# Top 15 Photography Angel Investors in India in May 2026

## Rajesh Mane
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, Mobile, Fashion

An active investor in early stage startups across technology & CPG.

## Manmeet Singh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, Photography, Machine Learning

Manmeet Singh

## Daud Ali
- Type: Angel
- Location: Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Internet, Photography

Mr. Daud Ali is Managing Director of Peacock Industries Ltd – one of the major manufacturers of plastic lifestyle products in India. He has experience in manufacturing of plastic processing line and finance activities. He is an active angel investors & primarily invests in BFSI, Consumer Internet, E-learning, E-commerce, Healthcare,Manufacturing & Logistics.

## ARVIND JHA
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Content, Photography, Social Media

ARVIND JHA

## Rajeev Saraf
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Content, Photography, Social Media

Rajeev Saraf

## John Ason
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Mobile, Software

John has been an Angel Investor for over 15 years.
Prior to investing he worked for over 25 years at AT&T, both doing engineering and international business. He made over 100 trips to the far east and was working on “bleeding edge” technology. He grew up in Chicago and graduated from IIT with degrees in Mathematics and Anthropology.

## Sunny Rao
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Photography

Sunny Rao is Partner at Lightbox

## Harmeet Singh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, Photography, Machine Learning

Harmeet Singh

## Ranjit Radhakrishnan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, TV, Gaming

Ranjit Radhakrishnan - Chief Product Officer @ BYJU’S

## Raman Roy
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, SaaS, Software

Raman is widely regarded as the pioneer and “guru” of the BPO industry (also called the ‘IT Enabled Services’ industry) in India. He has played a pivotal role over the last 14 years in promoting Indian BPO and proving that India can be a preferred location for Remote Processing.Raman is a pioneer four times over, having successfully led thecaptive/third party BPO initiatives of American Express, GE Capital (now Genpact) and Spectramind (now Wipro BPO) out of India before starting Quatrro mid 2006, which is launched to focus on high end BPO services.Raman is a Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Management Accountant with a doctorate in Management Accountancy. In his career spanning across 30+ years, Raman has a very hands-on approach to business and has first-hand experience and rare insights into servicing markets as diverse as North America, Europe, Japan, Asia Pacific and Australia.As a tribute to his contribution to the BPO industry, he was awarded the Dataquest Pathbreaker Award in 2002 for directly creating 35,000+ jobs in India and indirectly enabling the employment of over 410,000 people by creating the BPO industry.

## Vinod K. Dham
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Mobile, Semiconductor, Content

As a pioneer in the technology industry, Vinod (Vin) Dham is the acknowledged "Father of the Pentium" microprocessor. He successfully executed on his previous fund, NewPath Ventures, and is building NEA-IndoUS Ventures on similar principles.Prior to NewPath Ventures, Vinod was the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer ofSilicon Spice Inc., which was acquired by Broadcom Corporation. Vin spent 16 years of his career at Intel Corporation where he held the position of Vice President and General Manager of the Microprocessor Products group. After Intel, Vin joined microprocessor start up "NexGen", as its Chief Operating Officer. At NexGen Vin was instrumental in redefining Nexgen's processor direction, and engineering the merger with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). At AMD Vin became the Group Vice President, and oversaw the launch of K6 the world's fastest windows processor at that time.In 1993, Vin was named as one of the top 25 executives in the computer industry in America. In 1999, he was named as one of the top 100 most influential Asian Americans of the decade. In 2000, Vin was appointed to serve on the US President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Currently he serves on the Boards of Satyam, Sasken, Hellosoft, InSilica, Minekey, Nevis, Telsima and Montalvo. Vin has co-authored numerous technical papers and patents.Vin has a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering.

## Nirav Choksi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Content, Photography

Nirav Choksi - Non Executive Director @ Roll Mafia

## Vishal Maheshwari
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Photography

Vishal Maheshwari is a Member of the Investment Committee at 9Unicorns. He attended Chetana's R. K. Institute of Management & Research.

## Sanjay Jesrani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Delivery

Sanjay Jesrani

## Aakrit Vaish
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Health Care, E-Commerce

Aakrit Vaish is the co-founder and CEO of Haptik, who pioneered the wave of conversational AI starting back in 2013. Today, Haptik is one of the world's largest companies in the space with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Mumbai, Singapore, and clients that include names such as KFC, Starhub, Zurich Insurance, Ola Cabs, Hotstar, Oyo Rooms,Kotak Life. In April 2019, Reliance Industries acquired the majority shareholding in the company in a $100 million transaction, making Haptik one of the highest valued AI companies globally. Outside of Haptik, Aakrit is an investor in startups in the areas of consumer/consumer tech and B2B SaaS. Notable investments include Unacademy (valued at >$200 million), Pepper Content, Park+, Flat White Capital, Third Wave Coffee, Ayoconnect, Boxhub, Dataweave, Haikujam (Ligthtbox backed), Flatchat (sold to Commonfloor in 2014), Tookitaki, Dil Mil, Ayopop, iON Energy, Talent Litmus, among others.Prior to Haptik,Aakrit was an early member of the team at Flurry, one of the world's largest mobile analytics and advertising platforms, acquired by Yahoo in 2014. Aakrit received his BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign and was named as a contender to the Forbes India 30 under 30 list in 2015.

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