Pankaj Jain
Managing Partner @ Saka Ventures
New York, United States
Pankaj Jain is a seed investor at Saka Ventures in New York focused on Analytics and SaaS. Pankaj Jain is the Managing Partner at Saka Ventures. Previously, he was a Partner at 500 Startups, a California based seed fund and accelerator program. Pankaj focuses on investing in early stage startups across New York City, India, South Asia and has led investments in over fifty companies at 500 Startups across 6 countries.Pankaj spent over12 years in the Financial industry at firms such as JP Morgan, Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) and GlobeOp Financial Services in various operational roles including enterprise mortgage risk management, application development, market data infrastructure, trade management, pricing infrastructure and customer service areas.In 2007, Pankaj’s adventures in India began, where he started a company building an on-demand, employment marketplace for the under-served. In 2008, Pankaj became a co-founder of the HeadStart Network Foundation and the led the efforts in Delhi. In late 2010, he began setting up Startup Weekend in India.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Pankaj Jain invests in
Stages Pankaj Jain invests in
Countries Pankaj Jain invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $50k–$2.2M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Analytics 4 (21%)
- SaaS 3 (16%)
- Mobile 3 (16%)
- Big Data 3 (16%)
- Software 3 (16%)
Stage
- Seed 13 (68%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (16%)
- Series A 1 (5%)
- Funding Round 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 10 (53%)
- India 5 (26%)
- Jordan 1 (5%)
- Singapore 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| At Bling, we help businesses (small and big) around the globe manage all their customer communication in ONE place with our easy to use, modern and scalable B2B SaaS platform powered by AI so that they don't have to worry about lost revenue, high overhead and slow response time.We are backed by Techstars Atlanta powered by JP Morgan and a YCalum who co-founded Sanas.AI and Observe.AI | Seed / Jul 01, 2025 | ||
| Gloroots is your Gateway to Simplified Global Employment. As a trusted provider of comprehensive employment solutions, Gloroots is dedicated to streamlining the complexities of employing international teams. We take care of payroll, benefits, compliance, and tax, allowing you to focus on growing your business with peace of mind. With our innovativeEmployer of Record and Contractor management services, we eliminate the need for establishing local entities, offering a hassle-free and cost-effective solution. Our cutting-edge platform ensures transparency, security, and compliance across multiple countries and local labor laws. Join Gloroots and unlock the true potential of a borderless workforce, wherever your business takes you. | Pre-Seed / Nov 30, 2022 | ||
| Cypherock is a developer of security storage solutions intended for blockchain-based digital assets and private keys. | Pre-Seed / Mar 20, 2019 | ||
| Paperstreet develops platforms intended to leverage networks of advisors and investors to lift up startups. The company offers tracks post-program investors, tap into deal flows, and also help to sign contracts and save documents on a secure platform, enabling accelerators and investors to stay on top of news and network and helping startups. | $120K / Pre-Seed / Feb 05, 2019 | ||
| WhizAI is the first and only AI-powered analytics platform purpose-built for life sciences and healthcare. It puts insights directly into the hands of business users empowering decision-makers to drive more informed and faster business decisions at lower cost. With its deep understanding of the life sciences and healthcare domains and user intent,the platform delivers insights without the delays of traditional BI dashboards. Fast, easy, and scalable, WhizAI is transforming analytics with artificial intelligence optimized for life sciences and healthcare making WhizAI the trusted partner of choice at top global companies.Simply ask a question about sales, market access, patient services, or clinical trials -- and WhizAI answers it instantly. WhizAI's conversational interface allows users to simply talk to the enterprise data giving them complete autonomy to drill into every level of detail along with real-time updates. WhizAI’s advanced machine learning algorithms scan entire data sets to deliver proactive alerts and automatically surface anomalies, easily pinpointing stagnating sales, market share changes, patient drop-offs and much more.WhizAI enjoys nearly 100% adoption by business users, contributes to a 60% reduction in calls to IT and a 50% reduction in operational overhead within the first few months of implementation. | $2.2M / Seed / Dec 06, 2018 | ||
| 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). | Seed / Jan 01, 2018 | ||
| Knotel is the world’s flexible workspace platform that matches, tailors, and manages space for customers. Knotel caters to established and growing companies, giving them the freedom to focus on their business, culture, and people. With over 5 million square feet across 300+ locations in four continents, Knotel is transforming commercial real estateand moving companies forward. | $25M / Series A / Feb 21, 2017 | ||
| SHEROES is a women-only platform built out of India. It offers high trust, high empathy content, connections and commerce experiences via its eco-system of communities, microapps and utilities. SHEROES is reimagining how women use, experience and benefit from the internet. It is particularly aligned to using internet as a tool for change,especially for women in high gender gap countries offering a space for appreciation, recognition, growth and interactions. Safety, empathy and trust are tenets that are built into the platform at every level. | $595K / Seed / Aug 12, 2015 | ||
| EduKart is India's largest online platform for enrollment into online and distance degree, diploma and certificate courses. Students can apply to online, distance and correspondence degree and diploma courses like MBA, Executive MBA, PGDM, MCA, M.Sc. IT, MA, MCom, BBA, BCA, BA, BCom and B.Sc. IT. They can also choose from multiple shortcertificate courses in areas of retail, marketing, finance, IT, accounting, project management, telecom and more. In order to provide an engaging and a real college like experience to a student, EduKart additionally offers academic office hours support, placement assistance and peer to peer networking opportunities. | $1M / Seed / Jun 22, 2015 | ||
| Innovaccer is a healthcare data activation company focused on delivering effective healthcare through the use of pioneering analytics and transparent data.Innovaccer aims to make full use of all the data healthcare has worked so hard to collect. Its Gartner and KLAS-recognized data activation platform and artificial intelligence products havebeen deployed all over the US across more than 500 locations, enabling over 10,000 providers to transform care delivery and work as one. Innovaccer's Data Activation Platform (DAP) TM has been successfully implemented for several institutions, governmental organizations, and several corporate enterprises such as Mercy ACO, Orlando Health, Catholic Health Initiatives, StratiFi Health, UniNet Healthcare Network, Catalyst Health Network, Hartford Healthcare, and Osler Health Network. Innovaccer is based in San Francisco and has 5 offices across the United States and Asia. | $2.5M / Seed / May 14, 2015 | ||
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About Saka Ventures
Investing in early stage startups targeting large global markets.
Saka Ventures Contacts
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FAQ
What does Pankaj Jain invest in?
Pankaj Jain invests primarily in Analytics, SaaS and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 19 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 Pankaj Jain's check size?
Pankaj Jain typically joins rounds of $50k–$2.2M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Pankaj Jain participates in.
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When did Pankaj Jain last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Pankaj Jain closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 19 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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