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Meet the Hottest Angel Investors in India
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As India's start-up ecosystem matures and investors look at new avenues, angel funding is increasingly coming to the forefront. Angel investors literally handhold entrepreneurs, right from when a start-up is incepted to the period when it gains enough traction to raise series A funding from venture funds.
As far as the number of deals is concerned, Angel investments have reached a record high. While this trend clearly indicates rising interest in angel activity, it also indicates that more and more deals are now disclosed.
VCCircle has profiled 15 hottest and most prominent angels. These angels have been actively investing in the Indian market at least for the past three years and most of them have at least half a dozen investments under their belt. Incidentally, some of the active investors have doubled those numbers and made over two dozen investments. While this is nowhere close to Silicon Valley super angels like Reid Hoffman and Ron Conway, one must remember that the Indian angel market is relatively young and still growing.
Over the past one or two years, there has been an increasing interest in angel investment, given the success enjoyed by established players like the Indian Angel Network (IAN) and Mumbai Angels.
Also, successful entrepreneurs see start-ups as good opportunities for mentoring and investment. VCCircle has also profiled angels who have started investing/evaluating companies over the past one year.
More interestingly, active angels have started setting up funds which will invest up to $500K in start-ups.
As the Indian angel market is still relatively young, Specific data about investors and investments are hard to come by. Many investments remain undisclosed as these are done at very early stage. Also, the names of the angels featured below have been collected through input from venture capitalists, angels and others active in the start-up ecosystem.
• The Mirchandanis
• Deepak Shahdadpuri
• Ranjan Kapur
• Praveen Chakravarty
• Rajan Anandan
• Rehan Yar Khan
• Mukund Mohan
• Ashish Gupta
• Gopal Srinivasan
• Sunil Kalra
• Rajesh Sawhney
• Anand Ladsariya
• Praveen Gupta
• Sharad Sharma
• Vishal Gondal
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