# Darius Pandole

> Darius Pandole is a private equity investor at New Silk Route backing E-Commerce. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [New Silk Route](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-silk-route)
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 75%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darius-pandole-58632580

Darius Pandole is a private equity investor at New Silk Route in Mumbai focused on E-Commerce and Food and Beverage. Darius Pandole - Partner @ New Silk Route

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 25% |
| Food and Beverage | 3 | 25% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 17% |
| Supply Chain Management | 2 | 17% |
| AgTech | 1 | 8% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 5 | 42% |
| Series B | 2 | 17% |
| Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |
| Series D | 1 | 8% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BigHaat | BigHaat is an online seeds company that works with several seed suppliers across India in bringing their products into BigHaat platform to provide transparent, competitive, and quality services to the seed buyers.BigHaat platform ensures online listing of products and connects buyers with suppliers for any post-sale support providing seamless endto end user experience. This platform also reduces the widening gap between sellers and buyers in agriculture domain and benefits suppliers and sellers to improve their operational efficiency and productivity.It was launched on 2015 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India. | $10M | Series D | Feb 11, 2026 |  |
| Clear Premium Water | Clear Premium Water focuses on providing quality-intensive products in the market. | $5.4M | Private Equity | Mar 14, 2024 |  |
| Emiza | Emiza is a tech enabled 3PL with two distinct lines of business warehousing and less than truck load (LTL) distribution. The LTL market in India is highly fragmented and is a major pain area for companies especially in the area of regional and rural distribution. Emiza has built its own network of hubs across North India and runs daily servicesacross these hubs connecting part loads for its customers. Emiza also has its own last mile fleet to deliver parcels from these hubs to every city and district within the region. Emiza's LTL solution allows companies with smaller loads to reach their end customer on time and at a reasonable price point. Emiza's LTL network serves not only the offline market but also serves the online market by giving companies a strong and reliable network for ecommerce deliveries of large parcels, white goods, brown goods, etc.Emiza offers multi-client warehousing and fulfilment solutions to both offline and online customers. Emiza's state of the art fulfilment centres is equipped with a sophisticated warehouse management system which is connected to both ecommerce marketplaces as well as the ERP systems of companies allowing them to seamlessly manage both their online and offline business from one single location thereby optimising inventory. Emiza is also the first 3PL in India to offer both Amazon seller flex (FBA) and SD+ from its own facility. Thus Emiza customers can enjoy the benefit of higher sales by listing their products under FBA or SD+ but having it fulfilled from Emiza's facility. Since Emiza's facilities are multi-client serving both online and offline, Emiza is able to offer a greater level of efficiency and unit economics to SME clients that they would be unable to achieve on their own. Thus Emiza empowers growing SMEs with the warehouse technology, infrastructure and services stack that they need to grow their business online and offline. | $4.8M | Series B | May 26, 2022 |  |
| BigHaat | BigHaat is an online seeds company that works with several seed suppliers across India in bringing their products into BigHaat platform to provide transparent, competitive, and quality services to the seed buyers.BigHaat platform ensures online listing of products and connects buyers with suppliers for any post-sale support providing seamless endto end user experience. This platform also reduces the widening gap between sellers and buyers in agriculture domain and benefits suppliers and sellers to improve their operational efficiency and productivity.It was launched on 2015 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India. | $13.4M | Series B | Jan 20, 2022 |  |
| Isthara | Isthara offers fully furnished shared-living accommodations, as well as a variety of facilities, to working professionals and students. | $5.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 01, 2021 |  |
| Walko | Walko Food Company owns the fast-growing natural ice cream brand NIC. The company operates a manufacturing plant in Pune and retails in over 50 cities across India, via multiple sales channels like food delivery platforms, Modern Trade, Parlors. The ice cream flavors range from fruit, dry fruit variants to international tastes like sea saltedcaramel, Madagascar chocolate, French Vanilla, and the ones inspired by Indian sweetmeats like Gulab Jamun, sheer khurma, til gud, gajar halwa to name a few. The company has also recently launched the desi kulfi brand GRAMEEN. | $4.2M | Private Equity | Jun 09, 2021 |  |
| Walko | Walko Food Company owns the fast-growing natural ice cream brand NIC. The company operates a manufacturing plant in Pune and retails in over 50 cities across India, via multiple sales channels like food delivery platforms, Modern Trade, Parlors. The ice cream flavors range from fruit, dry fruit variants to international tastes like sea saltedcaramel, Madagascar chocolate, French Vanilla, and the ones inspired by Indian sweetmeats like Gulab Jamun, sheer khurma, til gud, gajar halwa to name a few. The company has also recently launched the desi kulfi brand GRAMEEN. | $4.2M |  | Jun 09, 2021 |  |
| Walko | Walko Food Company owns the fast-growing natural ice cream brand NIC. The company operates a manufacturing plant in Pune and retails in over 50 cities across India, via multiple sales channels like food delivery platforms, Modern Trade, Parlors. The ice cream flavors range from fruit, dry fruit variants to international tastes like sea saltedcaramel, Madagascar chocolate, French Vanilla, and the ones inspired by Indian sweetmeats like Gulab Jamun, sheer khurma, til gud, gajar halwa to name a few. The company has also recently launched the desi kulfi brand GRAMEEN. | $4.8M | Series A | Jun 09, 2021 |  |
| Canpac Trends | Canpac Trends is a folding carton and packaging solutions company. | $8.3M | Private Equity | Mar 26, 2021 |  |
| BRFL Textiles | BRFL Textiles is the housing of the single-roof fabric manufacturing processing unit in India. | $33M | Private Equity | Feb 11, 2021 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Beyond Next Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beyond-next-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bidra Innovation Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bidra-innovation-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Eagle Proprietary Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eagle-proprietary-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mayfield Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mayfield-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Redcliffe Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redcliffe-capital-ltd) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Think Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/think-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About New Silk Route

VC Fund · New York, United States

New Silk Route is a growth capital firm. It focuses on the Indian subcontinent, as well as other rapidly growing economies in Asia. The company was founded by Rajat Gupta in 2006.

2 contacts available at New Silk Route.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Darius Pandole | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/darius-pandole |
| Rajat Gupta | Co-Founder and Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rajat-gupta-4 |

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## FAQ

### What does Darius Pandole invest in?

Darius Pandole invests primarily in E-Commerce, Food and Beverage and Manufacturing startups, most often at Private Equity and Series B 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 Darius Pandole last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Darius Pandole closed in Feb 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.

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