IAN Group Co-founder Padmaja Ruparel Featured in Business Today’s Most Powerful Women 2025 List
IAN Group is proud to share that its Co-founder, Padmaja Ruparel, has been named in Business Today’s Most Powerful Women 2025 list, recognising women leaders who are shaping India’s business and innovation landscape at scale. Padmaja Ruparel’s entrepreneurial journey began early. Under her leadership, IAN Group...
IAN Group announces Final Close of its Second VC Fund IAN Alpha Fund with US$100 million
New Delhi, 10th Dec’25: IAN Group, the country’s single largest early-stage investment platform, has announced the final close of its 2nd VC Fund - IAN Alpha Fund with US$100 million. The Fund will invest in early-stage companies / MSMEs with strong founders, solving real problems,...
India’s reforms moment in Science and Technology
Consumer App have scripted a unique success story in India: they are transforming the way we eat, shop, and make payments, thus helping us to embrace technology at an accelerated pace. As they expand geographically, these billion-dollar businesses have also inspired and enabled a new...
India’s next billion-dollar leap
Consumer App have scripted a unique success story in India: they are transforming the way we eat, shop, and make payments, thus helping us to embrace technology at an accelerated pace. As they expand geographically, these billion-dollar businesses have also inspired and enabled a new...
India’s Angel Led Disruption
IAN Group is an early stage investing platform platform that invests in startups from seed to series A. According to Padmaja Ruparel, co founder and senior managing partner at IAN Alpha fund, the early stage is very attractive because innovative solutions are built by entrepreneurs,...
India needs a deeptech fund and not just a startup fund
With the rise of India Stack, UPI and consumer apps, India has rapidly evolved into a digital economy. This has enabled Indians to go online to ease payments, logistics, e-health, etc. While digital-first startups have reshaped the consumer economy and enabled incredible convenience, they depend...
Has The Era Of Vanity Metrics Finally Ended For Indian Startups?
The headlines have been relentless over the past year and numbers reflect this, 38 per cent decline in startup funding in 2024. Funding has slowed down, startups are down sizing or even closing down as investors are cutting back. On the surface, it does indicate that...
Lot of Indian-origin AI, deep-tech talent is moving abroad: Padmaja Ruparel
India Angel Network (IAN), one of India’s earliest angel investors, is completing two decades of supporting more than 225 startups. Padmaja Ruparel, cofounder of IAN, in a telephonic interview with Udisha Srivastav spoke about the company’s progress and India’s opportunities and challenges in technology....
The Week Reinforces IAN Group’s Perspective: India’s Deep Tech Moment is a Global Imperative
The recent issue of The Week magazine (August 10, 2025) highlights the growing importance of India’s deep tech capabilities and reinforces the position that IAN Group has long advocated. It explains that India’s global standing increasingly relies on breakthroughs in areas such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing,...
IAN Group: All Weather Angels
Indian Angel Network focused on driving exits from the first fund. IAN aims to reach the milestone of investing Rs 5,000 crore in 500 start-ups by 2030, creating about 500,000 jobs along the way....