SEBI-encouraged funds — venture capital, SME, social-impact and infrastructure. Close-ended, generally unleveraged.
IAN Capital (IN/AIF1/20-21/0862) is a SEBI-registered Category I Venture Capital (Angel) Fund (registered February 2021) managed by Indian Angel Network Services Private Limited — the fund management arm of IAN Group, India's largest horizontal early-stage investment platform. IAN Capital (also known as IAN Fund 1 — the SEBI-registered fund) is the flagship angel-to-seed fund of IAN Group, which was founded in 2006 by Saurabh Srivastava, Padmaja Ruparel, and other prominent entrepreneurs. The fund invests in early-stage, technology-enabled startups across 20 sectors with cheques from INR 50 lakh to INR 50 crore. IAN Group has backed 260+ startups, created ~1,60,000 jobs, and reduced 39,00,000 MT of CO2 emissions. Portfolio unicorns and notable exits include WebEngage, Spinny, Zypp Electric, Wow Momo, Uniphore, Pandorum Technologies, Dhruva Space, Manastu Space, Fluxgen, and Noccarc. IAN was featured in Forbes India's 75 iconic events of independent India (2006). The SEBI registered address is C-482, Defence Colony, New Delhi – 110024.
Rajnish Kapur
Managing Partner, IAN Fund 1
Rajnish Kapur is Managing Partner of IAN Fund 1.
Sudipta Gautam
Managing Partner, IAN Fund 1
Sudipta Gautam is Managing Partner of IAN Fund 1.
Saurabh Srivastava
Co-Founder, IAN Group & NASSCOM — Investment Committee, IAN Fund 1
Saurabh Srivastava is Co-Founder of IAN Group and NASSCOM. A pioneer of India's technology and angel investing ecosystem. IC member of IAN Fund 1.
Alok Mittal
Co-Founder, IAN Group & Indifi — Investment Committee, IAN Fund 1
Alok Mittal is Co-Founder of IAN Group and Co-Founder of Indifi Technologies. IC member of IAN Fund 1.
Rakesh Rewari
Ex-DMD, SIDBI — Investment Committee, IAN Fund 1
Rakesh Rewari is the former Deputy Managing Director of SIDBI. IC member of IAN Fund 1.
Akshay Panth
CIO, NEEV Funds & Head of Fund of Funds — Investment Committee, IAN Fund 1
Akshay Panth is CIO of NEEV Funds and Head of Fund of Funds. IC member of IAN Fund 1.
Rakesh Malhotra
Founder, Luminous Inverters — Investment Committee, IAN Fund 1
Rakesh Malhotra is the Founder of Luminous Power Technologies (Luminous Inverters). IC member of IAN Fund 1.
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Padmaja Ruparel
Co-founder - IAN Group, Senior Managing Partner
Padmaja Ruparel is Co-Founder of IAN Group and Founding Partner of IAN Fund 1. One of India's most recognised angel investors, she has led IAN Group since its inception in 2006 and is the SEBI contact person for IAN Capital.
Raman Roy
Co-founder, IAN Group and Founder, Quatrro
Raman is widely regarded as the Pioneer and “Guru” of the BPO industry in India. He is fondly referred to as the “Father of the Indian BPO Industry”. He has played a pivotal role over the last 30 years in promoting India based servicing. Raman is a pioneer four times over, having successfully pioneered and led the BPO initiatives of American Express, GE (now Genpact) and Spectramind (now Wipro BPO) before starting Quatrro in mid 2006.
Pradeep Gupta
Co-founder IAN Group; Chairman Cyber Media Group
Sarika Saxena
Managing Partner
Madhav Sikka
Managing Partner and Group CFO
Chintan Thakkar
Senior Managing Partner; Group CEO
Pravin Rao
Past-COO, Infosys
Atul Batra
Ex-CTO-Manthan Systems & Past Chair-NASS
Ajai Chowdhry
BoardBoard Member, IAN Group and Co-founder, HCL
Dr. Ajai Chowdhry is one of the six founder members of HCL. HCL was started with a dream ‘to take the microprocessor and change the world’ in 1976.
Harish S Mehta
BoardBoard Member - IAN Group & Founder - Onward Technologies
Mr. Harish Mehta is Founder & Executive Chairman of Onward Technologies Ltd (OTL), He has been recently appointed as an Expert Advisor to the Executive Committee of the Board of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) for its Fund of funds Operations.
Kris Gopalakrishnan
AdvisorCo-Founder, Infosys — Advisory Board, IAN Fund 1
Kris Gopalakrishnan is Co-Founder of Infosys. Advisory Board member of IAN Fund 1.
Devi Prasad Shetty
AdvisorFounder, Narayana Health — Advisory Board, IAN Fund 1
Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty is the Founder of Narayana Health. Advisory Board member of IAN Fund 1.
Sunil Kant Munjal
AdvisorChairman, Hero Enterprise — Advisory Board, IAN Fund 1
Sunil Kant Munjal is Chairman of Hero Enterprise. Advisory Board member of IAN Fund 1.
C. P. Gurnani
AdvisorFormer MD and CEO, Tech Mahindra
Romesh Sobti
AdvisorFormer CEO, IndusInd Bank
Arun Seth
AdvisorFormer MD, British Telecom India
Jyoti Sagar
AdvisorFounder, J. Sagar Associates
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