# Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in India in May 2026

## Amrish Rau
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

## Jitendra Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

## Kunal Shah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet

Kunal Shah

## Kevin Lin
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games

Lin is the COO of Twitch, the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers. He was instrumental in the 2011 launch of the platform when he joined Justin.tv in 2008. His role included attracting the site’s largest broadcasters and building out the partnership team among other activities which have helped grow the Twitch brand.Currently more than 100 million gamers gather every month on Twitch to broadcast live video, watch and chat about gaming, making the platform an industry leader.

## Kunal Bahl
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Software

Kunal is the co-founder and CEO of Snapdeal Private Limited, India's largest no-frills, value focused marketplace. Previously, he has also worked at companies such as Deloitte Consulting and Microsoft in the US. Kunal is an engineer from the University of Pennsylvania and holds a business degree from The Wharton School. He loves backpackingthrough remote parts of the world, savoring unique cuisines and studying development politics in India.

## Sriram Krishnan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Sriram Krishnan - SVP Product, Marketing & Partnerships @ HeadSpin

## 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.

## Sandeep Nailwal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Sandeep Nailwal is the Co-Founder of Polygon. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Scopeweaver. He attended the National Institute of Industrial Engineering.

## Anand Chandrasekaran
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

Anand Chandrasekaran is a Partner at General Catalyst. He previously worked at Facebook and attended Stanford University.

## Rohit Bansal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, SaaS

Rohit Bansal - Co-Founder @ Snapdeal

## Ujjwal Sahay
- Type: Angel
- Location: Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Ujjwal Sahay is the Founder & CEO of Ment Tech Labs - An Enterprise Fintech Solution & Service Provider. Ujjwal backed Ment Tech Labs with $60,000 of seed round to start scaling the Fintech products globally which made Ment Tech Labs as the only complete Enterprise Fintech Solution & Service Provider.Ujjwal is a passionatetechnologist and successful startup executive with 5+ years of experience in Fintech Solutions Development, Engineering, and Marketing—focusing on lean methodology, design prototyping, mobile apps, SaaS platforms, and APIs. Ujjwal's leading advocated for customer-centric design, UX, and the thoughtful application of technological innovations. Ujjwal also led high-performing product launch, engineering, Dev-ops and QA teams—both on and off-shore.Fintech, Blockchain, Machine Learning & Cryptocurrency are few of his field of interest and expertise. Writing about the technology used to be his hobby always and this turned into a profession as well with two of his published books, Hack-X-Crypt and X-Shell.

## Rajan Anandan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Binny Bansal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Apps

Binny Bansal is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart with Sachin Bansal (not related) and was serving as the Chief Operating Officer until 11 January 2016 and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer. In January 2017 he was promoted to Group CEO of Flipkart. Binny is fromChandigarh and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering.

## Ashneer Grover
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet

Ashneer Grover is the CEO and Co-Founder of BharatPe. Attended Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

## Lalit Keshre
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech

Lalit Keshre is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Groww.

## Utsav Somani
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Software, Financial Services

Looking for - Passionate founders looking to target a market with tremendous future potential and stands to be disrupted by a new entrant. Crucial that the product / service is not easily replicable and the domain expertise of the company is a deterrent to fresh entrants.Keen interest in - Clean Technology, Consumer Internet, EnterpriseSoftware, Health Care, Mobile, SaaSSkills - Angel Investing, Financial Modelling & Valuation, Information Technology, Portfolio Management, Risk Management

## Eric Kwan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, E-Commerce

Eric Kwan - Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Locus Ventures

## Sunil Kalra
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series C
- Focus: Financial Services, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Sunil Kalra - Managing Director @ Via Projects

## Sailesh Ramakrishnan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Solar, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment

Sailesh Ramakrishnan serves as Chief Technology Officer of LocBox Labs Inc. Sailesh Ramakrishnan is a Partner of Rocketship.vc. Sailesh Ramakrishnan previously served at Kosmix and at Walmart Labs as Director of Engineering. He worked as a Computer Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. Sailesh Ramakrishnan has combination of marketing andengineering experience.

## Harsh Pokharna
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Software

Harsh Pokharna founded OKCredit on April 2017 alongside Gaurav Kumar and Aditya Prasad.

## Jaynti Kanani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet

Jaynti Kanani - Co-Founder @ Polygon

## Nitish Mittersain
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Financial Services, Blockchain

Nitish Mittersain is CEO & Founder of Nazara - a leading mobile games developer and publisher focused on the large mobile consumer base in India and emerging markets including the Middle East and Africa. In addition to developing a range of branded and original mobile games, Nazara operates unique services such as "Games Club" andalso serves as an exclusive distributor for key game developers such as Electronic Arts. Its customers include mobile carriers as well as handset manufacturers. Nazara also owns "Playcaso" - an iOs and Android developer/publisher brand, "nzLabs" - a work-for-hire apps studio & "gCity" - a social gaming platform.Nitish is also served as the Chairman of the Mobile Value Added Services Committee of the Indian Merchants Chambers - India's oldest business organization and has been widely recognized in the media for his contributions to the gaming and mobile vas industries in India

## Vikrant Batra
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Software

Vikrant Batra is the Chief Marketing Officer for HP Inc. Vikrant has more than 20 years of experience in worldwide marketing and advertising across consumer packaged goods, utilities, finance and technology. He is an award-winning creative and marketing strategist and is the architect behind some of HP’s most transformative and thought-provokingcampaigns. Vikrant has held a variety of marketing leadership roles since joining HP in 2010. Most recently he served as Global Head of Marketing for HP’s $20 billion Imaging and Printing business. He is credited with spearheading the business’ shift to emotional storytelling – an approach that is anchored in insights, generates deeper connections with the global communities and drives demand. Prior to this he was the global head of marketing for HP’s $30B Personal Systems business where he led end-to-end marketing across PCs, mobility, solutions and services. Vikrant joined HP after a range of senior advertising and marketing agency roles supporting top global brands, At TracyLocke he was a Senior Vice President responsible for managing strategic brand planning, and at the Integer Group, an Omnicom agency, he served as Group Director. He began his career at J. Walter Thompson. He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and a master’s degree in marketing and advertising management from University of Bombay and an MBA from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. He is based in Palo Alto, CA.

## Ramakant Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce

Ramakant plays a central role in driving all technological innovations that form the backbone of Livspace while also leading our operations team. Before founding Livspace, Ramakant was a core team member and Vice President of Engineering at Myntra, a leading fashion eCommerce startup in India (acquired by Flipkart). Ramakant, graduated from IITKanpur, and holds an MBA from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

## Rahul Mehta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Rahul Mehta is a Co-Founder at DST Global.

## Aniruddha Malpani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## 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)

## Sujeet Kumar
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Health Care

Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan

## Akshay Kothari
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Akshay Kothari is the co-founder of Pulse, a mobile application that allows you to read all your favorite content in one place. Pulse began as a class project in the Launchpad class at Stanford University, and has grown to over 30 million users today. It won the coveted Apple Design Award in 2011 and was inducted into the App Store Hall of Fame.Pulse was recently acquired by Linkedin for $90 million.

## Rais Motlekar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Financial Services

Rais Motlekar

## 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

## Balaji Srinivasan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

## Sanjay Mehta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Information Technology

Sanjay Mehta is Member of the Board of Advisors at LogiNext Solution.

## Sumon Sadhu
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Knowledge Management

Sumon Sadhu is the founder of Imperial Entrepreneurs at Imperial College London. He has been on the advisory board of Seedcamp and was selected as one of the top 10 rising stars in business in the UK by Courvosier Future 500.
While he has a degree in Biochemistry from Oxford University, he is a PhD dropout of Imperial College London.

## Victor Wang
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Machine Learning

Victor Wang is a technology-focused VC investor interested in helping extremely brilliant, ambitious, relentless founders build category-defining companies.
Earlier in his career, Victor conducted genomic research at Stanford University and earned a B.A. in Molecular & Cell Biology with a Minor in Nutritional Sciences from UC Berkeley.

## Sachin Sinha
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore City, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Software

Engineer, Entrepreneur, passionate about data, ML and AI. Author of one of the fastest and robust NoSQL databases, BangDB and founder of IQLECT

## Sajid Rahman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking

Sajid currently works as Managing Partner at
MyAsiaVC He attended London Business School.

## Mohit Saxena
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, E-Learning

Mohit Saxena is the Founder and Group CTO at InMobi Group. He oversees all CTO's leading the tech at various InMobi Group Companies.Prior to InMobi InMobi, Mohit managed technology operations at Virgin Mobile, designing and deploying their post-paid billing system and their pre-paid revenue recognition system. Mohit earlier worked at AT&Tand has contributed to many patents filed in the telecommunications area.Fascinated by small ideas that turned into global powerhouses, and innovation, simplicity, and the potential of technology have always been his passions. InMobi is a both a passion and a dream come true for him.Mohit has a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.Mohit’s passion for technology doesn’t stop at work and is always on the look-out for ways that he can use it to make his life easier.

## Kishore Ganji
- Type: Angel
- Location: Marlboro, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care

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

## 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.

## Vlad Tenev
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech

Vlad Tenev is the co-founder and co-CEO of Robinhood. A first-generation immigrant from Bulgaria, Tenev earned his B.S. in Mathematics at Stanford University before starting two finance companies in New York City, selling trading software to hedge funds. In 2013, Tenev and longtime friend Baiju Bhatt co-founded Robinhood, a zero commissionbrokerage dedicated to democratizing the finance system. The company has millions of users across the country and is currently valued at $5.6 billion.

## Abhishant Pant
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Payments, Financial Services, SaaS

Abhishant Pant is a Mumbai based Fintech expert and has more than a decade of hands-on experience of payments landscape.He has spoken about the Fintech landscape via Ted Talks, Lectures at NUS, IIM and IIT’s and at various Banking conferences, he is closely associated with the Fintech world (as mentor) via incubators like Barclays Rise andwrites regularly on Fintech landscape opportunity and challenges.He is extensively covered by Media both India (TOI, HT, ET, Zee News, India News , Mid-Day etc ) and abroad (BBC, Dagnes Nayhter) and was recently named among TOP100 Fintech Professionals in Asia.

## Ajeet Khurana
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Internet, Information Technology

Ajeet Khurana is a leading name in the cryptocurrency industry. He is the former head of the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Committee, which as part of IAMAI is India's foremost industry body for cryptocurrency.Presently, as an advisor to several crypto projects, he is seen as a specialist in:
* Tokenomics: pools, structure, architecture,flow, utility, value
* Market Mechanisms: market making, liquidity, listing, volume
In addition he helps with increasing adoption, communication, evangelizing, ambassador programs, and digital outreach. Some crypto founders regard Ajeet as their personal friend, philosopher, and guide.Earlier, in his role as CEO of Zebpay (India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange at that time), he took it from being a one-country exchange to a global exchange. As CEO of the business incubator at IIT Bombay (India’s premier engineering school), he helped commercialise several ideas from concept stage. As an advisor to Venture Capital firms in India, China, US, and Canada, he has an eye for promising founders.Still earlier, Ajeet has authored several books with McGrawHill Education, been an entrepreneur twice, and taught at the University of Texas at Austin.Here is how he characterizes himself:WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED REPEATEDLY IN MY CAREER
Customer focus. Speed. Attracting and empowering the right people. Making hard decisions. Managing chaos and conflict. Smoothly navigating regulations & compliances. High governance standards. Cultivating relationships. Converting markets to communities. Negotiating deals. Continuous process and product improvement.WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR
A mandate that requires rapid growth and evolution. A role that requires backbone and heart. A non-bureaucratic system that expects a strong bias for action. An opportunity to learn, and create strong cultural underpinning.HOW I BUILD AND MANAGE TEAMS
Single minded focus on the customer. Choose people based on cultural fit and alignment of passion. Impart purpose. Select for potential, but advance for performance. Empower people to work. No busy work. No unending meetings. Don’t be hierarchy-minded. Encourage learning.

## Rekha Jain
- Type: Angel
- Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Software

Rekha Jain is the Vice President of Corporate Sales at Paysquare Consultancy.

## Afzal Modak
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Payments

Afzal Modak is the Director at VitalProbe Inc. Afzal Modak attended Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

## Varun Tejpal
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Financial Services

Varun Tejpal is a CEO and Co-Founder at FourQ Systems. He attended Delhi University.

## Deep Nishar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning

Deep Nishar is a managing director at General Catalyst. Prior to General Catalyst he was a senior managing partner at the Softbank Vision Fund. He was the Vice President of Product at LinkedIn, a position he took in December 2008. Prior to LinkedIn, Nishar was a long time Google executive who helped start its mobile business and other keyproducts.As Director of Wireless Products at Google, Deep Nishar developed and implemented the product strategy for Google's mobile products worldwide. Prior to Google, Deep worked at Siebel Systems where he was a member of the founding team of the Universal Application Network (UAN) business unit which grew to a $40 million a year run rate in its first year.Prior to Siebel, Deep founded Patkai Networks, a web services based software integration company. At Patkai, Deep built the product and engineering organizations and drove all of the business operations for the company. Additionally, Deep was an associate at The Boston Consulting Group and also held various product management, marketing, finance and engineering roles at Cummins Engine Company, where he was awarded three patents.Deep received his Bachelors in Technology with honors from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, where he was awarded the Institute Silver Medal. Deep also received a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School where he graduated with highest honors as a Baker Scholar.

## Aarti Grover
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Genetics, Internet

Aarti is the Managing Director of CMS Computers Ltd. and Director of the CMS Group of Companies.Aarti started her career as a Supply Chain Management Consultant at CSC, a Fortune 500 company. She later joined Systime, the world’s largest JD Edwards services company. Based out of San Francisco, she was instrumental in marketing the end-to-endretail management solution VersaPOS™.As Business Director for a JV project between CMS and Datacard, one of the largest global providers of secure identification and card issuance solutions, she worked out of New York for one and a half years.In 2004, Aarti joined Kaycee Industries Ltd. (a CMS Group Company acquired from The Bajaj Group of Companies.) She moved up the ranks quickly by formulating and implementing strategic Initiatives which resulted in increased overall productivity. Elevated to the position of Business Head of Kaycee Industries, she was responsible for turning around Kaycee, within a year’s time, with a 25% yoy growth rate. She also spearheaded the CMS Broadcast Division (CMS-NVL) for 3 years and by improving the processes, turned it into a profitable division for CMS.In her current role, Aarti drives company’s business operations and strategic decisions in accelerating overall growth of CMS, ensuring the company’s position as one of the leading IT services and solutions provider.Aarti holds an MBA from University of San Francisco, USA.

## Anshu Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Co-founder & CEO at Skyflow. Previously co-founded Clearedin and Suki. Partner at Storm Ventures. VP of Product & Strategy at Salesforce. Failed to build cloud at Oracle in 2007.

## Ketan Patel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Payments, Mobile Apps

Ketan Patel is a Chief Executive Officer at Mswipe Technologies Pvt. Ltd. He attended University of Mumbai.

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