# Top 50 Retail Angel Investors in India in May 2026 ## Kunal Shah - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet Kunal Shah ## Rohit Bansal - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, SaaS Rohit Bansal - Co-Founder @ Snapdeal ## Rajesh Yabaji - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Marketplace, Retail, E-Commerce Rajesh is known for his energy and resilience, and one can see this in his enthusiasm for marathons, and more in his passion for building the world’s largest trucking network. As the Co-Founder and CEO of BlackBuck, Rajesh is charged with constantly moving the company forward. From finance discussions to brainstorming on new product design tobusiness development planning, Rajesh keeps himself involved in all areas of the business. An IIT Kharagpur graduate, Rajesh was heading the Supply Chain division of ITC’s Leaf Tobacco business before starting BlackBuck. He is an inspiring leader who likes to bring out the best in people and help them achieve greater heights by pushing the bar higher. Speaking about pushing the bar higher, Rajesh has been a pole vaulter too. ## Kunal Bahl - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Software Kunal is the co-founder and CEO of Snapdeal Private Limited, India's largest no-frills, value focused marketplace. Previously, he has also worked at companies such as Deloitte Consulting and Microsoft in the US. Kunal is an engineer from the University of Pennsylvania and holds a business degree from The Wharton School. He loves backpackingthrough remote parts of the world, savoring unique cuisines and studying development politics in India. ## Revant Bhate - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Health Care, E-Commerce, Retail Revant Bhate is Chief Executive Officer at Mosaic Wellness. ## Ramakant Sharma - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce Ramakant plays a central role in driving all technological innovations that form the backbone of Livspace while also leading our operations team. Before founding Livspace, Ramakant was a core team member and Vice President of Engineering at Myntra, a leading fashion eCommerce startup in India (acquired by Flipkart). Ramakant, graduated from IITKanpur, and holds an MBA from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. ## Arjun Purkayastha - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Health Care Arjun Purkayastha is a purpose driven leader with extensive global experience managing diverse businesses and multi-cultural teams at FTSE Top 10 and Fortune 100 companies - Reckitt and P&G. He has a strong track record of building outperforming teams, iconic brands & innovative business models across 60+ countries having lived & workedin the UK, Singapore, South Korea. ## Anupam Mittal - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services Anupam started his entrepreneurial journey by founding People Group - A New Media & Entertainment group, which includes businesses such as Shaadi.com, Makaan.com, Mauj Mobile, and People Pictures. Today the group is recognized as one of the most innovative enterprises in the country. Besides his operational roles, Anupam is also one ofIndia's most active angel investors.He attended Boston College. ## Rajul Garg - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Rajul co-founded GlobalLogic, sold for $420M in 2013 to Apax partners in the largest deal of the year in India. Rajul built the operation ground up in India and then expanded through global acquisitions, until 2008. Rajul then consulted with top tier venture capital firms such as Sequoia Capital and Aavishkaar, where he got exposed to the educationsector.Earlier, right out of college, Rajul founded Pine Labs, a leader in the Indian market in credit card transactions.Rajul serves on several Boards, including publicly traded S Mobility, a leader in digital mobility. He is an active mentor to several startups, a sought after angel investor and a participant in several industry bodies such as TiE, NASSCOM, IIT Mentors and othersRajul is a graduate from IIT Delhi. ## Asish Mohapatra - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, B2B, Automotive Asish Mohapatra is the Co-Founder and Head of Sales of OfBusiness. He previously worked at Matrix Partners as a Healthcare Investments Lead. Asish Mohapatra attended the Indian School of Business. ## Rajesh Sawhney - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 3 - 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. ## Amrish Rau - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs. ## Gunavanth Vaid - Type: Angel - Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Retail, Shoes, Fashion Gunavanth Vaid is a Founder at 4Gcapital venture. ## Jitendra Gupta - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter. ## Anand Chandrasekaran - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 3 - 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. ## Kishore Ganji - Type: Angel - Location: Marlboro, New Jersey, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care Kishore Ganji is the Angel Investor & Mentor at Astir Ventures. ## Aprameya Radhakrishna - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, Software, Apps Aprameya loves singing romantic songs and is the quintessential dreamer who doesn’t fear to experiment. He used to be the Head of Business Development for PDS at Jones Lang LaSalle India where he spent almost 3 years post his graduation from IIM Ahmedabad. He has worked at Infosys and has an Electronics engineering degree from NITK Surthkal andif all this has made you think he’s a geek, ask his close friends and they would say otherwise! ## Varun Alagh - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Education, Health Care Varun Alagh is the Founder, Chief Dad, and Get Stuff Done Officer at Mamaearth. ## Sahil Barua - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Internet Sahil Barua is the Co-founder and CEO at Delhivery. He is a former Consultant at Bain & Company. Mr. Barua graduated from National Institute of Technology Karnataka with a bachelor of engineering in Mechanical Engineering. ## Roopa Nath - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, Retail, Fashion Roopa Nath - Member @ Mumbai Angels ## Teruhide Sato - Type: Angel - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace Teruhide Sato is President and Group CEO of netprice.com, Ltd., a global internet and e-commerce business incubator group (Tokyo Stock Exchange 3328). Lead the group to deliver the latest experience in online shopping across Japan, US, Europe and Asia. Strongly believe in the power of entrepreneurship. ## Anil Gelra - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: Retail, B2B, EdTech Anil Gelra is the founder of Snapmint. He co-founded Holachef and served as CTO. ## Bhavish Aggarwal - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## Sriharsha Majety - Type: Angel - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Information Services, Fashion, Mobile Sriharsha Majety is the Co-Founder and CEO at Swiggy. He is a former Co-Founder of Bundl and Associate at Nomura International. Mr. Majety graduated received a B.E. in Electrical and Electronics and an M.Sc. in Physics at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. ## Kaushal Vora - Type: Angel - Location: Udipi, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Shoes, Retail, Fashion Kaushal Vora is the managing Director at Massilly India Packaging Private Limited & Genesis Packaging. ## Hari Kumar - Type: Angel - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Digital Media, B2B, Social Media Hari Kumar - Partner @ LionRock Capital ## Vijay Shekhar Sharma - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, News, Software Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Paytm. He previously worked at India Today Group Online as a Tech head. Vijay Shekhar attended Delhi College of Engineering. ## Amit Singhal - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning Amit Singhal is a senior vice president and software engineer at Google Inc., a Google Fellow, and the head of Google’s core ranking team. He has worked in the field of search for over fifteen years, first as an academic researcher and now as a Google engineer. His research interests include information retrieval, its application to web search, webgraph analysis, and user interfaces for search. Prior to joining Google in 2000, Amit was a senior member of technical staff at AT&T LabsSinghal is also the author of two publications: Efficient Multicast Algorithms for Switch based Irregular Heterogeneous Networks of Workstations and Terabit Switching: A survey of Techniques and Current Products.Singhal obtained his bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from IIT Roorkee, India, and his M.S. from the University of Minnesota. He also holds a Ph.D.in computer science from Cornell University. ## Dheeraj Jain - Type: Angel - Location: Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## Rohit Raj - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Consumer, Apps, Shoes Rohit is a serial entrepreneur and an active angel investor and advisor to multiple startups. Rohit founded Glitch, one of the fastest-growing advertising agencies in the country, and successfully exited to WPP in 2017. He also set up, chtrbox.com, one of the leading influencer agencies in India in 2015 and has been actively involved in theirstrategic growth across products and markets.As an active player in the angel investment industry, Rohit has been a big advocate of a good mix of  Marketing capital + Venture Capital and applies it across his investment thesis across various industries where he can add value. His notable investments/advisory positions include Ghost kitchens, The New Shop, Svami Beverages, Deciwood Audio among others. ## Manish Choksi - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Food and Beverage, Software, Information Technology Manish Choksi ## Vaishnav Shetty - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel - Focus: B2B, Retail, Internet Vaishnav Shetty ## Tejinderpal Miglani - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Retail, Fitness, Consumer Tejinderpal Miglani - Co-Founder @ Incedo Inc. ## Raman Roy - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## Ankit Somani - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Retail, Shoes, Fashion Ankit Somani is the Chief Product Officer at HireVue. He is responsible for leading the Product, Business Intelligence, Data Science, and I/O Psychology Teams.Before joining HireVue, Ankit co-founded AllyO, an innovative chatbot and conversational AI tool that was acquired by HireVue to help deliver personalized, automated conversations forhigh volume recruitment. He has 10+ years of Product Management and Software Engineering experience at Google and Oracle. Ankit holds an MS in Thermal-Fluid Sciences & Economic Decision Analysis from the Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as a B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. ## Aditya Malik - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Sales, Retail, Advertising Aditya Malik, is a tech-entrepreneur, CEO and MD of Talentedge, one of the country's new age, technology-driven certified interactive education companies. A Bollywood buff, he loves to travel when he is not cracking new codes to expand the education ecosystem. ## Binny Bansal - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## 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. ## Vidit Aatrey - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Education, Internet, E-Commerce Vidit Aatrey is Founder and CEO at Meesho. He previously worked at InMobi as a Strategy. Vidit Aatrey attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. ## Saif Ali Khan - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Retail, Fashion, Product Design Saif Ali Khan ## Pirojshaw Sarkari - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel - Focus: B2B, Retail, Internet Pirojshaw Sarkari (Phil) is the Chief Executive Officer at Gati Limited. He attended The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. ## Souvik Sengupta - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A - Focus: B2B, Retail, Seafood Aaditya Sharda is the founder of Infra.Market, a real estate and construction materials marketplace. Souvik is a chartered accountant with over 7 years of experience in P&L Ownership and Management. Aaditya Sharda is an alumni of IIM Bangalore and did his graduation from Sydenham College in Mumbai. ## Bala Sarda - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Retail, Delivery Bala Sarda is Founder at Vahdam Teas. ## G Ravishankar - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Retail, Nutrition, Food Processing G Ravishankar ## Saurabh Aggarwal - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, E-Learning Saurabh Aggarwal is the Co-founder at FITSO. ## Sameer Walia - Type: Angel - Location: Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Retail, Consumer Sameer Walia ## Rathin Lahiri - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Retail, Consumer Rathin Lahiri ## 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. ## Vikas Kuthiala - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Convertible Note - Focus: SaaS, Retail, Women's Vikas Kuthiala ## Ishan Singh - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Retail, Women's, Wellness Ishan Singh is the MD and CEO of RevStart, a company dedicated to creating a nurturing and supportive ecosystem for emerging ventures, by providing quality Co-Working, Incubation, and Acceleration services out of a 100,000-sf campus in Delhi NCR. A hands-on entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience, Ishan is a go to person for firms looking forUS market entry and for international firms establishing business in India.Ishan is a globally well-regarded thought leader who is quoted in Media, seen on TV and invited to speak/ judge business plan competitions in India and the US. As someone who first tasted entrepreneurship as a high school student who sold Cable TV connections, he is committed to helping others succeed. Post his MBA in 96, he joined Reckitt Benckiser in OTC global category management, before moving to New York. In 1997, he found work with Equitable Life (Axa Advisors) and in his first year of living in the USA, won the “Rookie of the Year - No. 1 sales person in New York” and was placed 7th nationally. In 1999 he started itechglobal a fintech firm whose clients included Ameritrade where he closed $2 million in first year revenue.Post 9/11, Ishan merged itechglobal with a listed firm and returned to India. At that time, at age 32, he acquired development rights on 2.5m sf and started www.outsourcetoindia.com, an outsourcing advisory firm. In that process, he met a group of EIR’s at Warburg Pincus and joined them to Head Marketing at WNS Global Services which grew from 800 to 12,000 employees in 4 years and listed on the NYSE with a $2 billion market cap in 2006.In 2015, Ishan started investing in start-ups. Since then he has had 3 successful exits and 4 in his portfolio have raised follow on investments. He has led investments with Indian Angel Network, Mumbai Angels and Let’s Venture and CIIE at IIM-A. He is a venture partner at India’s leading provider of co-working spaces. Most recently, he has lead $2m in investment in Iwi - Women’s wellness & hygiene products, WeDoSky – drone data science firm, University Living - student marketplace and Bookeventz - venue management firm where he serves on their boards. Ishan is the 5th generation of his family to have graduated from St. Stephens College in Delhi. He holds an MBA from The University of Manchester/ Kelly School at Indiana University and has attended executive educations at New York University and Harvard Business School. He has a food blog and has travelled over 60 countries. # 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