# Rajaraman Santhanam

> Rajaraman Santhanam is a seed investor at Chargebee backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Chargebee](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chargebee)
- Location: Chennai, India
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rajaramansanthanam
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ramanr
- Website: https://x.com/ramanr
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rajaramans

Rajaraman Santhanam is a seed investor at Chargebee in Chennai focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Rajaraman is the Co-founder of Chargebee. He attended Bharathidasan University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.7M–$3.1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 56% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 56% |
| SaaS | 3 | 33% |
| Sales | 2 | 22% |
| Finance | 2 | 22% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 89% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 56% |
| India | 3 | 33% |
| Australia | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Presentations.AI | Presentation AI provides photos, icons, charts, and more. everything design maker personal source to make all animation-like documents create stunning, on-point presentations within minutes our technology ensures that every single slide design is in coherence with the input text automagically is rendered device, instantly, more importantly, you getto share the presentation in the form of a simple link. | $3M | Seed | Jan 30, 2025 |  |
| Bluecopa | Bluecopa is an AI-native finance operations platform designed to automate high-volume reconciliations and accelerate the financial close process. It centralizes transaction data from ERPs, payment gateways, banks, and other sources, enabling real-time visibility into financial operations. Bluecopa automates transaction matching, accountreconciliations, journal entries, and variance analysis through its proprietary Samyx AI engine, achieving 95%+ automation rates and processing millions of transactions in seconds. The platform's continuous close architecture shifts finance teams from periodic, manual processes to autonomous operations with built-in governance, audit trails, and real-time reporting. | $2.3M | Seed | Aug 02, 2022 |  |
| Threado AI | Threado Inc has shut down and was dissolved on 28th March 2025. | $3.1M | Seed | Jul 27, 2022 |  |
| Nanonets | Anyone can build agentic workflows, but AI agents are black boxes that struggle with complex files and processes, like POs, invoices, BoLs and clinical documents. Nanonets agents understand key details in files, work through complex processes and act with transparency, making them the most reliable foundation for building workflows where detailsmatter.Nanonets reduces processing time by 95% by automating messy manual processes and delivering clean data to systems of record like SAP, SFDC and more. That’s why Nanonets is the automation layer global enterprises reach for when accuracy is non-negotiable. | $10M | Series A | Feb 16, 2022 |  |
| Factors.AI | Factors.ai is an AI-powered demand generation and account-based marketing platform that helps B2B teams identify, engage, and convert high-intent accounts efficiently. It acts as a unified solution, rather than juggling multiple tools, by providing intelligent agents that automate tasks across the go-to-market (GTM) stack. | $2M | Seed | Aug 30, 2021 |  |
| Everstage | Everstage is a no-code commissions automation tool that saves Ops and Finance teams time and effort. It provides a transparent and gamified incentives experience to its customer-facing teams Everstage was founded in 2020 and is based in Wilmington, Delaware. | $1.7M | Seed | Aug 11, 2021 |  |
| SuperBeings | SuperBeings is a platform that provides Leaders with the tools, insights, and learning needed to continuously supercharge their teams. Through its platform, the company helps managers get continuous feedback from their team members on themselves and the teams’ work environment while closing the loop with personalized learning and action plans. |  | Seed | Jul 22, 2021 |  |
| Rocketlane | Rocketlane is a professional services automation (PSA) platform designed to enhance project profitability and streamline customer onboarding processes. The platform combines project management, collaboration, and communication tools to help teams plan, track, and execute client-facing projects. It includes features such as task management, documentsharing, time tracking, and customer portals, enabling visibility into project progress for both internal teams and clients. Rocketlane also supports workflow automation, resource planning, and reporting to help organizations coordinate onboarding activities and monitor performance. The system integrates with other business tools to streamline data flow across sales, customer success, and service teams. | $3M | Seed | Jun 23, 2021 |  |
| Outplay | Outplay is a multi-channel sales engagement platform in genuine conversations at scale, & get insights to drive revenue growth. | $2M | Seed | Mar 03, 2021 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Nexus Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nexus-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Speciale Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/speciale-invest) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Axilor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/axilor-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Elevation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elevation-capital-6e8a) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [iSeed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iseed-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Stellaris Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stellaris-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Chargebee

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Chargebee offers subscription and recurring billing system for subscription-based SaaS and eCommerce businesses. It is built with a focus on delivering the best experience to provide a seamless and flexible recurring billing experience to customers and manage customer subscriptions. With the subscription businesses expanding worldwide, eachrecurring revenue business needs more options and flexibility to manage varied billing use-cases. Commercially available since mid-2012, Chargebee is a trusted billing partner for SaaS, Subscription eCommerce, and Membership Services of various sizes, globally. Chargebee’s highly skilled team delivers professional support that helps small businesses quickly implement best practices and compliance requirements. Some of the features that help differentiate Chargebee are the ability to use custom fields, custom domain support with mobile compatible check-out pages, apart from a highly stable REST API for extended flexibility.The company was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

5 contacts available at Chargebee.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Abe Knell | Senior Vice President of Global Sales | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abe-knell |
| Adam Tesan | CRO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-tesan |
| Eric Chan | Global Partnerships | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-chan-304a |
| Germain Brion | SVP Global Sales | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/germain-brion |
| KP Saravanan | Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kp-saravanan |

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## FAQ

### What does Rajaraman Santhanam invest in?

Rajaraman Santhanam invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS 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.

### What is Rajaraman Santhanam's check size?

Rajaraman Santhanam typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$3.1M 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 Rajaraman Santhanam participates in.

### When did Rajaraman Santhanam last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rajaraman Santhanam closed in Jan 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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