Gaurav Suri

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📍 India🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2022
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Angel Investor
Mar 2022
Venture Catalysts is Indias first Multi-Stage VC, dedicated to backing the most promising entrepreneurs in India, the worlds fastest growing startup ecosystem. Having started in 2016, we are amongst the most active investors in India with USD 200Mn+ deployed across 300+ companies through our syndication platform. The combined valuation of the portfolio companies is USD 10Bn+. We typically invest 0.25 Mn - 2 Mn across seed to early stage companies & are sector agnostic. Our 4000+ investor community is spread across 20+ countries in the world including India, Singapore, UAE, USA, UK, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, Canada, Qatar, Oman, Mauritius, South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe & more. We are backed by some of the most marquee investors from India: Radhakishan Damani (DMart), Haldiram’s, Enam Securities, Ashish Kacholia (Lucky Investments), Authum Investments, Shahrukh Khan (Bollywood), Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Bollywood), Abhijit Pawar (Sakal Media Group), Utpal Sheth (Trust Group), Vinod Dugar (RDB Group), Hardik Patel (Finquest), Karthik Sundar Iyer, Mukul Agarwal (Param Caputal), Capri Global, Anil Singhvi (Zee Business), Aman Gupta (boAt), Ritesh Agarwal (OYO), Nirmit Parikh (Apna), Srinath Ramakkrushnan (Zetwerk), among others. The Venture Catalysts ecosystem of funds includes: 100 Unicorns | USD 100 Mn | Early stage accelerator fund Beams Fintech Fund | USD 80 Mn | India’s first growth-stage fintech fund Elev8 Venture Partners | USD 160 Mn | Growth technology fund for series B & C investments Spyre Proptech Venture Fund | USD 50 Mn | Indias first proptech fund in partnership with CREDAI VC Grid | Exclusive community for family offices & CVCs Collectively, the group manages over USD 500 Mn and has supported 400+ companies. If you are a startup founder looking to raise capital, write to us at ideas@venturecatalysts.in If you are an investor, write to us at investors@venturecatalysts.in
Angel Investor
Oct 2020
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.
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2022
Angel Investor
Mar 2022
Venture Catalysts is Indias first Multi-Stage VC, dedicated to backing the most promising entrepreneurs in India, the worlds fastest growing startup ecosystem. Having started in 2016, we are amongst the most active investors in India with USD 200Mn+ deployed across 300+ companies through our syndication platform. The combined valuation of the portfolio companies is USD 10Bn+. We typically invest 0.25 Mn - 2 Mn across seed to early stage companies & are sector agnostic. Our 4000+ investor community is spread across 20+ countries in the world including India, Singapore, UAE, USA, UK, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, Canada, Qatar, Oman, Mauritius, South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe & more. We are backed by some of the most marquee investors from India: Radhakishan Damani (DMart), Haldiram’s, Enam Securities, Ashish Kacholia (Lucky Investments), Authum Investments, Shahrukh Khan (Bollywood), Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Bollywood), Abhijit Pawar (Sakal Media Group), Utpal Sheth (Trust Group), Vinod Dugar (RDB Group), Hardik Patel (Finquest), Karthik Sundar Iyer, Mukul Agarwal (Param Caputal), Capri Global, Anil Singhvi (Zee Business), Aman Gupta (boAt), Ritesh Agarwal (OYO), Nirmit Parikh (Apna), Srinath Ramakkrushnan (Zetwerk), among others. The Venture Catalysts ecosystem of funds includes: 100 Unicorns | USD 100 Mn | Early stage accelerator fund Beams Fintech Fund | USD 80 Mn | India’s first growth-stage fintech fund Elev8 Venture Partners | USD 160 Mn | Growth technology fund for series B & C investments Spyre Proptech Venture Fund | USD 50 Mn | Indias first proptech fund in partnership with CREDAI VC Grid | Exclusive community for family offices & CVCs Collectively, the group manages over USD 500 Mn and has supported 400+ companies. If you are a startup founder looking to raise capital, write to us at ideas@venturecatalysts.in If you are an investor, write to us at investors@venturecatalysts.in
2020
Angel Investor
Oct 2020
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.
2011
Principal Consultant
May 2011
India’s leading consulting firm, with an experience of working with multiple organizations across various sectors. Founded on the principle of “concept to commissioning”, we partner our clients in identifying maximum-value opportunities, providing solutions for their key challenges and helping them create robust and high growth business models. We have the ability to be strategic advisors providing customized solutions during the ideation phase, implementation guides through start-up assistance, and be a trusted advisor overall. Drawing from the extensive experience of more than 125 professionals, Technopak focuses on four major divisions viz. Retail, Consumer Products & E-tailing, Fashion - Textile & Apparel, Food Services & Agriculture, and Education. Technopak is now a member of the Ebeltoft Group, a network of International Retail Experts with presence in 22 countries. The Ebeltoft Group has provided a gamut of services to the retail sector players, including strategic planning, retail concept innovation, store design, product management etc. in its 20+ years of existence.