Thread by @akshayjain865

Here's a list of go-to guys from VC funds, Investing in 🇮🇳 #Web3 Startups👇

Let's dive in 🧵

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Aakash Kumar - @RTinkslinger is a principal at @matrixindiavc where he leads web3 investments.

Previously, Aakash was senior vice president of growth at @DisneyPlusHS

Aakash has put angel check in @DaoLens, @ssv_network, @staderlabs, @MoHashProtocol, and more.

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Vaas Bhaskar - Elevation Capital - @vaasbhaskar is an early-stage investor @Elevcap

He has partnered with web3 companies such as @0xPolygon, @hyypeHQ, @PillowFund, and @turnip_live.

Prior to @Elevcap, he worked at Bain. Vaas was a gold medalist at IIM C.

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Tushar Behl - @TusharBehl0x is an investment professional at Alpha Wave Global.

Previously he was on the investment team at @Kalaari.

Some of Alpha Wave’s recent web3 investments are @0xCoinshift, @BlivClub, and @yugalabs.

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Romit Mehta - @romitme is an investment professional at @LightspeedIndia, focusing on web3.

Lightspeed has over 7+ web3 investments that are undisclosed. Previously he worked at Susquehanna & Lightrock.

Lightspeed runs a hackathon: warpspeed.devfolio.co

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Dhruv Washishth: GP at @vcParadigmShift,

@DhruvWashishth is also a 2x founder who worked with Segment (Acquired, @$3.2B, Twilio).

ParadigmShift recent web3 investments include @ArcanaNetwork, @samudaixyz, @LabsLumos, @BribeProtocol.

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Neel Daftary - Research Lead at @Woodstockfund

Previously @DaftaryNeel was a derivatives intern at JPMorgan.

Woodstock is a web3-focused VC Fund whose portfolio includes key web3 players such as @NearProtocol, @ElrondNetwork, @epnsproject, @officialmudrex, @YGGIndia

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Joel John - Principal at @ledger_prime

@joel_john95 was priorly an analyst at outlier ventures (Web3 Accelerator)

Some of Ledger Primes’s investments include @biconomy, @covalent_hq, and @graphprotocol.

Here is a link to Joel’s substack - decentralised.co

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Shreyansh - Head of investments at @0xPolygon.

@Shreyansh_27 was priorly leading marketing & ops for Polygon. Priorly headed Polygon Studio.

Polygon’s recent investments are @questbookapp, @fanclash_gg, @SyndicateDAO, and 21 other investments.

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Shivam Kumar- Investment Team at @Sequoia_India

@KumShivam focuses on web3 deals at Sequoia, Priorly he was a product manager at Hotstar.

Some of Sequoia's web3 investments include @Web3Auth, @0xPolygon, @CoinSwitchKuber, @YGGIndia, and @flintdotmone

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Shubham Jain, Investor at @HashedEM

@jainshubham2707 was previously advising Korean PE/VC firms at @tknadvisors & managed investments at Kotak.

Some of @hashedem’s recent investments include @LmnlHQ, @questbookapp, @GetLocoNow, and @TryPlotX

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We could obviously only cumulate a handful of profiles, please feel free to tag more folks that are into the VC space looking at #Web3 that you're well aware of:)

TIA.

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We absolutely missed on of the OG’s @nitinsharma1 💯