Bhupen Shah
Board of Directors @ Violet3D
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Bhupen Shah is a angel investor at Violet3D in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Software and Big Data. Bhupen Shah holds a Masters of Science degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He brings with him a great deal of expertise and experience.Bhupen Shah has over twenty-five years of experience in technology development, product development and engineering management in embedded digitalmedia and communication solutions at Sling Media, Emuzed, Dazzle, RealChip, Philips Semiconductors, IBM and other such heavyweights. Bhupen successfully built cost-effective India-based development organizations. He co-founded Sling Media, and as COO & VP Engineering, was instrumental in bringing award winning Slingbox products into the retail market. Sling Media was acquired by Echostar in 2007 and Bhupen currently plays the role of CTO at the same. Prior to Sling Media, Bhupen co-founded Emuzed, Inc., initially serving as COO and EVP of Engineering. His team delivered PC and embedded digital media products to worldwide tier-1 OEMs. Emuzed was then acquired by Flextronics. Bhupen was also a key contributor and VP of Software at Dazzle, the first company to deliver video capture devices to the consumer market. Dazzle was acquired by SCM Microsystems.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Bhupen Shah invests in
Stages Bhupen Shah invests in
Countries Bhupen Shah invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Angel
- $245k–$1.4M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (50%)
- Big Data 2 (25%)
- Recruiting 2 (25%)
- Enterprise Software 2 (25%)
- iOS 1 (13%)
Stage
- Angel 4 (50%)
- Seed 1 (13%)
- Series A 1 (13%)
- Convertible Note 1 (13%)
Country
- India 4 (50%)
- United States 2 (25%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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ten3T
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ten3T is a medical grade wearable device startup. ten3T builds a sophisticated self enclosed, real time monitoring device - a 9 cm triangular patch that the patient places on their chest - for as long as is required - from a minute to several days. | Seed / Apr 01, 2019 | |
Tydy
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Tydy is an Employee Data Platform that unifies multiple systems and apps to unlock data and create a better and smarter employee experience. Trusted and loved by People Teams in some of the largest global employer brands, our purpose is to Make Work a Better Place, one organization at a time. | $275K / Angel / Mar 02, 2017 | |
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ten3T
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ten3T is a medical grade wearable device startup. ten3T builds a sophisticated self enclosed, real time monitoring device - a 9 cm triangular patch that the patient places on their chest - for as long as is required - from a minute to several days. | Seed / Dec 14, 2016 | |
Locus.sh
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Locus is an intelligent logistics automation and decision-making platform that comes with in-built route planning and vehicle allocation engine which improves consistency and efficiency of operations.The platform helps companies and enterprises in e-commerce, food delivery, FMCG, and other verticals to automate and optimize their logistics. Theproduct suite comprises a route deviation engine, order dispatch automation, a field user app, route optimizations, scheduling, tracking for end-customer, and predictive analytics. Offering the entire technology stack, in the form of a platform as a service. | $2.8M / Series A / May 09, 2016 | |
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Locus.sh
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Locus is an intelligent logistics automation and decision-making platform that comes with in-built route planning and vehicle allocation engine which improves consistency and efficiency of operations.The platform helps companies and enterprises in e-commerce, food delivery, FMCG, and other verticals to automate and optimize their logistics. Theproduct suite comprises a route deviation engine, order dispatch automation, a field user app, route optimizations, scheduling, tracking for end-customer, and predictive analytics. Offering the entire technology stack, in the form of a platform as a service. | Angel / May 09, 2015 | |
PowWow Mobile
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PowWow Mobile is redefining the mobile enterprise. Their rapid mobile app solution, SmartUX, enables organizations to simplify and extend business apps to mobile by modernizing and streamlining existing processes to deliver new and intelligent enterprise to edge experiences. The company's SmartUX Platform simplifies and extends business appsto mobile, delivering modern omnichannel experiences that empower an anytime, anywhere workforce.The SmartUX enables organizations to simplify and extend business apps to mobile by modernizing and streamlining existing processes to deliver new and intelligent “enterprise to edge” experiences. It also provides a low-code, drag, and drops environment for rapidly creating and deploying secure cross-platform mobile apps. With unmatched accessibility and ease-of-use, our solution facilitates collaboration between IT and the business, significantly reducing backlogs and accelerating time to value.Based in San Francisco, PowWow Mobile has garnered prestigious awards and recognition from AOTMP, Compass Intelligence, Gartner and more. | $1.4M / Angel / May 15, 2014 | |
Frrole
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Frrole provides hard-to-obtain consumer insights to B2C Marketers and Product Owners, leveraging social data. As enterprises' data & analytics needs have evolved, they have learnt that social insights can be critical in a variety of complex, increasingly non-trivial scenarios. That's where Frrole steps in, leveraging its MachineLearning and AI algorithms to provide signals from social data that traditional tools have been unable to provide.Traditional Social Analytics/Listening products focus on providing their customers statistics, sentiment and some more linguistic data about their brand and campaign on social media. Frrole turns the logic on its head by using wealth of social data as a reverse proxy to tell its customers what is happening with their consumers, irrespective of where they are.Frrole's customers include some of the world's most trusted brands and sophisticated data consumers like Twitter, GroupM, Unilever, Flipkart, US Department of State etc.Frrole Products:DeepSense AI: AI with Emotional Intelligence that makes recruitment a breeze! Built for talent acquisition teams and recruitment agencies, DeepSense improves recruiter productivity by 30 - 70% by bringing down 'late rejection rate' and 'time to fill' and assists in automating candidate evaluation at the top of the funnel by analysing candidates using just their email address. Website: https://frrole.ai/deepsenseFrrole Scout: An enterprise-ready Social Intelligence tool that marries state-of-the-art algorithms with a simple UI. It incorporates traditional Social Listening, Audience Intelligence and an industry-first ability to conduct on-demand Market Research. Website: https://frrole.ai/scout | $245K / Angel / Apr 22, 2014 | |
GigSky
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The world is shrinking. Global travel is the norm and nearly everyone has a mobile device, or two, or three. In the enterprise, the challenges to maintain the highest productivity levels at the most cost-effective levels is daunting.Today, mobile connectivity for the globally roaming “out of network” workforce is expensive, but still missioncritical. The mobile enterprise workforce today has to deal with data roaming that is very expensive, but the alternative for those with the techy expertise the DiY is too complicated and time consuming. All of this is exacerbated by the need to connect multiple devices, the smart phone, laptop, and now tablet.To keep up with the demands of a global mobile workforce the enterprise needs a new standard. Introducing Gigsky.Simply put, using the Gigsky App with your mobile router, will allow users to access a local prepaid data service in the visited country, at local rates. | Convertible Note / Apr 25, 2011 |
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FAQ
What does Bhupen Shah invest in?
Bhupen Shah invests primarily in Software, Big Data and Recruiting startups, most often at Angel and Seed 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 Bhupen Shah's check size?
Bhupen Shah typically joins rounds of $245k–$1.4M at Angel. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Bhupen Shah participates in.
When did Bhupen Shah last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Bhupen Shah closed in Apr 2019. 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.
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