# Haresh Chawla

> Haresh Chawla is a seed investor at True North (Mumbai) backing Internet and Software. See 37 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [True North](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/india-value-fund-advisors-private-limited)
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Total investments: 37
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/haresh-chawla-67886711b
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/hchawlah
- Website: https://x.com/hchawlah

Haresh Chawla is a seed investor at True North in Mumbai focused on Internet and Software. Haresh Chawla is based out of Mumbai, Maharashtra, and is an investor and entrepreneur. Haresh previously worked at True North Co as a partner. Haresh Chawla attended the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $300k–$3.3M |
| Angel | $24k–$326k |
| Pre-Seed | $120k–$620k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 6 | 16% |
| Software | 6 | 16% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 14% |
| SaaS | 4 | 11% |
| Education | 4 | 11% |

67 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 46% |
| Angel | 4 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 11% |
| Series A | 4 | 11% |
| Series B | 1 | 3% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 22 | 59% |
| United States | 6 | 16% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ContraVault AI | ContraVault AI provides an AI-driven platform that streamlines the tender management process for contractors and enterprises. The platform automates tender analysis, enabling users to rapidly identify risks, extract actionable insights, and make informed bidding decisions. It reduces the time required for document review and evaluation by asignificant margin, allowing teams to focus on strategic decision-making. It also organizes and tracks tender data, offering visibility into opportunities and historical performance. The system supports improved bid evaluation and resource allocation, helping companies optimize their approach to tender submissions. It integrates AI capabilities to enhance efficiency, decision accuracy, and operational workflows. | $596.7K | Seed | May 14, 2025 |  |
| Powerhouse91 | Powerhouse91 operates as an eCommerce roll-up platform. Powerhouse91's business model relies on identifying high-potential consumer brands, acquiring, and scaling them through growth capital, shared resources, and e-commerce focused optimizations. | $2.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 30, 2025 |  |
| Zivov | Zivov is an AI-based preventative and chronic care platform that diagnoses diabetes, blood pressure, and cholesterol disorders. |  | Seed | Oct 10, 2023 |  |
| Onmove | Onmove is a high-speed, long-distance trucking aggregator platform with cutting-edge technology. |  | Seed | Nov 14, 2022 |  |
| FastJobs.io | FastJobs.io envisions a world in which job hunting is completely stress-free and convenient. | $620K | Pre-Seed | Nov 14, 2022 |  |
| Adaptive | Adaptive is a platform for infrastructure access management and data security solution. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 20, 2022 |  |
| Paz Care | Paz Care is a health insurance tech platform that lets its users design, administer, and manages the employee benefits program for employees. It specializes in the fields of information technology, insurance, and healthcare. It was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka. | $7.9M | Series A | Jun 13, 2022 |  |
| VS Mani & Co | VS Mani & Co is a specialty South Indian food brand that provides instant coffee that tastes almost like filter coffee, and wholesome snacks and spices. | $325.5K | Angel | Apr 26, 2022 |  |
| Leverage Edu | Leverage Edu is an AI-enabled marketplace designed to help students with their higher education and career growth plans. It is one of India's leading/fastest growing ed-tech companies, transforming access to an exponential career growth, by democratising mentorship, breaking traditional systems, & helping the new student of today jumpover the artificial high walls! | $22M | Series B | Mar 21, 2022 |  |
| Licious | Licious is a path breaking concept in the Indian Food industry; aimed at solving the perennially existing problem of finding safe, delectable, trustworthy fresh meat in India. The company builds a world-class enterprise that's bound to upgrade the way the company procures, sells, buys, and consumes meat in India. | $149.8M | Series F | Mar 14, 2022 |  |

10 of 37 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Titan Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/titan-capital) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Gruhas](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gruhas-proptech) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [peercheque](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peercheque) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Unilazer Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/unilazer-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [3one4 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/3one4) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AngelList India](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angellist-india) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About True North

VC Fund · Mumbai, India

Formerly known as India Value Fund Advisors Private Limited. Over the last decade and a half True North has invested in over 35 mid-sized profitable businesses, inclusive of 13 from which it has subsequently exited, and guided their transformation into world-class industry leaders that are sustainable, respected and admired by peers and society atlarge. Each of them is characterized by deep-rooted organizational cultures that encourage and nurture excellence in all aspects of business.

5 contacts available at True North.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Haresh Chawla | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/haresh-chawla |
| Keith Johnston | Management Leadership Coach/Trainer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keith-johnston |
| Mahesh Krishnamurthy | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mahesh-krishnamurthy |
| Maninder Juneja | MD | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maninder-singh-juneja |
| Siddharth Dhondiyal | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/siddharth-dhondiyal |

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## FAQ

### What does Haresh Chawla invest in?

Haresh Chawla invests primarily in Internet, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 37 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Haresh Chawla's check size?

Haresh Chawla typically joins rounds of $300k–$3.3M at Seed, $24k–$326k at Angel and $120k–$620k 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 Haresh Chawla participates in.

### When did Haresh Chawla last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Haresh Chawla closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 37 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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