# Lokesh Srivastava

> Lokesh Srivastava is a seed investor at Avataar Venture Partners backing Software and SaaS. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Avataar Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avataar-venture-partners)
- Location: Gurgaon, India
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 27%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishantrao/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/nishrao

Lokesh Srivastava is a seed investor at Avataar Venture Partners in Gurgaon focused on Software and SaaS. Nishant Rao - Founding Partner @ Avataar Venture Partners

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$4.5M |
| Series B | $16M–$22M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 36% |
| SaaS | 3 | 27% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 27% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 18% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 18% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 27% |
| Series B | 2 | 18% |
| Series A | 1 | 9% |
| Series C | 1 | 9% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 9% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 36% |
| India | 3 | 27% |
| Singapore | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Amagi Media Labs | Amagi Media Labs is a media technology company that offers cloud-based solutions for broadcast and connected TV. The company facilitates the geographic targeting of TV advertisements. It is a unique mix of media and innovation that has made way for a new TV-media advertising platform. Amagi brings services that are cost-effective, powerful,focused, and result-oriented.Headquartered in New York, Amagi was founded in 2008. | $95M | Private Equity | Mar 16, 2022 |  |
| Amagi Media Labs | Amagi Media Labs is a media technology company that offers cloud-based solutions for broadcast and connected TV. The company facilitates the geographic targeting of TV advertisements. It is a unique mix of media and innovation that has made way for a new TV-media advertising platform. Amagi brings services that are cost-effective, powerful,focused, and result-oriented.Headquartered in New York, Amagi was founded in 2008. | $95M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 16, 2022 |  |
| Aulerth | Aulerth is a high-fashion and digital-first jewellery startup. Aulerth offers jewellery that is couture-inspired and consciously made. | $1.1M | Seed | Feb 15, 2022 |  |
| Amagi Media Labs | Amagi Media Labs is a media technology company that offers cloud-based solutions for broadcast and connected TV. The company facilitates the geographic targeting of TV advertisements. It is a unique mix of media and innovation that has made way for a new TV-media advertising platform. Amagi brings services that are cost-effective, powerful,focused, and result-oriented.Headquartered in New York, Amagi was founded in 2008. | $100M | Private Equity | Sep 10, 2021 |  |
| Amagi Media Labs | Amagi Media Labs is a media technology company that offers cloud-based solutions for broadcast and connected TV. The company facilitates the geographic targeting of TV advertisements. It is a unique mix of media and innovation that has made way for a new TV-media advertising platform. Amagi brings services that are cost-effective, powerful,focused, and result-oriented.Headquartered in New York, Amagi was founded in 2008. | $100M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 10, 2021 |  |
| CRMNEXT | CRMNEXT is an enterprise CRM solution provider credited with the world's largest installations in financial sector. From Fortune 500 to start-ups, businesses across nine verticals have built profitable customer relationships via CRMNEXT.CRMNEXT eliminates the barriers between human and digital channels, enabling world-class, omni-channelcustomer interactions from a single platform. It recalibrates banks’ potential to grow engagement, drive profitability, and deliver innovation.CRMNEXT’s customers include global brands like Pfizer, State Bank of India, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, Tata AIA, Reliance, Banco de Oro Philippines, National Bank of Oman, Pavers England etc. It is in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Lead management, Sales Force Automation and Customer Engagement. For more information, | $16M | Series B | Jul 08, 2021 |  |
| Sense | Sense is a smart talent engagement and communication platform built for the staffing industry. It helps reduce turnover, increases re-deployment rates, and gives a real-time 360 view of the pulse of consultants. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $16M | Series C | Jun 16, 2021 |  |
| Hubilo | Hubilo is an all-in-one virtual and hybrid event platform offering an engaging and interactive event experience. It helps event planners and organizations across the world reimagine the future of events and navigate the event landscape.Engagement with a deeply branded experience, paired with Hubilo's proactive and full-time customer successteam ensures every event run on the Hubilo platform executes perfectly every time. | $4.5M | Seed | Oct 26, 2020 |  |
| Nextbillion.ai | Nextbillion.ai aims to deliver a wide range of AI-powered hyperlocal solutions starting with the area of mapping. Nb.ai is working on building the geospatial infrastructure needed for enabling location-based experiences for the next billion users. The complexities in markets like India, Indonesia, and Nigeria are far greater than the traditionaldeveloped countries and we are building the future of location technology. Underdeveloped infrastructure, the rise of megacities, complex addresses, and an ever-changing road network make things even more challenging and we are trying to solve these extremely complex problems using a combination of data, AI, platform, and people. | $7M | Series A | Jun 25, 2020 |  |
| Appnomic | Appnomic helps digital enterprises become self-healing. Our software enables autonomous IT operations by predicting and preventing problems before they happen. Appnomic’s unique patented cognitive capabilities include predictive anomaly detection, anomaly linked healing triggers and unified causation that navigates the linkages between digitaljourneys, transactions, Applications and IT Infrastructure from edge to public and private cloud. As a category-defining application with abilities far beyond the AI-assisted APM, Appnomic elevates digital user experiences, optimizes IT resources, and achieves uninterrupted operations for the enterprises. Appnomic has headquarters in Cupertino California in the US and backed by Avataar Ventures. | $22M | Series B | Dec 19, 2019 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Norwest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/norwest-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Alpha Wave Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpha-wave-global) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Premji Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/premjiinvest) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [M Venture Partners (MVP)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/3t-venture-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ascent Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascent-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Avataar Venture Partners

VC Fund · Bangalore, India

Avataar is a growth stage, an operational fund that actively partners with brilliant regional Tech-led B2B & SaaS startups to Re-invent, Scale & Transform into successful, enduring global businesses. They believe in orchestrating a new Entrepreneur-VC equation for the region, where they roll up their sleeves and operate in the trenches withtheir founders. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bangalore, India.

5 contacts available at Avataar Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anirudh Singh | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anirudh-singh |
| Ganesh Nayak | Global Fundraising & Capital Markets | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ganesh-nayak |
| Lokesh Srivastava | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nishant-rao-7fd7 |
| Mohan Kumar | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mohan-kumar |
| Nishant Rao | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nishant-rao-cc25 |

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## FAQ

### What does Lokesh Srivastava invest in?

Lokesh Srivastava invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Lokesh Srivastava's check size?

Lokesh Srivastava typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$4.5M at Seed and $16M–$22M 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 Lokesh Srivastava participates in.

### When did Lokesh Srivastava last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lokesh Srivastava closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 11 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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