# Gyan Kapur

> Gyan Kapur is a seed investor at Surface Ventures (New York) backing Health Care and Medical. See 25 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Surface Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rtp-seed)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 25
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 28%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gyankapur/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/KapurGyan
- Website: http://bayes.vc

Gyan Kapur is a seed investor at Surface Ventures in New York focused on Health Care and Medical. Gyan Kapur is the Co-Managing Partner at Surface Ventures.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$9M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.1M–$2M |
| Series A | $9M–$18M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 9 | 36% |
| Medical | 5 | 20% |
| Software | 5 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 20% |
| Machine Learning | 4 | 16% |

42 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 18 | 72% |
| Series A | 3 | 12% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 8% |
| Convertible Note | 2 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Octozi | AI agents to accelerate clinical development workflows for the pharma industry. | $3M | Seed | Jul 07, 2026 |  |
| BotGauge | BotGauge is a Gen AI-powered low-code test automation platform. With BotGauge, users can write test case scenarios in English and automate them with AI assistance. | $2M | Seed | Feb 10, 2026 |  |
| Poetiq | Poetiq develops an AI meta-system that builds self-improving reasoning agents on top of existing large language models. The system discovers task-specific reasoning strategies, optimizes multi-step knowledge extraction, and synthesizes fragmented information into reliable answers. It focuses on recursive self-improvement, allowing agents to learnfrom solved tasks to perform better on new ones. Poetiq applies this approach to benchmarks like ARC-AGI and real-world workflows, improving accuracy and cost across models from multiple providers. The company works with partners to address complex AI reasoning and retrieval challenges in practical applications. | $45.8M | Seed | Jan 30, 2026 |  |
| CloudRift | Software layer to turn data center into fully-fledged cloud offering. Rent GPU capacity directly from the data center owner/operator with no middlemen. Integrate the GPU rental console into your data center portal to sell directly to end users. | $2.8M | Seed | Mar 24, 2025 |  |
| ConverSight | ConverSight.ai is artificial intelligence and analytics-based platform that uncovers actionable business insights for enterprises through natural language conversations and enables them to take action instantly. The platform generates tremendous efficiencies across organizational hierarchies from junior to senior leadership, reducing our customerreport generation costs by over 50%.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Indianapolis. | $9M | Series A | Aug 28, 2023 |  |
| Performica | Performica is an AI that refers to data in reducing attrition and automating HR best practices. Performica was founded in 2022 and was headquartered in Santa Cruz, California. | $3M | Seed | Feb 05, 2023 |  |
| SILQ | SKUteam founded in 2020: a transformational year for global businesses amidst a global pandemic, by a group of early former Flexport executives We power global manufacturing with local expertise, starting with the apparel and home furnishing industries, delivering in-line intelligence, online. From Tech Pack Tune Ups, Sampling, ProductionMonitoring to Quality Assistance, we got you covered with on-site monitoring. | $17.6M | Series A | Mar 09, 2022 |  |
| ConverSight | ConverSight.ai is artificial intelligence and analytics-based platform that uncovers actionable business insights for enterprises through natural language conversations and enables them to take action instantly. The platform generates tremendous efficiencies across organizational hierarchies from junior to senior leadership, reducing our customerreport generation costs by over 50%.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Indianapolis. | $4M | Seed | Jan 27, 2022 |  |
| ConverSight | ConverSight.ai is artificial intelligence and analytics-based platform that uncovers actionable business insights for enterprises through natural language conversations and enables them to take action instantly. The platform generates tremendous efficiencies across organizational hierarchies from junior to senior leadership, reducing our customerreport generation costs by over 50%.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Indianapolis. | $4M | Convertible Note | Jan 27, 2022 |  |
| SILQ | SKUteam founded in 2020: a transformational year for global businesses amidst a global pandemic, by a group of early former Flexport executives We power global manufacturing with local expertise, starting with the apparel and home furnishing industries, delivering in-line intelligence, online. From Tech Pack Tune Ups, Sampling, ProductionMonitoring to Quality Assistance, we got you covered with on-site monitoring. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Jan 19, 2021 |  |

10 of 25 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Elevate Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elevate-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Rev1 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techcolumbus-2) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Augment Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/augment-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Max Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/basset-investment-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Charge Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charge-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Charmides Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charmides-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Surface Ventures

VC Fund · New York, United States

Surface Ventures is a seed and pre-seed venture capital firm focused on partnering with B2B software companies.

3 contacts available at Surface Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gyan Kapur | Co-Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gyan-kapur |
| Dimitri Boguslavsky | Co-founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dimitri-boguslavsky |
| Yash Rohera | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yash-rohera |

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## FAQ

### What does Gyan Kapur invest in?

Gyan Kapur invests primarily in Health Care, Medical and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 25 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 Gyan Kapur's check size?

Gyan Kapur typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$9M at Seed, $1.1M–$2M at Pre-Seed and $9M–$18M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Gyan Kapur participates in.

### When did Gyan Kapur last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Gyan Kapur closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 25 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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