Kunal Shah
Angel Investor · at QED Innovation Labs
Bengaluru, India
Kunal Shah is a seed investor at QED Innovation Labs in Bengaluru focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Kunal Shah is based out of Bengaluru, Karnataka, and is the Global CEO of WhatsApp. Kunal previously worked at CRED as a Founder. Kunal Shah attended Wilson College. Kunal Shah has been awarded the Economic Times 40 under 40.
- Total investments:
- 334
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 3%
Last updated:
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Industries Kunal Shah invests in
Stages Kunal Shah invests in
Countries Kunal Shah invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $800k–$5.3M
- Pre-Seed
- $350k–$2M
- Series A
- $4.7M–$17M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 66 (20%)
- FinTech 47 (14%)
- Software 37 (11%)
- E-Commerce 32 (10%)
- Internet 30 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 193 (58%)
- Pre-Seed 44 (13%)
- Series A 43 (13%)
- Angel 10 (3%)
- Series B 9 (3%)
Country
- India 261 (78%)
- United States 19 (6%)
- Singapore 7 (2%)
- United Kingdom 4 (1%)
- United Arab Emirates 2 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parallel Loop is a software engineering company that builds AI solutions, and custom software for startups and enterprises. | $6.6M / Seed / Oct 14, 2026 | ||
| Sol Foundry is an early-stage, agentic AI and business productivity software company that specializes in team collaboration tools. The company operates with a remote-friendly footprint spanning corporate hubs. | $4M / Seed / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| Firi is a quick-commerce mobile application operated by Madrat 24 Labs Pvt Ltd that specializes in beauty and personal care distribution. | $3M / Seed / Sep 15, 2026 | ||
| Professionally Pressed Clothes; Your clothes delivered back to you within 24 hours; with an elevated experience | $1.1M / Seed / Sep 08, 2026 | ||
| Vaaree is a home furnishing and decor marketplace that offers over 90,000 home products. The company provides a wide range of products from kitchenware catering to home cooks to bedding that ensures maximum comfort. Prioritizing affordability, Vaaree curates products from carefully vetted exporters and manufacturers. Through its factory-to-homeapproach, the company aims to enhance logistics and supply chain efficiency while reducing expenses on advertising and packaging, all in an effort to maintain competitive prices. | $6.8M / Series A / Aug 04, 2026 | ||
| Superleap is an AI-powered CRM platform to boost sales team productivity, for businesses in the global $65B+ CRM software market | $3.8M / Seed / Aug 04, 2026 | ||
| Profound is an AI visibility and marketing intelligence platform designed to help brands track, analyze, and optimize how they appear in AI-powered search results and answer engines. | $1.5M / Seed / Aug 04, 2026 | ||
| Aina is a consumer hardware business driven by design that is creating the next generation of interfaces for the AI era. | $5.5M / Seed / Jul 16, 2026 | ||
| Spense is a fintech infrastructure platform that enables businesses and entrepreneurs to build and grow financial products and services. | $2.9M / Seed / Jul 01, 2026 | ||
| LiLLBUD is a premium toy brand committed to early skill acquisition in infants between 0–36 months. Driven by the Montessori philosophy, we create sensory-stimulating, age-perfect toys that facilitate motor, cognitive, and emotional development during a child's most important growth phase—the first 1000 days.Started by IIT Delhi alumniAbhishek Sharma and Ayush Bansal (also IIM Ahmedabad), LiLLBUD combines neuroscience-supported play and stunning craftsmanship to Indian homes. At LiLLBUD, our aim is to provide quality early learning in reach, even to nuclear family formations where social play may be restricted.We introduced ourselves in 2025 with a direct-to-consumer platform on www.lillbud.com and are establishing a trusted community of parents, pediatricians, and teachers who share a belief in play with purpose. | $633K / Seed / Jun 23, 2026 | ||
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FAQ
What does Kunal Shah invest in?
Kunal Shah invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 334 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Kunal Shah invest in?
Kunal Shah typically joins rounds of $800k–$5.3M at Seed, $350k–$2M at Pre-Seed and $4.7M–$17M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Kunal Shah's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Kunal Shah took part in.
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When did Kunal Shah last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Kunal Shah closed in Oct 2026. Shizune tracks 334 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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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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