angel

Rajesh Mane

13 portfolio companies indexed

An active investor in early stage startups, specially in consumer products, fintech, healthcare & everything technology! Strong believer in India's growth story across Tier 2, 3 cities, he actively works with founders to reshape the vision, bring scalability & discover the right product-market fit. He has been an early stage investor in 25+ startups including Innov8 (sold to OYO Rooms), Beardo (sold to Marico), Vahanalytics (sold to Rapido), Coutloot (backed by Chinese unicorn CashBus), Blowhorn (backed by Draper Associates), BluSmart (backed by Hero Motocorp), Liquiloans (backed by Matrix Partners) & many others. He has been part of startup ecosystem in India since 2011, lead community 10,000+ startups at Weekend Ventures. In 2015, he joined Venture Catalysts as the first team member, since then he has reviewed over 14,000+ startups & curated 87+ for seed investment, including BharatPe (later raised $50Mn from Ribbit Capital & others) and 2 more unicorns in making!I He enjoys working with early stage founders & learn from them. As contribution to ecosystem, he spends time with institutional e-cells, incubators & innovations hubs across India, GCC & South East Asia.