# Astarc Ventures

> Astarc Ventures is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and E-Commerce. See 50 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Total investments: 50
- Last investment: Jul 2024
- Lead investor: 26%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/astarcventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/AstarcVentures
- Website: http://www.astarcventures.com/

Astarc Ventures is an early stage investment fund which aims to partner with new age startups to help them grow into market leaders of tomorrow.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Astarc Ventures. Shizune tracks 3 team members at Astarc Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/astarcventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $200k–$3M |
| Series A | $1M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 16% |
| E-Commerce | 7 | 14% |
| Financial Services | 7 | 14% |
| Software | 6 | 12% |
| Machine Learning | 6 | 12% |

97 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 19 | 38% |
| Funding Round | 13 | 26% |
| Series A | 8 | 16% |
| Series C | 3 | 6% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 6% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 36 | 72% |
| United States | 5 | 10% |
| Israel | 2 | 4% |
| Singapore | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kishore Musale | Chairman | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kishore-musale |
| Rijul Jain | Investment Team | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rijul-jain |
| Salil Musale | Executive Director | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/salil-musale |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CytoReason | CytoReason is a tech company developing a computational model of the human body. The company collects proprietary data from pharma companies and uses it to simulate human diseases – tissue by tissue, cell by cell. With CytoReason’s massive database and AI-led platform, pharma and biotech companies identify new opportunities, shorten trial phases,reduce development costs and increase the likelihood of approval. To date, six of the world’s top ten pharma companies use CytoReason’s technology. | $80M | Series B | Jul 17, 2024 |  |
| Zypp Electric | Zypp Electric is an EV delivery app that operates in the last-mile space. Zypp is working to convert all deliveries for e-commerce, grocery, medicine, and food verticals to go electric with an e-scooter sharing app. Making last-mile delivery more affordable, time-saving, and with zero emission. Zypp, through its continuous efforts to invest andstrategize toward the mission of zero-emission, has become the first EV logistics player to turn into an EBITDA-positive business. | $13.9M | Series C | May 25, 2024 |  |
| Pixis | Pixis is a California-based technology company that provides codeless AI infrastructure to enable customers to scale accurate data-driven marketing. The company's codeless AI infrastructure currently comprises over four-dozen proprietary AI models that are deployed across an ecosystem of products and plugins. Pixis is on a mission to providemarketers with robust plug-and-play AI products without them having to write a single line of code. | $85M | Series C | Sep 14, 2023 |  |
| Rooter | Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop. | $16M |  | May 18, 2023 |  |
| Purple Style Labs | Purple Style Labs is an IIT-Bombay graduate and ex-banker with Deutsche. It aspires to be the biggest fashion house of India managing multiple designer brands in the premium, luxury as well as affordable retail segment. | $14M | Series C | Apr 12, 2023 |  |
| Dataloop AI | DataLoop's data management and annotation platform streamline the process of preparing visual data for machine and deep learning. Dataloop is used for building and deploying powerful computer vision pipelines – data labeling, automating data ops, customizing production pipelines, and weaving the human-in-the-loop for data validation. Thiseliminates data challenges for companies, allowing them to focus their resources on their core business. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Herzliya, Tel Aviv. | $33M | Series B | Nov 03, 2022 |  |
| Lucidity | lucidity provides cloud storage with the highest possible performance at the lowest possible cost without the need for human intervention. | $5.1M | Seed | Sep 08, 2022 |  |
| Koovers | Koovers assures workshops of spares with ease of ordering, doorstep delivery, genuine and complete basket of parts of all car makers | $1M | Seed | Jun 17, 2022 |  |
| Melorra | Melorra is a jewelry brand that designs and retails affordable and trendy jewelry for everyday wear. Its jewelry is made for contemporary wardrobes and uses a hundred percent 3D printing to provide an accurate and elegant finish to products that enable customers to access trendy jewelry at an affordable price.Melorra’s fashion stylists andjewelry designers work together to create jewelry in line with the global fashion trends week on week. It is made for occasions like casual-dos, work, and parties, with light, contemporary jewelry that can work on a daily basis. Melorra was established in 2016 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka. | $14M | Series D | May 17, 2022 |  |
| Spyne | At Spyne, our mission is to revolutionize automotive retailing. Every year, 52 million cars are sold in the US, for a combined worth of $1700 billion, and, valuing the used-car market at $1000 billion. Our new-age, Generative AI-powered solutions are designed to transform the car visuals into premium studio visuals. Dealerships & marketplacesacross the US & Europe are able to better engage their online visitors, driving greater customer showroom visits and eventually sales.Spyne aims to expand into additional software segments within the automotive market, addressing specific needs of dealerships. By leveraging our go-to-market craft we plan to cover all aspects of the car dealership journey, from acquiring and appraising cars to listing, marketing, selling, and managing customer relationships.Spyne aims to be the leading retail software provider in the automotive market and we are proud to be backed by top investors such as Accel Partners, Storm Ventures, and some of the leading SaaS and Consumer tech founders globally. | $7M | Series A | Apr 12, 2022 |  |

10 of 50 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Astarc Ventures invest in?

Astarc Ventures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 50 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Astarc Ventures's check size?

Astarc Ventures typically joins rounds of $200k–$3M at Seed and $1M–$10M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Astarc Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Astarc Ventures?

Public channels for Astarc Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Astarc Ventures?

The team at Astarc Ventures includes Kishore Musale (Chairman), Rijul Jain (Investment Team) and Salil Musale (Executive Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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