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Top 10 Angel Investors

Angel investor or angel (also known as a business angel or informal investor or angel funder) is an a !uent 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.

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 country’s 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, e-

commerce, education, "nancial services, gaming, healthcare, hospitality, IT, lifestyle, manufacturing, socal

impacts, etc.

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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 o# er. TiE’s 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

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

payments app called Chalo, is co-founded by Kashyap Deorah and Rishi Deshpande.

Anand Rajaraman: Anand Rajaraman is a Web and technology entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of 

Cambrian Ventures and Kosmix. Rajaraman also co-founded former Junglee Corp. and played a signi"cant

role at Amazon.com in the late 1990s. Together with four other engineers, Rajaraman founded Junglee

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

went on to back several companies later acquired by Google. Cambrian has funded companies like

Mobissimo, Aster Data Systems and TheFind.com

Venky Harinarayan: Venky Harinarayan is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Cambrian

Ventures and Kosmix. Harinarayan also co-founded Junglee Corp. and played a signi"cant role at

Amazon.com in the late 1990s. Harinarayan and his business partner, Anand Rajaraman, co-founded

Cambrian Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund, in 2000. Cambrian went on to back several

companies later acquired by Google. Cambrian funded companies like Mobissimo, Aster Data Systems and

TheFind.com. Venky funded companies like Mobissimo, Aster Data Systemsand com.[7] Harinarayan also

helped create search advertising startup E$cient 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

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 o$cer 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.

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

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

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 quali"ed 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

Industries Pvt. Ltd.”

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 Mumbai’s 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 o# ers to invest Rs 20,000 crore in

Hyderabad.

2. Religare: ReligareEnterprises Limited (REL) is the holding company for one of India’s leading diversi"ed

"nancial services groups, headquartered in New Delhi, India. It o# ers 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 o$ces across India. Religare also has

o$ces 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 India’s most diversi"ed 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; bene"ts like life, medical, accident insurance,

scholarships for employees’ children, education assistance for employees; monetary as well as non-

monetary 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 tobring social change in sectors like education, health, poverty alleviation, public-private partnership, etc.

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