Top 25 ESports Angel Investors in India in October 2023
Top 25 ESports Angel Investors in India in October 2023
| Investor | eSports India investments |
|---|---|
| Saravanan Sundaramoorthy | 1 |
| Tiger Shroff | 1 |
| Archana Priyadarshini | 1 |
| Rajan Anandan | 1 |
| Akshay Sasikumar | 1 |
| Aparna Rajkumar | 1 |
| Anjali Malhotra | 1 |
| Abhijeet Pai | 1 |
| Abhinav Sinha | 1 |
| Maninder Gulati | 1 |
| Rajan Anandan | 1 |
| Rajesh Mane | 1 |
| Prantik Dasgupta | 1 |
| Sandeep Tandon | 1 |
| Kunal Shah | 1 |
| Khalid AlTawil | 1 |
| Lakshmi Narayanan | 1 |
| Manu Midha | 1 |
| Shamsher Singh | 1 |
| Boman Irani | 1 |
| Shamsher Singh | 1 |
| Anjali Hegde | 1 |
| Trevor Wright | 1 |
| Dhruv Chitgopekar | 1 |
| Christopher Sargunam | 1 |
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Sarav as he is fondly known is a First Generation Serial Entrepreneur and Founder of skillangels.com.Prior to founding skillangels, Sarav had founded his first entrepreneurial venture eZeemath™ in 2007. He is a Certified Project Management Professional from PMI, USA & a Six Sigma Green Belt. Sarav has more than 14 years of total industryexperience working with Top Multinationals and has implemented Large Scale IT projects across geographies.He holds a M.B.A degree in Systems & Marketing from School Of Management, Pondicherry University.
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- Sports, eSports, Internet
- Pre-Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- TournamentOS — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
Tiger Shroff is an Indian actor, martial artist, and dancer known for his work in Hindi films.
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- Battery, eSports, Education
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Sploot — Freadom is a learning platform for children aged 3-12 to strengthen their English reading, speaking, and conversation skills.
- Chargeup — Chargeup operates as a battery swapping network for e-rickshaws.
- Revenant Esports — Welcome to Revenant Esports, The Biggest Esports Team in South Asia.
Archana Priyadarshini of Point One Capital.
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- SaaS, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Threado — Threado is the command centre for your online community. Measure engagement, get detailed insights and automate your operational tasks. Get early access!
- Exprto Live — Exprto connects students directly with the IIT-JEE and NEET recent year toppers for personal guidance.
- Metastable Materials — Metastable Materials which extract metals from end-of-life Lithium-ion batteries.
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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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, United States, Singapore
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!
Akshay Sasikumar
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- Sports, eSports, Internet
- Pre-Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- TournamentOS — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
Aparna Rajkumar
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- Sports, eSports, Internet
- Pre-Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- TournamentOS — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
Anjali Malhotra
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- Gaming, Content, eSports
- Seed, Angel
- India
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Auntie Fung’s — Auntie Fung’s is a quick-service restaurant (QSR) startup focused on food delivery only.
Abhijeet Pai is founder of Gruhas Proptech.
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- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Real Estate
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Kofluence — Kofluence is the world's best AI-led Influencer Marketing Platform empowering both brands and social media users to harness social influence.
- Nourish You — Get homegrown organic tasty snacks, breakfast, nut mixes and meal mixes at Nourish You. Buy super foods online with 15% off on your first order above Rs.199.
- Nao Spirits & Beverages — Discover the finest premium Craft Gins from Goa - Hapusa Himalayan Dry Gin and Greater Than London Dry Gin. Click to explore the best dry gins from India.
Abhinav looks after operations at OYO. He is a chemical engineer from IIT Kharagpur and an MBA from Harvard. Abhinav has more than a decade of experience working with product and services companies. Prior to OYO, he was a Principal with Boston Consulting Group in Dallas, US.
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- Education, Software, Manufacturing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States
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- Zyod — ZYOD is the most trusted B2B apparel sourcing and clothing manufacturing platform, providing end-to-end design to deliver solutions to fashion brands.
- Vetic — Vetic is a network of cutting-edge clinics with an emphasis on providing comprehensive pet health care.
- Finsire — Finsire Modern finances to embrace your financial desires
Maninder Gulati joined Lightspeed Advisory Services India in 2012. He brings over eight years of operating, business building, entrepreneurship and consulting experience to the firm.Prior to Lightpseed, Maninder was an Associate at McKinsey & Company. At McKinsey, Maninder worked on several growth strategy and implementation engagementsacross various sectors including financial services, organized retail, digital music, data centers and building security/automation.Before McKinsey, Maninder co-founded a voice based life-streaming platform – lifeinlines.com, which allowed users to create a digital diary of their life. Prior to this entrepreneurial venture, Maninder worked at ITC Limited, India’s largest FMCG company. At ITC, Maninder was a part of the core team that launched ITC’s personal care business and he spearheaded key organization transformation initiatives such as Six-sigma for the tobacco business.Maninder graduated with a Dual degree (B.Tech and M.Tech) in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay, where he held key leadership positions including that of Head of ‘The Entrepreneurship Cell’. He holds an MBA from ISB, Hyderabad, where he was a part of the Dean and Merit list.
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- Internet, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, Singapore, United States
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- altM — altM is an alternate materials company on a mission to develop the future of materials to reduce carbon footprint and improve circularity in their supply chain.
- Vetic — Vetic is a network of cutting-edge clinics with an emphasis on providing comprehensive pet health care.
- Finsire — Finsire Modern finances to embrace your financial desires
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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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Singapore
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- 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!
An active investor in early stage startups across technology & CPG.
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- Internet, Mobile, Fashion
- Seed
- India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Orbo.ai — Orbo.ai provide contextual information and become a gateway to the world and not just stay limited to computational photography through our deep learning technology based solutions.Orbo’s face tracking technology can be implemented across devices to identify human emotions, transformative & augmented effects as well as one can build enhancedcamera centric applications.
- LiquiLoans — LiquiLoans is a company uses technology to match borrowers and lenders and in the process eliminates the margin which is charged by traditional banks and NBFCs, thus, making borrowing cheaper and investing a more lucrative opportunity as compared to traditional investment avenues.
- Impact Guru — ImpactGuru is a No.1 crowdfunding platform in India offering fundraising solutions for medical treatments, emergencies, NGOs & startups. Start a crowdfunding campaign now!
Prantik Dasgupta
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- Gaming, Content, eSports
- Angel
- India
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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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- Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- India, United States, Indonesia
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- 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.
Kunal Shah
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Singapore
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- 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!
Khalid AlTawil is a Board Member at Saudi Chemcial Company.
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- Gaming, eSports, Rental
- Seed
- Egypt, India, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- GBarena — GBarena is an online esports platform that serves the ecosystem stakeholders by the combination of a strong network of different esports communities, and a highly analytical tool to provide authentic value for all stakeholders (Publishers, Gamers, Tournament Organizers, Sponsors, Teams, and Media Partners).
- RentSher Middle East — RentSher was established in 2016 and is an online platform for renting event furniture and services, electronics, medical and travel essentials. It manages order bookings, payments, deliveries and value added services.
Mr. Narayanan is a technology industry professional, with over 30 years of experience in Europe, India and the United States. His leadership experience includes corporate governance, customer relationship management and organization strategy. As a founding member of Cognizant, he has been responsible for providing leadership for the company’shigh-touch customer relationship and delivery excellence model. In his role as the Vice Chairman of Cognizant, Mr. Narayanan guides strategic programs around customer advocacy, education, training and leadership development.Mr. Narayanan is the past chairman of NASSCOM and was a member of the Board of U.S. India Business Council. He has received awards and recognition from the industry, media and academia. He is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Science and has pursuits in inclusive growth, education and non-profits through Cognizant Foundation and other institutions.
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- Internet, E-Commerce, Sports
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, United States
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- SIMBYM — An integrated "NO_CODING" collaborative platform for Work Management, ITSM /Agile Delivery and Business Process Management.
- Grinntech — Leading on all fronts of battery design, Grinntech has a range of Lithium-ion batteries which sets new standards in Electrical safety, Energy density, Durability, Quality and Reliability.
- Astrome Technologies — Astrome is accelerating high speed internet through 5G and backhaul telecom infrastructure through its millimetre wave and satellite communication products.
Manu invests in early stage companies through Whitehill Ventures. As part of this executive role he heads Middle East Region for OYO Hotels. He started OYO business in 2018 and scaled it to more than 200 hotels across KSA, UAE, Oman and Bahrain markets. He has travelled extensively across ME and developed strong relationships. He is credited withtwo successful exits in e-commerce, Infibeam through IPO and Souq through acquisition by Amazon. He headed Electronics business for Souq.com in UAE. Prior to Souq, Manu was Vice President, Planning and Strategy at Infibeam. He was responsible for launching and growing BuildaBazaar in India and Middle East.
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- Trading Platform, Apps, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- India, Pakistan, Singapore
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- OpsLyft — The only cloud management platform that focuses on providing actionable insights for technology and financial leaders.
- Kissan Pro — Kissan Pro provides an all-in-one platform to empower farmers through technology, design, and data science. While it develops and promotes the effective use of the most advanced technology, it has also help centers in every cluster where farmers can visit and get all necessary support.
- Tournafest — Tournafest™️ is the one-stop destination created by the gamers for the gamers. Tournafest is reinventing the Esports ecosystem with a seamless and motivating platform where gamers can enhance their skills with a network alike.
Shamsher Singh
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- Sports, eSports
- Pre-Seed
- India
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- Shaky Corps — Shaky Corps is an eSports Company that help peoples to play online video games and spirit to reach Brands/Companies name as a brand value to remote location areas.
Boman Irani
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- Gaming, Content, eSports
- Angel
- India
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Shamsher Singh
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- Sports, eSports
- Pre-Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Shaky Corps — Shaky Corps is an eSports Company that help peoples to play online video games and spirit to reach Brands/Companies name as a brand value to remote location areas.
Anjali Hegde - Co-founder @ Interactive Avenues
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- Gaming, Content, eSports
- Angel
- India
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
I am entrepreneur and operator. In the past, I co-Founded and sold Vitrue to Oracle for $300 M. I also co-Founded and sold Black Bag Advertising to WPP for $14 M. I was also on the founding team At Flycast Network which had an IPO and was later acquired for $2.2 B. I am currently an angel investor with company exists totaling over $1 B so far.
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- Software, Information Technology, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, India, Canada
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- ByteBrew — Trusted by over 2500 Game Developers! ByteBrew is the world's most powerful all-in-one game analytics platform that houses all your mobile game's analytics, retention, monetization tracking, player progression, remote configs, a/b testing, custom event tracking and attribution measurement in one lightweight SDK - all 100% free.
- HYPOTHETIC — Hypothetic builds technology and tools to benefit 3D creators. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Los Angeles, California, United States.
- Axie Infinity — Axie Infinity is a game about collecting and raising fantasy creatures called Axie, on the Ethereum platform. Besides collecting and raising, you can make a team of Axies to battle in the arena. You can also buy, sell, and trade Axies with others on the marketplace.
Dhruv Chitgopekar
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- Gaming, Content, eSports
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, United States
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- Praan — Praan builds the world's most advanced air purification technologies for commercial and industrial applications.
- 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.
Christopher Sargunam
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- EdTech, Sports, eSports
- Seed
- India
Portfolio highlights
- NacFun — Art, craft, drawing, dance & music online competitions for students with prizes 2021. NacFun online contest in quiz, gk, sports, fun activities for kids adults
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