# Manish Khetrapal

> Manish Khetrapal is a seed investor at WaterBridge Ventures backing Big Data and E-Commerce. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [WaterBridge Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/waterbridge-ventures)
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 30%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mkheterpal/

Manish Khetrapal is a seed investor at WaterBridge Ventures in Hong Kong focused on Big Data and E-Commerce. Manish Khetrapal - Founder & Managing Partner @ WaterBridge Ventures

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Big Data | 3 | 15% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 15% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 15% |
| Internet | 2 | 10% |
| Retail Technology | 2 | 10% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 30% |
| Series A | 4 | 20% |
| Series B | 3 | 15% |
| Series C | 3 | 15% |
| Series D | 2 | 10% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 9 | 45% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |
| Singapore | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CityMall | CityMall is a community commerce platform focused on 300 million new to internet users living in small cities, towns, and villages in India. CityMall is focused on Grocery, Fresh and Packaged FMCG, Electronics, Fashion categories. So far e-commerce has primarily benefited residents of the top 8 metropolitan cities in India. Key reasons for this arelack of trust, lack of familiarity with browsing and transacting online, low average order values (which makes economic viability a challenge for the platforms), lack of credit in online channels (which neighbourhood stores offer).CityMall is a highly efficient channel to serve these consumers through "Community Leaders". They are the "Social" & "Geographical" connectors between end consumers and CityMall. They help us in customer acquisition, localized sales & marketing to capture customers' share of wallet, and the last mile logistics in their communities, thus making the community-led model more suitable for small towns, cities, and villages. Founded by IIT Delhi and IIT Roorkee alumni with 8+ years of entrepreneurial experience, Citymall aims to create hundreds of thousands of such micro-entrepreneurs and empower them to create the go-to e-commerce platform for Bharat.CityMall is backed by top-tier VCs like General Catalyst, Elevation, Accel, Jungle Ventures and Waterbridge. | $47M | Series D | Sep 01, 2025 |  |
| Posha | Posha provides kitchen products for the commercial and residential sectors. Posha is a developer of smart kitchen appliances that can cook entire meals on their own. The company's appliances include a built-in camera for seeing food while it cooks and use artificial intelligence technology to process food with perfect heat management to avoidburning, allowing customers to live better lives by easily cooking fresh food every day. | $8M | Series A | May 06, 2025 |  |
| Atlan | Atlan is a data democratization company that helps data teams collaborate frictionlessly on data projects. It is creating a home for data teams—allowing them to truly democratize both internal and external data, while automating repetitive tasks.The company caters to more than 200 teams in over 50 countries. Some of their customers includeUnilever, Milkbasket, Barbeque Nation, WPP and GroupM, Mahindra Group, and InMobi among other startups and Fortune 500 companies. Their investors and advisors include Ratan Tata, Rajan Anandan, 500 Startups, WaterBridge Ventures, Google Launchpad (class of 2018) and Unreasonable Future (class of 2019).Atlan is headquartered in Singapore, with teams in New Delhi and Bengaluru (India), San Francisco (US) and Nairobi (Kenya). | $105M | Series C | May 08, 2024 |  |
| Atlan | Atlan is a data democratization company that helps data teams collaborate frictionlessly on data projects. It is creating a home for data teams—allowing them to truly democratize both internal and external data, while automating repetitive tasks.The company caters to more than 200 teams in over 50 countries. Some of their customers includeUnilever, Milkbasket, Barbeque Nation, WPP and GroupM, Mahindra Group, and InMobi among other startups and Fortune 500 companies. Their investors and advisors include Ratan Tata, Rajan Anandan, 500 Startups, WaterBridge Ventures, Google Launchpad (class of 2018) and Unreasonable Future (class of 2019).Atlan is headquartered in Singapore, with teams in New Delhi and Bengaluru (India), San Francisco (US) and Nairobi (Kenya). | $27.5M | Series B | Mar 19, 2024 |  |
| Adster Technologies Pvt. Ltd | Adster is an adtech firm with a full stack product portfolio to help publishers hyperscale monetization through ads. | $1M | Seed | Sep 28, 2023 |  |
| Chalo | Chalo develops a transport application that delivers real-time transit information such as live tracking, get the transit arrival time, and more. From live tracking buses to providing digital solutions focusing on cashless rides, Chalo dreams to make public transport accessible, affordable, and hassle-free for Indian commuters.The Chalo Appprovides live tracking of over 15,000 buses in 21 cities and has more than 70 lakh downloads as of July 2021. The Chalo Card, a contactless tap-to-pay travel card, is a successful bus travel card. Chalo also offers products like mobile tickets, mobile bus passes, and multi-trip 'Super Saver' plans that can be bought on the Chalo App as well as through the Chalo Card. Chalo partners with bus operators to deploy this technology and improve the bus travel experience. | $40M | Series C | Oct 05, 2021 |  |
| CuriousJr | Coding for Kids on Mobile | $1M | Seed | Sep 21, 2021 |  |
| Atlan | Atlan is a data democratization company that helps data teams collaborate frictionlessly on data projects. It is creating a home for data teams—allowing them to truly democratize both internal and external data, while automating repetitive tasks.The company caters to more than 200 teams in over 50 countries. Some of their customers includeUnilever, Milkbasket, Barbeque Nation, WPP and GroupM, Mahindra Group, and InMobi among other startups and Fortune 500 companies. Their investors and advisors include Ratan Tata, Rajan Anandan, 500 Startups, WaterBridge Ventures, Google Launchpad (class of 2018) and Unreasonable Future (class of 2019).Atlan is headquartered in Singapore, with teams in New Delhi and Bengaluru (India), San Francisco (US) and Nairobi (Kenya). | $16.5M | Series A | May 25, 2021 |  |
| PocketPills | PocketPills is a tech-driven pharmacy that delivers medication by the dose straight to customer's door. It manages medications and fills prescriptions easier through modern technology and personalized service. Medications are packed by date and time into the company's PocketPacks, making them easier to manage.PocketPills was founded in2018 and is headquartered in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. | $30M | Series B | Mar 03, 2021 |  |
| Magicpin | Magicpin is a software platform where users and merchants in a locality discover, interact, and transact online. For merchants, they are the go-to platform for spotlighting their uniqueness while boosting their revenues and utilization through real-time promotions, loyalty programs, and content updates. For users, they are the destination to findout the buzz in their locality and discover interesting people to connect with and events/merchants to go to. | $7M | Series D | Jul 15, 2020 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Dalton Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dalton-venture) — VC Fund, 17 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Elevation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elevation-capital-6e8a) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Lightspeed India Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners-india) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Insight Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/insight-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About WaterBridge Ventures

VC Fund · New Delhi, India

WaterBridge Ventures is an early-stage VC’s. They enter in the Seed to Series A stage of a start-up and continue to invest in subsequent rounds of financing. They love to lead and sometimes also co-invest but if they don’t have a value-add construct, they prefer to stay away. They are currently investing in India or in businesses with a strongIndia angle. They look for tech as an exponential enabler in the businesses they invest in.

2 contacts available at WaterBridge Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ashish Jain | Partner & Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashish-jain-8cfb |
| Manish Khetrapal | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/munish-khetrapal |

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## FAQ

### What does Manish Khetrapal invest in?

Manish Khetrapal invests primarily in Big Data, E-Commerce and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Manish Khetrapal last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Manish Khetrapal closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 20 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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