Angel investor. 5 companies backed across 5 recorded rounds, Apr 2020 – Aug 2021.
Sectors of the companies in the portfolio, by company count.
Head-office city of the companies in the portfolio.
Rounds by stage.
Total size of the rounds they joined — an angel's own cheque is a share of this, and is not disclosed.
Every company Vasant Narayanan Rao appears as an investor in, most recent round first.
| Company | City | Sectors | Latest round | Rounds | Round value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rigi | Bengaluru | OTT VideoVideo On DemandB2C E-Commerce | Seed Aug 2021 | 1 | $1.2M |
| Rezo.ai | Noida | Customer Service SoftwareChatbotsAgentic AI | Seed Dec 2020 | 1 | $282K |
| EDLP Retail Solutions | Bengaluru | Enterprise Resource PlanningIn Store Retail TechCommerce Enablers | Seed May 2020 | 1 | $579.9K |
| Faad Capital | Delhi | Seed May 2020 | 1 | $28K | |
| HUVIAiR | Bengaluru | DronesConstruction TechDrone Software | Seed Apr 2020 | 1 | $289.8K |
Investors that appear in the same rounds. Two names in one round is what "invested together" means here — it is not a claim about a relationship off the cap table.
| Investor | Type | Based | Shared rounds | Shared companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appyhigh | Firm | Gurugram | 4 | 4 |
| Wellfound | Firm | New York City | 3 | 3 |
| Anycast Technology | Firm | Gurugram | 2 | 2 |
| Dinesh Mohan Prasad | Angel | 2 | 2 | |
| Shastra VC | Firm | Bengaluru | 2 | 2 |
| Ashis Nayak | Angel | Bengaluru | 2 | 2 |
| Ujjval Lulla | Angel | 2 | 2 | |
| Anupam Mittal | Angel | Mumbai | 1 | 1 |
| Bharat Sheth | Angel | Mumbai | 1 | 1 |
| Vaibhav Gupta | Angel | 1 | 1 | |
| Rohit Bansal | Angel | Gurugram | 1 | 1 |
| Rahul Mittal | Angel | 1 | 1 | |
| Vishal Nagpal | Angel | 1 | 1 | |
| Sorabh Agarwal | Angel | Gurugram | 1 | 1 |
| Mahesh Venugopal | Angel | 1 | 1 | |
| Rahil Maniyar | Angel | 1 | 1 | |
| Ankit Goel | Angel | Kolkata | 1 | 1 |
| Fin Advisors | Firm | Kampala | 1 | 1 |
| Sharda Balaji | Angel | 1 | 1 | |
| Dexter Angels | Firm | Mumbai | 1 | 1 |