# Elevate Innovation Partners

> Elevate Innovation Partners is a VC fund backing Analytics and Software. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 4%
- Fund size: $15M
- Last fund: Aug 2017
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/elevate-innovation-partners/
- Website: http://www.eipfund.com

Elevate Innovation Partners (“EIP”) is a leading Early-Stage Venture Capital Fund that is uniquely positioned to provide access to the most promising companies in New York, South East US, California as well as promising fintech companies in Europe and India.EIP is an active fund that closely monitors its investments by working with managementand company boards. We believe that the most successful funds take active roles to help guide its portfolio companies to a successful future and investors to effective exits. Our team consists of experienced industry experts that can provide our companies with unprecedented access to know-how and connections that will create value for both investments and investors. Through our global network, we have access to proprietary deal flow, allowing us to select the best deals verified by our rigorous due diligence process.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Analytics | 6 | 25% |
| Software | 5 | 21% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 21% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 17% |
| SaaS | 3 | 13% |

58 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 25% |
| Series B | 4 | 17% |
| Series A | 3 | 13% |
| Convertible Note | 2 | 8% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 19 | 79% |
| India | 2 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Greg Brown | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-brown-9 |
| Shreyas Slater Chityala | Founder and Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shreyas-slater-chityala |
| Sridhar Chityala | Chairman and Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sridhar-chityala |
| Greg Brown | Chief Financial Officer | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-brown-5 |
| Thomas Rudy | Co-Founder and Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-rudy-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ToneTag | ToneTag is an integrated library (sdk) that allows easy, frictionless, and secure proximity payments using sound (Tone) or NFC (Tag).Depending upon user device and retail pos hardware, mobile application can toggle to initiate in-store purchases using sound or NFC.It works on any mobile device and no internet is required on user device at timeof initiating payment. | $78M | Series B | Feb 11, 2025 |  |
| Pyxis AI | Pyxis.ai empowers research and innovation professionals with a single-interface platform that streamlines insight |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| Valilly | Endeavoring to change the HR Tech game, the team at Valilly set upon themselves the task of building a one-of-a-kind human resource cloud offering, comprising several different applications, each built with the goal of cumulatively providing significant cost savings, time-saving efficiency and the assurance that hiring decision makers will beprovided with the optimal candidates for each search they undertake with the Valilly platform. This bold objective led to the creation of the Valilly Talent Intelligence platform, derived from an ingenious coupling of talent management solutions with artificial intelligence and machine learning. Thanks to the major investment in time spent by Valilly software engineers in the development of this proprietary software system, human resource professionals and hiring decision makers now have the ability to quickly find that needle in the haystack hire that they desperately crave. As a result of these efforts, the most noteworthy result that we wish to bring to your attention is the cost savings that utilizing Valilly, rather than traditional recruiters, can provide.But that’s not all that Valilly’s evolutionary Talent Intelligence platform provides and plans to become. With the ambition of a gallant conqueror that has been amassing a force that is second-to-none, Valilly intends to become the dominant force in the HR Tech industry, forever changing the way companies source, recruit, hire, manage, and transition talent. Continuously looking to steamroll through the human resource barriers faced by hiring managers each day, Valilly has the means and drive to push the boundaries of Talent Intelligence innovation to heretofore unrealized new heights. For all those companies that have been expending large resources to find the talent that they need, to then dishearteningly come away with unsatisfactory returns, Valilly’s Talent Intelligence is the safety net to their needlessly depreciating values. For all those hiring managers that have spent a myriad number of hours seeking that desperately needed employee to turn around their company, tapping into Valilly’s Talent Intelligence allows them to better allocate and manage their own time, as well as the efforts of their subordinates, in securing needed resources. For all those that have been disappointed by the lack of talent management tools offered by the applicant tracking systems and talent software solutions currently on the market, Valilly provides the medicine to cure them of their frustrations. For all those companies drowning in red from HR expenditures, Valilly is here to provide them with the life raft needed to bring them to safe shores. |  |  | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| Valilly | Endeavoring to change the HR Tech game, the team at Valilly set upon themselves the task of building a one-of-a-kind human resource cloud offering, comprising several different applications, each built with the goal of cumulatively providing significant cost savings, time-saving efficiency and the assurance that hiring decision makers will beprovided with the optimal candidates for each search they undertake with the Valilly platform. This bold objective led to the creation of the Valilly Talent Intelligence platform, derived from an ingenious coupling of talent management solutions with artificial intelligence and machine learning. Thanks to the major investment in time spent by Valilly software engineers in the development of this proprietary software system, human resource professionals and hiring decision makers now have the ability to quickly find that needle in the haystack hire that they desperately crave. As a result of these efforts, the most noteworthy result that we wish to bring to your attention is the cost savings that utilizing Valilly, rather than traditional recruiters, can provide.But that’s not all that Valilly’s evolutionary Talent Intelligence platform provides and plans to become. With the ambition of a gallant conqueror that has been amassing a force that is second-to-none, Valilly intends to become the dominant force in the HR Tech industry, forever changing the way companies source, recruit, hire, manage, and transition talent. Continuously looking to steamroll through the human resource barriers faced by hiring managers each day, Valilly has the means and drive to push the boundaries of Talent Intelligence innovation to heretofore unrealized new heights. For all those companies that have been expending large resources to find the talent that they need, to then dishearteningly come away with unsatisfactory returns, Valilly’s Talent Intelligence is the safety net to their needlessly depreciating values. For all those hiring managers that have spent a myriad number of hours seeking that desperately needed employee to turn around their company, tapping into Valilly’s Talent Intelligence allows them to better allocate and manage their own time, as well as the efforts of their subordinates, in securing needed resources. For all those that have been disappointed by the lack of talent management tools offered by the applicant tracking systems and talent software solutions currently on the market, Valilly provides the medicine to cure them of their frustrations. For all those companies drowning in red from HR expenditures, Valilly is here to provide them with the life raft needed to bring them to safe shores. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| Radius8 | Radius8 is a Location Engagement Platform (SaaS offering) that provides businesses the ability to dynamically feature critical content and updates on their websites based on the consumer’s location, proximity to the business' physical location, or other geo-fenced regions, markets, or places of interest. Radius8 can generally be implementedin less than 30 days. |  |  | Jan 01, 2020 |  |
| GVNG | GVNG is to create communities of purpose that authentically connect people with Brands and Influencers through the shared purpose of solving big world problems. They created a safe and simple way to organize and manage donations while increasing the impact of charitably-minded people. They saw challenges and barriers that unnecessarily complicateacts of charity and set out to eliminate them by creating a simple-to-use technology platform that serves individuals and corporations. | $3M |  | Jan 01, 2019 |  |
| Saykara | Saykara is combatting physician burnout and elevating productivity through its ambient and autonomous AI assistant. Use of the company’s voice-enabled mobile app, Kara, is proven to reduce time spent charting by 70%, eliminate after-hours charting by 100%, and enhance note quality and completeness by 25%. Additionally, by freeing physicians fromkeyboards, computer screens and burdensome data entry, patients enjoy more personalized, less hurried visits. Kara is specialty agnostic, scalable at the enterprise level and available through a software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscription.Saykara was founded in 2015 by Harjinder Sandhu, a serial healthcare technology entrepreneur and former Nuance executive who has stood at the forefront of innovations in speech recognition and machine learning for more than 20 years.For additional information and to schedule a live demo, visit www.saykara.com or email info@saykara.com. | $5M | Seed | Sep 13, 2018 |  |
| Joinery | Joinery connects apartment seekers to outgoing tenants instead of brokers. | $2M | Seed | Jun 13, 2018 |  |
| ToneTag | ToneTag is an integrated library (sdk) that allows easy, frictionless, and secure proximity payments using sound (Tone) or NFC (Tag).Depending upon user device and retail pos hardware, mobile application can toggle to initiate in-store purchases using sound or NFC.It works on any mobile device and no internet is required on user device at timeof initiating payment. | $8M | Corporate Round | May 30, 2018 |  |
| SquareFoot | SquareFoot serves companies that are looking for their next office and care deeply about finding the right next home. Growing companies require flexible lease options, a stress-free process, and transparency throughout the leasing journey. SquareFoot provides a seamless experience supported by easy-to-use technology and a highly responsive team ofreal estate professionals working to match specific client needs with a strong knowledge of what the market has to offer at any given moment. | $7M | Series A | Apr 18, 2018 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Elevate Innovation Partners invest in?

Elevate Innovation Partners invests primarily in Analytics, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 24 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 Elevate Innovation Partners?

The team at Elevate Innovation Partners includes Greg Brown (Chief Financial Officer), Shreyas Slater Chityala (Founder and Managing Partner) and Sridhar Chityala (Chairman and Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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