# Top 50 Transportation Angel Investors in India in May 2026

## Gaurav Munjal
- Relevant deals: 30
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment

Co-founder and CEO @ Unacademy
Founder @ Flatchat


## Anand Chandrasekaran
- Relevant deals: 30
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Commerce/Shopping

Director, Platform & Product Partnerships @ Meta
Executive Vice President, Product Management @ Five9


## Utsav Somani
- Relevant deals: 28
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial, Apps

Partner, India @ AngelList
Network Leader @ Village Global
Partner @ iSeed
Partner & Founder @ AngelList India
Partner @ Galaxy


## Kishore Ganji
- Relevant deals: 27
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Commerce/Shopping, Data and Analytics

Founder and CEO @ Astir It Solutions Inc
Member Board Of Directors @ Hyderabad Angels
Angel Investor & Mentor & Co-founder @ Astir Ventures
CEO @ Astir Analytics
CEO @ Sysnet Technologies


## Phanindra Sama
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, IT

## Shrishti Sahu
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial, Software, Internet

Managing Partner @ Swadharma Source Ventures
Co-founder & Managing Director @ Hustle Hard Ventures


## Maninder Gulati
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, Commerce/Shopping

## Girish Mathrubootham
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, IT, Internet

Founder and CEO @ Freshworks
Founder & CEO @ Freshservice


## Ritesh Malik
- Relevant deals: 19
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Commerce/Shopping, Professional Services

Founder & CEO @ Innov8 Coworking
Founder @ Guerrilla Ventures


## Raghunandan G
- Relevant deals: 18
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Financial, Apps

Founder @ Zolve


## Ashneer Grover
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial, Software, Internet

## Roman Saini
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Media and Entertainment, Internet

Co-Founder @ Unacademy


## Arihant Patni
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Data and Analytics

Managing Director @ Nirvana Venture Advisors
Managing Director @ Hive Technologies
Director @ Waterfield Advisors
MD @ Ideaspring Capital


## Mitesh Shah
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Commerce/Shopping

Head of Finance @ BookMyShow
Co-Founder @ Inflection Point Ventures


## Aakrit Vaish
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Sales/Marketing, Internet

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer @ Haptik
Co-Founder & CEO of Haptik @ Times Internet


## Vaibhav Domkundwar
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Education, Other

CEO @ Better Capital
Founder @ PicBackMan
Founder & CEO @ BetterLabs
Founder & CEO @ ReadyContacts


## Mohandas Pai
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Software, Commerce/Shopping

Co-Founder and Chairman @ Aarin Capital
Director @ Havells India
Partner @ StartupXseed Ventures


## Dinesh Agarwal
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Commerce/Shopping, Data and Analytics

Founder and CEO @ IndiaMART


## Archana Priyadarshini
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, IT, Apps

General PArtner @ PointOne Capital


## Rohit M.A.
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Financial

## Pras Hanuma
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, IT

## Ramakant Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 11
- 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.

## Anupam Mittal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 10
- 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.

## Kunal Bahl
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 10
- 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.

## Rajan Anandan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 8
- 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.

## Alok Mittal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 8
- 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.

## Rajesh Mane
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, Mobile, Fashion

An active investor in early stage startups across technology & CPG.

## Kunal Shah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet

Kunal Shah

## Asish Mohapatra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 8
- 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.

## Rohit Bansal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, SaaS

Rohit Bansal - Co-Founder @ Snapdeal

## Nitin Singhal
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Nitin Singhal is the Founder and Managing Partner of Fresco Global.
Nitin has an MBA from London Business School and a BTech from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and he is based in London, UK

## Jitendra Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

## Binny Bansal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 6
- 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.

## Ruchi Kalra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, B2B, Health Care

Ruchi Kalra is the Co-Founder and Head of Credit and Payments of OfBusiness. She previously worked at McKinsey & Company as a Partner. Ruchi Kalra attended the Indian School of Business.

## Abhishek Goyal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Food Delivery, SaaS

Abhishek Goyal is the Founder at Tracxn.

## 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.

## Sujeet Kumar
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Health Care

Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan

## Kris Gopalakrishnan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Software

Gopalakrishnan (Kris to his colleagues) is one of the founders of Infosys Technologies Limited. As Chief Executive Officer, he plays a key role in defining the company strategy and using technology and innovation continuously to maintain its leadership in the industry.On June 22, 2007, Kris took over from Nandan M. Nilekani as the CEO andManaging Director of Infosys Technologies Limited. Kris previously served as Chief Operating Officer (since April 2002), and as the President and Joint Managing Director (since August 2006). His responsibilities included customer services, technology, investments and acquisitions.Kris' initial responsibilities at Infosys included management of design, development, implementation and support of information systems for clients in the consumer products industry in the U.S. Between 1987 and 1994, he headed the technical operations of KSA/Infosys (a joint venture between Infosys and KSA at Atlanta, U.S.) as Vice President (Technical). In 1994, Kris returned to India and was appointed Deputy Managing Director of the company.Kris is currently the Chairman of the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM), Kerala, and Vice Chairman of the Board for Information Technology Education Standards (BITES) set up by the Government of Karnataka. Kris is the Vice Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industries(CII) Southern Regional Council. He is also a member of ACM, IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.Kris holds a master's degree in Physics and Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

## Sukhbir Singh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, Food and Beverage, Mobile Apps

Sukhbir Singh

## Haresh Chawla
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Software, Education

Haresh Chawla - Partner @ True North

## Ashvin Chadha
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Aprameya Radhakrishna
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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!

## Amit Lakhotia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Internet, Financial Services

Amit Lakhotia is the GM Paytm Wallet at Paytm.

## Amrish Rau
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

## Rajesh Yabaji
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Vel Kanniappan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Manufacturing, Software, Payments

Vel Kanniappan is the Senior Vice President – Finance, responsible for all global finance functions at NIUM.Vel Kanniappan is with UiPath as Vice President – Global Business & Finance Operations, responsible for the Commercial finance organization for the Asia Pacific, and is also a vital member of the global finance organization.Vel joinedTekion in 2017 at a very early stage when the organization had 20 employees. Being the only qualified finance professional in the organization, he was responsible for managing the global finance and operations (Global Facilities, Procurement, IT Infrastructure, SOC Certifications, Payroll, Compliances, etc.) in addition to product design and management. He was responsible for conceptualizing and building the finance modules for Tekion’s product offering, including designing wireframes and UX. He was involved in three rounds of funding and actively interacted with the investors during the funding and periodical reporting, which included Index Ventures, Storm Ventures, Airbus Ventures, General Motors, BMW i Ventures, Alliance Ventures, and few car dealerships in the Bay Area. Vel joined EMC Corporation in 2002. In a career spanning 15 years with EMC and its group companies, which included 9 years at VMware, Vel managed the Controllership for the Asia Pacific and also managed the global finance organization, which included an end to end ownership for Procure to Pay, T&E, General Ledger Accounting, Global Payroll (Except US), Accounts Receivable (Collections targets of close to $ 3 B per quarter). Vel was also the first employee of EMC and VMware in India and was responsible for growing their operations to 10,000+ employees in India. Vel managed a global team, including a shared services team of 250+ professionals.By qualification, Vel is a Certified Public Accountant from Arizona State-USA,
Certified Management Accountant-USA,
Certified Internal Auditor-USA,
Project Management Professional-USA,He is also a
Chartered Accountant-India,
Cost & Management Accountant-India,
Company Secretary-India,
Bachelor of Law-India,
Bachelor of Commerce-India.

## Anuj Srivastava
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Lifestyle, E-Commerce

At Livspace, Anuj shapes the vision, strategy, and growth as we continuously redefine how interiors are designed and delivered. Formerly in the Silicon Valley, Anuj worked as the Global Head of Product Marketing for the eCommerce team at Google. A true citizen of the world, Anuj went to school at IIT Kanpur, received his MBA from the LondonBusiness School, and has lived in India, San Francisco, London, New York, and Singapore.

## Pawan Munjal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series E
- Focus: Electric Vehicle, Automotive, Transportation

Pawan Munjal - Chairman, Managing Director & CEO @ HeroMotoCorp

## Justin Kan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Financial Services

Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Fractal. He attended Yale University.

## Prashant Pitti
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Drones, Virtual World, Artificial Intelligence

Prashant Pitti is co-founder of EaseMyTrip. He has a brilliant aptitude for various sectors of commerce and is identified for his exceptional marketing skills and creative ideas. Mr. Prashant is a B.Tech from IIT Madras. Prashant Pitti has 3 years of working experience in US and he has also contributed as assistant vice president in Risk Departmentof HSBC, Chicago. Under his surveillance, EaseMyTrip.com has created a niche for itself. Prashant firmly believes that technology, qualified manpower and advanced management team can lead any company towards peak of success.

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