Anant Vidur Puri

Investing in #IndAI - India consumer tech (consumer AI internet marketplaces, D2C brands) and enterprise AI (India for India and India for the world)

📍 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 India
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Portfolio

7 investments · sorted by recency
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Board Member
Aug 2021
Leena AIs Agentic AI is designed for global enterprises. Equipped with Leena AI’s proprietary large language model, WorkLM, Leena AI empowers enterprises worldwide to redefine how employees get work done, delivering a transformative impact on productivity and efficiency. Our Gen AI agent reduces IT, HR, and Finance tickets and ensures a unified experience for all enterprise employees, by bringing their entire techstack together. We guarantee a 70% self-service ratio in the contract. WorkLM, built on Leena AIs breakthrough language model architecture, possesses an unparalleled predictive text generation capability, producing human-like responses in context. This empowers employees with a versatile toolset to accomplish tasks with exceptional precision and speed, unlocking unprecedented levels of productivity and efficiency. Leena AI seamlessly integrates with 1000+ applications, including SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow, ADP, Oracle, Workday, and Microsoft Office 365. The company’s solutions have been successfully deployed across 90+ countries, serving over 400+ customers, including leading enterprises such as Nestlé, Puma, Coca-Cola, Sony, and Etihad Airways. Founded in 2018, Leena AI supports 100+ languages globally, and millions of employees use the work assistant daily. For more information, visit https://leena.ai.
Board Observer
Jul 2021
Nova Benefits is the one stop tech platform for providing the best health and wellness benefits to your employees. We find the best deals for your company and make sure your employees can access them easily. All while ensuring there is no administrative overhead for your HR. To work with us, apply here: https://nova-benefits.skillate.com/
early stageInsurance
Board Observer
Jan 2020
Founded in 2019, Lentra is enabling banks in democratising digital lending through its SaaS platform. It empowers banks (& NBFCs) to create custom loan products and enhance customer experiences, through its API-driven modular architecture. Currently, Lentras digital lending platform serves over 50 banks, has processed over $20 billion worth of loan applications, with 2 million loans being processed every month. Lentra supports its customers in expanding their reach, reducing non-performing assets, optimising operational efficiencies, and using Pay-as-you-go pricing for their growth. Lentra is backed by investors like BVP, Citi, HDFC, MUFG, SIG & Vy. To read more, please visit: https://Lentra.ai/
Board Observer
Jun 2019
MyGlamm is India’s fastest growing direct-to-consumer beauty brand. MyGlamm embraces the philosophy of building a community with its users, engaging with them and eventually co-creating products with them. In July 2020, MyGlamm acquired POPxo making the MyGlamm - POPxo combine, the largest Content to Community to Commerce platform in India with 60 million monthly active users and 100 million monthly video views. With over 800 SKUs across makeup, skincare and personal care, MyGlamm Beauty Products feature advanced, rich, feel-good formulas that are 100% cruelty-free, embrace Clean Beauty, and have skin-friendly ingredients. MyGlamm has over 20,000 offline points of sales across 100 cities of India. MyGlamm uses a combination of technology, content and social media to allow consumers to not only discover its products but also create a rich, personalized, content and tutorial fuelled post purchase experience through its App. Investors in MyGlamm include french beauty major L’Occitane and silicon valley venture capitalist Bessemer Venture Partners and Accel, global e-commerce giant Amazon among others.
Investor
May 2016
Swiggy is India’s pioneering on-demand convenience platform, catering to millions of consumers each month. Founded in 2014, its mission is to elevate the quality of life for the urban consumer by offering unparalleled convenience. With an extensive footprint in food delivery, Swiggy Food collaborates with nearly 2 lakh restaurants across 600+ cities. Swiggy Instamart, its quick commerce platform operating in 120+ cities, delivers groceries and other essentials across 40+ categories in 10 minutes. Fueled by a commitment to innovation, Swiggy continually incubates and integrates new services like Swiggy Dineout and Swiggy Genie into its multi-service app. Leveraging cutting-edge technology and Swiggy One, the country’s only membership program offering benefits across food, quick commerce, dining out, and pick-up and drop services, Swiggy aims to provide a superior experience to its consumers. For more information, visit www.swiggy.com
Investor
Dec 2015
CanvasFlip is a single interface for all your post design challenges - Prototyping. User testing. Design Hand-off - All in one place. Check it out.. https://www.canvasflip.com Here's why most successful Startups & Enterprises like Accenture, Tech Mahindra, Salesforce, Paytm, MakeMyTrip, MagicBricks and others are using CanvasFlip: For any suggestions o Happy Prototyping and testing!!
Investor
Feb 2015
Vidooly is an online video analytics company based in India. Our software provides video publishers ranking, audience insights, brand safety score, audience overlap and a proprietary video engagement score of over 4.5 million video content creators across the world. Vidooly's big data engine processes & scans millions of videos per day; analyzing information across 4 social video platforms and other OTTs and platforms to produce real-time actionable insights which is used by our customers for video creation & marketing decision making. Our vision is to build technology that tracks and analyzes every video, everywhere on the planet to make sense of business for content creators, brands & media buyers and at the same time creating a universal video data repository which can be accessed by our customers for better media planning, advertisement & strategies. Vidooly was launched in November 2014 and currently more than 50,000 online video creators, 50 Multi Channel Networks, 50 plus multi-platforms and 20 brands/agencies use its dashboards on daily basis. Some of our popular customers include GroupM, Xasis, Mindshare, Tata Housing, OML, Videogyan, History TV India, TVF Qtiyapa, Times Music, and many more. Funded and backed by GVFL, Times Internet & Bessemer Venture Partners, Vidooly is the only online video analytics company in India & South East Asia For more details about our company & product visit http://vidooly.com For General enquiry, you can write to info@vidooly.com For Career opportunity, share your profile with career@vidooly.com For Partnership & Sales: subrat@vidooly.com, nishant@vidooly.com, sales@vidooly.com Or call us on +91 8527863094 and add us on Skype: vidooly
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2021
Board Member
Aug 2021
Leena AIs Agentic AI is designed for global enterprises. Equipped with Leena AI’s proprietary large language model, WorkLM, Leena AI empowers enterprises worldwide to redefine how employees get work done, delivering a transformative impact on productivity and efficiency. Our Gen AI agent reduces IT, HR, and Finance tickets and ensures a unified experience for all enterprise employees, by bringing their entire techstack together. We guarantee a 70% self-service ratio in the contract. WorkLM, built on Leena AIs breakthrough language model architecture, possesses an unparalleled predictive text generation capability, producing human-like responses in context. This empowers employees with a versatile toolset to accomplish tasks with exceptional precision and speed, unlocking unprecedented levels of productivity and efficiency. Leena AI seamlessly integrates with 1000+ applications, including SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow, ADP, Oracle, Workday, and Microsoft Office 365. The company’s solutions have been successfully deployed across 90+ countries, serving over 400+ customers, including leading enterprises such as Nestlé, Puma, Coca-Cola, Sony, and Etihad Airways. Founded in 2018, Leena AI supports 100+ languages globally, and millions of employees use the work assistant daily. For more information, visit https://leena.ai.
Board Observer
Jul 2021
Nova Benefits is the one stop tech platform for providing the best health and wellness benefits to your employees. We find the best deals for your company and make sure your employees can access them easily. All while ensuring there is no administrative overhead for your HR. To work with us, apply here: https://nova-benefits.skillate.com/
early stageInsurance
2020
Lentra AI
Board Observer
Jan 2020
Board Observer
Jan 2020
Founded in 2019, Lentra is enabling banks in democratising digital lending through its SaaS platform. It empowers banks (& NBFCs) to create custom loan products and enhance customer experiences, through its API-driven modular architecture. Currently, Lentras digital lending platform serves over 50 banks, has processed over $20 billion worth of loan applications, with 2 million loans being processed every month. Lentra supports its customers in expanding their reach, reducing non-performing assets, optimising operational efficiencies, and using Pay-as-you-go pricing for their growth. Lentra is backed by investors like BVP, Citi, HDFC, MUFG, SIG & Vy. To read more, please visit: https://Lentra.ai/
2019
Board Observer
Jun 2019
MyGlamm is India’s fastest growing direct-to-consumer beauty brand. MyGlamm embraces the philosophy of building a community with its users, engaging with them and eventually co-creating products with them. In July 2020, MyGlamm acquired POPxo making the MyGlamm - POPxo combine, the largest Content to Community to Commerce platform in India with 60 million monthly active users and 100 million monthly video views. With over 800 SKUs across makeup, skincare and personal care, MyGlamm Beauty Products feature advanced, rich, feel-good formulas that are 100% cruelty-free, embrace Clean Beauty, and have skin-friendly ingredients. MyGlamm has over 20,000 offline points of sales across 100 cities of India. MyGlamm uses a combination of technology, content and social media to allow consumers to not only discover its products but also create a rich, personalized, content and tutorial fuelled post purchase experience through its App. Investors in MyGlamm include french beauty major L’Occitane and silicon valley venture capitalist Bessemer Venture Partners and Accel, global e-commerce giant Amazon among others.
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