# Gautam Patel

> Gautam Patel is a Series B investor at Z3Partners (Mumbai) backing Internet and Machine Learning. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Z3Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/z3partners)
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 83%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/gautam-patel/8/b3a/288
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/gautamapatel

Gautam Patel is a Series B investor at Z3Partners in Mumbai focused on Internet and Machine Learning. Gautam co-leads investments and development of our Digital Media and Digital Commerce businesses. Until recently, he was the Managing Director and head of Battery Ventures in India. He is currently on the board of TechProcess Solutions, a leading Digital Payments Company and a Battery Portfolio Company in India.Prior to that, he played seniorexecutive and venture investment roles at iGate, Mphasis, eVentures India and IndOcean Chase Capital. Gautam was also the founder of 3Genesis, a mobile technology services provider that got acquired by Apar Infotech. Gautam began his career in financial services in the U.S., working in New York and Chicago for investment banks Lazard Freres and Smith Barney.Gautam lives in Mumbai with his wife and two daughters.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 2 | 33% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 33% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 33% |
| News | 1 | 17% |
| Video | 1 | 17% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 4 | 67% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |
| Secondary Market | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 5 | 83% |
| Singapore | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MintOak Innovations | MintOak Innovations has developed a unique technology solution DOV to deliver higher transaction completion rates. | $8.3M | Secondary Market | Jan 09, 2025 |  |
| Shipsy | Shipsy is a comprehensive software suite that helps logistics and supply chain companies increase operational efficiency and service levels using actionable insights. The platform capitalizes on your company's existing data and provides you with critical business insights for your organization, empowering you to make better business decisions.Shipsy enables real time data processing and provides you with live alerts using scalable machine learning models. | $23.9M | Series B | Feb 22, 2022 |  |
| Gramophone | Gramophone strives to create a difference in farming by bringing timely information, technology and right kind of inputs to achieve better yields for farmers. The company's endeavour is to bring the best products and knowledge to the farmers. Gramophone is one stop solution for all kinds of inputs for the farmers. Farmers can buy genuine cropprotection, crop nutrition, seeds, implements, and agri hardware at their doorstep.They believe that technology can remove information asymmetry in the agriculture system. Farmers can access localized package of practice, crop advisory, weather information coupled with the best products to grow. This will improve the productivity and help farmers sustainably increase the income from agriculture. | $10M | Series B | Oct 26, 2021 |  |
| CYFIRMA | CYFIRMA, offers market-leading cyberthreat visibility products and services, powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, CYFIRMA’s flagship platform delivers comprehensive, real-time insights into emerging cyberthreats, attack motives and methods—customized to a client’s industry and IT environment.CYFIRMA defends againstcyberattacks by supplying organizations with real-time threat visibility and situational awareness to enables them to take a more proactive strategic, management and tactical security management actions. By aggregating, correlating and analyzing information from hundreds of thousands of sources on the open and dark web, CYFIRMA helps clients anticipate what types of attacks are most likely to occur and provide the most effective response. | $3M | Series A | Feb 14, 2020 |  |
| OfBusiness | OFB Tech (OfBusiness) is a tech-enabled platform that facilitates raw material procurement and credit for SMEs with a focus on the manufacturing and infrastructure sectors. It integrates technology to SME's buying behavior to make available better products, at better prices, in better timelines to customers with comprehensive online andoffline support. Key raw materials include metals, chemicals, polymers, Agri commodities, petrochemicals, and building materials. OfBusiness provides SMEs access to cash flow-based financing for buying raw materials through its NBFC 'Oxyzo Financial Services'. The Company also offers a host of tech services for SMEs including BidAssist for new growth opportunities. | $8.9M | Series B | Dec 13, 2016 |  |
| Culture Machine | Get noticed, get centre with the always on generationWe are a technology driven, creator focussed media Company. Our passionate & driven team helps creators, brands and traditional media companies break through the clutter to reach the right viewers and get monetized. Our network combines top online talent and the world’s leading brands.Being a digital media company for the internet generation, exporting South Asian youth culture globally, we fuse great digital content, backed by data and technology to create great stories. | $18M | Series B | Feb 05, 2015 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [A91 Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a91-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Info Edge ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/info-edge-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Asha Impact](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asha-impact) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Chona Family Office](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chona-family-office) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Info Edge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/info-edge) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Z47](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matrix-partners-india) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Z3Partners

VC Fund · Mumbai, India

Our experience spans 20 years of investing and operating tech and digital businesses. Along this journey, we have been instrumental in helping entrepreneurs build large, profitable and sustainable businesses. We are known to back early trends, and discover teams and businesses that represent quality-at-scale and good governance, resulting inrewarding our investors with consistent and noteworthy investment returns. Our team comprises of 70 years of combined investment and leadership operating experience. We spend over 50% of our time with our investee companies as their trustworthy partners. We operate within a strong and active network of entrepreneurs, investors, leading businesses and international relationships that are made available to our investee companies at all times.

4 contacts available at Z3Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anand Batra | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anand-batra |
| Avinash Kapur | Investment Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avinash-kapur |
| Gautam Patel | Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gautam-patel |
| Rishi Maheshwari | managing partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rishi-maheshwari-d3f8 |

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## FAQ

### What does Gautam Patel invest in?

Gautam Patel invests primarily in Internet, Machine Learning and Financial Services startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Gautam Patel last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Gautam Patel closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 6 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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