# Sony Theakanath

> Sony Theakanath is a seed investor at Meta (San Francisco) backing Health Care and Music. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Meta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/facebook)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jul 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stheakanath/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/stheakanath
- Website: https://x.com/stheakanath
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stheakanath

Sony Theakanath is a seed investor at Meta in San Francisco focused on Health Care and Music. Sony Theakanath is the Director of Product Management at Meta, leading next generation AI research. Prior, he was Head of Core Consumer Privacy at Meta across Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Messenger. He was the CEO and Founder of Asaii, a music analytics startup acquired by Apple in 2018 after which he led special projects at Apple Music. Heis an investor in various startups including Deepscribe, Kitabasa, and FamPay.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 2 | 50% |
| Music | 1 | 25% |
| FinTech | 1 | 25% |
| Medical | 1 | 25% |
| Payments | 1 | 25% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Angel | 1 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 50% |
| India | 1 | 25% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kitabisa.com | Kitabisa.com is an online crowdfunding platform for social and personal medical causes. Since 2013, Kitabisa facilitates over $40 million donations from millions of donors across Indonesia. | $5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 07, 2022 |  |
| Breakr | Breakr connects artists and influencers to break new music through the culture. Music influencers can set up profiles, update their music preferences, and create digital campaigns available across all platforms. | $800K | Angel | Feb 02, 2021 |  |
| FamPay | FamPay is an online and offline card payment for teenagers that helps them to make payments, online and offline through the FamCard. It also allows parents to send money to their kids. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. | $4.7M | Seed | Mar 12, 2020 |  |
| DeepScribe | DeepScribe is an AI-powered medical scribe platform that automates medical note taking for clinicians. DeepScribe uses AI, ML, and NLP to capture and transcribe natural clinical conversations in real time, extract relevant medical information, then classify it into a complete medical note. By combining AI with rules-based NLP and three speechrecognition engines, DeepScribe is able to provide a fully automated, ambient solution for clinicians burdened by medical documentation.With an easy-to-use mobile app and robust integrations with many popular EHR vendors, DeepScribe reimagines how documentation is captured and transforms how clinicians are able to deliver care. |  | Pre-Seed |  |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Achmad Zaky Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/achmad-zaky-foundation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [International Finance Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/international-finance-corporation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Pioneer Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pioneer-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Peak XV Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-india-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Meta

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Meta is a social-technology company that offers a wide ecosystem of applications and hardware. Its Family of Apps includes platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and Threads which allow people to communicate, share content, and form communities. On the hardware side, Meta’s Reality Labs develops virtual and augmented realitydevices, including Meta Quest headsets and smart glasses. Meta also builds artificial intelligence tools notably Meta AI, powered by its Llama large language models, and envisions long-term digital spaces in the form of a metaverse.

5 contacts available at Meta.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adi Sofer-Teeni | Facebook Israel GM | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adi-sofer-teeni |
| Andreas Gross | Product Lead | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreas-gross |
| Anna Kuriakose | Director of Product Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anna-kuriakose |
| Bart Claeys | Product Designer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bart-claeys |
| Bryan Tan | Connectivity Ecosystems APAC | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bryan-tan-4847 |

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## FAQ

### What does Sony Theakanath invest in?

Sony Theakanath invests primarily in Health Care, Music and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Sony Theakanath last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sony Theakanath closed in Jul 2022. 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?

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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