# Jai Kumar

> Jai Kumar is a pre-seed investor at IppoPay backing B2B and SaaS. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: IppoPay
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: May 2023
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaikumaraxn/

Jai Kumar is a pre-seed investor at IppoPay focused on B2B and SaaS. Jai Kumar is the Co-Founder and CTO of IppoPay.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $847k–$1.1M |
| Pre-Seed | $120k–$450k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| B2B | 1 | 14% |
| SaaS | 1 | 14% |
| Events | 1 | 14% |
| Logistics | 1 | 14% |
| Ticketing | 1 | 14% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 71% |
| Seed | 2 | 29% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 5 | 71% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ticket9 | Ticket 9 is an all-in-one tech platform for event organizers, promoters, and managers to easily create, promote, connect, and manage events of any type and size.Ticket 9 is built on the idea that anyone anywhere in the world desiring to create an event, sell tickets or engage attendees and empower technology in events should have a powerful toolto do it easily. Everything is fully integrated, seamless, and intuitive. Ticket 9 perfectly empowers any professional event from beginning to end. It is a complete & flexible solution that empowers users to create successful events without having to struggle with a whole bunch of systems. | $120K | Pre-Seed | May 24, 2023 |  |
| Trukko | Trukko is a B2B logistics aggregator that connects shippers with transporters in the UAE. |  | Pre-Seed | Mar 20, 2023 |  |
| The Meat chop | The Meat Chop is your ONE-STOP-SHOP for all of your meat and seafood needs. | $846.6K | Seed | Nov 01, 2022 |  |
| Backspace Tech | Backspace Tech makes it simple to include banking services into the SaaS market. | $450K | Pre-Seed | Jul 20, 2022 |  |
| Veg Route | Veg Route is an growing efficient B2C Supply Chain Platform by Connecting Farmers and Consumers by Employing Technology and creating sustainable way for the growth of every stakeholder being part of us. | $1.1M | Seed | Jul 19, 2022 |  |
| Frigate | Frigate Engineering Services Private Limited bridges the gap between innovation and practice, by imparting clever and inventive ideas proposed by startups or industries and building mthe to life by ingeniously planning and designing the said idea into well-engineered products using sustainable design processes.At Frigate, we aim to achievesimplicity in complex tasks by designing and producing products that would be of great use for small scale businesses, farmers and even us in our day to day lives. We find and solve various problem statements identified in the daily world and build from scratch, interesting eco-friendly products/prototypes based on the required need.Our Manufacturing Capabilities ranging from1.Sheet metal Fabrication-Light Engineering from MS to SS to Aluminium. 2.Heavy Engineering fabrication starting from 5 tons-10 tons 3.All kinds of machining with in-house lathe, VMC and laser cutting facilities 4.3D printing from FDM,SLS,SLA 5.Injection Moulding and die making 6.Vaccum casting | $185K | Pre-Seed | Apr 12, 2022 |  |
| Veg Route | Veg Route is an growing efficient B2C Supply Chain Platform by Connecting Farmers and Consumers by Employing Technology and creating sustainable way for the growth of every stakeholder being part of us. | $180K | Pre-Seed | Nov 30, 2021 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [VGROW Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vgrow-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About IppoPay

VC Fund · Chennai, India

IppoPay provides Payment Solutions to Small businesses, SMEs, and Freelancers.IppoPay is a Payment Aggregator for businesses that collect and accept payments from their customers using Payment links, Invoice, Subscription, Social Commerce, and UPI. We target businesses, freelancers, homeprenures, and people who do business in Tier 2 and 3 cities,and rural areasSubscription: IppoPay helps small business like milk vendors, newspaper agencies, and Service AMC business/individuals to receive monthly/weekly/daily recurring paymentsSocial Commerce: IppoPay helps bring offline business online. Create your online store in 20 sec. Create an online, showcase & manage your products over social media and increase your sales.UPI and Tap to Phone: We have all kinds of stores/vendors to receive payments via UPI. IppoPay offers stores/sellers a simple way to accept card payments. Contactless payments acceptance through the seller’s smartphone. Sellers do not require additional hardware. Easy to set up on their own phone.Payment Gateway: Accept domestic and international payments with 100+ payment options via Payment Links, Invoice, Web API, SDKs, and eCommerce plugins.

3 contacts available at IppoPay.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jai Kumar | Co-Founder & CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jai-kumar-3352 |
| Mohan Karuppiah | Co-founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mohan-karuppiah |
| Thangaraj Sofiya | Co-Founder | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Jai Kumar invest in?

Jai Kumar invests primarily in B2B, SaaS and Events startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Jai Kumar's check size?

Jai Kumar typically joins rounds of $847k–$1.1M at Seed and $120k–$450k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jai Kumar participates in.

### How do I contact Jai Kumar?

Public channels for Jai Kumar include LinkedIn. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### When did Jai Kumar last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jai Kumar closed in May 2023. Shizune tracks 7 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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