# Top 45 Restaurants Angel Investors in India in May 2026

## Apurva Salarpuria
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Restaurants, Coffee, Lifestyle

Apurva Salarpuria - Owner @ Salarpuria Sattva Group

## Kanwaljit Singh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care

Kanwal Singh is a co-founder of Helion and has over 23 years of experience in the areas of venture investing, marketing and business development across multiple sectors in India. In addition to his role at Helion, he serves on the boards of NGPay, Hurix, Amba Research, HummingBird, YLG Salons, Qwikcilver, Mast Kalandar, Yepme, Attano and LifeCell.Prior to Helion, Kanwal spent four years as a director and co-head of The Carlyle Group's India venture operations. Before this, he worked as Head of Marketing for Intel South Asia. He joined Intel from Hindustan Unilever Ltd. where he spent over 10 years in various functions including sales, marketing and product innovation.Kanwal has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Punjab University and an MBA in marketing and finance from the Faculty of Management Studies, New Delhi.

## 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.

## Rashmi Kwatra
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Beauty

Rashmi Kwatra is the founder and CIO of Sixteenth Street Capital.

## Ashvin Chadha
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Retail

Mr. Ashvin Chadha has spent over a decade working in the financial services industry both in India and the United States. He started his professional career as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley in New York. He then joined General Atlantic LLC, a worldwide private equity firm, where he was based in the New York City and Greenwich offices.Ashvin moved to India in 2006 to join the core team to set up the Mumbai office for India Equity Partners (IEP), a $350mm India focussed Private Equity Fund.In 2011, Ashvin moved to Delhi to set up his own family office to invest in debt securities of mid market Indian companies. He has successfully invested over INR 100cr of proprietary capital in debt securities across 20 companies in the last 5 years.Ashvin has served on the Board of Directors of several financial services companies including Manappuram Finance (until 2010) and Netafim Agricultural Finance Agency Private Limited (since 2012). He also serves as an advisor and Investment committee member for SEBI registered VC funds including Fulcrum Venture India LLP and Carpediem Capital Partners.Ashvin completed his education from Wesleyan University and The London School of Economics.

## Lydia Jett
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace

Jett focuses on investments in a variety of media and communications industry segments. Prior to joining M/C, Ms. Jett worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the Principal Investment Area (PIA) in New York where she completed investments across a number of sectors, including media and education. Previously, Ms. Jett worked at J.P. MorganSecurities in the Telecom, Media & Technology (TMT) group of the Leveraged Finance practice in New York. Ms. Jett also worked at Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer Inc. in Los Angeles and with Moxie Capital LLC in San Francisco.Ms. Jett received a B.A. in Economics and Government from Smith College and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

## Vinay Kumar Singh
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Snack Food, Restaurants

Vinay Kumar Singh

## Anubhav Agarwal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Hotel, Coworking, Hospitality

Anubhav Agarwal

## Adil Allana
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Women's, E-Commerce, Snack Food

Adil Allana

## Avtar Monga
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: B2B, Sales, Mobile

Avtar Monga - Chief Operating Officer @ IDFC Bank

## Anand Mahindra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Social Media, Education, Local

Graduate, Harvard Univ. and Harvard Business School. Chairman and Managing Director, Mahindra Group. Thought leader in Indian business. Serves on many industry confederations. Initiated the Nanhi Kali programme to provide free education to economically underprivileged girls in India. Co-Founder, Naandi Danone, India's largest safe drinkingwater provider to rural areas. Life Trustee, Board of Naandi Foundation, which provides meals to 1.3 million children daily. Co-Chair, World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009. Named among World’s 50 Greatest Leaders, Fortune Magazine (2014); named one of the top 25 most powerful business people in Asia, Fortune Magazine (2011).

## Manish Singhal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Coffee, Restaurants, Artificial Intelligence

Ideator, Coach, Angel Investor.Passionate about building & helping startups. The uncertainties, the possibilities and the thrills are never ending!Love wild life photography – especially birds! Keen sports enthusiast – tennis and playing chess being my favorites.Talk to me for anything to do with start-ups – ideation, scaling, funding!

## Yogesh Patel
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, Restaurants, Food and Beverage

Yogesh Patel is the Chief at Atom. He attended National Technological University.

## devalla ramprasad
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Restaurants, Food and Beverage

Partner

## Nita Mirchandani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Tea, Coffee, Lifestyle

Nita is a part of the team at Kae Capital as the Director. She has been self employed since 1994. Earlier she has worked with HDFC Securities and JM Morgan Stanley primarily in the area of Equity Research. She has also served as the Commercial Executive of the Dempo Group.Nita has a Masters and Bachelors in Economics from London School of Economicsand Bachelors in Economics from St. Xaviers College of Arts & Science, Mumbai.

## Manav Khanna
- Type: Angel
- Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Restaurants, Food Processing, Food and Beverage

Manav Khanna

## Nirupa Shankar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Coffee, Internet, E-Commerce

Nirupa Shankar - Director - Hospitality @ Brigade Group

## Amit Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series C, Series D
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services

Amit heads India business for NewQuest and oversees investments in power and financial services sectors in the Asia Pac region. He is also the Chief Operating Officer of the NewQuest group. Amit has more than 12 years of industry experience. Most recently, he was a Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Asia Private Equity group where heled the India business and oversaw investments the power and financial services sectors across Asia Pacific. Amit has also served in other roles in BAML, including the Corporate Principal Investments team in Hong Kong and in IBK team based in Mumbai. Prior to working at BAML, he worked as a software engineer based in Mumbai and the USA.Amit has an MBA from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore where he was placed in Director's Merit List and an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from REC Kurukshetra where he received University Gold Medal.

## Sukhbir Singh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, Food and Beverage, Mobile Apps

Sukhbir Singh

## Bhavish Aggarwal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Anand Mahadevan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Restaurants, Food and Beverage

Managing Director

## Sivaram Vallampati
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Restaurants, Food and Beverage

Corporate Senior Vice President

## Hitesh Oberoi
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Coffee, EdTech, Fitness

Hitesh Oberoi is a Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer at Naukri.com.

## Ankit Bhati
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Education, EdTech

Ankit Bhati heads the technical aspects of Olacabs, ensuring a quick, convenient and instinctive experience for our customers and partners. He joined IIT Bombay in 2004 for Btech in Mechanical Engg and MTech in CAD and Automation. By 2009 he had already worked on several freelance projects & startups like Wilcom (http://wilcom.co.in),QED42 etc. and finally decided to give up his nomadic professional life for a start-up of his own. He joined the Olacabs journey in November 2010.

## 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.

## Asha Jadeja
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Focus: Computer, Software, Restaurants

Asha founded Dot Edu Ventures in March 2000 to fund innovative technologies emerging from top US universities. Among her many investments are Bytemobile, Kaltix (now Google), Jareva (now Veritas), and Mimosa Systems.Alongside her career in venture capital Asha founded and ran as CEO iScale Inc, a peered networking company for distributing largefile content across the internet using proprietary technology. Before iScale Asha was an angel investor and advisor in various silicon valley startups.Asha studied civil engineering for undergrad in India and transitioned into urban planning and policy studies for graduate studies at USC, UC Berkeley, and Stanford. She held several research and analyst positions at multinational agencies such as the United Nations' Transnationals Corporation and the World Bank while pursuing graduate studies. Her civil engineering and urban planning work included projects such as the Los Angeles Metro Rail.

## Shripad Nadkarni
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Tea, Baby, Beauty

Shripad Nadkarni - Director @ Maverix Platforms

## Ashish Hemrajani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Food and Beverage, Education

Ashish Hemrajani is the CEO and Founder at BookMyShow.

## Vikram Chachra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech

Vikram Chachra is the Founding Partner at 8i Ventures.

## Prabhat Awasthi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Internet, Restaurants, Reservations

Prabhat Awasthi - Managing Director @ Nomura

## 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.

## Pramod Veturi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Restaurants, Food and Beverage

CEO

## Anand Agrawal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, Restaurants

Anand Agrawal is a co-Founder and CTO at Credgenics.

## Ketharaman Swaminathan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Internet, Real Time

Ketharaman Swaminathan - Founder & CEO @ GTM360 Marketing Solutions

## Dheeraj Jain
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Food and Beverage

Dheeraj Jain is working as Director at Redciffe Capital based in London and Delhi/Gurgaon. He is also value partner at Nine River Capital, PE fund focused towards India and hedge fund manager at Numia Capital. In last 3 years, he was lead mandate holder towards structuring and financing numerous cross border acquisitions in the mining, metal,technology, security services, manufacturing, shipping, oil, renewable power sectors coving India, USA, UK, Africa. He himself is seasoned investor and have network of investors, banks and other financial institutes supporting on investment banking transaction done on his acumen of risk/reward and ability to stitching deal pieces together.

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

Nirav Choksi - Non Executive Director @ Roll Mafia

## Vinod Sood
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Hotel, Fashion, Shopping

Vinod Sood - MD Hughes Systique @ Eye-D

## Vivek Bhargava
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Marketing, Food Delivery, Internet

Vivek Bhargava is a Co-founder of ProfitWheel. He attended sydenham college of commerce and economics.

## Akshay Garg
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Software

Akshay is the cofounder of Komli Media, Asia's largest independent digital advertising technology company. He is a Kauffman Fellow, Class 18. In hi last role with Komli, Akshay was VP, Corporate Strategy, executing investments, divestments and corporate restructuring activities. Prior to that role Akshay was VP, International BusinessDevelopment and MD, Southeast Asia, where he led and executed an aggressive M&A strategy to expand Komli's footprint across Asia, UK and USA. Within a period of 2 years, Komli acquired PostClick in Australia, Indoor Media in the UK, Aktiv Digital and Admax Network in Southeast Asia. The acquisition of Admax was a landmark deal for Komli, in terms of its complexity and size. At its peak, Komli was present was in 10 countries excluding its India homebase. Akshay was also responsible for securing and maintaining strategic alliances with several key partners such as Google, Facebook and Twitter. For the first four years, Akshay was based in Mumbai, India as MD, India, before shifting base to Sydney and then Singapore. Prior to Komli, Akshay was pursuing entrepreneurial projects in Kunming, China: an Indian restaurant and a lifestyle magazine modeled on Time Out. He was previously a research economist with the United Nations in Switzerland and a management consultant with Deloitte Consulting in the US.

## Kunal Shah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet

Kunal Shah

## Mohandas Pai
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Education, Information Technology

Mohandas Pai - Co-Founder and Chairman @ Aarin Capital

## Deepak Chokhani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, Restaurants, Food and Beverage

Deepak Chokhani

## Virendra Shekhawat
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, Restaurants, Food and Beverage

Virendra Shekhawat

## Jeljo Johny Kottoor
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Internet, Real Time

Jeljo Johny Kottoor - Director @ ProV Venture Investments

## Sanjeev Agrawal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, Restaurants

Sanjeev Agrawal

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