# Himanshu Periwal

> Himanshu Periwal is a seed investor in New Delhi backing Software and Information Technology. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: New Delhi, India
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/himanshuperiwal

Himanshu Periwal is a seed investor in New Delhi focused on Software and Information Technology. Himanshu is the Co-Founder at unlu / unluclass, an online learning & collaboration platform for creators. He has worked with Amazon, Bain & Company, ixigo over the last 10 years. He was the VP Growth at ixigo, helping it grow transactions by 23x over 3 years. At Amazon, he was part of the team that launched it in India and wasits' first Product Marketing Manager. Prior to that, he worked with Bain & Company on various Private Equity, Fin-tech, Retail sector mandates.A graduate of IIM Calcutta, he is also a Product Management Faculty at upGrad, a Start-up Advisor at NASSCOM, GSV Labs, TechStars and has been associated with over 20 start-ups as a Mentor/Investor/Consultant. Himanshu has also been on the stage for various events at IAMAI, Google, Facebook, Branch.io, Netcore, SATTE, HiFi, Clevertap, IIM Calcutta, MDI Gurgaon, Delhi University, Nirma University, BITS Pilani, Growth Folks, Headstart, etc.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $50k–$2.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 33% |
| B2B | 1 | 17% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |
| FinTech | 1 | 17% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Angel | 2 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 5 | 83% |
| United States | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Phot.ai | Phot.ai is a comprehensive AI-powered platform that simplifies photo editing and graphic design by providing a variety of tools to help ecommerce sellers optimize their workflow. | $2.7M | Seed | Mar 06, 2025 |  |
| Soptle | Soptle is a rapidly expanding Financial Technology firm specializing in offering financing solutions to small and medium enterprises nationwide. Employing a unique blend of technology and an innovative delivery approach, we strive to enhance the financial well-being of our clients and optimize their cash flow. Our loan product range is diverse,catering to the varying needs of our clients, which includes term loans, lines of credit, and invoice financing. | $300K | Angel | Nov 22, 2022 |  |
| Stealth Mode | We are figuring out! |  | Angel | Apr 26, 2022 |  |
| Leptron | Leptron or Leptron Technologies was founded in 2018, Our mission is to enable people and businesses throughout the universe to realize their full potential by creating technology which revolutionises how we have been banking, communicating, working and doing business. We develop and market software, services, and hardware that deliver newopportunities, greater convenience, and enhanced value to people's lives. we license, and support a wide range of software products and services, by designing and selling hardware, and by delivering relevant online advertising to a global customer audience. In addition to selling individual products and services, we offer suites of products and services. We provide consulting and product and solution support services, and we train and certify computer system integrators and developers. We also offer cloud-based solutions that provide customers with software, services and content over the Internet by way of shared computing resources located in centralized & decentralised data centres. We also conduct research and develop advanced technologies for future software and hardware products and services. We believe that we will continue to grow and meet our customers' needs by delivering compelling, new, high-value solutions through our integrated software, hardware, and services platforms, creating new opportunities for partners, improving customer satisfaction, and improving our service excellence, business efficacy, and internal processes. |  | Pre-Seed | Apr 15, 2022 |  |
| Kindly His | Janani aims to make the process of infertility treatment and assisted fertilization easier and more affordable for the masses. | $179K | Pre-Seed | Oct 30, 2020 |  |
| inVOID | InVOID has one of the most robust systems to read and validate KYC documents in the Indian market. Our AI driven platform is device agnostic, vernacular, flexible and is extremely easy to integrate. We have a market leading National ID card OCR which works on all types and formats of National ID cards. Our core focus is to provide a winningcustomer experience for the everyday Indian user without compromising on KYC & Security | $50K | Seed | May 04, 2019 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Himanshu Periwal invest in?

Himanshu Periwal invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Himanshu Periwal's check size?

Himanshu Periwal typically joins rounds of $50k–$2.7M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Himanshu Periwal participates in.

### When did Himanshu Periwal last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Himanshu Periwal closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 6 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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