Pranav Pai
Founding Partner & Chief Investment Officer @ 3one4 Capital
Bangalore, India
Pranav Pai is a seed investor at 3one4 Capital in Bangalore focused on Financial Services and Artificial Intelligence. Pranav is the Founding Partner at 3one4 Capital - an early-stage venture capital fund that is based in Bangalore. As part of the 3one4 team, he is deeply involved with the startup ecosystem in India and he leads the fund's partnerships and co-investments in the San Francisco Bay-Area as well. Through 3one4, Pranav has invested in over 80companies in India and the US, having led rounds across sectors such as fintech, SaaS, consumer, deep tech, and digital media.Previously, he was the Sr. Product Manager at EdCast, an ed-tech startup in the Bay Area. He graduated with a Master's in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Pranav serves on the boards of and as an advisor to several of the companies he works most closely with. He also volunteers on the advisory boards and steering committees of non-profits that work in areas he is passionate about.
- Total investments:
- 47
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 26%
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Industries Pranav Pai invests in
Stages Pranav Pai invests in
Countries Pranav Pai invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $500k–$9M
- Series A
- $3M–$8M
- Series B
- $3.7M–$21M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 7 (15%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (9%)
- FinTech 3 (6%)
- Recruiting 3 (6%)
- Information Technology 3 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 16 (34%)
- Series B 6 (13%)
- Series A 5 (11%)
- Series C 5 (11%)
- Series D 3 (6%)
Country
- India 20 (43%)
- United States 2 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Profound is an AI visibility and marketing intelligence platform designed to help brands track, analyze, and optimize how they appear in AI-powered search results and answer engines. | $1.5M / Seed / Aug 04, 2026 | ||
| Exponent Energy focuses on developing fast charging technology for electric vehicles.Exponent Energy's energy stack can speed up and simplify energy and charging for their client's electric vehicles which ensures the least amount of impedance buildup and results in a continuous flow of energy.The company also offers customers abattery management system, battery pack, and charger that all function in concert.Exponent Energy was established in 2020 by Arun Vinayak and Sanjay Byalal Jagannath in Bangalore, Karnataka. | $21M / Series B / Jun 10, 2026 | ||
| AGNIT Semiconductors is to provide Gallium Nitride devices that are dependable, cost-effective, high-performing, and unique for the upcoming wireless systems. AGNIT Semiconductors is a semiconductor business that uses gallium nitride (GaN). AGNIT Semiconductors primary focus is on designing and producing electrical components and GaN materials(wafers) for use in radio-frequency applications. For the defense and telecommunications sectors, AGNIT's GaN components provide strong performance, cost, and footprint advantages. | $2.6M / Seed / Mar 16, 2026 | ||
| Jupiter is a digital retail bank that specializes in legal, accounting, book-keeping, auditing activities, tax consultancy, market research and public opinion polling, and business and management consultancy. Jupiter is India’s first & only co-created banking experience dedicated to Millenials. | $15M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 29, 2025 | ||
| Loantap is an online platform committed to deliver flexible loan products to salaried professionals. We innovate in an otherwise dull loan segment, to deliver smart products for millennials. The idea is to use technology for building flexibility in products, without adding cost to it. | $6.3M / Series C / Jun 05, 2025 | ||
| AGNIT Semiconductors is to provide Gallium Nitride devices that are dependable, cost-effective, high-performing, and unique for the upcoming wireless systems. AGNIT Semiconductors is a semiconductor business that uses gallium nitride (GaN). AGNIT Semiconductors primary focus is on designing and producing electrical components and GaN materials(wafers) for use in radio-frequency applications. For the defense and telecommunications sectors, AGNIT's GaN components provide strong performance, cost, and footprint advantages. | $3.5M / Seed / Oct 17, 2024 | ||
| Dozee was founded by Mudit & Gaurav in 2015, with a vision to Simplify Healthcare to make it more accessible.Across the world, we follow a reactive approach to healthcare. Only when things go wrong we take a clinical intervention. Early intervention has the power to save countless lives and increase the quality of life. With a strongmotivation to move a brick in this direction, Mudit decided to quit his work as a race car engineer. However, he didn't leave the race cars behind. His inspiration from the sensing technology used in race cars led the foundation for Dozee. He then teamed up with Gaurav to build and evolve Dozee into India’s first contactless health monitor.After a series of intense R&D activities, partnering with premium research institutions such as NIMHANS, Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular and Research, Dozee was proven to be 98.4% as accurate as medical grade devices and Dozee was launched in India in 2019. | $6M / Series A / Apr 04, 2023 | ||
| Yellow aim to provide a simple, secure, and cost-effective solution for all to protect and preserve their legacies. | Pre-Seed / Nov 16, 2022 | ||
| Hyperface is a banking-as-a-service startup that helps companies create and launch their own credit cards. | $9M / Seed / Jul 13, 2022 | ||
| Open is Asia’s first neobanking platform for SMEs that is fast changing the way businesses bank & manage their finances. At Open, we help SMEs run everything right from their banking, payments to accounting, & expense management — together. This way they can focus on doing things that matter the most — grow their business. We’re home tosome of the smartest & brightest 250+ minds in the fintech space. We’re a tight-knit tribe of creators and makers who are shaking up the way business banking rolls for over 10,00,000 businesses. We’re backed by some of the leading global VC firms like Tiger Global, Speedinvest, Beenext, AngelList, Recruit, Tanglin Venture Partners, 3one4 Capital, Unicorn India Ventures to name a few. | $50M / Series D / May 02, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
About 3one4 Capital
3one4 Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Bangalore, India. The firm works in select market categories and in the intersection of adjacencies that are large, growing, and ready for unique products and services. The themes pursued are Consumer Internet, Fintech, SaaS and AI-SaS, Advanced Manufacturing, and Enterprise Automation, with a focus on areas that include machine-driven actionable intelligence services for the enterprise, ambient intelligence technologies, and deep tech. The firm manages USD 550M+ (INR 4,400Cr+) of committed capital. The combined portfolio covers 80+ early-stage investments. The firm has delivered 5 unicorns and 30+ profitable exits. 3one4's investments include Licious, Dhan, Darwinbox, Betterplace, KukuFM, Unbox Robotics, Scimplify, Ripplr, and Tracxn (TRACXN).
3one4 Capital Contacts
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Anurag Ramdasan
Partner
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Pranav Pai
Founding Partner & Chief Investment Officer
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Richard Pinto
Principal and Head of Portfolio Management and Finance
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Siddarth Pai
Founding Partner, CFO, & ESG Officer
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Sonal Saldanha
Vice president
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FAQ
What does Pranav Pai invest in?
Pranav Pai invests primarily in Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 47 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Pranav Pai invest in?
Pranav Pai typically joins rounds of $500k–$9M at Seed, $3M–$8M at Series A and $3.7M–$21M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Pranav Pai's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Pranav Pai took part in.
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When did Pranav Pai last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Pranav Pai closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 47 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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