Ajeet Khurana
Angel Investor @ Mumbai Angels
Mumbai, India
Ajeet Khurana is a leading name in the cryptocurrency industry. He is the former head of the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Committee, which as part of IAMAI is India's foremost industry body for cryptocurrency.Presently, as an advisor to several crypto projects, he is seen as a specialist in: * Tokenomics: pools, structure, architecture,flow, utility, value * Market Mechanisms: market making, liquidity, listing, volume In addition he helps with increasing adoption, communication, evangelizing, ambassador programs, and digital outreach. Some crypto founders regard Ajeet as their personal friend, philosopher, and guide.Earlier, in his role as CEO of Zebpay (India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange at that time), he took it from being a one-country exchange to a global exchange. As CEO of the business incubator at IIT Bombay (India’s premier engineering school), he helped commercialise several ideas from concept stage. As an advisor to Venture Capital firms in India, China, US, and Canada, he has an eye for promising founders.Still earlier, Ajeet has authored several books with McGrawHill Education, been an entrepreneur twice, and taught at the University of Texas at Austin.Here is how he characterizes himself:WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED REPEATEDLY IN MY CAREER Customer focus. Speed. Attracting and empowering the right people. Making hard decisions. Managing chaos and conflict. Smoothly navigating regulations & compliances. High governance standards. Cultivating relationships. Converting markets to communities. Negotiating deals. Continuous process and product improvement.WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR A mandate that requires rapid growth and evolution. A role that requires backbone and heart. A non-bureaucratic system that expects a strong bias for action. An opportunity to learn, and create strong cultural underpinning.HOW I BUILD AND MANAGE TEAMS Single minded focus on the customer. Choose people based on cultural fit and alignment of passion. Impart purpose. Select for potential, but advance for performance. Empower people to work. No busy work. No unending meetings. Don’t be hierarchy-minded. Encourage learning.
- Total investments:
- 25
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 12%
Last updated:
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Industries Ajeet Khurana invests in
Stages Ajeet Khurana invests in
Countries Ajeet Khurana invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $250k–$4.7M
- Pre-Seed
- $400k–$2M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 7 (28%)
- Information Technology 5 (20%)
- Cryptocurrency 4 (16%)
- Finance 3 (12%)
- E-Commerce 3 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 15 (60%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (16%)
- Angel 3 (12%)
- Series A 1 (4%)
- Funding Round 1 (4%)
Country
- India 17 (68%)
- Singapore 2 (8%)
- Switzerland 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Cheerio AI provides agentic AI solutions tailored for enterprise revenue expansion and automated customer interactions. It offers no-code workflow tools spanning various channels, powered by 300+ AI models and more than 8,000 integrations. | $873.4K / Seed / Mar 05, 2026 | ||
| TableSprint is the world's first free app builder with zero fees and onboarding in a day using an intuitive, Excel-like interface. | $1M / Seed / Oct 16, 2024 | ||
| TaxNodes is a platform for crypto tax computation and ITR filing with expert assistance. | $1.6M / Seed / Jun 14, 2023 | ||
| Dapps make it simple for web3 applications to integrate and communicate with one another on the blockchain, enabling you to easily attain the highest level of discoverability within and outside of the community. | Pre-Seed / Dec 23, 2022 | ||
| NewsReach India offers partner publications a digital footprint and monetisation of their content via advertisements and licencing to larger publications. | $250K / Seed / Dec 21, 2022 | ||
| FastJobs.io envisions a world in which job hunting is completely stress-free and convenient. | $620K / Pre-Seed / Nov 14, 2022 | ||
| Shardeum is an EVM-based, linearly scalable smart contract platform that provides low gas fees while maintaining true decentralization and solid security through dynamic state sharding. Shardeum uses sharding to increase TPS with the addition of every new node. Shardeum will scale linearly thanks to dynamic state sharding. Every node that joins theShardeum network automatically raises the number of transactions per second (TPS), ensuring cheap transaction costs even as use grows. | $18.2M / Seed / Oct 18, 2022 | ||
| KoinX provides calculates and provides Tax reports. | $1.5M / Seed / Jul 05, 2022 | ||
| We are a self custody wallet management solution for digital assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum. | $4.7M / Seed / May 31, 2022 | ||
| KoinBasket simplifies, simplifies, and makes cryptocurrency investments available to everyone. There are 300 million crypto investors worldwide, with over 10,000 projects available for investment. Each project has its own mission, roadmap, tokenomics, community, and leadership, making investment planning and tracking a major pain. By allowinginvestors to download the KoinBasket app and choose from a variety of curated theme-based baskets, KoinBasket aims to solve the investing challenge. | $2M / Pre-Seed / May 05, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Mumbai Angels
Mumbai Angels is an angle stage investment firm. Mumbai Angels has served as a breeding ground for both plug-in businesses for larger corporations and financial investors seeking incubated businesses ready to scale.
Mumbai Angels Contacts
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Nandini Mansinghka
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Nirav Choksi
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FAQ
What does Ajeet Khurana invest in?
Ajeet Khurana invests primarily in Blockchain, Information Technology and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 25 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Ajeet Khurana invest in?
Ajeet Khurana typically joins rounds of $250k–$4.7M at Seed and $400k–$2M at Pre-Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Ajeet Khurana's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Ajeet Khurana took part in.
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When did Ajeet Khurana last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ajeet Khurana closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 25 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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