Arijit Kar

Building DreamBig | Angel Investor | 2X Founder | Venture Partner | TEDx Speaker | Advisor, Guest Speaker @ IITs, IIMs, BITS, Ivy League (Yale U)

📍 India🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 2 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
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Jan 2026
Founded by three young and visionary designers from Kolkata—Asha, Tasneem, and Joyee—Titliya Fashion Studio is a brand committed to sustainability, ethical fashion, and innovative textile waste management. The company thrives on the principles of upcycling, natural dyeing, and regional hand embroidery, creating designer wear that blends contemporary aesthetics with traditional craftsmanship. At its core, Titliya Fashion Studio transforms factory waste fabrics into limited-edition designer outfits. Through upcycling, discarded materials are given a second life, reducing environmental impact while promoting conscious consumerism. The brand extensively uses natural dyes derived from organic sources such as harda, marigold, katha, indigo, and madder, ensuring that their creations remain environmentally friendly and skin-safe. In addition, regional hand embroidery techniques are incorporated to celebrate Indias rich textile heritage and support local artisans. Beyond fashion, Titliya actively fosters awareness about sustainability by organizing various workshops. These include natural dyeing, hand embroidery, upcycling, recycling, and eco-printing sessions, among others. By educating individuals, students, and aspiring designers, the brand encourages responsible fashion choices and promotes sustainable practices in the industry. Titliya Fashion Studio also plays a significant role in supporting other designers and fashion entrepreneurs through job work services. By offering production support, the company helps independent designers bring their creative visions to life while maintaining sustainable and ethical standards. This initiative not only uplifts emerging talents but also contributes to a more collaborative and responsible fashion ecosystem. With a steadfast commitment to sustainable fashion, fair wages, and responsible textile waste management, Titliya Fashion Studio stands as a beacon of conscious fashion.
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Oct 2025
Local Mama is India’s most rewarding local search and discovery platform, connecting users with nearby businesses and service providers—directly on WhatsApp. 🚀 Founded in 2019 and launched on the Play Store in 2020, we began as a simple initiative to help blood donors and promote women’s safety. Over time, weve evolved into a powerful local business discovery tool, offering discounts, deals, and reward points for every search and action users take. 👩‍💻 Whether youre looking for a tutor, a plumber, a snack seller, or a verified blood donor, Local Mama makes it easy—just drop us a message on WhatsApp. No app download, no complex signups. 📊 10,000+ downloads | 1,200+ customers | ₹10 lakhs+ in revenue | 1,000 service providers onboarded 💡 We believe in personalization, people-first tech, and hyperlocal solutions. Our bot helps users find 120+ local services while giving businesses an affordable, verified way to reach their community. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Built with love, bootstrapped with grit, and powered by users from Tier 2 & Tier 3 cities, Local Mama is more than a brand—it’s a movement to localize technology and support real India.
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Jun 2025
Inflection Point Ventures was started in 2018 with the aim of driving exponential value creation by being India’s most accessible & efficient network connecting a diverse investor community with a carefully set of curated startups. IPV is an early-stage angel investing platform, which provides both monetary and non-monetary support to the startups, as well as complete transparency around valuation, findings during due diligence, and personal interest (if any) to its investors. Today, it has 14,000+ angel investors, with the community having expanded beyond CXOs to include HNIs who come from varied backgrounds, professions and areas of expertise. IPV caters to investors pan India, and overseas, giving them access to startups and deals, making the group location and region agnostic. Since inception, we have invested in 250+ startups, with more in advanced stages of negotiations. IPV evaluation process screens startups and presents to investors only those, we feel have the potential to scale up. Till date we have considered startups spanning various industries such as Healthcare, Sports and Fitness, Retail Finance, HR, AI in hiring, Education, Supply Chain and Logistics etc, which shows that we do not have any predefined restrictions. For more information please visit our website.
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Mar 2025
There are innumerable ways to enjoy tea. The story of Chaigram is a story of blending tradition with needs of the today’s fast paced world. It’s a story of innovation and creativity. You can choose from a wide range of beverages according to your choice and enjoy warm goodness anytime, anywhere. We have developed our unique secret blends and recipes driven by our unmatched standards for quality and passion for creative excellence. Our 100% Organic Tea extracts are sourced from Tea Gardens in Assam bringing robust taste and contentment. Packed hygienically in food safe packages, the safety of the Chaigram Premixed Beverages is certified by FSSAI. We always start with the selection of the finest raw materials and highest quality ingredients, and culminate in exquisite creations that delights every soul. Available now on Amazon https://amzn.to/36WZPP4
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Mar 2025
Biryani Babu is Kolkatas 1st Biryani QSR. Biryani Babu is the home of authentic Barrackpore Biryani & Delhi Kebabs
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2026
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Jan 2026
IAN Group is the country’s single largest platform for seed and early-stage investment platform with IAN Angel Network, BioAngels and IAN Fund I and IAN Alpha Fund enabling entrepreneurs to raise from Rs. 50 lakhs to Rs. 50 crores. The platform brings money, mentoring from successful entrepreneurs and global market access. The platform is sector-agnostic and has funded innovative startups across 19 sectors in India and 7 other countries, thereby growing the global footprint of companies. IAN has been listed by Forbes as one of iconic business and economic events of Independent India, over 75 years along with LIC, NASSCOM, RBI, Naukri.com amongst others. SEBI Reg: IAN Capital (IN/AIF1/20-21/0862) · IAN Fund I (IN/AIF1/16-17/0220) · IAN Alpha Trust (IN/AIF2/22-23/1127)
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Jan 2026
Founded by three young and visionary designers from Kolkata—Asha, Tasneem, and Joyee—Titliya Fashion Studio is a brand committed to sustainability, ethical fashion, and innovative textile waste management. The company thrives on the principles of upcycling, natural dyeing, and regional hand embroidery, creating designer wear that blends contemporary aesthetics with traditional craftsmanship. At its core, Titliya Fashion Studio transforms factory waste fabrics into limited-edition designer outfits. Through upcycling, discarded materials are given a second life, reducing environmental impact while promoting conscious consumerism. The brand extensively uses natural dyes derived from organic sources such as harda, marigold, katha, indigo, and madder, ensuring that their creations remain environmentally friendly and skin-safe. In addition, regional hand embroidery techniques are incorporated to celebrate Indias rich textile heritage and support local artisans. Beyond fashion, Titliya actively fosters awareness about sustainability by organizing various workshops. These include natural dyeing, hand embroidery, upcycling, recycling, and eco-printing sessions, among others. By educating individuals, students, and aspiring designers, the brand encourages responsible fashion choices and promotes sustainable practices in the industry. Titliya Fashion Studio also plays a significant role in supporting other designers and fashion entrepreneurs through job work services. By offering production support, the company helps independent designers bring their creative visions to life while maintaining sustainable and ethical standards. This initiative not only uplifts emerging talents but also contributes to a more collaborative and responsible fashion ecosystem. With a steadfast commitment to sustainable fashion, fair wages, and responsible textile waste management, Titliya Fashion Studio stands as a beacon of conscious fashion.
2025
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Oct 2025
Local Mama is India’s most rewarding local search and discovery platform, connecting users with nearby businesses and service providers—directly on WhatsApp. 🚀 Founded in 2019 and launched on the Play Store in 2020, we began as a simple initiative to help blood donors and promote women’s safety. Over time, weve evolved into a powerful local business discovery tool, offering discounts, deals, and reward points for every search and action users take. 👩‍💻 Whether youre looking for a tutor, a plumber, a snack seller, or a verified blood donor, Local Mama makes it easy—just drop us a message on WhatsApp. No app download, no complex signups. 📊 10,000+ downloads | 1,200+ customers | ₹10 lakhs+ in revenue | 1,000 service providers onboarded 💡 We believe in personalization, people-first tech, and hyperlocal solutions. Our bot helps users find 120+ local services while giving businesses an affordable, verified way to reach their community. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Built with love, bootstrapped with grit, and powered by users from Tier 2 & Tier 3 cities, Local Mama is more than a brand—it’s a movement to localize technology and support real India.
Investor
Jun 2025
Inflection Point Ventures was started in 2018 with the aim of driving exponential value creation by being India’s most accessible & efficient network connecting a diverse investor community with a carefully set of curated startups. IPV is an early-stage angel investing platform, which provides both monetary and non-monetary support to the startups, as well as complete transparency around valuation, findings during due diligence, and personal interest (if any) to its investors. Today, it has 14,000+ angel investors, with the community having expanded beyond CXOs to include HNIs who come from varied backgrounds, professions and areas of expertise. IPV caters to investors pan India, and overseas, giving them access to startups and deals, making the group location and region agnostic. Since inception, we have invested in 250+ startups, with more in advanced stages of negotiations. IPV evaluation process screens startups and presents to investors only those, we feel have the potential to scale up. Till date we have considered startups spanning various industries such as Healthcare, Sports and Fitness, Retail Finance, HR, AI in hiring, Education, Supply Chain and Logistics etc, which shows that we do not have any predefined restrictions. For more information please visit our website.
Investor
Mar 2025
There are innumerable ways to enjoy tea. The story of Chaigram is a story of blending tradition with needs of the today’s fast paced world. It’s a story of innovation and creativity. You can choose from a wide range of beverages according to your choice and enjoy warm goodness anytime, anywhere. We have developed our unique secret blends and recipes driven by our unmatched standards for quality and passion for creative excellence. Our 100% Organic Tea extracts are sourced from Tea Gardens in Assam bringing robust taste and contentment. Packed hygienically in food safe packages, the safety of the Chaigram Premixed Beverages is certified by FSSAI. We always start with the selection of the finest raw materials and highest quality ingredients, and culminate in exquisite creations that delights every soul. Available now on Amazon https://amzn.to/36WZPP4
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