# Ajay Ramachandran

> Ajay Ramachandran is a seed investor at Happiness Ventures backing Artificial Intelligence. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Happiness Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/happinessventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: May 2020
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajayramachandran
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ajay

Ajay Ramachandran is a seed investor at Happiness Ventures in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology. Ajay is a founding partner at Happiness Ventures. Happiness Ventures invests in early stage technology companies lead by entrepreneurs who have a passion and mission to make the world a happier place. With $480mm under management, the fund group concentrates on both early stage (Seed and Series A) start-ups and growth stage companies. HappinessVentures invests with a long-term view and supports our startups throughout their entire lifecycle. Prior to founding Happiness Ventures, Ajay had a successful career as a serial entrepreneur with multiple exits and was an active angel investor.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 33% |
| B2B | 1 | 17% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |
| Mobile | 1 | 17% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hypersonix | Hypersonix is designed to help direct to consumer businesses drive profitable revenue growth by providing a system of actionable intelligence and recommendations. Hypersonix persistently monitors various commerce systems and data signals to optimize financial performance with predictions that have prescriptive recommendation. The product iscompletely comprehensive in that the entire insights, action, testing and performance measurement are contained to ensure accuracy and time to completion. Its an easy bolt on to e-commerce platforms. | $11.5M | Series A | May 01, 2020 | http://www.hypersonix.ai |
| Particle.One | Particle AI captures and processes structured and unstructured data for commodity market participants, translating data into actionable intelligence. | $2.5M | Seed | Dec 09, 2019 | http://particle.one |
| Verbz.ai | Verbz instantly tasks, emails, or messages teams using voice. Verbz makes it easy to be more productive while working from your mobile.Verbz is developing a voice-based communication and collaboration application for executives, business professionals and salespeople. It combines voice, text and AI to deliver instantaneously communication acrossmultiple systems. Its vision is to make remote work as quick and easy as talking. | $150K | Pre-Seed | Sep 24, 2019 | https://www.verbz.ai/ |
| ZaiNar | ZaiNar is a technology that can track the real-time location of anything. The company's platform uses radio signals including cellphones, IoT sensors, and chipless RFID tags for positioning that is far more scalable, cost-effective and accurate than existing alternatives, enabling enterprises to track locations with over 200 meters range andsub-meter accuracy. | $3.3M | Seed | Dec 20, 2018 | http://zainartech.com/ |
| Hypersonix | Hypersonix is designed to help direct to consumer businesses drive profitable revenue growth by providing a system of actionable intelligence and recommendations. Hypersonix persistently monitors various commerce systems and data signals to optimize financial performance with predictions that have prescriptive recommendation. The product iscompletely comprehensive in that the entire insights, action, testing and performance measurement are contained to ensure accuracy and time to completion. Its an easy bolt on to e-commerce platforms. | $3.6M | Seed | Oct 01, 2018 | http://www.hypersonix.ai |

5 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Firebolt Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firebolt-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Sherpalo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sherpalo-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Happiness Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/happinessventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alchemist Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alchemist-accelerator) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bossa Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bossanova-investimentos) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Follow\[the\]Seed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/follow-the-seed) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Happiness Ventures

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Happiness Ventures invests in early stage technology companies lead by entrepreneurs who have a passion and mission to make the world a happier place.The fund group concentrates on both early stage (Seed and Series A) start-ups and growth stage companies.Happiness Ventures invests with a long-term view and supports their startups throughouttheir entire lifecycle.

2 contacts available at Happiness Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Curtis MacDonald | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/curtis-macdonald |
| Ajay Ramachandran | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajay-ramachandran |

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## FAQ

### What does Ajay Ramachandran invest in?

Ajay Ramachandran invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 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 Ajay Ramachandran last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ajay Ramachandran closed in May 2020. Shizune tracks 6 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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