# Top 10 Life Science Angel Investors in India in May 2026

## Rajesh Manthena
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Gaming, PC Games, Health Care

Rajesh Manthena is an Executive Director & Chief Development Officer at Cancer Centers of America.

## Aniruddha Malpani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Retail, Internet, Health Care

Dr Aniruddha Malpani is an IVF specialist who passed out from Bombay University, winning over 20 gold medals during his academic career. His clinic at www.drmalpani.com attracts patients from all over the world. He also runs the world’s largest free patient education library, HELP , at www.healthlibrary.com. He has authored 4 books – How to Get theBest Medical Care ( www.thebestmedicalcare.com),Successful Medical Practise, How to Have a Baby and Using Information Therapy to Put Patients First. His passion is patient empowerment, and he believes that patients are the largest untapped healthcare resources, and we need to use patient power to heal our sick healthcare system. He has pioneered the use of innovative technology to educate infertile couples, using cartoon films, comic books and e-learning on his website- www.ivfindia.com. He is an investor in Plus91 ( www.plus91.in), an EMR and digital marketing provider, India’s market leader for creating digital media for patient education, and is on the Board of Inventurus Knowledge Solutions, a healthcare BPO which provides RCM solutions for the US market.

## Dr. Ganesh Natarajan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Art, Health Care, Marketplace

Dr. Ganesh Natarajan

## Hemanshu Jain
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Content, Health Care, Life Science

Hemanshu Jain is the Founder and CEO at Khyaal. He attended Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.

## Uday Sodhi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Uday Sodhi

## Ganesh Natarajan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Life Science, Biotechnology

Ganesh has spent over a decade in Silicon Valley. He’s an engineer at heart and has a master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University.
Ganesh previously worked as engineering lead at Yahoo. He has extensive experience in architecting and building large-scale platforms and leading high- performance engineering teams.

## Anand Deshpande
- Type: Angel
- Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, Life Science, Biotechnology

Anand Deshpande is the Founder, Chairman, and Managing Director of Persistent Systems. He is responsible for the overall leadership, strategy, and management of the company. A true technology visionary, Anand’s strengths lie in identifying and investing in next-generation technologies early on and encouraging internal entrepreneurship to ensurethat Persistent stays at the forefront of technology innovation. Anand has been the driving force in growing Persistent from start-up to the publically-traded global company of today.Anand has been recognized for his technology and business leadership as well as his contributions to public welfare. His recent awards include the CSI Fellowship Award for outstanding achievement in the field of Information Technology, the Career Achievement Award from the School of Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington and the IIT Kharagpur Distinguished Alumnus Award.Active in various professional and charitable organizations, Anand has served as a member of the Executive Committee of NASSCOM Executive Council, and has served as President of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) India, President of SEAP (Software Exporters' Association of Pune), and Chairman of the Pune Chapter of CSI (Computer Society of India). He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the Dean’s Advisory Council of the School of Informatics of Indiana University and the Executive Committee of MCCIA (Maratha Chamber of Commerce Industries & Agriculture). Anand is currently co-chairing the VLDB 2016 (Very Large Data Bases) conference. With the vision of creating a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem in India, he is the founding member of iSPIRT, India’s first product think tank.Prior to founding Persistent Systems in 1990, Anand began his career at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California. Anand holds a B. Tech (Hons.) in Computer Science & Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, and a Master’s degree and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Anand is an avid reader who enjoys non-fiction, especially all things science and technology.

## Adar C. Poonawalla
- Type: Angel
- Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

Adar C. Poonawalla serves as a CEO at Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd.


## Suman Kant Munjal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Life Science, Biotechnology

Chairman at Hero Enterprise

## Dr.Ajith Kamath
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Life Science, Biotechnology

Research Executive at Natural Remedies Private Limited

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