# Karteek Pulapaka

> Karteek Pulapaka is a seed investor at Java Capital (Bengaluru) backing Credit and EdTech. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Java Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/java-capital)
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: May 2022
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karteekpulapaka/

Karteek Pulapaka is a Co-Founder and Partner at Java Capital. He attended IE Business School in 2015.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Credit | 1 | 25% |
| EdTech | 1 | 25% |
| FinTech | 1 | 25% |
| Education | 1 | 25% |
| Snack Food | 1 | 25% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 75% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BharatX | BharatX is a Fin-Tech startup that enables any Consumer-facing app/website in India to offer Credit to their users by integrating its APIs. It can enable white-leballed journeys like of "Buy Now, Pay Later","Credit Line", "Try and Buy", "Pay in 3", "Postpaid", etc. | $4.5M | Seed | May 12, 2022 |  |
| The Eat Better Company | Eat Better Ventures is a direct to consumer brand, which makes healthy organic snacks. | $727.7K | Seed | Mar 02, 2022 |  |
| BharatX | BharatX is a Fin-Tech startup that enables any Consumer-facing app/website in India to offer Credit to their users by integrating its APIs. It can enable white-leballed journeys like of "Buy Now, Pay Later","Credit Line", "Try and Buy", "Pay in 3", "Postpaid", etc. | $238K | Pre-Seed | Dec 14, 2021 |  |
| Codingal | Codingal is on a mission to provide coding education to every K-12 student.Coding helps improve logical thinking and problem-solving skills by 70% among kids at a young age, also enabling them to perform better in other subjects in school. Moreover, coding jobs are the future. They already constitute more than 60% of all jobs in science,technology, engineering, and math. While still in school, those who start young will be ahead of everyone by the time they get into college. They will be creators of the future. Learning to code at a young age will inspire more kids, including girls, to take up Computer Science as a major when entering college.Today, schools and traditional education systems are not equipped to provide the right coding education to children. Codingal is here to change that and empower every student with the tools, content, and live coding classes to start learning to code and build anything they can imagine. | $560K | Seed | Nov 01, 2020 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [8i Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8i-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Capier Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capier-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [GSF](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gsf) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Multiply Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/multiply-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mumbai Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mumbai-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Java Capital

VC Fund · Bangalore, India

Java capital is pre-seed/seed run by career Venture Capitalists and startup ecosystem enablers with experience between them across pre-seed, seed, and early stage investments. P

3 contacts available at Java Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bhargavi V | Co-Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bhargavi-v |
| Karteek Pulapaka | Co-Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karteek-pulapaka |
| Vinod Shankar | Co-Founder and Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vinod-shankar-cb97 |

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## FAQ

### What does Karteek Pulapaka invest in?

Karteek Pulapaka invests primarily in Credit, EdTech and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Karteek Pulapaka last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Karteek Pulapaka closed in May 2022. Shizune tracks 4 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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