# Rachit Poddar

> Rachit Poddar is a seed investor in Surat backing SaaS, EdTech and Software. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Surat, India
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Feb 2022
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachit-poddar-aa4599b2/?originalSubdomain=in

Rachit Poddar is a seed investor in Surat focused on SaaS and EdTech. Rachit Poddar Co-Founder @ Marwari Catalysts Ventures

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $200k–$2.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $100k–$101k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 2 | 40% |
| EdTech | 2 | 40% |
| Software | 2 | 40% |
| Education | 2 | 40% |
| Consulting | 2 | 40% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 40% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hobit | Hobit is the first virtual learning platform of hobbies which is created for both learners and educators I.e. Distinguished freelancers and academies. | $200K | Seed | Feb 07, 2022 |  |
| Valuationary | Valuationary is an Edtech platform to learn the practicalities of the financial world.Valuationary believes in a market-aligned approach to upskilling the youth with quality practical knowledge so as to make them relevant in the dynamic financial world. | $100K | Pre-Seed | Nov 11, 2021 |  |
| Stylework Innovation Hub | Stylework is a coworking aggregator platform, founded in 2016 by Sparsh Khandelwal with a motto to change how work is seen. With its unconventional approach Stylework is on a path to changing the way individuals think of their workspace. Curating a list of diverse locations, Stylework has made seamless the transition from the traditionalworkspace to a chic, comfortable space that frees your mind while you work. It believes in offering its clients not just the freedom to choose a space and time of their liking, but also the convenience of working from multiple locations with affordable passes. Stylework's strength is the ability to bring spaces, clients, as well as individuals on one platform. With Stylework, forget the way work is traditionally done. Shift to the unconventional. | $545K | Seed | Mar 08, 2021 |  |
| Stride Ahead | Stride Ahead is a AI Powered B2B SaaS tool for Education Industry focussing on increasing revenue for Education Industry by removing noise from the CRM improving user experience for their users and empowering their counselling and sales team with Talent analytics . | $101K | Pre-Seed | Feb 07, 2021 |  |
| Marwari Catalysts | Marwari Catalysts primarily focuses on creating, nurturing, and fostering startups to accelerate their journey from a startup to a unicorn. We have a backward integration with incubators and front-end integration with the AIF, Family Offices and Angel Networks.Marwari Catalysts is a founder & investor-friendly company with like mindedprofessionals and industry experts passionate about entrepreneurship.We conduct a Startup Acceleration program: 'Thrive'; India's most exhilarating and value-based cohort accelerator program for early-stage startups.Thrive is a 12-week rigorous program that enables a particular startup to accelerate and helps them become investment-ready by providing: a skillset, expertise, and guidance from mentors via the program. The most successful Startup Founders & Top Industry Leaders will accompany you as mentors; to pilot your startup success to reach the sky.It is the only accelerator program with Skin-in-the-game providing signal funding to all the chosen startups.We already have companies from sectors, such as D2C, B2B, Edu Tech, FinTech, Fashion, Lifestyle Products, Community Building, to name a few and are currently working on Supply Chain Management and Climate Change. Marwari Catalysts is India's fastest growing Startup Accelerator. Our People: We are a closed knit group of successful startup founders, professionals and industrialists with strong professional and academic credentials.100+ Co-founders Club, 60+ Startups Portfolio, 35% Female Founders, 70% Startups funded, $10Mn Portfolio Valuation, 7 Startups Exit (full and part) Marwari Catalysts strongly supports the fact that their partnerships with startups are about discovery as well as execution and believes in value creation.An inclusive model which supports startups at various stages in their life-cycle, whether incubation, funding, acceleration, PR or business development support. | $2.5M | Seed | Jan 01, 2021 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Marwari Catalysts](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marwari-catalysts-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ah! Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ahventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Inflection Point Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inflection-point-ventures-d275) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Instarto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/instarto) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Sprint Vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sprint-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [We Founder Circle](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/we-founder-circle) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Rachit Poddar invest in?

Rachit Poddar invests primarily in SaaS, EdTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Rachit Poddar's check size?

Rachit Poddar typically joins rounds of $200k–$2.5M at Seed and $100k–$101k 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 Rachit Poddar participates in.

### When did Rachit Poddar last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rachit Poddar closed in Feb 2022. Shizune tracks 5 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?

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