Rohit Sood

Partner at Bertelsmann India Investments (BII)

📍 Gurgaon, Haryana, India🔄 Updated September 2026💼 18 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2025
Angel investor🌍 IndiaInvested this year
18
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5
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8
Mid stage
3
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11y
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Oct 2025
Founded in 2024, Snabbit is India’s first Quick-Service App offering on-demand home services. With a hyperlocal network operating in dense residential clusters, Snabbit guarantees quality and speed, providing trusted and trained experts that arrive within minutes. Backed by Nexus Venture Partners, and Elevation Capital, Snabbit takes a full-stack approach to sourcing, training, and managing experts. Combined with an innovative time-based pricing model, Snabbit simplifies daily life for urban families while creating respectable, well-paying opportunities for a workforce that has long been fragmented and unorganized.
Investor
Sep 2025
Handpickd is a one-of-a-kind matchmaking platform for fruits and vegetables that customers love and use frequently. We’re building a zero-forecasting, zero-inventory, zero-warehousing model that solves for wastage while ensuring the freshest produce possible. Pesticide-free and plastic-free produce are added feathers in our offering. Our mission: to reduce wastage, rebuild trust in freshness, and disrupt India’s largest and most frequent consumption category — at scale and profitably.
Investor
Jun 2025
Wiom makes unlimited internet affordable and accessible for every household in Bharat. Our decentralized model empowers local partners and brings digital opportunities to millions of families. In the next 5 years, we aim to unlock the dreams of 50 crore people through affordable connectivity.
Investor
Oct 2024
We make home loans faster, stress-free & BASIC! How? While home loans are inherently complex, we have innovatively incorporated a significant degree of automation into the process. BASIC Home Loan is Indias first automated platform for secured lending with a special focus on the affordable housing segment. Weve built a "Phygital" model, with our network of expert home loan agents who use our technology to efficiently guide our customers, from initial research all the way to getting the loan approved and disbursed. Through our strong agent network, we can also reach out to those smaller cities and towns in the Tier 2 & Tier 3 regions that are often overlooked by other digital lenders. With our tech, we are able to make the whole process more efficient, lowering the costs and improving transparency for our customers. BASIC is all about making housing more accessible, and #ChangingHomeLoansForGood #BASICHomeLoan #HomeLoan #HomeOwnership #BASICAgents #HomeLoanAgent
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Jul 2024
Scimplify is a full-stack platform for research, development, and manufacturing of specialty chemicals. We operate across the product life cycle from research to pilot-scale to commercial manufacturing to deliver 3000+ chemical products across industries – Agrochemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Flavors & Fragrances, Industrial Chemicals, and more. From ideation to execution, our in-house team of 40+ scientists works on the latest, cost-efficient technologies, offering assistance from custom synthesis to route scouting to develop novel chemical products that are scaled up in our network of 250+ manufacturing plants and delivered to customers across 20+ countries. A fungible manufacturing approach, coupled with the largest pool of technology banks and advanced digital capabilities, helps us meet the diverse needs of our 1000+ customers globally. Through our proprietary platform, ATOMS, we provide businesses with a seamless solution for the smooth discovery of chemicals and manufacturers in the global market. This, in turn, helps chemical manufacturers access global demand for their unutilized capacity, consequently growing their revenue.
Investor
Feb 2024
Rozana.in is one of Indias fastest growing Rural Commerce platform that leverages Tech and Data Science to cater to unique local demands of 1 billion Indians outside the scope of online commerce. This silent tech revolution is not only empowering the end consumer but also working towards incubating over 10 million tech micro-entrepreneurs all over the country. We enable micro-entrepreneurs to give wider, innovative and competitive offerings to end users. Our entrepreneurs use the platform to onboard customers, share latest deals and help them place online orders, making last mile delivery efficient. Aspirations in rural India are on the rise and we are racing against time to ensure the effective delivery of essential services to these areas. Rozana.in aims to empower rural communities of the country and connect them to online commerce through a network of micro-entrepreneurs, and envisions to become the leading P2P rural commerce platform in India.
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Board Member
Aug 2022
SquadStack is a Saas-Enabled Talent Marketplace for Sales, and our vision is to provide access to skilled work for anyone, anywhere. We help consumer businesses that sell high-ticket products and services across various market segments (Brokerage, Lending, Insurance, E-Commerce & Edtech etc.) to improve their sales conversions and funnel efficiency. Weve integrated 3 core layers of innovation to manage the complete inside sales ecosystem for consumer businesses: 1) Decentralization to access top sales talent 2) AI-powered tools to manage the complete life cycle of the sales experts 3) An omnichannel campaign management platform for businesses.
Board Member
Mar 2022
We are the worlds most trusted sales engagement platform for financial institutions. Our mobile-first platform solves over 18 deep industry-relevant use cases for frontline personnel, sales managers, and business heads through intelligent nudges and industry playbooks. What makes Vymo unique is our deep focus on solving real challenges for banks, insurance, and financial services. And whats more, salespeople dont just use Vymo, they love us! Our daily active usage is upwards of 75%. Were able to impact their lives tangibly. Follow us to hear from industry experts and leaders about how they are using Vymo to #DoMore
Board Member
Aug 2021
Skeps is a white-labeled POS financing solutions provider for merchants and lenders. We started out with a global vision to transform the consumer financing landscape with our #scalable and #robust technology that equips lenders and merchants with flexible payment options to offer to their customers at both online, and in-store point-of-sale. Our state-of-the-art technology will boost your customers’ purchasing confidence while ensuring their peace of mind. The company was founded in 2018, with headquarters in New York, U.S., and offices in India. For more information, visit https://www.skeps.com/. Drop a note at careers@skeps.com to be a part of Skeps!
Board Observer
Jul 2019
Rupeek is India’s leading asset-backed, digital lending fintech platform. Driven by the mission to make credit accessible to Indians in a fair and convenient way, Rupeek is pioneering innovative financial products to help monetize India’s $2 trillion gold. Powered by state-of-the-art technology and an automated asset-light supply chain, Rupeek is transforming the way gold loans are disbursed in India. Through partnerships with leading banks and financial institutions, it is building gold-backed assets, in a low-risk, low-touch and friction-free manner. To know how Rupeek plans to monetise gold, click here: https://bit.ly/3rnlzie Founded in 2015 by Sumit Maniyar, Rupeek is present in over 60+ cities in India and has touched over 5,00,000+ customers. Headquartered in Bangalore, Rupeeks investors include Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, Bertelsmann and GGV Capital.
Board Observer
Mar 2019
Founded in 2013, AgroStar is one of India’s foremost AgTech start-ups, working on the mission of Helping Farmers Win. AgroStar is an end-to-end solutions provider that is solving three major problems of farmers - limited access to good quality agri inputs, a gap in knowledge and information about scientific farming practices, and a lack of access to the best markets to sell their produce. Today, AgroStar serves millions of farmers across seven Indian states via an omnichannel approach. We have built India’s largest Agri Advisory Center, a highly engaged digital farmer network on the AgroStar app, with over 7.5 million users and a retail network of 7000+ stores (rapidly expanding). Through the acquisition of INI Farms, a leader in pomegranate, banana and fresh cuts exports from India, AgroStar is helping farmers sell their produce to some of the largest retail chains spread across 25+ countries in the world. Thus, building a full-stack model, solving for farmers’ problems end to end. Our platform, powered by data and technology, helps us to solve the problems faced by farmers at scale, thereby driving us closer to our mission of Helping Farmers Win.
Board Member
Jan 2019
LetsTransport was founded in 2015 by IIT-Kharagpur alumni Pushkar Singh, Sudarshan Ravi, and Ankit Parasher. It is a series-B funded, last-mile tech-logistics solution provider for intra-state deliveries based in Bangalore. It offers reliable, affordable, and professional services, structured to serve enterprises. LetsTransport aggregates light commercial vehicles for urban logistics and has onboarded 100,000+ truckers on its platform across 20+ cities. LetsTransport works across industry sectors like organized retail, FMCG and e-commerce, distribution and 3PL companies. Some of its clients include Amazon, Flipkart, Bisleri, Vishal Mega Mart, Future Supply Chain, Coca-Cola, Delhivery, and Udaan. The company offers customized logistics solutions for clients, along with other value-added services such as screened drivers, audited and GPS-enabled vehicles, point-to-point billing, status updates, 24x7 service, and greater efficiency, all at transparent and economical pricing. LetsTransport, as a brand, is known as one of the market leaders in the enterprise segment, and first movers to identify and empathize with the underserved urban trucker community, playing a huge role in making them a part of the mainstream economy. This series-B funded tech-logistics company aims to disrupt the primitive $35bn+ urban-logistics industry by leveraging technology and help enterprises to reach consumers faster. LetsTransport is Indias largest enterprise urban-logistics provider in India, with 100,000+ Light Commercial Vehicles on its platform. LetsTransport has raised US$25 million funding till date from leading investors like Fosun RZ Capital, Bertelsmann India Investments, Mitsubishi Corporation and others.
Board Observer
Oct 2018
Licious began in 2015 when Abhay Hanjura and Vivek Gupta set out to transform a $55Bn category that was largely unbranded, inconsistent, and untouched by modern food standards. Their vision was simple - bring honesty, hygiene, and joy to meat and seafood buying in India. What followed was a category-defining shift powered by India’s only fully integrated 0–4°C cold chain, global FSSC 22000 certification, backward integration through bio-secure poultry farms, and rigorous control over freshwater fish and seafood. With five state-of-the-art processing centres and an annual capacity of 36,000 tonnes, Licious now serves India’s top metros - Bengaluru, NCR, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai and Kolkata - through a strong online presence, expanding retail stores, and fast-growing quick commerce partnerships, including 30-minute delivery across major urban clusters. Over the years, the brand has reached 4.5 million customers, earning unmatched trust, quality leadership and a loyal following in a category long defined by guesswork. This unwavering focus on quality, innovation, and consumer obsession has made Licious India’s first D2C unicorn. Today, it stands as the country’s most loved, iconic D2C meat brand - elevating everyday meals, setting new benchmarks for safety and freshness, and building an ecosystem where farmers, meat technicians, supply partners and delivery heroes thrive alongside millions of delighted home cooks.
Board Observer
Jul 2016
Lendingkart Group aims to make working capital finance available at the fingertips of entrepreneurs, so that they can focus on business instead of worrying about the gaps in their cash-flows. Lendingkart Technologies Private Limited is a fin-tech startup in the working capital space. The Company has developed technology tools based on big data analysis which facilitates lenders to evaluate borrower’s creditworthiness and provides other related services. Lendingkart Finance Limited (formerly Aadri Infin Limited), is a non-deposit taking NBFC, providing SME lending in India. The Company aims to transform small business lending by making it convenient for SMEs to access credit easily. The Company uses technology and analytics tools, analyzing thousands of data points from various data sources to assess the creditworthiness of small businesses rapidly and accurately. Meet us at https://www.lendingkart.com/ Read our articles at - https://lendingkart.com/blog
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Jul 2016
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2025
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Oct 2025
Founded in 2024, Snabbit is India’s first Quick-Service App offering on-demand home services. With a hyperlocal network operating in dense residential clusters, Snabbit guarantees quality and speed, providing trusted and trained experts that arrive within minutes. Backed by Nexus Venture Partners, and Elevation Capital, Snabbit takes a full-stack approach to sourcing, training, and managing experts. Combined with an innovative time-based pricing model, Snabbit simplifies daily life for urban families while creating respectable, well-paying opportunities for a workforce that has long been fragmented and unorganized.
Investor
Sep 2025
Handpickd is a one-of-a-kind matchmaking platform for fruits and vegetables that customers love and use frequently. We’re building a zero-forecasting, zero-inventory, zero-warehousing model that solves for wastage while ensuring the freshest produce possible. Pesticide-free and plastic-free produce are added feathers in our offering. Our mission: to reduce wastage, rebuild trust in freshness, and disrupt India’s largest and most frequent consumption category — at scale and profitably.
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Jun 2025
Wiom makes unlimited internet affordable and accessible for every household in Bharat. Our decentralized model empowers local partners and brings digital opportunities to millions of families. In the next 5 years, we aim to unlock the dreams of 50 crore people through affordable connectivity.
2024
Investor
Oct 2024
We make home loans faster, stress-free & BASIC! How? While home loans are inherently complex, we have innovatively incorporated a significant degree of automation into the process. BASIC Home Loan is Indias first automated platform for secured lending with a special focus on the affordable housing segment. Weve built a "Phygital" model, with our network of expert home loan agents who use our technology to efficiently guide our customers, from initial research all the way to getting the loan approved and disbursed. Through our strong agent network, we can also reach out to those smaller cities and towns in the Tier 2 & Tier 3 regions that are often overlooked by other digital lenders. With our tech, we are able to make the whole process more efficient, lowering the costs and improving transparency for our customers. BASIC is all about making housing more accessible, and #ChangingHomeLoansForGood #BASICHomeLoan #HomeLoan #HomeOwnership #BASICAgents #HomeLoanAgent
Investor
Jul 2024
Scimplify is a full-stack platform for research, development, and manufacturing of specialty chemicals. We operate across the product life cycle from research to pilot-scale to commercial manufacturing to deliver 3000+ chemical products across industries – Agrochemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Flavors & Fragrances, Industrial Chemicals, and more. From ideation to execution, our in-house team of 40+ scientists works on the latest, cost-efficient technologies, offering assistance from custom synthesis to route scouting to develop novel chemical products that are scaled up in our network of 250+ manufacturing plants and delivered to customers across 20+ countries. A fungible manufacturing approach, coupled with the largest pool of technology banks and advanced digital capabilities, helps us meet the diverse needs of our 1000+ customers globally. Through our proprietary platform, ATOMS, we provide businesses with a seamless solution for the smooth discovery of chemicals and manufacturers in the global market. This, in turn, helps chemical manufacturers access global demand for their unutilized capacity, consequently growing their revenue.
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