# Anil Dharni

> Anil Dharni is a seed investor in San Francisco backing Mobile and Apps. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Feb 2023
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/anildharni
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/adharni
- Website: https://x.com/adharni

Anil Dharni is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on Mobile and Apps. Anil Dharni is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the CEO and Co-founder of Sense. Anil previously worked at Funzio as a Co-founder and COO. Anil Dharni attended MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $410k–$3.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 3 | 38% |
| Apps | 2 | 25% |
| Sales | 2 | 25% |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| iOS | 1 | 13% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 88% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 50% |
| Canada | 2 | 25% |
| India | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Frond | Frond is a new platform for online community. Because it’s built from threads instead of chat, conversations are deeper, easier to follow, and scale automatically. | $3.3M | Seed | Feb 07, 2023 | http://www.frond.com |
| Uvaro | Uvaro's career success platform includes training, paid experience, advancement and ongoing coaching to ensure long-term career success. Our training program includes on-demand and live classes, our virtual internships let companies hire talent based on performance, our coaching and mentorship network drive ongoing career growth. Our averagestudent lands their new role in less than 17 days from graduation at more than 2x their previous income, and in their new roles achieve 50% more sales than their peers. | $1.6M | Seed | Sep 01, 2020 | https://uvaro.com/ |
| Uvaro | Uvaro's career success platform includes training, paid experience, advancement, and ongoing coaching to ensure long-term career success. Their training program includes on-demand and live classes. Their virtual internships let companies hire talent based on performance. Their coaching and mentorship network drive ongoing career growth. | $1.6M | Seed | Sep 01, 2020 | https://kiite.ai |
| Nuzzel | Nuzzel is a professional news discovery service used by many of the top influencers in media, technology, and finance.Nuzzel was named one of the best apps of the year by Google Play, the New York Times, Fast Company, and Time Magazine.Nuzzel is backed by top Silicon Valley investors including Andreessen Horowitz, CRV, Homebrew, LowercaseCapital, Uncork Capital, Marc Benniof, and Max Levchin. | $1.7M | Seed | Nov 19, 2015 | http://nuzzel.com |
| Rover | Rover Rover is an advanced personalization and recommendation technology app. Its Recommendation Engine is also used to power discovery on numerous third party news and media sites. Rover helps people discover content they love, that they never knew existed from a wide variety of over 15,000 topics. The recommendation engine uses machine learningto learn a user's fine-grained interests through content a user engages with while being respectful of a user's need for privacy. Rover also connects to other people who are influential in topics that care about and help discover other people with similar interests. Rover uses Machine Learning to help people discover content they love that they never knew existed.It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. |  | Series A | Jul 28, 2015 | http://www.roverapp.com/ |
| DoctorC | DoctorC is a hospital and health care company that provides a diagnostic center which utilizes CT scan, ultrasound, X-ray testing, and blood test. DoctorC offers a web-based platform that enables its users to search for the pricing of diagnostics. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Hyderabad, India. | $410K | Seed | Sep 16, 2014 | http://www.doctorc.in |
| Pulse.io | Pulse.io provides a mobile app performance service that helps developers identify issues slowing down their production apps. The company was sold to Google May 2015. | $750K | Seed | Nov 01, 2013 | http://pulse.io |
| Sold | With a few pictures and a description of an item you wish to sell, Sold will price the item, sell it, handle the shipping, and deposit the customers funds directly into their bank account. |  | Seed | Jun 01, 2012 | http://usesold.com |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Xfund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xfund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-capital-s-women-in-technology-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Garage Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/garage-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Real Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/real-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Script Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/122-west-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [468 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/468-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Anil Dharni invest in?

Anil Dharni invests primarily in Mobile, Apps and Sales startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 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 Dharni's check size?

Anil Dharni typically joins rounds of $410k–$3.3M 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 Dharni participates in.

### How do I contact Anil Dharni?

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### When did Anil Dharni last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Anil Dharni closed in Feb 2023. 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.

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