Shark Tank India portfolio
Backed over 100 companies as an investor across seasons one to five of the Sony Entertainment Television programme.
Source: Wikipedia, sourced ↗Business
Namita Thapar
Executive director of Emcure Pharmaceuticals, the Indian drugmaker her father founded, and one of the investors on Shark Tank India across its first five seasons. Television is what made her a household name in India, but the effect is that a large number of small Indian consumer and healthcare companies now have a pharmaceutical executive on the cap table rather than a fund.
100+ companies backed
Notable investments
What Namita Thapar has backed
Emcure Pharmaceuticals
Executive director of the family pharmaceutical business, which is the source of the capital.
Source: Wikipedia, sourced ↗What the record doesn't say
Read this with the gaps in mind.
Individual company names and cheque sizes circulate widely on Indian startup blogs and deal-data sites, but almost none is confirmed by reputable reporting, so none is listed here. Televised handshakes on Shark Tank are also well documented to not always close afterwards — the on-air number is not the invested number.
Frequently asked questions
What has Namita Thapar invested in?
Namita Thapar has backed Shark Tank India portfolio, Emcure Pharmaceuticals. Each one is listed on this page with what the company does and a link to named reporting.
How much has Namita Thapar invested?
Cheque sizes are almost never disclosed, and Namita Thapar's are mostly private. Where a round size, stake or valuation has been reported we cite the source; otherwise we flag it as undisclosed rather than guess.