Faisal Farooqui

Founder, CEO MouthShut.com | Co-Founder, Sogolytics & K12Insight | Founding Investor Dehaat | Speaker -Tech & Public Policy Transformation

📍 India🔄 Updated October 2026💼 1 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2014
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Investor and Advisor to the Board
2014
DeHaat™ is one of the fastest-growing start-ups in the Agri-Tech sector & one of the very few companies providing end-to-end solutions & services to the farming community in India. We are building AI-enabled technologies to revolutionize supply chain & production efficiency in the farming sector. Currently, we are operating in 12 Indian agrarian states with an extensive network of 15,000+ DeHaat Centers & 503 FPOs, serving 12.8 million+ farmers. We also provide AI-enabled crop advisory to farmers for 30+ crops in regional languages. Founded by the alumni from IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, IIM Ahmedabad & other top institutes – DeHaat is a fully funded start-up with an exceptional growth rate. The impact we have created at grass root level over the last 13 years of our operations has been phenomenal & is recognized & felicitated by NASSCOM, Forbes, ET, Niti Aayog, Bill Gates Foundation & many more.
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2014
Investor and Advisor to the Board
2014
DeHaat™ is one of the fastest-growing start-ups in the Agri-Tech sector & one of the very few companies providing end-to-end solutions & services to the farming community in India. We are building AI-enabled technologies to revolutionize supply chain & production efficiency in the farming sector. Currently, we are operating in 12 Indian agrarian states with an extensive network of 15,000+ DeHaat Centers & 503 FPOs, serving 12.8 million+ farmers. We also provide AI-enabled crop advisory to farmers for 30+ crops in regional languages. Founded by the alumni from IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, IIM Ahmedabad & other top institutes – DeHaat is a fully funded start-up with an exceptional growth rate. The impact we have created at grass root level over the last 13 years of our operations has been phenomenal & is recognized & felicitated by NASSCOM, Forbes, ET, Niti Aayog, Bill Gates Foundation & many more.
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2013
Founding Member
Aug 2013
Lead Angels is India’s first privately owned angel network founded by a team of three originally from IIT Bombay in 2014 with the aim of improving early stage investment outcomes. The team accomplishes this by providing professional assistance to investor-members in company evaluation and the portfolio companies in their operations. Our members are successful entrepreneurs and professionals across diverse sectors who wish to identify and support high potential entrepreneurs. They are supported by a team of experienced and qualified executives who are passionate about their work for both entrepreneurs and investors. The network has grown rapidly and currently has chapters in Mumbai, New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Hyderabad. The network also has members outside these locations both in India and abroad who have access to conference calls, videos and other collaterals. Support to our investee companies is a key element of our services in building a win-win-win partnership between the team, entrepreneurs and investors.
2002
Co-Founder
Aug 2002
Technical innovation and collaboration with our clients are at the center of who we are. We measure our success one client at a time, one project at a time. We succeed when our clients tell us we have made a solid contribution to their success. Today, our Online Survey platform and associated educational and professional services enable customers to become better listeners of opinions of the people who matter most to their success. Such “listening” accomplished through state of the art data collection is aggregated into useful information which is transformed into knowledge for improved decision making. While online surveying has become quite ubiquitous, our solution is distinguished by our focus on data quality, data analysis and a Collaboration module that connects all stakeholders to facilitate ongoing dialog at every stage of every project. Our clients attest that they chose our solution when they felt the need to move beyond pro-forma surveys to collect quality feedback and wanted to be more efficient with their time.
2000
Founder & CEO
Aug 2000
MouthShut.com is Indias largest consumer review social network. It provides an online platform for reviews on products and services. Thousands of reviews are contributed by consumers via the web, mobile app, SMS, or video, and they are made available free of cost to everyone. MouthShut.com is a very popular and highly trusted destination for consumers who wish to better inform themselves before making purchasing decisions. Besides offering consumers a free platform to express their opinions or benefit from the opinions of others, MouthShut.com also has several programs for businesses and brands that wish to benefit from the large repository of reviews to improve their products, services, and brand reputation.