# avra

> avra is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Software and Big Data. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/avracap
- Website: https://www.avracap.com

avra is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Big Data. avra Empowering founders with essential tools for building durable, compounding businesses that thrive for decades.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 42% |
| Big Data | 2 | 17% |
| Analytics | 2 | 17% |
| FinTech | 1 | 8% |
| Grocery | 1 | 8% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 3 | 25% |
| Series C | 3 | 25% |
| Series F | 2 | 17% |
| Series E | 1 | 8% |
| Series G | 1 | 8% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 58% |
| India | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anu Hariharan | Founder & Managing Partner | 58 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anu-hariharan |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mintlify | Mintlify is a software company that develops tools for creating, managing, and publishing developer documentation and API references. Its platform helps organizations build documentation websites, organize technical content, and provide searchable resources for developers. | $45M | Series B | Apr 14, 2026 |  |
| Whatnot | Whatnot is a Los Angeles-based startup that creates a place where avid collectors could come together over shared interests. Whatnot is a marketplace to buy and sell authentic collectible items. Whatnot was founded in 2019, in California. | $225M | Series F | Oct 28, 2025 |  |
| Zepto | Zepto is a quick-commerce platform that delivers groceries and daily essentials within minutes through a network of stores. It is an online store that offers a range of fruits, vegetables, snack food, and electronics. It provides a service that enables access to various grocery products. Zepto serves industries such as retail, food and beverage,and logistics. | $450M | Series H | Oct 16, 2025 |  |
| Zepto | Zepto is a quick-commerce platform that delivers groceries and daily essentials within minutes through a network of stores. It is an online store that offers a range of fruits, vegetables, snack food, and electronics. It provides a service that enables access to various grocery products. Zepto serves industries such as retail, food and beverage,and logistics. |  | Secondary Market | Oct 16, 2025 |  |
| HappyRobot | HappyRobot provides a system that creates and manages a workforce of AI workers. The platform builds fully custom workflows and integrates with a variety of systems. The service helps businesses remove data silos and automate tasks in real time. | $44M | Series B | Sep 03, 2025 |  |
| Decagon | Decagon creates generative AI for building customer service agents that work much more like humans and its platform gives customer support team leaders more visibility into their automated customer experience operations | $131M | Series C | Jun 23, 2025 |  |
| Hex Technologies | Hex is the platform for collaborative data science and analytics. It's all about empowering individuals to learn things, and organizations to know things, so they can make better decisions. Hex brings together SQL, Python, R, and no-code in powerful notebooks, and allows users to 1-click publish projects as interactive data apps that anyonecan use.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $70M | Series C | May 28, 2025 |  |
| Method Financial | Method Financial is a financial connectivity API for consumer liability data + payments. Method provides connectivity to consumer credit and liability accounts, enabling end-to-end refinance experiences, real-time account data access, and one-click checkout. | $42M | Series B | Jan 23, 2025 |  |
| Render | Render offers the easiest cloud for developers and teams to host any application or website. The company’s goal is to completely eliminate the need to manage servers by offering a cloud with the best developer experience combined with incredible flexibility and power. This will ultimately improve all software and enable entirely new kinds ofapplications. Render was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco. | $80M | Series C | Jan 21, 2025 |  |
| Whatnot | Whatnot is a Los Angeles-based startup that creates a place where avid collectors could come together over shared interests. Whatnot is a marketplace to buy and sell authentic collectible items. Whatnot was founded in 2019, in California. | $265M | Series E | Jan 08, 2025 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 15 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [DST Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-sky-technologies-fo) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Avenir](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avenir-growth-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does avra invest in?

avra invests primarily in Software, Big Data and Analytics startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact avra?

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### Who are the partners at avra?

The team at avra includes Anu Hariharan (Founder & Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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