Huddle Hour is an offline platform to bridge the gaps between startup founders and investors
National, April 16, 2025: Lead Invest (formerly Lead Angels), a renowned investment solutions provider and startup enabler, recently introduced ‘Huddle Hour’ – its flagship initiative to Hyderabad, in collaboration with WE Hub Hyderabad and Draper Startup House India. Huddle Hour is a first-of-its-kind initiative designed to enable founders to share their challenges, perspectives and experiences, and growth avenues, and thereafter gather feedback/suggestions directly from experienced investors.
Lead Invest’s Huddle Hour had previously made its debut earlier this year in Bengaluru. Interestingly, unlike conventional high-pressure pitches, Huddle Hour aims to create a casual-yet-inspiring atmosphere where meaningful conversations and ideas can flow seamlessly. With the objective to foster informal interactions between investors and newbie founders, Huddle Hour Hyderabad brought together a plethora of startup founders and investors from the city who networked and conversed openly amid a candid setting.
Speaking about the initiative, Naveena Reddy, Vice President at Lead Invest commented, “We are happy to witness overwhelming response across cities for Huddle Hour – a platform envisioned to promote authentic, insightful interactions between today’s founders and investors. The recent Hyderabad edition of Huddle Hour, which brought together several entrepreneurs, investors and mentors, buoyed the city’s spirited startup scene. We are thankful to our supporters at WE Hub and Draper Startup House India for helping us in making this event successful. Going ahead, we look forward to collaborating with more ecosystem partners, as we aim to make Huddle Hour a regular and highly sought-after initiative for the nation’s startup community”.
Karan Bahadur, Founder, Draper Startup House India added, “We at Draper believe that the best and most innovative ideas are shaped through informal conversations, and Huddle Hour stands as a testament to our belief. By creating an open, relaxed space where founders can engage meaningfully with veteran investors without the high-pressure environment of a pitch, Huddle Hour is poised to become a game-changer. The success of the initiative’s Bangalore and Hyderabad editions has been very encouraging, and we’re excited to support its expansion across other parts of India, reinforcing our commitment to building a robust founders-first community.”
In the upcoming months of 2025, Huddle Hour will continue to expand across India, with Delhi and Mumbai as the next destinations on the roadmap. To ensure every edition of Huddle Hour becomes as impactful, Lead Invest will join hands with diverse collaborators in each city – from incubators and accelerators to startup enablers and others. Beyond just networking and conversations, the Huddle Hour initiative will also attempt to amplify impact by bringing on board other ecosystem players – including legal firms, startup advisors, and debt funds – so that the promising and most active startups coming out of this initiative are able to get holistic support to grow and scale successfully.
About Lead Invest
Lead Invest (formerly Lead Angels) is a premier investment platform specializing in startups, pre-IPO investments, advisory services and cap-table management. Since our inception, we have invested in nearly 100 startups, facilitating high-growth opportunities across diverse sectors. With the mission to bridge the gap between investors and high-potential startups through a structured, data-driven investment approach, we offer strategic investment opportunities with superior returns. In the long run, we envision becoming India’s most trusted and growth-driven unlisted equity investment platform, enabling high-value wealth creation.
For more details, visit www.leadinvest.in
