Akshay Saxena

Expanding access to quality education and economic opportunity. Schwab Social Entrepreneur of the Year | IIT Bombay Young Alumni Achiever | Ashoka Fellow

📍 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 India
11
Total investments
7
Early stage
3
Mid stage
1
Late stage
14y
Years active

Portfolio

11 investments · sorted by recency
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Angel Investor
Dec 2021
We make home loans faster, stress-free & BASIC! How? While home loans are inherently complex, we have innovatively incorporated a significant degree of automation into the process. BASIC Home Loan is Indias first automated platform for secured lending with a special focus on the affordable housing segment. Weve built a "Phygital" model, with our network of expert home loan agents who use our technology to efficiently guide our customers, from initial research all the way to getting the loan approved and disbursed. Through our strong agent network, we can also reach out to those smaller cities and towns in the Tier 2 & Tier 3 regions that are often overlooked by other digital lenders. With our tech, we are able to make the whole process more efficient, lowering the costs and improving transparency for our customers. BASIC is all about making housing more accessible, and #ChangingHomeLoansForGood #BASICHomeLoan #HomeLoan #HomeOwnership #BASICAgents #HomeLoanAgent
Angel Investor
Sep 2021
Fixcraft is a chain of multi-brand car bodyshops, established with the aim to redefine the quality of denting, painting and repair services in India. We provide best-in-class quality at affordable prices to the car owners who love their cars. Backed by supply linkages with the best brands of equipment and consumables we cater to all kinds of bodyshop requirements of a car. We use technology both at the back-end to improve efficiencies of our operations as well as at the front-end to improve the customer experience. We are always looking for partners who share a similar philosophy of simplifying the lives of their customers by providing constantly evolving solutions to unique customer problems. Please feel free to connect to know more about us and explore any possible partnership opportunities.
Angel Investor
Jul 2021
AdmitKard, is a Noida based Ed-Tech platform that helps students who are looking to take admission in Universities and Colleges Abroad in countries such as US, UK, Australia, Canada, NZ, Singapore. We help student in the entire journey from Test Prep, Profile Building, Admissions, Education Loan to Student Visa. Our aim is to not only help students get into college but also get out of college successfully.
mid stageEducation
Angel Investor
Jun 2021
Kafqa is a global performing arts academy offering courses in dance, music, speech & drama. With 100+ instructors & studios across India. Kafqa is a trusted brand with 100,000+ student registrations.
Angel Investor
Apr 2021
QubeHealth is a healthcare payments company. Integrating a massive ‘payments infrastructure’ in India, interest-free healthcare financing, health insurance, and healthcare providers with a unique B2B-2C customer acquisition strategy. Qube is rapidly changing the way Indians pay for their healthcare. Qube’s users are employees of Indian enterprises that have subscribed to Qube’s healthcare payment products for their employees, usually as an add-on to the company group health insurance plan. Companies provide this as a healthcare benefit so that their employees can reduce healthcare costs and have access to financing to pay for any healthcare bill not paid by their company health insurance - easing cash flow pressures for the Company and increasing employee retention. Employees (the Users) can pay any healthcare provider (hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, and more) across India via the Qube mobile application (“QubePay”), with NO restrictions on healthcare provider networks (like other medical finance companies) OR family member restrictions - traditionally imposed by health insurance policies. Every healthcare bill paid through QubePay provides an immediate cost reduction to the User, as well as access to a Zero-Percent healthcare credit line of up to INR One Million, which the User can tap to pay directly to the healthcare provider and choose a payback period of up to one year - at no cost. Qube gives its users control over their families healthcare outcomes without being limited by their ability to pay their medical bills.
Angel Investor
Jun 2020
Skillbee connects skill-verified blue collar workers with trusted employers. It'll be the best way for companies to hire and manage their blue collar workforce. Clients love us and we're proud to be the trusted partner for companies that are changing the world.
Angel Investor
Apr 2020
There’s a moment you realize that you can’t continue like this. You want better days, better relationships, and more possibilities. When you’re in the depths of opioid use disorder (OUD), it takes strength and courage to act on that moment. At Bicycle Health, we believe that choosing to start recovery creates hope in the face of hardship. With us, your care begins as soon as you reach out. Most patients get an appointment on the same day or the day after. Our personalized care and medication plans offer professional support and suboxone to control withdrawal. On your best days and your worst days, we’re always here for you. About 95% of patients end problematic opioid use within just one week. And 88% of patients who have been in care with us for a year or more see positive outcomes including easier days, steady employment, and healthier relationships. No one does this alone. Our community of doctors, care providers, and support groups are available every day. With regular check-ins, we’ll work with you to update your care as you make progress. We know that with the right treatment, you can overcome OUD and build a life you love.
Advisor and Angel Investor
Apr 2017
Recognized as the Most Innovative Biotech Company, 2024, by Fast Company! Even today Early R&D, Precision Diagnostics and Translational Biomarker teams spend about 80% of their time wrangling data. Elucidatas mission is to empower scientists in the life sciences field by reclaiming every valuable hour for their research endeavors. Elucidata’s data harmonization platform - Polly, helps research teams make multi-modal biomedical data Machine Learning ready. Each dataset on Polly is processed consistently using pipelines of your choice, is custom curated with granular annotations and undergoes robust QA/QC checks to ensure highest data quality standards. Polly transforms multi-modal and multi-source biomedical data (Omics, Assay, Real World Data, Clinical & EHR Data, and CRO data) into a Unified Data Model. With our 10X faster LLM-powered curation and human-in-the-loop model to achieve 99.99% accuracy, we are fast-tracking time to analysis. Today, Polly is facilitating use case like patient stratification, biomarker discovery, target ID & validation, data management, and development of clinical and commercial pipelines across Pfizer, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, NextGen Jane and IMBDx and over 35 premier biopharma companies and research labs. Head-quarted in San Francisco, we are a 120+ multi-disciplinary team of experts based across the US and India. In September 2022, we raised $16 million in our Series A round led by Eight Roads and F-Prime along with our existing investors Hyperplane and IvyCap. Write to us at info@elucidata.io for queries To talk to us, visit: https://www.elucidata.io/book-a-meeting For more information, visit: https://www.elucidata.io/ Visit Our Offices - San Francisco Head Quarters: 114 Sansome Street, Suite 250 San Francisco, CA 94104 Boston Office: 625 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 R&D Hubs, India - Delhi and Bangalore
Angel Investor
Jun 2016
Chakr Innovation, a pioneering Indian cleantech startup founded by IIT Delhi graduates, focuses on cutting-edge material science technology, specifically geared towards air quality enhancement. With 30+ patent applications, our innovative solutions have earned global acclaim from institutions such as the United Nations, WWF, and Forbes. Established in 2016, Chakr introduced the revolutionary Chakr Shield in 2017, curtailing Particulate Matter, Hydrocarbon, and Carbon monoxide emissions from diesel generators by over 80%. Chakr secured a historic milestone as the nations first to gain type approval certification for its Retrofit Emission Control Device (RECD) through CPCB-accredited labs. In 2022, we expanded with the Dual Fuel Kit, enabling efficient operation on a blend of conventional fuel and natural gas. Our diverse product range includes the RECD, Dual Fuel Kit, DG Monitoring System (IoT), Decentralized Energy and Energy Storage Technology. Empowering industries to achieve sustainability through innovative solutions, Chakr Innovation is dedicated to creating a cleaner and more sustainable world. Join us in our mission for a greener planet. Connect with Chakr Innovation for updates on cutting-edge environmental solutions.
early stageManufacturing
Board Member, Program Subcommittee
Jun 2016
Save the Children is India’s leading independent child rights NGO. It works in 19 Indian states as of December 2018 and has changed the lives of 14 million Indian children since 2008. Our programmes are implemented in the remotest corners of India and urban areas to provide quality education and healthcare, protection from harm and abuse and life-saving aid during emergencies to children. A major aspect of Save the Children’s work is to engage with and empower the most marginalised communities of India. We take children’s voice to the platforms where it matters the most. We engage with the Government to drive policy change in the best interest of children. Globally, Save the Children is present in more than 80 countries and works to improve the situation of children living there. We're poised to reach 4 million of the most deprived children of India in the perio 2019-2021. Visit www.savethechildren.in to know more. Save the Children is registered as ‘Bal Raksha Bharat’ in India under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. All donations made to Save the Children are tax-exempted under section 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961.
Angel Investor
Jun 2012
In today’s world, consumers are taking control of their every living act. In that sense, travelers have evolved too and for them, going on a holiday is more than just an activity – starts with accessing information from multiple channels, to talking to numerous service providers to strike deal with & to many micro-moments (turning into device whenever needed) to go through. In the end, what they can’t completely comprehend and therefore is fearful of, is going to an unknown territory and the complications associated with it. Thus, comes TravelTriangle – an expert friend and holiday provider who will guide the traveler through the entire process of exploring, planning & booking holiday. We aim to make holiday planning an enjoyable and hassle-free activity and so, we stand for an innovative, reliable & tech-focused travel brand that is geared towards providing an end to end fulfillment of an amazing holiday booking and delivery experience. Currently operating as an online marketplace model bringing both the travelers, and trusted & expert travel agents on a common platform, the aim is to encompass all the components of holiday eco-system and be the one-stop solution for the traveler. We are not only making holiday planning an easy act by providing experts and good prices for holiday packages to the travelers, but also developing this network of experts who are our travel agents and exposing them to the state-of- art SAAS CRM opportunity of in-built algorithms to guide them through the life-cycle of purchase and give them access to million plus travelers. Co-founded by 3 IIT graduates – Sankalp Agarwal, Sanchit Garg and Prabhat Gupta, TravelTriangle is headquartered at Gurugram and operates with a versatile team of 450+ people. It has a highly tech-driven product that witnesses around 20 lakh visitors every month. Currently serving 65+ destinations and hosting a network of 650+ expert holiday planners, that is, our travel agents. Having raised close to a cumulative funding of $20 Million from SAIF Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and RB Investments put together, the company has already achieved operating profitability, and on track to become EBITDA profitable by next year.
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2021
Angel Investor
Dec 2021
We make home loans faster, stress-free & BASIC! How? While home loans are inherently complex, we have innovatively incorporated a significant degree of automation into the process. BASIC Home Loan is Indias first automated platform for secured lending with a special focus on the affordable housing segment. Weve built a "Phygital" model, with our network of expert home loan agents who use our technology to efficiently guide our customers, from initial research all the way to getting the loan approved and disbursed. Through our strong agent network, we can also reach out to those smaller cities and towns in the Tier 2 & Tier 3 regions that are often overlooked by other digital lenders. With our tech, we are able to make the whole process more efficient, lowering the costs and improving transparency for our customers. BASIC is all about making housing more accessible, and #ChangingHomeLoansForGood #BASICHomeLoan #HomeLoan #HomeOwnership #BASICAgents #HomeLoanAgent
Angel Investor
Sep 2021
Fixcraft is a chain of multi-brand car bodyshops, established with the aim to redefine the quality of denting, painting and repair services in India. We provide best-in-class quality at affordable prices to the car owners who love their cars. Backed by supply linkages with the best brands of equipment and consumables we cater to all kinds of bodyshop requirements of a car. We use technology both at the back-end to improve efficiencies of our operations as well as at the front-end to improve the customer experience. We are always looking for partners who share a similar philosophy of simplifying the lives of their customers by providing constantly evolving solutions to unique customer problems. Please feel free to connect to know more about us and explore any possible partnership opportunities.
Angel Investor
Jul 2021
AdmitKard, is a Noida based Ed-Tech platform that helps students who are looking to take admission in Universities and Colleges Abroad in countries such as US, UK, Australia, Canada, NZ, Singapore. We help student in the entire journey from Test Prep, Profile Building, Admissions, Education Loan to Student Visa. Our aim is to not only help students get into college but also get out of college successfully.
mid stageEducation
Angel Investor
Jun 2021
Kafqa is a global performing arts academy offering courses in dance, music, speech & drama. With 100+ instructors & studios across India. Kafqa is a trusted brand with 100,000+ student registrations.
Angel Investor
Apr 2021
QubeHealth is a healthcare payments company. Integrating a massive ‘payments infrastructure’ in India, interest-free healthcare financing, health insurance, and healthcare providers with a unique B2B-2C customer acquisition strategy. Qube is rapidly changing the way Indians pay for their healthcare. Qube’s users are employees of Indian enterprises that have subscribed to Qube’s healthcare payment products for their employees, usually as an add-on to the company group health insurance plan. Companies provide this as a healthcare benefit so that their employees can reduce healthcare costs and have access to financing to pay for any healthcare bill not paid by their company health insurance - easing cash flow pressures for the Company and increasing employee retention. Employees (the Users) can pay any healthcare provider (hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, and more) across India via the Qube mobile application (“QubePay”), with NO restrictions on healthcare provider networks (like other medical finance companies) OR family member restrictions - traditionally imposed by health insurance policies. Every healthcare bill paid through QubePay provides an immediate cost reduction to the User, as well as access to a Zero-Percent healthcare credit line of up to INR One Million, which the User can tap to pay directly to the healthcare provider and choose a payback period of up to one year - at no cost. Qube gives its users control over their families healthcare outcomes without being limited by their ability to pay their medical bills.
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