# Ajith R. Pai

> Ajith R. Pai is a seed investor at TiE Mysuru (Mysore) backing Retail and Solar. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [TiE Mysuru](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tie-mysuru)
- Location: Mysore, India
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Feb 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajith-pai-09b30a2/

Ajith R. Pai is a seed investor at TiE Mysuru in Mysore focused on Retail and Solar. Ajith R. Pai is Founder Partner at Paipal VC. And Past President at TiE Mysuru.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Retail | 2 | 33% |
| Solar | 1 | 17% |
| AgTech | 1 | 17% |
| EdTech | 1 | 17% |
| Energy | 1 | 17% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 67% |
| Angel | 2 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Shoopy | Shoopy is an e-commerce platform that automates online and offline sales. Shoopy provides everything needed to start selling online, including a user-friendly interface, customizable design options, marketing and promotional tools, mobile responsive design, inventory management, analytics, and reporting. Users can process in-store sales and trackinventory levels in real-time with Shoopy's POS system. The platform also includes tools for tracking and managing stock levels online and in-store, as well as setting up low-stock alerts. | $250K | Seed | Feb 01, 2021 |  |
| Timios | Timios operates an online platform intended to offer age-appropriate nutritional products. The company's platform offers for sale wholesome, guilt-free snacks for children, made from natural ingredients with no artificial colors, flavors, preservatives and low in added salt and sugars, enabling parents to purchase healthy meals and snacks fortheir children. |  | Seed | May 29, 2020 |  |
| ZunRoof | ZunRoof is a home-tech startup bringing smart and clean energy for solar rooftop systems. The company solving electricity issues of India through rooftop solar and monitoring electrical appliances in homes. For rooftop solar, they have an app to manage end to end experience of going solar with three modules design, delivery, and diagnostics. Theirdesign part is powered by image processing and VR and to customise panel placement for aesthetics and maximum output. ZunRoof provides an end-to-end solution for Solar power plants on rooftops free energy audit, customized design to optimize ROI and make your rooftops look classy, financing support and delivery from well-trained installers. They have the fastest delivery time in India, owing to their internal tools and practices. On top of it, their IOT device for solar diagnostics ensures to get the right output through the lifecycle of solar panels. For electrical appliances in homes, they are providing sense and control of their usage.ZunRoof was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, India, | $197K | Angel | Jun 27, 2018 |  |
| Gramophone | Gramophone strives to create a difference in farming by bringing timely information, technology and right kind of inputs to achieve better yields for farmers. The company's endeavour is to bring the best products and knowledge to the farmers. Gramophone is one stop solution for all kinds of inputs for the farmers. Farmers can buy genuine cropprotection, crop nutrition, seeds, implements, and agri hardware at their doorstep.They believe that technology can remove information asymmetry in the agriculture system. Farmers can access localized package of practice, crop advisory, weather information coupled with the best products to grow. This will improve the productivity and help farmers sustainably increase the income from agriculture. |  | Seed | May 01, 2017 |  |
| SpeEdLabs | SpeEdLabs is to provide a top-notch, technology-based Learning and Practice platform to students at an affordable price, thus empowering every student to grow into their full potential. |  | Seed | Feb 01, 2017 |  |
| Gramophone | Gramophone strives to create a difference in farming by bringing timely information, technology and right kind of inputs to achieve better yields for farmers. The company's endeavour is to bring the best products and knowledge to the farmers. Gramophone is one stop solution for all kinds of inputs for the farmers. Farmers can buy genuine cropprotection, crop nutrition, seeds, implements, and agri hardware at their doorstep.They believe that technology can remove information asymmetry in the agriculture system. Farmers can access localized package of practice, crop advisory, weather information coupled with the best products to grow. This will improve the productivity and help farmers sustainably increase the income from agriculture. |  | Angel |  |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Paipal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paipal-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Campanile Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/campanile-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Rangsons Technologies](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rangsons-technologies) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Redcliffe Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redcliffe-capital-ltd) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About TiE Mysuru

VC Fund

Tie-Mysuru is Tie India's 23rd chapter, the idea of starting a chapter was conceptualized in August of 2018

1 contacts available at TiE Mysuru.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ajith R. Pai | President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajith-r-pai |

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## FAQ

### What does Ajith R. Pai invest in?

Ajith R. Pai invests primarily in Retail, Solar and AgTech startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ajith R. Pai last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ajith R. Pai closed in Feb 2021. 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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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