# Helion Venture Partners

> Helion Venture Partners is a VC fund backing E-Commerce and Internet. See 126 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Port Louis Town, Mauritius
- Total investments: 126
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 33%
- Fund size: $300M
- Last fund: Apr 2015
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/helion-ventures
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/HelionVC
- Website: http://www.helionvc.com

Helion Venture Partners is a stage independent, India-focused venture fund, investing in high growth technology powered businesses and consumer services.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $1.3M–$8.7M |
| Series B | $4M–$15M |
| Series C | $6.4M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 14 | 11% |
| Internet | 11 | 9% |
| Software | 11 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 9 | 7% |
| Mobile | 6 | 5% |

127 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 31 | 25% |
| Series A | 30 | 24% |
| Series C | 18 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 17 | 13% |
| Seed | 13 | 10% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 39 | 31% |
| United States | 23 | 18% |
| Romania | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dhruv Prakash | HR Advisor | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dhruv-prakash |
| Alok Goyal | Partner | 33 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alok-goyal |
| Ashish Gupta | Co-Founder & Senior MD | 61 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashish-gupta-b17420fc |
| Dourvesh Kumar | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dourvesh-kumar |
| Piyush Gupta | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/piyush-gupta-a7be |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Edu AI Last | With a passion for innovation and a commitment to excellence, Edu AI Last specializes in delivering AI-powered solutions that redefine corporate training. Our mission is to help businesses unlock their full potential through intelligent, adaptive learning technologies. | $200K | Seed | Oct 01, 2024 |  |
| Slintel | Slintel captures technographic-powered buying intent and helps companies uncover 3% of active buyers in their target market. It evaluates over 100 billion data points and analyzes factors such as buyer journeys, technology adoption patterns, and other digital footprints to deliver market & sales intelligence.Slintel's customers haveaccess to the buying patterns and contact information of more than 17 million companies and 70 million decision-makers across the world.It was established in 2016 and is based in Mountain View, California. | $1.5M | Seed | Dec 12, 2019 |  |
| Wooplr | A free & easy way to start an online store, Wooplr today empowers 80,000+ store owners to earn on average Rs. 30,000 a month. In just a minute, be ready to go live with 50,000+ products that can be added to the store and sold to friends, family or followers. Wooplr takes care of all the hard work - finding products and brands, technology,payments and refunds, delivery and returns, and a world-class customer care team. Imagine having your own ready-made store with nothing to worry about at all.The company received $5 million in Series-A funding from Helion Ventures and has several strategic investments from industry leaders. The company also has investments from industry veterans like Co-founders of InMobi who include Naveen Tewari, Jaspreet Bindra, Astarc Ventures, Abhay Singhal, and Amit Gupta and Piyush Shah, Chief Product Officer at InMobi, Raghunandan G, Co-founder - Taxi for Sure, and ex-Puma India CEO Rajiv Mehta. | $2.5M |  | Apr 15, 2019 |  |
| Whatfix | Whatfix offers a digital adoption platform, simulated application environments for training, and no-code application analytics. Using GenAI supports companies in improving user productivity, ensuring process compliance, and improving user experience across internal and customer-facing applications. | $13M | Series B | Mar 12, 2019 |  |
| Toppr | Toppr is an after-school learning app on a mission to make learning personalized. Toppr helps students prepare for various school, board, and competitive exams. Abled with artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data, we study student behavior and create adaptive learning paths with infinite combinations. This ensures that every studenthas a unique and personalized learning experience. | $35M | Series C | Dec 19, 2018 |  |
| MoEngage | MoEngage is an internet company that features cloud-based marketing services for consumer businesses. It helps companies on campaigns across channels such as in-app messaging, web, and SMS providing machine learning for optimization of customer engagement. Founded in 2014, MoEngage is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $9M | Series B | Dec 04, 2018 |  |
| GoZefo | Zefo, an early stage eCommerce startup committed to giving buyers and sellers an absolutely hassle free used furniture shopping experience. | $2.5M |  | Oct 12, 2018 |  |
| Livspace | Livspace is an interior design startup that offers a platform that connects people to designers, services, and products.The online shopping platform is a destination to find design, decorate, and furnish dream houses so they can undertake renovations like kitchen upgrades or repainting a room. It also provides end-to-end home interior services.In 2016, Livspace launched Canvas, its proprietary design-to-installation platform, a first for the interior design industry that aims to create a unique experience for homeowners and scales the job of interior designers. The décor startup is backed by Goldman Sachs, TPG Growth, Jungle Ventures, Bessemer Ventures, Helion Venture Partners, and Trifecta Capital Advisors.It was founded in 2014 by Anuj Srivastava and Ramakant Sharma. | $70M | Series C | Sep 19, 2018 |  |
| RailYatri | RailYatri's goal is to provide the most up to date information to the 25 million passengers who board a train every day. RailYatri mobile app provides real-time information on live train status, PNR Status, seat availability predictions, fare calculator, platforms/ facilities at stations, personalized alerts, access to essential travelservices like meals and taxi.... and much more.RailYatri provides information on over 9000 locations and 14500 trains (including long distance trains, local trains and metros). Within its first year of the launch, RailYatri's Android app has crossed 1 million downloads. The company has also partnered with taxi services firms across 20 cities and food vendors across 300 stations.RailYatri's mission is to simplify train travel and they are doing it one traveller at a time. | $8M | Series B | Apr 27, 2018 |  |
| IntrCity | Manager- Corporate Communications | $8M | Series B | Apr 27, 2018 |  |

10 of 126 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Helion Venture Partners invest in?

Helion Venture Partners invests primarily in E-Commerce, Internet and Software startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 126 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Helion Venture Partners's check size?

Helion Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$8.7M at Series A, $4M–$15M at Series B and $6.4M–$50M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Helion Venture Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Helion Venture Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Helion Venture Partners?

The team at Helion Venture Partners includes Dhruv Prakash (HR Advisor), Alok Goyal (Partner) and Ashish Gupta (Co-Founder & Senior MD), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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