# Dilpesh Parmar

> Dilpesh Parmar is a pre-seed investor at Aequus Ads (London) backing Gaming and Advertising. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Aequus Ads](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aequus-ads)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dilpesh-parmar

Dilpesh Parmar is a Co-founder at Aequus Ads. He attended Middlesex University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.8M–$4M |
| Pre-Seed | $600k–$904k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gaming | 3 | 38% |
| Advertising | 3 | 38% |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| Mobile Apps | 2 | 25% |
| SaaS | 1 | 13% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 38% |
| Seed | 2 | 25% |
| Angel | 2 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 38% |
| Israel | 1 | 13% |
| Poland | 1 | 13% |
| Germany | 1 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zoe Studios | Zoe Studios is a mobile gaming company specialising in unique puzzle games, with a goal of making chess more accessible and enjoyable for casual players. |  | Angel | Dec 15, 2025 |  |
| Layer AI | Layer AI offers a generative AI platform to assist game developers in creating 2D, 3D, and video assets. The platform enables artists to train custom AI models using their own artwork, generate game assets, and refine them using an integrated canvas tool. Layer AI supports various workflows, including live service content, game characters,backgrounds, UI elements, in-game items, and marketing campaigns. The platform is model-agnostic, allowing integration with industry-standard tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Blender, Maya, Unreal Engine, Unity, and Godot. Layer AI is built to be enterprise-ready, offering features like SOC 2 Type II compliance, single sign-on (SSO), role-based access controls, and full audit trails. The company provides different pricing plans, including a free tier for individual users and paid plans for teams and enterprises. | $1.8M | Seed | Dec 31, 2023 |  |
| Libation Labs | Libation Labs is revolutionizing the wine industry with cutting-edge technology. Founded in 2022 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States. | $600K | Pre-Seed | Feb 28, 2022 |  |
| Gotiva | Apps powered by human creativity! | $904.5K | Pre-Seed | Dec 02, 2021 |  |
| Kayzen | Kayzen powers the world’s best mobile marketing teams to take programmatic in-house. Built on the three key pillars of performance, transparency and control, Kayzen is a software platform which enables leading app developers, agencies and entrepreneurs to run programmatic user acquisition, retargeting and upper funnel campaigns in-house with anunprecedented scale of 60bn daily ad requests from 1bn+ unique users worldwide. Kayzen is accessible through its APIs or user interface and supports mobile video, playable / MRAID, native and banner ad campaigns. | $4M | Seed | Jan 20, 2020 |  |
| Kayzen | Kayzen powers the world’s best mobile marketing teams to take programmatic in-house. Built on the three key pillars of performance, transparency and control, Kayzen is a software platform which enables leading app developers, agencies and entrepreneurs to run programmatic user acquisition, retargeting and upper funnel campaigns in-house with anunprecedented scale of 60bn daily ad requests from 1bn+ unique users worldwide. Kayzen is accessible through its APIs or user interface and supports mobile video, playable / MRAID, native and banner ad campaigns. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2020 |  |
| Luna Labs | Luna Labs is the maker of a creative management platform used to create mobile ads. Luna Labs technology allows app developers from enterprises to indie developers to create, manage and optimize their playable ad and video ads, at a fast speed and on a large scale. |  | Pre-Seed |  |  |
| Classify | Classify is a digital advertising company that offers smart contextual advertising. |  | Angel |  |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [GFR Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gfr-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Heracles Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/herakles-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hummingbird Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hummingbird-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hyper](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyper-406a) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hyper Startup Studio](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyper-apps) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Aequus Ads

VC Fund · Denver, United States

Aequus Ads is a SaaS-based in-app bidding and mediation platform used to assist app developers and publishers. Its platform drives efficiency and increases revenue from yield optimization and has no hidden costs or blind revenue shares cutting ad revenue that help users to use a neutral, open, and transparent platform.

2 contacts available at Aequus Ads.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dilpesh Parmar | Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dilpesh-parmar |
| Andy Ulery | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-ulery |

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## FAQ

### What does Dilpesh Parmar invest in?

Dilpesh Parmar invests primarily in Gaming, Advertising and Software startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Dilpesh Parmar's check size?

Dilpesh Parmar typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$4M at Seed and $600k–$904k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Dilpesh Parmar participates in.

### When did Dilpesh Parmar last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dilpesh Parmar closed in Dec 2025. 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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