# Beerud Sheth

> Beerud Sheth is a seed investor at GupShup backing Financial Services. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: GupShup
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beerud
- Website: https://x.com/beerud
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beerud

Beerud Sheth is a seed investor at GupShup in San Francisco focused on Financial Services and Software. Beerud Sheth is based out of Los Altos, California and is the Co-Founder and CEO of Gupshup. Beerud previously worked at Upwork as a Founder and VP. Beerud Sheth attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $422k–$3.2M |
| Series A | $4.2M–$4.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 3 | 38% |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 25% |
| B2B | 1 | 13% |
| SEO | 1 | 13% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Series A | 3 | 38% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 6 | 75% |
| Singapore | 1 | 13% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Decentro | Decentro provides banking and payment APIs that make it possible to quickly construct fintech solutions like banking, payment cards, neobanking, and collections and payout services. | $4.7M | Series A | Oct 31, 2022 |  |
| Decentro | Decentro develops an API banking software platform designed to launch products in a hassle free way. The platform integrates with desired banking APIs permitting financial integrations with a few lines of code and claims to simplify the product development cycle, enabling clients to simplify the integration processes. | $4.7M | Series A | Oct 31, 2022 |  |
| ForeignAdmits | ForeignAdmits aims at addressing one of the biggest problems of personalized mentoring for students aiming to pursue higher education and eventually become an expert in their desired discipline of study. The idea is to seamlessly connect the student community with the graduate students and alumni of their dream Institutes for the higher study whowould guide them in building their profiles in a manner that would not yield them a successful admit but also gain essential skills to master the craft in their discipline of study.foreignadmits is a Technology empowered Mentorship based platform with an aim of Generic but Personalised guidance by target university & field specific mentors. The AI & ML-based tools for Profile Evaluation, Analysis and Application Management making the whole process of application- competent, time saving, efficient, transparent, and better in quality. It ensures unbiased suggestions and enough information/ data for judicious decision making by applicants for better offers from Universities.The students will have access to step-wise end to end guidance from planning to apply to these universities to actually gain admission and joining these universities. Students will be assigned, personal mentors. These mentors are graduates from some of the best universities in the world like Stanford, MIT, UC Berkley, Purdue, UT Austin, UIUC, TU Delft, ETH Zurich, EPFL, UBC, University of Toronto etc.These mentors will have personal interaction sessions/ chats/ conversations with the students and will provide them invaluable guidance in the profile building, application process ( including SOP making, applications, letter of recommendations etc.) to finding accommodations once admits have been received.Mission: To be a leader in providing authentic, cutting edge and comprehensive guidance platform for students aiming to pursue higher education in the best universities of the world.foreignadmits is a part of Edument Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. | $421.9K | Seed | May 10, 2022 |  |
| Siply Services | Siply Services is a tech-enabled micro-savings app, that, for, the first time in India, makes it possible to save as low as 1 rupee to democratize savings and make India financially independent. | $3.2M | Seed | Oct 25, 2021 |  |
| Pepper Content | Pepper Content is a content-mediation platform that connects talented writers to organizations that require content. Pepper offers customized content solutions by mediating content from the best talent pool of writers across the nation. | $4.2M | Series A | Oct 13, 2020 |  |
| Turing | Turing.com connects world-class remote software engineers with world-class companies. 200+ companies, including those backed by Google Ventures, Andreessen, Founders Fund, Kleiner, and Bloomberg, have hired Turing developers. Over 1M+ developers from across 150+ countries have chosen Turing as their preferred platform for landing remote jobs. | $32M | Series B | Sep 14, 2020 |  |
| HappyShappy | HappyShappy is a discovery platform for lifestyle ideas and the best products curated for India. It is also a universal cart and bookmarking tool where users save ideas, products, blogs, links and much more into their Dreamboards -- to save for themselves or to help others discover their fresh ideas. |  | Seed | Sep 11, 2019 |  |
| FitCircle | At FitCircle, our goal is to simplify healthy living. We are driving a paradigm shift in healthcare from curative to preventive. We use technology and innovation to bring healthy behavioral changes in human life. Our nutrition brand OZiva - offers a range of Clean Personalized nutrition products backed by modern science and the rich culturalheritage of Ayurveda.We are seamlessly working to develop the community & products that would help you lead an active life. So, all we want you to do - Just stay on the bus, let us drive it and enjoy the ride! |  | Seed | Dec 01, 2015 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Leonis Investissement](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leonis-investissement) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Rapyd Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rapyd-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Uncorrelated Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uncorrelated-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [UpHonest Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uphonest-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AltaIR Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altair) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About GupShup

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Gupshup enables its users to communicate and share their short messages privately and publicly.HDFC and ZeeTV to engage and retain consumers. Its platform handles over 4 billion messages per month and has delivered over 150 billion messages in total. Gupshup also developed a smart messaging app, Teamchat, which introduced patent-pending “smart”messages in 2014, only now being offered by other messaging apps. Gupshup’s Smart messaging platform also provides tools for developers to quickly and easily build, test, deploy, monitor, and track bots and other smart messaging services.The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

4 contacts available at GupShup.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Beerud Sheth | Co-Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beerud-sheth |
| Ajoy Mallik | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajoy-mallik |
| Gaurav Kachhawa | Chief Product Officer | — |
| Kunal Patke | V. P. Engineering | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Beerud Sheth invest in?

Beerud Sheth invests primarily in Financial Services, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Beerud Sheth's check size?

Beerud Sheth typically joins rounds of $422k–$3.2M at Seed and $4.2M–$4.7M 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 Beerud Sheth participates in.

### How do I contact Beerud Sheth?

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### When did Beerud Sheth last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Beerud Sheth closed in Oct 2022. Shizune tracks 8 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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