# Hemant Bhardwaj

> Hemant Bhardwaj is a seed investor at Taurus Ventures backing Software and Information Technology. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Taurus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/taurusventures)
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Apr 2022
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhardwajhemant
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/hemantmb
- Website: https://x.com/hemantmb

Hemant Bhardwaj is a seed investor at Taurus Ventures focused on Software and Information Technology. Hemant Bhardwaj is Fund Manager at BR Ventures.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 75% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 75% |
| Internet | 2 | 50% |
| Productivity Tools | 2 | 50% |
| Mobile | 1 | 25% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 75% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mesh | Mesh is a social performance management platform for today's workforce. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in San Jose, California. | $11M | Series A | Apr 13, 2022 |  |
| ContainIQ | ContainIQ is a Kubernetes native monitoring and tracing platform ContainIQ helps teams to track and observe Kubernetes core metrics, events, and logs. It helps them monitor the health of the cluster with pre-built dashboards and easy-to-set monitors. | $2.5M | Seed | Oct 12, 2021 |  |
| Dropezy | A daily needs platform that uses a network of dark stores to guarantee deliveries in under 20 minutes. | $295K | Pre-Seed | Mar 02, 2021 |  |
| Zaraz | Sweeps makes any website 40% faster with a single line of code, by optimizing how it loads third-party tools. This results in x2 conversion rates and better SEO rankings. Sweeps' third-party manager enhances web performance metrics across all industries: ecommerce, publishing, gaming, b2b and more. With its innovative web infrastructurecompanies can easily integrate all types of third-parties, such as data & analytics tools, marketing technologies, CRM, advertisement technologies, widgets, and more, without slowing down their websites. | $2M | Seed | Jun 01, 2020 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [PROTOCOL — by GETTYLAB](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prtcl) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ACTAI Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/actai-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CABRA VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cabra-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Coughdrop Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coughdrop-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [F2 Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/f2-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Taurus Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Taurus Ventures they provide services for technology.

1 contacts available at Taurus Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hemant Bhardwaj | Managing Partner & Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hemant-bhardwaj |

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## FAQ

### What does Hemant Bhardwaj invest in?

Hemant Bhardwaj invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Hemant Bhardwaj last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Hemant Bhardwaj closed in Apr 2022. Shizune tracks 4 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?

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