As part of our new series on the essentials of starting up in India, we’ve compiled a comprehensive list of the top 15 most active startup accelerators in India along with their typical funding ranges, equity terms and focus areas.

Catalyzer

Location – Hyderabad

Founded In – 2014

Focus Area – Technology, Brick & Mortar, Social Enterprises and Non Profits.

Catalyzer Startup Accelerator Program is a 101 days mentorship driven entrepreneurship cohort accelerator program for startups. Twice each year, it select up to 12 startup teams (or individuals) and help them navigate the crucial first stage. Selected startups receive financial support in the form of pre-seed capital, work space, IT facilities and other resources.

Funding – INR 5 – 10 lakhs on 7 – 12% equity

Notable Startups – Not yet

Reach Out – Sunil Mayreddy

Freemont Partners

Location – Mumbai

Founded In – 2012

Focus Area – Mobile, Internet & Cloud

Freemont is India’s first Global accelerator and incubator,  which provides seed funding to entrepreneurs focused on technology driven startups. It provides mentorship, strategic direction and access to local/global mentors and partners.

Funding – Seed capital of up to INR 50 Lakhs

Notable Startups – Natural Mantra

Reach Out – Vivek Mohan

GSF Accelerator

Location – Gurgaon

Founded In – 2012

Focus Area – Internet and Mobile

GSF Global Accelerator is a 13 week program, it aims to provide select startups with unparalleled access to venture and business networks, personalized & intensive mentoring, and initial capital. GSF Accelerator is designed to help product-oriented startups.

Funding – $25k – 30K for 5 – 8% equity

Notable Startups – Pokkt, Silverpush, Playcez, Little Eye Labs, Browntape

Reach Out – Rajesh Sawhney

Health Start

Location – Hyderabad

Founded In – 2014

Focus Area – Healthcare

It is India’s first accelerator program dedicated to supporting startups in healthcare industry through funding, mentorship and other requisite support. It is launched by HealthStart & ISB’s human centered design-focused incubator, DLabs. Its a 20 week program providing selected startups with investment capital to develop their ideas further.

Funding – $100k

Notable Startups – Not yet

Reach Out – Pradeep K Jaisingh

iAccelerator

(Not operational as of now)

Location – Ahmedabad

Founded In – 2009

Focus Area – Data analytics, software, mobile, education etc.

iAccelerator is a 3- month, mentorship based, intensive residential program for Internet & Mobile startups at CIIE- IIM Ahmedabad.

Funding – INR 500k for 3-12% equity

Notable Startups – Innoz, Griddle, Rideshare, Tookitaki

Reach Out – Info not available

Kyron Accelerator

Location – Bangalore

Founded In – 2012

Focus Area – Web and Apps

Kyron has introduced a new concept of pre-accelerator, which will admit about 20-25 startups. Such startups will be put through a six-month incubation period after which Kyron handpick the companies for its accelerator batches.

Funding – upto $20k for 5 – 10% equity

Notable Startups – Dronna, Scandid

Reach Out – Vikram Ahuja

Microsoft Accelerator

Location – Bangalore

Founded In – 2012

Focus Area – Cloud, Internet and Mobile using Microsoft technologies

Focused towards promising early-stage startups or first-time entrepreneurs, Microsoft Accelerator runs program of 4 months, starting in January and July every year. , selected startups get strong mentoring, technical guidance and connections to other startups.

Funding – N/A

Notable Startups – Explara, Frrole, Nowfloats, Plustxt

Reach Out –Mukund Mohan & Rajinish Menon

Target Accelerator

Location – Bangalore

Founded In – 2014

Focus Area –  Marketing, Omnichannel, Mobile, Big Data analytics and Merchandising and Supply Chain Technologies.

Target Accelerator Program is a 16 week intensive, high touch, immersive and development-oriented program, specially curated for upto five technology startups focused on transforming the global retail industry through innovative and disruptive technologies.

Funding –  $30,000

Notable Startups – Unbxd, muHive, Konotor

Reach Out –Navneet Kapoor

TLabs Accelerator

Location – Noida

Founded In – 2012

Focus Area – Internet & Mobile Startups

TLabs, an initiative by Times Internet, is a startup accelerator and early stage seed-fund in India for internet and mobile technology startups. Powered by a panel of 70+ mentors – that includes highly-experienced entrepreneurs and industry professionals, TLabs runs a structured and highly intensive four-month mentoring program for these startups. It also offers a funding of INR 10 Lakh, a co-working space and a host of other benefits from prominent tech partners, to the startups it accepts in the program.

Funding – INR 10 Lakh against 10% Equity

Notable Startups – Dataweave, Musicfellas, Bluegape, Gradestack, Langhar, News in Shorts

Reach Out – Abhishek Gupta, Abhimanyu Godara

The Morpheus

(Not Operational as of now)

Founded In – 2008

Focus Area – Open for startups in all domains

Before Morpheus had followed a format where it use to provide 4 months intensive engagement / 5 L INR investment and lifetime support. But recently, it has changed the model and as brought in a new / fresh / better way of supporting young startups, where it will start engagement with a startup at a time when the startup and the Morpheus is mutually ready, anytime of the year; for as long as our support is relevant for them.

Before it use to focus on startups in the early stage i.e. 0-2 years, not it has started focusing on startups in later stage i.e. 2-5 years / 5-10 years & across other categories.

Funding – No information available as per the new format

Notable Startups – Akosha, Zepo, Commonfloor, CloudEngine

Reach Out –Sameer Guglani & Nandini Hirianniah

The Startup Centre

Location – Chennai

Founded In – 2011

The helps the startups with Business Model Brainstorming, Growth Hacking Strategies, Setting up the Advisory Board and Market Validation, a small amount of Funding and an awesome set of Mentors.

Focus Area – Tech

Funding – INR 10 Lakh

Notable Startups – Eventifier

Reach Out –Vijay Anand

Venture Nursery

Location – Mumbai

Founded In – 2012

Focus Area – Media & Entertainment, Retail, e-Commerce, Consumer Technology, Education and CleanTech.

It is India’s first angel-backed startup accelerator. VN’s acceleration program aims at improving the success probability of the startups and funding for series A. The Acceleration Program offers three months focused Business Acceleration program aimed at enhancing the probability of success of the startup. It works on a hybrid model which includes Acceleration Program as well as ParallelTrack process of acceleration.

Funding – Upto 50 Lakhs

Notable Startups – Oravel, Klip, InterviewMaster

Reach Out – Apoorv Ranjan Sharma

ZoneStartups

Location – Mumbai

Founded In – Launched in India in 2014

Focus Area – Mobile, internet and digital media startups across verticals like consumer, enterprise and social

It is the first Canadian-led accelerator in India, a joint venture between the Bombay Stock Exchange Institute Ltd., (BIL), Ryerson University of Toronto, Canada, Ryerson Futures Inc. (RFI), and Simon Fraser University.  It offers State of art infrastructure for 4-6 months and access to mentors – functional experts, business advisors & industry guru’s to the startups.

Funding – Funding opportunity of $50k – $750k

Notable Startups – Sismatik, Nimble

Reach Out – Ajay Ramasubramaniam

5Ideas

Location – Gurgaon

Founded In – 2012

Focus Area – Internet and mobile; niche ecommerce, B2B/SME focused SAAS, intersection of mobile & geo, education, urban parenting, big data and ad tech

It is a seed fund cum accelerator for early stage digital businesses offering unique blend of human, financial and social capital. It collaborates with startups for 6 to 12 months.

Funding – INR 50 lakh to2.5 Cr. for 15 – 30% equity

Notable Startups – Kartrocket

Reach Out –Pearl Uppal & Gaurav Kachru

500 Startups

Location – Mountain View, San Francisco, and Mexico City

Founded In – 2010

Focus Area – Open for all domains

Founded by Dave McClure famous angel investor from Silicon Valley, 500 Startups run 4 – month accelerator. It’s like a Startup MBA on steroids providing startups access to a network of 1000+ founders, 200+ mentors, and its staff for guidance and mentorship

Funding – It invests $100k in exchange for 7%, and charge a $25K program fee for a net $75K investment. (Mountain View & San Francisco). And $40k in exchange for 10%, and charge a $12K program fee for a net $28K investment.

Notable Startups – Pricebaba, Tushky, Thinknum

Reach Out –Pankaj Jain

Though not an Indian accelerator, but 500 Startups is quite active in the Indian startup space and has accelerated and invested in a good number of Indian startups over the past 2 years.

This is part of our special series, In Focus: Starting Up In India, in which we focus on the essentials every entrepreneur must know about starting up in India. Stay tuned for a comprehensive list of startup incubators in India coming later this week. 

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As part of our new series on the essentials of starting up in India, last week we compiled the Top 15 Accelerators in India. This week we bring to you a comprehensive list of the top 20 most active startup incubators in India along with their typical funding ranges, services offered and focus areas.

Amity Innovation Incubator

The Amity Innovation Incubator is a pioneering concept in the context of Indian Universities. Supported by DST, Ministry of Science & Technology, GOI, ‘Amity Innovation Incubator ‘ has in a very short time of its existence earned an enviable position for itself with start-ups which have regularly been on top of the innovation curve and have been recognized on platforms like ‘The Power of ideas’, Read Herring Global winner, Tata NEN and NASSCOM Innovation Awards to name a few.

Location: Noida

Founded In: 2008

Focus Area: Rural Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, Information and communication Technologies (to include Social media and ecommerce, Mobile computing and technologies, Analytics, Cloud computing and Big Data), Education and Education Technologies, Food and allied Technologies, Biotechnology and Life Sciences, Nanotechnology and Material Sciences.

Funding: Upto INR 1 Cr

Notable Startups: ApnaCircle.com, Anduril Technologies

Reach Out: Ojasvi Babber

AngelPrime

Location: BengaluruAngelPrime is focussed on startups in the middle that need seed capital, it invest in not more than 3-4 companies a year.

Founded In: 2011

Focus Area: Mobile internet, ecommerce and tablet/mobile app

Funding: USD 200K- 600K         

Notable Startups: Ezetap, HackerEarth

Reach Out: Bala Parathasarathy

CIIE IIMA

Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship was setup by IIM Ahmedabad with support from the Government of India and Gujarat Government and operates through an autonomous not-for-profit entity. CIIE comprises of IIMA faculty, alumni and other individuals and partners with like-minded organisations to foster entrepreneurship through incubation, ecosystem development and academic initiatives.

Location: Ahmedabad

Founded In: It was founded as a research institute in 2002 and was turned into a full-fledged incubation centre in 2007.

Focus Area: Information Communication Technology, Cleantech and Social

Funding: INR 20 lakhs

Notable Startups: Travelyaari, Innoz, Thrillophilia

Reach Out: Kunal Upadhyay

IAN Incubator

Established from the support of National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board(NSTEDB), Department of Science & Technology(DST), Govt. of India. The incubator helps entrepreneurs to convert their ideas in becoming successful and profitable ventures by supporting them in business planning, mentoring, recruiting their top team, commercializing their technologies, developing their products, getting early seed funding, help in forging partnerships at the national and global level, advice on intellectual property, training and development and many other things. IAN is reputed for its huge network of successful entrepreneurs, domain experts, academicians and experienced professionals.

Location: Delhi

Founded In: N/A

Focus Area: IT/ITES, Telecom, Mobile VAS, Gaming and Animation, Internet/Web, Media and Entertainment,  Education technology,  Healthcare technology, Manufacturing Products, Alternative Energy, Clean Technology, Cloud computing, Retail technology

Funding: It provides support in getting seed-funding or securing loans from various sources such as Govt. grants, angel investors, seed & early stage funds and other sources

Notable Startups:  IndiaCollegeSearch, Mukunda Foods, Skill Boost

Reach Out: Padmaja Ruparel

iCreate

Its an initiative of Gujarat Foundation of Entrepreneurial Excellence (GFEE) and a joint venture of Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation Limited (GMDC) and Gujarat Entrepreneurship and Venture Promotion Foundation (GEVPF).  It conducts various seminars, reach-out programs, networking events and more for both students and aspiring entrepreneurs. The grooming and incubation program is conducted in a batch of 25 with duration of 13 weeks

Location: Ahmedabad

Founded In: 2011

Focus Area: N/A

Funding: N/A

Notable Startups: N/A

Reach Out: Devesh Rathore

Indavest

A startup Incubator and venture management helping startups with capital, business strategy and structure, providing access to the right network and support.

Location: Bangalore

Founded In: 2007

Focus Area: Ecommerce, mobile applications, customised gifting an d branding solutions, software products

Funding: N/A

Notable Startups: Vyoma, General Sentiment

Reach Out: Mail

Khosla Labs

Khosla Labs was setup by Vinod Khosla and Srikanth Nadhamuni in 2012 as an innovation lab to focus on solving large scale problems driven by technology and entrepreneurial zeal. The projects get prototyped through in-house design and technology teams. These prototypes are pilot tested on the ground to get feedback and market validation. Based on the project traction and business plan, the project gets funded by the Khosla Ventures seed fund and a new company gets spun-off by the lead EIR(s) from the lab.

Location: Bangalore

Founded In: 2012

Focus Area: Mobile payment & banking, Retail efficiency, Healthcare delivery and big data analytics

Funding: N/A

Notable Startups: N/A

Reach Out: Mail

NSRCEL

Set up at IIM Bangalore, the Nadathur S Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL) facilitates business growth through academic research by scholars and practical learning for entrepreneurs. NSRCEL is an open incubator, it doesn’t distinguish between IIMB Alumni and non alumni.

Location: Bangalore

Founded In: 2002

Focus Area: N/A

Funding: It provides funding to its incubate companies, funds are sourced from government schemes.

Notable Startups: Amagi, Nextgen

Reach Out: Professor G Sabarinatha

Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Park

Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Park, Technology Business Incubator is based out in IIT Kharagpur. It helps the young firms to survive and grow by providing specialised support services during the critical period of a business venture i.e. the start-up phase. The goal is to nurture successful indigenous technologies and growth oriented entrepreneurs/enterprises. It provides space as well as seed fund to the startups.

Location: Kharagpur

Founded In: Established in 1986 and commenced operations in 1989

Focus Area: N/A

Funding: N/A

Notable Startups: Ikure Techsoft Pvt.Ltd.

Reach Out: Prof. Indranil Sen Gupta

Seedfarm, Seedfund

It’s a Physical Incubator with about 2,000 square feet in Mumbai. Startups being incubated at the Seedfund get access to inputs from sector experts who come in to advice the startups on various aspects of the business.

Location: Mumbai

Founded In: 2011-2012

Focus Area: Consumer Internet, ecommerce, sports, education, healthecare, financial services, analytics, services and online ticketing

Funding: INR 1 to 1.5 Cr, if this works, then Seedfund does a follow-on investment of $2 Mn.

Notable Startups: MyDentist, Level10 Entertainment

Reach Out: Mahesh Murthy

SINE

SINE, Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, hosted by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay- IIT Bombay is an umbrella for promotion of entrepreneurship at IIT Bombay. SINE administers a business incubator which provides support for technology based entrepreneurship. It incubate an average of 15 startups at a time and has an infrastructure spread over 10,000 sq.ft

Location:  Mumbai

Founded In: 2004

Focus Area: N/A

Funding: N/A

Notable Startups: Webaroo, Bhugol GIS, SMSGupshup.com

Reach Out: Prof. Milind Atrey

Srijan Capital

It provides seed stage investment to technology startups.  It target startups that are based out of India, or have India as a target market and its incubation period is for a year

Location: Bangalore

Founded In:

Focus Area: Ecommerce, SAAS, mobile, social media, and consumer internet

Funding: INR 20 to 40 lakhs      

Notable Startups: Explara, TookiTaki, CouponRani

Reach Out: Ravi Trivedi

Startup Village

Startup Village is a technology business incubator in Kochi and it is India’s first incubator that is funded jointly by the public and private sector. The promoters of Startup Village are Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, Technopark Trivandrum and MobME Wireless. Kris Gopalakrishnan, co-founder of Infosys and the most successful IT entrepreneur from Kerala, is the chief mentor at Startup Village. It aims to incubate 1,000 product startups over 10 years and it primarily Startup Village primarily focuses on student startups from college campuses.

Location: Kochi

Founded In: 2012

Focus Area: Technology product startups

Funding: Its startupsby default selected to make a pitch presentation to Startup Village Angel Fund   

Notable Startups: iTraveller

Reach Out: Sanjay Vijaykumar

Technopark TBI

Technopark Technology Business Incubator (T-TBI), is a Non Academic Business Incubator, hosted and housed inside the Asia Largest IT Park Technopark. Its a joint association of Technopark, Trivandrum and the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, to help the technology business start-ups. More than 165 startups incubated in last 9 years. Startups are incubated for 11 months, which can be increased later for 11 more months

Location: Kerala

Founded In: 2007

Focus Area: Technology business startups

Funding: N/A

Notable Startups: To know Click Here

Reach Out: Fill Form

UnLtd India

UnLtd India is an incubator for social entrepreneurs working with early-stage social entrepreneurs to help them to Develop as leaders, Accelerate their impact, Prepare their organisations for scaling and further investment. It has 4 key programs i.e Incubation support, Bootcamp, and Social Mashup – a national conference for early-stage social social entrepreneurs

Location: Mumbai

Founded In: 2007

Focus Area: Social startups

Funding: N/A

Notable Startups: Mirakle Couriers, Milaap.org

Reach Out: Pooja Warier

Veddis Ventures

Veddis Ventures was founded in 2007 and has offices in London and Gibraltar. Veddis Ventures has been investing in media, social networking, and information technology companies in Europe, the US and India.

Location: Gurgaon

Founded In: Veddis Ventures, founded in 2007, had launched incubation centre in India in 2007

Focus Area: Consumer technology

Funding: $10-20 Mn

Notable Startups: Favista

Reach Out: Vikrant Bhargava

Venture Center

A CSIR Initiative for technology businesses (inventors and scientist entrepreneurs). The Venture Center is a technology business incubator specializing in technology startups offering products and services exploiting scientific expertise in the areas of materials, chemicals and biological sciences & engineering.

Location: Pune

Founded In: 2006

Focus Area: Technology startups offering products and services exploiting scientific expertise in the areas of materials, chemicals and biological sciences & engineering

Funding: INR 1 – 25 Lakh

Notable Startups: Antfarm

Reach Out: Mail

Villgro

Villgro is on a mission to enable innovations to impact the poor through social enterprise. It was recognized as an Incubator under the Dept. of Science and Technology and Ministry of Micro-Small Medium Enterprises, Government of India. It provides mentoring, fellowship, funding and networking.

Location: Chennai

Founded In: N/A

Focus Area: Social enterprises

Funding: INR 50 Lakhs (milestone based) and is invested as equity and/or quasi-equity

Notable Startups: Onebreathe, Skillveri

Reach Out: Mail

Wadhwani Centre for Entrepreneurship Development

The incubator facility at ISB was set up in 2008 under the institute’s Wadhwani Centre for Entrepreneurship Development. The Initiative educates and assists young entrepreneurs in the area of business planning, and promotes entrepreneurship as a valid career option

Location: Hyderabad

Founded In: 2008

Focus Area: Tech startups

Funding: N/A

Notable Startups: Orkash, Richcore Lifesciences

Reach Out: Mail

TBI, BITS Pilani

BITS Pilani in association with the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India had established a Technology Business Incubator (TBI) in the area of Embedded Systems and VLSI Design. BITS has set up a Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) to give a specific boost and emphasis to entrepreneurship development. The organization can house, in its office space, between 10-12 companies at a time. BITS also provides training to the startups in business communications and provides short courses on business management.

Location: Pilani

Founded In: 2005

Focus Area: N/A

Funding: N/A

Notable Startups: redBus

Reach Out: Prof. Arya Kumar

A few other notable startup incubators include:

SIDBI Innovation & Incubation Centre, IIT Kanpur

Rural Technology Business Incubator (RTBI), IIT Madras

NDBI (Design Incbuator), Ahmedabad

Technology Business Incubator, IIT Delhi

Information Technology Business Incubator(ITBI ), JSSATE-STEP

Technology based Incubator Society (TBIS), University of Delhi , South Campus

Shriram Institute for Industrial Research , Shriram Scientific and Industrial Research

IIIT-Bangalore Innovation Centre

E health-TBI, PES School of Engg . Tech Park

Global INcubation SERVices, JSS Institutions Campus

SP Jain Institute of Management Research Center

Technology Business Incubator, Centre for Biotechnology, Anna University

Technology Business Incubator, NIT Calicut

Amrita TBI, Amrita Vishwa Vidhyapeetham

Mudra Institute of Communications

CIEE, IIIT Hyderabad

Life Science Incubator at IKP Knowledge Park

Malviya Centre for Innovation Incubation & Entrepreneurship , IIT BHU

Technology Business Incubator, KIIT University

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Manipal University Technology Business Incubator

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This is part of our special series, In Focus: Starting Up In India, in which we focus on the essentials every entrepreneur must know about starting up in India. Stay tuned for a comprehensive list of startup co-working in India coming later this week. 

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As part of our new series on the essentials of starting up in India, we have already compiled the Top 15 Accelerators & Top 20 Incubators in India. This week we bring to you a comprehensive list of the top 28 most active startup coworking spaces in India along with the services offered and commercials involved. 

91 Springboard

Location: Delhi, Gurgaon

Facilities: Internet, Comfortable workspace, Conference rooms, Photocopy/print/scan, Network with startup community, Free or discounted access to events, Access to a mentor network, projector and screen, Freebies from partners, Tea, coffee, and water.

Capacity: 100-150 in each facility i.e. Delhi & Gurgaon. Thus, total of 250-300.

Pricing: INR 10999 for unlimited 24×7 desk time at either location, INR 7499 for full time and INR 4499 for part time. The cost of each full time member drops from INR 7499 to INR 5499 from the fourth member onwards.

Timings: 24/7

Contact: Mail

9JCM

9JCM primarily for very early stage startups with single or 1-2 member teams who have just started up and are looking for an alternative space to work out from rather than home or a coffee shop. Most folks come and work for a few months before moving to their own office.

Location: Gurgaon

Facilities: Workspace including high speed internet, 100% power back, ample parking and basic pantry services

Capacity: We can accommodate 3 -4 startups with small 1 -3 member teams

Pricing: INR 5500 per person / per month

Timings: 9:30 am to 6: 30 pm ( Mon to Fri )

Contact: Mail

Bangalore Alpha Lab

Bangalore Alpha Lab is a vibrant community of entrepreneurs coming together to interact and communicate ideas while they launch their startups at BAL Space. The culture has been carefully cultivated to create an environment where members keep each other inspired, motivated and help each other to move forward!

Location: JP Nagar and Kormangala, Bangalore

Facilities:Wifi connectivity, Flexible Seating, Mail Box Services, Confernce Room – 2 hours FREE per week per team, Additional hours will be charged @ INR 125/hour, Tea / Coffee*, Cupboard / Storage*, Scanning / Print Out.

Capacity: N/A

Pricing:

Full Member – INR 4,000/Month

Guest Access – INR 1,000/Month (5 days)

Virtual Member – INR 1,000/Month

Day Pass – INR 250/Day

Timings: N/A

Contact: Mail

Bangalore Coworking Hub

Bangalore Coworking Hub offers a range of facilities and services to suit the needs of its discerning clients. It serves startups, freelancers, independent workers, consultants and emerging businesses seeking to help each other succeed. It aims to improve the lives and productivity of independent workers by providing a great platform for networking and collaboration.

Location: HAL 3rd Stage, Bangalore

Facilities: Ready-to-use plug and play shared and virtual office space with flexible office configurations for business of different sizes, Professional, ergonomic workstation furniture, Pantry facilities with tea, coffee, snacks and meal (North Indian/ South Indian) available at minimal charge, High-speed internet connectivity, Power backup for up to two hours for your desktops and laptops, Employee parking space, Daily cleaning services of the office and common areas, Inbound and outbound mail/package handling

Pricing:

Full Membership/ Monthly  Pass (INR 3,800 Per Month)

Part-Time Membership/ 6-Week-Days Per Month(INR 1,500 Per Month)

Daily Pass (INR 250 Per Day)

Timings: Mon – Sun: 8:00 am – 9:00 pm

Contact:  Mail or call at +91-9964483636/ 080-41511115

Bombay Connect

Bombay Connect provides a collaborative & affordable work space where individuals, teams and start-ups can work from, learn, meet peers and be inspired to act creatively. Its member gets access to a network of like-minded co-workers, an online network and a programme of events to help you connect with the people around.

Location: Bandra, Mumbai

Facilities: Members get access to workstations and shared infrastructure like meetings rooms, inter-net and printers , (b) a team of hosts trained to pro-actively match members with relevant resources and (c) a set of events designed to accelerate the growth of the members and that of their idea/ventures. Other key services include a creative co working space that is affordable, flexible and blends the best of an office, a café and a home, A vibrant community of diverse and inspiring peers, Personalized connections that facilitate access to money, talent, skills and infrastructure, Strategic exposure within media and wider networks

Pricing: Mainstream Business: INR 9,000/Month, INR 5,000 for 150 hours, INR 1500/quarter, INR900/day

Social Enterprises: INR 8300/Month, INR 4500 for 150 hours, INR 1500/quarter, INR 999/day

Timings: Mon – Fri: 9:00 am – 8:00 pm; Sat: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Contact: Mail

Cobalt BLR

Cobalt BLR is a flexible meeting & co-working space that puts serendipity @ work! calls itself a business shelter.

Location: ChurchStreet, Bangalore

Facilities: The 3,000 sq feet space has been broken up into six separate and flexible zones, each of which provides a different kind of environment depending on the users’ need. For instance, there is the `quiet space’, a small hall with individual workstations and private desks; a private office for a team of 5-6 people; an open space where individuals can rent a dedicated desk with wifi and unlimited coffee/tea; and meet.

Capacity: 70 seats

Pricing: N/A

Timings: Mon – Sat: 9:00 am – 7:00 pm

Contact: Mail Or call at 080 6569 1530

CoWork Cafe

CoWork Cafe provides calm, inspiring, ready to use workspace that has everything else needed to grow your venture and be successful, including super fast Internet, conference rooms, and IT service

Location: Sarjapura Rd, Bangalore

Facilities: Workspace, meeting rooms, lockers and storage, Laptops on rent, 3G/4G dongles, Printer/Scanner, Tea/Coffee, Power Backup

Capacity: 70

Pricing:

Resident CoWorker – INR 4,000/Month & Guest CoWorker – INR 300/day

Timings: N/A

Contact: Mail Or call at 988 668 3030

CoWorkIndia

CoWorkIndia was started so that a budding company can focus exclusively on their business rather than worry about office and facilities. Whether its a one person with an idea OR a team, we have space for all to work with a community of like minded people. We have taken care of everything a startup in Bangalore would need.

Location: HSR Layout, Bangalore

Facilities: Electricity & back up power, Internet: Broadband and leased line, Pantry for anytime snack or meal, Office boy to run errands for your company, Furniture, Ergonomic chairs with full mesh back, White boards & notice boards, Discussion rooms, 24 hours work environment

Capacity:50 startups or 120 people

Pricing: It has three locations and charges as per the location and facilities

Door #5, 14A Main Road and Door #13, 14 Main Road, 15 Cross Road, MCHS, Sector 4, HSR Layout, Bangalore

INR 5235 per person per month for A/C space

INR 2475 per person per month – access for 3 days/week

INR 1815 per person per month – access only on weekends and public holidays including 10:00 PM through 6:00 AM on weekdays

INR 300 per person per day.

Door #1504, 19 Main Road, 11 Cross Road, Sector 1, HSR Layout, Bangalore. 560 102

INR 5000 per person per month for A/C space

INR 2250 per person per month – access for 3 days/week

INR 1650 per person per month – access only on weekends and public holidays including 10:00 PM through 6:00 AM on weekdays

The above pricing is for shared space. Rooms are priced at at least 20% premium to shared space

Timings: 24X7

Contact: Shivani Kakkar or call at +91-776-015-1525

CoWork Zone

CoworkZone is designed for maturing startups who find pressing need to move out of open desk environment and incubators. When they start maturing, revenue stream is thin and can not afford to spend capital on furnishing and paying large security deposits, to hire regular office space.

Location: Banjara Hills – Hyderabad  &  Hitec City -Hyderabad

Facilities: The private cabins in CoworkZone have  Executive Tables for Founders and elegant plug & play workstations for the team.  CoworkZone provides all required services like Free access to Conference Room, Free WIFI, Free Power, Free Mineral water, Free Housekeeping   etc. Startups share Conference Rooms and Common Areas but cabins remain private.

Capacity: Total 40 startups (The First center accommodates 12 startups including Behungry, Docsuggest, Beautiful Code, Travel Coz, SparkmindTech etc. The second Center is opening in October 2014 at Hitec City Hyderabad & will accommodate around 30 startups!)

Pricing: Startups pay a monthly fee which range  from INR 16,000 to INR 22000 per month for team sizes of 3 to 7 people. To make it affordable, CoworkZone takes only 1 Month security deposit

Timings: 9 AM to 9 PM

Contact: Pramod Kiron

Evoma

Evoma biosphere is a combination of serviced office spaces & business incubation center with a 4 star luxury business hotel offering spl business services. It provides environment for exhibitions, conferences & business travellers. Featuring 12 Conference Venues, 3 Video Conference Suites, a Restaurant, Coffee Shop cum Bar, Health Club ; all designed to provide a modern, sophisticated, comfortable & yet corporate experience.

Location: K R Puram, Bangalore

Capacity: Can accommodate 1-50 seats

Contact: Mail

Hatch Station

HatchStation is an ecosystem for startups in Hyderabad to co-work, live and prosper from ideation to profitable ventures.

Location:Prakash Nagar, Begumpet, Hyderabad

Facilities: High Speed Wi-Fi, Flexible Seating, Conference Room*, Free Scanner and Printer, Free coffee, Weekly happy hours (Beverages/Snacks etc.)

Capacity: N/A

Pricing: INR 3,500/Person & INR 250/Day

Timings: N/A

Contact: 8106141597

iKeva

From startups to MNCs, iKeva is equipped with productive workspaces customizable to different business needs. Catering to a plethora of clients across the country, iKeva has played an instrumental role in establishing the concept of serviced offices and co-working spaces. iKeva brings forth workspace solution befitting the business. Be it Serviced Offices, Virtual Offices, Co-working Spaces, Boardrooms & Meeting Rooms, iKeva is the answer to smart, quick and cost effective plug and play office space. We offer hassle free, affordable office space supported by an enriching startup community.

Location: Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai

Facilities: Co-working space, plug and play offices, serviced office space, meeting room and virtual offices.

Pricing: Can be found here.

Timings: 24 x 7

Contact: 040 4646 4889

Inhwa Business Centre

Inhwa offers shared and co-working spaces to freelancers, creative professionals and startups.

Location: Gurgaon

Facilities: Workstations and cabin spaces, High speed Internet, Reception services, Meeting spaces, 100% power backup and Air-Conditioning, Dedicated landline number on request Security. It also offers  Legal and Account Services, Branding Services and helps companies in Incorporation. Also, Meeting/ Conference Spaces INR 500 per hour for 10 people and Virtual Office Packages starting at INR 2000 per month

Pricing: INR 11500 per seat per month, INR 6500 per seat for 15 days, INR 850 per seat on per day

Capacity: 1-136 work places

Timings: 24X7

Contact:  Mail or call at +919818701326, +91 124 493 0777

Investopad

The Investopad campus is spread over a 33,000 square foot building, and is currently operational on a 6,000 square foot floor but are expanding to add another 8,000 feet within the next 6 months. It can house teams as small as a sole founder, all the way upto a dedicated space for Series A & B funded companies, as well as larger technology companies on dedicated floors.

Location: Gurgaon

Facilities: In-house teams and experts in Digital Marketing, Visual & UX/UI Design and Customer Service to help develop strategies, EIRs and mentors to guide startups in their domain of expertise at all stages, Intensive lectures, tutorial sessions and workshops with expert faculty in areas of Design and Business, Audio Visual interactive event-spaces and conference rooms, High speed fibre optic internet with dedicated bandwidth, Extensive range of startup library resources including startup manuals, marketing guides and skill books., Seed/Angel and VC interface, Professional advice, consultation and mentorship in areas of: Design and technical services, User Experience Design, Legal and intellectual property rights and Brand development, marketing and communications

Capacity: Gurgaon

Pricing:

Traveller plan (any 12 days a month) : INR 5,000 per seat

Community plan (30 days a month with no allocated seating: INR 8,000 per seat

Dedicated plan (30 days a month with assigned seating) : INR 10,000 per seat

Timings: 24X7

Contact: Mail

Jaaga

Jaaga supports creative ventures, its  three programs include DNA, Startup, Study – work with artists and designers, entrepreneurs, and online learners.  For Startup, it is interested in working with Startups who are passionate, driven, innovative, but also appreciate the importance of community.  Working together in a shared spaces offers startups the opportunity to share with and learn from each other.

Location: Richmond Road, Bangalore

Facilities: It provides space, core infrastructure including internet, and programming for its startups and the outside community.

Capacity: N/A

Pricing: It offers memberships in three different levels: platinum, gold, silver.  Detailed information about the membership levels can be found at here.

Timings: Mon – Sun 9:30 am to 10 pm

Contact: Mail

Jack Your Startup

It is a  one stop solution for all your start-up need, right from co-working spaces to Mentoring.

Location: Banjara Hills, Hyderabad

Facilities: Coworking, legal & set-up facility, mentoring, VC Connect, Hackathon, Marketing and essentials

Capacity: 30 seater facility

Contact: Mail

Moonlighting

Moonlighting is a social enterprise establishing coworking and cooperative cultural spaces. Its first is a members house in South Delhi, having space to hangout, work and stay, both ad-hoc and long term. It support independent professionals, social entrepreneurs, creatives, researchers, hackers… anyone with an open mind and some freedom to explore.

Location: Delhi & Gurgaon

Facilities: Breakfast included, Complementary Tea/Coffee, Fibre Leased line for WIFI (Gurgaon) and DSL Line for Delhi, Printing/Scanning services, Access to the common MacMini at our dining area, 100% power back up and electricity (AC inclusive) (Gurgaon), Subsidized meals from our in house kitchen, Chance to interact with our other coworkers in the premises and be a part of in-house events, Access to Hot Desking room for coworking.

Washing Machine/Dryer, Access to separate kitchen with basic utensils (Gurgaon)

Pricing: Full Time Plan- INR 6900 per month per person

Part Time Plan- INR 3800 per month per person

Plan for Full time plan for both branches- INR 7500 per month per person (access to both locations)

Team Rooms: INR 25000 to INR 30000 per month

Capacity: 40-45 members (Delhi) 35-40 (Gurgaon)

Timings: 8:00 to 9:00 PM (Delhi), 24X7 (Gurgaon)

Contact: Mail

Our First Office

Its a co-working space, accelerator and community in Mumbai for high quality entrepreneurs, startups and freelancers.

Location: Mumbai

Facilities: Air conditioned office, monthly, weekly, daily rentals available for shared desks, team desks (semi private office) and private offices, fully equipped board and conference rooms with projectors and conference calling facilities, meeting rooms, unlimited free super fast wifi,  access to a microwave & fully equipped kitchen, 0ffice receptionist, safe and locker, access to errand boys and interns,  bed for power naps.

Capacity: 75+

Pricing: Community access and virtual office: INR 3,500 & Dedicated Desk plan (4 people): INR 11,950

Timings: N/A

Contact: Mail

Rent A Desk

Rent A Desk provides work-space solutions and networking opportunities in a suitable environment equipped with the right infrastructure. It allows one to develop a structured work schedule in a secure office space with a formal conference room for your meetings and the additional option of renting an entire room for your team work.

Location: Banjara Hills, Hyderabad

Facilities: Refreshments, Locker facility, Reception Service, Print + Copy, High Speed Internet, Conference Room, 24 Hrs Power backup

Capacity: N/A

Pricing:

Daily Pass INR 350/Day

Weekly Pass INR 1500 (Any 05 days of the month)

10 Day Pass INR 2500 (Any 10 days of the month)

Monthly Pass INR 5000

Team Office INR 25000 (for 5 – 6)

Timings: Mon – Sat – 9:00 AM – 6:00 AM and Sun – 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Contact: Syed Anees Jafri: +91 988 54 21 400, +91 40 6464 1400

Smart Spaces

SMART SPACES offers creative work habitat for entrepreneurs, start-ups and freelancers!

Location: South Bangalore

Facilities: Flexible office spaces for small teams with options of upsizing/ downsizing, Time-share office-space, Meeting room and other business- centre facilities and Shared internet usage, pinboard & whiteboards other facilities

Capacity: 20 workstations

Pricing: Per workspace per month cost is INR 5,000/-. Negotiable for 3+ seats (Min for 3 Months)

Timings: Mon – Sat: 9:00 am – 7:00 pm

Contact: Mail or call Shuja, @ 9845825325

Social Offline

Social is a space that blends the best of the office and the café, combining work and play,

it’s an urban hangout designed to take you offline while still keeping you connected. Social is a collaborative workspace, a hub for artists and innovators.

Location: Delhi, Mumbai & Bangalore

Capacity: 70 people

Pricing: N/A

Timings: Mon – Thu: 9:00 am – 11:30 pm, Fri – Sat: 9:00 am – 1:30 am and Sun: 9:00 am – 11:30 pm

Contact: Mail

Startup Cafe

Startup Cafe is a coworking space for early/growth stage technology startups with a team size of 5-12.

Location: 80 ft Road Koramangala, Bangalore

Facilities: Private Cabins for teams, WiFi, Free usage of Conference room, Legal, Accounting and HR assistance. It also have a freelancer on call system for any service you might require – design guys, coders, media etc. And also has an inhouse HR and a CA both offering their services at discounted rates for startups.

Capacity: 15 freelancers and eight to ten startups.

Timings: 24×7

Pricing: For freelancers: INR 4000 + taxes per seat.

For team: Per cabin basis.

3-4 seater: INR 16k plus tax.

4-5 seater: INR plus tax.

6 -7 seater: INR 30k plus tax.

10 seater: INR plus tax.

12 seater: INR plus tax.

Contact: Edward Jose Or call on – 9972193005

The Startup Centre

The Startup Centre accommodates teams that are (ideally) less than five in size.

Location: Chennai

Facilities: Well Designed and lit workplace, Spacious workspace complete with open layout, power outlets and high-speed wireless internet, Broadband Internet connectivity (8Mbps), WiFi Enabled (with an additional backup line at 25Mbps), Air Conditioned with backup power on Internet lines, Housekeeping staff , Kitchen with provisions for Tea / Coffee & Refreshments, Access to the meeting rooms and brainstorming spaces*,  and Access to the TSC Library.

Capacity: N/A

Pricing: Monthly Plan – INR 5,000/Month or INR 250/Day

Contact: Fill details here

Stirring Minds

It is open to all types of innovators , freelancers, nomads, as long as they have something to contribute to the community and those who could fit the culture of the space and should be willing to collaborate. Mainly It has tech ventures at its place.

Location:  Coworking hub in Central Delhi, with a node office in Bay Area

Facilities: Virtual / Part Time / Dedicated Workstation, Upto 100 Mbps internet speed, Leased Line net plus PRI lines, Shower Room, Conference / Meeting Rooms, Training / Event area, Lockers, Warehousing Space, Projector/Screen/Voip Equipment, Movie Projection Room, Kinect/XBox Gaming, TT Table Area, INNICIIO- the innovators cafe, Printing/Scanning, Reading area with magazines / Newspapers  and much more.

Capacity: Currently has pver 20+ startups working from the hub.

Pricing: Its pricing varies from INR 2999 for virtual plan , INR 4999 for part time plan , and INR 7999 for full time plan

Timings: 24X7

Contact: Pranav Or Call at  01146105679, or at 9999105679 

The Playce

The Playce is a spacious 5,000 sq ft coworking space with plug-n-play workdesks, private cabins, conference rooms, seminar hall & an awesome game room to chill.

Location: Mumbai

Facilities:  Dedicated work-desk, adjustable chair, dedicated locker, shared wi-fi, unlimited coffee, Meeting rooms, Projector, Whiteboard, Reception, Book Library and Games

Capacity: 60+ Startups

Pricing: 1-Day Desk : INR 499, Monthly Desk Plan : INR 6,500, Flexi Desk Plan : INR 3,999 for 10 days, Team Desk Plan : INR 5,500/person/month, Monthly Cabin Plan (4-6): INR 20,000/Month (Standard cabin) & INR 25,000/Month (large cabins)

Timings: Mon – Sun : 9:30 – 7:30 PM

Contact: Mail

The Studio

The Studio is a co-working space for freelancers, designers, developers, entrepreneurs and writers looking for a peaceful place to do some kick ass work independently.

Location: Delhi

Facilities: Large hall with proper desks, conference rooms, a projector, Wi-Fi etc.

Pricing: INR 5500/Month

Timings: N/A

Contact: 098 18 306050

The Valley

The Valley Coworking is about making the personal choice to work along side other people instead of in isolation. The Valley Coworking is committed to provide a unique and inspiring work space for freelancers, startups, and artists to begin working together in an inspiring new way.

Location:  Banjara Hills, Hyderabad,

Facilities: It offer high speed Internet WiFi, Free Scanner, Printer, Free Coffee, Bean Bags, Flexible Seating, Power Backup and above all a good startup community around you. And if you feel exhausted working long hours, there is Xbox 360 to get your hands on.

Capacity: 15 people at a time

Pricing: INR 5000/Person

Timings: 24×7

Contact: Sharjeel Siddiqu

The Works At

A coworking initiative focused on Chennai’s startup and freelance community and ecosystem. Dedicated to providing facilities and services that serve as a platform for success.

Location: Chennai

Facilities: Desk, Tables, Internet, Printing, Unlimited WIFI, training rooms, projectors, webcams, speakerphones, etc.

Capacity: 50+

Pricing: Standard INR 4,500/Month & Premium INR 7000/Month

Timings: Monday-Friday: 9:00AM to 9:00PM // Saturday 9:30AM to 5:30PM

Contact: 09677052094

Working Company

It’s a coworking and community space in Ahmedabad.

Location: Ahmedabad

Facilities: workspace, wifi, reception, conference room, printer and scanning facility.

Pricing: Dedicated Desk: INR 7,000/Month, Fulltime: INR 5000/Month, Part Time: INR 3,000 for 10 days and Day Pass: INR 400

Timings: Mon-Fri: 9:00am to 7:00pm and Saturday: 10:00am to 6:00pm

Contact: Mail

Update: We’ve added some more coworking spaces below and plan to keep this list updated. 

Startup Warehouse

10,000 Startup’s STARTUP WAREHOUSE – an initiative of NASSCOM and Govt of Karnataka, a premium coworking space in the heart of the city where you work with high quality startup teams and learn from each other. The selection is finalized by a selection committee comprising of stakeholders from the government as well as the industry. As part of the initiative, NASSCOM is providing early stage support for start-ups by enhancing incubation programs, building a strong mentor community and providing access to investors & increasing risk capital.

Location: Old Airport Road, Bangalore.

Facilities: High speed 10 Mbps lease line. Apart from coworking and related facilities, startups also get support from the mentors and the networking.

Pricing: Monthly rental of INR 3,500 for each seat at the Warehouse, for max of 6 people team

Timings: N/A

Contact: Interested ones can apply here. 

Work-Adda CoWorking

WorkAdda is a collaborative working space, centrally located and easily accessible from all directions. We offer individual seats as well as work areas for teams sized 4 to 8 people. 

Location: Kormangala 1st Block, Bangalore

Facilities: Office with high speed internet, backup power, a conference room, tea/coffee twice a day and a small pantry. We also have a collaboration room which can be used to conduct workshops, meetups for 15-18 people.

Pricing: INR 4500/- per seat per month. We also offer daily/weekly/fortnightly rates at INR350/INR 1500/INR 2500 per person. The conference room may be booked separately based on the availability.

Capacity: 38 seats

Timings:  9AM to 6PM, Monday to Saturday. Extended timings can be accommodated.

Contact: Ramesh Agarwal or call at 9886051931

If we missed out on any coworking space, do let us know in the comments below.

We’ll keep adding more to this list

This is part of our special series, In Focus: Starting Up In India, in which we focus on the essentials every entrepreneur must know about starting up in India. Stay tuned for more.  

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This article is part of our series on the essentials of starting up in India in which we had earlier compiled the Top 15 Accelerators, Top 20 Incubators and CoWorking spaces in India.

Once a startup has reached it’s growth stage, it’s most important requirement is undoubtedly the backing by reliable investors and an ample amount of funding to scale up. Though the concept of starting up has gained momentum recently, but the small number of investors willing to show their trust and invest in new ventures has been a problem for startups. Many startups find it difficult to approach venture capitalists and quite a few times the investment structure of the investor is inadequate for the startup.

So this week we bring to you the much needed list of the most active institutional investors and capital funds in India along with their investment capacity, investment structure, investment industries and some of their most notable portfolio startups.

Helion Venture Partners 

Investing in technology-powered and consumer service businesses, Helion Ventures Partners is a $605 Mn Indian-focused, an early to mid-stage venture fund participating in future rounds of financing in syndication with other venture partners.

People You Should Know: Sandeep Fakun, Kanwaljit Singh.

Investment Structure: Invests between $2 Mn to $10 Mn in each company with less than $10 Mn in revenues.

Industries: Outsourcing, Mobile, Internet, Retail Services, Healthcare, Education and Financial Services.

Startups Funded: Yepme, MakemyTrip, NetAmbit, Komli, TAXI For Sure, PubMatic.

Contact Details: 8040183333, 01244615333, Email

Accel Partners 

Accel Partners founded in 1983 has global presence in Palo Alto, London , New York, China and India. Typical multi-stage investments in internet technology companies are made by Accel partners.

People You Should Know: Subrata Mitra, Prashanth Prakash and Mahendran Balachandran

Investment Structure: Invests between $0.5 Mn and $50 Mn in its portfolio companies.

Industries: Internet and Consumer Services, Infrastructure, Cloud -Enabled Services, Mobile and Software.

Startups Funded: Flipkart, BabyOye, Freshdesk, Book My Show, Zansaar, Probe, Myntra, CommonFloor.

Contact Details: 8041232551, 8043539800, Email

Blume Ventures 

Venture capital firm, Blume Venture Advisor funds early-stage seed, startups, pre-series A, series B and late stage investments. Blume backs startups with both funding as well as active mentoring and support.

People You Should Know: Karthik Reddy and Sanjay Nath.

Investment Structure: Provides seed funding investments between $0.05 Mn – $0.3 Mn in seed stage. Also, provides follow-on investments to portfolio companies ranging from $.5Mn to $1.5Mn.

Industries: Mobile Applications, Telecommunications Equipment, Data Infrastructure, Internet and Software Sectors, Consumer Internet, Media, Research and Development

Startups Funded: Carbon Clean Solutions, EKI Communications, Audio Compass, Exotel, Printo.

Contact: Twitter

Sequoia Capital India 

Sequoia Capital India specializes in investments in startup seed, early, mid, late, expansion, public and growth stage companies.

People You Should Know: Shailesh Lakhani and Shailendra Singh.

Investment Structure: SCI invests between $100,000 and $1 Mn in seed stage, between $1 Mn and $10 Mn in early stage and between $10 Mn and $100 Mn in growth stage companies.

Industries: Consumer, Energy, Financial, Healthcare, Outsourcing, Technology.

Startups Funded: JustDial, Knowlarity, Practo, iYogi, bankbazaar.com

Contact: 8041245880, 2240747272, 01149567200

Nexus Venture Partners 

Nexus Venture Partners is a venture capital firm investing in early stage and growth stage startups across sectors in India and US.

People You Should Know: Suvir Sujan and Anup Gupta

Investment Structure: Invests between $0.5 Mn and $10 Mn in early growth stage companies. Also, makes investments upto $0.5 Mn in their seed program.

Industries: Mobile, Data Security, Big Data analytics, Infrastructure, Cloud, Storage, Internet, Rural Sector, Outsourced Services, Agribusiness, Energy, Media, Consumer and Business services, Technology.

Startups Funded: Snapdeal, Housing, Komli, ScaleArc, PubMatic, Delhivery.

Contact: 8049456600, 2266260000, Email

Inventus Capital Partners 

With the sole goal of making new entrepreneurs successful, Inventus is a venture capital fund managed by entrepreneurs and industry-operating veterans.

People You Should Know: Samir Kumar and Kanwal Rekhi

Investment Structure: The firm does not invest in capital intensive companies. It typically leads the first venture round with $1 Mn to $2 Mn and as the businesses grow, it invests from $0.25 Mn up to $10 Mn.

Industries: Consumer, Hotels, Restaurants and Leisure, Media, Internet and Catalog Retail, Healthcare, Information Technology, Hardware and Equipment, Telecommunications etc.

Startups Funded: Poshmark, Savaari, Farfaria, Policy Bazaar.com, Insta Health Solutions, CBazaar.

Contact: +91 80 4125 6747, Email

IDG Ventures 

Having a global network of technology venture funds with more than $4 billion, IDG Ventures India is a leading India-focused technology venture capital fund specializing in startups, early stage, growth stage and expansion stage companies.

People You Should Know: Manik Arora and Sudhir Sethi

Investment Structure: Invests in India-based companies and also in companies outside India. The firm invests between $1 Mn and $10 Mn.

Industries: Digital Consumer – Internet, Mobile, Media and Technology Enabled Consumer Services, Enterprise Software – SaaS, Software Products and Enterprise services, Engineering – Medical Devices, Clean-tech and IP-led Businesses

Startups Funded: UNBXD, Yatra.com, Myntra.com. FirstCry, Zivame, iProf,  Ozone Media.

Contact: +91 80 4043 4836, +91 11 3019 4145, Email

Fidelity Growth Partners 

Fidelity Growth Partners India is the private equity arm of Fidelity International Limited focused on investing in India. Since 2008, FGPI has made several investments across sectors including Healthcare and Life Sciences, Technology, Consumer and Manufacturing.

People You should Know: Abhinav Sinha, Harsh Jhaveri

Investment Structure: Typically, FGPI invests between $10 Mn and $50 Mn for a minority stake in the company

Industries: Healthcare and Life Sciences, Technology, Consumer and Manufacturing

Startups Funded: Netmagic, Yebhi

Contact: Email

Naspers 

Naspers is a leading multinational media group, incorporated in 1915 as a public limited liability company and was listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) in September 1994. The group’s principal operations are in internet platforms (focusing on commerce, communities, content, communication and games), pay-television and the provision of related technologies and print media (including publishing, distribution and printing). The group’s most significant operations are located in South Africa and elsewhere in Africa, China, Central and Eastern Europe, India, Brazil, Russia, Thailand and the Netherlands.

People You should Know: N/A

Investment Structure: N/A

Industries: Ecommerce, Print Media, Pay Television

Startups Funded: OLX, Flipkart

Contact: Twitter

Steadview Capital 

Steadview is a leading alternative asset manager based in Hong Kong. The firm makes concentrated long-term investments across multiple industries

People You should Know: Ravi Mehta

Investment Structure: Early Stage Venture and Later Stage Venture Investments Industries: Ecommerce

Startups Funded: Olacabs, Flipkart, Saavn, Urban Ladder

Contact: Website

Jungle Ventures 

Jungle Ventures is a Singapore based, entrepreneur backed venture firm that funds and helps startups scale across Asia Pacific. It invests in global startups that are solving problems relevant to Asia Pacific markets. It currently has investments in US, Singapore, India, Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines.

People You should Know: Amit Anand, Subrata Mitra

Investment Structure: Venture Capital that does Seed and Early Stage Venture Investments

Industries: Ecommerce, Digital Media, Saas, Fintech, Big Data, Analytics, Enterprise

Startups Funded: Zipdial, Ekstop, Pokkt, Milaap

Contact: Email

Zodius Capital 

Operational since 2011, Zodius typically develops one company every six months and works intensively with its portfolio company teams to “speed up” and “shape up” for exceptional growth and profitability.

People You should Know: Neeraj Bhargava, Gautam Patel

Investment Structure: N/A

Industries: Big Data and Analytics, Digital Media and Commerce, Education

Startups Funded: BigBasket, Culture Machine

Contact: Email

Qualcomm Ventures 

Qualcomm Ventures is the investment arm of Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM), a Fortune 500 company with operations across the globe.

People You should Know: Karthee Madasamy

Investment Structure: N/A

Industries: Business Software, Cloud/Enterprise, Consumer Software, Hardware, Health Care, Infrastructure, Semi/Components

Startups Funded: Appsdaily, Capillary, Deck, Portea, Housing

Contact: Website

Warburg Pincus 

Warburg Pincus is a leading global private equity firm focused on growth investing. The firm has more than $37 Bn in assets under management. Its active portfolio of more than 120 companies is highly diversified by stage, sector and geography.

People You should Know: Hari Ravichandran

Investment Structure: It emphasizes growth investing and has successfully built companies at all stages, from conceiving and creating venture capital opportunities, to providing capital to meet the needs of existing businesses, to investing in later-stage buyout transactions and special situations with unique characteristics.

Industries: Consumer, Industrial and Services, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, Real Estate, Tech, Media, Telecommunications

Startups Funded: Lemon Tree, Biba, Quikr

Contact: +91 22 66451234

Canaan Partners 

Global venture capital firm investing in people with visionary ideas, Canaan Partners specializes in all stages of development, seed financings, start-ups, growth and early stage investments, typically Series A and B financings.

People You Should Know: Wende Hutton

Investment Structure: The firm typically invests between $0.05 Mn to $80 Mn in its portfolio company. It prefers to exit its investments within 7 to 10 years.

Industries: Technology- Advertising & Marketing, Big Data/Cloud, Consumer, Enterprise/SaaS, FinTech, Hardware, Healthcare – Biopharma, digital Health & MedTech.

Startups Funded: Naaptol, Bharat Matrimony, iYogi, Happiest minds, mCARBON, CarTrade, Surewaves.

Contact: +91 124 4301841, Email

SAIF Partners 

Investing in India since 2001, SAIF Partners specializes in private equity and venture capital across Asia.

People You Should Know: Mukul Arora & Mukul Singhal

Investment Structure: Invests between $10 Mn and $100 Mn in one or more rounds of financing with investments between $200,000 to $500,000 in early stage companies and between $30 Mn and $35 Mn in more mature unlisted ventures.

Industries: IT, ITes, Industrials, Financial Services, Internet, Consumer Product, Mobile

Startups Funded: Justdial.com, Paytm, Network18, HomeShop18, Book My Show.

Contact: +91 124 496 5500, Email

Ascent Capital Advisors 

Ascent Capital, an India-focused independent private equity firm, is among the most experienced teams on ground with over 150+ years of collective experience in Indian capital markets.

People You Should Know: Raja Kumar

Investment Structure: The firm makes investments ranging from $10 Mn to $30 Mn.

Industries:Technology, Ecommerce, Healthcare, Financial Services, Consumer Brands, Infrastructure

Startups Funded: Bigbasket.com, KIMS

Contact: +91 80 3055 1230, +91 80 3055 1231, Email

Axon Partners Group 

Specialised in global emerging markets, the Group prefers to invest in technology focused companies in countries like Latam, Spain and India.

People You Should Know: Francisco Velázquez de Cuéllar

Investment Structure:  Invests from 100,000K to $25 Mn in growth phases, from seed capital to international expansion.

Industries: Games, Software, Security, Biotechnology, Telecommunications

Startups Funded: iYogi, ByHours.com, Hot Hotels.

Contact: Email

Bain Capital Private Equity 

Bain Capital professionals in aggregate is the largest investor in every fund raised. Bain Capital, along with management teams, provides the strategic and analytic resources needed to build and grow great companies.

People You Should Know: Samonnoi Banerjee

Investment Structure: Invests between $5 Mn and $1 Bn in companies in wide range of Industries.

Industries: Consumer, Retail and Dining, Financial and business Services, Healthcare, Industrial and Energy, Technology, Media and Telecom.

Startups Funded: ASIMCO, BMC Software, Biglobe, Atento, BPL

Contact: +91-2267528000

Basil Partners 

It’s a Venture Capital fund involved in Early Stage Venture Investments focusing on investing in India besides investing in North America, Europe and Asian Countries.

People You Should Know: Ramanan Raghavendran and Rajeev Srivastava.

Investment Structure: Investment is done in the range between $1 million and $ 5 million with minimum revenue of $5 million.

Industries: IT

Startups Funded: Endeavour Software Technologies, Karmic LifeSciences

Contact: www.basilpartners.com

Battery Ventures 

Battery Ventures is based in Boston, Silicon Valley and invests in technology driven companies. With over 30 years of experience, this VC fund has deep pockets.

People You Should Know: Neeraj Agrawal

Investment Structure: They invest in all stages of a company’s life, are flexible in the amount of investment, and are creative when it comes to syndicating, finding alternate sources of money, and designing financing to best match businesses.

Industries: e-Commerce and Retail Digital Media, Industrial Technologies, Infrastructure, Software and Services.

Startups Funded: HackerRank, AppDynamics

Contact: Twitter

Bessemer Venture Partners 

With great experience in investing, this 1911 founded company operates on a global scale with offices located in Israel, India and both coasts in the US.

People You Should Know: Raghav Bahl, Aakash Goel

Investment Structure: They invest in the range of $75,000 to $66 Mn.

Industries: Cyber Security, Financial Services, Mobile, Cleantech Cloud Computing

Startups Funded: Snapdeal, OnMobile

Contact: +91-80-3082-9000, Email

Catamaran Investment Pvt Ltd 

Founded in 2010 is a private investment office headquartered in Bangalore, India and London, UK. It’s a INR 600 Cr. multi-stage, multi-sector fund.

People You Should Know: N R Narayana Murthy.

Investment Structure: N/A

Industries: Venture Capital & Private Equity

Startup Funded: Yebhi

Contact: Website

Forum Synergies (India) PE Fund 

The company’s vision and mission is to be a unique, ethical private equity fund management model in India that provides investors with a best-in-class private equity model.

People You Should Know: Samir Inamdar

Investment Structure: Forum Synergies invests between between $2 – $10 Mn in firms with revenues between $3 – $50 Mn.

Industries: Healthcare, Automotive, Electronic Hardware, Electrical Equipment, Chemical Engineering, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, IT

Startups Funded: Zomato, Ola, Quikr, TaxiForSure, Commonfloor, Freecharge, Housing.

Contact: +91 80 4000 6400, Email

Fulcrum Venture India 

Founded in 2000, Fulcrum is a private equity investor which focuses on the SME business opportunities.They prefer to invest in like-minded entrepreneurs with solid principles and objectives.

People You Should Know: Krishna Ramanathan, Ethan Khatri, Mahesh Shankaranarayanan

Investment Structure:The firm seeks to invest between INR 5 crores – INR 15 crores.

Industries: Education, Financial Services, FMCG, Healthcare, Niche Retail

Startups Funded: Shield Healthcare Private Limited , SwaaS Systems, Congruent Solutions Pvt Ltd

Contact: +91 22 6712 8484, +91 22 6712 8484

General Atlantic LLC 

980, is a leading global growth equity firm providing capital and strategic support for growing companies. It does Early Stage Venture, Later Stage Venture and Private Equity Investments.

People You Should Know: Sandeep Naik.

Investment Structure: Invests between $75 Mn and $400 Mn.

Industries: ECommerce, Software, Fashion, Cloud Computing, Curated Web

Startups Funded: Vox Media, Klarna, Citiustech, Squarespace.

Contact: Twitter

India Quotient 

Launched in 2012, India Quotient is an early stage fund with a corpus of INR 30 Cr.

People You Should Know: Madhukar Sinha, Anand Lunia

Investment Structure: Venture Capital fund that does Seed Investments between 100k – 500k.

Industries: Education, Food and Travel, Mobile, Fashion, Lifestyle, Consumer Finance

Startups Funded: Grabhouse, FRSH, Roposo, Prettysecrets, DogSpot

Contact: Email

Intel Capital 

The firm focuses on mergers, acquisitions, and equity investments related to tech startups. Till date, it has invested $10.7 Bn in over 1,250 companies in 52 countries.

People You Should Know: Pradeep Tagare, Bhavanipratap Rana, Amit Behl, Sudheer K Kuppam.

Investment Structure: Invest between $300 Mn and $500 Mn per year.

Industries: Internet-Digital Media, Manufacturing-Labs, Security, Smart Phones-Tablets, software and Services, Ultrabook-Perceptual Computing, Wearables

Startups Funded: Gigya, Hungama, Snapdeal

Contact: Website

IvyCap Ventures 

Guided by an entrepreneur-centric investment approach, IvyCap focuses on high-quality professional entrepreneurs from premier education institutions of the country.

People You Should Know: Norbert Fernandes

Investment Structure: The Firm does Early Stage Venture Investments and invests between $0.3 Mn and $7 Mn.

Industries: Healthcare, Education, Technology, Commerce.

Startups Funded: Aujas Networks, Leixir, eShakti.com, Vinculum Solutions, FieldEZ

Contact: +91-22-67000567

Kae Capital 

Kae Capital invests in those companies which bring  out innovative solutions for existing gaps in the markets.They believe in identifying and building large companies even from a concept.

People You Should Know: Navin Honagudi, Shashank Hirawat, Sasha Mirchandani, Nisa Mohamedi.

Investment Structure: Investment is made between $0.05 – $2.5 Mn and typically they invest between $0.2 – $1 Mn in the first round.

Industries: Mobile, Ecommerce, Education, Healthcare, Consumer, Internet

Startups Funded: SysCloud, ShepHertz, FortunePlay, Nuiku, Shopsense, Airwoot.

Contact: Email

Kalaari Capital 

With a strong advisory team in Bangalore, Kalaari is a $160 Mn venture capital fund investing in early-stage technology-oriented companies in India. They seek companies that are capable of capturing new markets, providing innovative solutions and creating new wealth for India and beyond.

People You Should Know: Vani Kola, Sampath Kumar P., Rajesh Raju

Investment Structure:The firm invests $1Mn to $5Mn in technology savvy companies and technology-enabled services for India and the global markets.

Industries: ECommerce, Internet, Curated Web, cleantech.

Startups Funded: Mettl, UrbanLadder, Snapdeal, Zivame

Contact: Email, 080 67159600

Lightbox Management Ltd 

India based Lightbox Management Ltd with an investment horizon of seven to eight years is a new $100 Mn tech fund focussed on early stage consumer technology businesses.

People You Should Know: Sandeep Murthy, Siddharth Talwar

Investment Structure: Invests between $3 Mn and $5 Mn in the consumer technology space with a focus on education technology.

Industries: Data & Analytics, Brand & Design, Product & Marketing, Culture & Company Building.

Startups Funded: Embibe, Cleartrip, GreenDust

Contact: Email

Lightspeed Venture Partners 

Founded in 2000, Lightspeed Venture Partners investment company engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.

People You Should Know: Bejul Somaia, Dev Khare, Anshoo Sharma, Maninder Gulati.

Investment Structure: $1 to $25 Mn

Industries: Enterprise Software, Software, Mobile

Startups Funded: Eyeview, SimplyTapp, Luxe Valet, Vee, Blockchain, FiveStars, Gainsight.

Contact: +91 (11) 4980 0800, Email

Lok Capital Group 

Gurgaon based Lok Capital initiative launched at the end of 2000 with support of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation specializes in bottom-of-pyramid customer segment investments.

People You Should Know: Rajiv B.Lall

Investment Structure: Invests between $1 Mn and $7 Mn

Industries: Education

Startups Funded: Hippocampus Learning Centres, Qed | Everest Edusys And Solutions

Contact:+91.11.3090.0100

Matrix Partners India 

Mumbai Based Matrix Partners was founded in 1977, and is committed to build long-term relationships. With capital over INR 3000 Cr., they invest across sectors in India.

People You Should Know: Avnish Bajaj

Investment Structure: Invests INR 1 Cr. to 75 Cr.

Industries: Internet, Consumer internet, eCommerce, Travel, Internet, Consumer Internet, eCommerce, Travel, etc.

Startups Funded: NewsHunt, Quikr India, LimeTray, Hearing Plus, Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd.), WeAreHolidays.

Contact: +91-22-67680000, Email

Mayfield Fund 

One of the oldest Venture Capital Firms focusing on early-stage to growth-stage investments in information technology companies, in particular on enterprise software, Internet consumer & media services, and communications.

People You Should Know:  Vikram Godse, Navin Chaddha and James Beck.

Investment Structure: In India, it invests between $500,000 to $10 Mn

Industries: Consumer Services, Infrastructure Ancillaries, Healthcare Services, Manufacturing Opportunities

Startups Funded: Gigya, Lantern, IndiaProperty

Contact:+(91)-9867577504, Email

New Enterprise Associates 

It’s one of the most largest and most active Venture Capital Firms which helps entrepreneurs to build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors and geographies.

People You Should Know: Krishna Kittu Kolluri, Tarun Sharma

Investment Structure: The firm seeks to invest between $0.05 Mn and $20 Mn in  Early Stage Venture, Later Stage Venture, Private Equity, Debt Financing.

Industries: Energy, Infrastructure Services, Consumer Services, Agriculture Sector, Systems, Software, Technology

Startups Funded: IndiaHomes, Forter, Inksedge, Blueshift Labs

Contact: +91-22-4223 5600

NewPath Ventures, LLC 

New Path Ventures, LLC is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed stage, startups, and early stage investments. They prefer to invest in technology based startups in India and US.

People You Should Know: Vinod K. Dham, Tushar Anil Dave, Mahesh Karanth.

Investment Structure: It does Early Stage Venture and Later Stage Venture Investments.

Industries: Semiconductors, Curated Web

Startups Funded: Telsima, inSilica, Montalvo Systems

Contact: Website

Nirvana Venture Advisors 

Nirvana Venture Advisors invests in early-­stage and market leading companies in the fast growing Indian internet and mobile segments.

People You Should Know: Amit Patni

Investment Structure: N/A

Industries: Internet and Mobile Fund, Large Markets,ecommerce, online travel, online advertising and marketing.

Startups Funded: KartRocket, Transerv, Reviews42

Contact: 91-22-6742-3800, Email

Norwest Venture Partners 

NVP is an India-centric multi-stage investment firm that has partnered with entrepreneurs to build great businesses for more than 50 years.

People You Should Know: N/A

Investment Structure: It invests $1Mn to $30 Mn in early stage and $15 Mn-$100 Mn in growth equity companies depending on the growth of the company.

Industries: Internet, telecommunications, financial services, and education sector.

Startups Funded: Indusind Bank, Komli, Fashionandyou.com.

Contact: 91 22 6150 1111

Ojas Venture Partners 

India based Venture Capital Ojas Venture Partners believes that for young startups to become successful, it is imperative for them to have the guidance of experienced professionals with in depth understanding of the marketplace.

People You Should Know: Dr Rajesh Srivathsa

Investment Structure: Typically, make an initial investment of $ 250,000 to $ 1.5 Mn and follow that in subsequent rounds up to a maximum of US $ 3 Mn per company over the life of the company.

Industries:  Mobile Technology and Applications, telecom, wireless technologies, enterprise software, SaaS, Web Applications/Services, Consumer Internet

Startups Funded: Tyfone, Vizury, Mango Techno, RiverSilica, CBazaar.

Contact: +91 80 4061 0300

Seedfund 

This venture capital fund recognized the need for an early stage investment ecosystem in India and hence, focuses on investing in Indian startups.

People You Should Know: Shailesh Vikram Singh

Investment Structure: The firm seeks to invest between INR 1 Cr. ($0.19 Mn) and INR 25 Cr. ($4.67 Mn) in each portfolio company.

Industries: Internet, Media, Mobile, Telecommunications, Retail, Technology, Consumer

Startup Funded: Chumbak, Browntape, Heckyl, AxisRooms, Voonik.com.

Contact:  (+91) 120 319 2958

SIDBI Venture Capital Limited 

It focuses on life sciences, clean technology, retailing, light engineering, food processing, information technology, infrastructure related services, healthcare, logistics and distribution, water and sanitation, agriculture, and education sectors.

Investment Structure: It invests between INR 5 Cr. to 25 Cr.

Industries: Ecommerce, SemiConductors.

Startups Funded: Printland, CircuitSutra Technologies, Skelta Software

Contact: 91 – 22 – 2652 7124 /25 /27 /28, Email

Unitus Seed Fund 

Unitus Seed Fund is a seed stage venture fund based in Bangalore and Seattle which invests in developing markets with  primary focus on rural startups focusing on low income groups.

People You Should Know: Dave Richards, Will Poole

Investment Structure: It invests INR 50 Lakh to INR 1 Cr.

Industries: Education and Skilling, Healthcare, Mobile Commerce, Marketplaces and E-Commerce, Agriculture, Retail and Distribution, Water and Energy.

Startups Funded: Blowhorn, Addresshealth, mGaadi, Welcare, GoCoop, Medypal.

Contact: +91.80.4112.0008

Utthishta 

A firm that seed funds for software, web, mobile, and cloud computing based Indian Startups, and also claims to provide a unique experience for entrepreneurs.

People You Should Know: Mohsin Khan, P.Ramakrishna.

Investment Structure: The firm seeks to invest between $0.02 Mn and $0.03 Mn per startup in return of equity stake between 10% and 15 %.

Industries: Software, Technology, Mobile, Web, Analytics, Cloud Computing

Startups Funded: Vaava

Contact: Website

Ventureast Fund Advisors India Limited 

It is India’s longest standing venture capital firm investing in innovative businesses across seed, early and growth stages.

People You Should Know: Sarath Naru, Ramesh Alur, Siddhartha Das

Investment Structure: Typically invest $1 million to $10 million in multiple rounds, in businesses that employ technology to solve real-world problems.

Industries: Internet of Things (IOT), Financial services, Consumer- driven & retail, Cleantech, Digital healthcare, Pharma & Life Sciences.

Trifecta Capital Partners 

It is a INR 300 Cr. venture debt fund which is expected to be closed in next three to six months. It is also technically India’s first venture debt fund.

People You Should Know: Rahul Khanna, Nilesh Kothari

Investment Structure: The fund will invest between INR 5-15 Cr. for 16-18% borrowing cost, compounded annually in firms that have already raised a first or second round of funding.

Industries: Technology, Consumer, Internet Space

Orios Venture Partners 

It’s a INR 300 Cr. and a 7-year, high-risk high-return fund, which is typical in early-stage investing. Software product startups are one of the key themes that Orios will be investing in.

People You Should Know: Rehan Yar Khan

Investment Structure: It invests INR 1-20 Cr. in a startup and intends to stay invested for seven years or more.

Industries: Not restricted to any particular segment, analytics, Big Data, software for mobile phones etc.

Startups Funded: Sapience Analysis, Ziffi

Contact: Email

Unilazer 

It is a Mumbai based private equity and venture fund specialising in early stage and late stage investments

People You Should Know:  Ronnie Screwvala

Investment Structure: N/A

Industries: Agriculture, Healthcare, Education, Ecommerce

Startups Funded: Maroosh, PIFA FC, Ektstop

Contact: Twitter

This is part of our special series, In Focus: Starting Up In India, in which we focus on the essentials every entrepreneur must know about starting up in India. Stay tuned for a comprehensive list of startup incubators in India coming later this week. 

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This article is part of our series on the essentials of starting up in India in which we had earlier compiled the Top 15 Accelerators, Top 20 Incubators, CoWorking spaces and Venture Capital firms in India.

Driven by the desire to change things the way they work, entrepreneurs strive to realise the true potential of their business ideas. But, lack of deep pockets and competition from bigger market players is something that kicks the startups out of their road to success. It is these initial times and hardships that startups need a backing. And, this is exactly where Angel Investors come into play.

Angel investors are usually experienced entrepreneurs who themselves have been through the same phase and the ones who understand what it takes to create a billion dollar company out of an Idea. With handsome amounts of money in their pockets and a will to trust others with their finances, these ‘Angels’ step in and provide the initial support and sometimes mentorship that helps startups successfully take over these crucial and challenging times.

As a part of our In Focus: Starting Up In India series, this time we bring to you comprehensive list of active angel investors in India.

Sunil Kalra

Sunil Kalra started his career in exports and later set up a leather apparel manufacturing unit which succeeded and gave him an opportunity to work with global designers. He is now a member on Indian Angel Network as an independent angel investor who has made quite significant investments in microfinance and analytics enterprise but has a bias towards internet startups. He invested in more than 12 startups in 2014 alone.

Educational Qualification: Graduated from University Of Texas at Austin in Marketing and International Trade(1984-1986)

Startups Invested In: TargetingMantra, Instamojo, CultureAlley, Aurality, AdPushup, Frrole, Mobilewalla, Druva, Jigsee, Innoveda, Airwoot, HashCube, Sapience, Wishberry, Crayon Data

Industries: Sector Agnostic

Sharad Sharma

Sharad was the CEO of Yahoo! India R&D before founding BrandSigma and was responsible for emerging markets engineering and several key global products. Sharad is an evangelist for developing technology product businesses in India and leads in efforts to nurture the ecosystem. He was the chair of the NASSCOM Product Forum and is the co-founder of the iSpirt think-tank. He actively mentors startups, and speaks frequently on industry issues.

Educational Qualification: Graduated from Delhi College Of Engineering in Electronic Engineering (1982-1986)

Startups Invested In: Frrole, Mobilewalla, HashCube, Druva Software, Kwench Library Solution, Vayavya Labs, Unbxd, Consure Medical, Aurus Network Infotech Pvt. Ltd

Industries: Consumer Internet, Mobile and SaaS

Rajan Anandan

Rajan Anandan has invested in a large number of startups. The Google India MD’s previous experiences include being a Managing Director at Microsoft India for 2 years and working for Dell India from 2006 to 2008. In 2014, he invested in more than 14 startups.

Educational Qualification: MSc. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering From Stanford University(1991-1992) and BSc. from Massachusetts Institute Of Technology(1987-1991)

Startups Invested In: StepOut, Capillary Technologies, Sourceeasy, 24/7 Techies,TargetingMantra, Instamojo, CultureAlley, Social Cops,MissMalini.com, Socialblood.org, Mobilewalla, POPxo.com

Industries: Internet, Mobile and Saas based startups

Krishnan Ganesh

Krishnan Ganesh is a business executive who is the Chief Executive Officer of TutorVista, an online tutoring company. He and his wife Meena Ganesh invest in around five startups a year and put in $25-250K in each of the startups.

Educational Qualifications: Graduated from Delhi College of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering(1977-1982) and did Post graduation from IIM-Calcutta in Management(1983-1985)

Startups Invested In: Must See India, SilverPush, HackerEarth, Oximity, Overcart, Browntape, delyver.com, Onlineprasad.com.

Industries: Consumer Internet, Healthcare, Education and Tech Companies

Meena Ganesh

Meena Ganesh is an entrepreneur and CEO of Portea Medical which is a provider of home healthcare services in India. The husband-wife duo has a midas touch which is evident in the four startups where they invested and then successfully exited as well as their angel investments which went on to raise subsequent VC rounds.

Educational Qualifications: Graduated from Women’s Christian College in Physics Hons.(1980-1983) and Post Graduated from IIM-Calcutta (1983-1985)

Startups Invested In: Must See India, SilverPush, HackerEarth, Oximity, Overcart, Browntape, delyver.com, onlineprasad.com.

Industries: Consumer Internet, Healthcare and SaaS

Ritesh Malik

Ritesh Malik is a doctor by profession but an investor, an Entrepreneur, an Angel Capitalist, a photographer…. you name it. He is driven by his zeal which made him venture into different sectors of business world. After working for 10 months at Ganga Ram hospital, he has not stopped till date. He founded Woodapple Hospitality and ThinkPot, and co-founded AdStuck Consulting and Harvin Academy. In 2014, he invested in about 8 startups.

Educational Qualifications: Did his MBBS from M.G.R. Medical University(2007-2012)

Startups Invested In: RHlvision, Mashinga, Asimov Robotics, SectorQube Technolabs, Bisko Labs, Inc42

Industries: Technology, Hardware

Nikunj Jain

This young fellow claims to understand consumer internet which is advocated by his two much talked about startups frankly.me and inoXapps. Frankly.me is a platform where questions from celebrites can be asked and they will reply via video. His first startup inoxapps develops games and apps for Android and has managed to rake in a large number of downloads. He invested in about 7 startups in 2014 alone.

Educational Qualifications: IIT-Delhi dropout in Textile Technology(2006-2010)

Startups Invested In: Gingr, Piquor, Agatsa, workouttrends.com, Inc42

Industries: Sector Agnostic

Anupam Mittal

Anupam Mittal is the founder and CEO of People Group which owns businesses such as online matrimonial service Shaadi.com, real-estate portal Makaan.com, mobile content and applications company Mauj Mobile and People Pictures. Known for his business acumen and an eye for detail, Mittal is an active angel investor with over 20 investments to date. In 2014 alone he invested in around 8-10 startups.

Educational Qualifications: Graduated from Boston College(1994-1997).

Startups Invested In: Tushky.com, Olacabs, PrettySecrets, Sapience, Druva Software, Zepo, Peelworks, Taxspanner, Cafe Zoe, Interactive Avenues

Industries: Clean Technology, Consumer Internet, Mobile, Healthcare and SaaS

Kunal Bahl

Kunal Bahl is the co-founder and CEO of Snapdeal.com, which is among India’s leading online marketplaces. He started at Jasper Infotech Ltd in 2007 with a seed amount of INR 40 lakh. After tweaking the business model half a dozen times, he came up with the marketplace model for Snapdeal.com and success followed.

Educational Qualifications: Graduated from Wharton School of Pennsylvania

Startups Invested In: Tripoto, Tiny Owl, Bewakoof, Gigstart, Olacabs, and Unicommerce

Industries:  Ecommerce and related sectors

Sachin Bansal

Sachin Bansal is the co-founder and CEO of Flipkart.com. He founded the company in 2007 which started as a humble online book store and later ventured into other product categories that proved to be a huge success in our developing country. Earlier, he used to work as a senior software engineer at Amazon, now the archrival of flipkart. Before this, he had worked at techspan as an associate for 5 months.

Educational Qualifications: Graduated From IIT-Delhi in Computer Science(2000-2005)

Startups Invested In: Ather, TouchTalent, Roposo, NewsInShorts, MadRat Games, Spoonjoy

Industries: Technology

Naveen Tewari

Naveen Tewari started mKhoj, a local mobile search firm but later pivoted to a mobile advertising network with a global model which is well known as InMobi. He is also the founder and chairman of India SchoolHouse Fund, a nonprofit enterprise that works to ensure effective delivery of education in poor rural areas of India. He didn’t stop at this and now he uses his spare time to mentor entrepreneurs and invest in startups.

Educational Qualifications: Graduated from I.I.T. Kanpur in Mechanical Engineering(1996-2000) and did his MBA from Harvard Business School in General Management(2003-2005)

Startups Invested In: tushky, moneysights, Mettl and LetsVenture

Industries: Internet and Mobile Businesses

Ravi Gururaj

Ravi Gururaj is a member of the  NASSCOM executive council. He recently launched a startup incubator called Frictionless Ventures which is an idea experimentation lab that picks up and incubates ‘ideas’ and ‘concepts’ in the cloud computing, mobility and big data space. He is a top executive at software firm Citrix Systems and also co-founded Harvard Business School Alumni Angels. He invested in about 8 startups in 2014.

Educational Qualifications: Graduated from University of Pennsylvania in Economics and Computer Science Engineering(1984-1989) and did his MBA from Harvard Business SChool(1998-1999)

Startups Invested In: GrexIt, Tookitaki, Socialblood.org, Graymatics, PrettySecrets, Gridcentric, Explara, Core Mobile, SyncUsUp, VMLogix, Aurus

Industries: Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software, Social Media, Cloud Computing and SaaS

Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the founder of One97 Communications. He made mobile payments familiar to every Indian because of its ease of use and security. Coming from a small town and a hindi medium background, he never let his problems stop him from innovating. He used to live on streets with less than 15 bucks in his pockets and had dreams worth millions which he certainly fulfilled. His energy, knowledge and passion made him bring revolution in telecom infrastructure.

Educational Qualifications: Graduated from Delhi College of Engineering in Electronics & Communications(1994-1998)

Startups Invested In: Sourceeasy, SilverPush, tushky.com, GrexIt, EduKart, Milaap Social Ventures, iimjobs,Dexetra, AirStream, Wishberg Inc, Signals

Industries: Sector Agnostic

Samir Bangara

Samir Bangara is the CEO and Co-founder of Qyuki.com which is a platform for artists to create content, connect with like-minded people and monetize their creations. He started his career in venture capital with IL&FS Venture corporation and moved on to being an investment banker with Ernst & Young. He joined Indiagames in 2005 as Chief Operating Officer and grew the company which led the sale of the company to The Walt Disney. He led the Disney group in India as Managing Director and left it to join Qyuki.com in 2013

Educational Qualifications: Graduated from University of Mumbai in Bachelor of Commerce and Finance (1993-1995)

Startups Invested In: tushky.com, Overcart, ZAPR, Pokkt, Playblazer, Thrill

Industries: Consumer Internet, Social Games and Development Platforms

Abhishek Rungta

Abhishek Rungta is founder and CEO at Indus Net Technologies, a web development and digital marketing company. He started this company with 50 bucks and now has an annual turnover of INR 40 Cr. Started at a very young age of 19, this commerce student had an interest in technology which made him a frequent visitor of tech expos where he rented a stall and his journey started from there. He has never looked back since then.

Educational Qualifications: Graduated from St. Xavier’s College in Bachelor of Commerce(1996-1999) and did his post graduation from University of Bath in Multimedia Technology(1999-2000)

Startups Invested In: Plivo, iimjobs, Azoi Inc., iDubba, Secpanel, Shopo.in, Letsventure, Eduora, CapricornGifting, CarSingh

Industries: Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software, Digital Media, Advertising and SaaS

Pallav Nadhani

Pallav Nadhani is the co-founder and CEO of Fusion Charts and RazorFlow and CEO at Collabion, seemingly a serial multi-tasker. He started this company in 2001 at the age of 16 from his bedroom as he found himself dissatisfied with Microsoft Excel’s charting capability while completing his high school assignments. The company is a service provider of data visualization products and owing to its success it was included in NASSCOM EMERGE 50 leaders in 2009.

Educational Qualifications: Graduated from University of Calcutta in Bachelor of Commerce(2002-2005) and Post Graduated from University of Edinburgh in Computer Science(2007-2008)

Startups Invested In: Plivo, Azoi Inc., iDubba, Shopo.in, Eduora, CarSingh, CapricornGifting, Cropex, Eduora Technologies.

Industries: Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing and Ecommerce

Aloke Bajpai

Aloke Bajpai is the CEO and co-founder of ixigo.com which he founded because of his love of travel, history and culture. He started his career at Amadeus in Europe, where he was part of the team that built the world’s first web-based travel agency booking tools. He is a guy who loves to do everything and travelling across the globe made him a big time foodie. His love for  Internet products and Croissants has never ebbed since then.

Educational Qualifications: Graduated from IIT Kanpur in Electrical Engineering (1997-2001) and did his MBA from INSEAD (2004-2005)

Startups Invested In: Sourceeasy, SilverPush, HackerEarth, Overcart, Little Eye Labs,iimjobs, Azoi Inc., Autowale, PlayCez, BlueGape, Pokkt, Dogspot.in

Industries: Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software, Mobile and Ecommerce

Bhupen Shah

Bhupen Shah is the co-founder and CTO of Sling Media which is a technology company that develops place shifting and Smart TV solutions for consumers and set top box manufacturers. Prior to Sling Media, he co-founded Emuzed Inc. which was focused on mobile multimedia. Furthermore, he was the VP of Product and Technology at RealChip Communications. He also worked at Philips, IBM among others.

Educational Qualifications: Graduated from University of Michigan in Computer Engineering (1979-1981)

Startups Invested In: Sift, Doublie, Shoe Lovers, Giraffic, CultureAlley, Woxi Media,Whodini, PowWow, Hachi, Frrole, Vapore, Vuemix, Qikwell, Tydy,GoHachi.com, Snap-Networks

Industries: Invests in Online Startups

Zishaan Hayath

Zishaan Hayath is a tech entrepreneur from Mumbai and co-founder of Toppr.com. He also runs an angel investment club called Powai Lake Ventures. Prior to this, he co-founded Chaupaati, a phone commerce marketplace, that was acquired by Future Bazaar. Earlier, he worked with management consulting firm Opera Solutions in Delhi and New York and FMCG major ITC Ltd in Bangalore.

Educational Qualifications: Graduated from IIT Bombay (2000-2004)

Startups Invested In: Olacabs, AdPushup, Housing.com, SquadRun, Shopsense

Industries: Ecommerce, Travel, Mobile, Real Estate and Education

Manish Singhal

Manish Singhal was the founding member at LetsVenture, which is an online platform for startups to raise early stage investment. He is a serial entrepreneur and an angel investor. He is also an active mentor on the CIIE Mentor Edge Panel, Startup Village and Venture Labs. Before starting LetsVenture, he spent years at Motorola as its project manager. He joined Ittiam & Sling Media in their initial stages and helped build world-class products.

Educational Qualifications: Graduated from IIT Kanpur in Electrical Engineering (1988-1992)

Startups Invested In: AdPushup, Freshersworld, Apartment Adda, FlipClass, AdSpark, Frrole, Ecosenseworld, India College Search.

Industries: Education, Consumer Internet and Enterprise Software

Sanjay Mehta

Sanjay Mehta is co-founder and CEO of MAIA which is a business intelligence firm and is a well known name in entrepreneur circles. This is Mehta’s third venture; his first venture Bespoke Software Consultancy was a successful business in software but later ventured into other areas when he realised it was not scalable beyond a point. He also founded app development firm Globalware System & Software Solutions and steel trading exchange firm ispatudyog.com. He is an investor member with Mumbai Angels and Venture Nursery.

Educational Qualifications: Graduated from Shah & Anchor in Electronics (1988-1993) and is an alumnus of Indian School of Business

Startups Invested In: OYO Rooms, PrettySecrets, Klip.in, Talview, Unbxd, OrangeScape, Consure Medical, FabAlley, EcoSense Sustainable Solutions, Poncho.in

Industries: Clean Technology, Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software and HealthCare

Indus Khaitan

Indus Khaitan is a senior director at Oracle. He exited his co-founded company Blitzer Mobile in late 2013. Previously he was a part of the seed accelerator The Morpheus where he got hands-on experience in starting companies, product development, technology evangelism and marketing & sales. Prior to Morpheus, he was the CTO of SezWho Inc., a social media infrastructure tools startup. He has held senior management and technology positions at Symantec, Outride (acquired by Google), Guru Worldwide, Mindware/NEC and VeriFone.

Educational Qualifications: Graduated from Birla Institute of Technology in Computer Science(1992-1996)

Startups Invested In: bounce.io, CirroSecure, Interviewstreet, Sourceeasy, GrexIt, 99tests, Emo2, Practo, Sarga Eco-Fabrics, Phitesla

Industries: Mobile, Ecommerce, HealthCare, Information Technology and SaaS

Anirudh Damani

Anirudh Damani is the owner of Artha Energy Resources which is an advisory firm that is focused on bringing new investment into the renewable power generation industry in India. The company has successfully added over 2Bn kWh worth of energy. He also co-founded Pioneer Energy Resources and exited it in 2012.

Educational Qualifications: Graduated from Austin College in Economics and Business Administration (2001-2005)

Startups Invested In: InVenture, OYO Rooms, Mobilewalla, Exotel, Rolocule Games, Klip.in, Paletly, Carveniche Technologies, Maximojo, purplle.com, NowFloats

Industries: Clean Technology, Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software and B2B

Vikas Taneja

Vikas Taneja is a partner and  managing director with Boston Consulting Group and a leader in BCG’s technology, media and telecommunications practice. Earlier, he worked with the Information Technology Group of McKinsey & Co and as a venture capital associate with Arch Development Corporation where he was involved in assessing and funding early-stage organisations.

Educational Qualifications: Did his MBA with Honours in Economics and Finance from University of  Chicago and received his Bachelors from Stanford University in Computer Systems Engineering.

Startups Invested In: Rapportive, PubNub, Disconnect, Founders Co-op, Coderbuddy, 500 Startups, Modria, Mashery, Refinery29, Inside Social

Industries: Analytics, Social Media, Information Technology and Clean Technology

Ajeet Khurana

Ajeet Khurana is the CEO of IIT Bombay’s SINE from past 5 months. He was a Member of the Board of Directors of Carve Niche Technologies. An active member of Mumbai Angels and also a lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, he is known for overcoming financial and operational challenges of running education business networks and can wear the investor’s shoes as well as the entrepreneur’s hat. He is known to invest about ten thousand dollars in eight startups every year.

Educational Qualifications: Graduated from University of Mumbai in Computer Engineering(1987-1991) and did his MBA from University of Texas at Austin in Business(1991-1993)

Startups Invested In: Rolocule Games, ShepHertz, Avaz, Carveniche Technologies, Maximojo, United Mobile Apps, Karmic Lifesciences, Carve Niche Technologies Pvt. Ltd., PickMe eSolutions

Industries: Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software, Ecommerce and Education

Anand Ladsariya

Anand Ladsariya is the CEO of Everest Flavours Ltd. . He is also involved in various social activities. He is ex-Chairman of CHEMEXCIL, an export promotion organisation established by Ministry of Commerce. Being an active Angel Investor with both Mumbai Angels and Indian Angel Network, he has invested in over 35 startups till date and actively mentors and guides the promoters to reach the next level. He is also a part of the  “Committee on Angel Investment and Early Stage Venture Capital” which is guided by the Vice Chairman of Planning Commission.

Educational Qualifications:  Graduated from Bombay University and did his MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad.

Startups Invested In: Traffline, Exclusively.in, Aurality, Dexl, Speakwell, Framebench, Serial Innovation, Asiatic, Morpheus Tritya, Mobiquest, Algorhythm

Industries: Location Based Services, Customer Support Tools, Content Discovery and Web Design

Utsav Somani

Utsav is a young tech and startup enthusiast. He is currently working in his family business and looking after it’s African expansion. He is looking out for new opportunities in Consumer Internet, Robotics, Fin & Edu-tech, Pharma, FMCG & Hi-tech Manufacturing. Startups with high-growth potential, driven by a dedicated team, addressing under-captured market excite him.

Educational Qualifications: Bachelors degree in Information Systems Management from Singapore Management University and a Masters in Innovation & Entrepreneurship from ESADE Business School Barcelona.

Startups Invested In: Testbook, AdpushUp, Zippr, FabBag & Shephertz.

Industries: Consumer Internet, Robotics, Fin & Edu-tech, Pharma, FMCG & Hi-tech Manufacturing.

Steven Sule

Steven Sule is currently a partner at Naste Advisors, a Mumbai-based advisory firm. Prior to this, he worked as an associate Vice President at Euromax Capital. He started his career as an analyst at Yes Bank and went to London in 2011 where he worked in the same profile but at a larger scale.

Educational Qualifications: Graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in Finance(2000-2004) and did his post graduation from Cass Business School in Banking & International Finance(2010-2010)

Startups Invested In: AdPushup, Kwench Library Solution, POSist, Aureus Analytics

Industries: Clean Technology, Consumer Internet & Enterprise Software

Arun Venkatachalam

Arun Venkatachalam is the head of strategy & business development at Murugappa Group, a business conglomerate which is owned and run by Murugappa family. Arun always had an eye for witnessing cataclysmic events related to business which landed him first at Axis Capital where he worked as an analyst. Later, he worked at Lazard as an analyst in Mergers & Acquisitions which made him realise his inner calling and he went on to join the family business.

Educational Qualifications: Graduated from Lancaster University in Business Studies(2007-2010)

Startups Invested In: Zoom, AdPushup, POSist, Aureus Analytics, Yourbus, Ridgecrest Asia

Industries: Consumer Internet, Health Care, SaaS and Enterprise Software

Sandeep Goenka

Sandeep Goenka is the co-founder and Jt-CEO of Zebpay, which is a Bitcoin mobile wallet that enables bitcoin transactions using mobile number without any hassles. He started the company with the aim of making bitcoin transactions as easy as instant messaging. He is also an active member of Indian Angel Network. He also co-founded Blynk Systems. All his jobs strengthened his inclination towards technology and software which puts him in an apt position as to where he is now.

Educational Qualifications: Graduated from NMIMS in Commerce(1994-1996) and also has an Engineering Degree from De Montfort University(1996-1998). He did his MBA from SP Jain Institute of Management in Entrepreneurial Studies.

Startups Invested In: Fab Bag, Wishberry, Aureus Analytics, POSist

Industries: Consumer Internet, Big Data and SaaS

Subhinder Khurana

Subhinder Khurana is the founder and CEO of  Bank Smarts Solutions, which enables banks to plan, manage and analyze cash logistics for optimal cost and customer service.

Previously, he started marketRx India, before it was acquired by Cognizant in a $135Mn transaction in 2007. He served as VP at Cognizant for 4 years. Before joining the VC industry, he was the founder and CTO of EZPower systems, which was acquired in 1998 by Oracle.

Educational Qualifications: Graduated from IIT Delhi in Electrical Engineering(1983-1987) and did his MBA from A.B. Freeman School of Business(1987-1989)

Startups Invested In: He has advised/mentored several startups including Druva Software, JustMyNeighbour, Authbridge, and Power2SME. He was also managing investments for the first early stage fund in India, Infinity, which created companies like IndiaBulls, India Games and Avendus.

Industries: Consumer Internet

Ajay Lavakare

Ajay Lavakare serves as Managing Director of Risk Management Solutions. He co founded RMSI Private Limited in 1992 and served as its Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board. He also served as Senior Vice President of RMS Data Solutions at Risk Management Solutions Inc. Prior to co-founding RMSI, he worked for two years as a software engineer with Kumagai Gumi Co. Ltd., in the company’s Information Systems division and in its Overseas Construction Contract Management division..

Educational Qualifications: Graduation from IIT Delhi in Civil Engineering(1983-1987) and has an MS from Stanford University in Structural Engineering(1987-1989)

Startups Invested In: InnovAccer

Industries: Big Data Analytics

Bhanu Chopra

Bhanu Chopra started his career at Deloitte Consulting serving several Fortune 500 companies in Chicago. He is currently the CEO of RateGain, a company he founded in 2004. Prior to setting up RateGain, he co-founded Riv Consulting. He started RateGain in response to the increasing popularity of Online travel agencies like Expedia and Orbitz in the west, when he identified the business need of these OTAs to compare rates across their competitor websites.

Educational Qualifications: Has a double bachelors degree in Computer Science and Finance from Indiana University

Startups Invested In: Interview Master, HotelsAroundYou, Mozio

Industries: Travel Technology, Big Data Analytics and Cloud Computing

Girish Mathrubootham

Girish Mathrubootham is founder and CEO of Freshdesk which is a cloud-based customer support platform that enables companies to provide customer service. The company was inspired from a comment on a Hacker News Post in 2010 which made him leave his job at AdventNet where he worked for 9 years.

Educational Qualifications: Did his Engineering in Electronics from Shanmugha Research Academy(1992-1996) and MBA from University of Madras in Marketing(1996-1998).

Startups Invested In: ChargeBee, Kaalibi Technologies, Turing Research, ShieldSquare and Advises Niche Video Media, NicheTrainings, germ.io, Flourish, Frilp

Industries: Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software and SaaS

Amit Somani

Amit Somani is an Advisory Board Member and Chief Products Officer for MakeMyTrip, heading the online product portfolio along with User Experience and Content. He has worked with Google and IBM where he was the head of Mobile Products for Google in Asia-Pacific region and Director for the Enterprise Search and Discovery business at IBM based out of California.

Educational Qualifications: Graduated from IIT Varanasi in Computer Science(1989-1993) Engineering and did his MS in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin(1993-1995)

Startups Invested In: Advises Phone Warrior Inc, Qikwell Technologies India, MindTickle, HotelTravel.com and Ixigo.com

Industries: Consumer Internet and Mobile Companies

Niraj Singh

Niraj is the founder of OutBox Ventures and an active angel investor. In his previous role Niraj founded and sold Locus Educational Pvt. Ltd.

Educational Qualifications: IIT Delhi Passout (2007)

Startups Invested In: ShaadiSaga, Tripoto, Grownout and others

Industries: Consumer Internet

Vivek Bihani

Vivek Bihani is the CEO at Bedrock Ventures. Earlier, he worked at ICICI Ventures which included generating deal flow, evaluating business plans, structuring deals and making equity investments; adding value to investments by helping investee companies recruit senior executives. As an entrepreneur, he has helped drive the growth at Magic Software Private Limited, an eLearning company that helps global publishers build education software products.

Educational Qualifications: Graduated from Birla Institute of Technology and Science in Chemical Engineering(1983-1987) and did his MBA from IIM-Bangalore in Business Management(1990-1992)

Startups Invested In: MyRefers, Nearify

Industries: Mobile

Ankur Warikoo

Ankur is the Head of Groupon India and an angel Investor in Internet and Technology Startups. He was also co-founder at Accentium Web (Gaadi.com SecondShaadi.com)

Educational Qualifications: MBA Graduate from the Indian School of Business and Master’s of Science from Michigan State University

Startups Invested In: Targeting Mantra, Limetray among others.

Industries: Internet and Technology Startups

This list is compiled on the basis of the details of the investments and investors that were publicly available and that surfaced in our research. We will keep on updating this lists with more investors as we get inputs from the ecosystem.

If we missed out on any, do let us know in the comments below.

We’ll keep adding more to this list

This is part of our special series, In Focus: Starting Up In India, in which we focus on the essentials every entrepreneur must know about starting up in India. Stay tuned for a comprehensive list of startup incubators in India coming later this week. 

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With India being in the top five startup nations in the world and the Government pushing all the right buttons towards fostering an ecosystem that boosts entrepreneurial growth, the organisations meant to support startups, called incubators occupy a central space in today’s digital economy. Startup incubators are essentially organisations that promote the speedy growth and […]

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Coworking spaces – a more evolved concept in the west, are now a popular trend in the Indian startup community. The idea of an open, communicative, barrier-less office culture is finally catching up on this side of the economic ecosystem as well. It is also playing an important role in building community of like-minded people, […]

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“It’s almost always harder to raise capital than you thought it would be, and it always takes longer. So plan for that.” – Richard Harroch, Venture Capitalist and Author. A startup founder is versatile – he is an accountant, a marketer, a writer, an event organiser, a strategist, a planner and more. While the entrepreneur […]

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Startup Incubators in India are proving to be a boon to the startup ecosystem. With India being in the top five startup nations in the world and the Government pushing all the right buttons towards fostering an ecosystem that boosts entrepreneurial growth, the organisations meant to support startups, called startup incubators occupy a central space […]

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Coworking spaces – a more evolved concept in the west, are now a popular trend in the Indian startup community. The idea of an open, communicative, barrier-less office culture is finally catching up on this side of the economic ecosystem as well. It is also playing an important role in building community of like-minded people, […]

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indys“It’s almost always harder to raise capital than you thought it would be, and it always takes longer. So plan for that.” – Richard Harroch, Venture Capitalist and Author. A startup founder is versatile – he is an accountant, a marketer, a writer, an event organiser, a strategist, a planner and more. While the entrepreneur […]

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The Indian government has introduced over 50+ startup schemes in past few years. Each startup scheme is missioned towards boosting the Indian startup ecosystem. Consider this. Close to 4,400 technology startups exist in India and the number is expected to reach over 12,000 by 2020. India is also at third place behind US and Britain […]

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History is fundamentally a narrative of innovation, be it the invention of the wheel or the creation of computers. Innovation is the lifeforce of the ongoing global technological revolution. It drives economic growth and progress. In the words of Harold S. Geneen, innovation is also one of the five essential skills for entrepreneurial success. In […]

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SIDBI, the apex financial institution in the country for the MSME sector has, so far, contributed to the corpus of 88 venture capital funds which have catalysed the investment of more than $873 Mn (INR 5,600 Cr) to more than 472 MSMEs. Another interesting point is that the SIDBI’s venture capital arm, i.e., SIDBI Venture Capital […]

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The Indian government has introduced over 50+ startup schemes in past few years. Each startup scheme is missioned towards boosting the Indian startup ecosystem. Consider this. Close to 4,400 technology startups exist in India and the number is expected to reach over 12,000 by 2020. India is also at third place behind US and Britain […]

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History is fundamentally a narrative of innovation, be it the invention of the wheel or the creation of computers. Innovation is the lifeforce of the ongoing global technological revolution. It drives economic growth and progress. In the words of Harold S. Geneen, innovation is also one of the five essential skills for entrepreneurial success. In […]

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SIDBI, the apex financial institution in the country for the MSME sector has, so far, contributed to the corpus of 88 venture capital funds which have catalysed the investment of more than $873 Mn (INR 5,600 Cr) to more than 472 MSMEs. Another interesting point is that the SIDBI’s venture capital arm, i.e., SIDBI Venture Capital […]

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As part of our new series on the essentials of starting up in India, we’ve compiled a comprehensive list of the top 15 most active startup accelerators in India along with their typical funding ranges, equity terms and focus areas.

Catalyzer

Location – Hyderabad

Founded In – 2014

Focus Area – Technology, Brick & Mortar, Social Enterprises and Non Profits.

Catalyzer Startup Accelerator Program is a 101 days mentorship driven entrepreneurship cohort accelerator program for startups. Twice each year, it select up to 12 startup teams (or individuals) and help them navigate the crucial first stage. Selected startups receive financial support in the form of pre-seed capital, work space, IT facilities and other resources.

Funding – INR 5 – 10 lakhs on 7 – 12% equity

Notable Startups – Not yet

Reach Out – Sunil Mayreddy

Freemont Partners

Location – Mumbai

Founded In – 2012

Focus Area – Mobile, Internet & Cloud

Freemont is India’s first Global accelerator and incubator,  which provides seed funding to entrepreneurs focused on technology driven startups. It provides mentorship, strategic direction and access to local/global mentors and partners.

Funding – Seed capital of up to INR 50 Lakhs

Notable Startups – Natural Mantra

Reach Out – Vivek Mohan

GSF Accelerator

Location – Gurgaon

Founded In – 2012

Focus Area – Internet and Mobile

GSF Global Accelerator is a 13 week program, it aims to provide select startups with unparalleled access to venture and business networks, personalized & intensive mentoring, and initial capital. GSF Accelerator is designed to help product-oriented startups.

Funding – $25k – 30K for 5 – 8% equity

Notable Startups – Pokkt, Silverpush, Playcez, Little Eye Labs, Browntape

Reach Out – Rajesh Sawhney

Health Start

Location – Hyderabad

Founded In – 2014

Focus Area – Healthcare

It is India’s first accelerator program dedicated to supporting startups in healthcare industry through funding, mentorship and other requisite support. It is launched by HealthStart & ISB’s human centered design-focused incubator, DLabs. Its a 20 week program providing selected startups with investment capital to develop their ideas further.

Funding – $100k

Notable Startups – Not yet

Reach Out – Pradeep K Jaisingh

iAccelerator

(Not operational as of now)

Location – Ahmedabad

Founded In – 2009

Focus Area – Data analytics, software, mobile, education etc.

iAccelerator is a 3- month, mentorship based, intensive residential program for Internet & Mobile startups at CIIE- IIM Ahmedabad.

Funding – INR 500k for 3-12% equity

Notable Startups – Innoz, Griddle, Rideshare, Tookitaki

Reach Out – Info not available

Kyron Accelerator

Location – Bangalore

Founded In – 2012

Focus Area – Web and Apps

Kyron has introduced a new concept of pre-accelerator, which will admit about 20-25 startups. Such startups will be put through a six-month incubation period after which Kyron handpick the companies for its accelerator batches.

Funding – upto $20k for 5 – 10% equity

Notable Startups – Dronna, Scandid

Reach Out – Vikram Ahuja

Microsoft Accelerator

Location – Bangalore

Founded In – 2012

Focus Area – Cloud, Internet and Mobile using Microsoft technologies

Focused towards promising early-stage startups or first-time entrepreneurs, Microsoft Accelerator runs program of 4 months, starting in January and July every year. , selected startups get strong mentoring, technical guidance and connections to other startups.

Funding – N/A

Notable Startups – Explara, Frrole, Nowfloats, Plustxt

Reach Out –Mukund Mohan & Rajinish Menon

Target Accelerator

Location – Bangalore

Founded In – 2014

Focus Area –  Marketing, Omnichannel, Mobile, Big Data analytics and Merchandising and Supply Chain Technologies.

Target Accelerator Program is a 16 week intensive, high touch, immersive and development-oriented program, specially curated for upto five technology startups focused on transforming the global retail industry through innovative and disruptive technologies.

Funding –  $30,000

Notable Startups – Unbxd, muHive, Konotor

Reach Out –Navneet Kapoor

TLabs Accelerator

Location – Noida

Founded In – 2012

Focus Area – Internet & Mobile Startups

TLabs, an initiative by Times Internet, is a startup accelerator and early stage seed-fund in India for internet and mobile technology startups. Powered by a panel of 70+ mentors – that includes highly-experienced entrepreneurs and industry professionals, TLabs runs a structured and highly intensive four-month mentoring program for these startups. It also offers a funding of INR 10 Lakh, a co-working space and a host of other benefits from prominent tech partners, to the startups it accepts in the program.

Funding – INR 10 Lakh against 10% Equity

Notable Startups – Dataweave, Musicfellas, Bluegape, Gradestack, Langhar, News in Shorts

Reach Out – Abhishek Gupta, Abhimanyu Godara

The Morpheus

(Not Operational as of now)

Founded In – 2008

Focus Area – Open for startups in all domains

Before Morpheus had followed a format where it use to provide 4 months intensive engagement / 5 L INR investment and lifetime support. But recently, it has changed the model and as brought in a new / fresh / better way of supporting young startups, where it will start engagement with a startup at a time when the startup and the Morpheus is mutually ready, anytime of the year; for as long as our support is relevant for them.

Before it use to focus on startups in the early stage i.e. 0-2 years, not it has started focusing on startups in later stage i.e. 2-5 years / 5-10 years & across other categories.

Funding – No information available as per the new format

Notable Startups – Akosha, Zepo, Commonfloor, CloudEngine

Reach Out –Sameer Guglani & Nandini Hirianniah

The Startup Centre

Location – Chennai

Founded In – 2011

The helps the startups with Business Model Brainstorming, Growth Hacking Strategies, Setting up the Advisory Board and Market Validation, a small amount of Funding and an awesome set of Mentors.

Focus Area – Tech

Funding – INR 10 Lakh

Notable Startups – Eventifier

Reach Out –Vijay Anand

Venture Nursery

Location – Mumbai

Founded In – 2012

Focus Area – Media & Entertainment, Retail, e-Commerce, Consumer Technology, Education and CleanTech.

It is India’s first angel-backed startup accelerator. VN’s acceleration program aims at improving the success probability of the startups and funding for series A. The Acceleration Program offers three months focused Business Acceleration program aimed at enhancing the probability of success of the startup. It works on a hybrid model which includes Acceleration Program as well as ParallelTrack process of acceleration.

Funding – Upto 50 Lakhs

Notable Startups – Oravel, Klip, InterviewMaster

Reach Out – Apoorv Ranjan Sharma

ZoneStartups

Location – Mumbai

Founded In – Launched in India in 2014

Focus Area – Mobile, internet and digital media startups across verticals like consumer, enterprise and social

It is the first Canadian-led accelerator in India, a joint venture between the Bombay Stock Exchange Institute Ltd., (BIL), Ryerson University of Toronto, Canada, Ryerson Futures Inc. (RFI), and Simon Fraser University.  It offers State of art infrastructure for 4-6 months and access to mentors – functional experts, business advisors & industry guru’s to the startups.

Funding – Funding opportunity of $50k – $750k

Notable Startups – Sismatik, Nimble

Reach Out – Ajay Ramasubramaniam

5Ideas

Location – Gurgaon

Founded In – 2012

Focus Area – Internet and mobile; niche ecommerce, B2B/SME focused SAAS, intersection of mobile & geo, education, urban parenting, big data and ad tech

It is a seed fund cum accelerator for early stage digital businesses offering unique blend of human, financial and social capital. It collaborates with startups for 6 to 12 months.

Funding – INR 50 lakh to2.5 Cr. for 15 – 30% equity

Notable Startups – Kartrocket

Reach Out –Pearl Uppal & Gaurav Kachru

500 Startups

Location – Mountain View, San Francisco, and Mexico City

Founded In – 2010

Focus Area – Open for all domains

Founded by Dave McClure famous angel investor from Silicon Valley, 500 Startups run 4 – month accelerator. It’s like a Startup MBA on steroids providing startups access to a network of 1000+ founders, 200+ mentors, and its staff for guidance and mentorship

Funding – It invests $100k in exchange for 7%, and charge a $25K program fee for a net $75K investment. (Mountain View & San Francisco). And $40k in exchange for 10%, and charge a $12K program fee for a net $28K investment.

Notable Startups – Pricebaba, Tushky, Thinknum

Reach Out –Pankaj Jain

Though not an Indian accelerator, but 500 Startups is quite active in the Indian startup space and has accelerated and invested in a good number of Indian startups over the past 2 years.

This is part of our special series, In Focus: Starting Up In India, in which we focus on the essentials every entrepreneur must know about starting up in India. Stay tuned for a comprehensive list of startup incubators in India coming later this week. 

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As part of our new series on the essentials of starting up in India, last week we compiled the Top 15 Accelerators in India. This week we bring to you a comprehensive list of the top 20 most active startup incubators in India along with their typical funding ranges, services offered and focus areas.

Amity Innovation Incubator

The Amity Innovation Incubator is a pioneering concept in the context of Indian Universities. Supported by DST, Ministry of Science & Technology, GOI, ‘Amity Innovation Incubator ‘ has in a very short time of its existence earned an enviable position for itself with start-ups which have regularly been on top of the innovation curve and have been recognized on platforms like ‘The Power of ideas’, Read Herring Global winner, Tata NEN and NASSCOM Innovation Awards to name a few.

Location: Noida

Founded In: 2008

Focus Area: Rural Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, Information and communication Technologies (to include Social media and ecommerce, Mobile computing and technologies, Analytics, Cloud computing and Big Data), Education and Education Technologies, Food and allied Technologies, Biotechnology and Life Sciences, Nanotechnology and Material Sciences.

Funding: Upto INR 1 Cr

Notable Startups: ApnaCircle.com, Anduril Technologies

Reach Out: Ojasvi Babber

AngelPrime

Location: BengaluruAngelPrime is focussed on startups in the middle that need seed capital, it invest in not more than 3-4 companies a year.

Founded In: 2011

Focus Area: Mobile internet, ecommerce and tablet/mobile app

Funding: USD 200K- 600K         

Notable Startups: Ezetap, HackerEarth

Reach Out: Bala Parathasarathy

CIIE IIMA

Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship was setup by IIM Ahmedabad with support from the Government of India and Gujarat Government and operates through an autonomous not-for-profit entity. CIIE comprises of IIMA faculty, alumni and other individuals and partners with like-minded organisations to foster entrepreneurship through incubation, ecosystem development and academic initiatives.

Location: Ahmedabad

Founded In: It was founded as a research institute in 2002 and was turned into a full-fledged incubation centre in 2007.

Focus Area: Information Communication Technology, Cleantech and Social

Funding: INR 20 lakhs

Notable Startups: Travelyaari, Innoz, Thrillophilia

Reach Out: Kunal Upadhyay

IAN Incubator

Established from the support of National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board(NSTEDB), Department of Science & Technology(DST), Govt. of India. The incubator helps entrepreneurs to convert their ideas in becoming successful and profitable ventures by supporting them in business planning, mentoring, recruiting their top team, commercializing their technologies, developing their products, getting early seed funding, help in forging partnerships at the national and global level, advice on intellectual property, training and development and many other things. IAN is reputed for its huge network of successful entrepreneurs, domain experts, academicians and experienced professionals.

Location: Delhi

Founded In: N/A

Focus Area: IT/ITES, Telecom, Mobile VAS, Gaming and Animation, Internet/Web, Media and Entertainment,  Education technology,  Healthcare technology, Manufacturing Products, Alternative Energy, Clean Technology, Cloud computing, Retail technology

Funding: It provides support in getting seed-funding or securing loans from various sources such as Govt. grants, angel investors, seed & early stage funds and other sources

Notable Startups:  IndiaCollegeSearch, Mukunda Foods, Skill Boost

Reach Out: Padmaja Ruparel

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As part of our new series on the essentials of starting up in India, we have already compiled the Top 15 Accelerators & Top 20 Incubators in India. This week we bring to you a comprehensive list of the top 28 most active startup coworking spaces in India along with the services offered and commercials involved. 

91 Springboard

Location: Delhi, Gurgaon

Facilities: Internet, Comfortable workspace, Conference rooms, Photocopy/print/scan, Network with startup community, Free or discounted access to events, Access to a mentor network, projector and screen, Freebies from partners, Tea, coffee, and water.

Capacity: 100-150 in each facility i.e. Delhi & Gurgaon. Thus, total of 250-300.

Pricing: INR 10999 for unlimited 24×7 desk time at either location, INR 7499 for full time and INR 4499 for part time. The cost of each full time member drops from INR 7499 to INR 5499 from the fourth member onwards.

Timings: 24/7

Contact: Mail

9JCM

9JCM primarily for very early stage startups with single or 1-2 member teams who have just started up and are looking for an alternative space to work out from rather than home or a coffee shop. Most folks come and work for a few months before moving to their own office.

Location: Gurgaon

Facilities: Workspace including high speed internet, 100% power back, ample parking and basic pantry services

Capacity: We can accommodate 3 -4 startups with small 1 -3 member teams

Pricing: INR 5500 per person / per month

Timings: 9:30 am to 6: 30 pm ( Mon to Fri )

Contact: Mail

Bangalore Alpha Lab

Bangalore Alpha Lab is a vibrant community of entrepreneurs coming together to interact and communicate ideas while they launch their startups at BAL Space. The culture has been carefully cultivated to create an environment where members keep each other inspired, motivated and help each other to move forward!

Location: JP Nagar and Kormangala, Bangalore

Facilities:Wifi connectivity, Flexible Seating, Mail Box Services, Confernce Room – 2 hours FREE per week per team, Additional hours will be charged @ INR 125/hour, Tea / Coffee*, Cupboard / Storage*, Scanning / Print Out.

Capacity: N/A

Pricing:

Full Member – INR 4,000/Month

Guest Access – INR 1,000/Month (5 days)

Virtual Member – INR 1,000/Month

Day Pass – INR 250/Day

Timings: N/A

Contact: Mail

Bangalore Coworking Hub

Bangalore Coworking Hub offers a range of facilities and services to suit the needs of its discerning clients. It serves startups, freelancers, independent workers, consultants and emerging businesses seeking to help each other succeed. It aims to improve the lives and productivity of independent workers by providing a great platform for networking and collaboration.

Location: HAL 3rd Stage, Bangalore

Facilities: Ready-to-use plug and play shared and virtual office space with flexible office configurations for business of different sizes, Professional, ergonomic workstation furniture, Pantry facilities with tea, coffee, snacks and meal (North Indian/ South Indian) available at minimal charge, High-speed internet connectivity, Power backup for up to two hours for your desktops and laptops, Employee parking space, Daily cleaning services of the office and common areas, Inbound and outbound mail/package handling

Pricing:

Full Membership/ Monthly  Pass (INR 3,800 Per Month)

Part-Time Membership/ 6-Week-Days Per Month(INR 1,500 Per Month)

Daily Pass (INR 250 Per Day)

Timings: Mon – Sun: 8:00 am – 9:00 pm

Contact:  Mail or call at +91-9964483636/ 080-41511115

Bombay Connect

Bombay Connect provides a collaborative & affordable work space where individuals, teams and start-ups can work from, learn, meet peers and be inspired to act creatively. Its member gets access to a network of like-minded co-workers, an online network and a programme of events to help you connect with the people around.

Location: Bandra, Mumbai

Facilities: Members get access to workstations and shared infrastructure like meetings rooms, inter-net and printers , (b) a team of hosts trained to pro-actively match members with relevant resources and (c) a set of events designed to accelerate the growth of the members and that of their idea/ventures. Other key services include a creative co working space that is affordable, flexible and blends the best of an office, a café and a home, A vibrant community of diverse and inspiring peers, Personalized connections that facilitate access to money, talent, skills and infrastructure, Strategic exposure within media and wider networks

Pricing: Mainstream Business: INR 9,000/Month, INR 5,000 for 150 hours, INR 1500/quarter, INR900/day

Social Enterprises: INR 8300/Month, INR 4500 for 150 hours, INR 1500/quarter, INR 999/day

Timings: Mon – Fri: 9:00 am – 8:00 pm; Sat: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Contact: Mail

Cobalt BLR

Cobalt BLR is a flexible meeting & co-working space that puts serendipity @ work! calls itself a business shelter.

Location: ChurchStreet, Bangalore

Facilities: The 3,000 sq feet space has been broken up into six separate and flexible zones, each of which provides a different kind of environment depending on the users’ need. For instance, there is the `quiet space’, a small hall with individual workstations and private desks; a private office for a team of 5-6 people; an open space where individuals can rent a dedicated desk with wifi and unlimited coffee/tea; and meet.

Capacity: 70 seats

Pricing: N/A

Timings: Mon – Sat: 9:00 am – 7:00 pm

Contact: Mail Or call at 080 6569 1530

CoWork Cafe

CoWork Cafe provides calm, inspiring, ready to use workspace that has everything else needed to grow your venture and be successful, including super fast Internet, conference rooms, and IT service

Location: Sarjapura Rd, Bangalore

Facilities: Workspace, meeting rooms, lockers and storage, Laptops on rent, 3G/4G dongles, Printer/Scanner, Tea/Coffee, Power Backup

Capacity: 70

Pricing:

Resident CoWorker – INR 4,000/Month & Guest CoWorker – INR 300/day

Timings: N/A

Contact: Mail Or call at 988 668 3030

CoWorkIndia

CoWorkIndia was started so that a budding company can focus exclusively on their business rather than worry about office and facilities. Whether its a one person with an idea OR a team, we have space for all to work with a community of like minded people. We have taken care of everything a startup in Bangalore would need.

Location: HSR Layout, Bangalore

Facilities: Electricity & back up power, Internet: Broadband and leased line, Pantry for anytime snack or meal, Office boy to run errands for your company, Furniture, Ergonomic chairs with full mesh back, White boards & notice boards, Discussion rooms, 24 hours work environment

Capacity:50 startups or 120 people

Pricing: It has three locations and charges as per the location and facilities

Door #5, 14A Main Road and Door #13, 14 Main Road, 15 Cross Road, MCHS, Sector 4, HSR Layout, Bangalore

INR 5235 per person per month for A/C space

INR 2475 per person per month – access for 3 days/week

INR 1815 per person per month – access only on weekends and public holidays including 10:00 PM through 6:00 AM on weekdays

INR 300 per person per day.

Door #1504, 19 Main Road, 11 Cross Road, Sector 1, HSR Layout, Bangalore. 560 102

INR 5000 per person per month for A/C space

INR 2250 per person per month – access for 3 days/week

INR 1650 per person per month – access only on weekends and public holidays including 10:00 PM through 6:00 AM on weekdays

The above pricing is for shared space. Rooms are priced at at least 20% premium to shared space

Timings: 24X7

Contact: Shivani Kakkar or call at +91-776-015-1525

CoWork Zone

CoworkZone is designed for maturing startups who find pressing need to move out of open desk environment and incubators. When they start maturing, revenue stream is thin and can not afford to spend capital on furnishing and paying large security deposits, to hire regular office space.

Location: Banjara Hills – Hyderabad  &  Hitec City -Hyderabad

Facilities: The private cabins in CoworkZone have  Executive Tables for Founders and elegant plug & play workstations for the team.  CoworkZone provides all required services like Free access to Conference Room, Free WIFI, Free Power, Free Mineral water, Free Housekeeping   etc. Startups share Conference Rooms and Common Areas but cabins remain private.

Capacity: Total 40 startups (The First center accommodates 12 startups including Behungry, Docsuggest, Beautiful Code, Travel Coz, SparkmindTech etc. The second Center is opening in October 2014 at Hitec City Hyderabad & will accommodate around 30 startups!)

Pricing: Startups pay a monthly fee which range  from INR 16,000 to INR 22000 per month for team sizes of 3 to 7 people. To make it affordable, CoworkZone takes only 1 Month security deposit

Timings: 9 AM to 9 PM

Contact: Pramod Kiron

Evoma

Evoma biosphere is a combination of serviced office spaces & business incubation center with a 4 star luxury business hotel offering spl business services. It provides environment for exhibitions, conferences & business travellers. Featuring 12 Conference Venues, 3 Video Conference Suites, a Restaurant, Coffee Shop cum Bar, Health Club ; all designed to provide a modern, sophisticated, comfortable & yet corporate experience.

Location: K R Puram, Bangalore

Capacity: Can accommodate 1-50 seats

Contact: Mail

Hatch Station

HatchStation is an ecosystem for startups in Hyderabad to co-work, live and prosper from ideation to profitable ventures.

Location:Prakash Nagar, Begumpet, Hyderabad

Facilities: High Speed Wi-Fi, Flexible Seating, Conference Room*, Free Scanner and Printer, Free coffee, Weekly happy hours (Beverages/Snacks etc.)

Capacity: N/A

Pricing: INR 3,500/Person & INR 250/Day

Timings: N/A

Contact: 8106141597

iKeva

From startups to MNCs, iKeva is equipped with productive workspaces customizable to different business needs. Catering to a plethora of clients across the country, iKeva has played an instrumental role in establishing the concept of serviced offices and co-working spaces. iKeva brings forth workspace solution befitting the business. Be it Serviced Offices, Virtual Offices, Co-working Spaces, Boardrooms & Meeting Rooms, iKeva is the answer to smart, quick and cost effective plug and play office space. We offer hassle free, affordable office space supported by an enriching startup community.

Location: Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai

Facilities: Co-working space, plug and play offices, serviced office space, meeting room and virtual offices.

Pricing: Can be found here.

Timings: 24 x 7

Contact: 040 4646 4889

Inhwa Business Centre

Inhwa offers shared and co-working spaces to freelancers, creative professionals and startups.

Location: Gurgaon

Facilities: Workstations and cabin spaces, High speed Internet, Reception services, Meeting spaces, 100% power backup and Air-Conditioning, Dedicated landline number on request Security. It also offers  Legal and Account Services, Branding Services and helps companies in Incorporation. Also, Meeting/ Conference Spaces INR 500 per hour for 10 people and Virtual Office Packages starting at INR 2000 per month

Pricing: INR 11500 per seat per month, INR 6500 per seat for 15 days, INR 850 per seat on per day

Capacity: 1-136 work places

Timings: 24X7

Contact:  Mail or call at +919818701326, +91 124 493 0777

Investopad

The Investopad campus is spread over a 33,000 square foot building, and is currently operational on a 6,000 square foot floor but are expanding to add another 8,000 feet within the next 6 months. It can house teams as small as a sole founder, all the way upto a dedicated space for Series A & B funded companies, as well as larger technology companies on dedicated floors.

Location: Gurgaon

Facilities: In-house teams and experts in Digital Marketing, Visual & UX/UI Design and Customer Service to help develop strategies, EIRs and mentors to guide startups in their domain of expertise at all stages, Intensive lectures, tutorial sessions and workshops with expert faculty in areas of Design and Business, Audio Visual interactive event-spaces and conference rooms, High speed fibre optic internet with dedicated bandwidth, Extensive range of startup library resources including startup manuals, marketing guides and skill books., Seed/Angel and VC interface, Professional advice, consultation and mentorship in areas of: Design and technical services, User Experience Design, Legal and intellectual property rights and Brand development, marketing and communications

Capacity: Gurgaon

Pricing:

Traveller plan (any 12 days a month) : INR 5,000 per seat

Community plan (30 days a month with no allocated seating: INR 8,000 per seat

Dedicated plan (30 days a month with assigned seating) : INR 10,000 per seat

Timings: 24X7

Contact: Mail

Jaaga

Jaaga supports creative ventures, its  three programs include DNA, Startup, Study – work with artists and designers, entrepreneurs, and online learners.  For Startup, it is interested in working with Startups who are passionate, driven, innovative, but also appreciate the importance of community.  Working together in a shared spaces offers startups the opportunity to share with and learn from each other.

Location: Richmond Road, Bangalore

Facilities: It provides space, core infrastructure including internet, and programming for its startups and the outside community.

Capacity: N/A

Pricing: It offers memberships in three different levels: platinum, gold, silver.  Detailed information about the membership levels can be found at here.

Timings: Mon – Sun 9:30 am to 10 pm

Contact: Mail

Jack Your Startup

It is a  one stop solution for all your start-up need, right from co-working spaces to Mentoring.

Location: Banjara Hills, Hyderabad

Facilities: Coworking, legal & set-up facility, mentoring, VC Connect, Hackathon, Marketing and essentials

Capacity: 30 seater facility

Contact: Mail

Moonlighting

Moonlighting is a social enterprise establishing coworking and cooperative cultural spaces. Its first is a members house in South Delhi, having space to hangout, work and stay, both ad-hoc and long term. It support independent professionals, social entrepreneurs, creatives, researchers, hackers… anyone with an open mind and some freedom to explore.

Location: Delhi & Gurgaon

Facilities: Breakfast included, Complementary Tea/Coffee, Fibre Leased line for WIFI (Gurgaon) and DSL Line for Delhi, Printing/Scanning services, Access to the common MacMini at our dining area, 100% power back up and electricity (AC inclusive) (Gurgaon), Subsidized meals from our in house kitchen, Chance to interact with our other coworkers in the premises and be a part of in-house events, Access to Hot Desking room for coworking.

Washing Machine/Dryer, Access to separate kitchen with basic utensils (Gurgaon)

Pricing: Full Time Plan- INR 6900 per month per person

Part Time Plan- INR 3800 per month per person

Plan for Full time plan for both branches- INR 7500 per month per person (access to both locations)

Team Rooms: INR 25000 to INR 30000 per month

Capacity: 40-45 members (Delhi) 35-40 (Gurgaon)

Timings: 8:00 to 9:00 PM (Delhi), 24X7 (Gurgaon)

Contact: Mail

Our First Office

Its a co-working space, accelerator and community in Mumbai for high quality entrepreneurs, startups and freelancers.

Location: Mumbai

Facilities: Air conditioned office, monthly, weekly, daily rentals available for shared desks, team desks (semi private office) and private offices, fully equipped board and conference rooms with projectors and conference calling facilities, meeting rooms, unlimited free super fast wifi,  access to a microwave & fully equipped kitchen, 0ffice receptionist, safe and locker, access to errand boys and interns,  bed for power naps.

Capacity: 75+

Pricing: Community access and virtual office: INR 3,500 & Dedicated Desk plan (4 people): INR 11,950

Timings: N/A

Contact: Mail

Rent A Desk

Rent A Desk provides work-space solutions and networking opportunities in a suitable environment equipped with the right infrastructure. It allows one to develop a structured work schedule in a secure office space with a formal conference room for your meetings and the additional option of renting an entire room for your team work.

Location: Banjara Hills, Hyderabad

Facilities: Refreshments, Locker facility, Reception Service, Print + Copy, High Speed Internet, Conference Room, 24 Hrs Power backup

Capacity: N/A

Pricing:

Daily Pass INR 350/Day

Weekly Pass INR 1500 (Any 05 days of the month)

10 Day Pass INR 2500 (Any 10 days of the month)

Monthly Pass INR 5000

Team Office INR 25000 (for 5 – 6)

Timings: Mon – Sat – 9:00 AM – 6:00 AM and Sun – 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Contact: Syed Anees Jafri: +91 988 54 21 400, +91 40 6464 1400

Smart Spaces

SMART SPACES offers creative work habitat for entrepreneurs, start-ups and freelancers!

Location: South Bangalore

Facilities: Flexible office spaces for small teams with options of upsizing/ downsizing, Time-share office-space, Meeting room and other business- centre facilities and Shared internet usage, pinboard & whiteboards other facilities

Capacity: 20 workstations

Pricing: Per workspace per month cost is INR 5,000/-. Negotiable for 3+ seats (Min for 3 Months)

Timings: Mon – Sat: 9:00 am – 7:00 pm

Contact: Mail or call Shuja, @ 9845825325

Social Offline

Social is a space that blends the best of the office and the café, combining work and play,

it’s an urban hangout designed to take you offline while still keeping you connected. Social is a collaborative workspace, a hub for artists and innovators.

Location: Delhi, Mumbai & Bangalore

Capacity: 70 people

Pricing: N/A

Timings: Mon – Thu: 9:00 am – 11:30 pm, Fri – Sat: 9:00 am – 1:30 am and Sun: 9:00 am – 11:30 pm

Contact: Mail

Startup Cafe

Startup Cafe is a coworking space for early/growth stage technology startups with a team size of 5-12.

Location: 80 ft Road Koramangala, Bangalore

Facilities: Private Cabins for teams, WiFi, Free usage of Conference room, Legal, Accounting and HR assistance. It also have a freelancer on call system for any service you might require – design guys, coders, media etc. And also has an inhouse HR and a CA both offering their services at discounted rates for startups.

Capacity: 15 freelancers and eight to ten startups.

Timings: 24×7

Pricing: For freelancers: INR 4000 + taxes per seat.

For team: Per cabin basis.

3-4 seater: INR 16k plus tax.

4-5 seater: INR plus tax.

6 -7 seater: INR 30k plus tax.

10 seater: INR plus tax.

12 seater: INR plus tax.

Contact: Edward Jose Or call on – 9972193005

The Startup Centre

The Startup Centre accommodates teams that are (ideally) less than five in size.

Location: Chennai

Facilities: Well Designed and lit workplace, Spacious workspace complete with open layout, power outlets and high-speed wireless internet, Broadband Internet connectivity (8Mbps), WiFi Enabled (with an additional backup line at 25Mbps), Air Conditioned with backup power on Internet lines, Housekeeping staff , Kitchen with provisions for Tea / Coffee & Refreshments, Access to the meeting rooms and brainstorming spaces*,  and Access to the TSC Library.

Capacity: N/A

Pricing: Monthly Plan – INR 5,000/Month or INR 250/Day

Contact: Fill details here

Stirring Minds

It is open to all types of innovators , freelancers, nomads, as long as they have something to contribute to the community and those who could fit the culture of the space and should be willing to collaborate. Mainly It has tech ventures at its place.

Location:  Coworking hub in Central Delhi, with a node office in Bay Area

Facilities: Virtual / Part Time / Dedicated Workstation, Upto 100 Mbps internet speed, Leased Line net plus PRI lines, Shower Room, Conference / Meeting Rooms, Training / Event area, Lockers, Warehousing Space, Projector/Screen/Voip Equipment, Movie Projection Room, Kinect/XBox Gaming, TT Table Area, INNICIIO- the innovators cafe, Printing/Scanning, Reading area with magazines / Newspapers  and much more.

Capacity: Currently has pver 20+ startups working from the hub.

Pricing: Its pricing varies from INR 2999 for virtual plan , INR 4999 for part time plan , and INR 7999 for full time plan

Timings: 24X7

Contact: Pranav Or Call at  01146105679, or at 9999105679 

The Playce

The Playce is a spacious 5,000 sq ft coworking space with plug-n-play workdesks, private cabins, conference rooms, seminar hall & an awesome game room to chill.

Location: Mumbai

Facilities:  Dedicated work-desk, adjustable chair, dedicated locker, shared wi-fi, unlimited coffee, Meeting rooms, Projector, Whiteboard, Reception, Book Library and Games

Capacity: 60+ Startups

Pricing: 1-Day Desk : INR 499, Monthly Desk Plan : INR 6,500, Flexi Desk Plan : INR 3,999 for 10 days, Team Desk Plan : INR 5,500/person/month, Monthly Cabin Plan (4-6): INR 20,000/Month (Standard cabin) & INR 25,000/Month (large cabins)

Timings: Mon – Sun : 9:30 – 7:30 PM

Contact: Mail

The Studio

The Studio is a co-working space for freelancers, designers, developers, entrepreneurs and writers looking for a peaceful place to do some kick ass work independently.

Location: Delhi

Facilities: Large hall with proper desks, conference rooms, a projector, Wi-Fi etc.

Pricing: INR 5500/Month

Timings: N/A

Contact: 098 18 306050

The Valley

The Valley Coworking is about making the personal choice to work along side other people instead of in isolation. The Valley Coworking is committed to provide a unique and inspiring work space for freelancers, startups, and artists to begin working together in an inspiring new way.

Location:  Banjara Hills, Hyderabad,

Facilities: It offer high speed Internet WiFi, Free Scanner, Printer, Free Coffee, Bean Bags, Flexible Seating, Power Backup and above all a good startup community around you. And if you feel exhausted working long hours, there is Xbox 360 to get your hands on.

Capacity: 15 people at a time

Pricing: INR 5000/Person

Timings: 24×7

Contact: Sharjeel Siddiqu

The Works At

A coworking initiative focused on Chennai’s startup and freelance community and ecosystem. Dedicated to providing facilities and services that serve as a platform for success.

Location: Chennai

Facilities: Desk, Tables, Internet, Printing, Unlimited WIFI, training rooms, projectors, webcams, speakerphones, etc.

Capacity: 50+

Pricing: Standard INR 4,500/Month & Premium INR 7000/Month

Timings: Monday-Friday: 9:00AM to 9:00PM // Saturday 9:30AM to 5:30PM

Contact: 09677052094

Working Company

It’s a coworking and community space in Ahmedabad.

Location: Ahmedabad

Facilities: workspace, wifi, reception, conference room, printer and scanning facility.

Pricing: Dedicated Desk: INR 7,000/Month, Fulltime: INR 5000/Month, Part Time: INR 3,000 for 10 days and Day Pass: INR 400

Timings: Mon-Fri: 9:00am to 7:00pm and Saturday: 10:00am to 6:00pm

Contact: Mail

Update: We’ve added some more coworking spaces below and plan to keep this list updated. 

Startup Warehouse

10,000 Startup’s STARTUP WAREHOUSE – an initiative of NASSCOM and Govt of Karnataka, a premium coworking space in the heart of the city where you work with high quality startup teams and learn from each other. The selection is finalized by a selection committee comprising of stakeholders from the government as well as the industry. As part of the initiative, NASSCOM is providing early stage support for start-ups by enhancing incubation programs, building a strong mentor community and providing access to investors & increasing risk capital.

Location: Old Airport Road, Bangalore.

Facilities: High speed 10 Mbps lease line. Apart from coworking and related facilities, startups also get support from the mentors and the networking.

Pricing: Monthly rental of INR 3,500 for each seat at the Warehouse, for max of 6 people team

Timings: N/A

Contact: Interested ones can apply here. 

Work-Adda CoWorking

WorkAdda is a collaborative working space, centrally located and easily accessible from all directions. We offer individual seats as well as work areas for teams sized 4 to 8 people. 

Location: Kormangala 1st Block, Bangalore

Facilities: Office with high speed internet, backup power, a conference room, tea/coffee twice a day and a small pantry. We also have a collaboration room which can be used to conduct workshops, meetups for 15-18 people.

Pricing: INR 4500/- per seat per month. We also offer daily/weekly/fortnightly rates at INR350/INR 1500/INR 2500 per person. The conference room may be booked separately based on the availability.

Capacity: 38 seats

Timings:  9AM to 6PM, Monday to Saturday. Extended timings can be accommodated.

Contact: Ramesh Agarwal or call at 9886051931

If we missed out on any coworking space, do let us know in the comments below.

We’ll keep adding more to this list

This is part of our special series, In Focus: Starting Up In India, in which we focus on the essentials every entrepreneur must know about starting up in India. Stay tuned for more.  

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