Girish Shivani
Co-Founder, Executive Director & Fund Manager @ YourNest Venture Capital
Delhi, India
Girish Shivani is a seed investor at YourNest Venture Capital in Delhi focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Girish Shivani, co-founder at YourNest Angel Fund, has hands-on experience of fund management & equity research. His robust process centricity, analytical and decision support capabilities has enabled him succeed with his clients as a trusted adviser. Girish has experience in domains like Telecom, Media, IT Consulting & Financial Services.At YourNest, Girish is responsible for developing the investment strategy, for seeing emerging trends, identifying investment opportunities, monitoring& reviewing progress at portfolio companies, and hand-holding portfolio companies for building robust processes leading to their success.Girish has cross-functional exposure across multiple domains including thorough understanding of Financial Markets, Operations of PE / VC funds, Legal Frameworks, Deal Syndication and General Management. He has been involved in multiple initiatives across Telecom and Media verticals involving New Product design, conceptualization, development and launch of VAS and content services. He also has a very strong understanding of Business Processes, Analytical and Decision support capabilities.He is an alumnus of St. Stephens’ College in Computer Science and IMT Ghaziabad. For Girish speed and focus is the essence at the initial stage of a start-up venture. His hobbies include cooking, astronomy and photography.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 71%
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Industries Girish Shivani invests in
Stages Girish Shivani invests in
Countries Girish Shivani invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 6 (43%)
- Software 3 (21%)
- Machine Learning 3 (21%)
- SaaS 2 (14%)
- Internet 2 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (79%)
- Series A 2 (14%)
- Series B 1 (7%)
Country
- India 9 (64%)
- United States 4 (29%)
Investments
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| We are the one-stop solution for OEMs and System Integrators for all their Industrial IoT needs. Datoms is the IoT platform that provides the tools to the Manufacturers to make their product future-ready and reduce human dependencies in day-day operation. OEMs can leverage the Datoms tool to transform their business model by offering SAAS productsalong with their machine or can completely chnage the way they are selling various machines or sensors. | $2.8M / Series A / Feb 23, 2026 | ||
| Map My Crop, the leading brand of Hardcastle Agrotech Solutions Inc., is pioneering Agritech innovation globally, with offices across New York, Pune, London, and Singapore. With our world-first 360° Imagery Agro Suite and cutting-edge AI/ML, we’ve become a trusted partner to over 4 million farmers and 30+ agro-enterprises. Our groundbreakingsolutions drive sustainable farming practices worldwide. Map My Crop is the leading AI-Satellite Imagery Precision Agriculture Platform designed for comprehensive field monitoring. It boasts the world's first Complete 360 Degree Imagery Agro Suite, which includes five suites: onboarding, crop monitoring, detection, prediction, and sustainable agriculture add-ons. Our Onboarding suite offers automated crop field boundary delineation, crop type detection, and a historical data repository for easy land use comparison. The Crop Monitoring Platform features over 30 indices, industry-leading resolution, hyperlocal weather data, AI-based advisories, scouting tools, a crop planner, and more. The Detection and Prediction suite identifies events like tree growth and harvests, while Sustainable Agriculture tools assess tillage and crop cover. Our platform’s complete automation, AI, and machine learning capabilities facilitate data-driven decisions for optimized yields and sustainable farming. With industry-leading satellite resolution, hyperlocal weather data, and proprietary AI/ML models tailored to specific regions and crops, Map My Crop is at the forefront of precision agriculture. | $1.8M / Seed / Mar 06, 2025 | ||
| ThinkMetal provides a compact metal 3D printer that prints metal parts at your desk faster than ever before. | $800K / Seed / Jan 28, 2025 | ||
| CargoFL is a B2B logistics technology platform that offers transport management software for enterprises in retail, pharma, and manufacturing sectors. It provides a cloud-based enterprise resource planning platform that focuses on capturing the logistics market by digital technology, automates dispatches, consolidates truckers, and provides supplychain visibility and vehicle tracking. | $786.7K / Seed / Jan 02, 2025 | ||
| Opkey is an artificial intelligence continuous test automation platform for enterprise systems. They offer load testing, stress testing, spike testing, and volume testing for enterprise apps. They offer automation testing services for Windows desktop, web, and mobile applications. | $47M / Series B / Aug 22, 2024 | ||
| Contiinex is an operator in the speech AI market. It analyzes audio files to assist organizations in better understanding their clients and making tactical business choices. | $2M / Seed / Aug 17, 2023 | ||
| UptimeAI is an artificial intelligence-based predictive maintenance software provider for companies in heavy industries. | $3.5M / Seed / Dec 15, 2022 | ||
| 1. VTION is a Digital Consumer Behaviour Intelligence company which collects its own data on a first party basis from a Opt In, GDPR compliant & paid panel. Data is collected from Android Smartphones with a SDK / App combination using a method that is patent granted in India and US. 2. We have built a panel of 40,000 consumers in Indiaproportionately representing almost 300 Mn people in India. 3. We get more than 24 Mn lines of data per day of more than 1200 Apps, detailing App Availability, App Usage, Time Spent and Cross Tabs with other Apps. All this is in Real Time. Using Data Science Technologies on this collected data, VTION serves various stakeholders in the market like Advertising Agencies, Publishers, Research Agencies, DMP & Programmatic Platforms and Brands, providing Research Insights on App Usage, Content consumption, Personalisation opportunities and Activation of select audience segments on Ad Networks via DMPs. | $1.3M / Seed / Jun 15, 2022 | ||
| CRON Systems was founded in 2015 to cater to the complex security problems at the Indian borders. Our founding team spent the initial months at the field to understand the customer pain-points. We realised that the fragmented sensing solutions’ market was overpopulated with sensors that were nothing near field ready. To take these to the field, onewould have to invest in numerous integrations, time and engineering resources. We decided to build to fill the void that these myopic sensors left in the market. In our effort to provide intelligent sensing that integrates multiple sensors, was weather and terrain agnostic, we developed CRON’s very own Smart Sensor Fusion platform. This platform is designed to flawlessly fuse data from different types of sensors. Simply put, it combines the information from multiple sensors to help perceive the environment and if/when one sensor is compromised by the terrain or the weather conditions, another sensor jumps into action. With little to no false alarms, accurate object/human detection, tracking and classification our advanced suite of products and technology solutions are designed to augment situational awareness i.e. makes you fully aware of the environment around you.What started as a venture to secure our hostile borders has now become a quest to build a more robust sensor platform that will ensure the integration of multiple different sensors with ease, thereby transforming the way sensing works today. | $4M / Series A / May 11, 2021 | ||
| Argoid provides personalized experiences across various digital touch points with hyper-personalized recommendations. It enables businesses to grow their revenue with 1:1 personalization for eCommerce and OTT platforms. Argoid produces the best conversion rates possible with its real-time AI-driven recommendation system. | $1.7M / Seed / Feb 24, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About YourNest Venture Capital
YourNest is one of India's best-performing early-stage venture capital funds. Since 2012, we have nurtured pioneering DeepTech startups in India and have always believed in forging our own path. Our horizontal partnership model, driven by functional expertise and entrepreneur nurturance at the core, allows us to focus on what truly matters: the long-term success of our portfolio companies and attractive returns for our investors. Some highlights are: • Focused on product-led, IP-backed ideas, we help develop global market leaders from India by leveraging transformative technologies like AI, robotics, IoT, health tech, space tech, and quantum computing. • Unlike traditional VCs, we believe in nurturing success by investing in a handful of founders and concentrating our efforts on growing each one. o YourNest has a high partner-to-founder ratio. Eight partners manage 34 active portfolio companies, which are supported by a team of 19 people across functions. o As a byproduct, at YourNest, we have a very low write-off ratio across our three funds and have created a healthy DPI. • Two fast-track funding initiatives in 2020 (amidst the COVID-19 lockdown) and 2024 reinforced our vantage point of having India’s widest access to early-stage deals. • Our track record (as of 31 December 2024): o As of Dec 2024, Fund II and Fund III have been recognised by CRISIL (an S&P affiliate) as best-performing funds within their respective vintage and category o Fund I (US$14mn; 2012 vintage): Invested across 16 startups currently marked at 4.6x Gross MOIC and ~190% DPI at 21.7% Gross IRR. o Fund II (US$30mn; 2017 vintage): Invested across 19 startups currently marked at 3.2x Gross MOIC and ~30% DPI at 31.0% Gross IRR. o Fund III (US$69mn; 2021 vintage): Invested across 18 start-ups, with several already on track to becoming industry disruptors. The fund is currently at 1.2x Gross MOIC and 16.6% Gross IRR. The fund has deployed in 4 more businesses since Dec’24. • NIIF – India’s largest sovereign infrastructure fund – made its debut VC investment via YourNest VC Fund III in 2022
YourNest Venture Capital Contacts
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Ranjeet Shetye
Venture Partner
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Girish Shivani
Co-Founder, Executive Director & Fund Manager
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Sanjay Pande
Founding Director and Fund Manager
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Satish Mugulavalli
Venture Partner
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Sunil K Goyal
Managing Director & Fund Manager
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What does Girish Shivani invest in?
Girish Shivani invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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