# Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in India in May 2026

## Fireside Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 10
- 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.

## Inflection Point Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Health Care

Inflection Point Ventures, with over 3300 CXOs and professionals, HNIs and Family Offices, is India’s leading angel network investing in early-to-mid stage startups. IPV supports new-age entrepreneurs with not just capital but also uses its wide network of investors to provide startups with access to new markets, customers, guidance and mentorship.Inflection Point Ventures is democratizing angel investing with low membership fee, lowest investment ticket size (per investor), transparent investment process and extensive upfront due-diligence led by industry experts. IPV is industry agnostic, with a focus on committed and competent founders.

## Anupam Mittal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 6
- 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.

## Kalaari Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 6
- 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.

## Better Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- 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.

## Kae Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services

Kae Capital is a pioneer of early-stage investing in India, focused on tech startups, and has been investing in India for 10+ years.

## Titan Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Health Care

Investing behind Founders who create a Better World Operator-led early stage capital RECENT INVESTMENTS NUMBERS Let's talk numbers? Our portfolio includes 200+ companies spread worldwide across consumer internet, direct to consumer brands, SaaS, and Fintech RAISED OVER $ Billion from 100+ institutional investors EMPLOYED 80 ,000 People all over the world SERVED OVER 135 Million

## Mumbai Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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.

## LetsVenture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Sauce.vc
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Retail, E-Commerce, Health Care

Sauce is a Early stage consumer VC fund with a high engagement model supported by a deep service partner network working across key support areas for scaling a brand in India.

## SucSEED Indovation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Information Technology

SucSEED Indovation offers access to capital for deep tech startups to scale and grow. SucSEED supports early-stage deep tech and tech-driven startups providing solutions to the large-scale needs of India and with the potential to serve global emerging market needs too.

## ah! Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Blume Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Blume Ventures provides pre-series A and early stage funding to tech-focused/tech-enabled ventures. They are typically the first institutional investors in their portfolio companies and invest for about 8-10 years. They are proponents of a collaborative approach and like to co-invest with like-minded angels and seed funds. They then providefollow-on investments to their stellar portfolio companies.

## RTP Global
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

A global, early-stage venture capital firm, backing founders who use technology to reimagine how the world works like Datadog, DeliveryHero and Cred.

## First Cheque
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## SRI Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Machine Learning

SRI Capital is an early stage venture capital firm focused on funding innovative startups primarily in India and the US. We will also consider global startups that are looking to enter the Indian consumer market.Our three main areas of interest are:
(1)	Enterprise software and deep tech: We are interested in Indian/US startups developingapplications and technology for sale to the US enterprise and/or SME market, preferably in a subscription model with built-in scalability for rapid growth. We like capital efficient product development teams, led by technology founders, serving niche market segments.
(2)	Indian consumer market: Indian startups that are looking to capitalize on the Digital India story to bring innovative products and services to middle income Indian consumers are interesting to us. We especially like startups that fully leverage India Stack.
(3)	Cross-border innovation to serve the Indian consumer market: We realize that there is terrific IP and tech in the Nordics, Israel, and elsewhere. Given our deep ties to India and our networks there, we would love to fund startups that are well positioned to serve the Indian consumer market.We are usually the first institutional investor in a company. We invest between $500,000 and $1,000,000 for a meaningful minority interest and are happy to lead the round. We are active investors, providing support to the founders beyond just a board role. We may provide additional capital as a bridge or as a part of Series A, capping our investment in any one company at $5,000,000.

## India Quotient
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce

India Quotient is a new type of early stage investor. We fund companies building disruptive businesses aimed at Indian consumers. We're creating a powerful network of start-up enthusiasts.

## Amit Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Fitness

Amit Gupta completed his undergraduate studies from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in Mechanical Engineering in the year 2000.Growing usage of mobile phones in the developing markets inspired Amit to co-found InMobi in 2007. Amit aspires for InMobi to be one of the most successful internet product companies across the global emerging outof India. Amit heads InMobi's Revenue and Operations and responsible for taking company to a sustainable profitability mark. He has played an instrumental role in expanding InMobi's footprint to multiple markets across 5 continents.Amit has been a serial entrepreneur, prior to InMobi, Amit founded Analyticsworks, a company that offered a platform for business intelligence. His professional experience include hot start ups like Andale where worked directly with the CEO to help initiate new areas of revenues for the company, Aditi that gave him hands on experience on building software and a large multinational bank Citigroup where he helped to start scalable business intelligence unit for their consumer finance business. Amit is passionate about entrepreneurship. He has been helping several young entrepreneurs by advising them on every aspect of running a start up. He has received a highly coveted Distinguish Alumni Award from his alma mater for his exceptional entrepreneurial achievements.Earlier in the year, InMobi was recognized by MIT Technology Review as one of the top 50 disruptive companies in the world for 2013.

## Orios Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## 3one4 Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology

At 3one4, we are biased towards action and channel the relevant resources to support generational innovation engines out of India. We partner with early-stage companies that are mission-oriented and are setting new standards for inclusive value creation and sustainable growth.

## W Health Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Wellness, Fitness

W Health Ventures invests in digital health companies that are transforming healthcare delivery. It designs, builds, and grows healthcare companies that address critical unmet healthcare needs and simplify the experience for patients and providers. WHV focuses on highly scalable and impactful ideas that leverage the power of AI and technology.Thefirm was founded in 2020 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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

Kunal Shah

## Peak XV Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce

We help the daring build legendary companies.

## Artha Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Internet, E-Commerce

Artha India Ventures' league of member Angel Investors mentor and invest in nascent ventures with business ideas that create value by participating in the entrepreneurial process. AIV have invested in more than 47 start-ups and has diversified portfolio ranging from last minute hotel bookings (HotelsAroundYou.com), to classes aggregators(FindUrClass.com), cosmetic ecommerce (Purplle.com) and at home salon services (The Home Salon). From microfinance credit rating platforms (Inventure) to online interview platforms (Talview), electronic repair & insurance companies (PickMeIndia.com), Cloud Telephone (Exotel.com) and Cab Aggregators (BookMyCab.com) the portfolio has it all.

## Raghunandan G
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Apps

Raghu is the Founder of Zolve. He is an avid reader and an encyclopedia in his own rights. After a successful 3-year stint with Feedback Ventures as a Consultant, he decided to follow his heart which craved for him to become an entrepreneur. He has degrees from IIM Ahmedabad and NITK Surathkal and hasn’t lost touch with the technical prowess fromhis days back in Texas Instruments.

## MaGEHold
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, Furniture, Information Technology

MaGEHold is an investment firm. MaGEHold invests in, mentors, and supports enterprising early-stage startups and businesses.
To identify and help Enterprising Startups leverage on our Experience and Expertise to succeed.
To help bring exceptional and Technologically advanced products and services to life by supporting Innovative Startups.
To helpStartups survive and network with Ecosystem participants by leveraging our Network.

## WaterBridge Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Education, Internet

We help entrepreneurs build generational companies.

## Lightbox
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series C
- Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Internet

Lightbox is a Mumbai based venture capital firms investing in early-stage consumer tech startups in India 

## JITO Angel Network
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Education, Health Care, E-Commerce

JITO Angel Network is backed by JITO's 15000+ Industrialits, Businessmen and HNI's of the Jain community spread worldwide. They provide Business support that accelerates the growth of startups.

## Pi Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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. 

## Capital A
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Digital Entertainment

Capital A is a venture fund for seed to early-stage start-ups.

## Ashish Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Mobile

Ashish Gupta seeks unexplored problem spaces to grow large companies from seed. His career spans “firsts” that include unstructured data aggregation (Junglee), BPOs (Daksh, acquired by IBM), online travel in India (MMYT), and an Indian venture fund (Helion). At Drishti (the first AI to empower factory workers instead of displacing them), he is apart-time co-founder and active board member guiding the team on a journey he’s traveled before.

## Mohit Burman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Sports, Fitness

Mohit Burman

## Matrix Partners India
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Internet, E-Commerce

We work with visionary founders of early-stage startups to amplify their intrinsic talent.

## Accel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

## Blockchain Founders Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.

## Exfinity Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning

Exfinity Venture Partners LLP is focused on funding Technology Ventures but with a difference. We seek to act as a strategic partner to portfolio companies through high impact interventions. Exfinity is promoted by Technology Industry leaders having collective operating experience of over 200 years in a global environment. Our approach seeks toleverage our understanding of global markets, technology trends and proprietary networks to add unmatched value to portfolio companies.

## 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.

## Sprout Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Information Technology

Sprout Venture Partners Fund is a SEBI registered Category-I Alternative Investment fund. It has been created to institutionalise India’s active angel investing market and is backed by prominent first and second generation entrepreneurs.Sprout seeks to invest and work with founders having powerful vision, attentive execution, and resoluteambition to solve problems addressing large markets by building scaleable businesses.

## Aman Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care

Aman Gupta - Co Founder & CMO @ boAt

## Alok Mittal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Marketplace, E-Commerce

Alok is Co-founder and CEO of Indifi, India's leading full-stack platform for enabling debt financing for small businesses. Alok is also an active angel investor, co-founder of Indian Angel Network, and on the board of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Delhi. Prior to starting Indifi, Alok setup and ran Canaan Partners' venture investmentbusiness. Earlier, Alok co-founded JobsAhead.com, a leading web-based recruitment business in India.Alok earned a BE in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and a MS in computer science from UC Berkeley.

## Startup Angels Network
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Fitness, Consumer

Startup Angels Network is an early-stage fund set up by 100+ Angel Investors.

## Lead Angels Network
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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

## RB Investments Pte. Ltd.
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Food Delivery

RB Investments is a Singapore Based Family Office , that invests in people with visionary ideas.
We assist portfolio companies in developing and executing strategic growth, building the board and executive management team, exploring capitalization structures, pursuing growth mergers and acquisitions, and enhancing market presence.

## AngelList
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Apply privately to 130,000+ remote jobs and startup jobs near you with one application. See salary and equity upfront. Find the latest tech jobs, company overviews, benefits and more at AngelList Talent.

## Kishore Ganji
- Type: Angel
- Location: Marlboro, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care

Kishore Ganji is the Angel Investor & Mentor at Astir Ventures.

## Calcutta Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Fashion, Internet, Software

Calcutta Angels (hereinafter referred to as “CA”), is a platform for entrepreneurs and investors to come on board to create anenabling environment for angel investments, mentorship and guidance in East India. It is primarily is an initiative to foster the entrepreneurial spirit in the region. For budding entrepreneurs, CA will provide a platform toaccess funding as well as mentorship. While for investors it provides a platform to invest in cherry picked deals from across business sectors.

## NB Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Apps, Food and Beverage

NB Ventures is a Dubai based venture capital firm.

## Ratan Tata
- Type: Angel
- Location: Houston, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care

Heading the Tata Group since 1991, Ratan Tata is the Chairman of Tata Sons, holding company of the Tata Group and major Group companies including Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Power and more. He is also Chairman of two of the largest private sector promoted philanthropic trusts in India. During his tenure, the Group hasfurther expanded its global reach, with its revenues growing over eleven-fold to around USD$70 billion, after the most recent acquisition of Jaguar Land Rover. Tata joined the Tata Group in December 1962. After serving in various companies, he was appointed the Director-in-Charge of the National Radio & Electronics Company Limited (Nelco) in 1971. In 1981, he was named Chairman of Tata Industries, the Group's other holding company, which he was responsible for transforming into the Group's strategy think-tank and a promoter of new ventures in high-technology businesses. He is associated with many organizations in India and abroad in varying capacities, some of which are the government of India’s Investment Commission, the Prime Minister’s Council on Trade and Industry, South Africa’s International Investment Council, several prestigious universities and several philanthropies. Tata received a Bachelor of Science degree in architecture from Cornell University in 1962, and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1975.The government of India honored Tata with one of its highest civilian awards, the Padma Vibhushan, this year.

## JPIN
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Corporate Round
- Focus: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, B2B

JPIN was formed to blend financial capital and strategic consulting together to give a unique solution to clients. With vast experience in Strategy, finance, and various other leadership roles, are aptly placed to provide solutions, which can achieve business outcomes.

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