# Anup Kuruvilla

> Anup Kuruvilla is a seed investor at 1Crowd (Mumbai) backing Information Technology and CRM. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [1Crowd](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1crowd)
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jun 2022
- Lead investor: 75%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anup-kuruvilla-42983230/

Anup Kuruvilla is a seed investor at 1Crowd in Mumbai focused on Information Technology and CRM. Anup Kuruvilla is based in Bangalore and is a co-founder of 1Crowd which is an equity crowdfunding platform to help startups raise financing. He has 30 years of experience in arranging debt for corporate clients across emerging Asian markets with a primary focus on India, Indonesia and China. He has been based in Mumbai for 9 years, Singapore for 7years, Hong Kong for 10 years and Jakarta for 4 years, working with Citibank, Chase Manhattan and ABN Amro / RBS. His last banking assignment was as the Managing Director and Head of RBS’s Loan Syndication activities in Hong Kong (till Oct, 2014). Anup was on the Board of the Asia Pacific Loan Markets Association for over a decade and and holds an MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 4 | 50% |
| CRM | 1 | 13% |
| Content | 1 | 13% |
| Software | 1 | 13% |
| Logistics | 1 | 13% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Text Mercato | Text Mercato is a technology-based content writing solution provider that helps develop content using a custom-built platform and algorithms to deliver quality work. It is a provider of content writing and distribution services used to help eCommerce platforms to onboard sellers and catalog their products. It provides analytical reporting on thecontent in terms of rating, English quality, word density, blacklisted words, and recommends words. Also, it provides copywriting services on the content developed. Its pricing is based on the type of content, the quality expected, the size of the order, and the timelines.Text Mercato was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. | $2.6M | Seed | Jun 06, 2022 |  |
| Voiro | Voiro is India’s first all-in-one revenue management suite exclusively for ad-led digital publishers across media. Our cloud-based solution is built to tackle the complex world of multiple revenue channels and provides the best data security and protection, critical for a data driven, content centric industry. | $1.8M | Seed | Mar 24, 2021 |  |
| Text Mercato | Text Mercato is a technology-based content writing solution provider that helps develop content using a custom-built platform and algorithms to deliver quality work. It is a provider of content writing and distribution services used to help eCommerce platforms to onboard sellers and catalog their products. It provides analytical reporting on thecontent in terms of rating, English quality, word density, blacklisted words, and recommends words. Also, it provides copywriting services on the content developed. Its pricing is based on the type of content, the quality expected, the size of the order, and the timelines.Text Mercato was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. | $578K |  | Aug 13, 2020 |  |
| Text Mercato | Text Mercato is a technology-based content writing solution provider that helps develop content using a custom-built platform and algorithms to deliver quality work. It is a provider of content writing and distribution services used to help eCommerce platforms to onboard sellers and catalog their products. It provides analytical reporting on thecontent in terms of rating, English quality, word density, blacklisted words, and recommends words. Also, it provides copywriting services on the content developed. Its pricing is based on the type of content, the quality expected, the size of the order, and the timelines.Text Mercato was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. | $578K | Seed | Aug 13, 2020 |  |
| Voiro | Voiro is India’s first all-in-one revenue management suite exclusively for ad-led digital publishers across media. Our cloud-based solution is built to tackle the complex world of multiple revenue channels and provides the best data security and protection, critical for a data driven, content centric industry. | $298K | Seed | Mar 22, 2019 |  |
| Snackible | Snackible operates a health-food production company designed to sell healthy snack food via online and offline channels. The company produces health snacks under categories such as sweet, savoury, low cal, high fiber, high protein, gluten-free and lactose-free, enabling users to avail healthy snacking options directly at their doorstep. |  | Seed | Oct 01, 2018 |  |
| Mojro Technologies | At Mojro, they passionately strive to optimize the un-optimized using technology. Their platform focuses on transforming goods movement from, to and within mega-cities. They optimize various parameters & business processes to provide cost benefits for the shipper, while opening up new business avenues for the transporter.Their brand is anexpression of their passion, their aggression, their engineering expertise, their insatiable desire to solve real life problems with innovative solution Mojro is their tribute to Mohenjo-Daro, one of the largest settlements of Indus Valley Civilization and world's earliest major urban settlements. It was the most advanced city of its time with remarkably sophisticated civil engineering and urban planning. They consider it their privilege to be associated with a name that is treated as synonymous for meticulous planning, engineering marvel, aesthetic art and massive size. | $650K | Seed | Apr 11, 2018 |  |
| Nuvepro | Nuvepro’s product (Nuvelink) enables enterprises offer a vast catalogue of cloud services to the end-users on a self-service mode. The catalogue items can be sourced from diverse clouds, such as Azure, AWS, on-premise as well as SaaS platforms such as Office 365. It reduces the time to provision the resources and gives you the control to optimizecosts and utilization levels. It also helps you to reduce the problem of Shadow IT cases by enabling the IT Team to rapidly offer various resources to the business users. | $400K | Seed | Nov 21, 2017 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ah! Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ahventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Betatron Venture Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/betatron-venture-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Innospark Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/innospark-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mela Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mela-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Modulor Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/modulor-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mount Judi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mount-judi-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About 1Crowd

VC Fund · Mumbai, India

1crowd is a unique equity crowd funding platform focused on connecting investors with a host of extremely promising Indian start-ups and early stage ventures, with an array of capital solutions and co-investment commitment. For a start-up, with an incredible business idea, 1crowd will not only help raise capital, but will also provide access to apool of illustrious mentors and effectual partners who can help nurture the business to its potential.What differentiates 1crowd from others is their ecosystem that has been built around “commoditized” fundraising. Their range of services includes deal origination and sourcing, structuring the capital raising, guidance on building business plans and financial models, screening proposals, carrying out due diligence, providing access to investor members and presentment, deal closure, mentoring, and post investment monitoring. 1crowd co-invests in companies that raise capital through our platform. 1crowd is also in the process of launching a suite of exclusive capital solutions for start-ups, early stage ventures and investors.

5 contacts available at 1Crowd.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Amit Ratanpal | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amit-ratanpal |
| Anil Gudibande | Co Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anil-gudibande |
| Natasha Kothari | Investment Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/natasha-kothari |
| Anisha Philip | Investment Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anisha-philip |
| Anup Kuruvilla | Co Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anup-kuruvilla |

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## FAQ

### What does Anup Kuruvilla invest in?

Anup Kuruvilla invests primarily in Information Technology, CRM and Content startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Anup Kuruvilla last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Anup Kuruvilla closed in Jun 2022. 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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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