Top 10 Angel Investors - KnowStartup
Top 10 Angel Investors - KnowStartup
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Angel investor or angel (also known as a business angel or informal investor or angel funder) is an auent individual
who provides capital for a business start-up, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity. A small but
increasing number of angel investors organize themselves into angel groups or angel networks to share research and
pool their investment capital, as well as to provide advice to their portfolio companies. Angel investors are often retired
entrepreneurs or executives, who may be interested in angel investing for reasons that go beyond pure monetary return.
These include wanting to keep abreast of current developments in a particular business arena, mentoring another
generation of entrepreneurs, and making use of their experience and networks on a less than full-time basis. Thus, in
addition to funds, angel investors can often provide valuable management advice and important contacts.
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We have tried to compile a list of some major Angel Investors from India:
Indian Angel Network: Indian Angel Network is a network of Angel investors keen to invest in early stage
businesses which have potential to create disproportionate value. The members of the Network are leaders
in the Entrepreneurial Eco-System as they have had strong operational experience as CEOs or a
background of creating new and successful ventures. They share a passion to create scale and value for
startup ventures. Started in April 2006, the Indian Angel Network in addition to money, provides constant
access to high quality mentoring, vast networks and inputs on strategy as well as execution. The Network
members, because of their background are better able to assess the potential and risks at the early stage.
This is the countrys oldest network of angel investors, which started in 2006. Last year, it signed 18 term
sheets and completed 11 deals in a broad range of companies from food tech startup Mukunda to an
online marketplace for co-operative and community-based producers GoCoop. It runs an incubator too,
and ventured into Sri Lanka and the UK recently.Major Sectors of investment for them are agriculture, ecommerce, education, nancial services, gaming, healthcare, hospitality, IT, lifestyle, manufacturing, socal
impacts, etc.
TIE SV: The success of early stage companies depends on capital and access to advice and networks such
as what TiE Sponsors and Charter Members oer. TiEs newest program, TiE Angels, was launched in July
2010. It is an angel investment group formed by Charter Members of TiE Silicon Valley. The mission of TiE
Angels is to support top-tier emerging companies with early stage investment and support. There are about
100 investors that invest through TiE Angels and TiE Angels have already made investments in 24
companies including rapid risers like PubNub and CloudVolumes.
Rakesh Mathur: Rakesh is a co-founder of Webaroo. He has been a founder of three technology start-up
companies in the past 10 years and also an early stage investor in several other companies. He was a
founder and CEO of Junglee, whose virtual database technology led to the creation of comparison shopping
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on the Internet. Junglee was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. He founded Armedia, which was one of the
rst companies with chip designs for the video component of the DVD standard. Armedia was acquired by
Broadcom in 1999. He also founded PurpleYogi, now Stratify which provides enterprise solutions to the
management of unstructured data. Rakesh is a board member of Geodesic, a BSE listed company whose
Mundu Instant Messenger is used by millions of people. He along with Ash Bhardwaj has funded
companies like JustChalo Inc -the venture, which is in the process of creating a US-focused mobile
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payments app called Chalo, is co-founded by Kashyap Deorah and Rishi Deshpande.
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Anand Rajaraman: Anand Rajaraman is a Web and technology entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of
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Cambrian Ventures and Kosmix. Rajaraman also co-founded former Junglee Corp. and played a signicant
role at Amazon.com in the late 1990s. Together with four other engineers, Rajaraman founded Junglee
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Corp. in 1996. Junglee Corp. pioneered Internet comparison shopping. Junglee Corp. was acquired by
Amazon.com Inc. in August 1998 for 1.6 million shares of stock valued at $250 million. Rajaraman and his
business partner, Venky Harinarayan, co-founded Cambrian Ventures, an early stage VC fund, in 2000. He
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went on to back several companies later acquired by Google. Cambrian has funded companies like
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helped create search advertising startup Ecient Frontier, and is a board member and founding investor.
Ashish Gupta: Ashish Gupta is a co-founder of Helion and serves on several boards including Kirusa, Komli,
MySmartPrice.com, Pubmatic and SMSGupshup. He has co-founded two successful companies Tavant
Technologies and Junglee (AMZN). He has also worked at Woodside Fund, Oracle Corporation and IBM
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research. Some of his past investments include Daksh (IBM), InfoEdge (NAUKRI), MakeMyTrip (MMYT),
MuSigma, Odesk and Redbus (MIH)
Ram Shriram: Kavitark Ram Shriramis a former board member of Google and one of the rst investors in
Google. He earlier served as an ocer of com working for Je Bezos, founder & CEO. Shriram started
Sherpalo, a venture capital rm that invests in promising new disruptive technologies, in January 2000. His
current investments include Urban engines, open garden, yubico, paperless, [24]7, pinkberry, zenpayroll,
inkling, inmobi, etc.
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Vishal Gondal:Vishal Gondal is an Indian entrepreneur and angel investor. He is the founder and CEO
of GOQii (pronounced Go-Key), and previously founded the game development and publishing
company Indiagames, which he sold to DisneyUTV Digital, The Walt Disney Company India Pvt. Ltd. in 2011
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for $100 million. He along with Ronnie Screwvala invested in MeraCareerGuide.com- The online career
counselling platform for students is run by Delhi-based Catalog Educational Services Pvt Ltd..
Stock Brokers:
1. Ramdeo Agarwal: Raamdeo Agrawal, Director & Co-Founder of Motilal Oswal Financial Services is a veteran
in the stock market and has seen many booms and busts. He has seen fortunes being made and lost. He
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provides valuable guidance on what equity investors should do in these times of uncertainty.
2. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala: Rakesh Jhunjhunwalais an Indian Investor and Trader. He is a qualied Chartered
Accountant. He manages his own portfolio as a partner in his asset management rm, Rare Enterprises.
Jhunjhunwala has been described by Today magazine as the pin-up boy of the current bull run and by The
Economic Times as Pied Piper of Indian bourses.
3. Akash Bhanshali: Akash is the owner of Enam Securities Pvt Ltd. since 2003. He was previously associated
with Unilever, Lodha and Co, etc. He has invested in many ventures including Zodiac Clothing. He has also
inveted in many solar project from Visual Percept Solar Projects Pvt. through his company Talma Chemical
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Business Houses:
1. Shapoorj Pallonji Group: The Shapoorji Pallonji Group(SP Group) is a Mumbai based business conglomerate
in India with interests in construction, real estate, textiles, engineering goods, home
appliances, shipping, publications, power, and biotechnology. It was headed by Pallonji Mistry until 2012,
when he announced his retirement and his son Shapoor Mistry took charge. The promoters of the group
are also the largest individual shareholders in Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata Group. The
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company is known for building some of Mumbais landmarks around the Fort area, including the Hong
Kong Bank, Grindlays Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and Reserve Bank of India building, Bombay Stock
Exchange building and Taj Intercontinental. Shapoorji Pallonji group oers to invest Rs 20,000 crore in
Hyderabad.
2. Religare: ReligareEnterprises Limited (REL) is the holding company for one of Indias leading diversied
nancial services groups, headquartered in New Delhi, India. It oers an integrated suite of nancial
services through its underlying subsidiaries and operating entities, includes Loans to Small and Medium
Enterprises (SME)s, Capital Markets, Wealth Management, Life and Health insurance and Asset
Management. It has one million clients in India and more than 1700 oces across India. Religare also has
oces in Hong Kong, Singapore, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, the Middle East and Sri
Lanka. Religare Global Asset Management, part ofReligare Enterprises, is working on a plan to build a
portfolio of socially relevant assets including hospitals, schools, retail malls and cinema halls that can be
listed under a Real Estate Investment Trust.
3. Benett Coleman: BCCL is Indias most diversied media company with power brands across publishing,
television, internet, radio and outdoor domains.
The story of BCCL goes back to November 3, 1838, when the agship publication The Times of India was
published as a bi-weekly going by the name, The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce. Since then, it
has consistently moved up the growth curve by successfully entering new markets and launching new titles.
The success of the organization has been guided by a simple thought treating the newspaper not as a
commodity or product but as a Brand, whose prime objective is to serve its readers and advertisers.
BCCL promotes a culture of constant learning, innovation and fun at work. Our Employee Value Proposition
boasts of abundant career development opportunities; benets like life, medical, accident insurance,
scholarships for employees children, education assistance for employees; monetary as well as nonmonetary reward and recognition; and employee engagement initiatives like Corporate Holiday
Packages,Employee Clubs etc. A strong focus on Corporate Social Responsibility, led to setting up of the
Times Foundation, which has single-mindedly worked towards adding value to the society through its
services. It acts as a catalyst by leveraging its core competence as a part of an apex media organization to
bring social change in sectors like education, health, poverty alleviation, public-private partnership, etc.
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