Neil Chheda
Co-founder and Managing Partner @ Romulus Capital
Boston, United States
Neil Chheda is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Romulus Capital. Neil previously worked at Zynga as a Product Manager. He attended Harvard Business School and Yale University.Neil is an entrepreneur. He has a passion for building product and teams. He focuses on investments in internet, mobile, and healthcare companies.Before Romulus, Neilwas a product manager at Zynga. He built products features for Farmville, which has since reached tens of millions of users and become one of the most successful internet products in history. Prior to Zynga, he founded and successfully sold a healthcare company that designs new anesthesiology service solutions to outpatient centers. Neil founded and managed a boutique private equity firm to invest in niche healthcare markets. He has also spent time at McKinsey & Company and Kleiner Perkins, where he focused in healthcare and technology industries.Neil received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Political Science from Yale University.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 85%
Last updated:
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Industries Neil Chheda invests in
Stages Neil Chheda invests in
Countries Neil Chheda invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (15%)
- SaaS 1 (8%)
- Mobile 1 (8%)
- Travel 1 (8%)
- Fitness 1 (8%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (31%)
- Seed 3 (23%)
- Series B 2 (15%)
- Funding Round 1 (8%)
Investments
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| Beamable enables game makers to easily add social, commerce and content management features to their games with drag-and-drop prefabs inside Unity. Disruptor Beam brings together worldwide fan communities with games created surrounding iconic properties. It creates highly authentic, socially-driven games based around worlds that have spawnedcommunities of millions of passionate, dedicated fans.The company was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts. | $8.5M / Series B / Feb 02, 2017 | ||
| EquipmentShare is a construction solutions provider dedicated to solving industry pain points through smart jobsite technology and equipment rental, retail, and service centers. EquipmentShare’s cloud-connected platform, T3, is powered by telematics and machine hardware to give construction and industrial companies a real-time view of their jobsiteand operations. EquipmentShare’s enterprise suite of apps is OEM-agnostic and can track and manage any piece of equipment, regardless of brand, to help fleet managers monitor assets, prevent theft and machine misuse, track employee hours and shifts, increase machine utilization, streamline maintenance and prevent unplanned downtime. Founded in 2015, EquipmentShare operates 153 facilities as of year-end and employs approximately 4,000 team members of diverse perspectives who push the boundaries of possibilities to create unparalleled customer value, support their communities and empower construction professionals to work more efficiently. EquipmentShare’s growing presence of locations, which includes equipment and service yards, research and development sites, dealerships for major brands, administrative offices, and specialty solutions locations, serves the rising demand for the company’s equipment and digital solutions. | $26M / Series B / Jan 24, 2017 | ||
| Estify provides software for the automotive collision industry.Estify started at the Wasatch Mountains of Utah while the future founders were attending business school. They started in the collision industry and stalked shop managers until they found the right problem that only they could solve. Estify at its core was created to make lifebetter for collision shop owners and employees by helping them improve their everyday business practices. Estify believes in supporting and empowering the people-based economy.Plans were created, presentations were made, and competitions were won... over $100,000 in winnings, in fact. The business competition success caught the eye of some investors in California and the founders decided to pack up and make the move to the Golden State.Collision industry gurus and other experts were soon added to the team and the rest was history. | $6.3M / Series A / Sep 26, 2016 | ||
| EquipmentShare is a construction solutions provider dedicated to solving industry pain points through smart jobsite technology and equipment rental, retail, and service centers. EquipmentShare’s cloud-connected platform, T3, is powered by telematics and machine hardware to give construction and industrial companies a real-time view of their jobsiteand operations. EquipmentShare’s enterprise suite of apps is OEM-agnostic and can track and manage any piece of equipment, regardless of brand, to help fleet managers monitor assets, prevent theft and machine misuse, track employee hours and shifts, increase machine utilization, streamline maintenance and prevent unplanned downtime. Founded in 2015, EquipmentShare operates 153 facilities as of year-end and employs approximately 4,000 team members of diverse perspectives who push the boundaries of possibilities to create unparalleled customer value, support their communities and empower construction professionals to work more efficiently. EquipmentShare’s growing presence of locations, which includes equipment and service yards, research and development sites, dealerships for major brands, administrative offices, and specialty solutions locations, serves the rising demand for the company’s equipment and digital solutions. | $5.5M / Series A / May 25, 2016 | ||
| Estify provides software for the automotive collision industry.Estify started at the Wasatch Mountains of Utah while the future founders were attending business school. They started in the collision industry and stalked shop managers until they found the right problem that only they could solve. Estify at its core was created to make lifebetter for collision shop owners and employees by helping them improve their everyday business practices. Estify believes in supporting and empowering the people-based economy.Plans were created, presentations were made, and competitions were won... over $100,000 in winnings, in fact. The business competition success caught the eye of some investors in California and the founders decided to pack up and make the move to the Golden State.Collision industry gurus and other experts were soon added to the team and the rest was history. | Series A / Dec 08, 2015 | ||
| Beacon is an unlimited flight solution for New York and Boston. For as low as $1,750 a month, Beacon members get access to regularly scheduled flights, operated by one of Beacon’s licensed operating partners, on mid-sized executive aircraft. With concierges on location at the private air terminals used by Beacon, standing ready to help witheverything from car rentals, to drinks or flowers, the Beacon team is marrying high-touch service with air travel to create a one-of-a-kind experience. To learn more about Beacon, the team, or membership please visit www.flybeacon.com, @flybeacon, facebook.com/flybeacon and youtube.com/flybeacon. | $7.5M / Series A / Jul 22, 2015 | ||
| EquipmentShare is a construction solutions provider dedicated to solving industry pain points through smart jobsite technology and equipment rental, retail, and service centers. EquipmentShare’s cloud-connected platform, T3, is powered by telematics and machine hardware to give construction and industrial companies a real-time view of their jobsiteand operations. EquipmentShare’s enterprise suite of apps is OEM-agnostic and can track and manage any piece of equipment, regardless of brand, to help fleet managers monitor assets, prevent theft and machine misuse, track employee hours and shifts, increase machine utilization, streamline maintenance and prevent unplanned downtime. Founded in 2015, EquipmentShare operates 153 facilities as of year-end and employs approximately 4,000 team members of diverse perspectives who push the boundaries of possibilities to create unparalleled customer value, support their communities and empower construction professionals to work more efficiently. EquipmentShare’s growing presence of locations, which includes equipment and service yards, research and development sites, dealerships for major brands, administrative offices, and specialty solutions locations, serves the rising demand for the company’s equipment and digital solutions. | $2.1M / Seed / May 06, 2015 | ||
| Beamable enables game makers to easily add social, commerce and content management features to their games with drag-and-drop prefabs inside Unity. Disruptor Beam brings together worldwide fan communities with games created surrounding iconic properties. It creates highly authentic, socially-driven games based around worlds that have spawnedcommunities of millions of passionate, dedicated fans.The company was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts. | $3.2M / Series A / Nov 19, 2014 | ||
| Estify provides software for the automotive collision industry.Estify started at the Wasatch Mountains of Utah while the future founders were attending business school. They started in the collision industry and stalked shop managers until they found the right problem that only they could solve. Estify at its core was created to make lifebetter for collision shop owners and employees by helping them improve their everyday business practices. Estify believes in supporting and empowering the people-based economy.Plans were created, presentations were made, and competitions were won... over $100,000 in winnings, in fact. The business competition success caught the eye of some investors in California and the founders decided to pack up and make the move to the Golden State.Collision industry gurus and other experts were soon added to the team and the rest was history. | $1.5M / Seed / Oct 03, 2014 | ||
| Estify provides software for the automotive collision industry.Estify started at the Wasatch Mountains of Utah while the future founders were attending business school. They started in the collision industry and stalked shop managers until they found the right problem that only they could solve. Estify at its core was created to make lifebetter for collision shop owners and employees by helping them improve their everyday business practices. Estify believes in supporting and empowering the people-based economy.Plans were created, presentations were made, and competitions were won... over $100,000 in winnings, in fact. The business competition success caught the eye of some investors in California and the founders decided to pack up and make the move to the Golden State.Collision industry gurus and other experts were soon added to the team and the rest was history. | $974K / Seed / Sep 27, 2013 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Romulus Capital
Romulus Capital invests in early-stage technology companies that are looking to become industry leaders. We invest between $100K-$1M in brilliant – often first-time – entrepreneurs who are frequently affiliated with top universities and incubators. As a given company grows, our total investment can scale to $5M+ over time. We are focused oncompany-building, rather than betting, and we remain strong partners throughout the trajectory of growth. Our firm is young, entrepreneurial, and established, with a powerful investor base from around the world. We are a venture capital firm of the future, one that merges the classic, humanist focus on building large, impactful entities with the exciting realities of modern entrepreneurs.
Romulus Capital Contacts
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Neil Chheda
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Rayyan Islam
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What does Neil Chheda invest in?
Neil Chheda invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Mobile startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Neil Chheda closed in Feb 2017. Shizune tracks 13 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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