Neeraj Biyani

Serial Entrepreneur | Investor | Board Member | Advisor to Start-ups | Co-founder and CEO, Wellspring Consumer (Asaya)

📍 India🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2022
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Shareholder (Exited Dec 2022)
Sep 2022
Hello! We are Hector Beverages. With a ladleful of passion, tempered with honesty, an ounce of creativity & a generous sprinkle of excitement, we started off in 2009. We bring quality drinks, which quench thirst & make taste buds go ‘slurppp’. What we also promise with all our drinks is a magic power. Like Tzinga, our flagship energy drink that students and all-nighter urban animals swore by; Or Paper Boat, which brings a sunny smile and innocent memories, as you sip through these treasured recipes. Any drink can be made to taste good. Or feel nutritious. But how many drinks tell a story? Because when companies get together and dole out a drink to the parched populace, it’s practicality. But when history and geography conspire to make a drink favoured through the ages, that’s destiny. A culmination of efforts. Modified through trial and error. Perfected with every passing age. From a king’s royal cook to a soldier’s flask to a peace offering made by warring clans to a mother conjuring something special for her son’s return to a grand celebration of harvest. Everyone had something to contribute. And it’s their additions (and subtractions) that ultimately made their way into food carts in village fairs. And while we’ve all experienced the joy of tasting these drinks at these carts at one point or the other, we’ve also experienced the often awful gastronomical aftermath of these little joys. Our inspiration for Paper Boat lies in emulating these tastes and experiences standing tall on a benchmark of hygiene and safety. Getting the good moments out to you while avoiding the unpleasant bits. So go on ahead, make new memories. We’ll watch your back.
Investor and Board Member
Jun 2021
Indiano Global is catering to Aluminium, Cement, Petrochemical & Steel industries. We are providing Cradle to Grave sustainable by-product management solution for these sectors.
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2022
Shareholder (Exited Dec 2022)
Sep 2022
Hello! We are Hector Beverages. With a ladleful of passion, tempered with honesty, an ounce of creativity & a generous sprinkle of excitement, we started off in 2009. We bring quality drinks, which quench thirst & make taste buds go ‘slurppp’. What we also promise with all our drinks is a magic power. Like Tzinga, our flagship energy drink that students and all-nighter urban animals swore by; Or Paper Boat, which brings a sunny smile and innocent memories, as you sip through these treasured recipes. Any drink can be made to taste good. Or feel nutritious. But how many drinks tell a story? Because when companies get together and dole out a drink to the parched populace, it’s practicality. But when history and geography conspire to make a drink favoured through the ages, that’s destiny. A culmination of efforts. Modified through trial and error. Perfected with every passing age. From a king’s royal cook to a soldier’s flask to a peace offering made by warring clans to a mother conjuring something special for her son’s return to a grand celebration of harvest. Everyone had something to contribute. And it’s their additions (and subtractions) that ultimately made their way into food carts in village fairs. And while we’ve all experienced the joy of tasting these drinks at these carts at one point or the other, we’ve also experienced the often awful gastronomical aftermath of these little joys. Our inspiration for Paper Boat lies in emulating these tastes and experiences standing tall on a benchmark of hygiene and safety. Getting the good moments out to you while avoiding the unpleasant bits. So go on ahead, make new memories. We’ll watch your back.
2021
Co-Founder and CEO
Aug 2021
Skincare today tells us what our skin should look like, without asking what it needs. Melanin -- which gives our skin our distinct hues, just as it protects us from our distinct climatic conditions – is what makes our skin different and unique. And melanin-rich skin, like yours and mine, has remained a footnote in the vast conversation of skincare. In an industry that blankets and erases all skin-types with beauty standards of the West, Asaya steps out of the shadows, and into the light. Asaya is our range of melanin-first skincare. Made with science, researched with rigour, crafted with love and kindness — our offerings stand in sharp contrast against the grain of generic solutions and formulations. We use our keen understanding of melanin and its highly specific needs to create specialty products that bring together the finest natural actives and dermatological excellence from the world over. With our own experiences (and as our research tells us: many of yours’), we understand what being an underrepresented, underserved body feels like. What it’s like to be in our skin. Asaya is our effort to bring specialised care and wellbeing for “the rest of us”. That we may each bask in our innate beauty, and celebrate our best selves. We are Wellspring Consumer, a personal wellness company working to be the fount of all things good.
Investor and Board Member
Jun 2021
Indiano Global is catering to Aluminium, Cement, Petrochemical & Steel industries. We are providing Cradle to Grave sustainable by-product management solution for these sectors.
2019
Board Member
Dec 2019
Raj Ceramics, a unit company of Raj Refractories Private Limited, was established in the year 1983 in eastern part of India with setting up its manufacturing unit at Hardag, District Ranchi, Jharkhand. The company is equipped with all latest manufacturing facilities, high quality people and excellent research and development. Raj Ceramics produces wide spectrum of sophisticated refractories : - Fire Clay and High Alumina Bricks; Pre-cast Shapes ; Mortars; Low Cement Castables for steel, non ferrous and glass industry. - Basic Bricks: Magnesia Carbon Bricks ; Magnesite Bricks, Chemically bonded Mag-Chrome Bricks; Gunning Mass; Ramming Mass; Spraying mix for Tundish Metallurgy. - New generation high performance castables and pre-cast blocks for various applications. - Well Block, nozzles etc. Special Monolithics. -Light Sinter Dolomite for coating of slag in Ladle, AOD and Furnaces. -Rice Husk Ash for Ladle/Tundish insulation -Slag Conditioner for steel making
2007
Associate Manager
Apr 2007
Welcome to the world of HCCB – a Company that started in 1997 with the simple aim to refresh the world and make a difference. Two decades later, we are one of the top 5 FMCG companies. Only because fellow Indians, who have faith in the quality and purity of our products, pick our beverages, 477 times per second. Some choose the ones that have nutrition, others choose pure indulgence. Some prefer the zing that bubbles in the mouth; others prefer a quiet, serene mouthfeel. Some like the beverages that is served hot; others ask us for an ice-cold serve. Our 14 factories, spread across India, manufacture the beverages that India wants. And if it is about India, we better make the best. With stringent processes, world-class machines, state-of-the-art equipment, and the best packaging materials, we make 62 different beverage products in multiple categories. In doing so, we strive to leave things better than we first inherited. Be it by skewing our energy sourcing towards renewable and clean energy, or collaborating with the local communities, to make their lives better. Farmers are our friends. The mango that they grow and hence the pulp that we buy, earns us the distinction of being the largest institutional buyer of mango pulp in the world. The real fruit in Minute Maid is from the produce these farmers harvest. At last count, there were 250,000 farmers, who were helping us stand on the podium. The next time you are having our beverage, remember the 2000+ distributors and 20 lakh retailers, who got it within your reach. Thank the 5,000 suppliers, vendors and partners, who keep the wheels churning and may be clap for the 5,000 associates, who always have your interest in their mind.
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