# Persistent Systems

> Persistent Systems is a VC fund in Pune backing Software and Big Data. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Pune, India
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last fund: Feb 2015
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/5034
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Persistentsys
- Website: http://www.persistent.com/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Persistent-Systems/112092578807024

Persistent Systems is a VC fund in Pune focused on Software and Big Data. Persistent Systems offers software product concept and design, agile product engineering, performance engineering, support assurance, quality assurance, and other professional technological services. The company’s services and products are based on the technological concepts: of analytics and big data, cloud, embedded systems and devices,enterprise mobility, product lifecycle management, social and gamification, and security, identity, and access.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 43% |
| Big Data | 2 | 29% |
| Analytics | 2 | 29% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 29% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 29% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 43% |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 71% |
| India | 1 | 14% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anand Deshpande | Managing Director & CEO | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dr-anand-deshpande |
| Dattaraj Rao | Chief Data Scientist | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dattaraj-rao |
| Gurvinder Singh Sahni | Chief Marketing Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gurvinder-sahni |
| Kiran Umrootkar | Independent Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kiran-umrootkar |
| Pradeepkumar Bhargava | Executive Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pradeepkumar-bhargava |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HRDWYR | HRDWYR is a technology company that develops AI chips, edge computing, and data centre systems. | $13M | Series A | May 12, 2026 |  |
| HRDWYR | HRDWYR is a technology company that develops AI chips, edge computing, and data centre systems. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Cazena | Cazena is a stealthy startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz and North Bridge Venture Partners that has yet to reveal any details regarding its product. Cazena is founded by some of the former leaders from data warehouse optimization startup Netezza. | $10M | Corporate Round | Jul 24, 2018 |  |
| Vitalacy | Vitalacy is a health and hygiene technology company focused on providing a safe and confident workplace through automation. We monitor compliance of quality and safety measures like hand hygiene, workflow and contact tracing with smart sensors and wearables. Vitalacy is committed to reducing infection risk with automated technology solutions.Our mission is to improve patient outcomes, protect the workforce and promote quality and safety measures that save lives. Delivering true and transparent data on compliance offers a powerful and sustainable foundation for organizations and people to thrive. | $6M | Seed | Mar 24, 2016 |  |
| OpsDataStore | OpsDataStore, provides the first ever solution to online service quality issues by combining a low latency real time scalable big data back end with partner ecosystem of complementary management software vendors. This ecosystem approach gives customers the ability to choose best of breed vendors and achieve data integration through OpsDataStore.This allows customers to improve revenue, reliability, reputation and customer retention. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Johns Creek, Georgia. |  | Series A | Oct 27, 2015 |  |
| Ampool | Ampool is on a mission to enable real-time data-intensive applications and to reduce time to actionable insights through a distributed, memory-centric active data store. In the last decade, Hadoop and NoSQL data stores have deconstructed the database, separating persistence, metadata management, query engines, resource scheduling, clustermanagement, and monitoring. In a similar way, Ampool aims to democratize in-memory multi-modal analytical processing, paving way to a unified real-time analytics platform. Ampool Active Data Store is designed to support stream ingestion and analytics, analytical/batch processing, transactions, and interactive/ad-hoc queries, all from a single memory-centric store. Powered by Apache Geode™, it offers low overhead, lightning fast, in-memory performance for data-driven applications without compromising on reliability and availability. |  | Seed | Jul 11, 2015 |  |
| ustyme | ustyme is a free video-call app for iPad that gives families and friends the opportunity to truly engage with each other and build connections that just aren’t possible through simple phone calls. ustyme turns screen time into "us time." |  | Seed | Dec 04, 2013 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Avatar Growth Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avatar-growth-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cervin Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cervin-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Formation 8](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/formation8) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Forté Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forte-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ideaspring Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ideaspring-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Persistent Systems invest in?

Persistent Systems invests primarily in Software, Big Data and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Persistent Systems?

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### Who are the partners at Persistent Systems?

The team at Persistent Systems includes Anand Deshpande (Managing Director & CEO), Dattaraj Rao (Chief Data Scientist) and Gurvinder Singh Sahni (Chief Marketing Officer), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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