# Ashish Gupta

> Ashish Gupta is a Series A investor at Helion Venture Partners backing Software. See 61 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Helion Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/helion-venture-partners)
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Total investments: 61
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 16%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashish-gupta-9632571

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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$4.6M |
| Series A | $2.8M–$15M |
| Series B | $4M–$21M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 15% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 13% |
| SaaS | 7 | 11% |
| Machine Learning | 6 | 10% |

96 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 16 | 26% |
| Seed | 14 | 23% |
| Series B | 10 | 16% |
| Series C | 8 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 7% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 22 | 36% |
| United States | 20 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hoola Health | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | First Coffee a specialty coffee brand, combines design, culture and a new customer experience, with premium coffee | $1.2M | Seed | Sep 26, 2024 |  |
| Careflick | 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 | Flam is an AI-powered mixed reality (MR) publishing platform. | $4.6M | Seed | May 28, 2024 |  |
| ProsParity | ProsParity is a fintech platform focused on the electric transportation sector. | $2M | Pre-Seed | May 23, 2024 |  |
| PlanetSpark | 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 |  |

10 of 61 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Nexus Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nexus-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Stellaris Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stellaris-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Threshold](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/threshold) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Prime Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angelprime) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [BEENEXT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bee-next) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [CRV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crvvc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Helion Venture Partners

VC Fund · Port Louis Town, Mauritius

Helion Venture Partners is a stage independent, India-focused venture fund, investing in high growth technology powered businesses and consumer services.

5 contacts available at Helion Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dhruv Prakash | HR Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dhruv-prakash |
| Alok Goyal | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alok-goyal |
| Ashish Gupta | Co-Founder & Senior MD | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashish-gupta-b17420fc |
| Dourvesh Kumar | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dourvesh-kumar |
| Piyush Gupta | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/piyush-gupta-a7be |

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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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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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