# Pranay Desai

> Pranay Desai is a seed investor at Z47 backing SaaS and Information Technology. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Z47](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matrix-partners-india)
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/desaipranay/

Pranay Desai is a seed investor at Z47 focused on SaaS and Information Technology. Pranay Desai serves as a Prinicipal at Matrix Partners India.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 3 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 33% |
| Audio | 2 | 22% |
| Internet | 2 | 22% |
| Software | 2 | 22% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 44% |
| Series A | 4 | 44% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 56% |
| India | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GreyLabs AI | AI-powered Agent efficiency solution for businesses. | $9.6M | Series A | Oct 06, 2025 |  |
| Scalekit | Scalekit offers an auth platform for SaaS companies that helps in authentication, user management, and audit logging. | $5.5M | Seed | Sep 16, 2025 |  |
| Atomicwork | Atomicwork is an employee experience platform that allows users to find information and get help at work. The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $25M | Series A | Jan 28, 2025 |  |
| Atomicwork | Atomicwork is an employee experience platform that allows users to find information and get help at work. The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $3M | Seed | Sep 18, 2024 |  |
| GreyLabs AI | AI-powered Agent efficiency solution for businesses. | $1.5M | Seed | Jun 18, 2024 |  |
| SiftHub | SiftHub is a knowledge discovery and content generation platform for sales and pre-sales teams. It helps automate all information requests such as infosec questionnaires, vendor assessments, RFPs using AI. | $5.5M | Seed | Apr 03, 2024 |  |
| Atomicwork | Atomicwork is an employee experience platform that allows users to find information and get help at work. The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $11M | Seed | Sep 05, 2023 |  |
| MURF.AI | Murf AI is a synthetic speech technology startup developing lifelike AI voices for podcasts, slideshows, and professional presentations without hiring a voice artist or using any complex recording equipment. It utilizes a text-based voice-over maker tool with hyper-realistic AI voices to simplify voice audios. The company's AI engine has beentrained for hours to produce high-fidelity synthetic AI voices that mimic the nuances and subtleties, including the likeness, style, and uniqueness of the human voice.Murf AI was founded in October 2020 by Sneha Roy, Ankur Edkie, and Divyanshu Pandey and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. | $10M | Series A | Sep 20, 2022 |  |
| 100ms | 100ms is a live-video infrastructure platform that provides subscription-based products to its customers. The company provides a low-code solution for companies looking to add video/audio conferencing within their own applications. To bring real-life interactions to the virtual world seamlessly The increasingly virtual, remote-first world,needs an infrastructure provider that allows these experiences to happen seamlessly. 100ms' best-in-class quality and ease of use are fueling this revolution. Making live video work - our team has been obsessed with this problem for years and solved it at world-class scales for different network and device conditions. A great infrastructure provider also needs to have the shortest integration time - so our foundation is built on the above two principles. | $20M | Series A | Mar 10, 2022 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Blume Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blume-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Elevation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elevation-capital-6e8a) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Neon Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neon-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Storm Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/storm-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alpha Wave Incubation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpha-wave-incubation-af7e) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Z47

VC Fund · Mumbai, India

Z47 invests in technology startups that target the Indian consumer and global enterprise markets at the seed, early, and early growth phases.

5 contacts available at Z47.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aakash Kumar | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aakash-kumar-d7e5 |
| Avnish Bajaj | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avnish-bajaj |
| Pranay Desai | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pranay-desai-2d02 |
| Rajat Agarwal | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rajat-agarwal-2 |
| Rajat Agarwal | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rajat-agarwal-a5f9 |

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## FAQ

### What does Pranay Desai invest in?

Pranay Desai invests primarily in SaaS, Information Technology and Audio startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Pranay Desai last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Pranay Desai closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 9 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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