# Parag Shah

> Parag Shah is a Series A investor at Amara Partners backing Banking. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Amara Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amara-partners)
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Oct 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parag-shah-1b96597/
- Website: https://x.com/_ParagShah
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parag.shah.92167789

Parag Shah is a Series A investor at Amara Partners in Mumbai focused on Banking and FinTech. Parag Shah is the Founder and Partner of Amara Partners. He previously worked at Mahindra Partners as a Managing Partner. Parag Shah attended Harvard Business School.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3.5M–$14M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Banking | 1 | 25% |
| FinTech | 1 | 25% |
| Finance | 1 | 25% |
| Internet | 1 | 25% |
| Software | 1 | 25% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 50% |
| India | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Basic Home Loan | Founded in 2020, Basic Home Loan is a fintech company, developing an automated platform for home lending in India. Using a Phygital approach, the company provides paperless online home loan sanctions, and ensures end to end fulfilment through an asset-lite agent network for faster loan disbursements. The company's vision is to change the wayIndia finances its housing dreams. | $3.5M | Series A | Oct 25, 2021 |  |
| Basic Home Loan | Founded in 2020, Basic Home Loan is a fintech company, developing an automated platform for home lending in India. Using a Phygital approach, the company provides paperless online home loan sanctions, and ensures end to end fulfilment through an asset-lite agent network for faster loan disbursements. The company's vision is to change the wayIndia finances its housing dreams. | $3.5M | Series A | Sep 01, 2021 |  |
| Avaamo | Avaamo is a deep-learning software company that specializes in conversational interfaces to solve specific, high impact problems in the enterprise. Avaamo is building fundamental AI technology across a broad area of neural networks, speech synthesis and deep learning to make conversational computing for the enterprise a reality. | $14.2M | Series A | May 08, 2018 |  |
| ParkourSC | Cloudleaf is a logistics and supply chain company that specializes in digital transformation, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical. It features a software platform that creates a digital twin of the supply chain and processes billions of events per second to deliver diagnostic and predictive insights in real-time for location, condition, utilizationand anomaly detection.The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Milpitas, California. | $13M | Series A | Sep 19, 2017 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Earlsfield Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/earlsfield-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Good Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/good-capital-b0aa) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Gruhas](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gruhas-proptech) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [LVX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/letsventure) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Picus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/picus-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Venture Catalysts](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venturecatalysts) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Amara Partners

VC Fund · Mumbai, India

Amara Partners invests in mid-market equity investments and Series A/B venture capital.

4 contacts available at Amara Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aditya Mody | Consultant | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aditya-mody-2c61 |
| Mitesh Shah | CFO & Investment Team Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitesh-shah-dca3 |
| Parag Shah | Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/parag-shah-3d0e |
| Piyush Soonee | Co-Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/piyush-soonee |

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## FAQ

### What does Parag Shah invest in?

Parag Shah invests primarily in Banking, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Series A stage. Most of the 4 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 Parag Shah's check size?

Parag Shah typically joins rounds of $3.5M–$14M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Parag Shah participates in.

### How do I contact Parag Shah?

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### When did Parag Shah last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Parag Shah closed in Oct 2021. Shizune tracks 4 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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