# Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in India in May 2026 ## Unitus Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Seattle, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - 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 ## Tracxn labs - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Human Resources Tracxn Labs is a California-based company that offers a startup research platform which tracks startups across many sectors. ## Peak XV Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce We help the daring build legendary companies. ## LetsVenture - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 3 - 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. ## Better Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santa Clara, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology Better is a micro venture firm that creates and invests in innovative business which deliver value & impact, and have a strong focus on profitability. Better Labs is our operating portfolio of product businesses that we create and fund and includes ReadyContacts, PicBackMan, DataDoctor, Magik, Simple wall, and Maroun Place. ## Titan Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, Health Care Investing behind Founders who create a Better World Operator-led early stage capital RECENT INVESTMENTS NUMBERS Let's talk numbers? Our portfolio includes 200+ companies spread worldwide across consumer internet, direct to consumer brands, SaaS, and Fintech RAISED OVER $ Billion from 100+ institutional investors EMPLOYED 80 ,000 People all over the world SERVED OVER 135 Million ## Pentathlon Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence A seed stage venture fund based in Pune, investing in B2B SaaS companies from India. Our founder-friendly approach and focus on enterprise digital transformation make us a top choice for entrepreneurs. ## Zephyr Acorn - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech Zephyr Acorn provides equity financing and business support to innovative early-stage companies in East Africa. Zephyr Acorn invests in and actively supports innovative early-stage companies across sectors in East Africa that have the potential to scale across the continent and beyond. ## Anand Chandrasekaran - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## VenturEast - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Software Ventureast is one of India's longest standing venture capital firms investing in Indian businesses since the late 90s. ## 3one4 Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology At 3one4, we are biased towards action and channel the relevant resources to support generational innovation engines out of India. We partner with early-stage companies that are mission-oriented and are setting new standards for inclusive value creation and sustainable growth. ## Rocketship.vc - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Altos, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology rocketship.vc is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in companies using models built through data science. Their proprietary Escape Velocity algorithm identifies companies with a Sustainable Growth Engine at their core. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Los Altos, California, United States. ## Phanindra Sama - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, SaaS, Software Co-Founder of Redbus. ## Francisco Arcilla - Type: Angel - Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, B2B, PaaS Francisco is a finance and investment professional with over 25 years' experience, who brings deep knowledge of capital markets and alternative investments to TNF. Francisco has led teams of investors and advisors across multiple locations, most recently as a management board member for a leading global Asset Management firm. ## Pallav Nadhani - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: SaaS, Software, Information Technology Pallav Nadhani is the Managing Partner at Seeders Venture Capital. ## Chiratae Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence Chiratae Ventures is a global network of venture capital funds with approximately $3.6 billion under management and a portfolio of over 220 companies built over the last 15 years. The Chiratae Ventures network is comprised of five independent partnerships managing funds in North America and Asia. Each partnership makes investments on behalf of itslimited partners, including International Data Group (IDG), the world's largest IT media company. By combining the IDG platform – an unparalleled combination of global publishing, market research (IDC), and conferences and exhibition resources – with years of hands-on experience in early-stage company building, each Chiratae Ventures fund helps companies understand their markets better and penetrate them faster than their competition.With partnerships in the USA, Korea and multiple locations throughout China, India and Vietnam, the IDG Ventures network offers the international perspective and the local market expertise to help companies grow from start-ups to global success stories. ## Samir Khosla - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: B2B, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence Samir is an entrepreneur who has built and led five successful ventures across four continents over the last two decades. While his entrepreneurial journey started in software technology, his follow-on ventures spanned multiple industries including construction, oil & gas, and human resources. While he has studied engineering, management, andfinance, he is a technologist at heart. Samir serves as a board member on select TNF investee companies. ## Aneesh Reddy - Type: Angel - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage Aneesh Reddy is the co-founder & Chief Executive Officer at Capillary Technologies. With his global vision and focused mentorship, Aneesh leads a team that helps enterprise customers engage with their consumers intelligently, delivering personalized communications to the right consumers at the right time.Aneesh is a featured expert at globalretail, marketing, and technology forums and works closely with acclaimed institutions towards creating a sustained product ecosystem in India. He is also a featured entrepreneur in leading publications such as Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and The Economic Times. He is also an Independent Director at HR technology firm Darwinbox.Prior to founding Capillary, Aneesh worked with ITC Limited and was involved in their facility management division. Aneesh holds a Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. ## Malpani Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence We fund frugal Innovation in India ## The Chennai Angels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Education The Chennai Angels is an Angel Investment Group in India with over 140 individual, corporate and institutional members. The Chennai Angels invests in early stage startups and also provide mentorship for their portfolio companies. ## Lightspeed India Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology Lightspeed Venture Partners has invested in direct and cross-border. They invest across several stages and sectors, including technology-led businesses as well as non-technology opportunities in sectors such as advertising and media, business services, financial services, healthcare, education, and retail. ## Kalaari Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software Kalaari is a $160 million venture capital fund with a strong advisory team in Bangalore investing in early-stage, technology-oriented companies in India.Kalaari Capital invests in the unknown Indian entrepreneur who is poised to become tomorrow’s global leader. They are India’s leading investor in early-stage businesses, nurturing them throughevery aspect of growth on the transformative journey toward success. ## Hyderabad Angels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence We are a network of leading entrepreneurs who have successfully built and run enterprises across several domains and industries and are keen to invest in the new stage businesses having the potential to create value for mankind. Meet our Angels. ## 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. ## Venture Highway - Type: VC Fund - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: SaaS, Information Technology, Software Venture Highway teams up with the next generation of entrepreneurs by providing guidance and capital to early-stage nascent ideas in technology.We are looking to team up with founders who demonstrate a passion and ability to create world-class businesses. If you’ve got the ability, drive, desire, passion, perseverance, and all that ‘good’ (butreally really painful) stuff then you’ve reached the right place. ## Monish Darda - Type: Angel - Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Monish has more than 20 years of experience in application and systems software development and the architecting of enterprise distributed systems.Monish is the CTO of Icertis Inc. A leading provider of enterprise solutions in the Microsoft Cloud. ## Bhupen Shah - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Big Data, Recruiting Bhupen Shah holds a Masters of Science degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He brings with him a great deal of expertise and experience.Bhupen Shah has over twenty-five years of experience in technology development, product development and engineering management in embedded digitalmedia and communication solutions at Sling Media, Emuzed, Dazzle, RealChip, Philips Semiconductors, IBM and other such heavyweights. Bhupen successfully built cost-effective India-based development organizations. He co-founded Sling Media, and as COO & VP Engineering, was instrumental in bringing award winning Slingbox products into the retail market. Sling Media was acquired by Echostar in 2007 and Bhupen currently plays the role of CTO at the same. Prior to Sling Media, Bhupen co-founded Emuzed, Inc., initially serving as COO and EVP of Engineering. His team delivered PC and embedded digital media products to worldwide tier-1 OEMs. Emuzed was then acquired by Flextronics. Bhupen was also a key contributor and VP of Software at Dazzle, the first company to deliver video capture devices to the consumer market. Dazzle was acquired by SCM Microsystems. ## Alumni Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own. ## 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. ## Matrix Partners India - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, Internet, E-Commerce We work with visionary founders of early-stage startups to amplify their intrinsic talent. ## Atul Singh - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Big Data, Software, Analytics Atul Singh is Group President, Asia Pacific, The Coca-Cola Company, with oversight over the operations of 5 Business units: Greater China and Korea BU (GC&K), India & Southwest Asia (INSWA) and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Japan & South Pacific. He supervises operations in 36 markets, which include China, Korea,Taiwan, Mongolia, Hong Kong, Macau, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Maldives, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Japan, American Samoa, Australia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Northern Mariana Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga & Vanuatu.Atul joined The Coca-Cola Company in 1998 as Vice President, Operations of Coca-Cola, India Division. He led the Franchise Operations and Key Accounts group of the India Division from 1998 to 2001. He then moved to China and served as the President of the East, Central and South China Division. Under his leadership, mainland China operations were among the fastest growing Coca-Cola businesses. In September, 2005, Atul took over as the President of Coca-Cola India and South West Asia Business Unit. Under his stewardship, Coca-Cola’s business in India made strides in all facets of its operations, emerging amongst top 7 businesses in the Coca-Cola System Worldwide and delivering 32 consecutive quarters of growth.Prior to joining Coca-Cola, Atul worked with The Colgate Palmolive Company for 10 years and held several key positions including Country General Manager, Nigeria (1995-1998), Finance Director and then Country General Manager, Romania (1992-1995) and Finance Manager, Body Care Division, USA (1990-1992). Before joining Colgate, Atul worked as an Auditor with Price Waterhouse in New York.Atul is an independent Director on the Board of Compass Ltd (BATA international Board) and was also independent Director on the Board of Bata India Ltd for 3 years. He has been past Chairman of AMCHAM India on two occasions. In the last 8 years, Atul has chaired several committees on Environment, Water, Sports, Rural Development & CSR in India’s apex chambers of commerce, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Atul is a member of the Advisory Board of AIESEC in India, the world’s largest student organization and a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization, a global body dedicated to creating ‘Better Leaders through Education and Idea Exchange’. He is also on the advisory board of Catalyst in India, a leading global non-profit membership organization founded in 1962, focused on expanding opportunities for women and business.Atul is an alumnus of the prestigious St. Xavier’s College of Kolkata, India from where he majored in Commerce (Honors). Atul holds an MBA degree from Texas Christian University, USA. He has lived and worked in the four continents of Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. ## Helion Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Port Louis Town, Port Louis, Mauritius - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software Helion Venture Partners is a stage independent, India-focused venture fund, investing in high growth technology powered businesses and consumer services. ## Arun Duggal - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Recruiting, Human Resources Arun Duggal (68), joined the ITC Board as an Independent Director on September 15, 2014.Duggal, a Mechanical Engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, is an international banker with global experience in financial strategy, M&A and capital raising. Hisprofessional career includes 26 years with Bank of America (BoA), primarily in the USA, Hong Kong and Japan, with his last assignment as Chief Executive with BoA, India, from 1998 to 2001. He was the Chief Financial Officer of HCL Technologies Limited, India, from 2001 to 2003. He has also been the Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce, India, and on the Board of Governors of the National Institute of Bank Management. Duggal is presently Chairman of FICCI's Centre for Corporate Governance, a visiting faculty at IIM, Ahmedabad, and a Senior Advisor, Asia Pacific for Transparency International, Berlin. He is involved in several initiatives in social and educational sectors.Duggal is the Chairman of ICRA Limited and International Asset & Reconstruction Company. He is also Director on the Boards of Dish TV India Limited, Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited and Sanlam Limited, South Africa, among others. ## Bodley Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: St Louis, Missouri, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Construction, Software, Hardware Bodley Group invests in seed or growth opportunities with compelling teams and a clear potential for outperformance. We seek to invest in companies with new proprietary technology, concept durability, clearly defined customer acquisition strategies, network effects and the potential for rapid growth. Most importantly, we target inspirationalfounders who are convinced of their plan for a different future and possess the fortitude to make their vision a reality. We have offices in St. Louis, Missouri and Palo Alto, California. ## Roj Niyogi - Type: Angel - Location: Austin, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Education, Recruiting, Mobile Apps Roj Niyogi - Founder/CEO @ HomeBit ## University Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Education, Higher Education, EdTech University Ventures is the only investment firm focused exclusively on the global higher education sector. UV pursues a differentiated strategy of innovation from within. UV has the deepest respect for the missions and traditions of colleges and universities around the world and is confident that through innovation, these same institutions will besuccessful in fulfilling and expanding their missions. ## Ravi Trivedi - Type: Angel - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Mobile, News, SaaS Ravi is the founder of Srijan Capital, which is focused building startups, and angel investing.He is a board observer and board member for few startups in his portfolio. He is a Mentor for IIM-A's iAccelerator, and Microsoft Accelerator. Ravi is also an hands-on Digital Marketer with experience in running online businesses, and currentlylearning the ropes of SAAS business.Prior to this, he worked as a Principal at Southeast Interactive Technology Funds, an early stage technology venture capital fund in North Carolina, USA. Before Southeast Interactive Technology Funds, he worked as Equity Analyst with Bank of America, where he covered companies over $120B in market capitalization. He was part of the team that was ranked runners up in the Alpha Hedge Fund Research rankings.He started his career as a software engineer at Hewlett Packard and has global cross-functional experience in leading and managing technology functions. He worked in marketing, consulting and engineering functions at Hewlett Packard. Ravi co-authored the book Web Services Security, and participated in creating web services standards. He holds a Patent for "System and Methods for Recommending Third Party Services". Ravi completed his MBA from Duke University, Fuqua School of Business and has a Masters in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. ## Arjun Dhawan - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: SaaS, Freelance, Consulting Arjun Dhawan - President & Chief Executing Officer @ HCC Group ## Nandan Reddy - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Wellness, Education Nandan Reddy MSc Physics (Hons.) from BITS Pilani with a penchant for great food and operational efficiency. ## Archana Kumari - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Catering, Recruiting, Food Delivery Archana Kumari ## Shailesh Vickarm Singh - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Travel, Tourism, Recruiting Shailesh Vickram Singh has over 15 years of experience in investing in private equity / venture capital investing, and in business operations and entrepreneurship.Shailesh brings a strong entrepreneurial and operations perspective to investments having co-founded one startup in community space in early 2000 from where the team made asuccessful exit in 2003 and helped create another startup in agricultural commodities spaces which was acquired by a media conglomerate in 2005.He has worked with 2i Capital ( A mid market Private Equity Growth Fund), Unit Trust of India ( the largest investment manager in India) and Gujarat Venture Finance Limited ( investors include CDC and World Bank) and was involved with investments in logistics, technology, telecommunications, media, and internet companies. Prior to his MBA, Shailesh had worked for four years in manufacturing (Heavy Engineering and Machining) with Tata Motors and ATV.Shailesh is a B.Tech in Production Engineering from G.B. Pant University, Nainital, and holds an MBA degree from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow. He is on the advisory board of MICA’s (Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad) Com-Cubator program. ## Athera Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce Early Stage Venture Capital Firm in India ## Rajesh Sawhney - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet Rajesh is the co-founder and CEO of InnerChef and Super Angels. He holds a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering from Delhi University, and a master's degree in management from Mumbai University. He has also done a fellowship in 'Globalisation and Leadership' from the London School of Economics and Social Sciences. ## Endiya Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Machine Learning Discover Endiya Partners, a leading venture capital firm in India, focusing on funding and nurturing startups in SaaS, Healthcare, Lifesciences, Fintech, and Deeptech. Learn about our early-stage investments and co-founder VC approach. ## Lightrock india (Aspada) - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Agriculture, Health Care, Financial Services Lightstone Aspada is an India focused impact investment platform. Formed in partnership with Aspada and LGT in August 2019, Lightstone-Aspada is the India focused effort of LGT' Lightstone. Lightstone is LGT Group's impact investing initiative to build a global multi-billion dollar direct investing ## ah! Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, EdTech, Education ah! Ventures is India’s only curated, sector agnostic and the largest fundraising platform for early stage startups raising funds up to 10 MN USD. Very strong network of 3000+ Investors including 2000+ angel investors and 1000+ institutional investors & fund/family houses, Robust deal pipeline of more than 600 business plans/monthand Well-established brand as one of India’s premier aggregators with a cornucopia of offerings to catalyze startup growth. ## Krishna Mehra - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Analytics, Big Data Krishna Mehra Is The Director of Engineering At Facebook. He attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. ## Rajan Anandan - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS 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. ## Nihal Mehta - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile Nihal Mehta is a Co-Founder at Eniac Ventures. He was an Angel Investor at Uber. He attended the University of Pennsylvania. ## Tilman Ehrbeck - Type: Angel - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: SaaS, Freelance, Consulting Tilman Ehrbeck draws on a deep understanding of the intersection of business, government policy, and movement building in his role as a partner at Omidyar Network. He oversees the teams advancing three of the organization’s core initiatives: Financial Inclusion and Property Rights, which are important building blocks for economic citizenship andshared prosperity, as well as the cross-cutting effort to support the Impact Investing field.Tilman’s 25 years of experience in financial services and inclusive businesses include serving as CEO of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a high-profile global partnership of 34 leading organizations that share the common mission to advance financial inclusion for the poor. Tilman also has held leadership positions with McKinsey & Company in the firm’s Banking & Securities and Global Healthcare Practices. He has worked across Africa, Asia, and North America. He started his career at the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Congressional Budget Office.Tilman holds a Ph.D. in economics from the European University Institute (EUI) and an undergraduate degree from the University of Hamburg. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co