Indian Angel Network
Indian Angel Network India's first and now Asia's largest angel network, brings together successful entrepreneurs and CEOs who share a passion to enable more early stage businesses to create scale and value. By focusing on startups, the Network addresses the current acute lack of funds available to early stage companies. The Network believes that early stage businesses require more than just money to succeed. They require close mentoring and inputs on strategy as well as execution
IAN currently has over 325 members drawn from across the country and 9 other countries, including leading lights from diverse sectors (information on www.indianangelnetwork.com). IAN members include people like Pramod Bhasin, Jerry Rao, Saurabh Srivastava, Raman Roy, Kris Gopalakrishnan, Rajiv Luthra, Pradeep Gupta, Sunil Munjal, Bikram Dasgupta, Arvind Singhal and institutions such as SIDBI, Google, Intel, Sequoia Capital, IDG, etc. With a portfolio of over 100 companies across 7 countries, the Network has met with early successes - invested in nearly 60 companies across multiple sectors and geographies, across 15 sectors. Impact investing has found favour at IAN and portfolio companies have not only raised monies, but grown quickly to attract next round VCs and build global footprints
IAN's portfolio companies have started to give returns like ~70x over 7 years, 6x over 15 months, and valuations have grown over 25 times in 3 years, etc. With over 300 entrepreneurs reaching out to IAN every month, it now has in person pitch sessions and operates from 6 cities in India and launched its first international operations in London from No. 10. The London pitch sessions are now on the regular calendar and investments in UK companies that have the potential to go global has now started.
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