# Top 25 Platforms Angel Investors in India in October 2023

## Haresh Chawla
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Software, Education

Haresh Chawla - Partner @ True North

## 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.

## Vikram Chachra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech

Vikram Chachra is the Founding Partner at 8i Ventures.

## Aloke Bajpai
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, SaaS, Apps

Aloke Bajpai is ixigo.com’s Co-Founder and CEO. Aloke graduated from IIT Kanpur in 2001 and started his career at Amadeus in Europe where he held key product and technology roles, building and managing large scale web-based products and networks for the first four years of his career. He then went to INSEAD for his MBA, and returned to India tolaunch ixigo.com in 2007. Under Aloke’s leadership over the last 7 years, ixigo has gone from a bootstrapped startup to India’s leading travel search and planning business, with over 20 million active users every month across mobile and web. Aloke is a TiE charter member and a mentor and advisor with several startups and accelerators.

## Phanindra Sama
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, SaaS, Software

Co-Founder of Redbus.

## Jayant Kadambi
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, CMS

Jayant Kadambi is the Angel Investor of Triller. He attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 1982 to 1986.

## Mitesh Shah
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet

Mitesh began his career with Mandhana Industries Limited, an apparel manufacturing company in 2001, where he handled various projects including the company’s IPO in 2010 and its exclusive global licensing deal with Salman Khan’s Being Human brand.
He joined Ola as CFO in December 2013 and played a pivotal role in the evolution of one of the biggeststart-up stories of India. Then came Bookmyshow, where he spearheaded the finance department and played an active role in strategic business management. With his vast experience in the start-up world, Mitesh is now a mentor to many young entrepreneurs guiding their startup journey apart from helping them with angel Investment.

## Saurabh Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: iOS, Software, Web Design

Saurabh Sharma

## Sanjay Mehta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Information Technology

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

## Ritesh Jain
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Internet

Experienced Digital & technology leader, lead change in industries - financial services, Fin-tech, Shipping, Telecom and Government, currently building an enabling function to build bank of the future.Ritesh comes from an entrepreneurial background, he has experience in building & mentoring successful businesses – A Wealth ManagementCompany, corporate uniforms business, Investor & Mentor for start-ups, Ritesh holds non-executive with start-ups and corporates, and as a mentor offers technical expertise and advise to Parliamentary Digital Service in UK and Advisor for payment regulatory and other Governments.

## Arihant Patni
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

Arihant is the Managing Director of Patni Financial Advisors, a wealth management company that advises high net worth families on a wide range of investment options. He is also Co-founder and Director at Nirvana venture Advisors. Arihant began his career at his family business, Patni Computer Systems, one of the leading Indian IT businesses of thetime, where he held positions in the computer software and human resources departments, as well as being a business development and marketing executive. Subsequently, Arihant worked as a Business Strategy Consultant for Fidelity Investments in Boston.

## Ashish Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, Apps

Ashish Sharma - CEO @ InnoVen Capital

## Kashish Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Kashish Sharma is the Chief Equity Officer at EquityList. He attended Vellore Institute of Technology.

## Pankaj Chaddah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care

Pankaj Chaddah is the Co-Founder of Shyft. Pankaj graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from IIT Delhi in 2007.

## Ashish Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Mobile

Ashish Gupta seeks unexplored problem spaces to grow large companies from seed. His career spans “firsts” that include unstructured data aggregation (Junglee), BPOs (Daksh, acquired by IBM), online travel in India (MMYT), and an Indian venture fund (Helion). At Drishti (the first AI to empower factory workers instead of displacing them), he is apart-time co-founder and active board member guiding the team on a journey he’s traveled before.

## Rajnish Kumar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, iOS

Rajnish would better be known as a Code Ninja (Kiai!), considering his history of technology lifecycle management and several J2EE applications to his credit (used by Amadeus even to this date). Sticking close to his love for both technology and travel, he co-founded ixigo.com with Aloke in June 2006. He is the mean-lean-and-codes-clean kinda guy,heading the Technology process at ixigo.

## Rajat Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Human Resources, Mobile Apps, B2B

Rajat Kumar Gupta is a prominent Indian-American businessman and former corporate officer, board director and strategic advisor to a variety of notable public- and private-sector institutions.He is the first Indian-born CEO of a global corporation and served for nearly a decade as managing director of McKinsey and Company. He was a member ofthe board of directors of Goldman Sachs, Procter and Gamble, American Airlines, Harman International, and Genpact, among others.He was also active in other public sector institutions, including co-founder of the Indian School of Business and the America India Foundation and chairman of The Global Fund for AIDS, Malaria, and TB and special advisor to the United Nations.

## Sujeet Kumar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Fremont, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series C
- Focus: iOS, EdTech, Rental

Dr. Sujeet Kumar is the founder and CEO of Zenlabs Energy, a company developing high-energy fast-charging lithium-ion batteries for Electric and Aerial Vehicles.  Before Zenlabs, Dr. Kumar served as CTO of Envia Systems where he developed high-capacity manganese-based cathode and won several DoE awards.  Dr. Kumar worked as a senior scientist forGreatbatch, leading the development of cathode materials for implantable medical batteries. Dr. Kumar started his career at Nanogram Corp as its first employee where he led several energy storage projects. Dr. Kumar has won the R & D 100 award for developing high energy lithium-ion batteries and is the inventor of over 60 patents.  Dr. Kumar has a Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of Rochester and a B.Tech from IIT, Varanasi.

## Saket Kumar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Audio, Android, Content

Saket Kumar - Partner & Portfolio Manager @ Cushing Asset Management

## Srini Koppolu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Apps, Shopping

Srini Koppolu is the chairman of Setu Software and an angel investor based in Hyderabad, India. Prior to this, he was the Managing Director of Microsoft's India Development Center in Hyderabad and a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft.He joined Microsoft in 1989 as a software engineer and worked on various first generation products.In 1998, he moved to Hyderabad, India to start what eventually became Microsoft's largest development center outside. He left Microsoft on September 24, 2010 after working there for 21 years.

## Daman Soni
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: iOS, Mobile, Social

Marketing and Growth Leader

## Rajesh Jain
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Marketing, Android, Internet

The Founder and Managing Director of netCORE Solutions has been one of Mumbai's most well-established entrepreneurs. Rajesh is an Electrical Engineer, having graduated from IIT Bombay in 1988. He did his MS (Electrical Engineering) from Columbia University, New York and returned to India in 1992 to pursue his entrepreneurial dreams.One ofRajesh's early ventures, IndiaWorld Communications, launched in 1995 was acquired by Satyam Infoway in November 1999 for US$ 115 million in one of Asia's largest Internet deals. IndiaWorld was the largest collection of India-centric websites, comprising Samachar (news), Khel (cricket), Khoj (search) and Bawarchi (food).He is also the Founder and Chairman of Emergic Venture Capital. Emergic has invested over $20 million of Rajesh's personal money into a dozen companies in the digital space in India and abroad. Among the investments are Novatium, which has created a $100 network computer, Rajshri Media, which runs India's largest broadband portal, and mChek, which is into mobile payments.Rajesh is a well-known figure in the technology industry and is an invited speaker at national and international forums. He has also been featured in cover stories in both TIME and Newsweek.This voracious reader and a frequent blogger can be seen balancing three important pillars in his life -Entrepreneurship, Family and Books. When he's not in the midst of his entrepreneurial achievements, he prefers spending time with his son.

## Vipul Agrawal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Marketing, Nutrition, Event Promotion

Entrepreneur | Angel Investor & Mentor | PoetStarting the career from teaching, Vipul learned to manage people while respecting vast differences which makes everyone unique. Mathematics & Statistics keeps my decisions logical. Experience in Operations, Data Science, Technology, Marketing & Content ideation helps him connect more dotsand strengthen his communication skill thus helping in growing business and generating new ideas & strategies.Vipul Agrawal, a Serial Entrepreneur and a Life Skills Thinker has come a long way from establishing one startup and now starting with another. He strongly advocates and nurtures the “RBC” – Relationship, Business and Connections, of his life to stay ahead in the competitive market. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science – Maths (Hons.) from Delhi University followed by Masters in Statistics from Amity University.Vipul’s journey of starting his own venture eventually started at a very early age, when the circumstances shaped him to be mentally resilient to withstand the expenses for his own education, food and shelter. He became the partner in a startup at a very early age. Then he founded his second startup, targeted towards re-defining cricket audience engagement. He has always believed in empowering people in his team and developing intrapreneurs to achieve the business objectives.Presently Vipul is working to create "unlu" India's leading platform to connect fans with the people they admire most. He also joined INSEAD and became the youngest to be the part of their Senior Executives Leadership Course.Re-defining the way of doing business, leading to customer delight and watching it grow, has established him as a successful Life and Start-Up Thinker.If you want to join this journey, do write him at vipul@unlu.io.

## J A Chowdary
- Type: Angel
- Location: Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, SaaS, Mobile

JA Chowdary is the former president of TiE and NVIDIA Graphics India. As Director of STPIs in Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad, Chowdary played a key role in the spurt of outsourced software development and the setting up of many an Indian operation of Multi-National companies. He has also held key positions in industry circles and has beenchampioning the growth of IT in Andhra Pradesh. J A Chowdary has been on the board of IIIT, Hyderabad, and has been an advisor to IT task force for e-governance initiatives of the State. He is the President of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and has also served as a Chairman IEEE Hyderabad section, American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) Hyderabad Chapter and President of Hyderabad Software Exporters Association (HYSEA). He has been championing the cause of the academia-industry linkage and promoting this cause for the mutual benefit of both. He is a strong promoter of corporate social responsibility and is on the Board of Trustees of Naandi an NGO.

## Prashanth Ranganathan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, Apps, Android

Prashanth is the founder and CEO of PaySense - a leading digital lending startup based out of Mumbai India. Prashanth is a serial entrepreneur with a track record of building mobile tech companies. Prior to founding PaySense, Prashanth spent 4 years at PayPal where he held the position of head of Product for Asia Pacific. Prashanth joined PayPal in2011 with the successful acquisition of Truvie Security, a mobile payment security startup. Prashanth has spent over 7 years working on various consumer mobile and security solutions resulting in two successful acquisitions.Prashanth holds a bachelors degree from the University of New South Wales in Engineering and a Masters in Bioinformatics from Stanford University.

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