# Bala Srinivasa

> Bala Srinivasa is a Series A investor at Arkam Ventures (Bengaluru) backing FinTech and Software. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Arkam Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arkam-ventures)
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 83%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/pub/bala-srinivasa/0/646/454

Bala Srinivasa is a Series A investor at Arkam Ventures in Bengaluru focused on FinTech and Software. Bala joined Kalaari as a Partner in 2015. His 21 years of work experience is spread across two successful start-ups and also as senior equity analyst covering the software technology sector. Prior to Kalaari, Bala spent six years at Amba Research, a financial research and analytics company headquartered in Bangalore. Bala ran global sales,product management, and marketing at Copal Amba and was a key member of the management team that helped scale the company leading to its acquisition by Moody's Corp (NYSE; MCO). Prior to Amba, Bala ran product marketing and business development and was a member of the executive team at Vistaar Technologies, a NJ based pricing and analytics software company. As one of the first employees, Bala helped shape solution requirements, go-to-market approach and sales to clients such as GE, Dell, Hitachi, Ford among others. Before Vistaar, Bala was senior equity analyst and partner at Pacific Growth Equities (San Francisco) where he covered the software sector. In his seven years as an equity analyst Bala covered a broad range of companies across software sectors such as enterprise resource planning, procurement, retail, analytics and e-commerce. He received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering degree and MS in Physics from BITS-Pilani, India, and MBA in Finance from University of Toledo, Ohio.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 25% |
| Software | 3 | 25% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 17% |
| Toys | 1 | 8% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 50% |
| Seed | 4 | 33% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 9 | 75% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Spense | Spense is a fintech infrastructure platform that enables businesses and entrepreneurs to build and grow financial products and services. | $2.9M | Seed | Jul 01, 2026 |  |
| Optimist | Optimist provides technology-led cooling solutions. | $12M | Seed | Jan 22, 2026 |  |
| Mirana Toys | Mirana Toys designs and develops toys for kids. | $6.4M | Series A | Nov 26, 2025 |  |
| Hyperbots | Hyperbots specializes in developing AI-powered finance assistants that automate and transform repetitive tasks. | $6.5M | Series A | May 13, 2025 |  |
| Karkhana.io | Quick design validation, transparent pricing and on-demand manufacturing of parts - all from your computer. | $6.3M | Series A | Jan 09, 2024 |  |
| Smartstaff | Smartstaff is a workforce management platform that focuses on businesses manage their workforce's attendance and payroll. It uses next-generation technology to automatically assign the right workers to the right shift, track and record worker attendance, and automate payout calculations and performance-linked incentives. | $6.2M | Series A | Jul 04, 2023 |  |
| Cusmat | Cusmat enable organisations to assess, train, upskill, plan learning tracks for employees by using AR/VR cloud learning management systems. | $3.5M | Series A | Feb 07, 2023 |  |
| Signzy | Signzy is a fintech company that offers a no-code AI platform that helps financial service companies automate risk and compliance processes. Its platform utilizes artificial intelligence, cryptography and provides biometric-enabled digital contracts and due diligence through algorithmic risk intelligence as well as digitalizes processes such asidentification, background checks, issuance of electronic bank guarantees, enabling banks to do digital onboarding of KYC in real-time.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. | $25.7M | Series B | Sep 26, 2022 |  |
| Binocs | Binocs simplifies the calculation of crypto tax and portfolio tracking. The company was founded in 2022 and is based in Bangalore, Karnataka . | $4M | Seed | Sep 21, 2022 |  |
| Smartstaff | Smartstaff is a workforce management platform that focuses on businesses manage their workforce's attendance and payroll. It uses next-generation technology to automatically assign the right workers to the right shift, track and record worker attendance, and automate payout calculations and performance-linked incentives. | $4.3M | Seed | Oct 04, 2021 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Blume Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blume-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Nexus Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nexus-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Dholakia Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dholakia-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kalaari Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kalaari-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [8i Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8i-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Arkam Ventures

VC Fund

Arkam Ventures is a Venture Capital firm.

2 contacts available at Arkam Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bala Srinivasa | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bala-srinivasa |
| Rahul Chandra | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rahul-chandra |

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## FAQ

### What does Bala Srinivasa invest in?

Bala Srinivasa invests primarily in FinTech, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Bala Srinivasa last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bala Srinivasa closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 12 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?

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