# Anju Patwardhan

> Anju Patwardhan is a Series A investor at UC Berkeley College of Engineering backing FinTech. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [UC Berkeley College of Engineering](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uc-berkeley-college-of-engineering)
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anju-patwardhan-0795562

Anju Patwardhan is a Series A investor at UC Berkeley College of Engineering in Singapore focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Anju Patwardhan is Managing Director with CreditEase for its Fintech Investment Fund and Fund of Funds and is a member of the Investment Committee. She is also a 2016 Fulbright Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Stanford University working on fintech and financial inclusion. Anju has over 25 years of banking experience with Citibank and StandardChartered Bank in global leadership roles across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Her last role at SCB was as Global Chief Innovation Officer (until July 2016). She is a globally recognized and awarded Fintech thought leader and influencer and was recently ranked number 1 globally by Bank Innovation in its 2017 list of “44 Innovators to Watch". She is a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) steering committee on ‘disruptive innovation in financial services’ and a member of its Global Future Council on Blockchain. She is also a member of Institute of International Finance (IIF) Advisory Group on Fintech Partnerships, and Faculty at Singularity University. She is a Distinguished Fellow of Singapore Institute of Banking and Finance (the highest financial services accolade in Singapore) and an Innovation Fellow with National University of Singapore (NUS).

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 4 | 44% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 44% |
| Finance | 2 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 22% |
| Retail | 1 | 11% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 33% |
| Series B | 3 | 33% |
| Series C | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 44% |
| Germany | 1 | 11% |
| Singapore | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Arta Finance | Arta Finance is a network of innovators, researchers, finance specialists, and business executives who help people get the most of their finances. Arta offers access to financial opportunities that help people to plan and enjoy their financial future but with less complexity and lower fees. It was founded by Caesar Sengupta. | $90M | Series A | Nov 02, 2022 |  |
| wefox | wefox is a digital insurance company aiming to make people safe and prevent risk by reinventing insurance at scale through technology. Its focus is selling insurance via intermediaries and not via direct channels. Through analytics, wefox achieves better loss ratios than the market. Technology allows wefox to have >90%straight-through-processing and a central product factory that ships product innovations internationally much quicker and more cost-effective than the competition.Wefox has built up a network of thousands of digitally enabled advisors across Europe which increases customer satisfaction, reduces customer acquisition costs, increases cross-selling, and decreases churn.Wefox was founded in 2015 and is based in Berlin, Germany. | $650M | Series C | Jun 01, 2021 |  |
| wefox | wefox is a digital insurance company aiming to make people safe and prevent risk by reinventing insurance at scale through technology. Its focus is selling insurance via intermediaries and not via direct channels. Through analytics, wefox achieves better loss ratios than the market. Technology allows wefox to have >90%straight-through-processing and a central product factory that ships product innovations internationally much quicker and more cost-effective than the competition.Wefox has built up a network of thousands of digitally enabled advisors across Europe which increases customer satisfaction, reduces customer acquisition costs, increases cross-selling, and decreases churn.Wefox was founded in 2015 and is based in Berlin, Germany. | $110M | Series B | Dec 11, 2019 |  |
| Active.ai | Active.Ai has built an advanced, proprietary conversational AI platform that can be easily deployed for financial institutions, insurance companies and capital markets. Triniti, their artificial intelligence engine, has been built to create meaningful, intuitive engagement for the end user across multiple apertures like messaging, voice and IOTdevices. Built from the ground up to specifically meet the needs of financial institutions, insurance companies and capital markets—utilizing Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Natural Language Generation—Triniti has an industry context that is unmatched for intuitive connection with the end user. Moreover, this solution is underpinned with the knowledge and expertise of an executive team with over 60 years of senior-level industry experience, and the deep understanding of the strategic and operational challenges their clients are working to address. Active.ai is arriving just in time for financial institutions, insurance companies and capital markets who are evolving quickly to remain relevant to changing customer expectations. Using advanced conversational AI, we see an exciting opportunity to create a natural dialogue and more meaningful connections with people in their everyday micro-conversations. | $3M | Series A | Jun 12, 2019 |  |
| wefox | wefox is a digital insurance company aiming to make people safe and prevent risk by reinventing insurance at scale through technology. Its focus is selling insurance via intermediaries and not via direct channels. Through analytics, wefox achieves better loss ratios than the market. Technology allows wefox to have >90%straight-through-processing and a central product factory that ships product innovations internationally much quicker and more cost-effective than the competition.Wefox has built up a network of thousands of digitally enabled advisors across Europe which increases customer satisfaction, reduces customer acquisition costs, increases cross-selling, and decreases churn.Wefox was founded in 2015 and is based in Berlin, Germany. | $125M | Series B | Mar 06, 2019 |  |
| Cross River Bank | Cross River combines innovative technologies with the expertise of a bank to create new services and solutions for fintech companies that are redefining global financial services. In addition to traditional banking, the company has developed partnerships with financial technology leaders to build compliant and integrated products for themarketplace lending and payment processing arenas. | $100M | Series B | Dec 06, 2018 |  |
| Active.ai | Active.Ai has built an advanced, proprietary conversational AI platform that can be easily deployed for financial institutions, insurance companies and capital markets. Triniti, their artificial intelligence engine, has been built to create meaningful, intuitive engagement for the end user across multiple apertures like messaging, voice and IOTdevices. Built from the ground up to specifically meet the needs of financial institutions, insurance companies and capital markets—utilizing Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Natural Language Generation—Triniti has an industry context that is unmatched for intuitive connection with the end user. Moreover, this solution is underpinned with the knowledge and expertise of an executive team with over 60 years of senior-level industry experience, and the deep understanding of the strategic and operational challenges their clients are working to address. Active.ai is arriving just in time for financial institutions, insurance companies and capital markets who are evolving quickly to remain relevant to changing customer expectations. Using advanced conversational AI, we see an exciting opportunity to create a natural dialogue and more meaningful connections with people in their everyday micro-conversations. | $8.3M | Series A | Nov 13, 2017 |  |
| Omnyway | Omnyway abstracts the complexities of disparate retail digital systems to enable elegant, flexible and scalable implementations in physical stores and online, within minutes. Omnyway's VISX livestream commerce solution democratizes access to video based shopping by providing the capability to any retail employee. The unique solution allowsviewers to buy items while viewing an event, and have the sale attributed to the store employee and their respective store. Omnyway HaiWai allows for the acceptance of Popular Global Digital Wallets at an existing POS without any change to hardware, software or processing and zero integration time. Omnyway Zapbuy enables 1-click purchase from digital ads. | $12.8M | Series A | Oct 12, 2017 |  |
| Nav | Nav is a free site and app that gives business owners the fastest, easiest and most trusted path to financing. The leading Business Financial Management app, Nav gives free access to personal and business credit reports from major consumer and commercial credit bureaus including Experian, Dun & Bradstreet, Equifax and TransUnion, and hosts arobust marketplace with more than 100 business financing products including loans and credit cards. The marketplace uses a unique, lender-neutral approach to help business owners find the best financing options for their needs. Nav's solution is also leveraged by other business service providers to enhance their customer experience. | $37.7M | Series B | May 03, 2017 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alma Mundi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alma-mundi-venture) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [G Squared](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/g-squared-2) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Salesforce Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/salesforce-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Seedcamp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seedcamp) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Sound Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sound-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Target Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/target-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About UC Berkeley College of Engineering

VC Fund · Berkeley, United States

UC Berkeley College of Engineering is a public university that boasts with faculties, stellar research libraries, and a wide range of academic programs. The subjects vary from engineering, science, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Services for students such as advising, tutoring and support, degree requirements and college policies, classregistrations, career development opportunities, and newsletters are offered throughout the calendar year.UC Berkeley College of Engineering is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 1931.

5 contacts available at UC Berkeley College of Engineering.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jack McCauley | Innovator in Residence | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jack-mccauley |
| Aaron Edlin | Richard Jennings Professor of Law and Professor of Economics | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aaron-edlin |
| Anju Patwardhan | FinTech Industry Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anju-patwardhan |
| Chris Hoofnagle | Faculty Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technolog | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-hoofnagle |
| Eicke R. Weber | Prof. of Materials Science | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eicke-r--webber |

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## FAQ

### What does Anju Patwardhan invest in?

Anju Patwardhan invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Finance startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 9 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 Anju Patwardhan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Anju Patwardhan closed in Nov 2022. Shizune tracks 9 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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