# Karthik Reddy

> Karthik Reddy is a seed investor at Blume Ventures backing Information Technology and Software. See 63 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Blume Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blume-ventures)
- Total investments: 63
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 35%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karthikreddyb

Karthik Reddy is a seed investor at Blume Ventures focused on Information Technology and Software. Karthik Reddy is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Blume Ventures, one of India's leading early stage Venture funds. Blume focuses on seed to Pre-Series A stages of funding and has made over a 100 investments across its 8 year history across multiple funds. Blume is now investing from Fund III starting 2019.At Blume, he has led themajority of the investments, and advises and serves on the boards of some of the leading investments at the firm - Servify, Belong, Zopper, Exotel, Grey Orange Robotics, Unacademy, Healthifyme and Railyatri amongst other emerging stars. Blume has scored significant exits from 2015 through 2018, the most prominent of which are Mettl (to Mercer Consulting), Minjar (to Nutanix), Runnr (to Zomato), Taxiforsure (to Ola), Promptec (to Havells) and Zipdial (to Twitter).

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 7 | 11% |
| Software | 6 | 10% |
| Internet | 4 | 6% |
| Mobile | 3 | 5% |
| FinTech | 3 | 5% |

73 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 27% |
| Series A | 7 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 8% |
| Series B | 3 | 5% |
| Series D | 2 | 3% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 26 | 41% |
| United States | 2 | 3% |
| Singapore | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nivāsa Finance | Nivāsa Finance is an Indian fintech and housing‑finance intermediary that focuses on making affordable home loans accessible to non‑metro and underserved borrowers. | $2.6M | Seed | May 13, 2026 |  |
| Namma Yatri | Namma Yatri is a mobility application designed to contribute to the Open Mobility movement effectively. This provides customers with more options for taking use of the benefits of a completely multimodal solution. | $4.3M | Seed | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| The Happy Company | The Happy Company ™ (THC) is an infrastructure platform powered by retail intelligence, focused on technology for the everyday consumer — beginning in India (and made in भारत). Operating at the intersection of commerce, content, and community, THC wholly owns and operates the Chaicup ® retail brand. Chaicup ® serves delicious, affordable, andsustainable foods and beverages, leveraging product and customer insights to marry an intelligent, world-class supply chain with a fast, friendly experience for both partners and consumers. | $5M | Seed | Oct 31, 2025 |  |
| Lucira Jewelry | Lucira Jewelry is a modern lab-grown diamond jewelry brand. The brand specializes in bridal and milestone jewelry, offering signature solitaires, bespoke engagement rings, eternity bands, and versatile designs for everyday wear. | $5.1M | Seed | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| SuperK | SuperK is an innovative tech-driven platform designed to empower local entrepreneurs by providing them with the tools and resources needed to establish and run mini supermarkets. By leveraging cutting-edge technology, SuperK acts as a bridge between small business owners and the grocery retail sector, offering a streamlined solution for launchingand managing convenience stores. This approach allows local entrepreneurs to tap into the growing demand for accessible, neighborhood-focused grocery stores while benefiting from the operational efficiency, inventory management, and customer insights that SuperK provides. Through its platform, SuperK facilitates the setup, management, and optimization of mini supermarkets, helping entrepreneurs offer a wide range of products to meet the needs of their communities while promoting business growth and sustainability. | $11.6M | Series B | Jul 24, 2025 |  |
| STAGE | STAGE is an Indian language content platform for artist-led entertainment. | $9.7M | Series B | Mar 05, 2025 |  |
| Zopper | Zopper works with insurance providers to create smaller and personalized insurance products that it supplies to distribution partners. Zopper is an insurance infrastructure API platform that democratizes access to insurance distribution. The company specializes in sales, operations, and marketing, also focusing on financial reconciliation. | $25M | Series D | Nov 21, 2024 |  |
| Billion Hearts | Billion Hearts is a company that creates simple digital consumer products for the global market. | $3.7M | Seed | Nov 20, 2024 |  |
| Namma Yatri | Namma Yatri is a mobility application designed to contribute to the Open Mobility movement effectively. This provides customers with more options for taking use of the benefits of a completely multimodal solution. | $11M | Seed | Jul 16, 2024 |  |
| Lightfury Games | LightFury Games is a gaming studio focused to creating immersive experiences with unique narrative and gameplay. | $8.5M | Seed | Apr 16, 2024 |  |

10 of 63 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Nexus Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nexus-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [BEENEXT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bee-next) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Mars Shot Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marsshot-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Arkam Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arkam-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Surge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/surge-ahead) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Blume Ventures

VC Fund · Mumbai, India

Blume Ventures provides pre-series A and early stage funding to tech-focused/tech-enabled ventures. They are typically the first institutional investors in their portfolio companies and invest for about 8-10 years. They are proponents of a collaborative approach and like to co-invest with like-minded angels and seed funds. They then providefollow-on investments to their stellar portfolio companies.

5 contacts available at Blume Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Arpit Agarwal | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arpit-agarwal |
| Ashish Fafadia | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashish-fafadia |
| Jatin Madhra | Investment Team | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jatin-madhra |
| Karthik Reddy | Co-founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karthik-reddy |
| Kunal Bajaj | Head of Capital Network | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kunal-bajaj-7c4e |

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## FAQ

### What does Karthik Reddy invest in?

Karthik Reddy invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 63 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Karthik Reddy last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Karthik Reddy closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 63 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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