# Top 45 Video Games Startup Investors in India in May 2026

## SucSEED Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Information Technology, Education

An Early Stage Investment Firm.

## IndiGG
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2

IndiGG is an NFT based play-to-earn game in the web3 frontier. IndiGG is the India sub-decentralized autonomous organization(subDAO) of YGG.

## Polygon
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

Polygon is the most proven way to build and scale your decentralized application and projects on Ethereum, the world's largest blockchain ecosystem.

## Better Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Unicorn India Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Unlock the Power of Innovation with Unicorn IVC - a leading venture capital firm committed to fueling innovation and transforming businesses. We are seed funding company for startups which visionary entrepreneurs pioneering innovations across sectors.

## Lumikai
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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. 

## ah! Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Cloud Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Internet

Early-stage Venture Capital for the Cloud Economy

## Ankit Agrawal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1

Ankit Agrawal is the Founder and CEO ofInsuranceDekho

## 3.0 Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Video, Internet, Video Games

3.0 Capital operates as an investment firm.

## Visionplus
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

WE HELP YOU TO GROW FASTER!

## Bhupendra Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Gaming, PC Games, Video Games

Bhupendra Sharma

## Praveen Mothkuri
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Internet, E-Learning, Video Games

Praveen Mothkuri

## Eximius Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Finance

Community To Scale Your Ideas Your First Cheque. We Fund Fast. Scale Together.

## Veda VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning

Veda VC is an early stage Micro VC, with proven investments in SaaS, Consumer Internet and New Age Commerce.

## AngelList Quant Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Internet

AngelList Quant Fund is an investment firm.

## Goodwater Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Burlingame, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.

## Big Viking Games
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Corporate Round
- Focus: Computer, Robotics, Video Games

Big Viking Games is a leader in free-to-play social and mobile games with an emphasis on HTML5 technology. Its titles are played by millions of people on iOS, Android, Facebook and mobile web. Since being founded in 2011, Big Viking Games has grown profitably to a team of over 100 employees in Toronto and London. It has been consistently recognizedfor its workplace culture as a top 10 employer by the Great Place to Work Institute, and it has been ranked as one of the Top 100 Employers in Canada.Big Viking Games (formerly Tall Tree Games) was founded by serial entrepreneur, Albert Lai (formerly co-founder of Kontagent, and 4 other companies) and industry veteran Greg Thomson (creator of 30+ apps with 40 million users).

## Udaan
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, E-Learning, Hospitality

Udaan is a B2B trade platform that brings manufacturers, traders, retailers, and wholesalers into a single platform. The platform is about making business easy in India, about making B2B commerce convenient and efficient. They believe B2B is the new B2C in India. It connects retailers with wholesalers and traders who sell more than 15 lakh productsranging across categories from electronics and apparel to grocery and fresh produce.Udaan chat feature allows users to have a personal and secure conversation in real-time, in a language of your choice. It enables a direct connection between buyers and sellers which allows one-on-one discussions to negotiate terms of trade between transacting parties. India has 50m+ SMBs, who form the core of the Indian economy and society. They are the entrepreneurial pulse of India. They believe the internet is a great equalizing platform. They want to bring their energies together in bringing the power of the Internet to these millions of entrepreneurs.Udaan was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

## Nexus Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Nexus Venture Partners is a venture capital firm established by ex-entrepreneurs in enterprise technology and consumer internet. The firm was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States.

## Sujeet Kumar
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Health Care

Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan

## Nazara Technologies
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Social Media

Nazara Technologies develops mobile content in India. The company offers games, multimedia, themes, and wallpapers. It also provides solutions for the development, deployment, targeting, and tracking of promotional campaigns on mobile platforms; and wireless solutions that integrate the content of media companies, marketing messages, and theconsumer reach of wireless carriers. Nazara Technologies was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Mumbai, India.

## Accel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

## PointOne Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Internet

PointOne Capital focuses on pre-seed and seed-stage technology-enabled startups in emerging sectors. Our is to plug the early stage liquidity gap in the pre-seed market and provide active sector-specific expertise until a Series A round.

## Force Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: B2B, Software, Machine Learning

Force Ventures is a multi asset class investment firm. We aim to catalyze a startup’s journey by bringing domain expertise, deep empathy and providing risk capital. Our mission is to partner with game changing founders building impactful companies, while generating non-correlated return streams with an attractive risk-reward profile.

## Alexis Bonte
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Apps

Alexis is a Venture Partner at Atomico advising on new investments in France, Spain & Portugal and Eastern Europe as well as sourcing and accelerating growth in the games, blockchain and travels vertical. He is passionate about high-impact, purpose-driven companies, and he currently serves on the boards of Bossa Studios and OhBiBi, Atomico’slatest game investment. He splits his time between London, Paris, Bucharest, Stockholm and Madrid.Alexis is co-founder and CEO of games company eRepublik Labs (eRepublik.com, Age of Lords, World at War, War and Peace) a “free-to-play” pioneer that he sold in June of 2017 to Stillfront Group. Alexis remains the company’s CEO, and is also the Group COO for Stillfront, giving him a unique mix of investor as well as operational expertise. Prior to Erepublik Labs, Alexis was part of the first wave of internet start ups and was with lastminute.com for six years right up to its $1.1B trade sale to Sabre in 2005.Alexis has numerous angel investments, mainly in Europe, and has been active in supporting the development of the European digital ecosystem through events and associations.Alexis is fluent in French, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Italian and understands basic Romanian if pushed. A long time ago he was a national sailing champion in Portugal, but now he prefers to stay dry and play chess with one of his three children.

## Kae Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## GameWith
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Minato, Chiba, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1

GameWith is an online game information community that provides its users with hints and tips for smartphone games. Its initial focus is providing strategy guides for the rapidly expanding (and updating) mobile gaming market.
The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Minato, Japan.

## Paipal Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce

Paipal Ventures is a founders first investment firm that provides capital to founders with scalable ideas.

## Akshat Rathee
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Internet, Music

Akshat Rathee is a serial-entrepreneur and the Managing Director of NODWIN Gaming, a venture by the NODWIN Group of Companies. NODWIN Gaming is the premier and most recognized esports company in India. It has played a pivotal role in developing the Indian esports scene in the country by playing an instrumental role in popularizing competitivegaming through its exclusive license partnerships with ESL and ESWC. NODWIN Gaming works actively to run other marquee esports IPs such as the Mountain Dew Arena, The CII India Gaming Show among others. NODWIN Gaming additionally produces online content on gaming and esports such as Esports Center, The Games & Gadget Show, The Cosplay Genie Show and Live content from pop culture events in India as well as abroad.Better known in the gaming community by his gaming nick “LordNOD”, Akshat has been an ardent gamer since his early school days. In fact, his gaming nick was inspired by his excellence as the NOD faction in the 2000s RTS game, Command and Conquer. Over the years, his love for strategy genre games grew and he lists titles such as Sid Meier’s Civilization, StarCraft, XCOM and Red Alert as his influences. It can be said that these challenging games moulded Akshat into a better strategian and the skills he imbibed helps him greatly in business development.Akshat graduated from the Manipal Institute of Technology with a Bachelors in Engineering (Computers). He also holds an MBA in International Business from Ecole des Ponts, France. He boasts of over 18 years of experience in the fields of entrepreneurship, business consultancy and strategy.

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

## Smile Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Advertising, E-Commerce

Smile is Asia’s leading platform that builds internet businesses with passionate entrepreneurs. We partner with fast-growing companies for their expansion and invest in disruptive companies.Business Building
We build and operate companies across multiple domains such as digital media, consumer internet, SaaS and more. We operate Tyroo, APAC’sLargest Multi-Screen Performance Network and SingleInterface, a location-based marketing company for multi-location enterprise retail brands. Some notable ones are as follows:
-> Quasar sold to WPP
-> SVG Media sold to Dentsu Aegis Network
-> Squad Digital sold to Scan GroupPartnerships (Katalyzers)
We partner with fast growing technology companies to expand their business overseas. Our partnerships include Airbnb, WPP(Prodigi/Hogarth India), WPP Africa and moreInvestments
We enable entrepreneurship by investing in disruptive companies. Our investments include Letsbuy.com, HackerEarth, Scoopwhoop, Yumlane, Rapido, Wealthy, The Man Company, Bira 91, Little Eye Labs and more
Say Hello! info@smile.co.in

## Rajeev Chitrabhanu (MAGNETIC)
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Furniture

Rajeev Chitrabhanu (MAGNETIC)

## SBI Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Minato, Chiba, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, Software

SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment.

## WEH Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Apps, Supply Chain Management

Sector-agnostic early-stage VC. Use our website to schedule a call with us.

## iSeed
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, Internet

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

## 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.

## Titan Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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

## 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.

## Lead Angels Network
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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

## Rebright Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Venture Capital Firm based in Singapore and Tokyo, focus on seed to early stage Internet & Mobile software Startups in Southeast Asia and India

## Stellaris Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

We help fearless founders build legendary businesses. We are an early-stage, technology-focused, sector-agnostic investment firm. We lead our investments with deep conviction, committed to the journey of building a company from zero to one, and beyond.

## JetVentures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Sports, PC Games, Blockchain

JetVentures is the strategic early stage fund of JetSynthesys that invests in Founders driven to create meaning with products that capture.

## Courtside Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Gaming, Sports, Fitness

Courtside Ventures is the leading early-stage fund focused on Sports, Lifestyle, and Gaming. We invest in passionate entrepreneurs.

## Kane & Rao Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Private Equity
- Focus: Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency

Kane & Rao Group is a holding company investing in the Web3, Venture Capital and Private Equity space. 
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