# Ashwin Gupta

> Ashwin Gupta is a Series B investor at Goldman Sachs Growth Equity backing FinTech. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Goldman Sachs Growth Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gs-growth)
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 88%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashwin-gupta-5897156

Ashwin Gupta is a Series B investor at Goldman Sachs Growth Equity focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Ashwin Gupta

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 4 | 50% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 50% |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| Credit | 1 | 13% |
| Big Data | 1 | 13% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 2 | 25% |
| Series C | 1 | 13% |
| Series D | 1 | 13% |
| Series E | 1 | 13% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 13% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bestow | Bestow is a life insurance SaaS company that utilizes advanced technology and data solutions to modernize the insurance industry. The company partners with top life insurance carriers to deploy cutting-edge technology and data solutions that reduce costs, maximize efficiency, and drive growth by streamlining processes from origination andunderwriting through administration. Bestow aims to increase financial stability for everyone by providing innovative and efficient insurance solutions. | $70M | Series D | May 13, 2025 |  |
| Axoni | Axoni is a real-time data replication technology company serving the world’s largest financial institutions. Axoni’s platform enables rapid, reliable deployment of critical financial networks and automated, real-time data replication across market participants. Founded in 2017, the company serves banks, asset managers, hedge funds, and financialmarket infrastructure firms across the globe from offices in New York and London. | $20M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 26, 2023 |  |
| Deserve Inc. | Deserve Inc. is a leading mobile-first credit card platform built on a cloud-native and API-enabled architecture, which allows partners to offer superior personalized experiences for cardholders. We partner with financial institutions, fintechs, lenders, and merchant co-brands. | $250M | Debt Financing | May 11, 2022 |  |
| Flywire | Flywire is a payments enablement and software company. It combines its proprietary payments network, next-gen payments platform, and vertical-specific software to deliver the most important and complex payments for clients and their customers.Flywire supports 4,000 + clients with diverse payment methods in more than 140 currencies across 240countries and territories around the world. Flywire is headquartered in Boston, MA, USA with global offices. | $120M | Series E | Feb 13, 2020 |  |
| Deserve Inc. | Deserve Inc. is a leading mobile-first credit card platform built on a cloud-native and API-enabled architecture, which allows partners to offer superior personalized experiences for cardholders. We partner with financial institutions, fintechs, lenders, and merchant co-brands. | $50M | Series C | Nov 04, 2019 |  |
| Deserve Inc. | Deserve Inc. is a leading mobile-first credit card platform built on a cloud-native and API-enabled architecture, which allows partners to offer superior personalized experiences for cardholders. We partner with financial institutions, fintechs, lenders, and merchant co-brands. | $50M | Series C | Nov 04, 2019 |  |
| Axoni | Axoni is a real-time data replication technology company serving the world’s largest financial institutions. Axoni’s platform enables rapid, reliable deployment of critical financial networks and automated, real-time data replication across market participants. Founded in 2017, the company serves banks, asset managers, hedge funds, and financialmarket infrastructure firms across the globe from offices in New York and London. | $36M | Series B | Aug 14, 2018 |  |
| Cuebiq | Cubeiq is a business intelligence company that provides its clients with consumer behavior and trend insights.The company offers its clients with marketing, retail, research, and publisher services. Its marketing platform offers audience targeting, offline campaign attribution, performance analytics, and location insights. Its retail platformoffers footfall analysis, site selection, and audience and geo-behavioral consumer insights. Its publisher platform offers audience segmentation, campaign attribution, and data monetization services.Cubeiq was founded in 2015 and is based in New York. | $27M | Series B | May 18, 2018 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Wells Fargo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wells-fargo-bank) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Aspect Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aspect-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Castor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/castor-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Citi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citigroup) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Goldman Sachs Growth Equity

VC Fund · New York, United States

As part of the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs, GS Growth is the firm’s investment platform dedicated to providing preferred equity and mezzanine capital to high-growth companies.As of June 2019, Goldman Sachs' investing groups (Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, Principal Strategic Investments, and Private Capital Investing) havecombined to form the GS Growth team. The team targets investments of $20-250 million.

5 contacts available at Goldman Sachs Growth Equity.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ashwin Gupta | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashwin-gupta |
| Cassidy Blonsky | Owner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cassidy-blonsky-986c |
| Chase Williams | Growth Equity Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chase-williams-0479 |
| Kirk A. Lepke | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kirk-lepke |
| Kirk A. Lepke | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kirk-a-lepke |

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## FAQ

### What does Ashwin Gupta invest in?

Ashwin Gupta invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 8 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 Ashwin Gupta last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ashwin Gupta closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 8 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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