Ankur Dinesh Garg

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📍 Santa Clara, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2022
Operator-angel🌍 United States
5
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3
Early stage
2
Mid stage
0
Late stage
15y
Years active

Portfolio

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Angel Investor
Jan 2022
Indias first tech enabled transit retail chain, enabling micro entrepreneurship by empowering hawkers & retailers at transit stations & create a new retail format - Retailing on the Go. We are fastest growing travel brands, and we are proud to be that air of familiarity people love and trust on their journey, both in life and through life. Today, we have more than 25+ stores & carts, serving millions of customers every year and you will find us at railway stations, bus & taxi stands, and highways. each of our stores and formats is tailored to meet the needs of our customers journeys, we are the trusted home of travel essentials for the Bharat travelling customers. we are supporting our customers on their journeys through life with everything from A to Z travel needs.
early stageRetail
Investor, Advisor & Board Member
Mar 2021
Vrozart Group is a business conglomerate, established as an enterprise growth infrastructure — architected by technocrats and industry leaders — that integrates strategic investment, venture scaling, and enterprise expansion within a unified institutional framework. The organization incubates, invests in, and scales ventures across healthcare, financial services, artificial intelligence, digital technologies, trading, travel, wellness, fashion, media & entertainment, and other high-potential industries — each aligned to market expansion and enterprise value creation. Wealth creation, venture formation, and enterprise expansion define Vrozart’s operating structure — powered by strategic investment and scaling infrastructure. Through its national network of entrepreneurs, investors, and institutional collaborators, Vrozart drives business growth, access to opportunities, and long-term value creation — reinforcing its position in India’s evolving entrepreneurship and investment landscape.
Angel Investor
Jan 2021
Space Aura is a space tourism and human spaceflight company from India for the world. Space Tourists will travel to the edge of space sitting inside a luxurious Spaceship SKAP1. Space tourists will witness the magnificent Earth & vastness of space traveling by a unique Space Balloon system. Space Aura Vision: Empower humanity through space missions, enable India to become multi-planetary, and build a prosperous and bright future. An epic adventure is about to begin.
Mentor & Board Member
Aug 2011
Wirefoot- a Full Service Digital Growth Company, enables brands to get more customers (B2C or B2B). We help brands across 360 degree Digital Marketing and Offline Marketing via Events, Networking and PR. Our offerings: 1. Full services Digital Marketing (we're a strong advocate of Content Led marketing, where in we help brands generate larger connect with a strong content focused approach. ) 2. Events & connects (Internet Retail Expo, internet Retail MasterClass, Digital leadership forum) 3. Advisory & consulting (we enable offline businesses go online, Faster. We help existing online businesses to do smarter & grow online sales) We own India's largest Online Retail Show - Internet Retail Expo. It is a 5 year old property and has gained significant brand visibility and traction. It is a platform for Industry brands to present their thought leadership among Core Retail Audience who are planning to take their retail business online and come to learn at IRE. iamWire.com is a leading Digital Blog on Digital Industry. We write about digital business, technology and culture. We have a strong hold on readers, and have emerged as a reputed brands in last three years.
Co-Founder & Board Member
Aug 2011
iamwire started as a media and market research company for ecommerce and startup verticals in 2011 and further expanded its scope as an incubator platform for entrepreneurs, professionals and researchers. Since 2020, the company is shifting its core focus towards financial and management services for asset management, portfolio construction, portfolio management, exit management in emerging technology sectors.
Experience · 8 entries
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Board (1)
2022
Angel Investor
Jan 2022
Indias first tech enabled transit retail chain, enabling micro entrepreneurship by empowering hawkers & retailers at transit stations & create a new retail format - Retailing on the Go. We are fastest growing travel brands, and we are proud to be that air of familiarity people love and trust on their journey, both in life and through life. Today, we have more than 25+ stores & carts, serving millions of customers every year and you will find us at railway stations, bus & taxi stands, and highways. each of our stores and formats is tailored to meet the needs of our customers journeys, we are the trusted home of travel essentials for the Bharat travelling customers. we are supporting our customers on their journeys through life with everything from A to Z travel needs.
early stageRetail
2021
Investor, Advisor & Board Member
Mar 2021
Vrozart Group is a business conglomerate, established as an enterprise growth infrastructure — architected by technocrats and industry leaders — that integrates strategic investment, venture scaling, and enterprise expansion within a unified institutional framework. The organization incubates, invests in, and scales ventures across healthcare, financial services, artificial intelligence, digital technologies, trading, travel, wellness, fashion, media & entertainment, and other high-potential industries — each aligned to market expansion and enterprise value creation. Wealth creation, venture formation, and enterprise expansion define Vrozart’s operating structure — powered by strategic investment and scaling infrastructure. Through its national network of entrepreneurs, investors, and institutional collaborators, Vrozart drives business growth, access to opportunities, and long-term value creation — reinforcing its position in India’s evolving entrepreneurship and investment landscape.
Angel Investor
Jan 2021
Space Aura is a space tourism and human spaceflight company from India for the world. Space Tourists will travel to the edge of space sitting inside a luxurious Spaceship SKAP1. Space tourists will witness the magnificent Earth & vastness of space traveling by a unique Space Balloon system. Space Aura Vision: Empower humanity through space missions, enable India to become multi-planetary, and build a prosperous and bright future. An epic adventure is about to begin.
2015
Founder & CEO
Jan 2015
While, in the world of Artificial Intelligence, Business and Startups are busy crafting Skilled Assistant systems, we @Hotify (www.hotify.ai) are working to make them intelligent experts. Hotify is building a Cloud Intelligence Platform (CIP) called “Gene"​, to enable Artificial Intelligence adoption across enterprises in diverse sectors and replace skills based workers with “Gene"​ based systems. Gene is a curricula based self-learning system which adapts to each ecosystem, imbibes all structured and unstructured data, understands cognitive intent at the user level or at the business level and produces cognitive delight with “on-the-dot” results. Come and join us in our exciting journey.
2011
Co-Founder & Director
Sep 2011
AllSchoolStuff.com is India’s favourite School & Learning Store. We are focused upon providing an exciting online store for students, parents and teachers to choose from a wide variety of branded, high quality products to meet all their educational & learning needs.
early stageRetail
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