# Farooq Adam

> Farooq Adam is a seed investor at Fynd (Mumbai) backing Internet and Wellness. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Fynd](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fynd-3)
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Oct 2023
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farooqadam
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/farooqadam
- Website: https://x.com/farooqadam
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/farooqadam

Farooq Adam is a seed investor at Fynd in Mumbai focused on Internet and Wellness. Farooq Adam is based out of Mumbai, Maharashtra and is the Founder of Fynd (Shopsense Retail Technologies Pvt. Ltd.) Farooq previously worked at Opera Solutions as a Senior Associate. Farooq Adam attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Farooq Adam has been awarded the prestigious Institute Sports Citation for achieving excellence inSports and received the certificate of Advanced Open Water Diver.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $177k–$2.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $330k–$994k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 2 | 17% |
| Wellness | 2 | 17% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 17% |
| Health Care | 2 | 17% |
| Personal Health | 2 | 17% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 67% |
| Angel | 2 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pep | Pep is a social-first, mobile-centric online marketplace where users can discover, buy, or sell content & services across formats (live, video, 1:1 consultation, pdf, audio, etc.) and categories (cooking & baking, DIY, fashion, devotional, health & fitness, personal finance and more) at affordable prices. | $2.5M | Seed | Oct 09, 2023 |  |
| Xeno | Brands use Xeno to send 1 to 1 campaigns to their existing customers. For example, we help a brand with 3 million existing customers send 3 million unique campaigns. | $1.6M | Seed | Mar 14, 2022 |  |
| OneCare | OneCare helped thousands of patients achieve lower blood sugar, while reducing the need for medications, including insulin. | $994.2K | Pre-Seed | Nov 22, 2021 |  |
| BurnCal | BurnCal is a personalized fitness solution provider. BurnCal provides you a completely unique approach towards fitness by combining our world-class personal coaches with cutting-edge technology. | $330K | Pre-Seed | Jul 14, 2021 |  |
| GlobalFair | GlobalFair is a B2B tech-based platform that simplifies the procurement of building materials like countertops, quartz countertops, cabinets, natural stones, tiles, vinyl flooring, and pre-fabricated countertops. With their easy-to-use tech-based platform, they can place orders and track deliveries in real-time – all in one place. | $2M | Seed | Feb 08, 2021 |  |
| BiteSpeed | BiteSpeed is a chat-based startup that focuses on helping e-commerce brands. Its AI-powered platform enables online brands to engage with customers and drive sales across multiple channels to streamline the entire e-commerce journey from retargeting to customer support. | $275K | Seed | Dec 15, 2020 |  |
| Kaagaz | Kaagaz Scanner is a simple and easy to document scanning & storage app. There is no requirement of Signing In to use Kaagaz Scanner, no irritating Ads, completely free to use and completely offline as well. With Kaagaz Scanner you can have your custom watermark as well.This app is super useful for students, business owners, professionals orfreelance workers. With Kaagaz Scanner even a 10 year old can easily scan papers & documents and share it via email or text. | $575K | Seed | Nov 27, 2020 |  |
| Genius Teacher | Genius Teacher is a full-stack ed-tech company which creates engaging educational content for K-10, delivers a fun learning experience to the students and provides real-time insights to the teachers. It has an ecosystem of educational and analytics apps that make learning more engaging and results in better learning outcomes.The products are usedby teachers to teach board curriculum with exemplary stories and fun facts from the world. Besides the class, students also use the product at home to revise and learn the topics in depth with practical applications. Students' interaction with content provides real-time analytics and insights to the teacher on what they can do to enhance learning.It currently works with schools and learners in APAC regions, soon launching in EMEA regions too. | $2M | Angel | Oct 19, 2020 |  |
| Vimobin Labs | Vimobin Labs is a deep technology company focused on bringing advances in mobile-access to users across the world. |  | Seed | Dec 28, 2019 |  |
| FirstU | FirstU offers pay a small amount monthly and get your vehicle's periodic service, premium washes, Repairs Assistance and everything else taken care. |  | Seed | Nov 26, 2019 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [First Cheque](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-cheque) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [India Quotient](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/india-quotient) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Better Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-capital-e839) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Whiteboard Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/whiteboard-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [2am VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2-am-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Angel Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-invest-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Fynd

VC Fund · Mumbai, India

Fynd is India's Largest Fashion O2O company with real-time inventory access to over 9000+ stores. Being a unique fashion e-commerce portal, it brings the latest in-store fashion online. The company channelizes its combined outreach to offer the best brands and fashion along with superior customer services to its ever-growing clientele.Technology plays a major part in the company's growth and APIs are the backbone of this business.Founded by Farooq Adam, Harsh Shah, and Sreeraman MG, the Mumbai-based firm was incepted in 2012 as Shopsense Retail Technologies Pvt Ltd. However, in November 2015 the company pivoted to Fynd, a unique fashion e-commerce portal offering fresh fashion to customers much ahead of any other e-commerce player.In March 2018, Fynd raised an undisclosed amount of funding in its Series C round led by Google and other existing investors including Kae Capital, IIFL, Singularity Ventures, GrowX, Tracxn Labs, Venture Catalyst, Patni family office and Hong Kong-based Axis Capital among other angel investors. The latest round of funding will be utilised to improve engagement between consumers and retailers. So far, Fynd had raised $3.4 Mn funding in Series A from investor groups led by IIFL. The capital was used to reach out to more than 20 million customers and increase inventory to include more than 15 lakh products.Fynd’s capability of sourcing its products across various fashion categories directly from most prominent brands' stores in the country, enables it to develop this edge over any other e-commerce marketplace. At present, Fynd serves customers located across India and receives inventory data from stores in 42+ cities.

3 contacts available at Fynd.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Farooq Adam | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/farooq-adam |
| Harsh Shah | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harsh-shah |
| Sreeraman Girija | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sreeraman-mohan-girija |

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## FAQ

### What does Farooq Adam invest in?

Farooq Adam invests primarily in Internet, Wellness and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Angel 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.

### What is Farooq Adam's check size?

Farooq Adam typically joins rounds of $177k–$2.5M at Seed and $330k–$994k 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 Farooq Adam participates in.

### When did Farooq Adam last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Farooq Adam closed in Oct 2023. 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.

### 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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