Kal Vepuri
Founder, CEO @ Hero
New York, United States
Kal Vepuri is a seed investor at Hero in New York focused on Software and Health Care. Kal Vepuri is Founder and Chairman of Brainchild. Brainchild Holdings is Kal's personal direct investment vehicle. Brainchild & Company is a collective of engineers, operators, and designers that build physical products and digital services. Prior to forming Brainchild, Kal was a technology entrepreneur, a consultant at Bain & Companyand an institutional private equity investor. Kal earned a BSE in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Economics with High Distinction from Duke University and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in Economics.
- Total investments:
- 40
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Kal Vepuri invests in
Stages Kal Vepuri invests in
Countries Kal Vepuri invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $965k–$6M
- Series A
- $1.1M–$25M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (18%)
- Health Care 7 (18%)
- Internet 6 (15%)
- Mobile 5 (13%)
- Wellness 4 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 22 (55%)
- Series A 8 (20%)
- Funding Round 4 (10%)
- Angel 2 (5%)
- Series B 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 34 (85%)
- Germany 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Fruitful
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Fruitful is the financial membership helping Americans understand, organize, and optimize their finances. Fruitful provides one-on-one financial guidance tailored to members’ unique lifestyles, goals, and stressors, seamlessly integrated with stress-free saving, spending, and investing. Fruitful members get partnered with a supportive andjudgment-free CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ who provides ongoing, actionable advice and easy-to-implement investment strategies to help them make the most of their money. Fruitful is less than half the cost of traditional advisory firms, with no account fees or minimums to join, and includes 5.00% APY Cash Accounts, 0% management fee investing, and up to 2% cash back on all spending. Learn more at fruitful.com. | $25M / Series A / Jun 08, 2022 | |
Loveseat.com
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Loveseat is the returned goods marketplace. Save up to 80% off retail. New in-box furniture & appliances + more for your home. Now live in San Diego, Orange Country, Los Angeles & Austin. | $7M / Series A / Mar 16, 2022 | |
Beams Safety Intelligence
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Beams is a platform for people who like to listen and contribute to great conversations in their own time. | $3M / Seed / Nov 04, 2021 | |
Eight Sleep
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Eight Sleep is the first sleep fitness company. It leverages innovation, technology, and personal biometrics to restore individuals to their peak energy levels each morning. Backed by leading Silicon Valley investors including Khosla Ventures and Y Combinator, it was named by Fast Company in 2018 as one of the Most Innovative Companies in ConsumerElectronics.It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, United States. | Angel / Jun 09, 2021 | |
Eight Sleep
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Eight Sleep is a company that creates sleep technology and products. Its core product, the Pod, is a smart sleep system that dynamically adjusts temperature, elevation, and sound based on biometrics. The system also includes a health check feature that monitors heart rate and breathing without wearable devices. | Series C / Jun 09, 2021 | |
Levels
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Levels develops a health and wellness platform designed to monitor metabolic fitness. The platform tracks blood glucose in real-time, enabling users to optimize their diet and exercise. The company was founded in 2019 and is a remote-first company. | $12M / Seed / Nov 17, 2020 | |
Curve Health
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Curve Health is senior care without walls. It is a platform that's reduced patient transfers from Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) to Emergency Departments by 50%+, Curve advances connected senior care by bridging the silos that hinder healthcare delivery today; enabling physicians to remotely care for patients in SNFs, at home, in ambulancesor wherever they may be. Curve combines telemedicine, a health information exchange, predictive analytics, and smart billing into a single platform, resulting in higher quality care + significant return on investment while ensuring the most seamless patient experience. | $6M / Seed / Oct 29, 2020 | |
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Curve Health
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Curve Health is senior care without walls. It is a platform that's reduced patient transfers from Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) to Emergency Departments by 50%+, Curve advances connected senior care by bridging the silos that hinder healthcare delivery today; enabling physicians to remotely care for patients in SNFs, at home, in ambulancesor wherever they may be. Curve combines telemedicine, a health information exchange, predictive analytics, and smart billing into a single platform, resulting in higher quality care + significant return on investment while ensuring the most seamless patient experience. | $6M / Seed / Oct 29, 2020 | |
Polymarket
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Polymarket enables participants to buy and sell shares that represent the probability of specific outcomes, with prices ranging between zero and one dollar to reflect market expectations. Trades occur in a peer-to-peer order book where users transact directly with one another rather than with a central counterparty. Polymarket uses USDC.e ascollateral and represents positions as conditional tokens that are settled through smart contracts on the Polygon blockchain. Event outcomes are resolved through a decentralized oracle process that verifies results before distributing payouts to holders of winning shares. The platform uses a non-custodial model where participants maintain control of their assets through personal wallets while all transactions and positions remain publicly verifiable onchain. | $4M / Seed / Oct 19, 2020 | |
Leif
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Leif is a technology platform that allows schools and training programs to manage a full suite of Tuition Finance and Career Advancement Solutions. | Dec 20, 2017 | |
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Co-Investors
About Hero
Hero is the first and only in-home medication manager that intuitively sorts and dispenses medication; has audible and digital reminders; automates refills; and provides real-time as well as historical adherence data at your fingertips. Hero was founded to be the world's most people-focused healthcare company by creating frictionlesssolutions to the most challenging problems facing patients and caregivers.
Hero Contacts
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Kal Vepuri
Founder, CEO
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Ali Zaman
Marketing and Business Development Associate
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Daniel van Flymen
Head of Software Engineering
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Dhaval Parikh
Firmware Engineer
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Greggory Hagopian
Head of Electrical Engineering
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FAQ
What does Kal Vepuri invest in?
Kal Vepuri invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 40 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 Kal Vepuri's check size?
Kal Vepuri typically joins rounds of $965k–$6M at Seed and $1.1M–$25M 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 Kal Vepuri participates in.
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When did Kal Vepuri last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Kal Vepuri closed in Jun 2022. Shizune tracks 40 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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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