Raghav Gupta
President @ Butlr
Boston, United States
Raghav Gupta is a seed investor at Butlr in Boston focused on Software and SaaS. Entrepreneur, operator, investor and author of the bestselling One to Ten. Currently, Rags is President of Butlr.io and venture partner at Hyperplane. Prior to Butlr, Rags was COO at Humatics, GM EMEA at Ooyala, CCO at Videoplaza (sold to Telstra/Ooyala) and part of the founding management team at Brightcove (IPO).
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Raghav Gupta invests in
Stages Raghav Gupta invests in
Countries Raghav Gupta invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $354k–$5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (36%)
- SaaS 3 (21%)
- Internet 2 (14%)
- Publishing 2 (14%)
- Advertising 2 (14%)
Country
- United States 9 (64%)
- United Kingdom 3 (21%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Powerspike
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Powerspike is a new type of advertising network based on content creators - where any marketer can make their brand famous in a few clicks. Our Endorsement Serving technology automatically buys, executes, and optimizes content creator endorsements - replacing the traditionally lengthy process of RFP’s, human negotiations, and insertion orders. | Convertible Note / Dec 31, 2020 | |
Squark
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Squark® applies machine learning-based prediction automatically, with no-code, for any classification, regression, or time-series problem. Create highly -accurate predictions—in minutes—with no programming. Made for marketing analysts to connect their spreadsheets, martech systems and other data sources, Squark puts the brilliance of data scienceinto the hands of non-technical business users via an easy-to-use, no-code online app. You don’t need to learn the complexities of AI and ML algorithms nor hire data scientists and programmers to implement predictive analytics and machine learning to find the insights and actions to power your business. You simply upload your data to Squark and click to get the results.Squark operates as simply as a spreadsheet. Using supervised machine learning, Squark builds and compares scores of models automatically from your training data and chooses the best one and then creates your predictions. Remarkably, the accuracy of Squark models is equal to or better than with custom development projects. This is the productivity breakthrough that puts AI power into daily use by marketing analysts at companies from the F100 to SMB.Squark's disruptive technology empowers the business user to go beyond traditional descriptive and diagnostic analytics and find the future-focused insights to action either manually or via marketing automation. Results are explainable and transparent and models can be exported for embedding into production systems, or use our API, or deploy Squark as a managed service or white label solution. Finally, you see timely answers to predictive questions—insights that were impossible using reports and traditional business intelligence tools can be delivered by your analytics team in minutes. With no code and no data scientists required. Try our Squark's Freemium version at https://squarkai.com/free-squark before your competitors do. | $1M / Angel / Dec 31, 2020 | |
Fluent Forever
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Fluent Forever is a mobile application that builds the most powerful language learning platform. This revolutionary app help to learn any language fast and retain it forever. | $4.9M / Seed / Dec 24, 2020 | |
Giggster
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The first product we are working on is an easily searchable library of film-friendly locations, a time and cost-efficient collaboration workflow, and a mobile app for on-the-go producers. | Pre-Seed / Dec 10, 2020 | |
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Fluent Forever
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Fluent Forever is a mobile application that builds the most powerful language learning platform. This revolutionary app help to learn any language fast and retain it forever. | Seed / Dec 05, 2020 | |
SOTE
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Sote is building the digital logistics infrastructure and largest B2B marketplace for Africa. Their mission is to grow the GDP of the African continent by facilitating the growth of trade. They aim to provide a combination of ERP solutions, underwriting models, and software-driven supply chain services across the continent. | $3.6M / Seed / Nov 12, 2020 | |
Colossus
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Dvinci® is a customer-centric clean technology company that is accelerating the clean energy movement. We are doing so by enabling a new era of on-demand, clean energy entrepreneurs. | $5M / Seed / Oct 04, 2020 | |
Goodr
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Goodr is a sustainable food surplus management platform that leverages technology to reduce food waste and combat hunger. They provide an end-to-end solution for businesses seeking to earn money from their edible food waste by donating it to local nonprofit organizations. Their platform provides the logistics, analytics, and security for businessesto earn deductions under the PATH act in compliance with the Internal Revenue Services. Goodr’s blockchain-enabled platform also provides an IRS audit-friendly donation record, real-time food waste analytics, and community impact reports. Their model aims to provide a triple-win situation: improve business’ bottom line through tax deductions, reduce greenhouse emissions from landfills, and use edible food waste to reduce hunger. | Seed / Sep 24, 2020 | |
Akash Systems
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Akash Systems is focused on developing and supplying the next generation of small satellites (CubeSats), satellite transmitters, and the RF Power Amplifiers. The company uses new composite material, gallium nitride (GaN)-on-Diamond, invented by Akash cofounder Ejeckam, for their products.GaN-on-Diamond provides a cooler state of operation whichimproves energy efficiency and reduces a system's size, weight, and operating costs. Akash Systems was founded in 2016 by Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Series A / Jul 31, 2020 | |
Pimoroni
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Pimoroni is a U.K.-based company that designs, manufactures, and sells quality products for makers, geeks, and educators. It is the creator of Pibow case for Raspberry Pi. In 2013, Pimoroni launched its maker shop and started to offer products from Adafruit, SparkFun, Technology Will Save Us, Sugru, and many other maker businesses. The company hasalso invested in a full circuit board assembly production line, including pick and place, reflow, and wave soldering and has begun to design its own hobbyist electronics.Pimoroni also launched a range of HAT boards, including the Unicorn HAT, Explorer HAT Pro, Propeller HAT, Piano HAT, and Display-O-Tron HAT. Recently it launched its Picade, started providing guides and tutorials on its new learning portal, increased the range of products on its shop to over 850 different SKUs, and grown its team to seventeen people who design, engineer, test, assemble, package, and ship all from its premises in Sheffield, the U.K. | $354K / Seed / Jun 16, 2016 | |
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Co-Investors
10X Capital
2 deals together
LAUNCH
2 deals together
Backstage Capital
1 deal together
Buckhill Capital LP
1 deal together
Capital One Ventures
1 deal together
CEAS Investments
1 deal together
About Butlr
Butlr is an AI people-sensing platform using body heat to detect occupancy, headcount, body posture, and activity, and generate accurate, real-time, and historical spatial insights for healthcare and sustainable buildings. Their sensor technology detects human presence anonymously using low-resolution thermal data and advanced AI and machinelearning.
Butlr Contacts
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Raghav Gupta
President
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David Lane
Seed Investor
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Honghao Deng
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
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Ioanna Sotiriou
Senior Content Lead in Marketing
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Jiani Zeng
Co-founder and Chief Product Officer
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FAQ
What does Raghav Gupta invest in?
Raghav Gupta invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 14 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 Raghav Gupta's check size?
Raghav Gupta typically joins rounds of $354k–$5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Raghav Gupta participates in.
When did Raghav Gupta last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Raghav Gupta closed in Dec 2020. 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.
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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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