# Top 50 Finance Angel Investors in India in May 2026

## Kunal Shah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet

Kunal Shah

## Rajan Anandan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Seth Weinstein
- Type: Angel
- Location: Weston, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Seth Weinstein is a Managing Member at ZAX LLC.

## Kishore Ganji
- Type: Angel
- Location: Marlboro, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care

Kishore Ganji is the Angel Investor & Mentor at Astir Ventures.

## Dinesh Godara
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Finance, Internet, Social Network

Dinesh Godara is the Co-Founder of Stealth Startup. He is a former Founder and CEO of WiFiStudy. Dinesh Godara attended Rajasthan Technical University.

## Amrish Rau
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

## Sharad Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Artificial Intelligence

Sharad Sharma is the Co-Founder of the iSPIRT Foundation. He attended Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University.

## Jatin Goel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Banking, FinTech, Finance

Jatin Goel Executive Director at Omaxe Ltd.

## Shrishti Sahu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Apps, Financial Services

entrepreneur and investor in tech start-ups, crypto and public markets. Founded a fintech company, and was a part of the Investment Team of Lumis Partners (PeopleStrong, TalentEdge, Sheroes etc). Headed Startup Programs for Facebook for South Asia & India. Early backer of companies like Plum (health insurance for SME employees), Clickpost(logistics tech), Rupifi (credit for SMEs), WorkApps (Enterprise Collaboration), Chingari (Social Video), Kutumb (social communities for Bharat), DelightChat (customer support for D2C brands), 10Club (D2C e-commerce), UrbanYogi (mental health)

## Alex Lin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking

Alex Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO at Stacked.

## Somak Ghosh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Enterprise

Somak Ghosh - Managing Partner @ Contrarian Drishti Partners

## Balesh Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Wellness

Balesh Sharma

## Nilesh Patel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Finance, Software, SaaS

Nilesh Patel - Founder and CEO @ LeadSquared

## Ranjan Pai
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Health Care, Information Technology

Ranjan Pai - MD & CEO @ Manipal Group

## Bhavish Aggarwal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Food and Beverage, FinTech

Bhavish graduated with a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2008 and worked at Microsoft Research for 2 years after that, filing 2 patents and publishing 3 papers in International Journals. Sensing the need to change the way transportation is consumed in India and create a choice of reliable personal transportation in acountry that's as unique as India, Bhavish quit his job in August 2010 to start Ola!
Within 3 years, Ola is India's largest network of personal transportation options and also the most popular app amongst customers and users in over 22 cities of its operations. Bhavish was featured as one of Hindustan Times’ 30 Achievers under 30 as well as in the Forbes India list of 30 under 30.

## Raghunandan G
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Apps

Raghu is the Founder of Zolve. He is an avid reader and an encyclopedia in his own rights. After a successful 3-year stint with Feedback Ventures as a Consultant, he decided to follow his heart which craved for him to become an entrepreneur. He has degrees from IIM Ahmedabad and NITK Surathkal and hasn’t lost touch with the technical prowess fromhis days back in Texas Instruments.

## Vikram Kailas
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: EdTech, FinTech, Finance

Vikram Kailas serves as the Co-founder, Managing Director and CEO of Mytrah Energy (India) Pvt. Ltd. His strong entrepreneurial streak, overarching strategies, and relentless determination helps the company to ace in the field of wind & solar energy. He has worked in the Energy & Utilities investment banking group at Credit Suisse in NewYork, where he was involved in a number of renewable energy transactions, including a US$ 6 bn exit financing for Calpine and a US$ 300 mn loan for First Energy.
Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Vikram Kailas worked for Deloitte Consulting in India. Vikram Kailas has a Bachelor in Engineering degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai and Master of Business Administration degree from Yale School of Management

## Siddhartha Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, News, Consumer Goods

Siddhartha Sharma

## Kumar Sudershan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Private Equity
- Focus: Finance, Asset Management, Quantum Computing

Kumar Sudershan is an Indian industrialist and philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of Pitsune and President of Sudershan Industries

## Alex K Babu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ernakulam, Kerala, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Banking, FinTech, Finance

Alex K Babu is the Founder, Chairman & Managing Director of Hedge School of Applied Economics.

## Pratekk Agarwaal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech

Pratekk Agarwaal Startup Advisor | Operator turned Investor | Ex CBO-BharatPe

## Hiro Mashita
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Financial Services, SaaS

Hiro Mashita - Founder & Director @ M&S Partners

## Jitendra Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

## Nitin Agarwal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Finance, Financial Services, Banking

Nitin is based in India and leads the product solutions team aimed at designing custom solutions for customers and new products. The team also works on the presales and marketing support initiatives needed for business development and sales teams. Nitin comes with a rich experience in building new products and solutions, business development inUS and EU markets. Prior to joining Wave Crest, he has over 10 years of industry experience and last worked for PayPal.

## Mohit Goel
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Internet, Retail

Mr. Mohit Goel is the CEO of one of India’s leading real estate firms – Omaxe Ltd. This second generation entrepreneur leveraged his sharp business acumen to bring about structural changes in Omaxe to essentially turn around the company at a time when the real estate sector had no traction and a tepid demand. Mohit is detail oriented and a sticklerfor punctuality.

## Charlie Songhurst
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.

## Dhruv Dhanraj Bahl
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Automotive, Information Technology

Dhruv Dhanraj Bahl is the Chief Operating Officer at BharatPe. Attended INSEAD, MBA, General Management.

## Parag Shah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Debt Financing
- Focus: AgTech, Asset Management, Artificial Intelligence

Parag Shah is the Managing Partner of Mahindra Partners, the 1 Bn USD Private Equity and Venture Capital division of the 19 Bn USD Mahindra Group. In a career spanning over 20 years, Parag has held various positions with the Mahindra Group including Directorships across Group companies. He has extensive experience in building new businesses,startups, turn arounds, joint ventures and mergers & acquisitions.Prior to his current assignment, Parag worked for the Office of the Vice Chairman & Managing Director, and was involved in New Business Development and strategy for the Group. He joined the Group in 1999 as Chief Executive Officer of Officemartindia Ltd.Parag holds a BS Degree in Computer Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology with special electives in Psychology and Manufacturing Technology. He is also a graduate of the General Management Program from Harvard Business School.Parag has been recognized by Economic Times & Spencer Stuart as India’s Top 40 Business Leaders under the age of 40. He has also been featured by India Today as ‘Leaders of Tomorrow’. Parag is on the Executive Committee of several industry bodies like CII, FICCI, TIE, and has been invited as a regular speaker at various International forums.Parag is affiliated with various prestigious NGO associations such as Sabarkanta Relief Committee and JBS Trust. He is also a Founder Director of “Executives Without Borders”, an NGO based in USA.

## Karishma Thakkar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Banking, FinTech, Finance

Karishma Thakkar of Thakkar developers.

## Amit Nanavati
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series E
- Focus: Mobile, Banking, FinTech

Amit Nanavati

## Rajendra Lora
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Finance, Financial Services

Entrepreneur

## Anuj Ahuja
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Finance, Financial Services

Anuj Ahuja is Founder and Chief Product Officer at Studybase. He attended Visvesvaraya Technological University.

## Amit Jain
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Health Care, Wellness, FinTech

Amit Jain Investor & Group CEO at a Global Private Equity Group.

## Sandeep Tandon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Vaibhav Kapoor
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

Vaibhav Kapoor

## Ratan Tata
- Type: Angel
- Location: Houston, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care

Heading the Tata Group since 1991, Ratan Tata is the Chairman of Tata Sons, holding company of the Tata Group and major Group companies including Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Power and more. He is also Chairman of two of the largest private sector promoted philanthropic trusts in India. During his tenure, the Group hasfurther expanded its global reach, with its revenues growing over eleven-fold to around USD$70 billion, after the most recent acquisition of Jaguar Land Rover. Tata joined the Tata Group in December 1962. After serving in various companies, he was appointed the Director-in-Charge of the National Radio & Electronics Company Limited (Nelco) in 1971. In 1981, he was named Chairman of Tata Industries, the Group's other holding company, which he was responsible for transforming into the Group's strategy think-tank and a promoter of new ventures in high-technology businesses. He is associated with many organizations in India and abroad in varying capacities, some of which are the government of India’s Investment Commission, the Prime Minister’s Council on Trade and Industry, South Africa’s International Investment Council, several prestigious universities and several philanthropies. Tata received a Bachelor of Science degree in architecture from Cornell University in 1962, and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1975.The government of India honored Tata with one of its highest civilian awards, the Padma Vibhushan, this year.

## Shalini Chhabra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Finance

Shalini Chhabra is a Managing Partner at Incipia Advisors LL.

## Aditya Talwar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Finance, Financial Services

Aditya Talwar is the Director - Customer Success at Plivo. He attended Indian School of Business

## Binitha Dalal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Banking, FinTech, Finance

Binitha Dalal Head - Fund Raising at Rustomjee Group.

## Ruchira Roy
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Marketplace

Ruchira Roy

## Vivek Khare
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1

Vivek Khare

## Krishna Mehra
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Big Data

Krishna Mehra Is The Director of Engineering At Facebook. He attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

## Yogesh Chaudhary
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Fashion, Finance, Consumer

Yogesh Chaudhary is the founder of Jaipur Rugs.

## Ravi Saxena
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Cooking, Finance, E-Commerce

Ravi Saxena - Managing Director @ Wonderchef Home Appliances

## Sumit Jain
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Internet, Information Technology

Sumit Jain is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur, He started online real-estate portal commonfloor.com for property seekers in 2007. Prior to that, he used to work with Oracle. As the co-founder and CEO, Sumit is responsible for driving the strategic direction for Commonfloor.com as well as delivering on company goals Hisresult-oriented approach ensures a constant and relentless focus on end-user satisfaction. Sumit Jain finds solace in a game of billiards. The game not only relaxes him, it also helps him catch up with friends or at times, make new acquaintances.

## Bharati Balakrishnan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Finance

Bharati Balakrishnan is the Senior Director of Alibaba Group. He was the Chief Business Officer at LocalOye and Head of Operations & Service Delivery at Healthspring - Family Health Experts.
Ms. Balakrishnan graduated from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani with a bachelor of engineering in Chemical Engineering.

## Brad Flora
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience.
Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.

## Rema Subramanian
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: News, Solar, EdTech

Rema Subramanian is the Director at BigHaat.

## 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!

## Naveen Kukreja
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Consumer

Naveen Kukreja is an IIM Calcutta alumnus (Class of 2001) and over 16 years of experience in financial services and digital across India and UK. He founded and runs www.paisabazaar.com with an aim to make buying financial products simple for consumers. He also runs marketing for www.policybazaar.com, India's leading insurance comparisonsite and much loved brand. Besides his full time role, he advises www.Internshala.com & www.analyticsvidhya.com in defining medium to long term goals and staying on track plus actively connects us with people in his network.He is based in Gurgaon, NCR, India.

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