising medium to long term.Private Equity Investments across globe in following domains / categories: - Energy - EV / Carbon Footprint - Blockchain / FinTech / AI / ML / Web3 / DeFi - D2C / B2C - Food & Beverages - Pharma - Media & Entertainment

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: United Kingdom, India, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $349k–$2.8M; Series B $11M–$20M; Equity Crowdfunding $3.2M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Agnikul — Agnikul is a space tech startup that designs, manufactures, tests, and launch orbital-class rockets for micro and nanosatellites. They currently work out of the National Center for Combustion R&D at IIT-Madras. Rocket scientists, engineers, ex-bankers and space lawyers are a part of their team. This unique blend of people is one of theirbiggest strengths. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
  • Log 9 Materials — Log 9 Materials Scientific Private Limited is a graphene research and development company. At Log 9 Materials we are determined to accelerate the commercialization of graphene nanotechnology. We have just developed the first commercial product on graphene- 'Smoke-safe'. This innovative graphene based cigarette filter reduces the risk ofgetting cancer by 90%. We offer a wide range of graphene (CVD graphene, rGO) and its derivatives. We bring to you graphene as researchers and not just manufactures, so we understand the triviality of the grade of our products.
  • Toffee Ride - Learning App for Classes I - IV — Toffee Ride is a learning App that is singularly focused on helping your child develop a thorough understanding of fundamental concepts.
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Sujit Jha
Angel · Kolkata, West Bengal, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Sujit Jha

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Blockchain, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $30k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Uppskill — Uppskill is the Top Digital Marketing Training Institute in India. Enroll today & upscale your career options with a Digital Marketing certification and placement assistance.
  • Freshsharp.com — Freshsharp.com is an e-commerce company that focuses on fresh meat and ready-to-cook products.
  • KathaVersse Media Network — KathaVersse Media Network is a universe and franchise-driven premium entertainment studio that develops social and over-the-top video IPs. KathaVersse Media Network develops content IPs with a minimum shelf life of seven years in order to maximize ROI for audiences, marketers, and over-the-top partners.
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Roshan Abbas
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Roshan is founder of Encompass Events Pvt. Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Internet, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $270k–$1.7M; Angel $120k–$120k
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dubdub.ai — Google translate for videos
  • MoneyyApp — We at MoneyyApp are helping Creators to grow their businesses. The struggle of the creators trying to make a mark has been tiring, and we understand that! The inception of MoneyyApp lays the foundation for creators’ atrocities.
  • KathaVersse Media Network — KathaVersse Media Network is a universe and franchise-driven premium entertainment studio that develops social and over-the-top video IPs. KathaVersse Media Network develops content IPs with a minimum shelf life of seven years in order to maximize ROI for audiences, marketers, and over-the-top partners.
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Sachin Bansal
Angel · Bangalore, Karnataka, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $350k–$1M; Series A $1M–$5.8M
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow

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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Aadil Ebrahim
Angel · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Aadil Ebrahim

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Fashion, Lifestyle
  • Stage:Seed, Series C
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • POPxo — POPxo is India's online community for women that deals everything from fashion, beauty, lifestyle, work, and etc.Reaching 9 million users every month with over 102 million monthly engaged content views. POPxo provides text and video content in an accessible manner, and reach them where they live their lives: on social media and on mobile.It focuses on reaching a highly targeted audience - the millions of young urban women in India who are growing in confidence, in independence and in spending power, it monetises by working across formats (native ads, social posts, events) with brands who want to reach this important and influential consumer base.I was launch in March 2014 it's become the go-to lifestyle resource for the female (18-34) demographic.
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Ankur Warikoo
Angel · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Ankur Warikoo is the Co-founder and Board Member of Nearbuy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: India, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$3.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kredmint — Explore Kredmint's financial solutions, including business loans, Working capital loans, term loan, Embedded Finance,supply chain finance, trade finance and invoice discounting. We offer tailored funding options to support your business growth.
  • wealth42 — wealth42 helps you create a plan to be wealthy. It is the fastest financial planning app on the planet, available on iOS and Android. Get productive with your money with planned investments, loans, expenses, savings, and insurance.
  • 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.
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Alok Mittal
Angel · Gurgaon, Haryana, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Alok is Co-founder and CEO of Indifi, India's leading full-stack platform for enabling debt financing for small businesses. Alok is also an active angel investor, co-founder of Indian Angel Network, and on the board of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Delhi. Prior to starting Indifi, Alok setup and ran Canaan Partners' venture investmentbusiness. Earlier, Alok co-founded JobsAhead.com, a leading web-based recruitment business in India.Alok earned a BE in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and a MS in computer science from UC Berkeley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Marketplace, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: India, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $240k–$2M; Series A $4.5M–$8.7M; Series B $5.7M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GroMo — Become a partner and make a regular income by selling financial products. Brand yourself as a certified financial advisor and launch and grow your business.
  • Innovist — Onesto Labs Private Limited is an unlisted private company. It was incorporated on 18 October, 2018 and is located in Central Delhi, Delhi. It is classified as a private limited company.The company has two directors - Rohit Chawla and Sifat Khurana.
  • leap.club — we are a powerful and private network of women leaders.
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Rajan Anandan
Angel · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

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

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: India, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$2.2M; Angel $30k–$353k; Series A $4M–$5.2M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

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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LD Sharma
Angel · New Delhi, Delhi, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

LD Sharma - founder, CEO & Group Vice Chairman @ Shoogloo Media

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Video, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Flickstree — At Flickstree, we help brands Engage, Acquire and Retain users with AI-powered editorial videos that users love to watch in a cost-effective, scalable way. On our platform PlusYou Club, users not only enjoy branded videos, but they also engage with multiple rewarding tools like quizzes, crosswords, polls, etc. where we further drive brand messages. Flickstree's content reaches 60Mn+ users across websites and apps.
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Vaibhav Kapoor
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Vaibhav Kapoor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$3M; Series A $2.7M–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Falca — Falca is a rural AgTech supply chain startup offering one-stop solution for all farming needs. Falca aims to enhance the farmer lifecycle through farmer centric phygital (Physical + Digital) platform by providing Input Solutions, Advisory Solutions and Market Linkages.
  • Kikibix — Relish what tastes like your childhood, loaded with an array of healthy ingredients for scrumptiously flavorful and healthy snacks. Born from the vision of a doctor to make a brilliant amalgamation of tasty and healthy. Made with love, baked to perfection, a home for healthy cookies that taste amazing!
  • MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
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Aakrit Vaish
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Aakrit Vaish is the co-founder and CEO of Haptik, who pioneered the wave of conversational AI starting back in 2013. Today, Haptik is one of the world's largest companies in the space with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Mumbai, Singapore, and clients that include names such as KFC, Starhub, Zurich Insurance, Ola Cabs, Hotstar, Oyo Rooms,Kotak Life. In April 2019, Reliance Industries acquired the majority shareholding in the company in a $100 million transaction, making Haptik one of the highest valued AI companies globally. Outside of Haptik, Aakrit is an investor in startups in the areas of consumer/consumer tech and B2B SaaS. Notable investments include Unacademy (valued at >$200 million), Pepper Content, Park+, Flat White Capital, Third Wave Coffee, Ayoconnect, Boxhub, Dataweave, Haikujam (Ligthtbox backed), Flatchat (sold to Commonfloor in 2014), Tookitaki, Dil Mil, Ayopop, iON Energy, Talent Litmus, among others.Prior to Haptik,Aakrit was an early member of the team at Flurry, one of the world's largest mobile analytics and advertising platforms, acquired by Yahoo in 2014. Aakrit received his BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign and was named as a contender to the Forbes India 30 under 30 list in 2015.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: India, Canada, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $130k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Punt Partners — A marketing technology services company, which offers outcomes using proprietary data, tech and services.
  • The Yarn Bazaar — The Yarn Bazaar is a Purpose-Led, Modern, Efficient, and Transparent managed Marketplace for yarn that allows yarn buyers and sellers to discover real-time yarn prices, information, and market trends in an instant. Our proprietary processes and flexible unsecured financing options enable yarn sellers to expand their reach and sales whilemaintaining higher margins, and buyers to discover and purchase high-quality yarn at unbeatable prices while reducing raw material and procurement costs, saving time, money, and effort.
  • GrayQuest — GrayQuest Education Finance Pvt. Ltd provides Parents and Students with the most convenient and easiest option to pay fees to their Institute.
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Mithun Sacheti
Angel · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Mithun Sacheti finished his undergrad studies and took the first flight out to the USA, to enrol and get certified as a gemologist from the Gemmological Institute of America, California (GIA). His passion for jewellery and all things diamond drove him to set up his first store (for Jaipur Gems), just a few days after his return! Afteroverseeing Jaipur Gem’s expansion into South India, including into Chennai and Coimbatore, Mithun headed towards e-commerce.mithunRealizing the huge potential of online retail in India and using his background/experience in jewellery and diamonds, Mithun laid the blueprint for CaratLane.com. His vision of selling solitaires and diamond jewellery over the internet was shared by a man whose expertise lay in a complementing area. With Srinivasa Gopalan, Mithun started CaratLane.com in 2007, with the site going live in 2008. From then, it’s been a journey of crossing milestone after milestone! Recognizing the leadership provided in growing CaratLane, TiE felicitated Mithun with the “Next-Gen Entrepreneur of the Year” Award in 2012.Mithun combines jewellery expertise with a passion for jewellery technology. He has ensured that every piece produced for CaratLane.com is manufactured to perfect specifications, so when our customers lay hands on their jewellery, they get exactly what they saw online. Few e-retailers can live up on specs like CaratLane.com! Today, Mithun oversees business strategy and direction at CaratLane.com. When not hobnobbing with diamonds, Mithun is an active badminton and squash player and a complete cricket aficionado.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, CRM, Sales
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • POPxo — POPxo is India's online community for women that deals everything from fashion, beauty, lifestyle, work, and etc.Reaching 9 million users every month with over 102 million monthly engaged content views. POPxo provides text and video content in an accessible manner, and reach them where they live their lives: on social media and on mobile.It focuses on reaching a highly targeted audience - the millions of young urban women in India who are growing in confidence, in independence and in spending power, it monetises by working across formats (native ads, social posts, events) with brands who want to reach this important and influential consumer base.I was launch in March 2014 it's become the go-to lifestyle resource for the female (18-34) demographic.
  • Securden — Securden offers a zero-trust based all-in-one platform for privileged access governance and security. It provides complete control over privileged access and helps prevent identity thefts, malware propagation, and cyber attacks in enterprises.
  • Paperflite — Curate, Organize and distribute your marketing collaterals, track their performance and engagement in real time with Paperflite.
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Hussein Kanji
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Hussein is a partner at Hoxton Ventures. He currently represents Hoxton on the boards of BaseImmune, Biotx, Finesse, Fy!, Giraffe360, Kbox, Luminary, Peptone, Raptor Supplies, Raw Material, Skin Analytics, SOC.OS, TourRadar, XYZ Reality and Yieldify, and serves as a board observer on Behavox, Karakuri, Loveshark, Panakeia and Vidya Health. Hepreviously served on the boards of Babylon Health, bd4travel (acquired by Dnata), Campanja (acquired by 24/7 Media), Darktrace (LSE:DARK) and Deliveroo (LSE:ROO).Hussein also serves on the board of Tech Nation. He also sits on the advisory board of GTO Partners, a tech mid-market buyout firm, and Landscape, a venture capital review site.While forming Hoxton, he helped Eros STX Global develop ErosNow, an online streaming video platform for Bollywood. Prior to Hoxton, Hussein was an associate with Accel Partners. He joined Accel from Microsoft Corporation. Earlier in his career, he worked with three startups, Safe-View (acquired by L-3), Radiance Technologies (acquired by Comcast) and Studio Verso (acquired by KPMG).Hussein holds an MBA from London Business School and did his undergraduate studies in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University. He stubbornly refuses to swear allegiance to a monarch and remains a proud American.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.6M; Series A $1M–$18M; Series B $5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • POPxo — POPxo is India's online community for women that deals everything from fashion, beauty, lifestyle, work, and etc.Reaching 9 million users every month with over 102 million monthly engaged content views. POPxo provides text and video content in an accessible manner, and reach them where they live their lives: on social media and on mobile.It focuses on reaching a highly targeted audience - the millions of young urban women in India who are growing in confidence, in independence and in spending power, it monetises by working across formats (native ads, social posts, events) with brands who want to reach this important and influential consumer base.I was launch in March 2014 it's become the go-to lifestyle resource for the female (18-34) demographic.
  • LLUSTRE — Domain for Sale. LLustre.com. Request Price. What Are the Advantages of a Super Premium .Com Domain? Increased Traffic. Search Engine Ranking. Brand Recognition. Immediate Presence. Higher Profits. Great Investment. #1 in Premium Domains. 300,000 of the World's Best .Com Domains.
  • Signpost — Signpost is the leader in small business management software for home service businesses. Learn more about our products & see how we can help.
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Sandeep Tandon
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Sandeep Tandon Co-founded Accelyst Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in 2010 and has been its Chief Business Officer since September 1, 2015. Sandeep Tandon serves as Managing Director at Tandon Technology Ventures (Tandon Group).He serves as Managing Director and Chairman of the Board at Infinx Services Private Limited. Sandeep Tandon serves as the Chairman andManaging Director at Infinx Healthcare. He oversees the strategy and operations of all group companies. He has been involved in the technology industry for over 20 years. During this time he has contributed significantly to the growth of Information Technology exports from India. He was co-founder and a former director of IQBackOffice - a leading Accounts Payable Processing company. He was also a co-founder and Director at Freecharge.com - among India’s fastest growing internet commerce ventures. He is active in the Angel Investor community and serves as a mentor to various technology start-ups. He served as Chairman of the Electronics Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC) and is a member of Young President Organization (Mumbai Chapter). Sandeep Tandon completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: India, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$1.9M; Series A $3M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Progcap — Progcap is revolutionising the way financial access is delivered to underserved segments of the Indian retail economy, through specialized financing and technology products that empower small and medium businesses (SMBs) to progress without obstacles.
  • Silkhaus — A seamless, sophisticated experience you can rely on. Choose from the wide variety of furnished Boutique Flats and apartments for short and long-term stays from Silkhaus.
  • ScratchNest — ScratchNest creates technologies from scratch, giving them a personalized touch, and exhilarating user experience. Striving in this direction, ScratchNest stands as the first Indian company to design, develop, and manufacture UHF RFID, NFC, BLE, and Datalogging devices in India. Founded in 2019, we are a culmination of innovation and hard work bya highly brilliant team of IITians consistently striving to provide you with the best worth of your time and money.We aim to extract the most and best out of technology so that the world relishes the power of automation. By developing the never-before technologies in India, ScratchNest aims to lay a milestone in the Make in India campaign.
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Naveen Tewari
Angel · Bangalore, Karnataka, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Naveen is the founder of InMobi. His philosophy of constant innovation and disruption is embedded deep into the DNA of InMobians and is resonated across InMobi. His dream is to re-imagine advertising in a truly ‘user-first’ way and unlock the true potential of the mobile ecosystem.He has a Bachelor’s degree from Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur (IIT) and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Harvard Business School, where he was also bestowed with the Dean’s Award, for his exceptional leadership and contribution. In 2013, his alma mater, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur also honored him with the esteemed ‘Distinguished Alumnus Award’ for his excellence in entrepreneurship.Naveen is involved in the fueling of around 30 start-ups as yet in India and has personally invested and supported several start-ups like NestAway, SlideRule, Mettl, Moneysights, Bombay Canteen, Zimmber, Razorpay etc. A believer that start-ups will be the pillars of growing India, he co-founded iSPIRT, which is a change agent with the brain of a think tank and aims to address government policy, create market catalysts, and grow the maturity of product entrepreneurs in order to transform India into a hub for new generation software products.He also founded and chairs a U.S.-based nonprofit called India School Fund which funds and sets up schools in rural India, a cause he cares deeply for.Naveen is a board member at Paytm and has been recognized for his entrepreneurial skills at various platforms. He received several awards and recognitions over the last several years:>‘Future Leaders Award’ presented by Narendra Modi, Indian Prime Minister, 2015>Fortune’s ‘40 under 40’ most powerful, influential and important people in business, 2015>The ‘Pathbreaker of the Year’ Award, 2014>Forbes India Leadership Award for ‘Outstanding Start Up', 2014>‘100 Most Creative People’, 2014 across the world>The ‘Pathbreaker of the Year’ Award, 2013 presented by Narendra Modi, Indian Prime Minister>‘7th Most Important Person’ by Business Insider’s the Mobile Power List, 2013>‘Mobile Top 50’ in The Drum, 2013>‘2nd Most Important Person’ by Business Insider’s the Mobile Power List, 2012An avid fan of cricket, Naveen is a fitness enthusiast and his early morning routine alternates between a long run outdoors and a cycling trip around the less crowded parts of the city.Source (http://www.inmobi.com/organization/leadership/naveen-tewari#profile)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $80k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Klub — India's leading Revenue Based Financing platform with a vision to revolutionize growth capital. Join the Klub for fast, fair & flexible funding.
  • Kaarva — Kaarva is India's first flexible salary platform which is not a salary advance but gives employees control to access a part of their earned salaries on their own whenever they need, multiple times a month.
  • Bright Money — A new system for financial planning to delete debt and build wealth. Pay Down Debt Faster, Build Savings and Boost your Credit Score.
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Raman Roy
Angel · New Delhi, Delhi, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Raman is widely regarded as the pioneer and “guru” of the BPO industry (also called the ‘IT Enabled Services’ industry) in India. He has played a pivotal role over the last 14 years in promoting Indian BPO and proving that India can be a preferred location for Remote Processing.Raman is a pioneer four times over, having successfully led thecaptive/third party BPO initiatives of American Express, GE Capital (now Genpact) and Spectramind (now Wipro BPO) out of India before starting Quatrro mid 2006, which is launched to focus on high end BPO services.Raman is a Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Management Accountant with a doctorate in Management Accountancy. In his career spanning across 30+ years, Raman has a very hands-on approach to business and has first-hand experience and rare insights into servicing markets as diverse as North America, Europe, Japan, Asia Pacific and Australia.As a tribute to his contribution to the BPO industry, he was awarded the Dataquest Pathbreaker Award in 2002 for directly creating 35,000+ jobs in India and indirectly enabling the employment of over 410,000 people by creating the BPO industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, SaaS, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$1.3M; Series A $3M–$5.1M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HireACamp — HireACamp is an online marketplace that lets travelers easily Search and book camps with local camp owners.
  • SP Robotic Works Pvt Ltd — SP Robotic Works is India's #1 Edutainment Company that bundles Learning Robotics, Coding & other New age technologies with fun! Digital Learning Platform(AI assisted) coupled with Hands-on Kits helps students learn various Technologies like Robotics, Coding, Internet Of Things(IoT), Drones, Android App Building, Virtual Reality and manymore!! They deliver courses both on Online & Offline Smart classes mode via SP Robotics Maker Labs spread across 83 dedicated centres in 32 cities and 13 states.
  • Zerone Microsystems Private Limited — Zerone Microsystems is a bleeding-edge payment fintech firm. Zerone Microsystems is the inventor of ZUP (Zerone Unified Payment) Technology, a cross-platform mobile app for frictionless payment between smartphones. ZUP Technology has enabled the smartphone to smartphone payments. We convert cheapest of smartphones into a POS machine using our ZUPproximity payment technology, with no additional hardware and no need for NFC. Replacing the entire POS Infrastructure through a VPOS on cheapest of Smartphones.
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Ajai Chowdhry
Angel · New Delhi, Delhi, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Ajai Chowdhry - Founder @ HCL Infosystems

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Information Services
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: India, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Angel $35k–$600k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Clensta — Clensta is a biotechnology start-up to improve the National Hygiene condition whilst addressing the aspect of water conservation. Clensta is an Indian startup and in association with IIT Delhi, works to create innovative healthcare solutions to make hygiene accessible for anyone, anytime, and anywhere. Driven by their aim to create products thatpromote complete cleaning solutions without water.
  • Wizikey — Wizikey is a SaaS PR tool for business to discover, identify, and connect with the relevant media journalists & social influencers. It helps businesses identify relevant journalists and create meaningful relationships with them and grow their business.Wizikey’s mission is to organize the communications industry by providing a global standardwith the most cutting edge technology and enable meaningful relationships. Wizikey was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.
  • SP Robotic Works Pvt Ltd — SP Robotic Works is India's #1 Edutainment Company that bundles Learning Robotics, Coding & other New age technologies with fun! Digital Learning Platform(AI assisted) coupled with Hands-on Kits helps students learn various Technologies like Robotics, Coding, Internet Of Things(IoT), Drones, Android App Building, Virtual Reality and manymore!! They deliver courses both on Online & Offline Smart classes mode via SP Robotics Maker Labs spread across 83 dedicated centres in 32 cities and 13 states.
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Samir Sood
Angel · New Delhi, Delhi, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: India, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $297k–$3.2M; Angel $300k–$350k
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

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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Prashant Mehta
Angel · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Prashant is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of Komli Media including sales, product development, engineering, marketing and business development. Prashant worked for Eight years at Yahoo! Inc., where he was Vice President and Head of Monetization for Yahoo!’s Emerging Markets Group which included India, Southeast Asia,Latin America, Middle East and Eastern Europe. Prior to Yahoo!, Prashant held various roles at Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan Chase (formerly, Chemical Bank) and NatWest.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Advertising, Ad Targeting
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: India, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Series A $4.5M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow

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.
  • WayCool — WayCool (WayCool Foods) is India's leading food and agri tech company Supplying 2,000+ tons of food to a network of 169,000+ retailers every day.
  • SilverPush — Silverpush is an AI-powered contextual video advertising company that uses moment targeting to produce engaging ads in a brand safe & suitable environment where your users are most likely to see them.
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Ranjit Radhakrishnan
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Ranjit Radhakrishnan - Chief Product Officer @ BYJU’S

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, TV, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $130k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Picxy — Picxy is the Stock Photo Company in South Asia aiming to provide you with authentic images exclusively, pertaining to the South Asian Context as a whole.
  • Rheo TV — Rheo TV is a game-streaming platform that aims to make professional game streaming a mainstream career option in India by building an entertainment ecosystem that drives engagement and monetization.Today, India has nearly 200 million active gamers on smartphones. Ubiquitous internet infrastructure and affordable smartphones are leading to theincreasing popularity of multiplayer online gaming in India, and Rheo TV is tapping into this phenomenon.
  • Vimobin Labs — Vimobin Labs is a deep technology company focused on bringing advances in mobile-access to users across the world.
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Anupam Mittal
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: India, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 84
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$2.7M; Angel $77k–$330k; Pre-Seed $60k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pharmallama — Our team of in-house pharmacists at Pharmallama will help you provide the Pre-sorted medicine packs according to the prescription provided.
  • Padcare Labs — PadCare is an unprecedented hygiene management solution that completes the loop of menstrual hygiene economy by generating harmless, recyclable output out of soiled pads.
  • GrayQuest — GrayQuest Education Finance Pvt. Ltd provides Parents and Students with the most convenient and easiest option to pay fees to their Institute.
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Kunal Shah
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups, 43 in the past 12 months

Kunal Shah

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 189
  • Round size: Seed $810k–$4M; Pre-Seed $150k–$2.3M; Series A $2.8M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jugyah — Jugyah is a technology company transforming how the next billion urban Indians rent their homes.Our pioneering, fin-tech powered business model is radically changing the long term home rental market.We believe there is a better place (”jugyah”) out there for both renters and property owners where they feel like they belong. Our goal is to takethem there.Backed by the largest real estate developers in the country and some of the top tier angels and VCs, we are currently in beta.
  • Peping — India's best digital gastrointestinal care clinic. For gut health issues like constipation, bloating, acidity.Care plans by the best gastroenterologists and nutritionists.
  • Clinikally — Video consult top skin & hair doctors online with the expertise of over 30,000 patients. Shop with us & get the finest skin & hair care products now!
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Aprameya Radhakrishna
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Aprameya loves singing romantic songs and is the quintessential dreamer who doesn’t fear to experiment. He used to be the Head of Business Development for PDS at Jones Lang LaSalle India where he spent almost 3 years post his graduation from IIM Ahmedabad. He has worked at Infosys and has an Electronics engineering degree from NITK Surthkal andif all this has made you think he’s a geek, ask his close friends and they would say otherwise!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, Croatia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$2.5M; Angel $250k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GoodGudi — GoodGudi is a Lifestyle retail shopping destination. Our Stores sell Travel Accessories, Fashion Accessories, Home Improvement products, Toys and Cosmetics
  • Yellow — Yellow aim to provide a simple, secure, and cost-effective solution for all Indians to protect and preserve their legacies.
  • Evolved Foods — Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins.Did you find apk for android? You can find new Free Android Games and apps.
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Mahesh Pratapneni
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Mahesh specializes in incubating product companies in the education, healthcare, and data/analytics sectors. He is focused on helping launch, re-engineer and support small and mid-sized technology driven businesses. He is known for building outstanding global teams and creating value by leveraging his experience in product visualization,development and management; and his expertise in building global delivery models.Currently, serves as Executive Director of MedGenome and is on the boards of Impelsys, Logicserve and Saksin Life Sciences.His previous experiences include serving as EVP of CalSoft Group; SVP of OneWest Bank and IndyMac Bank; and CTO of Ocwen, Financial Services.Mahesh earned his undergraduate degree in electronics and communications from IIT Madras, and his MBA from IIM Calcutta.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SEM, Internet, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Logicserve Digital — LS Digital earlier known as Logicserve Digital is a Global Digital Marketing Transformation group. We help clients across Media , UI/UX, Creative, Data Analytics and Insights, Customer Experience using Adtech and Martech and Tech and Innovations.
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Binny Bansal
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups, 9 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

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Seed $480k–$5.4M; Series A $2M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

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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Pallab Chatterjee
Angel · Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, Texas, United States · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Dr. Pallab Chatterjee is an internationally recognized high-tech executive with experience in Corporate General Management, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Technology, Operations, and Outsourcing.Currently, Pallab is a Managing Director and Operating Partner of Symphony Technology Group, a strategic private equity firm that invests and partnersin building great software and services company, growing companies not only with capital, but innovation. Pallab currently serves on the boards of directors of SSC, Teleca and MSC Software.Prior to STG, Pallab was Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of i2 Technologies, Inc. Under his leadership, i2 launched a new sales execution model coupled with new services lines for the company’s Total Supply Chain Management approach that yielded significant bookings growth for i2. Prior to assuming the CEO role, Dr. Chatterjee was President Solutions Operations at i2. As President of i2′s Solutions Operations, Dr. Chatterjee was responsible for product development, product marketing, and delivery of i2 Technologies’ supply chain management solutions.Prior to i2, Dr. Chatterjee spent 24 years at Texas Instruments in various executive management positions. Under his leadership as senior vice president of Research and Development and Chief Technology Officer, the Texas Instruments Technology Labs became known as a standard for excellence acknowledged by both academia and industry. A TI senior fellow in 1985, an IEEE fellow in 1986, Dr. Chatterjee received the IEEE J. J. Ebers award in 1986. He has been awarded numerous patents and written several publications on the high technology industry.Dr. Chatterjee earned a BS in electronics and communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India where he was awarded the President of India Gold Medal for curricular excellence and the B.C.Roy Memorial Gold Medal for extracurricular excellence. He received his master’s and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SEM, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Logicserve Digital — LS Digital earlier known as Logicserve Digital is a Global Digital Marketing Transformation group. We help clients across Media , UI/UX, Creative, Data Analytics and Insights, Customer Experience using Adtech and Martech and Tech and Innovations.
  • ConveGenius — ConveGenius is focused on nurturing and harnessing value by providing affordable educational solutions to create impact in large volumes. Their core competence lies in building mobile products/ apps/ games catered for global and local markets likewise. The company is focussed towards providing quality education to children at risk byintegrating technology with education and working with state governments to penetrate the rural and semi urban areas of India. It also aims to cater to the global urban market using retailing and e-tailing channels for its various world-class high-end educational solutions. ConveGenius is based out of India and Singapore. Their India office is headquartered in Noida.
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Shan Krishnasamy
Angel · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Shan Krishnasamy is a co-founder and the chief technology officer of Freshdesk, a company that enables its clients businesses to provide multichannel support via phone, email, chat, website, social networks, and mobile apps. He was previously a technical architect at Zoho Corporation. Krishnasamy holds a bachelor’s degree from TPGIT.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Software, Journalism
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trainn — Trainn is the leading Customer Education Platform for SaaS businesses to accelerate product adoption, onboarding, and customer retention. It enables SMBs to deliver consistent customer education and training programs at scale.
  • BricSpaces — BricSpaces technology-driven, full-service, real-estate company specializing in designing and delivering a world-class experience.
  • SuperBeings — Automate your people processes with an integrated okr tool, continuous performance management system and employee engagement platform
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Pavan Ongole
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Pavan Ongole

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Online Portals, News, Education
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • The Ken — The Ken publishes one original story from India every weekday for its subscribers. From technology, startups, business, science & healthcare.
  • Freshtohome — Freshtohome is an online grocery store that sells a range of seafood and meat to its users.The website’s range of products include fish, poultry, mutton, steaks, and fillet. Fish consists of shell, freshwater, and marine. Furthermore, it enables suppliers to supply their seafood and meat to the website.Freshtohome was launched in 2015 by ShanKadavil and is based in Bangalore.
  • Fastudent — Our mission is to provide efficient and effective solutions to the complete education fraternity for a priceless experience which we term as "Zoom Ahead with Education at your door".
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Murugavel Janakiraman
Angel · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Murugavel Janakiraman is the Founder and CEO at Matrimony.com.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $925k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Iobot — Build Secure and Robust IoT Solutions with Thingsup IoT Platform, Gateways and Sensor Node Devices from iobot Technologies India
  • Settlin — Search, Visit, Check Legal, Negotiate and Buy - all at one place.
  • MoneyyApp — We at MoneyyApp are helping Creators to grow their businesses. The struggle of the creators trying to make a mark has been tiring, and we understand that! The inception of MoneyyApp lays the foundation for creators’ atrocities.
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V Balakrishnan
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Mr. V. Balakrishnan, also known as Bala, is the Founder & Chairman of Exfinity, a Private Equity Fund focused on investing in the Technology space. Mr. Balakrishnan served as Head of BPO, Finacle & India Business Unit at Infosys Ltd. He served as the Chief Financial Officer of Infosys Ltd., from May 1, 2006 to October 31, 2012. Mr.Balakrishnan has significant experience in leadership positions in the finance domain, with expertise in Corporate Finance, International Taxation, Risk Management and Mergers & Acquisitions. He served as Secretary and Senior Vice President - Finance of Infosys Ltd., from joining it in 2001 to April 2006. He served as Vice President - Finance of Infosys Ltd and also served in various capacities in Finance department.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Enterprise Software, Information Technology, Pet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $161k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • The Ken — The Ken publishes one original story from India every weekday for its subscribers. From technology, startups, business, science & healthcare.
  • TaxSutra — Taxsutra provides real time, up-to-date news and case law analysis on Income tax from ITAT, and the High Courts and Supreme Court. We are also tracking important litigations, developments in Income Tax department, CBDT and Finance Ministry, with a view to keep tax professionals abreast of the latest trends therein.
  • TailsLife — TailsLife is a platform that connects Pet Owners, Services providers & Manufacturers - leveraging the latest technology to transform existing industry and create new ones. Our technology platform enables users, pet walkers, sitters and groomers to discover each other through an intelligent matching engine that analyses multiple data pointsincluding the availability, proximity and dozens of other parameters like pet type, breed, size, age, special needs etc. TailsLife also markets products such as Instant Dog Meal with its in-house brand D WoofPack & Furresh. Having tied up with retailers such as LULU, BigBasket, Food World, Future group and top pet stores.We are web & app based.
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Rajesh Kamat
Angel · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

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

  • Industry: Mobile, Digital Entertainment, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Geography: India, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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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Pallav Nadhani
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

Pallav Nadhani is the Managing Partner at Seeders Venture Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: India, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Angel $350k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gallabox — Gallabox is a no-code workspace that unlocks the power of WhatsApp to scale your business with Shared Inbox, WhatsApp no-code Chatbot, WhatsApp Broadcasts and more
  • Bookee — Bookee is the new way yoga, boutique fitness studios and gyms win & retain clients. Start your free trial now.
  • 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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Harish Bahl
Angel · Gurgaon, Haryana, India · 1 investments in India Digital Media startups

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

  • Industry: Advertising, Internet, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$2.7M; Series A $8M–$359M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

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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Digital Media Angel investor funding in India at a glance

Stats across 24 deals from 70 investors.

70
investors
in India Digital Media startups
24
deals
in India Digital Media startups
$500k
median round
in India Digital Media startups
7%
lead investors
lead at least one round
42%
Seed
most common funding stage

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