# Amit Patni

> Amit Patni is a seed investor at VentureNursery backing Travel and Artificial Intelligence. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [VentureNursery](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venturenursery)
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jan 2016
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patniamit

Amit Patni is a seed investor at VentureNursery in Mumbai focused on Travel and Artificial Intelligence. Amit is Co-founder & Chairman at Nirvana Venture Advisors and is a promoter shareholder of Patni Computers. Patni Computers Ltd. was a pioneer in Indian ITES. The promoter family stake in Patni Computers was divested in May 2011 in a sale to iGate Corporation at value of $1.5 billion. Amit has 22 years’ experience in technology, software andprojects. He has extensive experience in the computer hardware and components market in India and overseas. In his various roles, Amit has independently ensured implementation of Greenfield projects and launched new business operations.As a Whole time Director of PCS Technologies Ltd., a listed Indian company in the computer hardware and manufacturing space, Amit was responsible for setting-up the copper clad laminates business. Subsequently he was Managing Director of PCS International Pvt. Ltd. with the responsibility of expanding PCS Technologies hardware business in UAE and Africa. Thereafter, Amit developed Health Management Systems, a healthcare software product that was marketed by PCS Technologies Ltd.Amit is a Director of the Board of Patni Financial Advisors the family office of the Patni Family. Amit has done his BS in Accounting and Masters from Babson College, USA.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$3.4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Travel | 2 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 25% |
| Local | 1 | 13% |
| Retail | 1 | 13% |
| Brewing | 1 | 13% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 75% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 7 | 88% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FindURClass | FindURClass is a search and discovery platform that provides its users with information on all extracurricular activities and hobby classes, in and around their area. The platform shortlists classes based on class type, location, age, and price. Its users also get access to user reviews and ratings and even book their classes online.FindURClasswas launched in 2013 and is based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. |  |  | Jan 28, 2016 |  |
| White Owl Brewery | White Owl Brewery is a microbrewery specializes in handcrafting beer using natural ingredients. It features an eclectic selection of old-world and new-age styles, advocating small-batch brewing of crisp, complex flavors and distinct aromas under the leadership of an internationally-trained brewing team. White Owl Brewery currently distributes itscraft beer on tap, in bottles, and in cans at over 2,500 restaurants, bars and retail stores across Mumbai, Pune, Goa, Bengaluru and Delhi with several new geographies in the pipeline.White Owl Brewery was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. | $1.2M | Seed | Oct 20, 2015 |  |
| MinHash | MinHash has created AILA. AILA brings the power of artificial intelligence to uncover emerging trends that are relevant and actionable. AILA detects fast growing topics across 1000s of media sources and helps marketers respond quickly, pulling together data in all forms - text, images, hashtags and urls, automatically crafting them into a campaignwith a relevant theme, unique messaging and the right audience. |  | Seed | May 12, 2015 |  |
| Wellness Forever Medicare | Mumbai-based retail pharmacy chain Wellness Forever Medicare Pvt Ltd.Wellness Forever currently has a chain of 70 lifestyle pharmacies and wellness stores oThe firm operates under three formats- retail pharmacies, hospital pharmacies and managed franchises.perating on 24x7 basis in Mumbai, Pune, Nashik, Belgaum and rest of Maharashtra. | $3.4M | Seed | Apr 07, 2015 |  |
| Grameen Capital | Grameen Capital is a financial firm that catalyzes growth and facilitates capital market access for impact-focused enterprises across sectors. The company provides innovative debt and equity solutions and other investment banking services to efficiently and effectively scale their clients' businesses. It also offers strategic advisory servicesto both enterprises and investors. Its clients are microfinance institutions, affordable healthcare providers, low-cost education firms and other dynamic and sustainable organizations with a social development focus-from early-stage enterprises to established industry leaders. It was established in 2007 as a joint venture between Grameen Foundation, Citicorp Finance and IFMR Trust. | $10M | Series A | Mar 25, 2015 |  |
| SeekSherpa | SeekSherpa is a Delhi-based mobile travel marketplace. SeekSherpa, which is still in test mode, was part of the January batch of VentureNursery. The accelerator conducts about two bootcamps a year for eight startups each. |  | Seed | Jul 21, 2014 |  |
| InvenZone | InvenZone is a niche networking platform for researchers and scientists focusing on solving the core pain points of researchers like discovering the right data, complexity of the research papers, tracking the research updates and connecting with the right community or people. The platform is backed by huge AI in solving the pain points. We havebuilt contextual semantic search & we are also including conceptual semantic search to make the discovery a very simple task. With Sparq (Semantic Parsing And Reasoning of Query), finding the answers to complex questions is effortless. Doing research becomes a lot simpler & efficient with many other technologies and tools that InvenZone offers. With research papers heading the social conversations, finding the right connections is now easy. |  | Seed | May 30, 2014 |  |
| OYO | OYO is a global platform that empowers entrepreneurs and small businesses with hotels and homes by providing full-stack technology that increases earnings and eases operations; bringing affordable and trusted accommodation that guests can book instantly. |  | Seed | Oct 15, 2012 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [VentureNursery](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venturenursery) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Artha Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artha-india-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Start Smart Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/start-smart-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About VentureNursery

VC Fund · Mumbai, India

VentureNursery (VN) is India’s first angel-backed start-up accelerator. Established in March 2012 by two like-minded Angel Investors -Shravan Shroff, Founder and former MD, Fame Cinemas and Ravi Kiran, former CEO-South East & South Asia, Starcom MediaVest Group and Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Friends of Ambition, the accelerator runs itsphysical premises out of Mumbai, India.Based on our belief that the angel ecosystem must focus primarily on maximising the success potential of start-ups, VentureNursery undertakes an intensive and immersive coaching and mentoring role in the chosen start-ups and helps each with end-to-end infrastructural and learning support.

5 contacts available at VentureNursery.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Shravan Shroff | Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shravan-shroff |
| Amit Patni | Co-founder and Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amit-patni |
| Anand Ladsariya | CEO and Promoter Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anand-ladsariya |
| Apoorva Ranjan Sharma | Executive Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apoorv-ranjan-sharma |
| Ravi Kiran | Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ravi-kiran-3 |

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## FAQ

### What does Amit Patni invest in?

Amit Patni invests primarily in Travel, Artificial Intelligence and Local startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Amit Patni's check size?

Amit Patni typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$3.4M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Amit Patni participates in.

### When did Amit Patni last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Amit Patni closed in Jan 2016. Shizune tracks 8 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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