# Top 50 Digital Media Angel Investors in India in May 2026

## Vijay Shekhar Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, News, Software

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.

## Sorabh Agarwal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Tea, Travel, Internet

Sorabh Agarwal

## Samit Garg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Digital Media, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment

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.

## Rajesh Rege
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Digital Media, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment

Rajesh Rege is a former president of Honeywell India.

## Gaurav Kapur
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Digital Media, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment

Gaurav Kapur is an individual investor and TV presenter.

## Rahul Varma
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Advertising, Health Care

Rahul Varma

## Puneet Chandra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Tea, Internet, Advertising

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

## Navin Fabiani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Series B
- Focus: Apps, Music, Beauty

Navin Fabiani - Real Estate Developer @ Grupo SURA

## Tej Lalvani
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Fashion, Advertising, Beauty

Tej Lalvani is the CEO of Vitabiotics.

## Saumya Meattle
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Social Media

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

## Sanjay Nath
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Machine Learning, Information Technology

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

## Siddharth Talwar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: News, Lifestyle, Advertising Platforms

Siddharth Talwar - Co-Founder & Partner @ Lightbox

## Kamal Haider
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Beauty, Mobile, Banking

Kamal Haider - Founder @ Market Securities

## Girish Mathrubootham
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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

## Ambarish Raghuvanshi
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, E-Commerce

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.

## Deepak Natraj
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: News, Journalism, Social Media

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.

## Nitin Madan
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Digital Media, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment

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

## Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce

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

## Sujit Jha
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Education, Blockchain, E-Commerce

Sujit Jha

## Roshan Abbas
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Internet, Gaming

Roshan is founder of Encompass Events Pvt. Ltd.

## Sachin Bansal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

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.

## Aadil Ebrahim
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series C
- Focus: Beauty, Fashion, Lifestyle

Aadil Ebrahim

## Ankur Warikoo
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Alok Mittal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Marketplace, E-Commerce

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.

## Rajan Anandan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

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.

## LD Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Video, Internet

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

## Vaibhav Kapoor
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

Vaibhav Kapoor

## Aakrit Vaish
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Health Care, E-Commerce

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.

## Mithun Sacheti
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, CRM, Sales

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.

## Hussein Kanji
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

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.

## Sandeep Tandon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet

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.

## Naveen Tewari
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

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)

## Raman Roy
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, SaaS, Software

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.

## Ajai Chowdhry
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Information Services

Ajai Chowdhry - Founder @ HCL Infosystems

## Samir Sood
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Internet

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

## Prashant Mehta
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Advertising, Ad Targeting

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.

## Ranjit Radhakrishnan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, TV, Gaming

Ranjit Radhakrishnan - Chief Product Officer @ BYJU’S

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

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

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

Kunal Shah

## Aprameya Radhakrishna
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, Apps

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!

## Mahesh Pratapneni
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SEM, Internet, Advertising

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.

## Binny Bansal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Apps

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.

## Pallab Chatterjee
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SEM, Internet, Software

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.

## Shan Krishnasamy
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: News, Software, Journalism

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.

## Pavan Ongole
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Online Portals, News, Education

Pavan Ongole

## Murugavel Janakiraman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Internet

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

## V Balakrishnan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Enterprise Software, Information Technology, Pet

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.

## Rajesh Kamat
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series B
- Focus: Mobile, Digital Entertainment, Social Media

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

## Pallav Nadhani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Information Technology

Pallav Nadhani is the Managing Partner at Seeders Venture Capital.

## Harish Bahl
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Advertising, Internet, Apps

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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