How many investments has Upekkha made?

Upekkha has 100 tracked investments.

What stage does Upekkha invest at?

Upekkha invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.

What sectors does Upekkha focus on?

Upekkha focuses on AI & Machine Learning.

Who does Upekkha co-invest with?

Upekkha most often shares deals with Accel, Better Capital, Pentathlon Ventures, among 10 tracked co-investors.

Upekkha

Accelerator

Pre-Seed–Seed · 9 people tracked

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Investment thesis

Upekkha identifies and backs early-stage founders from India who have the potential to build globally significant businesses. The firm leverages its extensive network of over 3,000 founders built over 15 years to identify promising entrepreneurs at their formation stage.

Invests inAI & Machine Learning Global India

Source: firm website, verified Aug 6, 2026.

Stage

Pre-Seed–Seed

Instruments

Equity

Portfolio companies

100

Team · 9 people

from the firm's website

Prasanna Krishnamoorthy· Managing Partner· Indiain 𝕏

Mentor; CEO and co-founder of Upekkha.

Shekar· Managing Partner· San Francisco, California, United Statesin 𝕏

Shekar is co-founder, managing partner, and growth coach at Upekkha, an early-stage AI fund and accelerator where he advises startups on financial discipline, investment strategy, enterprise sales, go-to-market, partnerships, compliance, and organizational scaling. His background includes roles at Xylan (which went public and was acquired by Alcatel for $3 billion), Allegro Networks, and NetApp, where he expanded India operations and built the Asia Pacific OEM business from zero to $30 million in revenue. He holds an M.S. in computer science, is a candidate for an M.S. in electrical engineering from CSUN, and holds a U.S. patent in data communications and networking.

Thiyagarajan (Rajan)· Managing Partner· San Francisco, California, United Statesin 𝕏

Thiyagarajan is co-founder and CEO of Kalmantic Agentic Lab, where he is developing OpenFactoryAI.com with a focus on inference and model deployment. Previously, he built a computer vision startup and held a product role at Intuit. He has authored two books on AI topics—Peak Inference and Model Is the Easy Part—co-hosts the RK on AI podcast, and writes at mtrajan.com.

Gokul· Partner· Bengaluru, Karnataka, Indiain 𝕏

Gokul is a Partner at Upekkha, an AI-focused B2B fund and accelerator. He has held roles at Zone Startups and iSPIRT, was an early member of Startup Village, and founded V10 Solutionz. He holds an honours degree in Business Studies from Northampton Business School.

Bhavya· Manager - Investments· Greater Delhi Areain

Fahad· Head - Investor Relations & Seed Funding· Bengaluru, Karnataka, Indiain

Jeyashrri. G· Virtual Assistant· Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, Indiain

Nisha· Associate, Accelerator Operations· Kochi, Kerala, Indiain

Tanuka· Head, Program & Community· Greater Bengaluru Areain

Tanuka serves as Head of Program and Community at Upekkha, where she works with portfolio startups on frameworks, knowledge, and mentorship for building global AI SaaS businesses. Previously, she led software development teams for networking products at Cisco Systems and worked as a developer at Motorola. She also founded Staff You Trust, a community of independent progressive school founders focused on education innovation.

What they invest in

from 21 of 100 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×15SaaS ×14HR Tech ×5Enterprise Software ×4AdTech ×3Developer Tools ×3Cybersecurity ×2Data & Infrastructure ×2

HQs:United States×1

Portfolio companies · 100 tracked

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2Care Ai

Adnabuadnabu.com in 𝕏

AdNabu is a "Built for Shopify" certified product data feed management app that uses AI (GPT models) to optimize and sync Shopify product catalogs to Google Merchant Center and marketplaces including Meta, Bing, Pinterest, X, TikTok, and Snapchat.

AdTechAI & Machine LearningE-commerce

Allevents

Almabasealmabase.com in 𝕏

Almabase is an AI-powered engagement platform that works on top of advancement CRMs to help educational institutions run alumni engagement, events, and giving programs and convert constituents into donors.

Developer ToolsEdTechMarketing TechSaaS

Kalyan VarmaSrihari Maneru

Co-investors500 Global

Altimo Dayzero

Anantadianantadi.com in

Anantadi offers an AI-powered virtual product placement (VPP) platform that analyzes video frames to find contextually relevant scenes for brand placements and manages VPP ad campaigns at scale.

AdTechAI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment

Co-investorsSucSEED Indovation

Anywhere

Api Platform

Appknoxappknox.com in 𝕏

Appknox provides a mobile application security platform that scans, tests, and monitors apps to identify and prioritize vulnerabilities across the development lifecycle.

CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Ardraai

Arkainventory

Ashield Technologies Pvt Ltd

Atlancer

Big Jobs

Bigfish Benefits

Blaash Io

Bolna

Bryckel

Bynry Technologies

Careflick

Cashflowy

Classpro

Cleartrust

Cloodot

Cloudbankin

Cogniswitch Ai

Commerznxt Inc

Complyance Io

Constems Ai

Contractken

Cultureos

Culturro

Dartle

Datahq

Datasaki

Devzery

Dheemai

Disbug

Drapcodedrapcode.com

DrapCode builds production-ready healthcare applications on HIPAA/SOC 2-certified infrastructure, including signed BAAs, audit logs, and encrypted hosting.

Developer ToolsDigital HealthHealthtech

Duonut

Dyrect

Ecom Books

Enthu Ai

Exxar

Faqprime

Finly

Finos

Fitmedik

AI-native operating layer for senior living and post-acute care operators that integrates EHR, staffing, and care data to improve resident risk detection and workflow standardization.

Flytbaseflytbase.com in 𝕏

FlytBase provides a drone autonomy and AI platform for large industrial sites, unifying drones, docks, robots, sensors, and cameras into one layer that turns site data into automated action.

AI & Machine LearningIoTRobotics

Forneu

Freshreview

Ful Io A64F1

Garagepluggarageplug.com in

GaragePlug offers a cloud platform for the automotive service sector that uses AI to help service advisors and shopfloor technicians predict vehicle issues, make personalized recommendations, conduct AI-guided video inspections, and anticipate maintenance needs.

AI & Machine LearningMobility & TransportationSaaS

Get Blue Nevara

Gigsboard

Gim Books

Gimlet Ai 6F38E

Goveva

Health Compiler

Holmes Systems Inc

Humbird

Hyreohyreo.com in 𝕏

Hyreo provides an AI-driven recruitment CRM and candidate experience platform that automates candidate and recruiter communication across channels such as MS Teams, email, SMS, web, WhatsApp, and voice.

AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaS

Idukki

Imochaimocha.io in 𝕏

iMocha provides a skills and work intelligence platform that infers and validates employee skills from assessments, AI interviews, certifications, and work data to give enterprises a real-time view of workforce capability.

AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaS

Amit D Mishra(Founder)in

Co-investorsBetter Capital

Infloso

Influence

Insightgig

Instio

Intellohireintellohire.com

IntelloHire builds recruitment automation software for staffing and recruitment agencies, aimed at reducing manual cold-calling, candidate qualification, and follow-up work.

AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaS

Intermezzo

Ivoz

Izootoizooto.com in 𝕏

iZooto is a marketing automation platform built specifically for news publishers, offering web and mobile app push notifications, a notification center, and on-site engagement tools to convert visitors into subscribers and retain audiences.

AdTechMarketing TechSaaS

Kale

Kalmantic Labs

Kapittx

Kennectkennect.io in 𝕏

Kennect provides software that automates the sales incentive and commission process, replacing spreadsheets with automated pay statements, real-time earnings visibility, an incentive simulator, and gamified leaderboards.

Enterprise SoftwareSaaSSales Tech

Klampklamp.ai in 𝕏

Klamp provides an integration platform that automates the connection layer for SaaS products, handling authentication, field mapping, error handling, and data sync so engineering teams avoid building and maintaining connectors in-house.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureSaaS

Balaji Mani(CTO)

Kloudlekloudle.com in 𝕏

Kloudle is a sovereign cloud security posture management (CSPM) tool that runs scans on the customer's own infrastructure and stores results in their own PostgreSQL database, without sending cloud inventory data to external systems.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper Tools

Akash Mahajan(Founder)in

Co-investorsKube VC

Kommunicatekommunicate.io in 𝕏

Kommunicate provides AI agents that automate customer support conversations, handling common queries while escalating complex issues to human agents.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Labellerrlabellerr.com in 𝕏

Labellerr provides a data labeling and annotation platform for AI/ML teams, using automated annotation, analytics, and QA to process large volumes of images and video for model training.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureSaaS

Leadlabs

Leadmetrics

Lineupx

Listen Owl

Longshot Ai

Medpiper

Membroz

Mentorskool

Nuvepronuvepro.com in 𝕏

Nuvepro delivers hands-on, AI-leveraged skill development and assessment labs for enterprise teams, enabling them to become project-ready in 4-6 weeks through practice projects and real-world simulations.

EdTechEnterprise SoftwareHR Tech

Co-investors1Crowd

Prudent

Rapidflare

Spynespyne.ai in 𝕏

Spyne provides an AI-powered platform that helps car dealers source, list, market, and sell vehicles.

AI & Machine LearningRetail TechSaaS

Co-investorsAccel Pentathlon Ventures Sprint Vc Storm Ventures Vertex Ventures Sea Management Pte. Ltd.Alteria Capital +1 more

Tarshellotars.com in 𝕏

Tars builds AI agents for customer support and sales that handle high-volume conversations across web, WhatsApp, and email, with a workflow to build, test, deploy, and improve agents.

AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech

Toothlenstoothlens.com in

ToothLens builds an AI-powered software platform for dental benefits, covering the lifecycle from pre-authorisation to claims settlement.

AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthInsurTech

Dr. Manoj Rajan(Founder)

United We Care

Userology

Vaultedge

Veribrance

Voxyhealth Ai

Wecpwecreateproblems.com in 𝕏

WeCP is a technical talent assessment platform that lets employers evaluate candidates through work-mirroring coding tests and skill assessments, with AI-based fraud and deepfake protection.

AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaS

Frequently asked questions

How many investments has Upekkha made?: Upekkha has 100 tracked investments.
What stage does Upekkha invest at?: Upekkha invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
What sectors does Upekkha focus on?: Upekkha focuses on AI & Machine Learning.
Who does Upekkha co-invest with?: Upekkha most often shares deals with Accel, Better Capital, Pentathlon Ventures, among 10 tracked co-investors.

Media · Podcasts & interviews

featuring the team

Shekar Nair | Is AI Real? Hype, Hope, and the Future of Intelligence | Co-founder, Upekkha - YouTube

Eventxpress · Shekar

Meet Your Mentor | Prasanna Krishnamoorthy | Upekkha - YouTube

JioGenNext · Prasanna

Meet PRASANNA & His Firm UPEKKHA, The Company For All 'SaaS' Moments | The UpStream Life - YouTube

The UpStreamLife · Prasanna

Shekar Nair, Partner at Upekkha during EY Upekkha Report Launch - YouTube

Upekkha - SaaS Fund & Accelerator · Shekar

Shekar Nair on Why invest in Upekkha Startups and Capital Efficiency - YouTube

Upekkha - AI accelerator for global Indian founder · Shekar

Learning Wardley Maps With Prasanna Krishnamoorthy From Upekkha | Headstart Product Tuesday - YouTube

Headstart Network · Prasanna

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