# Aparna Chennapragada

> Aparna Chennapragada is a seed investor at Microsoft (San Francisco) backing Software and Apps. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Microsoft](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/microsoft)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aparnacd
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/aparnacd
- Website: https://x.com/aparnacd

Aparna Chennapragada is a seed investor at Microsoft in San Francisco focused on Software and Apps. Aparna Chennapragada is the Corporate VP of Microsoft. She previously worked at Robinhood as a Chief Product Officer. Aparna Chennapragada attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 43% |
| Apps | 2 | 29% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 29% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 29% |
| FinTech | 1 | 14% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 43% |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |
| Angel | 1 | 14% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 71% |
| India | 2 | 29% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AISLE | AISLE represents a new paradigm in autonomous vulnerability management. The company's AI-native cyber reasoning system (CRS) finds vulnerabilities that are missed by older technologies and automatically creates ready-to-merge patches, reducing remediation time to days or minutes while maintaining human oversight. |  | Angel | Oct 16, 2025 |  |
| OpenInfer | OpenInfer develops an AI inference engine for edge applications | $8M | Seed | Feb 20, 2025 |  |
| PromptLayer | The first dev platform for prompt engineering. Based in NYC. | $4.8M | Seed | Feb 07, 2025 |  |
| mirrAR | MirrAR is a technology platform that enables online and in-store real-time virtual try-ons of jewelry, eyewear, and watches. | $1.6M | Seed | Nov 01, 2023 |  |
| ClearTax | ClearTax is a Tax & Investing platform that simplifies financial lives for Indians. ClearTax is Built on top of India’s Massive Digitization of its Tax Systems.They are a Bangalore-based Financial-Technology platform providing solutions for Income Tax filing, GST, and Mutual Fund Investments.Founded by 3 friends, Archit Gupta, SrivatsanChari, and Ankit Solanki, ClearTax became the first Y-Combinator-funded company of India in 2014. As ClearTax took this journey, we have added mentors and Investors like Max Levchin, founder of Paypal, Vijay Shekhar Sharma of Paytm, Neeraj Arora of Whatsapp, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Sequoia, Ryan Peterson of Flexport. SAIF Partners had invested $12Mn in ClearTax. Composite Capital has invested $50Mn in ClearTax. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 13, 2022 |  |
| Statsig | Statsig allows the users to safely test new features in production before rolling out to avoid product debates and ship mistakes. | $10.4M | Series A | Aug 05, 2021 |  |
| Infinitus Systems | Infinitus Systems is an AI healthcare company that automates phone calls. By automating tedious and time-consuming phone-based processes across the healthcare ecosystem, we’re improving therapy access, adherence, and affordability for patients. Healthcare is one of the biggest contributors to the US GDP and we are on a mission to reduce thecomplexity and spend on back-office administration. Infinitus has raised $51.4M to date and is backed by leading growth investors Kleiner Perkins, Coatue, and Google Ventures. Learn more by visiting infinitus.ai or contact us to get started. | $21.4M | Series A | Feb 04, 2021 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Anikarth Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anikarth-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Brave Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brave-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Coatue](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coatue) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cota Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cota-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Diaspark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/diaspark) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Microsoft

VC Fund · Redmond, United States

Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. Thecompany’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores.Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services.The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

5 contacts available at Microsoft.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aparna Chennapragada | Corporate VP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aparna-chennapragada |
| Bay Gross | Vice President of Health at Microsoft AI | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bay-gross |
| Bobby George | Creative Strategist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bobby-george |
| Brandon Dixon | Product and Intel Strategy Leader | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brandon-dixon |
| Brandon Middaugh | Sr. Director, Climate Innovation Fund | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brandon-middaugh |

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## FAQ

### What does Aparna Chennapragada invest in?

Aparna Chennapragada invests primarily in Software, Apps and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 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 Aparna Chennapragada last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Aparna Chennapragada closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 7 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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