# Astir Ventures

> Astir Ventures is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Video. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: South Plainfield, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.astir.vc/

Astir Ventures is a leading investment firm, seeking out the best and most exciting investment opportunities. We are looking for the best entrepreneurial and business ideas to fund, mentor, and bring to market. Astir Ventures can provide you with the necessary funding and support, so your idea goes from business proposal to practice. Astir Ventureshas a rich history of finding excellent business opportunities; nurturing, guiding, and funding them for success.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $400k–$1.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $125k–$2.4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 36% |
| Video | 3 | 21% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 21% |
| Fashion | 2 | 14% |
| FinTech | 2 | 14% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 43% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 7 | 50% |
| Bangladesh | 2 | 14% |
| United States | 2 | 14% |
| Pakistan | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kishore Ganji | Angel Investor & Mentor & Co-founder | 47 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kishore-ganji |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Workroom | Workroom builds a connected factory platform that acts as an intelligence layer across manufacturing systems. | $660.8K | Seed | Mar 23, 2026 |  |
| Neuralzome Cybernetics | Making Robots Sentient! | $2.4M | Pre-Seed | Aug 11, 2025 |  |
| Bower School of Entrepreneurship | Bower School provides entrepreneurship-focused education for all age groups. | $1.3M | Seed | Apr 10, 2025 |  |
| hypergro | Hypergro provides the power of user-generated content, craft impactful UGC video ads designed to attract, engage, and convert.These video advertising act as a distinctive, tailored connection between the brand and potential clients, which boosts consumer traffic, app downloads, and revenue for your company. | $808.5K | Seed | Mar 18, 2025 |  |
| Pipeshift | Pipeshift is a modular orchestration platform for building with open-source AI components—embeddings, vector databases, LLMs, vision models, and audio models—across any cloud or on-premise. Enterprises get to deploy their AI workloads in production faster and more reliably. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Jan 23, 2025 |  |
| Trace | Trace is the Canva for AR. The simplest way ever to make AR recordings and experiences for brands, retail, training and more. Partners include teams at Qualcomm, Deutsche Telekom, Lenovo, Telefonica and other fortune 500 companies. Contact us to work together or learn more. Info@Trace3d.app | $2M | Pre-Seed | Apr 24, 2024 |  |
| TheCapitalNet | TheCapitalNet is an award-winning Financial Technologies company providing the most comprehensive, advanced, and intelligent, fund management and fund administration solutions to the global Alternatives Asset Management industry currently focused on Private Equity and Venture Capital. | $850K | Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| VoiceClub | VoiceClub is an application platform that offers audio and chat consultation services. | $700K | Seed | Dec 06, 2023 |  |
| Dastgyr Technologies | Dastgyr is a B2B e-commerce marketplace that uses technology to connect informal retailers with manufacturers and wholesalers. By building an ecosystem consisting of a marketplace, logistics, and capital, Dastgyr is changing how retailers do business. | $37M | Series A | Jun 14, 2022 |  |
| Super Scholar | Super Scholar is on a mission to give every Indian student access to the education they deserve by offering exclusive scholarships and grants. | $400K | Pre-Seed | Jan 25, 2022 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Astir Ventures invest in?

Astir Ventures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Video and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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

Astir Ventures typically joins rounds of $400k–$1.3M at Seed and $125k–$2.4M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Astir Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Astir Ventures?

Public channels for Astir Ventures include 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 Astir Ventures?

The team at Astir Ventures includes Kishore Ganji (Angel Investor & Mentor & Co-founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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