Hari Krishnan

Catalysing Capital Allocation to Deserving Hands running high impact startups

📍 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2019
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Investor
Jan 2019
StartupLoan provides credit to startups that are not serviced by traditional banks and VCs.
Advisor and Angel Investor
Oct 2015
Vahanalytics is a data intelligence platform specialised in driving and fleet behaviour. We capture, process and analyse data to give fleet businesses insights into the safety and efficiency of their operations. By leveraging big data and machine learning technologies we enable fleet businesses to: - Analyse driver safety and performance - Identify problem areas - Manage risks - Identify gaps in operations - Make data driven decisions
Advisor and Angel Investor
Jan 2013
Formerly known as Kobster; KobZo is a Business–to–Business digital solutions to procurement, employee welfare, and a smart workplace. It helps corporate buyers, retailers, SMEs, home offices, hotels, hospitals, etc. to meet organizational goals seamlessly and efficiently. KobZo’s digital procurement solution empowers businesses by ensuring Direct and Indirect Savings, Supplier Discovery, Instant Quotes, Quick and Informed Purchase Decisions, Market Intelligence, and Lean Procurement Operations. KobZo also created a powerful solution for corporates to simplify their B2B Procurement process and enhance it with easy bid participation, automated order management, and inventory, control on-demand logistics, and more. Today, KobZo has 1 lakh+ business products with multiple categories namely manufacturing, construction, office supplies, hospital & lab, electronics, automobile, education, hotels & restaurants. Its vision is to become India’s greatest end to end digitally integrated solution to a smart workplace.
Experience · 8 entries
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2025
Partner
Oct 2025
We are an entrepreneur friendly boutique investment banking firm. If you are an early stage startup looking to raise funds, do talk to us. Email: harry@idrive.capital Our USP: SECTOR AGNOSTIC We advise start-ups in various sectors including SaaS, Healthcare, Edutech, Agriculture, Mobility, Fintech, e-Commerce, social etc. TECHNOLOGY ELEMENT We look for companies with the larger tech play which can scale and create impact. OUR FOCUS We focus on early stage start-ups primarily for Seed, Pre-Series and Series A round of funding. 360-DEGREE VIEW We understand the client’s requirements deeply and customize our solution to meet the investment objectives.
2021
Partner
Oct 2021
Lok Capital was founded in 2004. Lok (meaning "people") is an impact investor that makes investments in the financial services, healthcare, food & agri, and climate & sustainability areas in India. The focus is on Series A+ ventures that leverage technology to deliver quality in an affordable, accessible and sustainable way with a strong discipline on generating above market returns. Lok has multi-dimensional, contextual impact screening criteria that incorporate founder intent, gender, income levels, geography and a focus on underserved consumer segments. Across 4 funds (and counting!) — Lok has currently active AUM of >$500M. Reach out to us at contact@lokcapital.com to discuss opportunities to work together. External Grievances: A person, community or other external stakeholder, such as a civil society organization, can submit their questions or concerns to us at contact@lokcapital.com or by sending a mail to the following address: Lok Advisory Services Pvt Ltd, 418, Time Tower, MG Road, Sector 28, Gurugram, Haryana, 122 002 India. For more details, please refer to our External Grievance Redress Mechanism Policy available on our website.
2019
Investor
Jan 2019
StartupLoan provides credit to startups that are not serviced by traditional banks and VCs.
2015
Advisor and Angel Investor
Oct 2015
Vahanalytics is a data intelligence platform specialised in driving and fleet behaviour. We capture, process and analyse data to give fleet businesses insights into the safety and efficiency of their operations. By leveraging big data and machine learning technologies we enable fleet businesses to: - Analyse driver safety and performance - Identify problem areas - Manage risks - Identify gaps in operations - Make data driven decisions
2014
Fund Manager
Dec 2014
Astarc Ventures is an early stage investment fund which aims to collaborate with visionary entrepreneurs to help them grow their startup into market leaders.
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