Sorin Investments

Founder and Chairman Sanjay Nayar sets the firm's strategy and chairs the investment committee. General Partner Angad Banga and Partners Mandar Dandekar and Subeer Monga lead day-to-day deal evaluation, diligence, and portfolio management. The firm's website lists the four as the senior investing principals.

Sorin leans on the personal networks of its senior team — especially Sanjay Nayar's decades running Citi India and KKR India — to find founders before mandates go broad. The firm publicly frames its value proposition around practical support and network access, which tends to attract founders through referrals rather than auction processes.

Sorin operates as an asset manager running a private equity strategy. The firm is structured as an early-stage venture investor, not a family office, and raises capital externally to deploy into Indian technology companies.

Sorin positions itself as an early-stage investor focused on pre-Series A and Series A rounds. The firm looks for founders working on early-to-emerging ideas, business models, or technologies and aims to provide first-to-third institutional checks.

Sorin does not publish an explicit exclusion list. Its portfolio and website materials show a focus on technology-enabled businesses in fintech, enterprise AI/SaaS, health tech, consumer tech, and industrial technology; sectors outside those categories — particularly non-tech, infrastructure, and later-stage leveraged transactions — do not appear in its known pipeline.