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.
(6/12)
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
(7/12)
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
(8/12)
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
(10/12)
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
(11/12)
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.
(12/12)
We absolutely missed on of the OG’s @nitinsharma1 💯
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