# Top 30 Life Science Startup Investors in India in May 2026 ## Mumbai Angels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage Mumbai Angels Network is a sector-agnostic, new age, early-stage, venture investment platform with a diverse membership base, spanning the globe. Today, the network is 600+ members strong, across 70 locations all over the world. They have a 170+ strong portfolio with over 70 exits and next rounds of investments. ## Green Frontier Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Electric Vehicle, Shoes, Agriculture Green Frontier Capital is India's first investment firm that focuses on growth companies which are delivering breakthrough innovation in green industries. ## Anterra Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Biotechnology, Agriculture, Food and Beverage Anterra Capital is an independent growth capital fund. They invest in fast growing companies that are working to make the global food supply chain safer, more efficient and more sustainable. Their focus is on supporting the growth of companies who are commercializing novel technologies and services. They invest across the food supply chain fromnovel agro inputs and precision farming through to smarter logistics and consumer safety. They do not invest in other funds, land, operating assets, or other capital intensive businesses.They are a lead investor taking significant minority equity positions and performing an active role on the boards of the companies they support. At the time they invest, their companies typically already generate revenue and have great growth prospects. They target investments of EUR 1M to EUR 15M per company and often support their portfolio companies in raising additional capital from professional investors including from their own financial partners. Importantly, they are long-term investors. They focus on working closely with management teams to build lasting value. ## Singapore Angel Network - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care SGAN is an early stage VC anchored by the multi billion dollar Thakral Group of Companies and has investments across India, Singapore and the USA. ## Dr. Ganesh Natarajan - Type: Angel - Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Art, Health Care, Marketplace Dr. Ganesh Natarajan ## Kotak Private Equity - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Private Equity, Seed, Series B - Focus: Health Care, Life Science, Fitness Kotak Private Equity is a financial services company. ## Indian Angel Network - Type: VC Fund - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Education, E-Commerce Started in April 2006, the Indian Angel Network is a unique concept which brings together highly successful entrepreneurs and CEOs from India and around the world who are interested in investing in startup / early stage ventures which have the potential of creating disproportionate value.The Network, in addition to money, provide constantaccess to high quality mentoring, vast networks and inputs on strategy as well as execution. The Network members, because of their background are better able to assess the potential and risks at the early stage. ## Zephyr Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Private Equity, Series A, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, Education Since 1994, they have sponsored 22 funds with approximately $1.2 billion in committed capital which are managed from their offices in New York, London and Bangalore.With a global network of partners, Zephyr is positioned to identify sustainable secular growth changes which lead to attractive investment opportunities for their investors.While their focus is on the creation and execution of innovative investment strategies, the operating style is conservative and sustainable.Managers strictly adhere to their respective mandates and investments are selected based on rigorous fundamental research. Today, Zephyr manages investment funds in India and Sri Lanka, and they are actively researching new investment opportunities around the world. ## 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 ## 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. ## Fidelity International - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Post-IPO Equity, Series A - Focus: Biotechnology, Financial Services, Software Fidelity International offers world class investment solutions and retirement expertise to institutions, individuals and their advisers - to help their clients build better futures for themselves and generations to come. As a private company they think generationally and invest for the long term. Helping clients to save for retirement and otherlong term investing objectives has been at the core of their business for nearly 50 years.They offer their own investment solutions and access to those of others, and deliver services relating to investing: For individual investors and their advisers they provide guidance to help them invest in a simple and cost effective way. For institutions including pension funds, banks and insurance companies they offer tailored investment solutions and full-service asset management outsourcing. And for employers they provide workplace pension administration services on top or independently of investment management. They are responsible for total client assets of : USD $379.2* billion from over 2.4 million clients across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and South America. ## Kitara Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Muscat, Masqat, Oman - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Health Care, Life Science, Health Diagnostics Kitara Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed capital, growth capital, and PIPEs investments in medium sized businesses. The firm is sector agnostic. It invests both locally and globally. The firm seeks to invest between $10 million and $40 million. The firm also provides co-investment opportunities. It invests inboth publicly traded and privately held companies. ## Unitus Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Seattle, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Education, Health Care, Training Unitus Ventures is India’s leading impact venture fund investing in startups innovating for the masses across healthcare, education and fintech sectors. Founded in 2012, Unitus Ventures is a part of Capria Network, the leading global network of impact fund managers investing in emerging markets of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Unitus Ventures isbased in Bangalore and Seattle. Capria has offices in Bangalore, Singapore, Nairobi, and Seattle. More at: https://unitus.vc and http://capria.vc/network ## Rebel Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Health Care Rebel Fund is powered by an elite team of top Y Combinator alumni partners to support the world's most promising technology startup founders ## 50K Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Madhapur, Andhra Pradesh, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Gaming, Mobile 50K Ventures is a Hyderabad-based investment platform to back technology startups at the idea and early-stage of their lifecycle. It brings together accredited investors, high networth individuals, and mentors to seed, nurture, and accelerate startups, besides guiding them in securing the next round of funding.The company has so far invested intwo Hyderabad-based startups: ## LetsVenture - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care Connect with 10,000 plus angel investors. Raise funding seamlessly. Find startups to invest in. Easy to use & seamless technology platform for startup investing & funding. ## Somerset Indus Capital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Port Louis, Port Louis, Mauritius - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Medical, Manufacturing Somerset Indus Capital Partners seeks to make private equity and equity-related investments primarily in growth-oriented healthcare companies in India. Somerset is led by Avinash Kenkare on the offshore fund side, a private equity professional with eighteen years of successful investing experience in over fifteen transactions, and duly assisted byMayur Sirdesai on domestic fund side, a healthcare professional with over twenty years of experience in the Indian Pharma/ Healthcare Industry with both private equity, operational and consulting services related experience. ## 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. ## Eight Roads Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology Eight Roads has a 50+ year history of investing and partners with game-changing technology and healthcare companies, supporting them as they scale to become global leaders. ## Malpani Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence We fund frugal Innovation in India ## Suman Kant Munjal - Type: Angel - Location: Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Health Care, Life Science, Biotechnology Chairman at Hero Enterprise ## Spark Growth Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Diego, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence Spark Growth Ventures is a community driven VC firm based in San Diego, CA. Our mission is to support gritty and exceptional founders in their missions by bringing forth the combined value of our strong community. ## 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. ## Acquipharma - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Finance, Medical, Health Care Acquipharma is headed by Oppel Greeff, a medical doctor and a former executive with publicly traded Quintiles Transnational Corp. ## Pi Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning pi Ventures is an early stage fund focused on investing on disruptive ideas leveraging machine learning, AI and IoT. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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 ## Indian Scientific Innovation Company - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Life Science Indian Scientific Innovation Company # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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