# Ashish Toshniwal

> Ashish Toshniwal is a seed investor backing Software and Machine Learning. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Oct 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashishtoshniwal
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ymedialabs
- Website: http://www.ymedialabs.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ashishtoshniwal

Ashish Toshniwal is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on Software and Machine Learning. Ashish Toshniwal is CEO and co-founder of Y Media Labs, an investor in numerous mobile-first technology companies, and a frequent speaker on the future of mobile, emerging technologies, and business transformation in the digital age. Prior to that, he was a Manager at eBay. Ashish attended Purdue University.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $65k–$5.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 31% |
| Machine Learning | 4 | 31% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 31% |
| Apps | 3 | 23% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 23% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 85% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 54% |
| India | 5 | 38% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Xurrent IMR (formerly Zenduty) | Zenduty is a provider of end-to-end incident alerting, on-call management and response orchestration platform. | $1.9M | Seed | Oct 27, 2021 | https://www.zenduty.com/ |
| Codingal | Codingal is on a mission to provide coding education to every K-12 student.Coding helps improve logical thinking and problem-solving skills by 70% among kids at a young age, also enabling them to perform better in other subjects in school. Moreover, coding jobs are the future. They already constitute more than 60% of all jobs in science,technology, engineering, and math. While still in school, those who start young will be ahead of everyone by the time they get into college. They will be creators of the future. Learning to code at a young age will inspire more kids, including girls, to take up Computer Science as a major when entering college.Today, schools and traditional education systems are not equipped to provide the right coding education to children. Codingal is here to change that and empower every student with the tools, content, and live coding classes to start learning to code and build anything they can imagine. | $1.2M | Seed | Sep 01, 2021 | https://www.codingal.com |
| Miles | Miles is a universal rewards app empowering anyone to earn miles automatically for all forms of travel and commute. You can then redeem your miles from retailers such as HP, Garmin, Shipt, Pandora, Chewy, Home Chef, and many more.Similar to a frequent flyer program, but for all forms of transportation, Miles delivers value for every miletraveled, across every mode of travel, anywhere in the world. Whether by car (as a driver, passenger or rideshare), plane, train, subway, bus, boat, bicycle, or on foot, the Miles app effortlessly awards users’ travel - regardless of where their journey takes them. Miles can be saved or redeemed at any time - with the value increasing every month as more merchants accept them as a form of payment. Download Miles today to start getting rewarded! | $12.5M | Series A | Jul 21, 2021 | https://www.getmiles.com |
| Sparrosense | Silversparro is a tech startup, founded by entrepreneurs from IIT Delhi. The objective is to solve business problems by using Deep Learning Technology, the most rapidly advancing component of Artificial Intelligence. Our product, Sparrosense AI Supervisor is a SaaS tool that provides new data and insights to solve delays, optimize processes anddrive productivity leveraging AI-powered Video Analytics on the shop floor for USD 14 trillion global manufacturing industry. We work for manufacturing, healthcare, banking and consumer internet companies specializing in Computer Vision And Natural Language Processing, Image Detection and Classification | $300K | Seed | Feb 04, 2018 | http://www.sparrosense.com |
| WittyFeed | Since its inception in 2014, WittyFeed has been the leading digital content platform that serves trending content the way you like it. Right from entertainment, politics, tech, to culture, sports, lifestyle, and even health, we got you covered. In 2016, WittyFeed became the world's second-largest viral content company and since then, there hasbeen no turning back. Want to stay updated? Download our app today and don't forget to check out our exclusive coverage on the Pro-Kabaddi League too. |  | Seed | Sep 12, 2017 | http://www.wittyfeed.tv |
| Mercato | Mercato is a technology start-up that connects consumers to local specialty food shops. Consumers can order fresh local groceries online from the stores they love, and have them delivered to their door. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Diego, California. | $1.3M | Seed | Mar 01, 2017 | http://www.mercato.com |
| Sparrosense | Silversparro is a tech startup, founded by entrepreneurs from IIT Delhi. The objective is to solve business problems by using Deep Learning Technology, the most rapidly advancing component of Artificial Intelligence. Our product, Sparrosense AI Supervisor is a SaaS tool that provides new data and insights to solve delays, optimize processes anddrive productivity leveraging AI-powered Video Analytics on the shop floor for USD 14 trillion global manufacturing industry. We work for manufacturing, healthcare, banking and consumer internet companies specializing in Computer Vision And Natural Language Processing, Image Detection and Classification | $65K | Seed | Dec 06, 2016 | http://www.sparrosense.com |
| People.ai | People.ai is an artificial intelligence (AI) platform for enterprise revenue.People.ai helps sales, marketing, and customer success teams uncover every revenue opportunity from every customer, by capturing all customer contacts, activity and engagement to drive actionable insights across all revenue teams.People.ai empowers sales leaders to bemore effective at managing their teams and growing revenue by giving them a complete picture of sales activities and leveraging AI to deliver sales performance analytics, personalized coaching, one-on-one feedback, and pipeline reviews.The People.ai platform identifies and targets the buying group, and gives marketers a clear visualization of whom sales has spoken with, and which campaign has been successful in each opportunity. Using this information, marketers are able to build personas and deal models in order to better target their marketing efforts and get better campaign ROI.Customer success and services teams use People.ai to ensure they are engaging with the right people when the customer is handed off to them, but more importantly, these post-sales teams are constantly looking to align their effort and activities with the right opportunities and customers, tracking the true cost to support each customer. | $3M | Seed | Aug 24, 2016 | https://people.ai/ |
| Innov8 Coworking | Innov8 Coworking is a Y- Combinator backed workspaces and community startup based in India. They provide premium workspaces (managed private offices and coworking spaces).Innov8 Coworking is the first of its kind Thought space in India. They encourage community engagement of like-minded individuals from any space, whether they are founders,investors, freelancers, creators or just want to work in a highly productive zone.They currently have centers across India - Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chandigarh. |  | Seed | Aug 24, 2016 | https://www.innov8.work |
| Dil Mil | Dil Mil is the fastest growing matchmaking app for South Asian expats, disrupting the broken arranged marriage model and solving the privacy & usability concerns with existing outdated solutions. We're adding over 1,000+ new users per day and growing users & revenue over 50% month over month.Think Tinder meets JDate, but for SouthAsians. We have a solid team of experienced engineers and advisors who have successfully done this before.Under the hood we are solving one of the most complex real-time search & match problems using proprietary machine learning algorithms. The app is just the tip of the iceberg; the magic happens on the back-end. | $2.7M | Seed | Apr 01, 2016 | http://www.dilmil.co |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [GSF](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gsf) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [StartupXseed Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startupxseed-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [408 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/408-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alpaca VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpaca-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Ashish Toshniwal invest in?

Ashish Toshniwal invests primarily in Software, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Ashish Toshniwal's check size?

Ashish Toshniwal typically joins rounds of $65k–$5.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ashish Toshniwal participates in.

### How do I contact Ashish Toshniwal?

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### When did Ashish Toshniwal last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ashish Toshniwal closed in Oct 2021. Shizune tracks 13 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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