# Top 50 Restaurants Startup Investors in India in May 2026

## Fireside Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage

Fireside Ventures is proposing a New Approach to Investing in Consumer Brands. Fireside Ventures invests in early stage consumer brands.

## Saama Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage

Saama Capital II, is an India focused venture capital fund and is the independent successor fund to SVB India Capital Partners, I (“SICP”). SICP has been successfully investing in Indian companies since 2006 following a collaborative partner driven approach with diversification across stage and sector. Saama Capital is the same team, with the samestrategy as SICP, but under a new identity.

## 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.

## Lead Angels Network
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Information Technology

Lead Angels is a platform for investing in professionally researched Indian startups and mentored for maximum value creation

## 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.

## 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

## Iron Pillar
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence

We provide Growth Capital - Series B/C/D to businesses with meaningful revenue & strong unit economics

## Brand Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Real Estate, E-Commerce, Internet

Over ten years, Brand Capital has partnered in the building of over 850+ indigenous brands. It has enabled the introduction of new concepts of print advertising in the form of jackets, panorama adverts and flaps, emulated across other print media. Since its inception, Brand capital has helped build several iconic brands and create immenseenterprise value. But most of all, Brand Capital has enabled the discovery of ‘Brand value’. Different from an archetypal Private Equity player, we succeed in contributing ‘Intellectual Capital’, thus supporting the creation of a brand strategy and planning media-spread to optimize value. We now have investments across sectors as wide as – Retail, FMCG, Consumer Durables, Realty, Digital and Mobile, E-Retail, Health & Wellness, Financial Services, Consumer Services and several more. Our invested value today stands at USD 2.5 Billion, driven by our disruptive innovation and the power of the media properties across "The Times Group". - See more at: http://brandcapital.co.in/#sthash.YJ6lB0CB.dpuf

## Indian Angel Network
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## 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.

## Info Edge
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Info Edge provides online recruitment, matrimonial and real estate classifieds, and related services. The company's mission is to address the middle east job market and have launched a Gulf version of the recruitment site. The company also launched a career counseling and guidance site, a professional networking site, and an educationclassified site.It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Uttar, Pradesh.

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

Vinay Kumar Singh

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

Adil Allana

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

Anubhav Agarwal

## 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.

## Tracxn labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Zomato
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series D, Corporate Round
- Focus: E-Commerce, Restaurants, Retail

Zomato is an online restaurant guide and food ordering platform that allows users to order meals from restaurants and have them delivered. The start offers a search app that provides detailed information about restaurants which enables consumers to discover, rate, and review restaurants, as well as create their own personal network of foodies fortrusted recommendations. Zomato connects over 55 million users to restaurants in 24 countries. It is backed by investors such as Tiger Global, Temasek, Baillie Gifford, Kora, Luxor, Fidelity (FMR), D1 Capital, Baillie Gifford, Mirae, Steadview, and Ant Financial.

## DSG Consumer Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Health Care

We are DSG Consumer Partners - India & Southeast Asia's leading consumer-only venture capital fund. We partner with founders in the region to build world-class consumer brands.

## Nordstar
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech

We help our partners accelerate their journeys to shape the future.

## 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.

## India Internet Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Mobile, Software, Apps

India Internet Fund is an early stage venture capital focused on technology and consumer startups in India and the US.

## 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.

## Singapore Angel Network
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care

SGAN is an early stage VC anchored by the multi billion dollar Thakral Group of Companies and has investments across India, Singapore and the USA.

## Negen Capital Services
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Financial Services, Lending

Welcome to Negen Capital PMS 2.0 | Negen Capital is Mumbai Based Company Which is Leading on Best Performing PMS of India | Negen Capital

## ITC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Corporate Round
- Focus: Mobile, Retail, Internet

ITC is one of India's foremost private sector companies and a diversified conglomerate with businesses spanning Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Hotels, Paperboards and Packaging, Agri Business and Information Technology.

## 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.

## Trifecta Capital Advisors
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series C, Series D
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services

Trifecta Capital Advisors India’s first independent venture debt firm.Venture debt is a form of specialty debt financing provided to companies that are not serviced by traditional lenders like Banks. The financing is usually structured as a combination of a loan along with limited equity investment rights (warrants). While established businesseshave many options for debt financing, new economy business have only had access to equity financing to fund their growth. We are here to change that.

## 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

## Tiger Global Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Tiger Global Management is an investment firm that deploys capital globally.Tiger Global seeks to earn superior risk-adjusted returns for its investors over the long term. The firm’s fundamentally oriented investments focus primarily on the global Internet, technology, telecom, media consumer, and industrial sectors. The private equity strategyhas a ten-year investment horizon and targets growth-oriented private companies. The public equity efforts emphasize deep due diligence on individual companies and long-term secular themes.

## Red Rock Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Energy Management, Analytics

Red Rock Ventures is a venture capital investment firm that invests in seed and early-stage information technology companies. Red Rock currently manages $220 million in committed capital.

## Lion Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Snack Food

Lion Ventures is a private investment firm that builds and mentors small- to middle-market companies.

## Abhishek Bachchan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Restaurants, Consumer Goods, Food and Beverage

Abhishek Bachchan is an Actor.

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

Manav Khanna

## Karan Bhagat
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Internet, Digital Media, Food and Beverage

Karan Bhagat is the Founder CEO of IIFL Wealth and has more than 15 years of experience in private wealth management. Prior to IIFL, he head the Mumbai office of Kotak Wealth Management.His rich experience and established product structuring skills have been instrumental in making him one of the pioneers in implementing the ‘FamilyOffice’ proposition in India. Under his leadership, IIFL Wealth evolved from a start-up to one of India's leading private wealth management and ‘Family Office' outfits.Karan holds a PGDBM from IIM Bangalore and is a Bachelor of Commerce from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata.

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

Deepak Chokhani

## 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

## 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.

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

Virendra Shekhawat

## Redcliffe Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, SaaS, Consumer Goods

Redcliffe Capital is a venture capital and special situation investment firm. Our teams in London...

## Claris Capital Limited
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Food and Beverage

Claris Capital Limited, founded in June 2015, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Claris Lifesciences Limited. This is an initiative by a 20-year old corporate group with interests ranging from Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Education, Clean Energy, and Agriculture to incubate new-age businesses on the back of their own experience.The company is mainlyinvolved in investment and financial activities. In the very first year of its operations, the company has identified and invested in fast-growing companies. The portfolio companies include ZebPay (FinTech), and IIMJobs (Specialized Job Portal).Krishna Handa, belonging to a family of entrepreneurs, is spearheading investment strategies. Also, she is a Founder of Dorizoe Lifesciences Ltd, a Specialty Contract Research & Development Organisation. A graduate in Biotechnology & Biochemistry, she achieved degree in Law and did her MBA in Boston, USA. She strongly believes in building good teams and businesses that contribute in improving human lives. She volunteers in many social activities, and is actively involved in the CSR initiatives of Claris Lifesciences Ltd.Claris Capital Limited envisions itself to be India’s foremost investment firm, providing financial impetus to startups and entrepreneurs, especially in the sectors of FinTech, Fashion and other consumer centric unique businesses.

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

Nirav Choksi - Non Executive Director @ Roll Mafia

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

Partner

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

Managing Director

## 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.

## 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.

## Mistletoe
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Education

Mistletoe is a hub for startups and the overall entrepreneurial ecosystem. It specifically provides learning opportunities for entrepreneurs, facilitates startup communities, invests in and supports startup companies and venture capitals.

## 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

## ICICI Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Manufacturing, Sales

ICICI Venture is a specialist alternative assets manager based in India. The firm is a wholly owned subsidiary of ICICI Bank (www.icicibank.com), the largest private sector financial services group in India.ICICI Venture has been at the forefront of driving entrepreneurship in India for over two decades, both as a partner and capital providerfor individuals with a clear common objective, the passion to pursue business ideas in the quest for creating value for all stakeholders and for the larger good of the nation. Till date, various funds managed by the firm have invested in over 500 companies. ICICI Venture continues to remain committed to this mission.

## Pi Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning

pi Ventures is an early stage fund focused on investing on disruptive ideas leveraging machine learning, AI and IoT. 

## OAKS Asset Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Catering, E-Learning

OAKS is an independent, partner owned, investment management firm investing in experienced entrepreneur led consumer businesses.The platform comprises of an operating team and a world-class advisory board that works alongside portfolio companies - entrepreneur led India businesses, as partners. A rich set of sophisticated, multi-disciplinary andhighly inclined investors from around the world back every investment.

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