Raghunandan Gangappa
Angel Investor @ 8i Ventures
Bengaluru, India
Raghunandan Gangappa is a seed investor at 8i Ventures in Bengaluru focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Raghunandan Gangappa is based out of Bengaluru, Karnataka and is the Founder of Zolve. Raghunandan previously worked at TaxiForSure.com as a Founder and Director. Raghunandan Gangappa attended the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.
- Total investments:
- 28
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 4%
Last updated:
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Industries Raghunandan Gangappa invests in
Stages Raghunandan Gangappa invests in
Countries Raghunandan Gangappa invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $400k–$2M
- Series A
- $2.2M–$13M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 6 (21%)
- Financial Services 6 (21%)
- Apps 4 (14%)
- Software 4 (14%)
- Health Care 4 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 15 (54%)
- Series A 5 (18%)
- Angel 3 (11%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (11%)
- Corporate Round 1 (4%)
Country
- India 25 (89%)
- United States 2 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Creedom is an AI-powered creative intelligence platform built exclusively for content creators on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok.Most creators work hard but stay stuck — posting consistently, following all the rules, and still not growing. The problem isn't effort. It's the lack of intelligent, personalized feedback.Creedom fixesthat.It connects directly to your YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok accounts to analyze your content performance and give you specific, actionable guidance on exactly what to improve and what to do next.Core features include AI video feedback, profile audit, script builder, content ideas generator, performance analytics, competitor tracking, comment reply AI, and DM automation.Unlike general AI tools like ChatGPT or Gemini, Creedom is built specifically for creators — with official Meta and YouTube partner status, cross-creator intelligence that learns from patterns across thousands of accounts, and a workflow-native experience built into the creator's daily routine.Used by 62,000+ content creators globally. Free to start — no credit card required. | $433.9K / Seed / Sep 02, 2026 | ||
| Eternz operates as a jewellery marketplace. | Seed / Oct 08, 2025 | ||
| QuantE Energy is a cleantech startup focused on pioneering green energy solutions such as solar and electric vehicle (EV) charging for residential societies. | $500K / Seed / Sep 04, 2025 | ||
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NAKAD
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NAKAD operates as a fintech startup. NAKAD, with its proprietary MicroBill technology infrastructure, offers invoice discounting services to MSMEs, which were previously unavailable to them from formal channels. | $7M / Seed / May 25, 2022 | |
| Method Financial is a financial connectivity API for consumer liability data + payments. Method provides connectivity to consumer credit and liability accounts, enabling end-to-end refinance experiences, real-time account data access, and one-click checkout. | $2.5M / Pre-Seed / Feb 02, 2022 | ||
| Developer of healthcare supplements and functional beverages designed to help with modern lifestyle problems. | $1.4M / Seed / Dec 01, 2021 | ||
| Goodmeetings operates as an online video and AI enabled platform. | $1.7M / Seed / Aug 06, 2021 | ||
| GoalTeller create your own 24/7 smart financial advisor and prosperity planner. | Seed / Apr 22, 2021 | ||
| Chingari is a short-video entertaining platform connecting talented Indians. It allows users to share the videos on third-party social platforms as well. The application is available for Android users. It monetizes through in-app advertisements. | $13M / Corporate Round / Apr 01, 2021 | ||
| SHOPG is an online retailer of multi-category products. The product catalog includes electronics, grocery items, beauty & personal care accessories, kitchenware, home decor products, and more. It also allows the users to group with their friends and buy the products at discounted prices. | $1.5M / Seed / Jan 20, 2021 | ||
| See all 28 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About 8i Ventures
8i is an early stage VC fund that backs founders removing friction from consumer and SMBs in India. Seeded Category winners like Slice, M2P, Easebuzz, Blue Tokai, Easebuzz, Transbnk and Signzy.
8i Ventures Contacts
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Muskaan Khilnani
Analyst
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Vikram Chachra
Founding Partner
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What does Raghunandan Gangappa invest in?
Raghunandan Gangappa invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 28 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 Raghunandan Gangappa invest in?
Raghunandan Gangappa typically joins rounds of $400k–$2M at Seed and $2.2M–$13M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Raghunandan Gangappa's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Raghunandan Gangappa took part in.
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When did Raghunandan Gangappa last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Raghunandan Gangappa closed in Sep 2026. Shizune tracks 28 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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