# Anil D. Aggarwal

> Anil D. Aggarwal is a seed investor at Personatech (New York) backing EdTech and Training. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Personatech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/personatech)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adaggarwal
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/anildaggarwal
- Website: http://www.shoptalk.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anil.aggarwal

Anil D. Aggarwal is a seed investor at Personatech in New York focused on EdTech and Training. Anil D. Aggarwal is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Personatech. He previously worked at Fintech Meetup as a Founder, Chairman and CEO. Anil D. Aggarwal attended Albright College.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$8.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| EdTech | 2 | 17% |
| Training | 2 | 17% |
| Advertising | 2 | 17% |
| Career Planning | 2 | 17% |
| Corporate Training | 2 | 17% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 67% |
| Series A | 2 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Series F | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 17% |
| Sweden | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Swish Brand Experiences | SwishBx powers a revolutionary data-driven, product sampling marketplace to connect retailers and brands. With SwishBx, retailers enhance loyalty, strengthen supplier relationships and naturally expand their retail media offerings while seamlessly rewarding shoppers. For brands, SwishBx makes sponsored product sampling viable for all categorieswith self-serve, transparent, highly targeted and measurable technology that leverages first-party data to determine relevancy. SwishBx’s sponsored product sampling platform is available to online retailers and innovative brands of all sizes to deploy automated sampling campaigns which inspire incremental sales and expand lifetime customer value. |  | Seed | Sep 26, 2025 |  |
| Sydecar | Sydecar builds tools that remove the headache of organizing private investments -- so you can focus on making deals, not spreadsheets. Their lightweight, powerful technology helps you to manage subscription docs, compliance, banking, tax reporting, and admin for all of your deals, of any size, in one place. | $8.3M | Seed | Apr 05, 2022 |  |
| Edisen | Edisen production and optimization are core competencies. The audience is worldwide, and they amuse them on every device possible, including televisions, smartphones, and digital billboards. They provide them with everything, including popular television shows, motion pictures, and social media. Their goal is to make sure that nothing we producecan be ignored making stuff that is difficult to ignore. They support this spurious claim with their own content optimizer which improves content efficiency. |  | Seed | Feb 24, 2022 |  |
| Edisen | Edisen production and optimization are core competencies. The audience is worldwide, and they amuse them on every device possible, including televisions, smartphones, and digital billboards. They provide them with everything, including popular television shows, motion pictures, and social media. Their goal is to make sure that nothing we producecan be ignored making stuff that is difficult to ignore. They support this spurious claim with their own content optimizer which improves content efficiency. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 12, 2022 |  |
| Multiverse | Multiverse is a tech startup that seeks to provide an alternative to university training. Multiverse ensures young people have access to the best career-focused apprenticeships on offer.Multiverse empowers and supports people to create their own realities as they journey through a fulfilling career. Multiverse is a true alternative to a one-trackuniversity route and often uninspiring corporate training. | $16M | Series A | Jul 15, 2019 |  |
| Kindred | Kindred is a professional network built to prepare executives for the future of socially responsible business. Organizations are being held accountable for action on issues that include diversity, equity, inclusion, allyship, sustainability, violence, poverty, nutrition, education, and mental health. Kindred helps its members more intelligently andurgently close the gap between intent and action by providing access to a collaborative network of their peers, to renowned experts and training, and to the information, analysis, data, and research they need to make increasingly important decisions.Launched in 2020, Kindred’s membership has quickly grown to include leaders from companies such as Allbirds, B Lab, Casper, Chobani, Facebook, HBO, LinkedIn, Macy's, MassMutual, Meredith, Salesforce, Spotify, Twitter, Verizon, The Washington Post, and Wells Fargo. | $3M | Seed | Feb 28, 2019 |  |
| Multiverse | Multiverse is a tech startup that seeks to provide an alternative to university training. Multiverse ensures young people have access to the best career-focused apprenticeships on offer.Multiverse empowers and supports people to create their own realities as they journey through a fulfilling career. Multiverse is a true alternative to a one-trackuniversity route and often uninspiring corporate training. | $4M | Seed | Sep 12, 2018 |  |
| The Block | The Block is the first and final word in digital assets. It will be the on-ramp to the world of programmable money, distributed ledgers, and decentralized applications for 10s of millions of people. | $2M | Seed | Jun 30, 2018 |  |
| Prove | Prove is a smartphone-based identity verification startup that specializes in providing phone-centric and API marketplace solutions. Its phone-centric solutions enable its customers to acquire new consumers and engage with their existing consumers by removing friction while bolstering security and enhancing consumer privacy and consumer choice. | $23M | Series F | Feb 13, 2018 |  |
| FreshPay | FreshPay is a U.S.-based company that operates a payment processing platform for digital currencies. The company was fpunded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $500K | Seed | Feb 06, 2014 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Converge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/converge-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fin Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fin-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ACME Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acme-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Anthemis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthemis-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blockchange Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blockchange-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Boost VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boostfunder) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Personatech

VC Fund · New York, United States

Personatech develops technology solutions that enable retail events to bring together retailers, companies, and investors.

3 contacts available at Personatech.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anil D. Aggarwal | Founder, Chairman & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anil-d-aggarwal |
| Caroline Farley | Co-Founder & Chief Growth Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caroline-farley |
| Simran Rekhi Aggarwal | Founder & President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/simran-rekhi-aggarwal |

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## FAQ

### What does Anil D. Aggarwal invest in?

Anil D. Aggarwal invests primarily in EdTech, Training and Advertising startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 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 Anil D. Aggarwal's check size?

Anil D. Aggarwal typically joins rounds of $500k–$8.3M 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 Anil D. Aggarwal participates in.

### When did Anil D. Aggarwal last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Anil D. Aggarwal closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 12 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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