Shastra VC

Founded in Bengaluru, India, Shastra VC is an early-stage venture capital firm investing primarily in deep tech, frontier technology, space technology, clean technology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, consumer internet, and software-as-a-service sectors.

Avijeet Alagathi

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Jivesh Madan

Vice President

Ashis Nayak

Co-Founder and Partner

Vasant Rao

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

57 past transactions

Xindus

Series A in 2025
Xindus is a technology company that empowers small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to expand into global markets. Its platform offers a range of services, including order fulfillment, global shipping, supply chain management, trade compliance, financing, and payment solutions. By utilizing these services, SMEs can efficiently navigate international trade, reach new markets, and manage their supply chains effectively.

Sisir Radar

Seed Round in 2025
Sisir Radar is a tech company focusing on radar systems development and services.

TrueGradient

Seed Round in 2024
TrueGradient develops an AI-powered platform that optimizes supply chains. It offers tools for demand forecasting, inventory management, pricing strategies, and assortment planning, helping e-commerce brands enhance operational efficiency and reduce waste.

Simplismart

Venture Round in 2024
Simplismart is a company that enables enterprises to develop and manage scalable, production-grade AI systems without the need for coding. It specializes in facilitating model deployment and offers training for both amateur and expert users. By providing tools for collaborative monitoring of machine learning models across various data types and use cases, Simplismart streamlines the development lifecycle of AI systems. This approach allows businesses to efficiently implement AI solutions while minimizing technical barriers, making advanced technology accessible to a broader range of users.

SWIRL

Seed Round in 2024
SWIRL is the premier live shopping mobile SaaS to engage, convert and retain more customers. It uses video as a backbone to power real-time virtual shopping – helping brands build authentic customer engagements by bridging the online-offline gap. Our product improves the probability of sales conversions by turbocharging the pre-purchase journey of both new and existing customers using cloud-based interactive video commerce and live shopping software. We are trusted by over 100+ formidable brands from Retail, Lifestyle, Fashion, Beauty, F&B, and many more and we are headquartered in the charming and bustling city of Vadodara.

International Battery Company

Seed Round in 2024
International Battery Company specializes in developing high-performance lithium-ion cells. Their unique I-NMC Prismatic cells offer 40% more energy density than LFP cells and are designed for mobility applications, such as electric vehicles. The company aims to reduce battery complexity through its large form factor cells, which are also recyclable. International Battery Company is constructing a Gigafactory in India to manufacture these cells locally, securing the supply chain and promoting energy independence.

DevDham

Seed Round in 2024
DevDham is a technology company that connects devotees with temples and sacred sites, facilitating religious practices and experiences remotely. It offers a digital platform that provides daily darshan, live pujas, and delivery of prasad and energized divine products, enabling users to participate in religious rituals and receive blessings from their homes. The platform caters to various faiths, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, and Indian civilization.

Kloudlite

Seed Round in 2024
Kloudlite is a technology company that specializes in developing an automated DevOps console platform. This platform simplifies the process of moving code to the cloud, integrating local and remote coding, supporting open-source workspaces, enabling real-time collaboration, automating environment management, and ensuring built-in security. The company's solution is designed to help software development teams efficiently build, test, and deploy distributed applications.

Depo 24

Seed Round in 2024
Depo 24 is an online platform for interior designers, architects, technicians, homeowners to purchase home building materials.

MiniMines Cleantech Solutions

Seed Round in 2024
MiniMines is an Indian startup specializing in sustainable recycling of end-of-life Li-ion batteries. Its proprietary process, Hybrid-Hydrometallurgy-TM, extracts valuable materials like Nickel, Cobalt, Lithium, and Manganese from recycled batteries for reuse in new cell manufacturing.

Molequle

Seed Round in 2024
Molequle is a global B2B platform specializing in the supply of specialty chemicals manufactured in India. It offers a diverse range of chemicals, efficient formulation processes, rapid sampling and post-production testing, cost-effective logistics, and credit support options to pharmaceutical manufacturers and other industries.

Alt Carbon

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Alt Carbon operates a climate tech platform that develops sustainable agriculture tracking systems. Its proprietary machine-learning algorithms optimize carbon dioxide capture strategies, enhancing crop yields and soil health, enabling farmers to generate revenue through carbon removal.

Klaar

Seed Round in 2023
Klaar offers a comprehensive platform for employee performance, learning, development, talent management, and engagement tailored for hybrid and remote teams. Their solutions include mentoring, social learning, workforce management, and employee engagement features designed to drive direct business outcomes by focusing on critical areas for people success in future work.

ZapScale

Seed Round in 2023
Zapscale is a business-to-business SaaS customer success platform founded in 2020 and based in Delaware. The company specializes in developing an artificial intelligence-powered customer engagement platform that monitors user interactions. This platform is designed to identify immediate business outcomes, assisting organizations in enhancing user experience. By leveraging its technology, Zapscale aims to help businesses reduce customer churn, improve retention rates, and increase upselling opportunities.

Alltius

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Alltius develops KNO, a secure Generative AI platform that enhances customer interactions in the financial sector. KNO automates loan origination, customer servicing, and insurance processes, improving efficiency and reducing human effort.

Covrzy

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Covrzy operates an innovative platform that empowers business owners to assess and acquire tailored insurance coverage for their companies. Its tool offers a comprehensive range of business insurance options, facilitating management, claims processing, and personalized recommendations for small businesses and startups.

Inspecity

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Inspecity develops technologies for space operations and satellite servicing. The company creates autonomous robotics and service satellites designed to sustain the aerospace ecosystem by enabling maintenance and end-of-life procedures across all orbital regimes. Its offerings include deorbit and end-of-mission services, fleet deployment support, mission extension capabilities, and reliable servicing to support autonomous satellite fleets in various orbits.

Knowl

Seed Round in 2023
Knowl is a platform designed to enhance developer productivity by integrating AI-powered tools within code editors and CI/CD pipelines. It offers automated analysis and insights for pre-commit summaries, code suggestions, and in-editor documentation, streamlining workflows and liberating developers from mundane tasks.

Blockfenders

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Blockfenders operates a blockchain-based platform enabling secure data exchange between businesses. Its solution facilitates real-time sharing of streaming data and data at rest across diverse environments, ensuring data privacy, verifiability, and context awareness.

SatSure

Series A in 2023
SatSure is a decision analytics company that uses satellites, machine learning, and big data analytics to address sustainability challenges at the intersection of food, water, and energy security. It provides a satellite data analytics platform that delivers decision intelligence from space for global sustainability initiatives. Its offerings include high-resolution remote sensing, machine learning-powered insights, and multi-sector geospatial analytics, enabling financial institutions, infrastructure planners, and disaster management agencies to make timely, informed decisions with location-specific intelligence.

Everheal

Seed Round in 2023
Everheal is a health technology company focused on supporting women throughout their pregnancy journey, from pre-conception to postpartum. It offers an all-in-one platform for gynecologists to enhance clinical outcomes and generate revenue through patient support features such as nutrition tracking, video consultations, automated vital sign monitoring, and an e-store.

Xindus

Seed Round in 2023
Xindus is a technology company that empowers small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to expand into global markets. Its platform offers a range of services, including order fulfillment, global shipping, supply chain management, trade compliance, financing, and payment solutions. By utilizing these services, SMEs can efficiently navigate international trade, reach new markets, and manage their supply chains effectively.

GalaxEye

Seed Round in 2022
GalaxEye offers satellite-based imaging services, providing high-frequency Earth observation data. It specializes in multi-sensor imaging satellites with superior spatial and temporal resolution, empowering businesses across government and commercial sectors to make informed decisions and enhance operational efficiency through space technology.

Vidyut

Seed Round in 2022
Vidyut specializes in financing solutions tailored for small and medium commercial electric vehicle businesses, facilitating the purchase, financing, and resale of electric vehicles. The company aims to simplify the ownership experience by providing custom financing options and establishing a secondary market for these vehicles. By collaborating with key stakeholders within the electric vehicle ecosystem, Vidyut supports buyers throughout their ownership journey, encompassing aspects from distribution and financing to after-sales services and resale.

Wishlink

Seed Round in 2022
Wishlink is a digital product discovery platform designed to facilitate brand collaboration and influencer marketing. By enabling social media content providers to promote products through a personalized storefront, Wishlink allows influencers to tag items in their posts and curate collections of favored products. This functionality not only enhances the shopping experience for followers but also provides influencers with opportunities for paid collaborations, thereby monetizing their influence. The platform aims to streamline the connection between brands and creators, fostering a community where products can be showcased effectively.

Awiros

Series A in 2022
Awiros is a developer of a video intelligence platform that transforms raw video from surveillance cameras into actionable data in real time. The company specializes in applying computer vision and artificial intelligence to analyze and interpret video feeds, enhancing the visibility and functionality of camera systems. By leveraging advanced technology, Awiros enables users to optimize their existing hardware resources, thereby improving the effectiveness of surveillance systems for various applications. This innovative approach allows organizations to derive meaningful insights from video data, facilitating better decision-making and operational efficiency.

Zevi

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Zevi is a search engine company that utilizes natural language processing to enhance online engagement and conversion for brands. By focusing on understanding the context of user queries, Zevi's AI-driven search engine allows for better comprehension of user intent, leading to more relevant search results. This capability facilitates easier discovery for users while enabling brands to achieve their business objectives with greater precision in managing search outcomes. The combination of advanced technology and vernacular support positions Zevi as a valuable tool for stakeholders seeking to improve their online presence and customer interactions.

ElevateHQ

Pre Seed Round in 2022
ElevateHQ is a B2B SaaS company based in India, focused on transforming the way organizations manage sales incentives to motivate their employees. The company has developed a digital platform that automates sales commission management, eliminating the complexities and manual processes associated with incentive calculations. By providing tools that enable organizations to design and test various incentive plans, ElevateHQ ensures that these plans are effective for all employees, not just top performers. With a vision for global expansion, ElevateHQ aims to enhance sales performance through innovative incentive solutions.

CheQ Digital

Seed Round in 2022
CheQ Digital operates as a fintech startup. CheQ is a website that aims to make it easier for users to find and manage their credit products online.

Revamp Moto

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Revamp Moto is a manufacturer of electric bikes designed on modular utility platforms aimed at facilitating the transition to a zero-emission society. The company focuses on providing affordable and environmentally friendly electric bikes that feature battery-swapping capabilities and various customizable adjustments. This innovative approach enables small vendors and e-commerce businesses to efficiently deliver and sell their products while maintaining a reasonable budget. Revamp Moto’s commitment to connectivity and reliability makes its electric bikes adaptable to various user needs, contributing to a sustainable transportation ecosystem.

Zevi

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Zevi is a search engine company that utilizes natural language processing to enhance online engagement and conversion for brands. By focusing on understanding the context of user queries, Zevi's AI-driven search engine allows for better comprehension of user intent, leading to more relevant search results. This capability facilitates easier discovery for users while enabling brands to achieve their business objectives with greater precision in managing search outcomes. The combination of advanced technology and vernacular support positions Zevi as a valuable tool for stakeholders seeking to improve their online presence and customer interactions.

Kalvi

Seed Round in 2022
Kalvi is an ed-tech company to transform the future of higher education.

One Impression

Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2018, One Impression offers a global influencer marketing platform that connects brands with over seven million creators worldwide. The platform streamlines processes such as pricing negotiation, contract facilitation, delivery tracking, and real-time performance analytics. Trusted by over 500 top brands including Unilever and Amazon, it operates in more than 14 countries.

GrowthSchool

Seed Round in 2022
Founded in Bengaluru, India, GrowthSchool partners with industry experts to offer high-impact programs focused on personal and professional growth. Its community-led cohort programs aim to bridge the gap between academic learning and real-world job requirements, ensuring immediate employability.

Unbox Robotics

Series A in 2021
Unbox Robotics is a company based in Pune, India, specializing in automated parcel sorting solutions for the logistics industry. Founded in 2019, it has developed a patent-pending, AI-powered robotic system that significantly enhances sorting efficiency. This innovative platform allows for rapid installation, taking ten times less time than traditional systems, and requires 50% fewer robots, leading to space savings of over 50%. By utilizing swarm intelligence and advanced algorithms, Unbox Robotics' technology improves productivity by more than fivefold, enabling logistics operators to optimize their sorting and order consolidation processes while minimizing the need for extensive warehousing. The company's subscription-based model further supports its mission to streamline operations within a limited footprint and capital investment.

Even

Venture Round in 2021
Even partners with top hospitals nationwide to offer unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and hospitalization coverage worth INR 50 lakhs via a single monthly subscription.

Entri

Series A in 2021
Entri is a vernacular language learning platform aimed at teachers and students, focusing on preparing job aspirants for government and private sector examinations in India. The platform has reportedly been utilized by up to 750,000 students and 2,300 teachers, offering a variety of learning resources including mock tests, adaptive assessments, flashcards, and video lessons. Entri's content is designed to be accessible in local languages, thus enabling users to engage with competitive exam preparation in a language they are comfortable with. This approach not only enhances the learning experience but also supports individuals in achieving their career goals.

Shuru

Seed Round in 2021
Shuru is a social networking platform that connects users based on their location. It facilitates discussions, interactions, and mutual aid among nearby individuals.

Zaroor

Seed Round in 2021
Zaroor operates a retail-focused full-stack platform in India that aggregates standalone grocery stores into a scalable retail network. It provides a supply chain platform that simplifies retailer ordering, enhances warehouse management, and enables demand forecasting for brands. The platform leverages technology, analytics, and automation to digitize and modernize traditional trades, helping clients manage complex store operations across multiple outlets.

Rigi

Seed Round in 2021
Rigi is a creator-focused company that assists content creators and influencers with growing, managing, and monetizing their communities. Rigi allows creators of all levels to begin earning revenue. Rigi's automated features free users from the hassle of manual tasks, allowing them to concentrate on creating content. Rigi was founded in 2021 with the goal of enabling India's ever-growing creator economy.

KahaniBox

Seed Round in 2021
KahaniBox is an interactive storytelling platform that enables users to engage with narratives in a dynamic way. The platform allows audiences not only to consume stories but also to influence their progression by making decisions that affect the storyline. This innovative approach to storytelling includes the availability of interactive story games in local languages, making it accessible to a diverse range of readers. By fostering user interaction, KahaniBox enhances the storytelling experience, allowing individuals to immerse themselves more deeply in the narratives.

Rezo.AI

Seed Round in 2021
Rezo.AI is an AI-powered platform that automates customer interactions across various channels, including voice, email, WhatsApp, social media, and chat. The platform leverages deep learning and neural networks to enhance customer experience by performing time-consuming manual tasks at scale and speed, which humans cannot match. Rezo.AI offers features such as multilingual conversation support, automated data tagging, speech-to-text conversion, and real-time compliance checks. These capabilities enable contact centers to streamline operations, improve resolution times, and gather valuable insights into customer behavior. Overall, Rezo.AI aims to transform the landscape of customer experience for enterprises by enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of customer interactions.

Zumen

Seed Round in 2021
Zumen is a company that provides a source-to-pay management platform aimed at enhancing the efficiency of product manufacturing businesses. Its platform facilitates the entire supply chain process by enabling companies to digitize their direct sourcing and procurement. Key features include supplier performance benchmarking, sourcing strategy management, and structured costing, which help clients select appropriate suppliers, compare quotations, and negotiate costs effectively. Additionally, Zumen offers part life cycle management and a bill of materials interface, allowing for greater supplier visibility and streamlined product cost management. By fostering transparency and collaboration, Zumen empowers manufacturers to build agile and resilient supply chains, ultimately accelerating their product development and market delivery timelines.

Flurn

Seed Round in 2021
Flurn develops an online platform that connects parents with qualified educators for safe, enjoyable learning experiences. It focuses on both online and offline classes, aiming to make education accessible and fun.

LikeMinds

Seed Round in 2021
LikeMinds develops an AI-driven platform that enables entrepreneurs to build and monetize branded communities. Based in Haryana, India, the company offers tools for member acquisition, retention, moderation, and monetization.

NirogStreet

Seed Round in 2020
NirogStreet is a digital platform connecting patients worldwide with authentic Ayurvedic doctors. It facilitates evidence-based treatment, case studies, and research reports to ensure quality care.

ReDesyn

Seed Round in 2020
ReDesyn is a content-to-commerce SaaS that enables influencers and brands to turn video content into shoppable experiences by seamlessly embedding branded products into viral videos. The platform uses AI-powered product matching to ensure relevance and provides a headless storefront for quick monetization, plus analytics to track engagement and ROI. It supports brands seeking higher conversions, creators seeking monetization without compromising creativity, and shoppers who can buy products with a few clicks directly from the content they love. ReDesyn is an official YouTube Commerce partner and serves a broad network of brands and creators. In addition, it offers a creator merchandise platform to design, price, and sell customized apparel, enabling designers to launch collections with zero upfront cost.

MobiGarage

Seed Round in 2020
MobiGarage is a company specializing in the refurbishment and resale of smartphones, aiming to transform the second-hand mobile supply chain in India. By leveraging Artificial Intelligence, MobiGarage offers refurbished smartphones that are rigorously tested and revamped with certified components, providing consumers with devices that are significantly more affordable—up to 70% cheaper than new models. The company serves a growing market of over 100,000 smartphones annually and is experiencing monthly growth of 20%. MobiGarage operates through an e-commerce platform and an innovative hub-and-spoke model, targeting consumers in Tier 2, Tier 3, and Tier 4 markets, thus facilitating access to technology for individuals in lower-income brackets and enhancing their digital experiences.

EloElo

Seed Round in 2020
EloElo is a live social entertainment software platform that enables content creators to host interactive broadcasts and engage fans through audio and video chat rooms with built-in games. The platform serves as a digital gathering space where audiences can unwind, interact with influencers, and participate in activities during live sessions, combining live video, voice chat, and social games to foster real-time connection between creators and their communities.

Skit

Series A in 2020
Vernacular.ai is an AI-first SaaS business driven with the mission to end bad call center experiences. We help enterprises in enhancing customer experience through intelligent voice conversations by automating call center queries. VIVA (Vernacular Intelligent Voice Assistant) is our Voice AI-powered call center automation platform that helps enterprises streamline contact center operations and enhance customer experience & engagement. Empowered by our speech recognition engine and natural language understanding technology, you can now hold human-like conversations every time and Increase your self-service effectiveness.

Agnikul

Seed Round in 2020
Agnikul Cosmos Private Limited is an Indian space technology startup founded in 2017 and based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The company specializes in the design, manufacture, testing, and launch of orbital-class rockets specifically tailored for micro and nanosatellites. Operating from the National Center for Combustion R&D at IIT-Madras, Agnikul's team comprises rocket scientists, engineers, ex-bankers, and space lawyers, contributing to a diverse skill set that enhances its capabilities. The company's launch vehicles are fully mobile and can be deployed from various launch ports, utilizing kerosene as fuel. This innovative approach allows for access to both low and high-inclination orbits, providing customers with on-demand access to space at competitive prices.

Dukaan

Seed Round in 2020
Dukaan is a platform that empowers small merchants to create online stores quickly and efficiently, with claims that the setup process can be completed in as little as 30 seconds. It offers a range of features suitable for businesses of all sizes, including fast loading times, easy product uploads, and multiple payment gateways. The platform also provides customizable themes, staff accounts, advanced analytics, and multi-warehouse management capabilities, allowing merchants to establish a professional online presence and effectively manage their sales operations. By focusing on ease of use and comprehensive functionality, Dukaan facilitates the transition of traditional businesses to the digital marketplace.

HUVIAiR Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
HUVIAiR is a pioneer of visual-intelligence led construction management software. It’s flagship SaaS platform CONSTRA, enables customers to extract insights from visual inputs to make analytics driven decisions all along their planning, building and managing their projects better. CONSTRA ingests visual inputs from drones, 360 degree cameras, laser scanners, mobile phones and as well as traditional sources like CAD drawings and BIMS. The platform then extracts the technical and operational information within them onto a visually appealing dashboard. The various stakeholders of the project can then collaborate through this platform to meticulously plan each stage of the project, remotely monitor the progress, ensure the conformance to plan, identify deviations, list and manage snags, manage master data, and generate diverse formats of reports. At the heart of CONSTRA lies a computer vision based deep-learning engine system. This engine is capable of automatically detecting and reporting the actual progress of construction and benchmark it against the planned progress metrics captured within traditional CRM systems. Clients using CONSTRA can save up to 75% of time on progress monitoring, reduce their supervisory manpower requirement by at least 50% and reduce the overall costs of the project by up to 20%. CONSTRA is available for subscription in multiple attractive plans. The clients can access the platform though a web-interface as well as a mobile application.

One Impression

Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2018, One Impression offers a global influencer marketing platform that connects brands with over seven million creators worldwide. The platform streamlines processes such as pricing negotiation, contract facilitation, delivery tracking, and real-time performance analytics. Trusted by over 500 top brands including Unilever and Amazon, it operates in more than 14 countries.

Avammune Therapeutics

Avammune Therapeutics is a drug discovery company focused on immuno-oncology and the STING pathway, developing small-molecule modulators and a multimodal approach that combines engineered viruses with small molecules to modulate the pathway and treat cancer. Founded in 2018 and based in Philadelphia, the company aims to harness the immune system to fight cancer.

Inspecity

Inspecity develops technologies for space operations and satellite servicing. The company creates autonomous robotics and service satellites designed to sustain the aerospace ecosystem by enabling maintenance and end-of-life procedures across all orbital regimes. Its offerings include deorbit and end-of-mission services, fleet deployment support, mission extension capabilities, and reliable servicing to support autonomous satellite fleets in various orbits.

Alt Carbon

Alt Carbon operates a climate tech platform that develops sustainable agriculture tracking systems. Its proprietary machine-learning algorithms optimize carbon dioxide capture strategies, enhancing crop yields and soil health, enabling farmers to generate revenue through carbon removal.
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