# Hiro Mashita

> Hiro Mashita is a seed investor at M&S Partners backing Financial Services and Internet. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [M&S Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/m-s-partners)
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hiro-mashita-b810339b
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/hiromashi1969
- Website: https://x.com/hiromashi1969

Hiro Mashita is a seed investor at M&S Partners in Singapore focused on Financial Services and Internet. Hiro Mashita - Founder & Director @ M&S Partners

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $65k–$4.9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 4 | 22% |
| Internet | 3 | 17% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 17% |
| SaaS | 2 | 11% |
| Banking | 2 | 11% |

49 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 44% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 17% |
| Series A | 2 | 11% |
| Series B | 2 | 11% |
| Angel | 1 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 11 | 61% |
| United States | 2 | 11% |
| Japan | 1 | 6% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 6% |
| Thailand | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ParkSmart | ParkSmart is a parking management application. |  |  | Mar 27, 2024 |  |
| ParkSmart | ParkSmart is a parking management application. |  | Seed | Mar 27, 2024 |  |
| AppEQ.AI | AppEQ.ai provides one-click real-time customer insights to drive retention revenue for customer success & account management teams in B2B companies.Giving customer insights in the flow of work helps customer success and account managers prioritise their accounts activities and become more proactive, thereby helping build great relationshipand value with the customer. | $450K | Pre-Seed | Apr 14, 2023 |  |
| Onmeta | Onmeta | $1.5M | Seed | Sep 13, 2022 |  |
| Sparrosense | Silversparro is a tech startup, founded by entrepreneurs from IIT Delhi. The objective is to solve business problems by using Deep Learning Technology, the most rapidly advancing component of Artificial Intelligence. Our product, Sparrosense AI Supervisor is a SaaS tool that provides new data and insights to solve delays, optimize processes anddrive productivity leveraging AI-powered Video Analytics on the shop floor for USD 14 trillion global manufacturing industry. We work for manufacturing, healthcare, banking and consumer internet companies specializing in Computer Vision And Natural Language Processing, Image Detection and Classification | $300K | Seed | Feb 04, 2018 |  |
| GigIndia | GigIndia is a marketplace that provides on-demand work completion for companies through a gig workforce of jobseekers. The startup leverages technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence for faster turnaround and quality checks. |  | Seed | Dec 26, 2017 |  |
| Faircent | Faircent helps in eliminating the high margins which intermediaries like banks and financial institutions make on our transactions. Banks have massive overheads, with thousands of employees to pay and hundreds of branches to maintain. Banks must take large margins on the money that passes through them. Whereas at Faircent.com people who have sparemoney lend it directly to people who want to borrow. There are no banks in the middle, no huge overheads | $4M | Series B | Dec 19, 2017 |  |
| BetterButter | BetterButter is a social discovery platform for recipes. Discover a range of recipes with the BetterButter community, made by your friends and celebrity chefs alike. Share your favourite recipes and get appreciated. |  | Series A | Sep 01, 2017 |  |
| Sparrosense | Silversparro is a tech startup, founded by entrepreneurs from IIT Delhi. The objective is to solve business problems by using Deep Learning Technology, the most rapidly advancing component of Artificial Intelligence. Our product, Sparrosense AI Supervisor is a SaaS tool that provides new data and insights to solve delays, optimize processes anddrive productivity leveraging AI-powered Video Analytics on the shop floor for USD 14 trillion global manufacturing industry. We work for manufacturing, healthcare, banking and consumer internet companies specializing in Computer Vision And Natural Language Processing, Image Detection and Classification | $65K | Seed | Dec 06, 2016 |  |
| HOMMA | HOMMA is a start-up tech home builder that specializes in designing modern homes that improve the living experience. The team at HOMMA is composed of skilled professionals, including home builders, architects, designers, and engineers, all working to create living spaces that are aesthetically pleasing and sustainable. | $4.9M | Seed | Oct 24, 2016 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [GSF](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gsf) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Gruhas](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gruhas-proptech) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [3one4 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/3one4) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aarin Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aarin-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [B Dash Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/b-dash-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DCG Expeditions](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dcg-expeditions) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About M&S Partners

VC Fund · Calebasses, Mauritius

M&S Partners is a venture capital firm that caters to private equity and early stage companies in South Asia. M&S Partners was acquired by Pluss App in October 2016. M&S Partners was founded by Hiro Mashita in 2012. It is based in Calebasses, Pamplemousses.

1 contacts available at M&S Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hiro Mashita | Founder & Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hiro-mashita |

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## FAQ

### What does Hiro Mashita invest in?

Hiro Mashita invests primarily in Financial Services, Internet and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Hiro Mashita's check size?

Hiro Mashita typically joins rounds of $65k–$4.9M 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 Hiro Mashita participates in.

### When did Hiro Mashita last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Hiro Mashita closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 18 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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