Rajesh Yabaji
Chairman, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer @ Blackbuck
Bengaluru, India
Rajesh Yabaji is a seed investor at Blackbuck in Bengaluru focused on Retail and E-Commerce. Rajesh is known for his energy and resilience, and one can see this in his enthusiasm for marathons, and more in his passion for building the world’s largest trucking network. As the Co-Founder and CEO of BlackBuck, Rajesh is charged with constantly moving the company forward. From finance discussions to brainstorming on new product design tobusiness development planning, Rajesh keeps himself involved in all areas of the business. An IIT Kharagpur graduate, Rajesh was heading the Supply Chain division of ITC’s Leaf Tobacco business before starting BlackBuck. He is an inspiring leader who likes to bring out the best in people and help them achieve greater heights by pushing the bar higher. Speaking about pushing the bar higher, Rajesh has been a pole vaulter too.
- Total investments:
- 20
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Rajesh Yabaji invests in
Stages Rajesh Yabaji invests in
Countries Rajesh Yabaji invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$4.2M
- Pre-Seed
- $200k–$2M
- Series A
- $5M–$12M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Retail 4 (20%)
- E-Commerce 4 (20%)
- Marketplace 4 (20%)
- B2B 2 (10%)
- Fitness 2 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 13 (65%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (15%)
- Series A 3 (15%)
Country
- India 15 (75%)
- Singapore 1 (5%)
- United States 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Flent
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Flent offers fully furnished designer homes. | $1.9M / Seed / Jan 07, 2026 | |
Oolka
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Oolka is a credit-building website that connects lenders and borrowers and shows credit scores. | $7M / Seed / Sep 24, 2025 | |
Covvalent
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Covvalent is a B2B cross-border commerce that provides tech-enabled solutions for the reliable supply chain of the specialty chemicals industry. Covvalent offer a range of pigments, resins, additives, binders, and polymers across various industries | $4.2M / Seed / Nov 28, 2022 | |
Bonatra
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Bonatra is holistic men's health company creating a convergence of medical science, data science and technology to manage and reverse chronic men's diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, and other issues. | $673K / Pre-Seed / Nov 21, 2022 | |
AlmaBetter
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AlmaBetter provides risk-free education to students and helps them realize their potential. | $2.6M / Seed / Nov 02, 2022 | |
Exprto Live
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Exprto connects students with the toppers in their exams through an online platform and get personal and comprehensive preparation guidance on call. | $639.6K / Seed / Jun 10, 2022 | |
OpsLyft
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OpsLyft Inc. is a San-Francisco & Noida-based technology company working towards building the future of cloud infrastructure management for internet companies across the world. The company leverages artificial intelligence and analytics to deliver insights and automate routine workflows that help software teams build, test, and deploy anyworkload on any cloud with no downtimes and at the lowest possible cloud infrastructure spend. Our mission is to simplify cloud management for all internet companies across the world. We are currently working with some of the largest companies across India - Inshorts, Innovaccer, Purplle, Zenoti etc. and are rapidly expanding our presence in the US geography as well. In addition to it, we are backed by some of the top investors from Silicon Valley and India. | $1M / Seed / Apr 16, 2022 | |
Agrizy
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Agrizy is developing a tech-first platform to bridge the processed agri supply chain. | $4M / Seed / Apr 04, 2022 | |
BeepKart
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BeepKart is building a buyer-focused brand of used 2-wheelers. It is taking a digital-first approach to provide the trust that buyers seek in this high consideration & involvement category. BeepKart is helping write buyer-friendly rules to make the experience of buying and owning a used 2-wheeler as haggle-and-hassle-free as with new2-wheelers. | $3M / Seed / Sep 22, 2021 | |
Yojak
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We at Yojak are building India’s first B2B managed marketplace for finishing building materials, that helps retailers and manufacturers increase their business. Our long term vision is to build the whole ecosystem for building materials catering to global demand through a global footprint of supply. | $3.8M / Seed / Aug 17, 2021 | |
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Co-Investors
About Blackbuck
Keeping technology at the core, Blackbuck is redefining the logistics landscape of India, making it reliable and efficient. Blackbuck's comprehensive approach to problems creates impact on the entire ecosystem of transportation, which stitches across large number of livelihoods. The transportation sector is ripe for a revolution, and Blackbuckmarks the beginning.Founded in 2015, BlackBuck has been a pioneer in bringing the offline operations of trucking online, be it matching a shipper with a trucker or reshaping the infrastructure around trucking to facilitate payments, insurance, and financial services. BlackBuck is committed to making it easier for millions of truckers to book a load and move at capacity and enable shippers of all sizes to have access to the right truck, at the right time for the right price – all at a click of a button. Today, BlackBuck is India’s largest trucking network, and the company’s robust technology platforms deliver reliability, efficiency and seamless experience for shippers and truckers. BlackBuck is powered by a 2000 strong incredible team and is supported by the best of investors’ fraternity that includes Accel Partners, Apoletto Asia, B Capital, Flipkart, Goldman Sachs, IFC, Light Street, Sands Capital, Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global and Wellington. BlackBuck has won ‘CNBC-TV18 - Young Turks Startup of the Year’ award and ‘Zee Business- Company of the year-Logistics’ award in 2018. BlackBuck is also the subject of a ‘Harvard Business School’ case study.
Blackbuck Contacts
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Abhishek Verma
COO – Services Platform
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Dhaval Chudasama
Associate Director, Products
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Karteek Narumanchi
Director, Products
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Nipun Katyal
Sr. Director and National Sales Head
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Rajesh Yabaji
Chairman, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
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FAQ
What does Rajesh Yabaji invest in?
Rajesh Yabaji invests primarily in Retail, E-Commerce and Marketplace startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Rajesh Yabaji's check size?
Rajesh Yabaji typically joins rounds of $1M–$4.2M at Seed, $200k–$2M at Pre-Seed and $5M–$12M 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 Rajesh Yabaji participates in.
When did Rajesh Yabaji last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Rajesh Yabaji closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 20 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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