# Amit Sharma

> Amit Sharma is a seed investor at Black Jays (New York) backing E-Commerce and Food and Beverage. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Black Jays](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/black-jays-investments)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amitsharma13/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Sharmason
- Website: https://x.com/Sharmason

Amit Sharma is a seed investor at Black Jays in New York focused on E-Commerce and Food and Beverage. Amit Sharma is the Founder and General Partner of Black Jays Investments. He attended London Business School.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $717k–$5.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 18% |
| Food and Beverage | 4 | 18% |
| Apps | 3 | 14% |
| Retail | 3 | 14% |
| Software | 3 | 14% |

59 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 55% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 14% |
| Angel | 2 | 9% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 9% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 18 | 82% |
| Canada | 2 | 9% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lotus AI | Unprecedented insights into your health data | $6M | Seed | Jun 12, 2024 |  |
| Penelope | Penelope is a self-service retirement platform for small and micro businesses. | $2.1M | Pre-Seed | Mar 16, 2022 |  |
| OffLimits | We'd never put you in a box. Boxes are for cereal. OffLimits is a cereal and culture brand built around emotionally unstable, counterculture cartoon characters. We offer a unique approach to cereal, using it as a functional fix. | $2.3M | Seed | Aug 05, 2021 |  |
| Package Free | Package Free is a retailer that sells products that help to live a zero or low-waste lifestyle. The company offers a solution for those who want to reduce their environmental footprint, but don’t know where to start. It actually charges vendors a percentage of the shipment if the shipment arrives with plastic, and increases that percentage on thesecond infraction. Package Free buys their inventory wholesale and enforces incredibly strict guidelines for the vendors they work with, not least of which is a no-exceptions no-plastic policy. It also reuses the dunnage (packaging materials) that the original shipment came with, meaning the company never uses virgin dunnage. They want to expand to creating their own sustainable CPG products, first tackling the ‘white space’ of products that aren’t currently available via vendor partners. Package Free was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, United States. | $8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 26, 2021 |  |
| Encantos | Encantos is an award-winning online platform connecting kids with the world's best storyteachers to teach them 21st century skills.Encantos has received numerous industry awards and accolades from the AP, ASU GSV, CNN, Common Sense Media, Forbes, Kidscreen, Kirkus Reviews, NBC News, The New York Times, NPR, Parents Magazine, PublishersWeekly, Romper, School Library Journal, Univision and USA Today. | $5.7M | Seed | Nov 19, 2020 |  |
| SCOUT | Scout is a company that manufactures and distributes canned seafood. They obtains all of their seafood directly from regional fishing communities. They managed fisheries that prioritize worker and environmental well-being. They offers specialty shops like bakeries, seafood markets and cheese shops. | $747.1K | Seed | Sep 25, 2020 |  |
| Parallel Markets | Parallel Markets is an Identity verification and accreditation platform for financial platforms. The company works directly with investors and investment platforms to simplify the onboarding and verification process. Investors who are already using Parallel are able to sign up and share all of their investor credentials with a single click. TheCompany work with both individuals and entities and have a whole suite of identity products to help make our partner’s onboarding processes better. | $4.3M | Seed | Mar 27, 2020 |  |
| Highfive Brands | Highfive Brands acquires brands consumers love and brings them to the next level by providing them access to an e-commerce platform. It buys digitally native brands from entrepreneurs who want to sell their business to a trusted partner who will ensure the business they started flourishes. It is based in New York, New York. | $1.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 21, 2020 |  |
| Something Navy | Something Navy, an online destination which is carefully curated to provide you with inspiring, engaging, and relatable content. Our founder, Arielle Charnas, started Something Navy as a fashion blog in 2009 and has since become a leader in the influencer space. Launching her namesake label in the Fall of 2018, she continues to develop and evolveher digitally-native, lifestyle brand. In addition to promising to show you what and how to purchase Something Navy approved products, we will reveal brands and services we love, uncover thought-provoking features, and bring to life other voices in our sphere of influence. | $10M |  | Aug 19, 2019 |  |
| Beekeeper's Naturals | Beekeeper’s Naturals is a natural health product company dedicated to bringing you the highest quality superfoods from the hive. The company's headquarters are in Toronto, Canada and was founded in 2014. |  | Seed | Jul 01, 2019 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Almanac Insights](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/almanac-investments) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Freestyle Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/freestyle-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lerer Hippeau](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lerer-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [New York Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-york-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Black Jays

VC Fund · New York, United States

Black Jays provides investment capital and advice to early-stage founders looking to redefine the industries in which they operate. Startups we support are looking to fundamentally re-imagine consumer behavior or how products and services are delivered.

3 contacts available at Black Jays.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Amit Sharma | Founder and General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amit-sharma-16 |
| Brian Muller | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-muller |
| Tim Thimmaiah | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tim-thimmaiah |

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## FAQ

### What does Amit Sharma invest in?

Amit Sharma invests primarily in E-Commerce, Food and Beverage and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 22 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 Amit Sharma's check size?

Amit Sharma typically joins rounds of $717k–$5.7M 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 Sharma participates in.

### When did Amit Sharma last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Amit Sharma closed in Jun 2024. Shizune tracks 22 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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