# Darsana Capital Partners

> Darsana Capital Partners is a VC fund backing Mobile Apps and Food Delivery. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Darsana Capital Partners is an investment advisory firm.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile Apps | 2 | 40% |
| Food Delivery | 2 | 40% |
| B2C | 1 | 20% |
| Web3 | 1 | 20% |
| Leisure | 1 | 20% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 2 | 40% |
| Series B | 1 | 20% |
| Series D | 1 | 20% |
| Series G | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 80% |
| Estonia | 1 | 20% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anand Desai | Founder, Managing Partner & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anand-desai-7e9a |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Boom Supersonic | Boom Supersonic is a commercial airplane manufacturer that builds a 65- to 88-seat supersonic airliner.Boom Technology is making supersonic passenger travel into reality by making a supersonic airliner. Boom was founded on the philosophy that they need to overcome the challenges to supersonic passenger flight, not surrender to them. They'remaking a supersonic aircraft affordable for business travel. Their ultimate goal is a routine supersonic flight for everyone.Boom Supersonic is redefining what it means to fly in a commercial aircraft by building Overture, its Mach-2.2. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Englewood, Colorado. | $300M | Series B | Dec 09, 2025 |  |
| X (formerly Twitter) | X, formerly Twitter, is a global social networking platform that allows its users to send and read 280-character messages. It enables registered users to read and post their tweets through the web, short message service (SMS), and mobile applications. As a global real-time communications platform, X has more than 400 million monthly visitors and255 million monthly active users around the world. X’s active group of registered members includes World leaders, major athletes, star performers, news organizations, and entertainment outlets. It is currently available in more than 35 languages. X was launched in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass. X is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with local offices in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Boulder, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Sunnyvale, and Washington. X's international offices are located in Amsterdam, Berlin, Dublin, London, Madrid, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney, Seoul, Tokyo, Toronto, and Vancouver. | $1B |  | Mar 19, 2025 |  |
| Bolt | Bolt is a transportation platform providing ride-hailing, micromobility, and food delivery services. It is one of the fastest-growing startups in the world with over 75M happy customers in 45+ countries, from Europe to Latam to Africa. It is building the future of logistics – one platform that connects with cars, motorcycles, scooter sharing, orfood delivery from restaurants.It believes in a future with less car ownership and flexible urban mobility. By bringing reliable on-demand transport to the masses, it helps cities evolve towards decreased traffic congestion and pollution.Bolt was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia. | $164.6M | Series D | Dec 16, 2020 |  |
| DoorDash | Doordash provides restaurant food delivery services connecting customers with local businesses. The company is passionate about transforming local businesses and dedicated to enabling new ways of working, earning, and living. By building the last-mile delivery infrastructure for local cities Doordash is bringing communities closer. It connectscustomers with their favorite local and national restaurantsAndy Fang, Evan Moore, Stanley Tang, and Tony Xu launched the company as PaloAltoDelivery.com in 2013, which became DoorDash, Inc. in October 2014. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $600M | Series G | May 24, 2019 |  |
| JUUL | JUUL is an electronics company that specializes in improving alternatives for adult smokers and has launched a nicotine vaporizer in US. The company is a simply satisfying alternative for adult smokers. JUUL Labs’ mission is to eliminate combustible cigarettes. The company was founded to provide the 1 billion smokers worldwide a true alternativeto cigarettes that enables them to permanently switch. Its research indicates hundreds of thousands of smokers have already switched to JUUL, and they are working to enable millions more to switch in the coming years.The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $650M |  | Jul 10, 2018 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [D1 Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/d1-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [E1 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/e1-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1789 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1789-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Altimeter Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altimeter-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Applied BioSciences Corp.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/applied-biosciences-corp) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ARK Investment Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ark-investment-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Darsana Capital Partners invest in?

Darsana Capital Partners invests primarily in Mobile Apps, Food Delivery and B2C startups, most often at Funding Round and Series B stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Darsana Capital Partners?

The team at Darsana Capital Partners includes Anand Desai (Founder, Managing Partner & CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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