# Ali Rampurwala

> Ali Rampurwala is a seed investor at Vastly Valuable Ventures backing FinTech and Blockchain. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Vastly Valuable Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vastly-valuable-ventures)
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Jul 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alirampurwala/
- Website: https://vastlyvaluable.com/

Ali Rampurwala is a seed investor at Vastly Valuable Ventures focused on FinTech and Blockchain. 15 years of experience in private equity, venture capital, investment banking, corporate strategy, angel investing, and business development having an MBA from the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, USA and being a CAIA Charterholder.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$4.7M |
| Pre-Seed | $340k–$2.1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 30% |
| Blockchain | 3 | 30% |
| Cryptocurrency | 3 | 30% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 20% |
| EdTech | 1 | 10% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 60% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 30% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 50% |
| Egypt | 1 | 10% |
| India | 1 | 10% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 10% |
| Colombia | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Stakefair | Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products. | $670K | Pre-Seed | Jul 13, 2022 |  |
| Afropolitan | Afropolitan is creating a Digital Nation to enable all Africans to build abundant lives. The internet enables people to organize around shared values at scales that were previously unthinkable before the turn of the century. If it were a country, Facebook would be the largest one in the world. With the advent of cryptocurrency, the next Facebookwill not be a social network with a passive online community, but rather a full-blown digital country with its own native currency and shared purpose. We are building the first-ever internet country. | $2.1M | Pre-Seed | Jun 20, 2022 |  |
| Afropolitan | Afropolitan is creating a Digital Nation to enable all Africans to build abundant lives. The internet enables people to organize around shared values at scales that were previously unthinkable before the turn of the century. If it were a country, Facebook would be the largest one in the world. With the advent of cryptocurrency, the next Facebookwill not be a social network with a passive online community, but rather a full-blown digital country with its own native currency and shared purpose. We are building the first-ever internet country. | $2.1M | Pre-Seed | Jun 20, 2022 |  |
| Otida | Otida is an app that acts as a nutritionist, a fitness coach and physician, among other roles, for patients with diabetes who struggle while navigating through their day-to-day lives. | $340K | Pre-Seed | Mar 23, 2022 |  |
| Castia | Castia is a Latam based proptech. Acasa enables homeowners in Latam to move to a new home in a fast and simple manner, leveraging their current home equity. Then they sell the old home or else they buy it after 6 months. | $4.7M | Seed | Mar 08, 2022 |  |
| Codingal | Codingal is on a mission to provide coding education to every K-12 student.Coding helps improve logical thinking and problem-solving skills by 70% among kids at a young age, also enabling them to perform better in other subjects in school. Moreover, coding jobs are the future. They already constitute more than 60% of all jobs in science,technology, engineering, and math. While still in school, those who start young will be ahead of everyone by the time they get into college. They will be creators of the future. Learning to code at a young age will inspire more kids, including girls, to take up Computer Science as a major when entering college.Today, schools and traditional education systems are not equipped to provide the right coding education to children. Codingal is here to change that and empower every student with the tools, content, and live coding classes to start learning to code and build anything they can imagine. | $1.2M | Seed | Sep 01, 2021 |  |
| Hedgehog | Hedgehog is a portfolio manager and trading application for crypto currencies. With Hedgehog, users can trade on any exchange, track all their wallets, and learn about cryptocurrency. | $1.6M | Seed | Aug 24, 2021 |  |
| Millions | Millions operates as a fintech company. | $3M | Seed | Feb 02, 2021 |  |
| Knot | Knot is for when there's knot an API - change card on file information, cancel subscriptions, change passwords, and more. Knot spun out of Millions. | $3M | Seed | Feb 02, 2021 |  |
| Let's Dive | Empowering culture leaders to build engaged & connected remote teams | $1.7M | Seed | Dec 01, 2020 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Atlantica Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atlantica-ventures-ac1b) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Giant Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/giant-ventures-global) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hashed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hashed-f96b) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ingressive Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ingressive-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Wollef Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jaguar-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Vastly Valuable Ventures

VC Fund · Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Investing In Vanguard, Visionary, Valiant Founders

1 contacts available at Vastly Valuable Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ali Rampurwala | Angel | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ali-rampurwala-5888 |

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## FAQ

### What does Ali Rampurwala invest in?

Ali Rampurwala invests primarily in FinTech, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Ali Rampurwala's check size?

Ali Rampurwala typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$4.7M at Seed and $340k–$2.1M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ali Rampurwala participates in.

### When did Ali Rampurwala last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ali Rampurwala closed in Jul 2022. Shizune tracks 10 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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