# Hiten Shah

> Hiten Shah is a seed investor at Nira (San Francisco) backing Software and Information Technology. See 43 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Nira](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nira-336c)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 43
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/hnshah
- Website: http://hiten.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hiten

Hiten Shah is a seed investor at Nira in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. Hiten Shah is based out of Redwood City, California and is the Co-Founder of Product Habits. Hiten previously worked at KISSmetrics as a Board Member. Hiten Shah attended the University of California Berkeley.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$6M |
| Pre-Seed | $2M–$3M |
| Series A | $4M–$27M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 20 | 47% |
| Information Technology | 10 | 23% |
| SaaS | 8 | 19% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 16% |
| Apps | 6 | 14% |

91 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 29 | 67% |
| Series A | 6 | 14% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 5% |
| Angel | 1 | 2% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 33 | 77% |
| India | 2 | 5% |
| The Netherlands | 2 | 5% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Norway | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FinalLayer | FinalLayer is developing AI agents for creative processes. The FinalLayer LinkedIn post agent chooses the appropriate video clips to include in your post, writes posts in your own voice, and follows topics on your behalf. |  |  | Oct 23, 2025 |  |
| Hamming AI | Hamming AI is an experimentation platform that helps teams build reliable AI products. | $3.8M | Seed | Dec 18, 2024 |  |
| Shopgenie | All-In-One Marketing Platform for Auto Repair Shops |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 15, 2023 |  |
| Shopgenie | All-In-One Marketing Platform for Auto Repair Shops | $1M | Seed | Jun 15, 2023 |  |
| Grain | Grain is the easiest meeting insights tool to help you understand and communicate the needs of your customers. Anybody in a customer-focused role can use Grain to record, transcribe, and clip moments from research interviews, sales calls, and customer meetings. You can capture and share insights from customer meetings like never before. No moremanual notes, full meeting recordings or sales intelligence tools. | $16M | Series A | Apr 12, 2022 |  |
| GarageWorks | GarageWorks supplies workbenches, wall systems, hooks and baskets, garage cabinets, stretchers and stations, and garage floors. Their applications can, of course, also be used in other places in and around the house. | $1M | Seed | Apr 01, 2022 |  |
| GarageWorks | GarageWorks is a doorstep service provider for two-wheelers - Convenient, Transparent, and Cost-Effective. | $1M | Seed | Mar 29, 2022 |  |
| Stark | Stark is a startup that lets designers of other buildings with design software run their files through an integrated tool that checks it and provides color edits and other suggestions to help them meet guidelines for people who see less well. | $6M | Seed | Feb 12, 2022 |  |
| Sukha | Centered is an assistant for flow that helps you reach your flow state and stay there longer. | $3.9M |  | Nov 18, 2021 |  |
| Sukha | Centered is an assistant for flow that helps you reach your flow state and stay there longer. | $3.9M | Seed | Nov 18, 2021 |  |

10 of 43 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Uncork Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/softtech-vc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Fuel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fuel-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Prototype Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/remote-first-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Resolute Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/resolute-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Shrug Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shrug-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Social Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/social-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Nira

VC Fund

Nira is a real-time access control system that provides visibility and management over who has access to company documents in Google Workspace.

1 contacts available at Nira.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hiten Shah | Co-Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hiten-shah |

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## FAQ

### What does Hiten Shah invest in?

Hiten Shah invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 43 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Hiten Shah's check size?

Hiten Shah typically joins rounds of $1M–$6M at Seed, $2M–$3M at Pre-Seed and $4M–$27M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Hiten Shah participates in.

### When did Hiten Shah last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Hiten Shah closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 43 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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