# Prasanna Sankar

> Prasanna Sankar is a seed investor in San Francisco backing Software and Information Technology. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/myprasanna/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/myprasanna
- Website: https://x.com/myprasanna

Prasanna Sankar is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Rippling.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $200k–$5.1M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.3M–$1.3M |
| Series A | $8M–$23M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 47% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 33% |
| FinTech | 3 | 20% |
| Finance | 3 | 20% |
| Internet | 3 | 20% |

42 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 60% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 20% |
| Series A | 2 | 13% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 60% |
| India | 3 | 20% |
| Thailand | 1 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The Happy Company | The Happy Company ™ (THC) is an infrastructure platform powered by retail intelligence, focused on technology for the everyday consumer — beginning in India (and made in भारत). Operating at the intersection of commerce, content, and community, THC wholly owns and operates the Chaicup ® retail brand. Chaicup ® serves delicious, affordable, andsustainable foods and beverages, leveraging product and customer insights to marry an intelligent, world-class supply chain with a fast, friendly experience for both partners and consumers. | $5M | Seed | Oct 31, 2025 |  |
| Emergent | Emergent is a platform for agentic vibe-coding. | $23M | Series A | Sep 24, 2025 |  |
| Aspora | Aspora help users bank seamlessly across countries, invest in diverse assets, access credit and insurance services. | $53M | Series B | May 01, 2025 |  |
| Shopster AI | Shopster is an AI-powered e-commerce automation platform that helps small businesses across Southeast Asia streamline their sales, marketing, and fulfillment processes. From conversational checkout to automated delivery coordination and CRM marketing, Shopster enables merchants to run their businesses efficiently—from anywhere. | $200K | Seed | Mar 01, 2025 |  |
| AdvantageClub.ai | Advantage Club provides an AI-driven platform intended for driving employee engagement. It delivers programs that connect and benefit both the brands and an organization's clients/employees. The company intends to provide an end-to-end solution to facilitate meaningful client and employee engagement through exclusive privileges andrewards provided by its brand partners. | $4M | Seed | Dec 02, 2024 |  |
| Togai | Togai is end-to-end pricing infrastructure that tracks your product usage as they happen, aggregates them to suit your pricing strategy (cloud metering) and provides real-time revenue visibility for you and your customers. Our mission is to empower SaaS founders to use pricing as a lever to grow their business.Togai is derived from the Tamil word‘Thogai’ which means Value/Price. Conceptualized from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India we are building for the world of SaaS to help founders never leave money on the table. Focus on creating value, we help you capture it. | $3.1M | Seed | Jun 03, 2023 |  |
| Movley | Movley helps firms manufacturing in China build better products through on-the-ground control inspections. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Jan 15, 2023 |  |
| Movley | Movley is your e-commerce brand's product quality control department. Built by sellers, and trusted by 800+ brands. Are you a Shopify or Amazon seller? Sign up in 30 seconds to start monitoring your product quality for free! | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Jan 15, 2023 |  |
| Gullak.Money | Gullak.Money aims to create an all-inclusive ecosystem of saving which is accessible to all. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Jun 17, 2022 |  |
| doola | doola helps US and Non-US founders turn their dream idea into their dream business. We're a “Business-in-a-Box” for online SMBs. We take care of everything online SMBs need to form an LLC, set up their bank account, accept payments, and manage ongoing compliance and tax filings. | $3M | Seed | Nov 15, 2021 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Greylock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Together Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/together-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Dorm Room Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dorm-room-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Nexus Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nexus-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tectonic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tectonic-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Prasanna Sankar invest in?

Prasanna Sankar invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 15 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 Prasanna Sankar's check size?

Prasanna Sankar typically joins rounds of $200k–$5.1M at Seed, $1.3M–$1.3M at Pre-Seed and $8M–$23M 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 Prasanna Sankar participates in.

### When did Prasanna Sankar last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Prasanna Sankar closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 15 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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