# Anu Hariharan

> Anu Hariharan is a Series C investor at avra backing Software and Financial Services. See 58 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [avra](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avra-7592)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 58
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuhariharan
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/anuhariharan
- Website: https://x.com/anuhariharan
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anu.hariharan

Anu Hariharan is a Series C investor at avra in San Francisco focused on Software and Financial Services. Anu Hariharan is based out of London, England, and is the Non-Executive Director of Monzo and also served as a Founder & Managing Partner of Avra. Anu previously worked at Y Combinator Continuity Fund as a Co-Founder and Managing Director. Anu Hariharan attended Virginia Tech.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $20M–$62M |
| Series C | $60M–$140M |
| Series D | $83M–$425M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 17% |
| Financial Services | 8 | 14% |
| FinTech | 7 | 12% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 9% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 7% |

54 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 12 | 21% |
| Series B | 9 | 16% |
| Series D | 7 | 12% |
| Series F | 5 | 9% |
| Seed | 4 | 7% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 15 | 26% |
| India | 3 | 5% |
| Colombia | 1 | 2% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 2% |
| Singapore | 1 | 2% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zepto | Zepto is a quick-commerce platform that delivers groceries and daily essentials within minutes through a network of stores. It is an online store that offers a range of fruits, vegetables, snack food, and electronics. It provides a service that enables access to various grocery products. Zepto serves industries such as retail, food and beverage,and logistics. | $450M | Series H | Oct 16, 2025 |  |
| Zepto | Zepto is a quick-commerce platform that delivers groceries and daily essentials within minutes through a network of stores. It is an online store that offers a range of fruits, vegetables, snack food, and electronics. It provides a service that enables access to various grocery products. Zepto serves industries such as retail, food and beverage,and logistics. |  | Secondary Market | Oct 16, 2025 |  |
| Decagon | Decagon creates generative AI for building customer service agents that work much more like humans and its platform gives customer support team leaders more visibility into their automated customer experience operations | $131M | Series C | Jun 23, 2025 |  |
| Hex Technologies | Hex is the platform for collaborative data science and analytics. It's all about empowering individuals to learn things, and organizations to know things, so they can make better decisions. Hex brings together SQL, Python, R, and no-code in powerful notebooks, and allows users to 1-click publish projects as interactive data apps that anyonecan use.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $70M | Series C | May 28, 2025 |  |
| ClearGrid | ClearGrid, creating software and AI to streamline recovery and collaborate with the existing vendors. | $6.5M | Seed | Mar 19, 2025 |  |
| Method Financial | Method Financial is a financial connectivity API for consumer liability data + payments. Method provides connectivity to consumer credit and liability accounts, enabling end-to-end refinance experiences, real-time account data access, and one-click checkout. | $42M | Series B | Jan 23, 2025 |  |
| Render | Render offers the easiest cloud for developers and teams to host any application or website. The company’s goal is to completely eliminate the need to manage servers by offering a cloud with the best developer experience combined with incredible flexibility and power. This will ultimately improve all software and enable entirely new kinds ofapplications. Render was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco. | $80M | Series C | Jan 21, 2025 |  |
| Supabase | Supabase provides an open source backend platform for application development, centered around a managed PostgreSQL database and complementary tools. It offers built-in user authentication, real-time subscriptions, file storage, and serverless edge functions within a unified interface. Supabase enabling developers to deploy secure databasesquickly, auto-generate APIs, and focus on building features rather than infrastructure. The company operates with a commitment to open source, contributing to database extensions and community projects. It supports integration with existing Postgres setups and encourages flexibility in scaling and migration. | $80M | Series C | Sep 25, 2024 |  |
| Zepto | Zepto is a quick-commerce platform that delivers groceries and daily essentials within minutes through a network of stores. It is an online store that offers a range of fruits, vegetables, snack food, and electronics. It provides a service that enables access to various grocery products. Zepto serves industries such as retail, food and beverage,and logistics. | $340M | Series G | Aug 14, 2024 |  |
| Zepto | Zepto is a quick-commerce platform that delivers groceries and daily essentials within minutes through a network of stores. It is an online store that offers a range of fruits, vegetables, snack food, and electronics. It provides a service that enables access to various grocery products. Zepto serves industries such as retail, food and beverage,and logistics. | $665M | Series F | Jun 20, 2024 |  |

10 of 58 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 29 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 21 deals together
- [Ribbit Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ribbit-capital) — VC Fund, 18 deals together
- [DST Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-sky-technologies-fo) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Forerunner](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forerunner-ventures) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 11 deals together

## About avra

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

avra Empowering founders with essential tools for building durable, compounding businesses that thrive for decades.

1 contacts available at avra.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anu Hariharan | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anu-hariharan |

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## FAQ

### What does Anu Hariharan invest in?

Anu Hariharan invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Series C and Series B stage. Most of the 58 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 Anu Hariharan's check size?

Anu Hariharan typically joins rounds of $20M–$62M at Series B, $60M–$140M at Series C and $83M–$425M at Series D. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Anu Hariharan participates in.

### When did Anu Hariharan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Anu Hariharan closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 58 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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