# Anirudh Pai

> Anirudh Pai is a seed investor at Dragonfly backing Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Dragonfly](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dragonfly-capital-partners-eed4)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 37%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anipai
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ani_pai?lang=en
- Website: https://x.com/ani_pai?lang=en

Anirudh Pai is a partner at Robot Ventures and co-founder of Realm Alliance. Previously, he was a partner at Dragonfly.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$15M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.8M–$2.5M |
| Series A | $15M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 4 | 21% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 21% |
| Software | 3 | 16% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 11% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 11% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 47% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 21% |
| Series A | 2 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 11% |
| Angel | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 53% |
| Cayman Islands | 1 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BULK Trade | One Exchange Infinite Markets | $8M | Seed | Sep 24, 2025 |  |
| Wildcat Labs | Wildcat Labs provides on-chain credit and grants access to a detailed view of all market parameters and logs for real-time monitoring. | $3.5M | Seed | Sep 05, 2025 |  |
| Praxis | Praxis is a membership-based platform aiming to build an autonomous city. Cities needed to be built around a source of economic opportunity to attract businesses that would create jobs and entice people to relocate. The platform enables people to live healthier, more purposeful lives. Praxis was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in New York. | $525M |  | Oct 15, 2024 |  |
| Praxis | Praxis is a membership-based platform aiming to build an autonomous city. Cities needed to be built around a source of economic opportunity to attract businesses that would create jobs and entice people to relocate. The platform enables people to live healthier, more purposeful lives. Praxis was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in New York. | $525M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 15, 2024 |  |
| Caldera | Caldera is a platform for web3 infrastructure with no coding. Caldera wants to attract users who are proficient in creating smart contracts but lack the time to hone their skills further. | $15M | Series A | Jul 24, 2024 |  |
| Prodia | Prodia is a multimedia design software and developer of artificial intelligence that creates APIs and images. | $15M | Seed | Jul 02, 2024 |  |
| KAIKAKU | Creating a world where you get served by the friendliest people with food that hits that "wow" every time. Automating the boring and doubling down on the "hospitality" part of food service using modular robotics. Advised by the Ex-CDO of Subway, Ex-CSO of Mars Inc, Ex-MD of Caffè Nero and VC-backed. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2024 |  |
| Prophetic | Prophetic AI is a non-invasive neurotech company that offers neural devices to help people stabilize and induce lucid dreaming. | $1.1M | Seed | Oct 04, 2023 |  |
| Parallax | Parallax offers a cross-border payments platform for freelancers, remote workers, and businesses. The service enables receiving international client payments, holding funds in USD, exchanging currencies, and sending money to domestic bank accounts and mobile wallets. Users manage balances and transfers through a web app with quoted rates anditemized fees. The platform supports global payouts and recurring disbursements to partners and team members. Compliance measures include identity verification and transaction monitoring aligned with regulatory standards. Documentation and support resources guide account setup, funding, and cash-out. | $4.5M | Seed | Sep 12, 2023 |  |
| KAIKAKU | Creating a world where you get served by the friendliest people with food that hits that "wow" every time. Automating the boring and doubling down on the "hospitality" part of food service using modular robotics. Advised by the Ex-CDO of Subway, Ex-CSO of Mars Inc, Ex-MD of Caffè Nero and VC-backed. |  | Angel | Jun 01, 2023 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Escape Velocity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/escape-velocity-1a89) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [HodlCo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hodlco) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [7percent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/7-percent) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bedrock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bedrock-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Chapter One](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chapter-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Dragonfly

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Dragonfly is a venture investment firm that provides capital and strategic support to teams building projects in the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem. The company evaluates blockchain protocols, decentralized finance platforms, and related digital asset initiatives to back technology builders at various stages of development. It maintains aportfolio of investments across token projects, infrastructure protocols, and financial applications in the crypto space. Dragonfly also produces research content that examines trends, technical challenges, and opportunities within the digital assets industry. Its operations involve engaging with founders, assessing technical approaches, and facilitating connections across the broader blockchain community.

5 contacts available at Dragonfly.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anirudh Pai | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anirudh-pai |
| Kitty Wang | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kitty-wang |
| Lawrence Diao | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lawrence-diao |
| Ashwin Ramachandran | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashwin-ramachandran-9cc8 |
| Bo Feng | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bo-feng |

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## FAQ

### What does Anirudh Pai invest in?

Anirudh Pai invests primarily in Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed 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.

### What is Anirudh Pai's check size?

Anirudh Pai typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$15M at Seed, $1.8M–$2.5M at Pre-Seed and $15M–$15M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Anirudh Pai participates in.

### When did Anirudh Pai last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Anirudh Pai closed in Sep 2025. 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.

### 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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