October 30, 2019

January 2018

Hyderabad Angels (HA) invests in promising early stage companies globally to create tangible as well as intangible value.

Established in 2012, HA investors are leading venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and business leaders, who, with their financial and business acumen, are committed to providing support to the Indian and global start-up ecosystem. Besides providing capital to businesses that we partner with, we also mentor entrepreneurs and provide them access to our professional and personal network thereby helping businesses in achieving scale and exponential growth.

HA has over 120 members from diverse backgrounds who, with their strong operational expertise and professional network help companies scale thereby creating value for all stakeholders.

Sector and location agnostic, with chapters across India and US, we invest upto USD 1Mn in asset light and scalable businesses with existing customer and revenue traction.

e have partnered with 25 companies & have invested more than INR 40 crores in the past 5 years.

Investor Tidbits

Niraj Mital
Board Member, Hyderabad Angels

“Good ideas need to be more than just seeds Careful nurturing, each of these, needs A forest starts with the planting of saplings Fully grown, a lot of satisfaction, it brings

Angel investing brings out the best in people Giving them the courage to climb up the steeple A sense of belonging that goes beyond the money Of course there are rainy days and those that are sunny.

I’m in this group to sort of experience my past Opportunities for investment are also vast Planting a sapling is what I want to do with you The privileged HA members who are but a few This poetic view is what I wanted to convey Startups will survive if we come their way We all were startups, going through thick and thin Let’s use our experience to make others win”.

Snehil Saraf
Board Member, Hyderabad Angels

“Successful entrepreneur is always on the move finding new opportunities and fixing problems to create long term value in the business.”

Portfolio in News

IndianMoney.com, HA portfolio company has raised a Series A round led by US-based early-stage venture capital fund SRI Capital, the funding round also saw participation from Hyderabad Angels and others.
Founded in 2008 by CS Sudheer, IndianMoney provides free consultation to people looking for expert opinions on matters related to personal finance. It also connects financial intermediaries with consumers interested in financial products through its mobile application ‘Lead Market’.

RealBox leverages Open Source Technologies to Build a High-End Customer Experience for Moviegoers – Click Here to read the case study on Realbox published by Microsoft.

RealBox Data Analytics, based in Noida, India, is a technology company that uses business intelligence and predictive analytics to help offline businesses increase revenues and decrease risks.

Fracktal Works has launched online digital manufacturing services – Fractory.in that take orders and delivers manufactured components to customers.

Fracktal Works delivers multiple versions of FDM 3D Printers and has worked with industry giants such as L&T, Cisco, Loreal, etc. Fracktal’s 3D Printers help customers build a plethora of applications from prototypes to actual functional production parts in industries such as engineering and medical.

Ronak Kumar Samantray, cofounder, NowFloats, spoke at TedxSOA on ‘Always remember the “Why” and you will definitely make it through’. We believe our Why is to bring the 51M SMEs in India online.

NowFloats has developed the open-source chatbot framework named ANA, which will streamline data aggregation, analytics, and automating website functions. SaaS platform that enables SMEs to run all their online operations seamlessly via an app.

Knowledge Series

Employee Benefits: Gratuity

Gratuity is a termination benefit given to an employee. As per the current statute, gratuity will be paid only on continuous service for at least five years. This applies to those organizations in which ten or more persons are employed, or were employed, on any day of the preceding twelve months.

Calculations: GRATUITY = *LAST DRAWN SALARY × 15/26 × **NO. OF YEARS OF SERVICE

*Last drawn salary = Basic Salary + Dearness Allowance
**Years of Service are rounded down to the nearest full year.

Take Away: As part of Due Diligence that we conduct on companies, we often come across startups that do not create this provision in the books, and accordingly, the financials do not capture relevant information. It is advised that all startups comply with the above provision.

Join us for our Webinar on 1st Feb 2018 at 4 PM IST. Click the below link to register.

HA @

At India Today South Conclave Hyderabad.
At Kae Konnect Hyderabad edition.
At iPitch, a national pitch competition by Villgro.
At Start-O-Sphere 2018 conducted by ECELL IIM KOZHIKODE
HA was also at Jumpstart Social Enterprise [Pre-accelerator Bootcamp] at the Indian School of Business.