Michael & Susan Dell Foundation
VC Fund
Austin, United States
Michael & Susan Dell Foundation is a VC fund in Austin focused on Education and Financial Services. The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation (www.msdf.org) is dedicated to improving the lives of children living in urban poverty around the world. With offices in Austin, TX and New Delhi, India, and Cape Town, South Africa, the Dell family foundation funds programs that foster high-quality public education and childhood health, and improve theeconomic stability of families living in poverty. The foundation has committed more than $915 million (as of January 1, 2013) to global children’s issues and community initiatives to date.
- Total investments:
- 78
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 47%
- Fund size:
- $36M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Michael & Susan Dell Foundation invests in
Stages Michael & Susan Dell Foundation invests in
Countries Michael & Susan Dell Foundation invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $616k–$5M
- Series A
- $953k–$7M
- Series B
- $4M–$15M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Education 19 (24%)
- Financial Services 18 (23%)
- Finance 12 (15%)
- EdTech 7 (9%)
- FinTech 7 (9%)
Stage
- Series A 20 (26%)
- Seed 15 (19%)
- Series B 10 (13%)
- Funding Round 7 (9%)
- Grant 4 (5%)
Country
- India 40 (51%)
- United States 7 (9%)
- South Africa 3 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Akhil Gupta
Program Manager
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Program Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Geeta Goel
Country Director
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Country Director | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Jami O'Toole
Senior Director, United States
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Senior Director, United States | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Janet Mountain
Executive Director
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Executive Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Prachi Windlass
Director, India Programs
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Director, India Programs | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
FinReach
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FinReach Solutions is a company providing innovative credit guarantee programs to facilitate lending for underserved micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), particularly those lacking collateral or formal credit history. Their solution enables financial institutions to extend credit to entrepreneurs, including women-led businesses andclimate-focused ventures, by de-risking loans through guarantees and leveraging data-driven borrower risk assessment. FinReach aims to expand financial inclusion in India’s lower-tier regions, helping thousands of borrowers access formal finance through partnerships with development finance institutions and global impact investors. | $2.5M / Seed / Nov 24, 2025 | |
Credright
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CredRight is your business partner that is committed to make the process of availing loans convenient, transparent and on time; so that you can focus on what you do best i.e. grow your business. They are unhappy with the difficulties small business owners face to access capital. Their only mission is to advance the way small businesses are fundedin India. Backed by the stalwarts of chit fund industry & their partnership, they leverage technology to bring you collateral and hassle free working capital loan. Their Application process is simple (takes 10-15 mins), credit evaluation is done in 24 hours and funds are credited in your bank account within 3 days and all this from comfort of your home or office. And yes that's a promise! | $10M / Series B / Aug 25, 2025 | |
EVeez
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EVeez is one of the pioneers in Electric Vehicle subscription ecosystems. | $5.4M / Series A / Jul 24, 2025 | |
Eleos Health
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Eleos Health provides automated health tech solutions that accelerate clinicians’ decision-making via an AI-powered Speech-to-Insights system to ensure the provision of personalized and time and cost-effective care. | $60M / Series C / Jan 22, 2025 | |
Kaleidofin
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Kaleidofin is a fintech platform that provides complete financial solutions for excluded individuals and households. The platform propels under-banked customers towards meeting their real life goals by providing intuitive and tailored financial solutions. Their solutions take into account the financial roadblocks and vulnerability that thesesegments, such as volatile income streams and limited understanding of the fine print in financial products.Kaleidofin creates individual profiles of households based on several sources and uses that information to tailor its services for each customer. It also provides curated, goal-based financial solutions to people in the underbanked segments. It will leverage the full India stack, existing networks, analytics, structuring, and user-centered design to drive outcomes for customers, in the processKaleidofin was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. | $13.8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 18, 2024 | |
Futwork
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Futwork specializes in omnichannel communication solutions, blending AI + human expertise to elevate customer experience, drive conversions, and scale contact centre operations. | $2.5M / Series A / Sep 12, 2024 | |
byteXL
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byteXL is an experiential learning platform for IT career aspirants. | $5.9M / Series A / Jul 18, 2024 | |
Arthan Finance
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Arthan Finance is an endeavours to transform small businesses with an objective to provide growth capital to self-employed micro and small enterprises in India with innovative products and services blended with local expertise while ensuring seamless and personalised delivery in a highly technology enabled environment. | $6M / Series B / Jun 10, 2024 | |
ConveGenius
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ConveGenius is focused on nurturing and harnessing value by providing affordable educational solutions to create impact in large volumes. Their core competence lies in building mobile products/ apps/ games catered for global and local markets likewise. The company is focussed towards providing quality education to children at risk byintegrating technology with education and working with state governments to penetrate the rural and semi urban areas of India. It also aims to cater to the global urban market using retailing and e-tailing channels for its various world-class high-end educational solutions. ConveGenius is based out of India and Singapore. Their India office is headquartered in Noida. | $7M / Series A / Jan 11, 2024 | |
Airblack
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They are at the cusp of a generational shift in the consumer travel space in Asia. Over one-third of USD 600 billion that is spent on international travel in Asia is spent by millennials. Over two-thirds of travelers in this generation plan and book independently. This number is growing at a breakneck speed. | $4M / Series B / Dec 06, 2023 | |
| See all 78 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Michael & Susan Dell Foundation invest in?
Michael & Susan Dell Foundation invests primarily in Education, Financial Services and Finance startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 78 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Michael & Susan Dell Foundation's check size?
Michael & Susan Dell Foundation typically joins rounds of $616k–$5M at Seed, $953k–$7M at Series A and $4M–$15M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Michael & Susan Dell Foundation participates in.
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Who are the partners at Michael & Susan Dell Foundation?
The team at Michael & Susan Dell Foundation includes Akhil Gupta (Program Manager), Geeta Goel (Country Director) and Jami O'Toole (Senior Director, United States), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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