Amit Lakhotia

Founder & CEO, Park+; Angel Investor

Reviewed Updated Aug 5, 2026

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Founder and CEO of car-owner super-app Park+, formerly Paytm's wallet head and Tokopedia VP, angel investing at seed and pre-seed in India. Verified deals cluster in fintech/payments (BharatPe, Junio, CheQ), consumer commerce (GoKwik, Trell), and mobility — mirroring his operator career. Frequently co-invests with ex-Paytm and Indian consumer-internet operator-angels.

Location Delhi NCR, India

Last Verified Investment Arise (Seed) — Aug 23, 2025

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Stage Focus

seed pre-seed

Sector Focus

fintech mobility consumer healthtech saas commerce insurtech edtech

Background

Amit Lakhotia is an Indian entrepreneur and angel investor, best known as the founder and CEO of Park+, a car-owner super-app that provides parking discovery, FASTag services, insurance, challan management, and related mobility products ¹ ². Park+ was founded in 2019 and, within three years of founding, had raised funding from Sequoia Capital India, Matrix Partners India, and other investors ².

Lakhotia is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad ². His operating career includes leadership roles at three consecutive Indian consumer-internet companies. He was an early member of MakeMyTrip’s leadership team, joining the company in its early stages and part of the team through its NASDAQ listing ². He then joined Paytm, where he served as Vice President and headed the wallet business before departing in 2016 ³. After Paytm, he moved to Jakarta as Vice President, Business at Indonesian e-commerce company Tokopedia ³. In 2018, Entrackr reported that WhatsApp had interviewed him as a candidate to lead its India payments business ³.

Lakhotia founded Park+ in 2019 with co-founder Hitesh Gupta ². The company operates in over 100 cities across India and reports more than 60 lakh (6 million) car owners on its platform ¹.

Alongside operating Park+, Lakhotia is an active angel investor. He has been listed among India’s most active angel investors by Inc42, participating in nine funding deals in 2021 alone ⁴. Multiple aggregator databases variously report his portfolio at anywhere from ~19 to 32 investments, with different levels of coverage ⁵ ⁶.

Stated Thesis

Lakhotia’s public commentary on investing has focused on discipline and unit economics rather than on a specific sector thesis. In an interview with Entrepreneur India, he framed the post-2022 funding environment as a recalibration rather than a crisis and said he continues to look for companies demonstrating frugality, agility, and realistic valuations ⁷.

In the same interview, he said: “Timing the investment game is impossible, therefore it’s imperative that investors keep evaluating businesses and keep investing in entrepreneurs” ⁷. He added: “As an investor, I am still meeting young minds to have discussions” ⁷.

Reflecting on the 2020-2021 boom, he said: “Unit economics got dominated by lofty valuations due to easy liquidity and a bounce back from the covid lockdown period” ⁷. On the pre-seed market specifically, he observed: “The pre-seed stage funding rounds might be a bit tougher for startups as investors might not be ready to put in money without a robust business model in place” ⁷.

Lakhotia is described as focusing on B2B internet companies and IoT-based business models ⁷, though this is characterization by the interviewer rather than a verbatim thesis statement from him.

Inferred Thesis

Based on 10 publicly verified angel investments, Lakhotia’s behavior points to the following patterns. Note: the sample is small — Tracxn, Crunchbase, and other aggregators variously report between 6 and 32 investments, but only a subset are independently verifiable through press announcements. Percentages are not provided given the small sample; qualitative patterns are described below.

Sector patterns. The verified investments cluster around fintech and payments (BharatPe, Junio, CheQ Digital, HealthCred), consumer commerce enablement (GoKwik, Trell), mobility/auto services (Fixcraft, Electrade), and B2B/insurance (Onsurity). This overlaps directly with the operator domains he has worked in — payments (Paytm), consumer internet (MakeMyTrip, Tokopedia), and mobility (Park+). There is no verified deep-tech or biotech investment among his public deals.

Stage. Every verified deal in the sample is a seed or pre-Series A round. He has not led rounds in the verified sample; he participates as an angel alongside institutional leads (Antler India, DeVC, Matrix Partners India, 3one4 Capital, Artha Venture Fund) and other operator-angels ⁸ ⁹ ¹⁰ ¹¹ ¹² ¹³.

Co-investor patterns. Lakhotia repeatedly co-invests with other India consumer-internet operator-angels — Kunal Shah (CRED), Ashneer Grover and Shashvat Nakrani (BharatPe), Deepak Abbot (IndiaGold), Nitin Gupta (Uni Cards), Rohit Kapoor and Maninder Gulati (Oyo), Gaurav Munjal (Unacademy), Aakrit Vaish (Haptik), Jitendra Gupta (Jupiter), and Anshoo Sharma (MagicPin) ⁸ ⁹ ¹⁰ ¹². This is a tight operator-angel cluster around ex-Paytm and adjacent Indian consumer-internet leadership.

Founder profile. Several of the verified investments are led by ex-Paytm operators — Junio was founded by former Paytm executives Ankit Gera and Shankar Nath ¹⁰; BharatPe was co-founded by former Paytm executive Bhavik Koladiya (via subsequent addition of Shashvat Nakrani and Ashneer Grover). This suggests a preference for founders from his own operator network.

Geography. All verified investments are India-based startups. There is no evidence of international investing in the public sample.

Check size. No verified check size disclosure has been found in press coverage. Aggregators (Razorpay Rize) describe him as investing at seed and pre-seed stages ⁶, but do not disclose typical amounts.

Advisor / board. Multiple databases list Lakhotia as an advisor to Elivaas, one of the seed-stage companies in his portfolio ⁵. No other board seats or formal advisory roles are documented in publicly cited sources.

Portfolio

The following entries are individually verified from press announcements or aggregator profiles. This is a partial list — aggregators claim additional investments (Daalchini, FarMart, Locofast, Protonn, Winuall, TyrePlex, Loyka, Darwix AI, QuantE Energy Tech) that appear in secondary databases ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ but are not individually confirmed here from primary press.

Company	Year	Stage	Source
Trell	2018	Seed (existing angel)	⁹
BharatPe	2018-2019	Angel	⁴
Daalchini Technologies	2020	Seed	⁵
Onsurity	2021-04	Angel consortium	¹²
Junio	2021-01	Angel	¹⁰
Fixcraft	2021-07-30	Pre-Series A	⁸
GoKwik	2021-09-07	Pre-Series A	¹¹
ELIVAAS	2023-04-11	Seed	¹³
CheQ Digital	2024-04-26	Seed	¹⁴
HealthCRED	2024-08-12	Seed	¹⁵
Electrade	2024-11	Seed	¹⁶
Arise	2025-08-23	Seed	¹³

In Their Own Words

From an Entrepreneur India feature on his investing outlook ⁷:

On timing: “Timing the investment game is impossible, therefore it’s imperative that investors keep evaluating businesses and keep investing in entrepreneurs.”
On staying active: “As an investor, I am still meeting young minds to have discussions.”
On the post-boom reset: “Unit economics got dominated by lofty valuations due to easy liquidity and a bounce back from the covid lockdown period.”
On the pre-seed market: “The pre-seed stage funding rounds might be a bit tougher for startups as investors might not be ready to put in money without a robust business model in place.”

What Founders Say

No independently sourced founder testimonials about Amit Lakhotia’s angel investing behavior were found. Founders of portfolio companies (Fixcraft, Junio, Onsurity, HealthCRED) have been quoted about their rounds broadly, but not specifically about their experience with Lakhotia as an investor.