# Chris Kolenaty

> Chris Kolenaty is a seed investor at Kirloskar Integrated Technologies,Ltd. backing Financial Services. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Kirloskar Integrated Technologies,Ltd.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kirloskar-integrated-technologies-ltd)
- Location: Pune, India
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 42%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-kolenaty/33/a0a/b10

Chris Kolenaty is a seed investor at Kirloskar Integrated Technologies,Ltd. in Pune focused on Financial Services and Apps. Chris Kolenaty is Solar Business Developer at Kirloskar Integrated Technologies Limited. Formerly an investment banker specializing in mergers & acquisitions in New York City, Mr. Kolenaty worked with Merrill Lynch & Co. and Centerview Partners. Mr. Kolenaty graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a bachelor’s degree inapplied math and economics.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 3 | 25% |
| Apps | 2 | 17% |
| FinTech | 2 | 17% |
| Coffee | 1 | 8% |
| Mobile | 1 | 8% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 58% |
| Series A | 2 | 17% |
| Angel | 1 | 8% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 8 | 67% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Praan | Praan creates hyperlocal clean air zones within open areas on corporate campuses, schools, universities, hotels, hospitals, residential complexes, malls and industrial areas through a low-cost, filterless and artificially intelligent outdoor air purification technology, enabling individuals to breathe clean, healthy, fresh and safe air. |  | Convertible Note | Jun 15, 2024 |  |
| Praan | Praan creates hyperlocal clean air zones within open areas on corporate campuses, schools, universities, hotels, hospitals, residential complexes, malls and industrial areas through a low-cost, filterless and artificially intelligent outdoor air purification technology, enabling individuals to breathe clean, healthy, fresh and safe air. | $1.1M | Seed | Jun 15, 2024 |  |
| Tap Invest | Tap Invest is a bunch of explorers and innovators who envision a world which has high return-low risk investment products but fundamentally strong and easy to understand. | $2M | Seed | Oct 18, 2023 |  |
| Minus Zero | Minus Zero is accelerating the world's transition to autonomous mobility, taking up an unconventional approach towards vision-only autonomy in the trickiest of traffic conditions, drawing inspiration from the human brain to develop the world's most human-like driving experience |  | Seed | Oct 01, 2022 |  |
| hBits | hBits is an online real estate ownership tech platform. | $2.5M | Angel | Sep 10, 2022 |  |
| Minus Zero | Minus Zero is accelerating the world's transition to autonomous mobility, taking up an unconventional approach towards vision-only autonomy in the trickiest of traffic conditions, drawing inspiration from the human brain to develop the world's most human-like driving experience | $1.7M | Seed | May 23, 2022 |  |
| Stashfin | StashFin is a digital lending venture that offers online applications for personal loans, providing simple and fast approval and disbursal for loans. It was started by a team of former financial services professionals who have more than 40 years of experience in consumer finance and capital markets.It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in NewDelhi. | $5M | Seed | Jun 27, 2017 |  |
| Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters | Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters provides an online marketplace specifically to sell roasted coffee. Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters operates as a specialty coffee e-tailer for sourcing single-estate Arabica coffee beans from Indian coffee estates, burns them on an order basis, and delivers directly to customers, allowing customers to order online or visittheir particular retail stores. Blue Tokai focuses on sourcing coffee beans from specific regions or estates, highlighting the unique flavor profiles of each coffee origin. They offer a variety of single-origin coffees, including beans from Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and other coffee-growing regions in India. In addition to selling coffee beans online, Blue Tokai operates cafes in select cities across India. These cafes serve a variety of coffee beverages and provide a space for customers to enjoy freshly brewed coffee. | $544.5K | Seed | Feb 01, 2016 |  |
| LivQuik | LivQuik provide all types of Prepaid products – closed loop, semi-closed loop and open loop across various form factors – mobile wallet, virtual and physical contactless & EMV chip cards and multiple types of prepaid instruments – Gift, Meal, Fleet and Expense management.LivQuik is licensed by the Reserve Bank of India as a Prepaid PaymentIssuer (PPI) & Full Fledged Money Changer (FFMC).LivQuik is also a VISA FIntech Fastrack Program member. | $1.6M | Seed | Jul 17, 2015 |  |
| Jugnoo | Founded in November 2014, Jugnoo is India's largest technology driven on-demand auto rickshaw aggregator, which connects riders with safe, reliable, convenient auto rickshaw just in few clicks across 40+ cities in India. Jugnoo comes at a time when people need it the most. Started by a small group of individuals with a vision to embark on thehyperlocal marketplace, Jugnoo has grown to more than a 200 team strength. With a fleet of 15,000+ auto rickshaws, Jugnoo aims to achieve optimum utilisation of the available resources while making transportation easy, efficient, cheaper and convenient. Jugnoo raised $16 million in venture funding in three rounds from 7 investors including Paytm, Snow Leopard ventures, Kunal Bahl among others. Since 2017, Jugnoo also provides technology solutions to ride sharing players across the world with major players using Jugnoo platform to run their tech stack.Downloading Jugnoo app is free and available on Android playstore (version 4 and above), Apple appstore and Windows Store. While users can also book Jugnoo rides using Jugnoo's Facebook bot. | $5M | Series A | Jun 05, 2015 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Paradigm Shift Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paradigm-shift-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [a16z Scout Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a16z-scout-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alto Partners Multi-Family Office](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alto-partners-multi-family-office) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BOLD Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bold-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [growX ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/growx-venture-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Chiratae Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/idg-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Kirloskar Integrated Technologies,Ltd.

VC Fund · Pune, India

Kirloskar Integrated Technologies Ltd. (KITL) is a integrated solutions in green technologies & renewable energy.

1 contacts available at Kirloskar Integrated Technologies,Ltd..

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Kolenaty | Head of Solar | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-kolenaty |

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## FAQ

### What does Chris Kolenaty invest in?

Chris Kolenaty invests primarily in Financial Services, Apps and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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 Chris Kolenaty last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chris Kolenaty closed in Jun 2024. 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.

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