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, Callapina Capital, among 11 tracked co-investors.

Upekkha

Accelerator

Pre-Seed–Seed · 9 people tracked

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1,551 people in our graph share verified history with the Upekkha team — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Job Simonunlockedknows Shekar · together at NetApp (overlapped)

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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

101

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.

Founder mafia

2 people who came through Upekkha went on to found or lead other companies.

Sanjoe Tom JoseAngel InvestorFounded Talview Gagan JosanGrowth MentorFounded Valueailabs

What they invest in

from 22 of 101 portfolio companies

SaaS ×17AI & Machine Learning ×16Enterprise Software ×11HR Tech ×6Developer Tools ×5Marketing Tech ×4AdTech ×3EdTech ×3

HQs:India×4United States×2Australia×1Singapore×1

Who they back

founder profiles across 13 portfolio companies

46%

solo founders

6 of 13 mapped founding teams

62%

repeat founders

of 13 founders with career history

Founding team size:solo founder×62 founders×53 founders×14+ founders×1

Where their founders studiedfrom 11 founders with education data

Cochin University of Science and Technology ×3

What their founders studiedfrom 12 founders with field-of-study data

Engineering ×5Business & Management ×4Computer Science ×4

Where their founders worked beforefrom 13 founders with career history

UST Global ×3

Portfolio companies · 101 tracked

alumni founders can tell you what the program is really like

Adnabuadnabu.com in 𝕏

AdNabu offers AI-powered keyword suggestion and product title optimization for Google Shopping ads, targeting Shopify store owners.

AdTechAI & Machine LearningE-commerceMarketing TechSaaS

Salil Panikkaveettil(Founder)in

Almabasealmabase.com in 𝕏

Almabase helps educational institutions and nonprofits engage donors and alumni to increase fundraising and institutional support.

Developer ToolsEdTechMarketing TechSaaS

Kalyan VarmainSrihari Maneru

Co-investors500 Global

Anantadianantadi.com in

AnantADI provides AI-powered virtual product placement technology that identifies and embeds branded content into video across TV, OTT, and FAST platforms.

AdTechAI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment

Co-investorsSucSEED Indovation

Appknoxappknox.com in 𝕏

Appknox provides binary-based software bill of materials (SBOM) analysis for mobile applications, helping development and security teams identify vulnerable components and manage third-party security risks.

CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSingapore, SG

Harshit Agarwal(CEO)Subho Halder(CISO)in

Co-investorsJungle Ventures SeedPlus Singapore

Drapcodedrapcode.com

DrapCode is a healthcare application development platform that helps organizations build HIPAA-compliant electronic health record systems to centralize patient information, clinical documentation, and care workflows.

Developer ToolsDigital HealthHealthtechSaaS

Vishal Sahu(Founder)in

Flytbaseflytbase.com in 𝕏

FlytBase provides a platform for managing multi-drone fleets across multiple locations with unified command and control, compliance, and autonomous operations.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareIoTRoboticsPune, IN

BoardVasu GuruswamyinSanjay Kanvindein

Co-investorsLavni Ventures Pentathlon Ventures

Garagepluggarageplug.com in

GaragePlug is a cloud-based software platform designed for auto detailing centers and repair workshops to manage multiple outlets, automate customer communications, and track business performance through a centralized dashboard.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMobility & TransportationRetail TechSaaSNewark, US

Shubhra Srivastava(Founder)inAshish Shrivastav(Founder)in

Hyreohyreo.com in 𝕏

Hyreo develops AI agents for the recruitment industry, aiming to improve hiring processes through artificial intelligence.

AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaS

Mahesh Raju(Founder)in Sreenath Narayanan(Founder)in Arun Satyan(Founder)in

Co-investorsCallapina Capital

Imochaimocha.io in 𝕏

iMocha offers AI Skills Inference, a system that automatically extracts and validates employee skills from resumes, projects, learning data, and certifications to keep skill profiles current.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaS

Amit D Mishra(Founder)in

Co-investorsBetter Capital

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

Izootoizooto.com in 𝕏

iZooto is a push notification platform that enables publishers and content platforms to segment audiences and send contextual notifications based on geography, device, behavior, and interests.

AdTechMarketing TechMedia & EntertainmentSaaSDelhi, IN

Neel Kothari(Founder & CEO)inShrikant Kale(Founder & CPO)Sachin Grover(Founder & CTO)Vivek Khandelwal(Founder & COO)in

Kennectkennect.io in 𝕏

Kennect provides incentive compensation management software that automates sales performance tracking and incentive administration.

Enterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaSSales Tech

Klampklamp.ai in 𝕏

Klamp provides a toolkit for product leaders to manage integrations and workflow automation, enabling them to accelerate product innovation and drive expansion revenue.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaS

Balaji Mani(CTO)in

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

Kompose is a no-code AI chatbot builder that enables businesses to automate customer support by connecting knowledge bases, CRM systems, and ticketing platforms to handle conversations across websites, mobile apps, WhatsApp, and other channels.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

DevashishAdarsh

Labellerrlabellerr.com in 𝕏

Labellerr provides an AI-assisted video annotation platform that enables machine learning teams to label and prepare video datasets for computer vision models.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Puneet(Co-founder & CEO)

Nuvepronuvepro.com in 𝕏

Nuvepro is a platform that combines hands-on labs, skill assessments, and AI-driven pathways to help enterprises, IT service firms, and educational institutions upskill and validate their workforce for immediate project readiness.

AI & Machine LearningEdTechEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkHR TechSaaSBangalore, IN

Co-investors1Crowd

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 +2 more

Tarshellotars.com in 𝕏

Tars builds a no-code agent builder platform for creating conversational AI assistants.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechSector Agnostic

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)in

Umweltumwelt.com.auJul 2024 · $125K

Umwelt is an Australian environmental and social sciences consultancy providing environmental, planning, and social impact assessment services across the resources, renewables, infrastructure, defence, and urban planning sectors.

Climate TechEnergyImpact & Social Good

Barbara Crossleyin

Co-investorsFive V Capital

Wecpwecreateproblems.com in 𝕏

WeCP develops AI-powered assessment tools that generate custom coding questions tailored to each company's hiring needs, addressing gaps in traditional campus recruitment and skill validation.

AI & Machine LearningEdTechEnterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaS

AbhishekMohit

Other

Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.

2Care AiAlleventsAltimo DayzeroAnywhereApi PlatformArdraaiArkainventoryAshield Technologies Pvt LtdAtlancerBig JobsBigfish BenefitsBlaash IoBolnaBryckelBynry TechnologiesCareflickCashflowyClassproCleartrustCloodotCloudbankinCogniswitch AiCommerznxt IncComplyance IoConstems AiContractkenCultureosCulturroDartleDatahqDatasakiDevzeryDheemaiDisbugDuonutDyrectEcom BooksEnthu AiExxarFaqprimeFinlyFinosFitmedikForneuFreshreviewFul Io A64F1Get Blue NevaraGigsboardGim BooksGimlet Ai 6F38EGovevaHealth CompilerHolmes Systems IncHumbirdIdukkiInflosoInfluenceInsightgigInstioIntermezzoIvozKaleKalmantic LabsKapittxLeadlabsLeadmetricsLineupxListen OwlLongshot AiMedpiperMembrozMentorskoolPrudentRapidflareUnited We CareUserologyVaultedgeVeribranceVoxyhealth Ai

Portfolio news

latest coverage across their companies

Texas Automated Robotics Systems, LLC Raises $513 | Signalbase

Tars · trysignalbase.com · May 22, 2026

Appknox launches KnoxIQ to prioritize real-world exploitability in AI-driven application security - SiliconANGLE

Appknox · siliconangle.com · Apr 9, 2026

Kommunicate - Legal Round-up February 02, 2026 Edition - Lexplosion Solutions

Kommunicate · lexplosion.in · Feb 2, 2026

Toothlens tackles dental diagnostics and insurance with AI | YourStory

Toothlens · yourstory.com · May 16, 2025

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, Callapina Capital, among 11 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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