# Ankur Nagpal

> Ankur Nagpal is a seed investor at Teachable (New York) backing Software and Apps. See 60 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Teachable](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fedora)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 60
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ankurnagpal
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ankurnagpal
- Website: https://shrt.autos/crunch
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ankurnagpal

Ankur Nagpal is a seed investor at Teachable in New York focused on Software and Apps. Ankur Nagpal Founder of Fedora and Co-Founder of Vibe VC. He attended University of California, Berkeley in 2006.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$8.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $400k–$3.8M |
| Series A | $5.2M–$21M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 13 | 22% |
| Apps | 9 | 15% |
| FinTech | 9 | 15% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 13% |
| Education | 7 | 12% |

89 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 33 | 55% |
| Pre-Seed | 11 | 18% |
| Series A | 10 | 17% |
| Series B | 2 | 3% |
| Angel | 1 | 2% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 33 | 55% |
| India | 13 | 22% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 2% |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 2% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Willow Voice | Willow Voice is a technology company that develops voice input solutions using artificial intelligence. Its primary product is a dictation tool that converts spoken language into text in real time. The platform is designed to support everyday digital tasks by reducing reliance on manual typing. | $4.2M | Seed | Jul 15, 2025 |  |
| Enki | Enki builds AI products for the workforce development and upskilling industry. Offers a dynamic and adaptive educational experience that caters to the evolving needs of professionals seeking to enhance their technical skills. | $2.5M | Seed | Jan 02, 2025 |  |
| Oxygen | Oxygen is a digital banking platform. It is the first and only challenger in the US that offers both personal and business banking. The bank of the 21st-century economy, serving consumers, small businesses, and freelancers.Available on iOS and Android, Oxygen users enjoy no monthly fees, no paperwork, early direct deposit, simple transfers,cashback rewards, savings accounts, as well as retail and travel benefits. Businesses can easily control their finances with solutions that are elegant, simple, and secure. | $20M | Series B | Feb 02, 2023 |  |
| beehiiv | Beehiiv is the publishing and newsletter platform built by creators for creators. | $1.6M | Seed | Sep 12, 2022 |  |
| Phyllo | Phyllo provides creator economy-focused data infrastructure that connects with every social platform. It maintains a live data feed to the systems these platforms use to manage social data and provides a normalized data set so that businesses can make use of social data in a way that is simple yet impactful.The company was founded in 2021 and isbased in San Francisco, California. | $15M | Series A | Aug 17, 2022 |  |
| Pepper Content | Pepper Content is a content-mediation platform that connects talented writers to organizations that require content. Pepper offers customized content solutions by mediating content from the best talent pool of writers across the nation. | $14.2M | Series A | Jun 08, 2022 |  |
| Tortoise | Tortoise enables progressive employers to provision best mobile devices to their employees at zero cost | $2.3M | Seed | Apr 04, 2022 |  |
| Arcol | Arcol simplifies building design with powerful, browser-based modeling that lets your whole team work together | $3.6M | Seed | Mar 17, 2022 |  |
| Disco | Disco develops an AI-driven partnership platform that makes recommendations to consumers across brands. It operates as a network of brands that work together to learn more about their customers, increase merchandising distribution, and lower customer acquisition costs. | $20M | Series A | Mar 04, 2022 |  |
| Commsor | Community scales your business, resources, and presence in ways that traditional marketing or advertising channels cannot. When done right, community enables and improves customer acquisition, streamlines support and success, bolsters retention, and provides crucial product insights. Visit https://commsor.com/ to learn more. | $50M | Series B | Mar 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 60 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Nexus Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nexus-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Pioneer Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pioneer-fund) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Leonis Investissement](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leonis-investissement) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Better Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-capital-e839) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Teachable

VC Fund · New York, United States

Teachable (formerly Fedora) is changing education by making it easy to teach or sell courses online. Teacher entrepreneurs use Teachable to run their own courses work with almost half a million students online. In a matter of minutes, Teachable allows you to create a beautiful and powerful, payment-ready course from your own website without anytechnical knowledge. While many use Teachable for asynchronous video-based classes teachers have used it to sell books, services, offline-online classes, group coaching, tutoring and webinars.

5 contacts available at Teachable.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ankur Nagpal | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ankur-nagpal |
| Anna Elwood | SVP Revenue | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anna-elwood |
| Iain Hecker | Senior Software Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iain-hecker |
| Michael Poage | Software Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-poage |
| Noah Pryor | CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/noah-pryor |

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## FAQ

### What does Ankur Nagpal invest in?

Ankur Nagpal invests primarily in Software, Apps and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 60 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 Ankur Nagpal's check size?

Ankur Nagpal typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$8.5M at Seed, $400k–$3.8M at Pre-Seed and $5.2M–$21M 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 Ankur Nagpal participates in.

### When did Ankur Nagpal last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ankur Nagpal closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 60 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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