# Top 50 Social Network Angel Investors in India in May 2026

## Shrishti Sahu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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)

## 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.

## Kunal Bahl
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## 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.

## Anupam Mittal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Hesham Zreik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Internet

Hesham has been ranked #39 out of top 50 investors (Forbes 2018) based on investment and successful exits. Hesham has invested in +100 startups. He has co-founded more than 40 startups. He has a passion for building innovative start-ups around the principle of developing simple solutions to challenging problems. He is multilingual and can speak,read and write Arabic, English, French. He has also some good knowledge in German and Spanish.
Hesham is a founder and CEO of FasterCapital. FasterCapital is an online incubator who has border-less reach. Hesham has already co-founded (as a technical cofounder) and invested as an angel investor in more than 40 startups and has helped expand FasterCapital to have more than 1000 regional partners, a network of 1000 mentors, +500 offices worldwide and more than 400 startups. Hesham has invested and helped improve and refine the product in each of the 40 incubated startups.
During his work at FasterCapital, Hesham has co-founded:
- co-founded Edunoor.com: online learning platform with social components.
- invested in Dooet.com: a discovery and search engine for mobile applications and other content.
- invested in Letuscloud.com: Bridging the gap between enterprises and virualization
- invested in abcmob.com: Mobile business application. 18 sectors already covered.
- invested in Mobayle.com: an instant AppStore creator and customizer
- invested in Meody.com: Cross platform messenger with focus on enterprises and operators.
- invested in TVlize.com: a platform for social and engaging TV
- He also cofounded and invested in Nakkeb.com, BeamGift.com, PickTaxi.com, MobAdv.com, Bazarmaker.com, puttag.com, fulhost.com, Entablet.com, PinProfile.com, mp3ready.com, BookThatbook.com Newsanalyse.com, B2Butterfly.com and many more. He is also a mentor for more than 50 companies. Hesham started his first company ZGroup Mobile in 2002 with less than $20/month and grow it to reach a valuation of $2.5-$3.25 million in 2005 by Public company Incagold plc (it would have been the first company in MENA region to be acquired by a public company). ZGroup Mobile is a developer and publisher of mobile content (mobile games, mobile apps, mobile music, mobile videos) and services. He has been ranked 7th in Baccalaureate tests among 200,000th participants. He has completed his engineering degree at HIAST then he has done an MBA at Edinburgh business school and a Master in computer information science at AABFS.

## Aprameya Radhakrishna
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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!

## Sujeet Kumar
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Health Care

Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan

## Ramakant Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Jitendra Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

## Rohit Bansal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, SaaS

Rohit Bansal - Co-Founder @ Snapdeal

## Roman Saini
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Health Care, Apps

Roman Saini is Co Founder at Unacademy.


## Tej Kapoor
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Supply Chain Management, Logistics, E-Commerce Platforms

Tej Kapoor is the Managing Partner and Managing Director of IvyCap Ventures. He previously worked at Fosun as a Fosun Global Partner, Co- Executive President Fosun RZ Capital (India & SEA). Tej Kapoor attended The Wharton School.

## Pierre Omidyar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Education, Mobile Apps

Pierre Omidyar is the Founding Partner, Co-Founder, and Chairman of Emeritus at Omidyar Network, Founder and Chairman of eBay Inc., Co-Founder and CEO at Peer News LLC, and CEO, Publisher at Honolulu Civil Beat. Pierre Omidyar attended Tufts University.

## Karan Bajwa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Series A
- Focus: Video, Social Network, Customer Service

Karan Bajwa - Vice President, Asia Pacific, Google Cloud @ Google

## Radhika Ghai
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Shoes, Video, Retail

Radhika Ghai Chief Business Officer ShopClues. He attended Washington University in St. Louis.

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

Marketing and Growth Leader

## Shalin Shah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bronxville, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Mobile Apps

Shalin Shah is the Co-Founder and Partner of Core91 Fund. He previously worked at Precision Therapeutics as a Product Development. Shalin attended Carnegie Mellon University.

## 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.

## Faiz Mayalakkara
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, B2B

Faiz Mayalakkara Director Investments, Emirates Investment Authority.

## Harish Bahl
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Advertising, Internet, Apps

Harish Bahl is a Founder and Chairman of Smile Group. He previously worked at Quasar Media Private as a Founder and CEO. Harish Bahl attended SDM College of Engineering and Technology.

## 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.

## Jayan Ramankutty
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Robotics, Advertising, Electronics

Jayan Ramankutty

## Deep Kalra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Travel, Apps, SaaS

Deep is the Founder and CEO of India's leading online travel company, MakeMyTrip.com. Launched in India in 2005, MakeMyTrip offered the convenience of online transactions coupled with great value prices, thus revolutionizing the way Indians research and purchase travel services. Under his stewardship, MakeMyTrip is today the largest e-commercebusiness in the country and the largest travel company in India and listed its shares on NASDAQ in August 2010.He also serves as a Board Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Delhi and is an active Angel Investor in the internet space. Deep is a founding member of “I am Gurgaon” - an NGO focused on improving the quality of life in Gurgaon.Prior to his entrepreneurial venture with MakeMyTrip, Deep has had corporate stints with GE Capital, AMF Bowling Inc. and ABN AMRO Bank. Deep holds an MBA (PGDM) degree from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi. His interests include swimming, yoga, quizzing, adventure sports and, of course, travelling.

## Rahul Seth
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Banking, Finance, Payments

Rahul Seth is an Investor and Director at Antler.

## Vijay Shekhar Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Uday Sodhi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Uday Sodhi

## Sumit Jain
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Internet, Information Technology

Sumit Jain is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur, He started online real-estate portal commonfloor.com for property seekers in 2007. Prior to that, he used to work with Oracle. As the co-founder and CEO, Sumit is responsible for driving the strategic direction for Commonfloor.com as well as delivering on company goals Hisresult-oriented approach ensures a constant and relentless focus on end-user satisfaction. Sumit Jain finds solace in a game of billiards. The game not only relaxes him, it also helps him catch up with friends or at times, make new acquaintances.

## Anas Rahman Junaid
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Dating

Anas Rahman Junaid

## Harsh Shah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Health Care, Gaming

Harsh Shah co-founded Shopsense Retail Technologies Private Limited in 2012. Harsh Shah is a Co-founder of Nova Global. He is Head of Entrepreneurship Cell. Harsh Shah studied at IIT Bombay in 2010.

## Srinivas Anumolu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Automotive, Food Processing

Co-Founder of Growth Story.

## Rohit Choudhary
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Internet, Social Network

Rohit Choudhary

## Mohit Gulati
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, E-Commerce, Retail

Mohit Gulati is the Founding Managing General Partner at ITI Growth Opportunities Fund.

## Bashar Hamood
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps

Bashar Hamood is a result oriented professional with versatile experience across diverse organizational domains. He is well versed in the development of marketing strategies, branding, direct marketing, new products/brands launches, analysis, reporting, and positioning.He is an entrepreneur and self-starter with expansive experience in brandawareness and development, community outreach.Bashar is a versatile business manager with proven competencies in optimizing team dynamics uniting diverse agenda to common goal and harnessing strategic and operational drivers to deliver results.He has a strong analytical mind with rigorous study for each case and the output of each variation for each parameter.Bashar loves to take risk and new challenges.

## Ravi Machani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Internet, Social Network

Ravi Machani is a third generation business owner. His experience is diverse. His current area of focus is Real Estate Development (www.machanigroup.com), Auto Components Manufacturing Industry with Stumpp, Schuele & Somappa (www.ssssprings.com) and MG Brothers Auto Dealerships (www.mgbrothers.in).With Mechanical Engineering from BangaloreUniversity and an MBA from Bradley University, USA, he has worked at Caterpillar as a Project Manager with Engine Division and at Delphi Corporation with the Global Competency Center in USA for 6 years. With plethora of rich experience from Corporate Finance, Overseas and Indian M&A, Turn Around Management, Operations and Strategy, He now leads the family business at helm of affairs in several business verticals. He is active in the auto industry association as the National Coordinator of Young Business Leader’s Forum (www.acmayblf.com), which is an national association of about 160 business owners less than 40 years of age and an Executive Committee Member of Auto Components Manufacturers Association - ACMA (www.acmainfo.com). He heads the Information Technology for Auto Industry as the Chairman Information Technology for ACMA (www.acmait.com), which comprises of over 600 companies and is an entrepreneur in software business with Sysfore Technologies (www.sysfore.com). He started a social enterprise in rural India called IndiVillage (www.indivillage.com). The Tamarind Tree (www.tamarindtree.co) is a heritage wedding venue managed by Ravi and his hospitality team.

## Ranjeet Pratap Singh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Apps, B2B, Audio

Founder at Pratilipi

## Pankaj Jain
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Analytics, SaaS, Mobile

Pankaj Jain is the Managing Partner at Saka Ventures. Previously, he was a Partner at 500 Startups, a California based seed fund and accelerator program. Pankaj focuses on investing in early stage startups across New York City, India, South Asia and has led investments in over fifty companies at 500 Startups across 6 countries.Pankaj spent over12 years in the Financial industry at firms such as JP Morgan, Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) and GlobeOp Financial Services in various operational roles including enterprise mortgage risk management, application development, market data infrastructure, trade management, pricing infrastructure and customer service areas.In 2007, Pankaj’s adventures in India began, where he started a company building an on-demand, employment marketplace for the under-served. In 2008, Pankaj became a co-founder of the HeadStart Network Foundation and the led the efforts in Delhi. In late 2010, he began setting up Startup Weekend in India.

## Nitin Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Video, Travel, Lifestyle

Nitin Gupta is the CEO and Co-Founder at Mall91.

## Manpreet Singh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Video, Internet, Real Estate

Manpreet Singh is an Sikh Indian-American entrepreneur, philanthropist, asset manager, and one of the youngest people ever to receive the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in the United States and the world. He was named the "Most Ambitious" CFA Charterholder by the CFA Institute in 2006. He is frequently sought after as atechnology/investment expert by the media outlets, such as The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg TV, Bloomberg.com, TheStreet.com, MarketWatch, and many others.

## Rishi Mukherjee
- Type: Angel
- Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Social Network

Rishi Mukherjee is the Founding engineer and Principal Mobile Engineer at Sezzle.

## Subramanya S.V.
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Apps, Mobile

Subramanya (Subu) S.V., a managing director with BVP India in Bangalore, joined the firm in 2007. He currently focuses on investments in technology and consumer businesses.
Subu was closely involved with the firm’s investments in Bharat Matrimony,Snapdeal, Nephroplus, Indiaproperty.com, IL&FS Transportation Networks, Palogix Infrastructure,Anantraj Industries and Riddhi Siddhi Gluco Biols among others.Prior to joining Bessemer, Subu worked with Avendus Capital, an Indian investment bank, where he advised companies on private equity transactions and mergers and acquisitions.Previously, he was a consultant with KPMG and started his career as a programmer with Wipro Technologies.Subu holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Mysore University and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. A little known fact about Subu is that he is a trained singer in Indian classical music and makes it a point not to miss his weekend classes.

## Hitesh Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Internet, Social Network

Hitesh Gupta - Founder @ vcBytes

## Mekin Maheshwari
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series D
- Focus: Apps, Education, Food Delivery

Mekin Maheshwari - Advisor @ Mentr

## Tarun Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series C, Series D
- Focus: Apps, SaaS, Travel

Tarun joined NEA's India office in 2009 and is a Director of New Enterprise Associates (India) Pvt. Ltd. (NEA India) based in Mumbai. Tarun brings more than twelve years of experience in various roles in private equity investing and equity research. He serves as Director on the board of Nova Medical Centers, Air Works Engineering and InfinitasRenewable Energy Solutions and and as Board Observer on the boards of inTarvo Technologies and Intellisys Technologies. Prior to joining NEA, Tarun was with Peepul Capital Private Equity, where he evaluated investment opportunities across sectors including consumer products and services, education, manufacturing and media. He was involved in structuring and executing transactions and actively managed portfolio companies in consumer and media sectors. Previously, Tarun worked at Goldman Sachs International based out of their London offices, initially with the Equity Derivatives team, and then as part of the Global Macro Proprietary trading team. Tarun received an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad, India and earned his B.Tech. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Delhi, India.

## Dinesh Godara
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Finance, Internet, Social Network

Dinesh Godara is the Co-Founder of Stealth Startup. He is a former Founder and CEO of WiFiStudy. Dinesh Godara attended Rajasthan Technical University.

## Lloyd Mathias
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Travel, Internet

Lloyd is a pan-Asia business leader, marketer and strategist with 25+ years of intimate knowledge of corporate governance and a proven track record of creating compelling visions and driving business performance across the Consumer, Telecom & Technology domains.He has led and motivated teams on a platform of trust, performance &respect. He has run P&L's and driven positive commercial outcomes in global companies - HP, TATA, Motorola & PepsiCo.

## Krishna Vinjamuri
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Video, FinTech, Lifestyle

Evaluate new investment opportunities for Lightbox and works with portfolio companies, supporting them on their growth path.

## Vinod Jose
- Type: Angel
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Dating, Farming

Vinod Jose - Founder @ Konglo Ventures

## Ramanand Murthy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Social Network

Director of Product, GSN Games

## Ganesh Krishnan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Ganesh is a serial entrepreneur with four successful green field ventures and exits. Most recently, he founded and led TutorVista which was acquired by US and UK listed education leader Pearson for $ 213 MM in January 2011.He is a strategic investor / promoter of India based consumer Internet and ecommerce companies bluestone.com (onlinejewellery), Bigbasket.com (egrocery), MustseeIndia.com (travel packages and content), bookadda.com (academic focused online books) and delyver.com (hyper local delivery).Ganesh was also Chairman, Investor and Advisor in the data analytics BPO firm Marketics until March 2007, when the company was acquired by NYSE listed WNS for $ 63 MM. His earlier venture, CustomerAsset was started in mid 2000 and later acquired by ICICI (NYSE listed, India's largest bank) and is now publicly listed in India as First Source Solutions. In 1990, as his first entrepreneurial venture, he co-promoted IT&T. And as its Founder and CEO, he played a major role in making the company one of India's top multi-vendor IT service and support till the business was sold to iGate (a listed company) in 2003.He is also on the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and has a post-graduate degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi University.

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