# Top 50 Digital Media Startup 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. ## Info Edge ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology Info Edge ventures, the investment arm of Info Edge started in 2008 as a mission to fuel the digital revolution by partnering with upcoming entrepreneurs and be an active participant in transforming the consumer experience and delivering superior value through world-class platforms. ## VilCap Investments - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges. ## Orbit Startups - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cork, Cork, Ireland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software Orbit Startups helps companies scaling breakthrough technologies across emerging and frontier markets to the regions with the most aggressive growth. ## Rebright Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care Venture Capital Firm based in Singapore and Tokyo, focus on seed to early stage Internet & Mobile software Startups in Southeast Asia and India ## Chiratae Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care IDG Ventures India is a leading technology venture capital fund in India. The fund is part of IDG Ventures, a global network of technology venture funds with over $6 billion under management with over 220 investee companies and 10 offices across Asia and North America. IDG Ventures has been an investor in companies including Funzio, Ctrip, Tencent,Baidu, Netscape, BabyCenter, Sohu, Vancl and VinaGame. In India, IDG Ventures has invested in companies such as Flipkart, Myntra, Yatra, Newgen, Brainbees (FirstCry.com), Vserv, Manthan Software, Valyoo (Lenskart.com), Actoserba (Zivame.com), NestAway and Hiree. More information about IDG Ventures is available at www.idgvcindia.com ## Peepul Capital LLC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Port Louis Town, Port Louis, Mauritius - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Advertising, Video, Digital Media Peepul Capital is a private equity firm that offers early- and expansion-stage investment services to its clients. It was founded by Srini Raju and is based in Port Louis. ## Helion Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Port Louis Town, Port Louis, Mauritius - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software Helion Venture Partners is a stage independent, India-focused venture fund, investing in high growth technology powered businesses and consumer services. ## Sorabh Agarwal - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Tea, Travel, Internet Sorabh Agarwal ## 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 ## DAOL Investment - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Retail, Digital Media, Digital Entertainment DAOL Investment is a venture capital investment firm. ## Rahul Varma - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, Advertising, Health Care Rahul Varma ## Tej Lalvani - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: Fashion, Advertising, Beauty Tej Lalvani is the CEO of Vitabiotics. ## Accel - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce First partner to exceptional teams everywhere ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## Sujit Jha - Type: Angel - Location: Kolkata, West Bengal, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Education, Blockchain, E-Commerce Sujit Jha ## Wubba Lubba Dub Dub - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 We are india's largest meme marketing company! ## HT Media - Type: VC Fund - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Content, B2C, News To grow your relationship with your go-to-market (GTM) leaders, start by focusing on how you present yourself and your team. ## Norwest Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Growing together every step of the way. We empower great leaders throughout the journey of growth. ## SoftBank Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Mobile, Software, Advertising SoftBank Group provides venture funding and strategic support to exceptional entrepreneurs building disruptive enduring businesses. They are a small team of experienced entrepreneurs and investors who take an "active" approach to helping their companies reach their full potential. They manage $600 million across three funds and investacross a company’s lifecycle, from early to growth stages. Through their close ties to a number of Asia’s leading mobile, internet and technology companies – including strategic partners SoftBank Corp, Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba Group – SoftBank Capital offers unique expertise to businesses seeking to address the Asian market. Since 1995, SoftBank Capital has partnered with internet pioneers such as Criteo, Gilt Groupe, OMGPOP (Zynga), betaworks, BuzzFeed, Buddy Media (Salesforce.com), Huffington Post (AOL), Associated Content (Yahoo!), Danger (Microsoft), Geocities (Yahoo!), E*Trade and Yahoo!. ## Hindustan Media Venture - Type: VC Fund - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Internet, Video HMVL is the publisher of ‘Hindustan’, the second largest Hindi newspaper daily based on total readership. The newspaper has a strong readership base in Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh. HMVL is a 75% subsidiary of the HT Media group. ## 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. ## 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 ## Matrix Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, Mobile, SaaS We're an early stage VC firm that leads pre-seed through Series A rounds and works with founders to help them win. ## 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. ## YourNest Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning Early-stage, DeepTech, Enterprise, Startup Funding, B2B, AI, ML, IoT, VR, AR, Blockchain, Tech-enabled, Nurture Capital, Venture Capital ## Zodius Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series C - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile Zodius builds exceptional market defining businesses in new and high growth areas where an exciting new market is emerging and there is no leader in place to drive the market. Operational since 2011, Zodius typically develops one company every six months and works intensively with its portfolio company teams to “speed up” and “shape up” forexceptional growth and profitability. ## 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! ## India Quotient - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce India Quotient is a new type of early stage investor. We fund companies building disruptive businesses aimed at Indian consumers. We're creating a powerful network of start-up enthusiasts. ## Core91 Fund - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Core91 Fund is a seed fund that invests in unconventional concepts and passionate founders. They invest in pre-seed to Series A firms founded by Indians throughout the world who are developing sophisticated B2B SaaS products with great enthusiasm and user empathy. ## Rajan Anandan - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology 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. ## Netcore Cloud - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Corporate Round - Focus: Advertising, Audio, Analytics Netcore Cloud's customer experience platform helps marketers increase conversions, user engagement, and retention on websites & apps ## VenturEast - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Software Ventureast is one of India's longest standing venture capital firms investing in Indian businesses since the late 90s. ## Sol Primero - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, Music, File Sharing Incorporated in 2014, Sol Primero is an early stage investment firm dedicated to partnering with ambitious entrepreneurs addressing large opportunities that require innovation. They are industry agnostic and focus on high growth, emerging businesses that can demonstrate the ability to scale quickly.Their investment philosophy is founded on thebelief that backing big ideas pays off, but backing the right team that can implement the idea is the winning strategy.They are long-term partners with the resources to support their portfolio companies through various stages of their journey. As entrepreneurs ourselves, they want each one of their companies to succeed and are willing to leverage their skills and networks to act as a multiplier on to the efforts of their founding teams.They act with strong conviction and make quick investment decisions, typically getting back to the opportunities they are evaluating within 2 weeks. ## Nexus Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Nexus Venture Partners is a venture capital firm established by ex-entrepreneurs in enterprise technology and consumer internet. The firm was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States. ## Sprout Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Information Technology Sprout Venture Partners Fund is a SEBI registered Category-I Alternative Investment fund. It has been created to institutionalise India’s active angel investing market and is backed by prominent first and second generation entrepreneurs.Sprout seeks to invest and work with founders having powerful vision, attentive execution, and resoluteambition to solve problems addressing large markets by building scaleable businesses. ## Blume Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services Blume Ventures provides pre-series A and early stage funding to tech-focused/tech-enabled ventures. They are typically the first institutional investors in their portfolio companies and invest for about 8-10 years. They are proponents of a collaborative approach and like to co-invest with like-minded angels and seed funds. They then providefollow-on investments to their stellar portfolio companies. ## Aadil Ebrahim - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series C - Focus: Beauty, Fashion, Lifestyle Aadil Ebrahim ## Hyderabad Angels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence We are a network of leading entrepreneurs who have successfully built and run enterprises across several domains and industries and are keen to invest in the new stage businesses having the potential to create value for mankind. Meet our Angels. ## Dholakia Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Surat, Gujarat, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Dholakia Ventures is an investment firm. ## 3one4 Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology At 3one4, we are biased towards action and channel the relevant resources to support generational innovation engines out of India. We partner with early-stage companies that are mission-oriented and are setting new standards for inclusive value creation and sustainable growth. ## Prime Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology Prime Venture Partners is a natural destination for the startups targeting global markets ## Jungle Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services Jungle Ventures is one of Southeast Asia's largest independent venture capital firms based in Singapore. We invest in early and growth-stage startups in Southeast Asia and India, focused on building category-defining businesses that stand the test of time. ## Axcel Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stevenson, Maryland, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Seed, Series C - Focus: Mobile, Retail, Internet Axcel Partners is a private equity firm operates as a venture capital firm. ## Pavan Ongole - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: Online Portals, News, Education Pavan Ongole ## 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. ## 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. ## Kalaari Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software Kalaari is a $160 million venture capital fund with a strong advisory team in Bangalore investing in early-stage, technology-oriented companies in India.Kalaari Capital invests in the unknown Indian entrepreneur who is poised to become tomorrow’s global leader. They are India’s leading investor in early-stage businesses, nurturing them throughevery aspect of growth on the transformative journey toward success. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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