# Piyush Shah

> Piyush Shah is a seed investor at Glance (Bengaluru) backing Software and Internet. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Glance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/glance-6e2a)
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/piyush-shah-0583412/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/shahbuckler
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shahbuckler

Piyush Shah is a seed investor at Glance in Bengaluru focused on Software and Internet. Piyush Shah joined InMobi in October 2009 and serves as Vice President and General Manager for Performance Advertising and Developer Platforms. He is responsible for the overall vision, strategy and execution for InMobi's global performance advertising business - helping customers to acquire quality users through app installs and leadgeneration offerings. Piyush also heads InMobi’s Developer Platform initiatives and drives the roadmap to enable global app developers to effectively acquire, monetize and retain users.He brings to InMobi over 13 years of experience in entrepreneurship, strategy, business development, product management and operations. Prior to joining InMobi, Piyush had corporate stints as the Associate Vice President with Deutsche Bank and Product Manager at Citigroup. At Deutsche Bank, he was part of the core team that established their Payments & Private Banking business in India. He also founded LearningSpiral, an educational portal and youth marketing venture, and was awarded the accolade as one of India's Innovative Youth Entrepreneurs by Business World.Piyush is based in our Bangalore office. He graduated from the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad with an MBA in Strategy and Marketing and was elected President of the Mumbai Alumni Chapter. He received his Bachelors in Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $650k–$3M |
| Pre-Seed | $250k–$2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 21% |
| Internet | 2 | 14% |
| Education | 2 | 14% |
| E-Learning | 2 | 14% |
| Advertising | 2 | 14% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 71% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 14% |
| Angel | 1 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 11 | 79% |
| Singapore | 1 | 7% |
| United States | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| InMobi | InMobi provides mobile advertising services in Asia and Africa. It develops an advertisement serving algorithm that helps in optimizing the ranking of the advertisements served on mobile phones. InMobi also provides campaign management services, such as strategy, designing, executing, managing, and optimizing campaigns, and advertisementcreation, format, and targeting services for advertisers. Moreover, it offers monetization strategies to monetize site traffic by using a combination of performance and branding advertisements, and an advertisement serving algorithm to rank the advertisements available based on user targeting and past performance for publishers. Further, InMobi provides advertisers and publishers with access to near real-time reports to monitor the performance of advertisement campaigns and the status of site monetization. Furthermore, it offers InMobi Ad Tracker, a mobile campaign conversion tracking solution; and Lifetime Value Platform, a platform that identifies in-application user groups and provides behavior insight to publishers or application developers. InMobi has a strategic partnership with TalkingData. Naveen Tewari, Mohit Saxena, Amit Gupta, and Abhay Singhal founded mKhoj Solutions Private Limited in 2006 that became InMobi Technologies in August 2009, with its headquarters in Bengaluru in India and additional offices in New Delhi and Mumbai in India. | $3.7M |  | Jul 05, 2025 |  |
| Billion Hearts | Billion Hearts is a company that creates simple digital consumer products for the global market. | $250K | Angel | Sep 18, 2024 |  |
| Billion Hearts | Billion Hearts is a company that creates simple digital consumer products for the global market. | $250K | Pre-Seed | Sep 18, 2024 |  |
| Artium Academy | Artium Academy is an Online Music Education platform that makes learning fun and accessible to people of all ages. | $3M | Seed | Oct 10, 2022 |  |
| Factors.AI | Factors.ai is an AI-powered demand generation and account-based marketing platform that helps B2B teams identify, engage, and convert high-intent accounts efficiently. It acts as a unified solution, rather than juggling multiple tools, by providing intelligent agents that automate tasks across the go-to-market (GTM) stack. | $2M | Seed | Aug 30, 2021 |  |
| Studio Sirah | Studio Sirah is a studio that makes mid-core India-first games. | $830K | Seed | Aug 30, 2021 |  |
| Goodmeetings | Goodmeetings operates as an online video and AI enabled platform. | $1.7M | Seed | Aug 06, 2021 |  |
| SuperBeings | SuperBeings is a platform that provides Leaders with the tools, insights, and learning needed to continuously supercharge their teams. Through its platform, the company helps managers get continuous feedback from their team members on themselves and the teams’ work environment while closing the loop with personalized learning and action plans. |  | Seed | Jul 22, 2021 |  |
| Almo Wear | Almo Wear is a premium men's innerwear brand focused on bringing sophisticated yet functional designs. |  | Seed | Jun 01, 2021 |  |
| Trulymadly | TrulyMadly is a new, modern way to find true, mad love. A platform that brings singles together based on common interests and psychological matching.Verified profiles - Think of it as a set up by friends. They wouldn’t introduce you to random strangers on the street, right?Nor do they. From authenticating ID proofs to social profiles andemployment records, they’ll find you a really ‘real’ match.True compatibility - It’s not about introducing two single people. It’s about introducing the two right single people.You tell us your what you like, what makes you laugh, angry and emotional. Once done, they’ll match you with someone who is made for you.Safe and Discreet - They’re like those friends who know how keep all information you share, private.Your profile can only be viewed by the ones they sort out for you. And you can only be messaged by those you have liked. No casual surfing, no spamming, no peeping tom business. | $2.1M | Seed | Apr 20, 2021 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Axilor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/axilor-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Better Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lumikai](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lumikai) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Nizamabad Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nizamabad-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Stellaris Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stellaris-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Supermorpheus](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/supermorpheus) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Glance

VC Fund · Singapore, Singapore

Glance is the world’s first “screen zero” content delivery platform. It leverages AI to bring users personalized content from across the internet, right to the lock screen of their smartphones and other connected devices. Glance is one of the world’s fastest-growing consumer internet services, having crossed the 100 million user mark in 21 months -the shortest ever for any consumer platform globally. In 2019, Glance acquired Roposo, a hugely popular Indian short video platform. Together, they enable users to discover the latest news, entertainment, games, and unique shopping experiences in 10+ languages. Part of the Indian media and tech conglomerate InMobi Group, Glance is funded by Google and Peter Thiel-backed Mithril Partners.

5 contacts available at Glance.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dhruvin Savalia | Senior Strategy and Operations Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dhruvin-savalia |
| Hemant Kumar | Partnerships | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hemant-kumar-e41f |
| Ian Anderson | VP of AI | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ian-anderson-52e1 |
| Jineel Shah | Senior Associate - Key Account Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jineel-shah |
| Nitin Sundar | Leadership Team, Head of Newsroom and Content Strategy | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nitin-sundar |

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## FAQ

### What does Piyush Shah invest in?

Piyush Shah invests primarily in Software, Internet and Education startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Piyush Shah's check size?

Piyush Shah typically joins rounds of $650k–$3M at Seed and $250k–$2M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Piyush Shah participates in.

### When did Piyush Shah last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Piyush Shah closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 14 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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