Ashish Gupta
Co-Founder & Senior MD @ Helion Venture Partners
Bengaluru, India
Ashish Gupta is a Series A investor at Helion Venture Partners in Bengaluru focused on Software and Information Technology. Ashish Gupta seeks unexplored problem spaces to grow large companies from seed. His career spans “firsts” that include unstructured data aggregation (Junglee), BPOs (Daksh, acquired by IBM), online travel in India (MMYT), and an Indian venture fund (Helion). At Drishti (the first AI to empower factory workers instead of displacing them), he is apart-time co-founder and active board member guiding the team on a journey he’s traveled before.
- Total investments:
- 61
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 16%
Last updated:
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Industries Ashish Gupta invests in
Stages Ashish Gupta invests in
Countries Ashish Gupta invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$4.6M
- Series A
- $2.8M–$15M
- Series B
- $4M–$21M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (15%)
- Information Technology 8 (13%)
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (13%)
- SaaS 7 (11%)
- Machine Learning 6 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 16 (26%)
- Seed 14 (23%)
- Series B 10 (16%)
- Series C 8 (13%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (7%)
Country
- India 22 (36%)
- United States 20 (33%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Hoola Health
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Hoola Health facilities are designed to be warm and welcoming, with each visit feeling like a small celebration of your child's unique journey. | $5M / Series A / Jun 10, 2026 | |
Lumov Health
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Lumov Health provides a wide choice of goods intended for efficient pain management. We hope to enable everyone to move freely and live pain-free. | $1.1M / Seed / Dec 08, 2025 | |
Axirium Aerospace
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Axirium Aerospace is an aerospace manufacturing company specialising in high-precision, zero-defect production delivered on time. The company is driven by a mission to foster India's aerospace growth with leadership rooted in decades of domain experience | $3.5M / Seed / Nov 18, 2025 | |
Petpooja
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Petpooja offers all-in-one POS software and integrated solutions designed for managing restaurant and small to medium-sized enterprise operations. The product ecosystem includes tools for payroll, inventory, billing, invoice digitization, and task management. Petpooja delivers business solutions that streamline order management and automate variousadministrative processes for growth. | $15.4M / Series C / Sep 29, 2025 | |
Breakout
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Breakout is the always available agentic workforce that grows your inbound pipeline by Delivering personalized conversations to every website visitor Showing live demos based on the conversation Giving actionable insights to the GTM team on what your website visitors are looking for | $3.3M / Seed / Feb 27, 2025 | |
First Coffee
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First Coffee a specialty coffee brand, combines design, culture and a new customer experience, with premium coffee | $1.2M / Seed / Sep 26, 2024 | |
Careflick
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AgeTech AI Startup building multi-modal AI companions for seniors.86% of older adults in the US want to age at home. We’re building human-like AI companions for these 58 million seniors who are increasingly alone, unsupported, and caught in a widening caregiver gap - offering proactive reminders, personalized daily conversations, conversationalcognitive games, emotional support and practical daily support so they can stay independent for longer. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Jun 01, 2024 | |
Flam
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Flam is an AI-powered mixed reality (MR) publishing platform. | $4.6M / Seed / May 28, 2024 | |
ProsParity
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ProsParity is a fintech platform focused on the electric transportation sector. | $2M / Pre-Seed / May 23, 2024 | |
PlanetSpark
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PlanetSpark is a scientifically designed English and Math program, exclusively for pre-teens kids and aligned with the school curriculum. The program is based on our proprietary STEPS Methodology (Spark Think Explain Practice Share) that ensures a very strong foundation for conceptual understanding. It has been designed by educationists from XLRIJamshedpur and draws its inspiration from child cognitive psychology, and learning pedagogy, and presents it in an engaging and gamified way to make students fall in love with academics.Planet Spark partners with qualified homemakers who are passionate about teaching, have a great personality, skills, and relevant teaching experience, and turn them into “Teach from Home” Mompreneurs. The Teachers are trained to start their own home-based learning centers that are fully powered by PlanetSpark Content, Marketing, and Technology. | $17.1M / Series B / Mar 08, 2024 | |
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Co-Investors
About Helion Venture Partners
Helion Venture Partners is a stage independent, India-focused venture fund, investing in high growth technology powered businesses and consumer services.
Helion Venture Partners Contacts
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Dhruv Prakash
HR Advisor
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Alok Goyal
Partner
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Ashish Gupta
Co-Founder & Senior MD
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Dourvesh Kumar
Director
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Piyush Gupta
Venture Partner
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FAQ
What does Ashish Gupta invest in?
Ashish Gupta invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 61 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Ashish Gupta's check size?
Ashish Gupta typically joins rounds of $1M–$4.6M at Seed, $2.8M–$15M at Series A and $4M–$21M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ashish Gupta participates in.
When did Ashish Gupta last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ashish Gupta closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 61 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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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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