# Neeraj Arora

> Neeraj Arora is a seed investor at MindTickle (Mountain View) backing Apps and FinTech. See 65 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [MindTickle](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mindtickle)
- Location: Mountain View, United States
- Total investments: 65
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 32%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/neerajarora
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/neerajarora
- Website: https://chandravanshi.org

Neeraj Arora is a seed investor at MindTickle in Mountain View focused on Apps and FinTech. Neeraj Arora is responsible for “all things business at WhatsApp”. He is an IIT graduate as well as a management graduate from the Indian School of Business, gave up his high profile job managing global M&A at Google to join one of Silicon Valley’s hottest starts-ups. Arora served as the principal, corporate development, at Google and beforethat he was the chief manager at Times Internet Ltd.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.7M–$13M |
| Series A | $10M–$60M |
| Series B | $19M–$100M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 8 | 12% |
| FinTech | 7 | 11% |
| Software | 7 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 11% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 11% |

108 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 29 | 45% |
| Series B | 8 | 12% |
| Series A | 6 | 9% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 8% |
| Angel | 3 | 5% |

14 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 24 | 37% |
| United States | 22 | 34% |
| Singapore | 2 | 3% |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 3% |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1001 AI | 1001 AI is building The Sovereign Artificial Intelligence Platform of the Middle East | $30M | Series A | Jun 30, 2026 |  |
| Scapia | The card that takes you places | $63M | Series C | May 21, 2026 |  |
| Pronto | Pronto is a business that allows users to order and receive cleaning, laundry, and home services within 10 minutes. It is available 24/7 and enables users to book services instantly or schedule them for later, including recurring appointments. | $25M | Series B | Mar 03, 2026 |  |
| Bolna | Bolna offers voice AI agents that transforms business to qualify leads, boost sales, automate customer support, and streamline recruitment. | $6.3M | Seed | Jan 20, 2026 |  |
| Vital Lyfe | Vital Lyfe is a Climatech product manufacturer that develops systems to produce safe drinking water from a range of natural sources, including seawater, without reliance on centralized infrastructure. The company designs portable water-making hardware that combines filtration, purification, and engineering principles adapted from aerospace toenable autonomous operation in diverse environments. Its offerings aim to serve use cases where traditional water infrastructure is limited or unavailable, such as humanitarian relief, maritime operations, disaster response, and off-grid communities.Vital Lyfe provides hardware platforms alongside supporting software for monitoring and management of water quality and system performance. The company engages with partners in sectors like non-governmental organizations, maritime organizations, and outdoor or expedition users to deploy and validate its solutions. It continues to refine and scale its technologies toward broader market availability and expanded field applications. | $18M | Seed | Dec 16, 2025 |  |
| Mira | Mira are audio-first smart glasses that "remember everything." | $6.6M | Seed | Nov 24, 2025 |  |
| Bindwell | Bindwell is a Biotech company that uses AI to develops safer pesticides. | $6M | Seed | Nov 13, 2025 |  |
| 1001 AI | 1001 AI is building The Sovereign Artificial Intelligence Platform of the Middle East | $9M | Pre-Seed | Oct 21, 2025 |  |
| Bevel | Bevel is a holistic health and performance platform designed to empower users to take control of their well-being. By integrating data from wearables and supporting continuous glucose monitoring, it delivers personalized scores for recovery, strain, sleep, nutrition, stress, and energy. With strength-building tools, habit journaling, andscience-driven insights, it aims to replace fragmented health apps and foster long-term healthspan optimization. | $10M | Series A | Oct 16, 2025 |  |
| Zepto | Zepto is a quick-commerce platform that delivers groceries and daily essentials within minutes through a network of stores. It is an online store that offers a range of fruits, vegetables, snack food, and electronics. It provides a service that enables access to various grocery products. Zepto serves industries such as retail, food and beverage,and logistics. | $450M | Series H | Oct 16, 2025 |  |

10 of 65 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
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- [Glade Brook Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/glade-brook-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Elevation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elevation-capital-6e8a) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Think Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/think-investments) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

## About MindTickle

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

MindTickle offers a sales readiness solution for closing the knowledge and skill gaps found in customer-facing teams. Sales teams across a wide range of industries use MindTickle's award-winning platform to train, coach, and align their sales teams to make reps and their managers more effective. Combining on-demand online training,bite-sized mobile updates, gamification, coaching, and role-play with a data-driven approach, MindTickle accelerates time-to-productivity, ensures consistent execution, and helps boost sales performance. Companies leveraging MindTickle for sales enablement to assess and certify the readiness of each rep see bigger deal sizes, higher win rates, and reduced sales cycles.MindTickle is a global, privately-held company with headquarters in San Francisco, California and Pune, India. Investors include Accel, Canaan, NEA, NewView Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Softbank.

5 contacts available at MindTickle.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Amit Somani | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amit-somani |
| Deepak Diwakar | Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deepak-diwakar |
| Dinesh Katiyar | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dinesh-katiyar |
| Gopkiran Rao | Chief Strategy Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gopkiran-rao |
| Joshua Saffren | Global Account Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joshua-saffren |

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## FAQ

### What does Neeraj Arora invest in?

Neeraj Arora invests primarily in Apps, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 65 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Neeraj Arora's check size?

Neeraj Arora typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$13M at Seed, $10M–$60M at Series A and $19M–$100M 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 Neeraj Arora participates in.

### When did Neeraj Arora last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Neeraj Arora closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 65 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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