Navin Honagudi

Managing Partner @ Elev8 Venture Partners | Backing Growth-Stage Tech | Kae Capital | Reliance Ventures

📍 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2015
Angel investor🌍 India
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Board Observer
Apr 2015
An in-app messenger that lets businesses converse with their visitors and customers. Get personal. Scale conversations. Get your team to collaborate & solve queries.
Board Observer
Sep 2011
Eventifier is a social media jockey for Brands, Events and agencies. Eventifier lets you display social posts anywhere - from websites to jumbotrons. The best way to involve your fans in drumming up your Social Media Presence. See fan posts from all social media sites collected in an intuitive dashboard. Interact with each content from a single platform. Choose social hubs that integrate perfectly in your website. Have control over which social media posts get to be featured. Create a custom call to action into the intuitive embed to turn website visitors into buyers. A customisable display for live events, jumbotrons or flagship store TV screens. Leverage fan content to activate your target audience engaging with your brand live. Increase brand mentions and website visits by manifolds.
early stageEvents Services
Board Observer
Mar 2010
Tessolve offers a unique combination of pre-silicon and post-silicon expertise to provide an efficient turnkey solution for silicon bring-up, spec to the product. With 2500+ employees worldwide, Tessolve provides a one-stop-shop solution with full-fledged hardware and software capabilities, including its advanced silicon and system testing labs. Tessolve offers a Turnkey ASIC Solution, from design to packaged parts. Tessolve’s design services include solutions on advanced process nodes with a healthy eco-system relationship with EDA, IP, and foundries. Our front-end design strengths integrated with the knowledge from the backend flow, allows Tessolve to catch design flaws ahead in the cycle, thus reducing expensive re-design costs, and risks. We are actively investing in the R&D centre of excellence initiatives such as 5G, mmWave, Silicon photonics, HSIO, HBM/HPI, system-level test, and others. Tessolve also offers end-to-end product design services in the embedded domain from concept to manufacturing under an ODM model with application expertise in Avionics, Automotive, Industrial and Medical segments. Tessolve’s Embedded Engineering services enable customers a faster time-to-market through deep domain expertise, innovative ideas, diverse embedded hardware & software services, and built-in infrastructure with world-class lab facilities. Tessolve’s clientele includes Tier 1 clients across multiple market segments, 7 of the top 10 semiconductor companies, start-ups, and government entities. We have a global presence with office locations in the United States, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Germany, United Kingdom, China, UK, Japan, Thailand, Philippines, and Test Labs in India, Singapore, Malaysia, Austin, San Jose.
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2022
Managing Partner
Jun 2022
Elev8 VP is an India-Focused $200Mn Technology Growth Stage Fund. Elev8 will focus on Series B and C rounds of financing in Hyper Growth companies. The Fund backs teams that aim to create high growth yet sustainable businesses. Elev8 is also Indias first Pro Rata fund which has access to oversubscribed rounds of India’s top technology companies by investing alongside top-tier growth funds.
2018
Managing Director
Jan 2018
Founded in 2012, Kae Capital is a sector-agnostic fund that invests in the pre-seed to pre-series A stages of a company. A pioneer of early-stage investing in India with offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru, Kae partners with passionate founders and teams, building for Indian and global markets and is the first institutional investor in a majority of its portfolio companies. Kae aims to be an all-weather partner to its portfolio founders, enabling them to build enduring companies. Kaes portfolio has a mix of B2B and B2C startups. Some of the investments are Nazara Technologies (gaming), Porter (logistics tech), HealthKart (health tech), Zetwerk (manufacturing tech), Tata 1MG (health tech), Traya (D2C) and Square Yards (property tech).
2015
Board Observer
Apr 2015
An in-app messenger that lets businesses converse with their visitors and customers. Get personal. Scale conversations. Get your team to collaborate & solve queries.
2013
Investment Director
Jan 2013
Founded in 2012, Kae Capital is a sector-agnostic fund that invests in the pre-seed to pre-series A stages of a company. A pioneer of early-stage investing in India with offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru, Kae partners with passionate founders and teams, building for Indian and global markets and is the first institutional investor in a majority of its portfolio companies. Kae aims to be an all-weather partner to its portfolio founders, enabling them to build enduring companies. Kaes portfolio has a mix of B2B and B2C startups. Some of the investments are Nazara Technologies (gaming), Porter (logistics tech), HealthKart (health tech), Zetwerk (manufacturing tech), Tata 1MG (health tech), Traya (D2C) and Square Yards (property tech).
2011
Board Observer
Sep 2011
Eventifier is a social media jockey for Brands, Events and agencies. Eventifier lets you display social posts anywhere - from websites to jumbotrons. The best way to involve your fans in drumming up your Social Media Presence. See fan posts from all social media sites collected in an intuitive dashboard. Interact with each content from a single platform. Choose social hubs that integrate perfectly in your website. Have control over which social media posts get to be featured. Create a custom call to action into the intuitive embed to turn website visitors into buyers. A customisable display for live events, jumbotrons or flagship store TV screens. Leverage fan content to activate your target audience engaging with your brand live. Increase brand mentions and website visits by manifolds.
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