# Paras Arora

> Paras Arora is a pre-seed investor at Qdesq (New Delhi) backing Travel and Tourism. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Qdesq](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/qdesq)
- Location: New Delhi, India
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jul 2016
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paras-arora-04642910
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/paras.arora.393?fref=ts

Paras Arora is a pre-seed investor at Qdesq in New Delhi focused on Travel and Tourism. Paras Arora is Founder & CEO at Qdesq.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Travel | 1 | 100% |
| Tourism | 1 | 100% |
| Hospitality | 1 | 100% |
| Adventure Travel | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deyor | Deyor is a lifestyle community for Indian millennials who love engaging with each other through unique online experiences and tailored experiential trips. Deyor has and continues to grow as the largest community of millennial travellers across India. Deyor discovered the pain points of a booming sector within the travel industry and have addressedit with the right solutions eventually making them the market leaders in this space. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 04, 2016 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Redcliffe Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redcliffe-capital-ltd) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [TravelBoutiqueOnline](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/travelboutiqueonline) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Qdesq

VC Fund · Gurgaon, India

Qdesq.com is a premier destination and nation’s largest tech-enabled platform for today’s workforce to search, sort and book a flexible and serviced workspace, without the hassle of a lease or brokerage and moreover completely Free of Charge (without any brokerage). Simultaneously, Qdesq.com is an opportunity to the workspace providers (corporateoffices, landlords and occupiers, business centers, hotels and coworking spaces) to monetize their unused and vacant workspace inventory of work desks, meeting rooms, cabins, and private suites. We started our journey in Nov 2015 with an intention to create a new model for workspaces, in fact disrupt the traditional office leasing demand and supply equation. The mission is to convert square feet based industry into per seat based. Thus, started a tech platform to discover, evaluate and book flexible workspaces. The platform induces "on -demand", transparency and agility to the whole process. Qdesq is now the largest and fastest growing flexible workspace rental platform providing office seekers with ready to move in serviced offices, as per their budget, location and terms. These workspaces are branded coworking and serviced offices, unbranded shared offices and built to suit - bespoke private managed offices (with services and investments from an established operators). In terms of scale, we have 1645 venues with 5400 listings on our platform and we do 220+ transaction per month. We have been growing 4x YOY with gross transaction volumes poised at USD 6.2 MN for this year.Client Segments and Space Matrix: 1. Startups, freelancers and extremely budgeted requirements - Unbranded shared offices and neighbourhood coworking spaces. 2. Corporate Clients (established startups and Indian companies with flexible requirements) - Branded chains like Innov8, 91 Sprinboard, Awfis, Redbricks, indiqube, etc 3. Enterprise Segment ( with flexible requirements) - High end serviced offices like Regus Spaces, Wework, cowrks, skootr etc. 4. Enterprise with large built to suit requirements and want private managed office - Space providers from 3rd and 4th segments are pitched in, depending on location, client type and pricing.

2 contacts available at Qdesq.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lavesh Bhandari | Co-Founder & CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lavesh-bhandari |
| Paras Arora | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paras-arora-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Paras Arora invest in?

Paras Arora invests primarily in Travel, Tourism and Hospitality startups, most often at Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Paras Arora last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Paras Arora closed in Jul 2016. Shizune tracks 1 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?

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