Disclaimer We do not claim that this information is complete in all aspects.

We
may have inadvertently missed some of active investors or the information of
some may be incomplete. We retained the currency as preferably stated by the
investors (INR Lacs, INR Cr or USD mn). For corrections please write to
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Dear Entrepreneur,
Welcome to SmashUp 2014.
Hope you get to bond in an informal, open, interactive manner at the event.
The enablers of start-up ecosystem should help you build your business
venture as you share, collaborate, learn from each other.
We at Smash-up understood your challenge in identifying the right investor
for your venture during its initial phase. To enable this, we have compiled
this Handbook on Investors in Start-ups containing relevant info on the
investors active in various categories of Venture Capital. The categories
include Angel Networks, Incubators, Accelerators, Social/Impact Funds,
Early Stage VCs, Series-A to Growth VCs, and Early to Growth VCs.
We acknowledge with thanks the initiative of YourNest Angel Fund, an early
stage domestic venture capital fund for compiling this handbook.
Best Regards
Team Smash-up
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Incubator
Incubator

Website/
Where to submit proposal

Key Personnel

Focus area

Ticket size

Aseem Chauhan
Ojasvi Babber

Rural Innovation and Social

Entrepreneurship, Information and
communication Technologies (to
include Social media and ecommerce,
Mobile computing and technologies,
Upto INR 1 Cr
Analytics, Cloud computing and Big
Data), Education and Education
Technologies, Food and allied
Technologies, Biotechnology and Life
Sciences, Nanotechnology and Material
Sciences
INR 20 lacs

Sweat Equity

Amity Innovation
Incubator

www.amity.edu/aii
info@aii.amity.edu
obabber@aii.amity.edu

CIIE IIMA

www.ciieindia.org
ciie@iimahd.ernet.in

Kunal Upadhyay

Information Communication
Technology, Cleantech and Social
Sectors

IAN Incubator

www.indianangelnetwork.com
Incubator@indianangelnetwork.com

Sanjay Verma

Sector agnostic

Seedfund Incubator

www.seedfund.in
Submit on web portal

Consumer Internet, e-commerce, sportsPaula Mariwala

$0.2mn to
education, Healthcare, Financial
Shailesh Vikram Singh services, Analytics, Services, Online
$0.5mn
ticketing

Startup Village

www.startupvillage.in
Submit on web portal

Sanjay Vijayakumar

Technology product start-ups

Accelerator
Accelerator
500 Start-ups

Website/
Where to submit proposal
www.500.co
Submit on web portal

Key Personnel

Focus area

Ticket size

Pankaj Jain

Internet start-ups on search, social, &

mobile platforms

upto $250k
Sweat Equity

91SpringBoard

www.91springboard.com
info@91springboard.com

Anand Vemuri
Pranay Gupta

Technology start-ups

GSF

www.gsfindia.com
pingus@gsfindia.com

Rajesh Sawhney

Product-oriented technology start-ups

in the areas of mobile, social, local and INR 15 lacs
cloud

iAccelerator, IIMA

www.iaccelerator.org
Submit on web portal

Tanvi Rangwala

Internet and Mobile

INR 5-10 lacs

avg $115k

Microsoft Ventures
Accelerator

www.microsoftventures.com
Submit on web portal or
indiaaccelerator@microsoft.com

Mukund Mohan

Focus on Cloud, Internet and Mobile.

However, open to consider Ecom,
mobile, Media, Social Applications,
Gaming, Education, Healthcare, big
data, telecom and other that leverage
use of technology

The Startup Centre

www.thestartupcentre.com
hello@thestartupcentre.com

Vijay Anand

Support technology entrepreneurs that

INR 10-25
can build global start-ups by leveraging
lacs
technology to solve real world problems

TLabs

www.tlabs.in
Submit on web portal

Abhishek Gupta

Internet and mobile technology

INR 10 lacs

Venture Nursery

www.venturenursery.com
growmyidea@venturenursery.com

Shravan Shroff
Ravi Kiran

Media & Entertainment, Retail, eCommerce, Consumer Technology,

Education and CleanTech

Upto INR 25
lacs

Angel Network
Angel Network

Website/
Where to submit proposal

Key Personnel

Focus area

Ticket size

Chennai Angels

www.thechennaiangels.com
Submit on web portal

Sector agnostic

INR 50 lacs to
INR 3 Cr

Hyderabad Angels

www.hyderabadangels.in
bplan@hyderabadangels.in

Sasidhar Nandigam

Sector agnostic

IAN

www.indianangelnetwork.com
info@indianangelnetwork.com
padmaja@indianangelnetwork.com

Padmaja Ruparel

Sector agnostic

Upto $1mn

Mumbai Angels

www.mumbaiangels.com
payal@mumbaiangels.com

Ashpi Gupta
Ashish Dave
Shruti Reddy
Ankit Solanki

Sector agnostic

INR 50 lacs to
INR 3 Cr

Rajasthan Angel
Investor Network

www.rainjaipur.co.in
Submit on web portal

Mahavir Pratap
Sharma

Scalable businesses driven by

technology or services

Upto INR 2 Cr

Venture Capital
Early Stage

Website/
Where to submit proposal

Key Personnel

Focus area

Ticket size

5Ideas

www.5ideas.in
Submit on web portal

Pearl Uppal
Gaurav Kachru

Niche ecommerce, B2B/SME focused

SAAS, intersection of mobile & geo,
Sub $1mn
education, urban parenting, big data, ad
tech

BedRock Ventures

www.bedrockventures.in
info@bedrockventures.in

Vivek Bihani

Clean Energy, Education, Infrastructure

INR 1-5 Cr
Management Services

Blume Ventures

www.blumeventures.com
Connect over LinkedIn

Kartik Reddy
Sanjay Nath

Software mobile, enterprise, or

cloud, and emerging sectors like clean
tech, life sciences, brands, media etc

Fulcrum Ventures
India

www.fulcrumventureindia.com
Submit on web portal

Krishna Ramanathan

Pharma, Healthcare, Health & Wellness,

INR 5-15 Cr
Real Estate, IT Solutions

Ashwin Raguraman

Innovation led enterprises in

information and Communication
Technology, Life Science or Medical
device space

INR 1-5 Cr

www.indiainnovationfund.in
India Innovation Fund Submit on web portal or
ashwin@ikpimc.in

Sub $0.25mn

India Internet Group

www.indiainternetgroup.com
anirudh@indiainternetfund.com

Anirudh Suri

Early stage Internet and Mobile

technology start-ups

$50-200k

Kae Capital

www.kae-capital.com
Submit on web portal

Sasha Mirchandani

Healthcare, Education, Mobile,

Technology, Ecommerce, Services

Sub $1mn

Venture Capital
Early Stage

Nirvana Ventures

Ojas Ventures

One97 Mobility Fund

Website/
Where to submit proposal

Key Personnel

Focus area

Amit Patni
Rajan Mehra

E-Commerce, Online Travel, Online

Advertising & Marketing, Mobile and
Digital Content, Electronic Payments
Upto $5mn
and other interesting areas that
leverage internet for scale, distribution
or low cost customer acquisition

www.ojasventures.com
pingus@ojasventures.com

Rajesh Srivathsa

Technology based businesses in Mobile

technology, Telecom, SaaS, Embedded
$0.25mn to
Software, Low capex semiconductor,
$1.5 mn
web applications/services, Consumer
Internet

www.one97mobilityfund.com
kiran@one97mobilityfund.com

Companies around mobile space. It

could be in 3G, Video, Content, device
Vijay Shekhar Sharma
applications, Mobile Marketing &
Advertising, Location based services

www.nirvanaventures.in
info@nirvanaventures.in

Rajasthan VC

www.rvcf.org
ravi@rvcf.org

Girish Gupta

Information Technology, BioTechnology, Retail, Auto, Agri-Tech,

Health Care, Tourism, Entertainment,
Logistics, Packaging and technology
driven projects

Rocket Internet

www.rocket-internet.de
info@rocket-internet.com

Heavent Malhotra

Transaction-based business models in

the online and mobile space

Ticket size

$0.5mn to $5
mn

INR 5-15 Cr

Venture Capital
Early Stage

Website/
Where to submit proposal

SIDBI VC

www.sidbiventure.co.in
info@sidbiventure.co.in

Key Personnel

Focus area

Ticket size

Anant P Sarma

Infra, educational services, IT/ITES,

engineering, clean-tech, agro-based
industries, logistics

INR 5-15 Cr

YourNest Angel Fund

www.yournest.in
yournest@yournest.in

Sunil K Goyal
Girish Shivani

Invest in businesses built on vibrant &

new ideas enabled by path breaking use
of technology by first generation
INR 1-5 Cr
entrepreneurs representing new
economy sectors such as Mobile,
internet, analytics, software and cloud

Early to Series-A

Website/
Where to submit proposal

Key Personnel

Focus area

Seedfund

www.seedfund.in
Submit on web portal

Praveen Gandhi
Bharati Jacob
Mahesh Murthy

Consumer Internet, e-commerce, sportseducation, Healthcare, Financial

$1mn to
services, Analytics, Services, Online
$5mn
ticketing

Early to Growth

Website/
Where to submit proposal

Key Personnel

Focus area

Ticket size

Capvent

www.capvent.com
ra@capvent.com
sc@capvent.com

Varun Sood

FMCG, Health & Wellness, Education

services, Water/Energy Technology

$4-10mn
(primarily
growth)

ePlanet Ventures

www.eplanetcapital.com
hemant@eplanetcapital.com

Asad Jamal

Telecoms, media and technology (TMT) Upto $15mn

Ashish Gupta
Sanjeev Aggarwal

Outsourcing, Internet, Mobile,

Technology Products, Retail Services,
Healthcare, Education and Financial
Services

Helion Ventures

www.helionvc.com
contact.helion@gmail.com

Ticket size

$1-25mn

Venture Capital
Early to Growth

IDG Ventures India

Website/
Where to submit proposal

www.idgvcindia.com
bplan@idgvcindia.com

Intel Capital

www.intelcapital.com
Submit on web portal

IvyCap Ventures

www.ivycapventures.com
Submit on web portal

Lightspeed Venture
Partners

www.lightspeedvp.com
info-india@lsvp.com

Matrix Partners India

www.matrixpartners.in
infoindia@matrixpartners.com

Key Personnel

Focus area

Ticket size

Sudhir Sethi

(a) Digital Consumer Internet, Mobile,

Media and Technology Enabled
Consumer Services
(b) Enterprise Software SaaS,
$1-10mn
Software Products and Enterprise
services
(c) Engineering Medical Devices, Cleantech and IP-led Businesses

Sudheer K Kuppam

Datacenter, Cloud Infrastructure,

Network Storage, Datacenter Software,
Internet, Digital Media, Education,
Manufacturing and Intel Labs, Wearable $0.25mn to
devices, Security, Open Source,
$250mn
Machine to Machine,
Smartphone/Tablets/Ultrabook,
Perceptual Computing

Vikram Gupta

Healthcare, Education, Food based

businesses, Technology, e/m-Commerce Sub $1mn to
$5mn
and other innovation oriented
businesses

Bejul Somaia
Dev Khare

High-growth technology businesses in

consumer internet, mobile enterprise
$1mn to
software, financial services, healthcare, $25mn
education and retail

Avinash Bajaj

Consumer, Financial Services,

INR 1-75 Cr
Healthcare, Education, Mobile, Internet
(incl seed)
& Emerging areas

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Venture Capital
Early to Growth

Website/
Where to submit proposal

Key Personnel

Focus area

Ticket size

Omidyar Network

www.omidyar.com
info@omidyar.com
mcordeiro@omidyar.com

Dimple Sanghi
CV Madhukar
Anuradha
Ramachandran

Consumer Internet and Mobile,

Financial Services, Entrepreneurship,
Government Transparency

$1mn to
$5mn

Palaash Ventures

www.palaashventures.com
Submit on web portal or
info@palaashventures.com

Piyush Goyal

Sector agnostic

INR 10 Lacs 2.5 Cr

Qualcomm Ventures

www.qualcommventures.com
Submit on web portal

Karthee Madasamy

Mobile, Software, Hardware, Device &

Infra

Saama Capital

www.saamacapital.vc
contactus@saamacapital.vc

Ash Lilani
Suresh Shanmugham

Consumer Internet, IT, Telecom,

Financial Services, Retail, Infra,
Healthcare, F&B

$1-3 mn

Ravi Adusumalli

Information Technology, Internet,

Mobile, Consumer Products and
Services, Healthcare, Education,
Financial Services and Manufacturing

$0.5mn &
above

SAIF

www.saifpartners.com
Submit on web portal

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Venture Capital
Website/
Where to submit proposal

Focus area

Ticket size

Sequoia Capital India

Mohit Bhatnagar
Shailendra Singh
www.sequoiacap.com/india
G. V. Ravishankar
Connect over LinkedIn or email partners
Abhay Pande
V. T. Bharadwaj

Technology, consumer, healthcare

$0.2mn to
$100mn

Ventureast

www.ventureast.net
Submit on web portal or
info@ventureast.net

Sarath Naru

Technology (internet, mobile and

cloud), and Technology-enabled
(healthcare, education, financial
services and cleantech) sectors

Series-A to Growth

Website/
Where to submit proposal

Seed - $50K
Early - $2mn
to $5mn
Growth - up
to $10mn

Key Personnel

Focus area

Ticket size

Accel India

www.accel.com

Mahendran
Balachandran

Infrastructure, Internet & Consumer

Services, Mobile, Software & CloudEnabled Services

$0.5mn to
$25mn

Bessemer Venture
Partners

www.bvp.com
india@bvp.com

Aakash Goel
Abhijeet Muzumdar

Internet and mobile, Software Products,

Healthcare, Financial Services, Power
and Infrastructure

Canaan Partners

www.canaan.com
idea@canaan.com

Alok Mittal

Consumer Internet, Enterprise and

$1mn to
Managed Services, Mobility, Payments/
$10mn
Financial Services, and Health IT sectors

Inventus Capital
Partners

www.inventuscap.com
mangala@inventuscap.com

Kanwal Rekhi
Samir Kumar

Early stage companies with some

$1mn to
customer validation in Internet, Mobile,
$10mn
Cloud/ Software, Services space

Early to Growth

Key Personnel

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Venture Capital
Series-A to Growth

Website/
Where to submit proposal

Kalaari Capital

www.kalaari.com
info@kalaari.com
sumit@kalaari.com

Key Personnel

Focus area

Ticket size

Vani Kola

Technology-savvy companies in e$1mn to

commerce, mobile and telecom
services, education, healthcare, media, $5mn
and clean tech

Mayfield

www.mayfield.com/india

Navin Chaddha
Rajeev Batra

Consumer Services, Internet, Mobile,

Technology & Technology Enabled
Services, Logistics, and Agriculturerelated Businesses

Nexus Ventures

www.nexusvp.com
plans@nexusvp.com

Naren Gupta
Sandeep Singhal
Anup Gupta
Suvir Sujan

Internet/Media, Technology, Mobile,

Upto $10mn
Agri/Rural, Consumer, Business Services

Upal Basu
Anupam Rastogi

Whole spectrum of mobile technologies

with particular interest in Mobile
Enterprise AdTech, Data & Analytics,
Embedded Systems, Mobile Consumer,
Local Commerce

$5mn to
$15mn when
leading, less
when coinvesting

Sohil Chand
Sumer Juneja

Early Stage - technology, consumer,

internet, telecom, financial services and
education.
Growth Stage - technology, financial
services, infra, consumer, industrials,
manufacturing, media, telecom, retail
and healthcare

Early - $2mn
to $15mn
Growth $15mn to
$35mn

Nokia Growth Partners

Norwest

www.nokiagrowthpartners.com
ngpteam@nokiagrowthpartners.com

www.nvp.com
sjuneja@nvp.com

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Social / Impact Fund

Social / Impact Fund

Website/
Where to submit proposal

Key Personnel

Focus area

Ticket size

Vineet Rai
P Pradeep

Social sector focused scalable

enterprises with significant social
impact. Agri, Dairy, Healthcare,
Education, Handicrafts, Water &
Sanitation, Energy and Microfinance

Aavishkaar

www.aavishkaar.in
funds@aavishkaar.org

Acumen

www.acumen.org
Submit on web portal

Abhay Garg

Invest in companies, leaders, and ideas

$0.25mn to
that are changing the way the world
$3 mn
tackles poverty

Ghost Ventures

www.grayghostventures.com
sawasthi@grayghostventures.com

Arun Gore

Predominantly focused on the

Information, Communication and
Technologies (ICT)

Lok Capital

www.lokcapital.com

Rajiv B. Lall

Innovative ideas for serving the

BoP/lower income segment that can
make a social change

Omidyar Network

www.omidyar.com
info@omidyar.com
mcordeiro@omidyar.com

Dimple Sanghi
CV Madhukar
Anuradha
Ramachandran

Consumer Internet and Mobile,

Financial Services, Entrepreneurship,
Government Transparency

$1mn to
$5mn

Srikrishna
Ramamoorthy

Start-ups that primarily serve the base

of the economic pyramid (BoP)
population in Education, Healthcare,
Agriculture, Necessities, Technology

INR 30 - 90
lacs

Unitus Seed Fund

www.usf.vc
Submit on web portal

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