# Ajay Lavakare

> Ajay Lavakare is a seed investor at Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs backing Social and Internet. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stanford-angels-and-entrepreneurs)
- Location: Delhi, India
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Aug 2021
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajaylavakare

Ajay Lavakare is a seed investor at Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs in Delhi focused on Social and Internet. Ajay Lavakare is the Co-President of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs India. Ajay is also the founder of RMSI Pvt. Ltd.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $300k–$1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Social | 1 | 33% |
| Internet | 1 | 33% |
| Software | 1 | 33% |
| Education | 1 | 33% |
| E-Learning | 1 | 33% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 2 | 67% |
| United States | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Whiz League | Whiz League is an Edtech startup that offers celebrity junior modules that are targeted towards 6-17 years old. | $300K | Seed | Aug 12, 2021 |  |
| VideoKen | About us: Millions of informational videos are available on internet, but are highly underutilized due to the short attention span of people. VideoKen is an AI-based platform that makes informational videos rich and consumable. It uses AI techniques to automatically index videos, creating table-of-contents and phrase cloud, which nicely summarizekey topics in a video, and lets viewers jump directly to the topics of interest within a video. It also supports more effective video search (without a reliance on manual tags), lead generation for businesses, and rich insights into video viewing behavior of the target audience.Problem Statement: Videos account for roughly 75% of the internet traffic. Enterprises are using informational videos for employee learning, sales enablement, marketing and internal communication. However, the intended viewers rarely have the time and patience to watch more than a few minutes of these videos. On a related note, although millions of learning videos are freely available, covering practically any topic, it is well known that learners get disengaged very quickly. VideoKen is transforming the way people consume and utilize informational videos, and in the process, also creating value for the organizations creating the video content.Example: Here are some of the sample links that illustrate how hard it is to peer inside and navigate long videos on the popular (and powerful) YouTube platform, and the difference made by AI-based techniques (explained below) in VideoKen.1. CEO presentations at Customer Events: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyRPyRKHO8M VideoKen: https://videoken.com/embed/lyRPyRKHO8M 2. Webinar: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvV13MvvQ8k VideoKen: https://videoken.com/embed/fvV13MvvQ8k3. Product Walkthrough: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FzeG1fTVFo VideoKen: https://videoken.com/embed/7FzeG1fTVFo | $1M | Seed | Apr 21, 2017 |  |
| trezi | Trezi is India’s first a fully immersive virtual reality platform for the building industry that dramatically transforms design collaboration and communication experience, communication and collaboration by bringing together all project stakeholders to review, modify and experience in the design within an immersive environment - in real-time andat full scale and color - regardless of the users’ physical location. process to collaborate in real-time and at full scale. Trezi advances the understanding of spatial design for all users project stakeholders, and improves product search, discovery and selection. This results in reduced errors and costs, faster and better decision-making, and ultimately greater business impact and profitability. | $500K | Seed | Mar 09, 2016 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CDM Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cdm-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IAN Angel Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ian-fund-ba3d) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ITI Growth Opportunities Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iti-growth-opportunities-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Maheshwari Investment. Pvt. Ltd](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maheshwari-investment-pvt-ltd) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stanford-angels-and-entrepreneurs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs

VC Fund · Stanford, United States

Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs seeks to strengthen Stanford’s startup community by fostering relationships among entrepreneurs and alumni investors. Our community approach to the investment process creates diverse opportunities for education, professional development, advising and mentoring, and growing one’s business and investment portfolio.

4 contacts available at Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ajay Lavakare | Co-President, India | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajay-lavakare |
| Charlie Yi | Angel Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charlie-yi |
| Miriam Rivera | Founder & President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/miriam-rivera |
| Paula Mariwala | Founder & Co-President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paula-ravindra-mariwala |

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## FAQ

### What does Ajay Lavakare invest in?

Ajay Lavakare invests primarily in Social, Internet and Software startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Ajay Lavakare's check size?

Ajay Lavakare typically joins rounds of $300k–$1M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ajay Lavakare participates in.

### When did Ajay Lavakare last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ajay Lavakare closed in Aug 2021. Shizune tracks 3 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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