# Top 45 Social Startup Investors in India in May 2026

## Ramakant Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Venture Highway
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## ah! Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Eagle10 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Apps, Hospitality

Eagle10 Ventures 

## Cloud Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Internet

Early-stage Venture Capital for the Cloud Economy

## Republic capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain

Republic Capital is driven by a multifaceted value proposition and invests in companies across deep tech, fintech, and web3.

## Kunal Shah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet

Kunal Shah

## 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.

## Gemba Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, FinTech

Gemba Capital is a micro VC focusing on early-stage tech investments in seed and pre-seed rounds.

## Shrishti Sahu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Apps, Financial Services

entrepreneur and investor in tech start-ups, crypto and public markets. Founded a fintech company, and was a part of the Investment Team of Lumis Partners (PeopleStrong, TalentEdge, Sheroes etc). Headed Startup Programs for Facebook for South Asia & India. Early backer of companies like Plum (health insurance for SME employees), Clickpost(logistics tech), Rupifi (credit for SMEs), WorkApps (Enterprise Collaboration), Chingari (Social Video), Kutumb (social communities for Bharat), DelightChat (customer support for D2C brands), 10Club (D2C e-commerce), UrbanYogi (mental health)

## OnMobile
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Corporate Round, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Video, Mobile

OnMobile Global Limited provides telecommunications products and services in India and internationally.The company offers a range of applications that are delivered by its carrier customers to their end-user subscribers. Its products include network based in-call solutions, such as caller ringback tones, voicemail, and missed call alertservice. The company also provides voice-based multi-modal portal, which allows subscribers to access informational and entertainment content, including music, sports updates, news, and stock and commodity price updates in multiple languages using speech-based navigation. In addition, it offers interactive media solutions, such as tele-voting, interactive programming, mobile auditioning, and auctions, as well as on-device client software applications. Further, the company offers mobile commerce solutions, such as movie and railway ticketing, utility payments, and mobile marketing services, as well as business support solutions, including phone backup, and pre-paid and post-paid bill payments. It also offers MMP 2500, a multimodal platform, which integrates multiple delivery modes and payments, and subscription options for 2, 2.5, and 3G networks and handsets.

## Accel India
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, B2B, Marketplace

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

## Maninder Gulati
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Software

Maninder Gulati joined Lightspeed Advisory Services India in 2012. He brings over eight years of operating, business building, entrepreneurship and consulting experience to the firm.Prior to Lightpseed, Maninder was an Associate at McKinsey & Company. At McKinsey, Maninder worked on several growth strategy and implementation engagementsacross various sectors including financial services, organized retail, digital music, data centers and building security/automation.Before McKinsey, Maninder co-founded a voice based life-streaming platform – lifeinlines.com, which allowed users to create a digital diary of their life. Prior to this entrepreneurial venture, Maninder worked at ITC Limited, India’s largest FMCG company. At ITC, Maninder was a part of the core team that launched ITC’s personal care business and he spearheaded key organization transformation initiatives such as Six-sigma for the tobacco business.Maninder graduated with a Dual degree (B.Tech and M.Tech) in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay, where he held key leadership positions including that of Head of ‘The Entrepreneurship Cell’. He holds an MBA from ISB, Hyderabad, where he was a part of the Dean and Merit list.

## 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.

## iSeed
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, Internet

iSeed is India's first micro-fund backed by top global founders and investors.

## Aavishkaar Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Manufacturing, Finance

With Impact Investing at its core, Aavishkaar Capital caters venture capital requirements to scale businesses in the new markets.

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

## Orios Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech

Orios Venture Partners is an early stage venture fund which primarily invests in software and technology enabled startups.

## Kashish Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

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

## Rudy Gopalakrishnan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Social, Content, E-Commerce

Rudy Gopalakrishnan - Executive @ Fidelity

## Astarc Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech

Astarc Ventures is a leading early stage venture capital (VC) fund based in India. It is a sector agnostic fund which invests across all geographies.

## White Star Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Our presence, perspective and people enable us to partner closely with founders to help them define this future.

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

Marketing and Growth Leader

## Cowa Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Apps, Video, Mobile

Cowa leverages its network and expertise to strategically unlock the blockchain ecosystem.

## Lumikai
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Mobile Apps, Video Streaming

Lumikai curates and funds India's pioneering, lighthouse founders building the next wave of gaming & interactive media startups. 

## Singapore Angel Network
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Protocol Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency

Protocol Labs is building the next generation of the internet.

## The Venture Collective
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Health Care, Financial Services

The Venture Collective (TVC) is a transformational, early-stage venture business that is on a mission to bridge the funding gap for underrepresented founders. They are supporting the first, milestone-driven investor who contributes capital, time, and networks to help positively impactful, fast-growing companies create long-lasting businesses. Atits core, we believe that diversity is not only good for business but necessary for societal advancement. Our experienced team is headquartered in New York City and London, but we are excited to meet founders across the United States and United Kingdom.The Venture Collective has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

## VenturEast
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Lightspeed India Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## JPIN Venture Catalysts
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Video, Mobile

JPIN Venture Catalysts is sector-agnostic in its approach of investment with a focus from Seed to Growth stage startups.

## Amrish Rau
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

## 2am VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Education, Information Services

2am VC is an early-stage venture capital firm.

## MVC Friends
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Apps, Video, Mobile

MVC Friends

## Social Alpha
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Social, Government, Customer Service

Social Alpha filters out noise from social media, providing social analytics and real-time predictive intelligence that can increase profit and reduce risk.

## Times Internet
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Apps, E-Commerce, Software

Times Internet builds premium digital products that simplify and enhance the everyday lives of people. We are India’s largest digital products company with presence in a wide range of categories across news, entertainment, marketplaces and transactions.Many of our products are market leaders and iconic brands in their own right. TOI, ET,Cricbuzz, Gaana, MX Player, Dineout, Indiatimes, MensXP, iDiva, NBT, Gradeup among others are products that bring you closer to your interests and aspirations. Website - http://www.timesinternet.in
Industry - Internet
Company size - 1,001-5,000 employees Headquarters Gurgaon, Haryana
Type - Privately Held
Founded 1999
Specialities e-commerce, Advertisement Solutions, News and Entertainment, Start-up acceleration, Music streaming services, AdTech, Merger & A, Acquisition, Sports, Classified, and Startup Investment

## Giri Malpani
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Music, EdTech

Giri Malpani of Malpani Ventures.

## Rajan Anandan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

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.

## Harpreet Singh Grover
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Education, Internet, Water

Harpreet Singh Grover is a My home at Entrepreneur In Residence. Harpreet previously worked at CoCubes.com as a Co-Founder & CEO. He attended Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.Harpreet believes that the future of online assessments belongs to 'continuous evaluation' leading to a selection filter - till then quick and easytesting using rejection filters is a good tool. He previously worked with Inductis, a data analytics firm in the financial services domain. Harpreet graduated from IIT Bombay with a dual degree. Beyond work he is a published photographer, poet and an amateur mountaineer and follows the mantra - one life to live.

## Hill Harbour
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Apps, Video, Mobile

Hill Harbour

## Makan Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Apps, Video, Mobile

Pre-Seed/Seed Investors

## First Cheque
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

First Cheque Built and Exited Founders, Product Leaders, Growth Leaders, and also angel investors. A lot of change They bring is in how to think- based on first principles, based on data, building a data driven organisation, setting up teams for performance et al. Most importantly, They will help you graduate to the next level of your journey.

## 3rd Creek Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Incline Village, Nevada, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Social, Medical, Training

3rd Creek Foundation is a small foundation focused on global poverty alleviation through grant-making and impact investing.

## Jitendra Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

## Better Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

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