# Abhi Chandrasekhara

> Abhi Chandrasekhara is a funding round investor at Victory Park Capital backing Advice and Farming. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Victory Park Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/victory-park-capital)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: May 2020
- Lead investor: 57%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhic/

Abhi Chandrasekhara is an Investment Professional at Victory Park Capital. He attended The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business and University of Maryland.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Advice | 1 | 14% |
| Farming | 1 | 14% |
| Wholesale | 1 | 14% |
| Consulting | 1 | 14% |
| Agriculture | 1 | 14% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 2 | 29% |
| Debt Financing | 2 | 29% |
| Series C | 1 | 14% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 14% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GaXtracts | GaXtracts is a pharmaceutical ingredients company that manufactures and processes products from industrial hemp.It focuses on the production of CBD and hemp-derived products while producing a medical-grade hand sanitizer since the start of the COVID-19 crisis, helping to fill an urgent market need for hospitals, law enforcement, first responders,and assisted living and home health care businesses. The company partners with farmers, who are experts in cultivation, to purchase their finest organic hemp crops. From there, the company’s pharmaceutical-grade facility takes the plant through an extraction process that removes the CBD molecules and creates a viable essential ingredient for many of today's cutting-edge products.The company is located in Atlanta, Georgia in 2019. | $200K | Venture - Series Unknown | May 18, 2020 |  |
| GaXtracts | GaXtracts is a pharmaceutical ingredients company that manufactures and processes products from industrial hemp.It focuses on the production of CBD and hemp-derived products while producing a medical-grade hand sanitizer since the start of the COVID-19 crisis, helping to fill an urgent market need for hospitals, law enforcement, first responders,and assisted living and home health care businesses. The company partners with farmers, who are experts in cultivation, to purchase their finest organic hemp crops. From there, the company’s pharmaceutical-grade facility takes the plant through an extraction process that removes the CBD molecules and creates a viable essential ingredient for many of today's cutting-edge products.The company is located in Atlanta, Georgia in 2019. | $1.8M | Debt Financing | May 18, 2020 |  |
| Cultiva | Cultiva™ has a proprietary technology called SureSeal™ designed to supplement the cuticle of the plant. Our product Parka™ – powered by SureSeal – is now used commercially on multiple high value crops to improve fruit quality and finish, suppress rain cracking, increase marketable yields and prolong shelf life. | $2.9M |  | Apr 23, 2020 |  |
| Cultiva | Cultiva™ has a proprietary technology called SureSeal™ designed to supplement the cuticle of the plant. Our product Parka™ – powered by SureSeal – is now used commercially on multiple high value crops to improve fruit quality and finish, suppress rain cracking, increase marketable yields and prolong shelf life. | $2.9M | Series C | Apr 23, 2020 |  |
| Danimer Scientific | Danimer Scientific produces a new generation of patented, cost competitive biopolymers. They also offer research, development, and toll manufacturing services for bio-based materials to business partners. They are committed to closed-loop, renewable and sustainable practices, and to products designed to help curb petrochemical plastic pollutionworldwide. Their plant and microbial sourced plastics are biodegradable, durable, and adaptable to a wide range of applications. Their toxin-free manufacturing practices are cost competitive. Their products are FDA approved for food contact, and certified to be aerobically and anaerobically biodegradable or compostable in soil, water, and industrial or home compost by ASTM, OWS, and Vinçotte. | $6.5M |  | Mar 18, 2019 |  |
| Danimer Scientific | Danimer Scientific produces a new generation of patented, cost competitive biopolymers. They also offer research, development, and toll manufacturing services for bio-based materials to business partners. They are committed to closed-loop, renewable and sustainable practices, and to products designed to help curb petrochemical plastic pollutionworldwide. Their plant and microbial sourced plastics are biodegradable, durable, and adaptable to a wide range of applications. Their toxin-free manufacturing practices are cost competitive. Their products are FDA approved for food contact, and certified to be aerobically and anaerobically biodegradable or compostable in soil, water, and industrial or home compost by ASTM, OWS, and Vinçotte. |  | Debt Financing | Mar 18, 2019 |  |
| Cultiva | Cultiva™ has a proprietary technology called SureSeal™ designed to supplement the cuticle of the plant. Our product Parka™ – powered by SureSeal – is now used commercially on multiple high value crops to improve fruit quality and finish, suppress rain cracking, increase marketable yields and prolong shelf life. |  | Convertible Note | Mar 01, 2017 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## About Victory Park Capital

VC Fund · Chicago, United States

Victory Park Capital (VPC) specializes in asset-backed lending, which includes small business and consumer finance, financial and hard asset loans, and real estate financing.

5 contacts available at Victory Park Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Thomas Welch | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-welch |
| Abhi Chandrasekhara | Investment Professional | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abhi-chandrasekhara |
| Brendan Carroll | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brendan-carroll |
| Gordon Watson | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gordon-watson |
| Hugo Lestiboudois | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hugo-lestiboudois |

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## FAQ

### What does Abhi Chandrasekhara invest in?

Abhi Chandrasekhara invests primarily in Advice, Farming and Wholesale startups, most often at Funding Round and Debt Financing stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Abhi Chandrasekhara last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Abhi Chandrasekhara closed in May 2020. Shizune tracks 7 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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