# Karthik Ramakrishnan

> Karthik Ramakrishnan is a seed investor in Seattle backing EdTech, Banking and FinTech. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Apr 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karthikrama/

Karthik Ramakrishnan is an Engineering Executive @ Amazon Alexa.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$2.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| EdTech | 1 | 25% |
| Banking | 1 | 25% |
| FinTech | 1 | 25% |
| Education | 1 | 25% |
| Marketplace | 1 | 25% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

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

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nigeria | 2 | 50% |
| India | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chowdeck | Chowdeck is a food delivery service and marketplace to buy meals from a wide range of restaurants. | $2.5M | Seed | Apr 30, 2024 |  |
| Augmend | AI-augmented knowledge transfer across developers through a platform that captures and shares expertise. | $2.2M | Pre-Seed | Jul 27, 2023 |  |
| Grey | Grey is at the forefront of providing secure and convenient global banking solutions to meet the needs of customers and businesses. With a Money Service Business license from FINTRAC in Canada and FinCEN in the USA, our primary focus is emerging markets. We have created a range of services that enable individuals and businesses to own and managetheir foreign bank accounts easily, including currency exchange, receiving payments from 80+ countries, and access to virtual cards.For us at Grey, it is beyond just building remittance solutions. We sincerely want to enhance the interconnectivity of the evolving gig economy in developing countries; improving how we deal with cross-border remittance is just one way. | $2M | Seed | Aug 29, 2022 |  |
| 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. | $1.2M | Seed | Sep 01, 2021 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [True Culture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/true-culture-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [8-Bit Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8-bit-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Day One Syndicate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/day-one-syndicate) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Essence VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/essence-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FoundersX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundersx-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Karthik Ramakrishnan invest in?

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

### What is Karthik Ramakrishnan's check size?

Karthik Ramakrishnan typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$2.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Karthik Ramakrishnan participates in.

### When did Karthik Ramakrishnan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Karthik Ramakrishnan closed in Apr 2024. 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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