# Azeem Azhar

> Azeem Azhar is a seed investor at The Exponential View backing Artificial Intelligence. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [The Exponential View](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-exponential-view)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azhar/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/azeem
- Website: https://x.com/azeem

Azeem Azhar is a seed investor at The Exponential View in London focused on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Azeem produces the Exponential View newsletter. This covers the impact of exponential technologies.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.5M–$30M |
| Pre-Seed | $3.3M–$4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 45% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 27% |
| Software | 2 | 18% |
| Logistics | 2 | 18% |
| SaaS | 1 | 9% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 36% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 18% |
| Series A | 2 | 18% |
| Angel | 1 | 9% |
| Series B | 1 | 9% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 55% |
| United States | 4 | 36% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cosmic Robotics | Autonomous construction on Earth and beyond. | $4M | Pre-Seed | Apr 19, 2025 |  |
| Basis | Basis operates as an AI platform built specifically for accounting firms. | $34M | Series A | Dec 17, 2024 |  |
| Sauna by Wordware | Wordware allows users to create and host their entire LLM stack for AI application development. It offers tools for building, training, and deploying language models. The platform simplifies the integration of various components necessary for AI solutions. Users can manage their applications and data within a unified environment. | $30M | Seed | Nov 21, 2024 |  |
| 5Mins | 5Mins s a gamified learning platform designed to help employees improve their skills .It curates short-form video content from leading creators around the world and makes it available to teams and businesses via adaptive and gamified learning engine. | $5.7M | Seed | Nov 07, 2022 |  |
| Papaya | Papaya offers a vehicle management system to source, run, and manage electric vehicles. Papaya offers a dashboard that provides a bird's-eye view of fleet location and availability. Papaya enables better fleet decision-making by optimizing vehicle uptime and utilization across hubs and service providers. | $3.5M | Seed | Sep 27, 2022 |  |
| Pachama | Pachama harnesses AI and satellite data to empower companies to confidently invest in nature. Using the latest technological advances, Pachama delivers continuous insight into how forests sequester carbon, protect wildlife and benefit local communities. These insights enable leading companies to find the world’s best projects and track their impactover time while also helping land stewards earn an income with tools to develop carbon projects and secure funds. | $55M | Series B | May 05, 2022 |  |
| Oja | Oja is an online supermarket that delivers cultural, ethnic & specialist groceries and products straight to your door. We are transforming the way people access ethnic products by connecting and digitising products hard to find in your local supermarket and offering fast & transparent delivery. | $3.3M | Pre-Seed | Nov 11, 2021 |  |
| Hofy | Our platform enables your business to bring out-of-the-box home offices and on-site services to one employee or thousands – in just a couple of clicks. | $15.2M |  | Oct 19, 2021 |  |
| Hofy | Our platform enables your business to bring out-of-the-box home offices and on-site services to one employee or thousands – in just a couple of clicks. | $2.5M | Seed | Aug 30, 2020 |  |
| PeerIndex | Social influence analytics platform |  | Series A | Jul 01, 2009 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [TrueSight Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/truesight-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [The Twenty Minute VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/20vc-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Activum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/activum) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Day One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/day-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Giant Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/giant-ventures-global) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Khosla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khosla-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About The Exponential View

VC Fund · Ilford, United Kingdom

Entrepreneur, product, strategist, speaker. Marketplaces @ Schibsted, PeerIndex, BBC, The Economist. Produce the Exponential View: AI, economics, neuroscience.

1 contacts available at The Exponential View.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Azeem Azhar | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/azeem-azhar |

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## FAQ

### What does Azeem Azhar invest in?

Azeem Azhar invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Azeem Azhar's check size?

Azeem Azhar typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$30M at Seed and $3.3M–$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 Azeem Azhar participates in.

### When did Azeem Azhar last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Azeem Azhar closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 11 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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