# Paul Sethi

> Paul Sethi is a seed investor at Trajectory Capital Partners backing FinTech and Internet. See 41 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Trajectory Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trajectory-capital)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 41
- Last investment: Jun 2022
- Lead investor: 5%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulsethi
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/paulsethi
- Website: https://TrajectoryCapital.com

Paul Sethi is a co-founder and Managing Partner at 2048 Ventures, the Founder and Managing Partner at Trajectory Capital Partners, and the Co-founding Partner of OpenFortune. For 7+ years prior to 2048 Ventures, Paul was CEO of, the leading sales data and intelligence platform for the marketing industry (acquired by List Partners). He alsoco-founded Robuzz, an advanced ML/NLP practice, with a real-time alerts and data extraction engine built for the enterprise. Paul has been a first-check angel for over a decade, including in Flexport, SeatGeek, Transfix, Knotel and LearnVest. He serves as Advisor to Transfix and OpenFortune and graduated with honors from Wharton (UPenn) and Columbia. Early in his career, he was a public company investor focused on the tech sector.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $550k–$3M |
| Series A | $550k–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 6 | 15% |
| Internet | 6 | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 5 | 12% |
| Finance | 4 | 10% |
| Software | 4 | 10% |

80 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 22 | 54% |
| Series A | 10 | 24% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 7% |
| Debt Financing | 3 | 7% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 32 | 78% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Delphia | Delphia is building the world's first investment adviser that allows people to invest their data alongside their money in order to improve their investment returns. Delphia is able to forecast the growth and profitability for thousands of companies simultaneously through a series of machine learning models. When Delphia's modeldisagrees with the market, we adjust the weights of our diversified equity portfolio to reflect the confidence we have in our predictions. | $60M | Series A | Jun 08, 2022 |  |
| Lendflow | Lendflow develops a lending infrastructure platform built to change and improve the way businesses access capital. They allow a user to embed financial products into their software to increase engagement, improve retention, and become a source of capital for their business users. They also provide term loans, lines of credit, and invoice factoringto cover businesses of all sizes and credit risks, enabling construction, home services companies, e-commerce, restaurants, transportation, and fitness businesses to connect their users with capital and increase the reach of their businesses. | $10.8M | Series A | Oct 13, 2021 |  |
| Lendflow | Lendflow develops a lending infrastructure platform built to change and improve the way businesses access capital. They allow a user to embed financial products into their software to increase engagement, improve retention, and become a source of capital for their business users. They also provide term loans, lines of credit, and invoice factoringto cover businesses of all sizes and credit risks, enabling construction, home services companies, e-commerce, restaurants, transportation, and fitness businesses to connect their users with capital and increase the reach of their businesses. | $10.8M | Series A | Jun 02, 2021 |  |
| Lendflow | Lendflow develops a lending infrastructure platform built to change and improve the way businesses access capital. They allow a user to embed financial products into their software to increase engagement, improve retention, and become a source of capital for their business users. They also provide term loans, lines of credit, and invoice factoringto cover businesses of all sizes and credit risks, enabling construction, home services companies, e-commerce, restaurants, transportation, and fitness businesses to connect their users with capital and increase the reach of their businesses. | $2.7M | Seed | Apr 10, 2021 |  |
| Koffie Financial | Koffie Labs is a digital insurer purpose-built for the next generation of trucking and transportation. | $3M | Seed | Feb 23, 2021 |  |
| ConverseNow | ConverseNow automates and personalizes restaurant orders on high-volume voice channels such as phone, drive-thru, self-service kiosks, voice assistants, and voice-assisted chat on mobile. Founded in 2018 by Rahul Aggarwal and Vinay Shukla, ConverseNow is headquartered in Austin, Texas. | $3.3M | Seed | Apr 21, 2020 |  |
| Mantl | Mantl is a customer-centric outer core ecosystem that gives banks and credit unions the flexibility to innovate using modern technology while owning their brand throughout the entire customer lifecycle. The company's platform provides customers with a delightful user experience and banks with powerful workflow management and automation tools.Mantl was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, USA. | $1.1M | Seed | Nov 17, 2016 |  |
| JOANY | Joany is your trusted healthcare concierge. We simplify buying and using health insurance, all year long. Using data, machine learning and humans, Joany takes of everything healthcare, so you don't have to. | $1.7M | Seed | Oct 23, 2016 |  |
| Slash Keyboard | Tapslash is a super-charged keyboard that lets you share media and information, without bouncing between your conversation and other apps. People want to share rich media, so we connect with Giphy, Spotify, YouTube, and other services.People want to share contextual information, so we plug into Contacts, Weather, and Foursquare.Tapslash letsyou share anything, from any app, without leaving your keyboard. And we've even gone beyond that: we want to increase not words per minute, but ideas per minute with a fast, accurate, and responsive mobile keyboard.Tapslash finds the best service to match the idea or content you're looking to share, bringing the user from idea to action as quickly as possible. | $1.3M | Seed | Dec 09, 2015 |  |
| Padlet | Padlet is an Internet application that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. It works like an online sheet of paper where people can put any content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) anywhere on the page, together with anyone, from any device. Think of it like a multimedia friendly, free-form, real-time wiki. | $1.7M | Seed | Sep 18, 2015 |  |

10 of 41 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Knoll Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/knoll-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [New York Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-york-angels) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Trajectory Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trajectory-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Founder Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founder-collective) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [GTMfund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gtmfund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Trajectory Capital Partners

VC Fund · New York, United States

Our mission is to advance disruptive innovation driving global digital transformation. Investing and collaborating to accelerate trajectory

2 contacts available at Trajectory Capital Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Paul Sethi | Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-sethi |
| Peter Bordes | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-bordes |

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## FAQ

### What does Paul Sethi invest in?

Paul Sethi invests primarily in FinTech, Internet and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 41 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 Paul Sethi's check size?

Paul Sethi typically joins rounds of $550k–$3M at Seed and $550k–$11M 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 Paul Sethi participates in.

### When did Paul Sethi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Paul Sethi closed in Jun 2022. Shizune tracks 41 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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