Active Investors in India include incubators, accelerators, angels, syndicates, venture capital funds and global private equity funds.
Lets start with incubators and accelerators. India has close to 1000 incubators / accelerators. All top management colleges and engineering colleges have ecells and these are also called incubators and accelerators.
Seed Fund / Grant of less than Rs. 50 Lacs
- SINE – IIT Mumbai (Linkedin)
- IIM Ahmedabad (Linkedin)
- IIM Bangalore NSRCEL (Linkedin)
- IIT Mandi – Catalyst (Linkedin)
- BITS SPARK at BITS Pilani
- dlabs at ISB Hyderabad
- iventure at ISB Hyderabad (Linkedin)
- Amethi Innovation Incubator, NOIDA
- Amrita TBI
- SR University (Linkedin)
- NCL, Pune
- VIT TBI (Linkedin)
- IIM Kozhikode (Linkedin)
- 70 Atal Innovation Centers across India.
ANGEL Investor Networks / Syndicates - Campus Angel Network (Linkedin) by Chandran Krishnan
- Indian Angel Network (Linkedin) by Padmaja Ruparel
- Mumbai Angels (Linkedin)
- The Bengaluru Angels (Linkedin)
- Hyderabad (Linkedin)
- The Chennai Angels (Linkedin)
- Chandigarh Angels Network
- Eaglewings Ventures (Linkedin) by Atul Javeri
- Induckt Ventures (Linkedin) by Ayush Goyal
- Bharat Founders Fund
- Angel List India (Linkedin)
- Cap 70 Angels (Linkedin)
- Ah ventures (Linkedin) Mumbai by Abhijit Kumar
- JITO Innovation Foundation (Linkedin)
- Digital Futurist Angel Network by Harvinder
- Faad Network (Linkedin) by Aditya Arora
- Venture Catalysts (Linkedin) by Dr. Apoorv Kumar Sharma
- 100 Unicorns (Linkedin)
- 9Unicorns Accelerator Fund
- Yatra Angel Network (Linkedin)
- Rajasthan Angels Innovators Network (RAIN), Jaipur by Mahavir Sharma
- Ventureeast (Linkedin) by Sarath Naru
- Social Alpha (Linkedin)
- Let’s Venture (Linkedin)
- Lead Angels (Linkedin) by Sushanto Mitra
- CIO angel network
- Stanford Angels India (Linkedin)
- Deshpande Startups (Linkedin) by Gururaj Desh Deshpande
- Axilor Ventures (Linkedin)
- Z Nation Lab
- Peer Capital (Linkedin) by Ankur Pahwa
- iCreate, Ahmedabad by Thyagrajan K
- GHV Accelerator
- Derbi foundation (Linkedin)
- Villgro (Linkedin)
- Seed fund by Mahesh Murthy
- Nasscom 10000 startups (Linkedin)
- Telangana We Hub
- India Accelerator
- GSF Accelerator
Early Stage Investors Rs 50 Lacs to 1 Cr. - Antler
- Inflection Point Ventures
- We Founder Circle and their new investor portal Invstt by Neeraj Tyagi
- Idea Spring Capital
- Anicut Capital
- Neon Fund
- 100x VC by Sanjay Mehta
- Humming Bird VC
- Innoven Capital
- Gruhas
- Native Lead Angels, Madurai.
- 99SA.VC by Sanjay Enishetty
- Marwari Catalysts by Sushil Sharma
- Incubate Fund
- Sprout Venture Partners
- W Health Ventures
- YourNest
- All IN Capital by Kushal Bhagia
- Piper Serica Advisors
- Carpediem Capital by Abhishek Sharman
- India Accelerator
- Altius Venture Partners by Navyug Mohnot
- Brand Capital by Times of India Group headed by Srini Vudayagiri
- IVY Growth Associates, Surat by Anuj Tosniwal
- Startup X Seed
- Rainmatter
- Evolvence India
- Altius Ventures
- Thinqbate
- Kyt Ventures
- Angel Scions, Kolkata
- O2 Angels Network by Rajesh Ranjan
- Dexter Angels
- Huddle
- White Unicorn Ventures
- Seeders
- Real Time Angel Fund
- Light Rock India
- Malabar Investments
- Seeders
- Naspers
- Y Combinator
- Riidl
- Legatum
- Advantage Edge VC by Kunal Khattar
- Padup Ventures
- Astarc Ventures by Kishore Musale of Astarc Group.
- Health Start for #medtech ventures
- Aurum Ventures for real estate ventures
- Encubay for women entrepreneurs
- Electropreneur Park for electronics
Some large companies run innovation / startup programs - Reliance Jio
- Maruti
- Mahindra
- Cisco Launch Pad and Cisco Investments
- Target
- Google and its growth fund, Capital G
- Microsoft and M12
- Intel
- Shell (Innovate with Shell)
- Castrol
- Bosch Startup Harbour and Innovate
- Nvidia
And second last is the list of venture capitalist active in India that invest from Rs 1 Cr to 200 Cr. - Blume Ventures by Karthik Reddy
- Fluid VC
- Prime Venture Partners
- Saama Venture Capital
- Gujarat Venture Finance Ltd, Ahmedabad
- Sucseed Innovation, Hyderabad by Vikrant Varshney
- Lightbox VC
- Capria VC
- Speciale Invest
- Coinbase Ventures
- Unicorn India Ventures Advisors
- Next Orbit Ventures by Ajay Jalan
- Iron Pillar Fund
- True North
- Divitas Capital
- SEAF
- Agility Ventures
- Anthill Ventures by Prasad Vanga
- Stellaris Venture Partners
- Modulor Capital
- Catamaran
- Epiq Capital by Peyush Bansal
- Omnivore VC
- Das Capital, Japan
- Pi Ventures
- Pravega VC
- Sixth Sense Ventures by Nikhil Vora
- Orios Venture Partners
- Z3 Partners
- Samridhi Fund
- Sherpalo Ventures by Ram Shriram
- Eight Roads (Linkedin)
- India Quotient by Anand Lunia
- Westbridge Capital
- March Capital
- Venture Highway
- Beenext
- Sequoia Capital by Ashish Agarwal is now called Peak XV
- Kalaari Capital by Vani Kola
- SeaLink Capital Partners
- Nexus Venture Partners
- The Rise Funds (Linkedin)
- Qualcomm Ventures by Rama Bethmangalkar
- Omidyar Network
- Pentathlon Ventures, Pune
- Chiratae Ventures (Linkedin)
- Jungle VC
- Trifecta Capital
- Nirvana Ventures by Amit Patni
- Matrix Partners by Avnish Bajaj
- Norwest Venture Partners
- IVY Venture Capital by Vikram Gupta
- 3one4 Capital
- Whiteboard Capital
- Avataar Ventures
- Warburg Pincus
- Amara Partners (Linkedin)
- Vertex Ventures, Singapore. SEA and India
- TVS Capital
- Fireside Ventures
- Better Capital by Vaibhav Domkundwar, Pune.
- Elevation Capital by Mukul Arora
- SAIF Partners, China
- Alpha Wave Global
- Artha Ventures
- A91 Partners
- Kedaara Capital Investment Managers Ltd
- Saama VC
- ABC World Asia
- Menterra Venture Advisors
- Lumis Partners
- Advent International
- Altimeter Capital
- Endiya Partners, Hyderabad by Abhishek Srivastava
- Stride Ventures
- Roots Ventures, Mumbai by Gaurav Navani
- SIDBI Ventures
- Lok Capital
- Alteria Capital
- Sofina Group
- Kae Capital by Sasha Mirchandani
- Artha Group
- New Atlantic Ventures
- Premji Invest and Wipro Ventures are two separate entities.
- JSW Ventures
- Info Edge Ventures and Portfolio
- Gemba Capital
- Lightrock and Lightrock India
- Ascent Capital
- Sharrp Ventures by Harsh Mariwala
- Accel and their new platform, Seed to Scale
- Sapphire Ventures
- Kaizenvest
- Sands Capital
- Saama VC
- Elevar Equity
- Strive VC
- D1 Capital
- Speedinvest EU
- Arrow Capital
- RTP Global VC
- Ribbit Capital
- Pantera Capital
- Charles River Ventures
- Titan Capital
- Ankur Capital
And finally we are on to the last section of this list. The Pre IPO investors also called private equity funds. These companies normally deal with Rs 8000 Cr or USD 1 billion on an average per deal. Most of these have global teams. - Tiger Global
- Gaja Capital
- Bain Capital (Linkedin)
- Kotak Alternate Asset Managers Ltd (Linkedin)
- Chrys Capital (Linkedin)
- Leap Frog Investments
- General Catalyst Partners
- Alkeon Capital
- Temasek, Singapore
- Carlyle Global Investments (Linkedin)
- Beenos, Japan
- Actis (Linkedin)
- Norvest Venture Partners (Linkedin)
- Axis Capital Partners
- Eqip Capital
- Berkshire Hathway
- Apax Partners (Linkedin)
- Apollo Global Management (Linkedin)
- B Capital
- Fairfax Financial
- General Atlantic
- Warburg Pincus
- Vy Capital
- Bond Capital
- Vista Equity Partners Management (Linkedin)
- Soft Bank, Japan
- Glade Brook Capital
- Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB)
- Bertelsmann India Investments
- Fidelity
- EQT Group (Linkedin)
- Iconiq Capital
- Invest Corp
- DST Global
- Moore Strategic Ventures
- Andreessen Horowitz
- TR Capital (Linkedin)
- M & G Plc
- Ontario Teachers Pension Plan (OTPP)
- Wheelhouse Ventures
- Bessemer Venture Partners
- Coatue Management LLC
- Contrary Capital
- Faering Capital
- GSV Ventures
- Gunosy Capital
- Lone Pine Capital
- Vestinwolf
- Hillhouse Capital
- International Finance Corporation, Insight Venture Partners
- Inventus Capital Partners
- Invesco
- Kedaara Capital
- Kinnevik
- Mayfield
- Motilal Oswal Private Equity
- Paragon Partners
- Prosus Ventures
- QED Investors
- Qatar Investment Authority
- Simile Venture Partners
- Sistema Asia Capital
- Speed Invest, Germany
- Stakeboat Capital
- Steadview Capital Management
- StepStone Group
- TA Associates
- TCV Ventures
- Dragoneer Investment Group
- The Raine Group
- ABS Capital (Linkedin)
- Advent International (Linkedin)
- Everstone Capital (Linkedin)
- CVC Capital Partners (Linkedin)
- TPG Capital (Linkedin)
- Tribe Capital
- Blackstone (Linkedin)
- Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) Linkedin