# Ashish (Ash) Puri

> Ashish (Ash) Puri is a Series C investor at Lightrock (London) backing Software and FinTech. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Lightrock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightrock)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashpuri
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ashpuri
- Website: http://about.me/ashpuri

Ashish (Ash) Puri is a Series C investor at Lightrock in London focused on Software and FinTech. Ash Puri is an entrepreneur turned VC and has been closely associated with the European Tech scene since 2007.Ash is a growth tech investor at LGT Lightstone. Prior to this he has been growth and secondary buyouts at TempoCap and was with Episode1 prior to that as an early stage investor. Before joining Episode1, Ash was helping ASOS with itsinternational expansion in Asia based on his experience founding and running a premium fashion ecommerce business in India.Ash is the Founder of a leading fashion portal called Rock.in, selling premium fashionwear in India and the Middle East . Rock.in is a select store for men and women offering the best in apparel and accessories from International and Indian brands.Ash was an Associate at Partech International Partners. Passionate about technology, he actively focuses on the emerging trends in the Hi-tech sector. He has previously worked at Sofinnova Partners and started his career as a Consultant at Computer Associates, working on international projects.Ash holds a double-masters with a MS in Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA and a Diplome deIngenieur from Ecole Superieure d'Electricite (SUPELEC), France. He also earned a Bachelor of Engineering with distinction in Telecommunications from Visvesvaraya Technological University, India.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 25% |
| FinTech | 3 | 19% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 19% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 19% |
| Internet | 2 | 13% |

49 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 4 | 25% |
| Secondary Market | 4 | 25% |
| Series B | 3 | 19% |
| Series A | 2 | 13% |
| Seed | 1 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 31% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 31% |
| France | 4 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Augury | Augury helps eliminate downtime, reduce maintenance costs and maximize productivity for critical machines in industrial and commercial applications ranging from bottling and food processing to paper products and pharmaceuticals. Its Machine Health solutions combine advanced sensors with powerful AI capabilities and collaboration tools to help teamsunderstand when machines are at risk. | $75M | Series F | Feb 19, 2025 |  |
| AiDASH | AiDASH is making critical infrastructure industries climate resilient and sustainable. Using our satellite-first platform for grid inspection and monitoring, our AI applications enable electric and gas utilities and landowners to transform how they manage and maintain their assets. Our customers deliver ROI in their first year of deployment withreduced costs, improved reliability, and advancements in sustainability goals. AiDASH exists to safeguard critical infrastructure and secure the future of humanAIty™. Learn more at www.aidash.com. | $58.5M | Series C | Jan 23, 2024 |  |
| Visby Medical | Visby Medical is a diagnostics company that develops PCR-based diagnostic tests for the detection of infectious diseases. The company develops a device platform that aims to redefine the way an illness is tested and treated. They believe that by taking a human-centric, technology-first approach to device development and they can create tools thatare both highly accurate and delightful to use. | $35M | Series E | Jun 29, 2022 |  |
| Selina Finance | Trillions of pounds in value are locked up in UK homes, while at the same time, homeowners still rely on expensive consumer loans, credit cards, or overdrafts. The inflexible and archaic secured products are simply not serving customer needs for flexibility and affordability. With our experience in real estate, finance and technology, Selina isbringing together the best from different worlds to offer customers a next-generation financing option – a product that is as flexible as a current account, as affordable as a mortgage, and as easy to apply for as a consumer loan. | $35M | Series B | Feb 07, 2022 |  |
| Liqid | Liqid is an IT company that provides comprehensive, software-defined composable infrastructure solutions and services. The company composable infrastructure platform empowers users to manage, scale, and configure physical, bare-metal server systems in seconds and then reallocate core data center devices on-demand as workflows and business needsevolve. The Command Center software enables users to dynamically right-size their IT resources on-the-fly.Liqid intuitive GUI, REST API, or CLI enables an end-user to create servers in seconds from those resource pools to deploy applications on-demand. The company’s software disaggregates the server components in your datacenter—CPU, GPU, FPGA, NVMe, Optane, and NICs and places them into resource pools. | $100M | Series C | Dec 07, 2021 |  |
| Depop | Depop is an online fashion marketplace that connects individual buyers and sellers through an app and web platform focused on second-hand clothing, accessories, and unique styles. The platform enables users to list preloved and vintage items for sale directly to other users, manage their virtual shops, and interact with shoppers through browsingand messaging features that resemble social media feeds. Depop’s marketplace model facilitates transactions by integrating secure payment processing and providing tools for sellers to manage listings, shipping, and order details. The company’s services emphasize community engagement by allowing users to follow sellers, explore trend-driven collections, and discover items that reflect personal style and cultural influences.Depop also supports features like promoted listings and marketplace fees that align its revenue with platform activity. Through its platform design, users can clear out wardrobes, build small businesses, and participate in circular fashion by extending the life of garments and reducing textile waste. The company continues to evolve its marketplace features to support a diverse range of fashion products and creative sellers. | $62M | Series C | Jun 06, 2019 |  |
| Depop | Depop is an online fashion marketplace that connects individual buyers and sellers through an app and web platform focused on second-hand clothing, accessories, and unique styles. The platform enables users to list preloved and vintage items for sale directly to other users, manage their virtual shops, and interact with shoppers through browsingand messaging features that resemble social media feeds. Depop’s marketplace model facilitates transactions by integrating secure payment processing and providing tools for sellers to manage listings, shipping, and order details. The company’s services emphasize community engagement by allowing users to follow sellers, explore trend-driven collections, and discover items that reflect personal style and cultural influences.Depop also supports features like promoted listings and marketplace fees that align its revenue with platform activity. Through its platform design, users can clear out wardrobes, build small businesses, and participate in circular fashion by extending the life of garments and reducing textile waste. The company continues to evolve its marketplace features to support a diverse range of fashion products and creative sellers. | $20M | Series B | Jan 23, 2018 |  |
| Onfido, an Entrust company | Onfido digitally proves a user’s real identity using AI technology, by verifying their photo ID and comparing it to their facial biometrics. It means users and businesses can verify their online identities anywhere and anytime, without compromising on experience, inclusion, privacy or security. Onfido powers over 1,500 fintech, banking, andmarketplace clients globally—helping them onboard more users while reducing risk. Identity underpins all transactions, and over the coming years, access to everything will be based on every user's ability to easily and securely prove their legal identity. This will change how we think of access—everything from opening a bank account to self-checking-in to a hotel, and ultimately voting. | $24.2M | Series C | Sep 27, 2017 |  |
| eMoov | Classic estate agents charge very high fees to sellers for very little support and value addition and suffer from a very poor reputation.eMoov is an industry first solution, which is genuinely helping the seller sell better with the help of technology tools and great people. This creates customer empowerment, transparency and reduced cost ofservicing allowing a fee saving to be passed to the customer. Emoov charges nominal fixed fees, a fraction compared to percentage based transactions charged by old fashioned estate agents.eMoov was founded by Russell Quirk, who is an impressive entrepreneur and previously ran a five branch classic estate agent business. He is a rarity in that he is a well versed property professional incumbent disrupting an industry that is sorely in need of it. He has built an industry leading team, a fantastic technology platform and is obsessed with customer service. His PR skills are frankly awesome. | $11.5M | Series B | Aug 21, 2017 |  |
| AimBrain | AimBrain uses anomaly detection, behavioural biometrics and three active biometric authentication modules to prevent fraudulent or abusive account creation, detect account takeover and provide the necessary step-up user authentication for liveliness detection to comply with KYC, AML, PSD2 and other regulatory requirements. In May 2018 it launchedAimBrain On Demand, a free-for-life dashboard for developers and innovators, including 1,000 free facial, voice or video/audio API calls a month, making stronger authentication free for everyone.It has a unique, 100% proprietary portfolio of passive and active modules, underpinned by patented processes and ensemble learning, which detect the fraud other solutions can't. Clients include Tier 1, digital and P2P banks, wealth managers, cloud service providers and tech/fintech organisations. | $5.1M | Series A | Jun 19, 2017 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightrock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lgt-lightstone) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Balderton Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/balderton-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Creandum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creandum) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DH Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dh-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [HV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/holtzbrinck-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Octopus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/octopus-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Lightrock

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Lightrock is a global growth capital platform that backs purpose-driven entrepreneurs tackling the world’s biggest challenges. Lightrock invests in companies that pursue scalable and tech-driven business models around the key impact themes of people, planet, and productivity/tech for good. Lightrock’s portfolio includes more than 90high-growth companies across Europe, US, Latin America, India and Africa, supported by more than 100 Lightrock professionals based in 6 global offices. Lightrock is backed by LGT, the international private banking and asset management group, and other leading global institutions.For more information, please visit www.lightrock.com.

5 contacts available at Lightrock.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Christopher Steinau | Growth Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-steinau |
| Kevin Bone | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-bone-27a9 |
| Marcos Wilson Pereira | Partner, Head of Latin America | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marcos-pereira |
| Pal Erik Sjatil | Global Managing Partner and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pal-erik-sjatil |
| Umur Hursever | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/umur-hursever |

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## FAQ

### What does Ashish (Ash) Puri invest in?

Ashish (Ash) Puri invests primarily in Software, FinTech and E-Commerce startups, most often at Series C and Secondary Market stage. Most of the 16 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 Ashish (Ash) Puri last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ashish (Ash) Puri closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 16 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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