# Karl Mehta

> Karl Mehta is a seed investor at TiE LaunchPad (Mountain View) backing Email and Messaging. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [TiE LaunchPad](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tie-launchpad)
- Location: Mountain View, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Aug 2011
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehtakarl
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/karlmehta
- Website: http://karlmehta.co
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/karlmehta

Karl Mehta is a seed investor at TiE LaunchPad in Mountain View focused on Email and Messaging. Karl Mehta is based out of Miami, Florida, and is the Chairman of the Board of Zetagig. Karl previously worked at EdCast as a Founder and CEO. Karl Mehta attended the University of Mumbai.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$1.1M |
| Series A | $2.5M–$6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Email | 4 | 44% |
| Messaging | 4 | 44% |
| Apps | 2 | 22% |
| Mobile | 2 | 22% |
| FinTech | 2 | 22% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 56% |
| Series A | 3 | 33% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 78% |
| India | 1 | 11% |
| Mexico | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| EdCast | EdCast offers a unified SaaS platform powering end-to-end employee experience journeys, spanning learning, skilling and career mobility. Its award-winning platform is used internationally by organizations ranging from large Global 2000 companies to small businesses and government organizations. With EdCast’s platforms, our customers are able toattract, develop and retain a high-performance and future-ready workforce. EdCast’s offerings include its Talent Experience Platform and MyGuide Digital Adoption Platform. EdCast is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer award recipient. EdCast's enterprise customers include Dell, Diageo, Danone, Genpact, Spotify, Standard Chartered Bank, ANZ Bank, CHRISTUS Health and NASSCOM, among many others. | $6M | Series A | Sep 22, 2014 |  |
| Clip | Clip is the leading commerce and digital payment platform that is empowering businesses in Mexico to interact and transact with its consumers more effectively through innovative technologies, best-in-class customer service, and the ability to accept all payment methods digitally. |  | Seed | Jul 01, 2013 |  |
| Earn.com | We're building a token-based social network, where senders pay users in digital currency to complete tasks and reply to emails. If we're successful, it will be one of the first major applications of digital currency for the regular user. | $5.1M | Series A | Jun 17, 2013 |  |
| CrowdOptic | CrowdOptic uses real-time sensor data from electronic devices and its own patented CrowdOptic algorithms to identify and track where devices are aimed (focus) and to identify groups of people with the same focus (clusters). CrowdOptic technology, which includes sensor data smoothing, EXIF data mining and focal analytics, is instantly deployable ina range of mobile applications and technology environments to enhance broadcasting, security, social media sharing and advertising. | $1M |  | May 17, 2013 |  |
| Jeeng | Jeeng is bringing the power of AI and data intelligence to digital publishers with our proprietary solutions for driving audience engagement and revenue. Our dynamic team of automation and data experts is delivering transformative data-driven engagement strategies to the fast-changing publishing industry.Our unique content personalizationsolution is the only one of its kind that leverages first-party, opt-in data to help publishers build loyal, engaged, 1:1 subscriber relationships. With our platform, publishers can end their reliance on the walled gardens of search and social media and move beyond cookies to more accurately curate content and ads and deliver them directly to subscribers at the right time, on the right channel.Named a Fast Growth Icon, an Inc. 500 Fastest-Growing Company, a Crain’s Fast 50 and Red Herring 100 Winner, Jeeng fuels the multichannel messaging strategy for over 700 publishers, including The Atlantic, Crain’s Harper Collins, and Vox Media. With a proven track record for growth, we’ve seen a solid 165% CAGR over the last 5 years, and we invest heavily in R&D with over 50% of our global team working directly in technology development. | $1.1M | Seed | Aug 16, 2011 |  |
| Ten Machines Corp. | Ten Machines Corp. is a New York-based developer of an anonymous messaging app for everyday emotional release |  | Seed |  |  |
| Handle | Our attention is our most precious resource and we’re wasting it. We could be using it to be better spouses, parents, employees, and friends but instead we’re using it to figure out what needs to get done and too often being diverted to things that don’t matter. The result is feeling perpetually busy but still behind, going through days feelingoverwhelmed, and knowing at the end we could have spent the time more wisely. It’s no way to live.Handle is the antidote. Built upon decades of research, Handle is a personal productivity system that helps you stay focused on what matters. It brings together your email, to-do list, and calendar into a single app that lets you make better decisions with your time and relax more with less fear of things falling through the cracks.It's your life. We help you handle it. | $2.5M | Series A |  |  |
| Simpa | Simpa offers solar power systems to households and shops in rural areas. Customers make a small initial payment to have a solar PV system installed, then it's simply pay-as-you-go for the electricity. They mimic the compelling pricing model of pre-paid cell phones. But these small payments for electricity also add up towards the total purchaseprice and once fully paid, the customer owns the system and enjoys the benefits of clean, reliable electricity, for free.The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Karnataka, India. | $1.1M | Seed |  |  |
| Jeeng (formerly PowerInbox) | Jeeng is bringing the power of AI and data intelligence to digital publishers with our proprietary solutions for driving audience engagement and revenue. The company's dynamic team of automation and data experts is delivering transformative data-driven engagement strategies to the fast-changing publishing industry.The company's uniquecontent personalization solution is the only one of its kind that leverages first-party, opt-in data to help publishers build loyal, engaged, 1:1 subscriber relationships. With Jeeng's platform, publishers can end their reliance on the walled gardens of search and social media and move beyond cookies to more accurately curate content and ads and deliver them directly to subscribers at the right time on the right channel.Named a Fast Growth Icon, an Inc. 500 Company, a Crain’s Fast 50, and a Red Herring 100 Winner, Jeeng fuels the multichannel messaging strategy for over 700 publishers, including The Atlantic, Crain’s Harper Collins, and Vox Media. With a proven track record for growth, they have seen a solid 165% CAGR over the last 5 years, and they invest heavily in R&D, with over 50% of their global team working directly in technology development. |  | Seed |  |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Aarin Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aarin-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Angel Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-ventures-mexico) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Avant Global LLC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avant-global) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cervin Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cervin-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Correlation Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/correlation-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ecosystem Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ecosystem-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About TiE LaunchPad

VC Fund · Sunnyvale, United States

TiE LaunchPad is an accelerator begun by TiE for enterprise-focused startups. They accept up to 8 companies per batch for a 5 month program at TiE Silicon Valley in Sunnyvale, CA. The program provides $50k funding, and more importantly, structured access to TiE Charter Members, 320 of some of the most accomplished tech executives in Silicon Valley.The core focus of the program is to help enterprise startups validate their business and prepare for their first round of funding. It is a unique combination of minds, money, and market access.

3 contacts available at TiE LaunchPad.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Karl Mehta | Mentor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karl-mehta |
| Prashant Shah | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prashant-shah |
| Sanjog Gad | Mentor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sanjog-gad |

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## FAQ

### What does Karl Mehta invest in?

Karl Mehta invests primarily in Email, Messaging and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 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 Karl Mehta's check size?

Karl Mehta typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$1.1M at Seed and $2.5M–$6M 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 Karl Mehta participates in.

### When did Karl Mehta last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Karl Mehta closed in Aug 2011. Shizune tracks 9 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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