Kunal Shah
cto @ Microsoft
Bengaluru, India
Kunal Shah is a seed investor at Microsoft in Bengaluru focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Kunal Shah
- Total investments:
- 318
- 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
Round size
- Seed
- $810k–$5.1M
- Pre-Seed
- $350k–$2M
- Series A
- $4.7M–$16M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 65 (20%)
- FinTech 46 (14%)
- Software 34 (11%)
- Health Care 29 (9%)
- Internet 28 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 181 (57%)
- Pre-Seed 44 (14%)
- Series A 41 (13%)
- Series B 9 (3%)
- Angel 8 (3%)
Country
- India 251 (79%)
- United States 16 (5%)
- Singapore 6 (2%)
- United Kingdom 4 (1%)
- United Arab Emirates 2 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Vaaree
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 | |
Helium
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Helium is a proptech/residential rental startup focused on gated society apartments in India. | $535.5K / Angel / Apr 15, 2026 | |
HireQuotient
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With the vision to disrupt the hiring process for business roles globally, HireQuotient’s virtual interviewers help companies test business skills at scale in an engaging and realistic manner, saving clients millions of dollars and man-hours. It has been used by more than 30,000 candidates in over 42 countries, and generated significant timesavings for hiring organisations while improving candidate quality in interviews. | $1.8M / Pre-Seed / Mar 24, 2026 | |
Magical Nest
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"At Magical Nest, we design the most important room in the house, the kids' room."Our vision is to become synonymous with excellence in creating exceptional kid-friendly homes and show our customers just how easy it is to bring functionality, style and inspiration altogether in that little precious space inside your four walls.For us, a "kid-friendly home" is all about designing that best possible environment at home that is very unique to your kids, their likings and their inclinations as well to you, your home and your interests. | $439.1K / Pre-Seed / Mar 23, 2026 | |
Boba Bhai
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Boba Bhai is a bubble tea brand that provides an unique and interactive bubble tea experience in the market. | $4.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 11, 2026 | |
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Co-Investors
About Microsoft
Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. Thecompany’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores.Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services.The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.
Microsoft Contacts
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Aparna Chennapragada
Corporate VP
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Bay Gross
Vice President of Health at Microsoft AI
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Bobby George
Creative Strategist
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Brandon Dixon
Product and Intel Strategy Leader
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Brandon Middaugh
Sr. Director, Climate Innovation Fund
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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 318 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Kunal Shah's check size?
Kunal Shah typically joins rounds of $810k–$5.1M at Seed, $350k–$2M at Pre-Seed and $4.7M–$16M 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 Kunal Shah participates in.
When did Kunal Shah last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Kunal Shah closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 318 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?
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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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