# Apurva Shah

> Apurva Shah is a seed investor at Coursera backing EdTech and Events. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Coursera](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coursera)
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Aug 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/apurva-shah-63503b1

Apurva Shah is a VP of Corporate Strategy and Financial Planning at Coursera

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| EdTech | 1 | 100% |
| Events | 1 | 100% |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| Education | 1 | 100% |
| College Recruiting | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Unstop | Unstop is an Early Talent Engagement & Hiring Platform with a community of ~4.5 Mn Students, Freshers, and 0-5 years Working Professionals. It enables companies to brand, source, engage, assess & hire talent #BeyondBoundaries from any college. In the process, student and early professionals get to explore opportunities and #GoBeyondResumes.Established in 2019 by Mr. Ankit Aggarwal as a blog called Dare2Compete, the idea was to give easy access to accurate information about corporate and student-organised competitions, challenges and festivals. 4 years on, Dare2Compete is now known as Unstop and is democratising hiring. A vision supported by strong pillars What was once a blog is now a thriving mutli-vertical ecosystem, which empowers students to showcase their skills, refine them; gain CV points, and eventually get recognized, rewarded, and hired in their dream companies. Unstop does this through - Learn, Practice, Mentorship, Compete, and Jobs.On one hand, students are empowered to enter the workforce and contribute to nation-building, on the other hand, companies get to source, engage, assess and hire these #Unstoppables through new-age hiring and engagement solutions. Leading brands such as Reliance, FedEx, Uber, Flipkart, Amazon, Kotak, PwC and others interact with students and early professionals at Unstop. First-of-its-kind super-app in the hiring spaceUnstop has over the years built solutions that revolutionises each phase of the hiring and engagement funnel. An organisation can complete their hiring from start to finish all on a single platform. Brand - No code custom microsite to engage and attract ~4.5 Mn students and early professionals across domains. Source - Job and internship listings bundled with a remote hiring platform. Engage - End-to-end execution of campus engagement solutions such as quiz, hackathons, hiring challenges, case study and innovation challenges. Assess - Coding, non-technical, domain specific and wide range of assessments to choose from. Hire - A remote hiring platform that allows access and an overview of the hiring funnel to the entire team, all on one platform. Our Moat: ~4.5 Mn community of students and professionals. Tech Platform can be created within days. But communities and behaviors like Whatsapp, Insta, LinkedIn, etc. takes ages. | $5M | Seed | Aug 02, 2023 | https://unstop.com/ |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [100Unicorns](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/9unicorns) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mynavi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mynavi) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Caret Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/supply-chain-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Venture Catalysts](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venturecatalysts) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Coursera

VC Fund · Mountain View, United States

Coursera is an online education company that serves over 20 million registered learners by partnering with 140 of the world’s best universities and education institutions. On Coursera, anyone, anywhere can access over 1,000 online courses and Specializations in dozens of fields in order to achieve meaningful career, educational, and personalenrichment goals throughout their lives.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

5 contacts available at Coursera.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Richard Wong | SVP, Engineering | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-wong-3b89 |
| Sabrina Simmons | Independent Board Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sabrina-simmons |
| Andrew Ng | Co-Founder & Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-ng |
| Apurva Shah | Executive | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apurva-shah-6d40 |
| Emil Tabakov | Senior Product Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emil-tabakov |

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## FAQ

### What does Apurva Shah invest in?

Apurva Shah invests primarily in EdTech, Events and Software startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Apurva Shah?

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### When did Apurva Shah last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Apurva Shah closed in Aug 2023. Shizune tracks 1 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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