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 a part-time co-founder and active board member guiding the team on a journey he’s traveled before.
- Total investments:
- 62
- 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
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$4.6M
- Series A
- $3.3M–$15M
- Series B
- $4M–$21M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (15%)
- Information Technology 9 (15%)
- SaaS 8 (13%)
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (13%)
- Machine Learning 6 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 16 (26%)
- Seed 15 (24%)
- Series B 10 (16%)
- Series C 8 (13%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (6%)
Country
- India 23 (37%)
- United States 20 (32%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Inaara NeoFoods operates an industrial, business-to-business (B2B) agricultural and food science platform. The company manages an integrated supply chain utilizing contract farming and crop aggregation to source plant-based materials. It processes these agricultural inputs into functional ingredients like plant-derived proteins, fibers, fats, andstarches. These outputs are engineered specifically for food and beverage manufacturers to use in consumer packaged goods. The operational framework utilizes computational engineering and data science to improve ingredient traceability and yield consistency | $2.2M / Seed / Aug 06, 2026 | ||
| 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 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 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 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 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 is a specialty coffee company that operates a grab-and-go coffee chain. The company serves 100% Arabica specialty coffee, including single-origin and microlot coffees, alongside other beverages and quick bites. It operates physical locations in New Delhi, Gurugram, and Chandigarh and also sells coffee and branded merchandise throughits online store. First Coffee provides customers with ordering and loyalty services through its mobile app and delivery platforms. | $1.2M / Seed / Sep 26, 2024 | ||
| 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 is an AI-powered mixed reality (MR) publishing platform. | $4.6M / Seed / May 28, 2024 | ||
| ProsParity is a fintech platform focused on the electric transportation sector. | $2M / Pre-Seed / May 23, 2024 | ||
| See all 62 investments → | |||
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 SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 62 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Ashish Gupta invest in?
Ashish Gupta typically joins rounds of $1M–$4.6M at Seed, $3.3M–$15M at Series A and $4M–$21M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Ashish Gupta's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Ashish Gupta took part in.
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When did Ashish Gupta last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ashish Gupta closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 62 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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