# Aakrit Vaish

> Aakrit Vaish is a seed investor in Mumbai backing Internet, E-Commerce and SaaS. See 38 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Total investments: 38
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://in.linkedin.com/in/aakrit
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/aakrit
- Website: https://x.com/aakrit
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aakrit.vaish

Aakrit Vaish is a seed investor in Mumbai focused on Internet and E-Commerce. Aakrit Vaish is based out of Mumbai, Maharashtra and was the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Haptik. Aakrit previously worked at peercheque as a Managing Partner. Aakrit Vaish attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. .

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $300k–$4.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $500k–$700k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 7 | 18% |
| E-Commerce | 6 | 16% |
| SaaS | 4 | 11% |
| Health Care | 4 | 11% |
| B2B | 3 | 8% |

64 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 20 | 53% |
| Angel | 7 | 18% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 11% |
| Series A | 4 | 11% |
| Series D | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 29 | 76% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 3% |
| Singapore | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Superleap | Superleap is an AI-powered CRM platform to boost sales team productivity, for businesses in the global $65B+ CRM software market | $3.8M | Seed | Aug 04, 2026 |  |
| Truva | Truva operates as a proptech startup. Truva leverages technology, data insights, and systems design to create a seamless journey for our customers. | $7.3M | Series A | Jan 15, 2026 |  |
| Truva | Truva operates as a proptech startup. Truva leverages technology, data insights, and systems design to create a seamless journey for our customers. | $3M | Seed | Aug 12, 2024 |  |
| SWIRL | 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 ofboth 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. | $1.1M | Seed | Feb 06, 2024 |  |
| Creativefuel | Priorities brands should use Meme MarketingThis appropriate engagement that meme marketing brings out of the major reason why brands should use our meme marketing to advertise with us. Let’s target more folded advantages that Meme Marketing will have over any of its relative threshold counterparts.Here are 4 reasons why many advertisingbrands should use meme marketing over other basic methods of advert:1. Meme’s deliver by creative fuel out staged campaign eternal proven better engage rate than promoted avert on a social media If you, done a paid campaign to engage your result page, to optimized your ad result but, always track’ when you look at the engagement result and stats.2. If you are meme jacking do enclosed a disclaimer for your event, have an advantage over any other creatives that you always make a creative. Reason: The meme is already viral and ensures engaged you sour if you put your message through it in the right manner (WE CAN HELP). Whereas, if you produce a traditional Ad, it definitely cannot compete with the engagement rate of a meme’s.3. Brand major-related wings invest their major chunk of brand banner for advertising thinking there will be a brand awareness campaign containing social lead if nothing else. Campaign results may be right, but why limit the scope have just brand awareness when you can generate lead brands outsourced directly. People off, they relate with their meme post so well that it leaves a lasting impression of the brand page on them and initiates a Return a page conversation for the internet community standard organization.Often companies/brands have this reaction when ROI (return on investment) for their online campaign yields poor results:4. People spend time on the internet to consume good content as well as to skip brand communications. This is because they bring along them a FUZZ factor. Whereas, if the same message snippet can be delivered via meme in such a way that the person related enjoys looking at it. Well, it does look like an idea.What meme marketing feels like in Meme’s Marketing:A question might arise… What happens even if we create a Meme, Our Brand ‘awesome Handle in a million followers (Axis number) what trend’s follow and target out followers Meme Marketing related is not about linked posting Memes on your Brand Handle, All the Memes produced are seed’s on Social media via Meme Pages. These Meme Pages have their own massive and target audience and hence the idea is to leverage out that attention. |  | Seed | Sep 15, 2023 |  |
| Saleschat.pro | AI Driven SaaS for Inside Sales | $500K | Pre-Seed | Aug 01, 2023 |  |
| The Yarn Bazaar | The Yarn Bazaar is a Purpose-Led, Modern, Efficient, and Transparent managed Marketplace for yarn that allows yarn buyers and sellers to discover real-time yarn prices, information, and market trends in an instant. Our proprietary processes and flexible unsecured financing options enable yarn sellers to expand their reach and sales whilemaintaining higher margins, and buyers to discover and purchase high-quality yarn at unbeatable prices while reducing raw material and procurement costs, saving time, money, and effort. | $1.8M | Seed | Jun 19, 2023 |  |
| GrayQuest | GrayQuest Education Finance Pvt. Ltd provides Parents and Students with the most convenient and easiest option to pay fees to their Institute. | $6.8M | Series A | Mar 09, 2023 |  |
| Punt Partners | Punt Partners is a company that provides marketing technology services. It provides results through the use of proprietary data, technology, and services. |  |  | Dec 18, 2022 |  |
| Punt Partners | Punt Partners is a company that provides marketing technology services. It provides results through the use of proprietary data, technology, and services. |  | Angel | Dec 18, 2022 |  |

10 of 38 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [peercheque](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peercheque) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Stellaris Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stellaris-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Peak XV Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-india-2) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Blume Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blume-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cloud Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cloud-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Culture Cap](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/culture-cap) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Aakrit Vaish invest in?

Aakrit Vaish invests primarily in Internet, E-Commerce and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 38 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Aakrit Vaish's check size?

Aakrit Vaish typically joins rounds of $300k–$4.5M at Seed and $500k–$700k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Aakrit Vaish participates in.

### When did Aakrit Vaish last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Aakrit Vaish closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 38 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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