# Akshita Ganesh

> Akshita Ganesh is a seed investor at Growth Story (Pasadena) backing Content and Education. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Growth Story](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/growthstory)
- Location: Pasadena, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Sep 2020
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshita012/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/akshita.ganesh

Akshita Ganesh is a seed investor at Growth Story in Pasadena focused on Content and Education. Founder of Growth Story.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Content | 1 | 100% |
| Education | 1 | 100% |
| Content Creators | 1 | 100% |
| Higher Education | 1 | 100% |
| Primary Education | 1 | 100% |

6 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Walnut Knowledge Solutions | Walnut Knowledge Solutions is a Bangalore-based education company that aims to foster curiosity and inquisitiveness through fun and engaging quiz questions. Quizzers at heart, Walnut was conceptualized by Sachin and Raghav, two lawyers-turned entrepreneurs in 2011.Formally in existence since 2014, Walnut now conducts a variety of quiz-basedevents for schools, colleges, corporates, and non-profit organizations. Listed as one of the 50 startups that will redefine the education system in India, the company uses contextual media and storytelling as a means of engaging audiences over different platforms.Its signature offering is QuizShala, a quizzing oriented developmental workshop for school students where the platform uses questions, stories, and activities to make children more aware and participative. | $368.3K | Seed | Sep 09, 2020 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Rainmatter Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rainmatter-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Growth Story

VC Fund · Bangalore, India

GrowthStory is an entrepreneurship platform that promotes greenfield ventures. They work with passionate professionals and marquee VCs to create category leaders such as BigBasket.com, BlueStone.com and Portea Medical. They focus on consumer internet, healthcare, technology, education and the "India-retail consumption" sectors.

3 contacts available at Growth Story.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Akshita Ganesh | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akshita-ganesh |
| Ganesh Krishnan | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ganesh-krishnan-3 |
| Srinivas Anumolu | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/srinivas-anumolu |

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## FAQ

### What does Akshita Ganesh invest in?

Akshita Ganesh invests primarily in Content, Education and Content Creators startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Akshita Ganesh last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Akshita Ganesh closed in Sep 2020. Shizune tracks 1 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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