# Abhinav Asthana

> Abhinav Asthana is a seed investor at Postman backing Software. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Postman
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhinavasthana
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/a85
- Website: https://x.com/a85
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/asthanabhinav

Abhinav Asthana is a seed investor at Postman in Bengaluru focused on Software and Information Technology. Abhinav Asthana is the Co-Founder and CEO of Postman. He was the CTO of photo app TeliportMe.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 54% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 31% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 31% |
| SaaS | 3 | 23% |
| Cyber Security | 2 | 15% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 46% |
| Series A | 4 | 31% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 15% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 77% |
| Israel | 2 | 15% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aurva | Aurva is a runtime data and AI security platform for cloud-native and hybrid environments. Using an eBPF-based architecture, we help organizations discover sensitive data, monitor internal and external data flows, and detect real-time risks across their infrastructure. Aurva provides deep visibility into access patterns, third-party data sharing,and AI model usage through Database Activity Monitoring (DAM), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), and data flow monitoring — helping companies comply with global privacy regulations like GLBA, GDPR, and DPDPA. | $2.2M | Seed | Sep 10, 2025 |  |
| Firecrawl | Firecrawl converts websites into clean, AI-ready data through a unified API. It provides functionality to crawl entire websites or scrape individual pages, returning outputs in markdown, structured data (JSON), HTML, screenshots, and more. It handles dynamic content, JavaScript-rendered pages, proxies, rate limits, and caching behind the scenes tosimplify integration for developers. It supports integrations with popular AI frameworks and tools, including LangChain, LlamaIndex, and Zapier, offering flexible usage across different environments. | $14.5M | Series A | Aug 19, 2025 |  |
| Budy | Budy is an AI assistant for SaaS services, designed to boost user support and interaction in digital settings. | $4.2M | Pre-Seed | Oct 16, 2024 |  |
| Daytona | Daytona is an enterprise-grade alternative to GitHub Codespaces for administering self-hosted, secure, and standardized development environments. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Nov 06, 2023 |  |
| Alcion | Alcion secures data protection from ransomware, malware, accidents, and outages using an AI-driven strategy. | $21M | Series A | Sep 19, 2023 |  |
| Pynt | Pynt is an automated API security testing tool that enables enterprises to easily eliminate complicated application security issues from the beginning of the development lifecycle. | $6M | Seed | Sep 05, 2023 |  |
| Facets.cloud | Enables developers to own the entire software lifecycle, from development to operations. We help you adopt the true DevOps Culture. | $4M | Seed | Aug 31, 2023 |  |
| Alcion | Alcion secures data protection from ransomware, malware, accidents, and outages using an AI-driven strategy. | $8M | Seed | May 31, 2023 |  |
| Pocus | Pocus is a revenue data platform for go-to-market teams to analyze, visualize, and action data about their prospects and customers without needing engineers. Pocus helps companies like Miro, Webflow, Loom, and Superhuman focus their sales and success teams on the highest priority opportunities by surfacing insights at the right moment so reps cantake quick action. Pocus gives you a 360-degree view of product usage, empowering you to act on insights and fill your funnel efficiently. Sales teams save 10+ hours/week digging through data to surface millions in new revenue opportunities. | $23M | Series A | Jun 22, 2022 |  |
| Appsmith | Appsmith provides open-source low code software that helps developers build custom internal and CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) type applications quickly. The company was founded in mid-2019 and its open-source software has been downloaded over 5 million times with users at over 1,000 enterprises in 100-plus countries. | $41M | Series B | Jun 22, 2022 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Nexus Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nexus-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [GTMfund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gtmfund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Insight Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/insight-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Neon Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neon-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Two Sigma Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/two-sigma-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [100x Entrepreneur](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/100x-entrepreneurs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Postman

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Postman is a complete API development environment, used by nearly six million developers and more than 200,000 companies worldwide. It offers a platform for developers or enterprises to build, test, and debug their APIs. The platform intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations and its business reach.Postman is an elegant, flexibletool used to build connected software via APIs quickly, easily, and accurately. It enables API-first development, automated testing, and developer onboarding. The platform's features simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration so they can create better APIs faster. Postman was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco and has an office in Bangalore, where it was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Nexus Venture Partners.

5 contacts available at Postman.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Abhijit Kane | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abhijit-kane |
| Abhinav Asthana | Co-Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abhinav-asthana-2 |
| Ankit Sobti | Co-Founder and CTO | — |
| Jesse Miller | Head of Growth | — |
| sanjee sisodiya | VP of Customer Success, Support and Sales | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Abhinav Asthana invest in?

Abhinav Asthana invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Abhinav Asthana last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Abhinav Asthana closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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