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Angel Investment
Pre-seed and seed capital for startups across healthcare, ecommerce, gaming, robotics, AR/VR, and emerging tech.
StartupElves partners with visionary founders at the earliest stages — providing capital, technology expertise, and hands-on incubation to transform bold ideas into scalable products.
What We Do
Focused on the needs of early-stage tech startups — cost-effective, well-designed technology solutions and strategic guidance.
Pre-seed and seed capital for startups across healthcare, ecommerce, gaming, robotics, AR/VR, and emerging tech.
Research in AI, synthetic biology, extended reality (XR), additive manufacturing, data archiving and compression.
From MVP definition to full-stack engineering — web apps, mobile apps, and scalable architecture for launch.
Marketing, sales, and growth strategies. Helping startups find product-market fit, acquire users, and scale revenue.
Technical consultancy, solution architecture, and co-founder roles. Hands-on leadership for the startup journey.
Building at the frontier — AI-driven agentic systems, spatial computing, and next-generation technology solutions.
Portfolio
Startups, products, deep tech R&D, and games — past and present.
Image recognition platform, AR cloud platform, and web-based VR experiences.
360° VR tours for virtual tourism and real estate sales visualization.
On-the-job training using Augmented Reality — interactive AR-guided workflows.
Web and app solutions for SMEs — CRM, inventory, ticketing, and support.
Hyperlocal e-commerce for grocery and daily needs delivery.
Indoor location tracking using WiFi & BT fingerprinting — Indoor GPS and analytics.
Hyper-casual mobile games studio — quick, fun, addictive gameplay.
Story-based mobile games with narrative-driven interactive experiences.
Online pathological and overall health records collection, storage, and analytics platform.
Anonymous social network on web and mobile — candid, identity-free conversations.
Location-based dating app connecting people through proximity.
3D printing and 3D scanning services and technology.
Low-cost surveillance and delivery quadcopter drones.
Android app for remote controlling a Windows/Linux PC — turn your phone into a WiFi mouse.
Web-based loyalty, coupons and rewards platform with e-commerce and POS integration.
A Yo!-style notification app built for the alcohol industry.
Easier and faster PNR tracking website for Indian Railways.
Aggregator for courier docket tracking — bulk tracking and email notifications.
Web platform for online education and testing for UPSC examinations.
Bubble-based Android browser with offline video and web caching.
Subscription e-commerce for children's diapers.
Excess inventory listing and transaction platform with valuation and escrow.
Offline retailers listing, map and product listing for search, discovery, and online promotion.
iOS-based online multiplayer Texas Hold'em poker.
Estimate returns on solar installations using Google Maps and solar data.
Games by 172 Games & KC Games
Player vs player online Tetris clone — real-time competitive block battles.
A websocket-based .io type real-time MMO browser game with tiny cars battling.
Zombie-themed action mini game from the Baijo series.
Sports-inspired football mini game — quick, arcade-style gameplay.
Volleyball mini game — fast-paced rallies from the Baijo series.
A lunar-lander style game — land the rocket safely on the pad!
A casual mini golf game with creative course designs.
Founder & Investor
MBA, Babson College — Boston, MA
B.E., Punjab Engineering College — Chandigarh
About
A seasoned serial entrepreneur, technology expert, and marketing strategist with extensive experience in building and scaling startups. Karan has served as a technical consultant, acting CTO, and co-founder — specializing in solution architecture, product development, sales, and marketing. His track record includes scaling startups to acquisition, developing large technical teams, and delivering citizen-scale projects like eSanjeevaniOPD in healthcare.
Currently focused on advancing AI technologies at FourOne.ai, driving innovation as the world transitions from structured software to agentic, AI-driven systems. He is a partner at ESS ENN Associates, 172 Tech, Drish Infotech, and D2C Ninja, and is actively involved in synthetic biology, extended reality (XR), additive manufacturing, and AI-driven solutions. He is also working on nkgnt — a venture researching novel methods for data archiving and compression.
Beyond entrepreneurship, Karan serves as a board member of Delhi Global Senior School Panchkula (DGSS) and is involved in family ventures: SNA Power Engineering, O'Kinnaur, BabyBooey, and VRnuts. He offers multiple engagement models — product development outsourcing, global capability centers, deep tech research, digital marketing retainers, and support & operations retainers. He actively invests in startups and advises on go-to-market (GTM) strategy, marketing, and sales.
Contact
Have a startup idea? Looking for investment, technical partnership, or strategic guidance? We'd love to hear from you.
Elgin, Illinois, USA & Chandigarh, India