# Kaushik Subramanian

> Kaushik Subramanian is a seed investor at EQT Ventures backing Software. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [EQT Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eqtventures)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaushikpsub/
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/theholykau
- Website: http://www.kaushiks.me

Kaushik Subramanian is a venture capitalist who previously built products at Stripe and Meta. Kaushik Subramanian attended INSEAD.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$22M |
| Pre-Seed | $3M–$3.1M |
| Series A | $20M–$32M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 24% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 24% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 24% |
| SaaS | 3 | 18% |
| FinTech | 2 | 12% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 53% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 18% |
| Series A | 3 | 18% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 18% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 12% |
| India | 1 | 6% |
| France | 1 | 6% |
| Sweden | 1 | 6% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Stacks | Stacks is an AI-powered workspace that shortens monthly financial close cycles, reduces accounting risk, and boosts accuracy. | $23M | Series A | Feb 19, 2026 |  |
| Beside | Beside is an app that provides users with a dedicated second phone number for calls and texts. It includes AI-driven voicemail transcription, call summaries, and actionable to-dos for conversations. It also supports integration with tools like CRM systems and automation platforms to sync call data and notes. | $20M | Series A | Oct 29, 2025 |  |
| Paid | Paid is a business platform for AI agents. | $21.6M | Seed | Sep 28, 2025 |  |
| Payrails | Payrails helps businesses transform payments and other connected financial workflows from an operational bottleneck into a competitive edge. From Payment Orchestration to Unified Analytics, Tokenization, Automated Reconciliation, Chargeback Management, and more, Payrails helps category-defining merchants to get more from their financialinfrastructure. With a modular, provider-agnostic approach that allows teams to integrate our products at any scale and combination, our track record has made Payrails a trusted partner for some of the world’s most recognized names including Puma, Vinted, Flix, Careem, InDrive, and many more. | $32M | Series A | Jun 12, 2025 |  |
| Paid | Paid is a business platform for AI agents. | $10.8M | Seed | Mar 25, 2025 |  |
| Stacks | Stacks is an AI-powered workspace that shortens monthly financial close cycles, reduces accounting risk, and boosts accuracy. | $3.1M | Pre-Seed | Feb 19, 2025 |  |
| Stacks | Stacks is an AI-powered workspace that shortens monthly financial close cycles, reduces accounting risk, and boosts accuracy. | $7.3M | Seed | Feb 19, 2025 |  |
| Bluebook | self-driving accounting | $3M | Pre-Seed | Feb 13, 2025 |  |
| Bluebook | Bluebook's AI agents help accounting firms scale their capacity from 20 to 200 clients per professional by automating research, reconciliations, and monthly closings. Our technology already saves accountants 30% of their time on research alone, enabling them to focus on strategic advisory work. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Feb 13, 2025 |  |
| Bluebook | Bluebook's AI agents help accounting firms scale their capacity from 20 to 200 clients per professional by automating research, reconciliations, and monthly closings. Our technology already saves accountants 30% of their time on research alone, enabling them to focus on strategic advisory work. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Feb 13, 2025 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [s16vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/s16vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [HV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/holtzbrinck-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About EQT Ventures

VC Fund · Stockholm, Sweden

EQT Ventures is a European VC fund with just over €2.3 billion in total capital raised. EQT Ventures I launched in May 2016, with commitments totaling €566 million and a simple mission - to be the kind of VC the team would have liked to have had on their own startup journeys. Recognizing that building and growing a company takes more than justcapital, the EQT Ventures team provides founders with support and advice throughout different stages of growth. EQT Ventures doesn't focus on particular markets or industries, but on bold and ambitious founders who have the grit and determination to build global success stories. EQT Ventures II launched in November 2019, with commitments totaling €660 million. EQT Ventures III launched in 2022, with commitments totaling €1.1 billion, making it the biggest European Venture Capital fund committed to early-stage tech startups. The EQT Ventures team is based across six offices in London, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Paris, and San Francisco, taking a locals-with-locals approach and supporting founders on the ground. Motherbrain, EQT Ventures' in-house-developed artificial intelligence (AI) platform, ensures the team has a data-driven approach and has driven more than $100 million in portfolio company investments.

5 contacts available at EQT Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kees Koolen | Senior Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kees-koolen |
| Carolina Brochado | Head of EQT Ventures | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carolina-brochado |
| Gregory Bernstein | Venture Lead | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gregory-bernstein |
| Hampus Särnbratt | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hampus-s%C3%A4rnbratt |
| Jenny Dreier | Venture Lead | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jenny-dreier-ff1e |

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## FAQ

### What does Kaushik Subramanian invest in?

Kaushik Subramanian invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 17 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 Kaushik Subramanian's check size?

Kaushik Subramanian typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$22M at Seed, $3M–$3.1M at Pre-Seed and $20M–$32M 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 Kaushik Subramanian participates in.

### When did Kaushik Subramanian last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kaushik Subramanian closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 17 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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