# Amit Shah

> Amit Shah is a Series A investor at Artiman Ventures backing Software and Information Technology. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Artiman Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artiman-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Apr 2023
- Lead investor: 42%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amit-shah-artimanventures/

Amit Shah is a Series A investor at Artiman Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. Amit Shah is the Founder & Partner at Artiman Ventures. Additionally, Amit Shah has had 2 past jobs including Founder / CEO at PipeLinks.Amit Shah focuses on early-stage investments, creating globally renowned businesses, where technology innovation and markets intersect. He targets large markets across all business sectors includingmaterials-related technologies (Adama Materials); construction (Aditazz); dynamic, large-scale analytics (Guavus); and consumer motion processing (NYSE:INVN) amongst others.Prior to founding Artiman Ventures, Amit was a successful repeat entrepreneur. Both companies he founded were acquired: Zeitnet (acquired by Cabletron) and PipeLinks (acquired by Cisco). He was also General Partner of Anthelion Capital, a seed stage venture firm based in Menlo Park, CA.Amit holds a B.S.E.E from M.S. University Baroda and did graduate work at UC Irvine.Over his career he has led investments in many companies such as Everest Design Automation (acquired by Synopsys), IKANOS (Nasdaq: IKAN), iManage (Nasdaq: IMAN), Lightwire (acquired by Cisco Systems), Netscaler (acquired by Citrix), Sierra Design Automation (acquired by Mentor Graphics), Tavant (acquired by Ameriquest).He is currently on the boards of Adama Materials, Aditazz, Guavus, HomeUnion, Niron Magnetics, Kaybus and InvenSense.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 16% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 16% |
| Sensor | 2 | 11% |
| Hardware | 2 | 11% |
| Electronics | 2 | 11% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 37% |
| Series B | 5 | 26% |
| Series C | 3 | 16% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 5% |
| Series D | 1 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 47% |
| India | 2 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Polka Pop | Polka Pop offers flavored sparkling water. Polka Pop claims that it currently sells over 40,000 bottles a month. |  | Pre-Seed | Apr 12, 2023 |  |
| CellMax Life | CellMax Life is a biotechnology company that is revolutionizing early cancer detection and prevention. The company’s product portfolio includes a blood test that can detect cancer before it is too late.CellMax Life was founded in 2013 and is based in California, United States. The company has offices in Silicon Valley (U.S.) and Taiwan, andis funded by a venture capital firm in the U.S. and technology industrialists in Taiwan. |  | Series C | Mar 23, 2021 |  |
| UltraSense Systems | UltraSense Systems is a consumer electronics company that offers sensor solutions for smartphones, home appliances, automotive, and medical industries. It features TouchPoint sensors enable a low-power user interface that detects touch and force through virtually any material and material thickness using UltraSense’s patented 3D ultrasoundtechnology.The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. | $20M | Series B | Feb 18, 2020 |  |
| UltraSense Systems | UltraSense Systems is a consumer electronics company that offers sensor solutions for smartphones, home appliances, automotive, and medical industries. It features TouchPoint sensors enable a low-power user interface that detects touch and force through virtually any material and material thickness using UltraSense’s patented 3D ultrasoundtechnology.The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. | $3.9M | Series A | Nov 08, 2018 |  |
| Tonbo Imaging | Tonbo Imaging designs, builds and deploys advanced imaging and sensor systems for military reconnaissance and security of critical government and industrial establishments. | $17M | Series B | Sep 12, 2017 |  |
| CellMax Life | CellMax Life is a biotechnology company that is revolutionizing early cancer detection and prevention. The company’s product portfolio includes a blood test that can detect cancer before it is too late.CellMax Life was founded in 2013 and is based in California, United States. The company has offices in Silicon Valley (U.S.) and Taiwan, andis funded by a venture capital firm in the U.S. and technology industrialists in Taiwan. | $9M | Series A | Jul 26, 2016 |  |
| Niron Magnetics | Niron develops innovative advanced magnetic materials for high performance and low-cost permanent magnets. Permanent magnets play a vital, hidden role in modern technologies. Common devices that we use daily, such as computers, appliances, and automobiles are powered by permanent-magnet motors that convert electricity to motion. In the productionof electricity, permanent magnets are found at the heart of generators.Despite their ubiquity, however, magnets themselves have not kept pace with demands of higher performance, lighter weight machines. In fact, it has been almost 25 years since the last new magnetic material (NdFeB) became commercially available. As hybrid and electric vehicles fill the streets, and wind power generation continues to be one of the fastest growing means of producing electricity, the demand for increased efficiency needs to be met with innovative new magnetic materials.Niron Magnetics is developing the world’s first advanced manufacturing process for the mass production of permanent magnets powered by our breakthrough material formulation. Niron’s proprietary Iron nitride magnets possess inherently higher magnetization and can be produced at a lower cost compared to today’s rare-earth magnets, and will enable a revolution in the design of new electric motors and generators.Niron was founded in 2014 as a spinout of University of Minnesota and is based on technology that has received the support of ARPA-E, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences. | $6.4M | Series B | Jun 21, 2016 |  |
| Niron Magnetics | Niron develops innovative advanced magnetic materials for high performance and low-cost permanent magnets. Permanent magnets play a vital, hidden role in modern technologies. Common devices that we use daily, such as computers, appliances, and automobiles are powered by permanent-magnet motors that convert electricity to motion. In the productionof electricity, permanent magnets are found at the heart of generators.Despite their ubiquity, however, magnets themselves have not kept pace with demands of higher performance, lighter weight machines. In fact, it has been almost 25 years since the last new magnetic material (NdFeB) became commercially available. As hybrid and electric vehicles fill the streets, and wind power generation continues to be one of the fastest growing means of producing electricity, the demand for increased efficiency needs to be met with innovative new magnetic materials.Niron Magnetics is developing the world’s first advanced manufacturing process for the mass production of permanent magnets powered by our breakthrough material formulation. Niron’s proprietary Iron nitride magnets possess inherently higher magnetization and can be produced at a lower cost compared to today’s rare-earth magnets, and will enable a revolution in the design of new electric motors and generators.Niron was founded in 2014 as a spinout of University of Minnesota and is based on technology that has received the support of ARPA-E, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences. | $1.4M | Series A | Dec 01, 2014 |  |
| HomeUnion | HomeUnion is an investment platform that offers high income, single family cash flow homes nationally for real estate investors. The company brings together a network of property providers, who stay on as managers after the purchase to ensure a single point of accountability and rental income. HomeUnion also provides post-purchase marketintelligence, portfolio analysis, and management oversight for investors. Founded in 2009, the company is headquartered in Irvine, California. | $5.5M | Series A | Sep 08, 2014 |  |
| Guavus | Guavus solves the world’s most complex data problems. Proven across Fortune 500 enterprises, Guavus provides a new generation of analytically powered big data applications to address specific business problems for next-generation service assurance, next-generation customer experience management and the Internet of Things. The Company uniquelybreaks down the barriers between Operational Support Systems and Business Support Systems to enable customers to more efficiently plan network capacity, improve service operations and deliver a better customer experience. Guavus’ operational intelligence applications correlate and analyze massive amounts of streaming and stored business, operational and sensor data from multiple, disparate source systems in real time. Guavus products currently process more than two Trillion transactions per day. | $20M | Debt Financing | Aug 21, 2014 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Sofinnova Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sofinnova-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Investor Growth Capital Limited](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investor-growth-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Partech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/partech) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Qualcomm Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/qualcomm-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Translink Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/translink-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Artiman Ventures

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Artiman is an early-stage venture fund that seeks to invest in entrepreneurs that have the potential to disrupt multi-billion markets. The firm was established in 2000 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States.

5 contacts available at Artiman Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ajit Singh | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajit-singh |
| Amit Shah | Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amit-shah-2 |
| Ramesh Radhakrishnan | Partner & Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ramesh-radhakrishnan |
| Brian Wilcove | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-wilcove |
| Mahmood Panjwani | Entrepreneur in Residence | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mahmood-panjwani |

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## FAQ

### What does Amit Shah invest in?

Amit Shah invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Sensor startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Amit Shah last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Amit Shah closed in Apr 2023. Shizune tracks 19 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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