India's Top 20 Angel Investors

Angel investor is a high-net-worth individual who provides financial backing for small startups or entrepreneurs, in exchange for equity. In this video, we take a look at Top 20 Angel Investors in India.

0:00 Intro

1:31 #20 Sandeep Tandon: Sandeep co-founded one of India’s first mobile payment platforms, Freecharge. He began his journey as an angel in 2015, and his portfolio includes Spinny, Dukaan, Unacademy, and Indiagold.

2:16 #19 Arihant Patni: Arihant is a Mumbai-based entrepreneur, financial advisor, and angel investor whose father founded Patni Computer Systems. His portfolio as an angel includes companies like Lido Learning, TheMathCompany, White Owl Brewery, BabyChakra, and Fitternity.

3:01 #18 Alok Mittal: Alok is a founding board member of Indian Angel Network and so far he’s made 30 angel investments, including companies like M2P Fintech and Pando.

3:29 #17 T.V. Mohandas Pai: Mohandas Pai as an angel investor has 30 portfolio companies under his belt, including Zoomcar, YourStory, and Licious.

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6:02 #16 Rajesh Sawhney: Rajesh started his journey as an angel with a 2010 Series A investment into American streaming service Viki, which was later acquired by Rakuten. He has since made 34 other personal investments.

6:49 #15 Gaurav Munjal: Gaurav is the co-founder and CEO of India’s second most valuable edtech startup, Unacademy and he has more than 35 companies in his portfolio as an angel investor.

7:27 #14 Sujeet Kumar: Sujeet, is the co-founder of Bengaluru-based B2B trade platform, Udaan and he has invested in 38 companies as an angel. His portfolio includes companies like Euler Motors, Newton School, Unacademy, and OneCode.

8:01 #13 Amrish Rau: Amrish is the co-founder of Citrus Pay, and his investments include fintech company Open, which recently became a unicorn, B2B fish and seafood supplier Captain Fresh, CRED, and KhataBook.

8:37 #12 Girish Mathrubootham: Girish is the co-founder and CEO of Freshworks, and as an angel investor he has 39 companies including Pepul, traveltech startup PickYourTrail, logistics platform Pando, and social recommendation app Fril.

9:11 #11 Vijay Shekhar Sharma: Vijay is the founder and CEO of Paytm and he began his journey as an angel in 2010 with a seed-stage investment into Indian crowdfunding platform Milaap, and has since made investments into 40 other companies including Evenflow, GOQii, Unacademy, FloBiz, and Hiver.

9:47 #10 Ratan Tata: Ratan Tata began his journey as an angel investor in 2014 as a lead investor in Snapdeal and has since added another 39 companies to his portfolio, including GOQii, CarDekho, YourStory, Ola, Paytm, Urban Company.

11:04 #9 Anand Chandrasekaran: Anand is a partner at American VC firm General Catalyst, and his journey as an angel started around 2014. He has invested in Indian startups like Mudrex, Pesto Tech, Evenflow, SuperK and Oye Rickshaw.

11:46 #8 Jitendra Gupta: Jitendra is founder and CEO of Jupiter, and he began his investing journey in 2015 and he’s added 45 other companies to his portfolio including Open, FarMart, Captain Fresh, and Dukaan.

12:28 #7 Binny Bansal: Binny started xto10x Technologies to mentor young entrepreneurs and help them scale their startups. His investments include Acko, Curefoods, SigTuple, Unacademy, NIRAMAI, Superplum, Magnifi, and more.

13:07 #6 Rohit Bansal: Rohit is one of the co-founders of Snapdeal, and he now has 56 companies in his own personal portfolio. It includes companies like Mamaearth, Nat Habit, Bira91, Open Secret, Bewakoof, and Flyrobe.

13:42 #5 Ramakant Sharma: He began his entrepreneurial journey in 2012 when he co-founded Zing Ecommerce, and he’s invested in 61 companies so far, including Toothsi, Convin, Captain Fresh, Trell, Rupifi, and Wiz Freight.

14:27 #4 Kunal bahl: Kunal is co-founder of Snapdeal and his portfolio as an angel consists of 66 startups. Some of the startups that Kunal has invested in are Rapido, Ola, indiagold, and Jugnoo.

15:56 #2 Rajan Anandan: In his 12 years as an angel investor, Rajan has invested in 67 companies, and roughly 4/5ths of these are Indian startups. His exits include companies like GamingMonk, POPxo, and Innov8.

16:42 #1 Kunal Shah: Kunal is currently building CRED, and his portfolio consists of 170 companies.
Kunal thinks angel investing as a form of philanthropy.

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Correction 1: Lido Learning has since been shut down.
Correction 2: Pune is a tier-1 city, not a tier-2 city.


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