# Ravi Thakur

> Ravi Thakur is a seed investor at StartupXseed Ventures backing Software. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [StartupXseed Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startupxseed-ventures)
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 86%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravi-thakur-13a02aa/

Ravi Thakur is a seed investor at StartupXseed Ventures in Bengaluru focused on Software and Media and Entertainment. Mr.Ravi Thakur is the Co-founding Partner at StartupXseed Ventures, is himself an entrepreneur at heart and loves to mentor/encourage start-ups. Currently Ravi also serves as the Vice President for Sagitaur Ventures focusing on various strategic initiatives. In the past he was the co-founder for a drug discovery and healthcare start-updrugsupdate.com and was also responsible for turning around an innovative organization AlphaFlexi. Ravi holds a PGDBM from ICFAI and Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication from NMU, India.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 29% |
| Media and Entertainment | 2 | 29% |
| DevOps | 1 | 14% |
| Drones | 1 | 14% |
| FinTech | 1 | 14% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 86% |
| Series B | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 6 | 86% |
| United States | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mugafi | Learn from legends, Building World's first Collaborative Economy |  | Seed | Apr 09, 2025 |  |
| Mugafi | Mugafi is a next-generation entertainment company engineering original IPs through a powerful blend of AI, imagination, and cultural storytelling. Combining proprietary AI tools with a creator-first platform, Mugafi enables the development of stories into comics, films, games, and virtual assets at scale. With 30,000+ creators, partnerships acrossIndia, GCC, and SEA, and breakout projects like Kubera, Mugafi is building a vertically integrated studio system — from script ideation to global franchise monetization. | $3M | Seed | Apr 09, 2025 |  |
| plutos ONE | plutos ONE provides Get quick cash vouchers on your phone from leading brands. | $2M | Seed | Aug 27, 2024 |  |
| Aereo | Aarav Unmanned Systems is a bunch of designers, artists, developers & engineers from IIT Kanpur, IIT Bombay, IISc Bangalore & IIST building the future of Drones and their applications in enterprise space. Their Drones provide high-value engineering solutions to enterprises across GIS Surveying/Mapping, Industrial inspection &Precision agriculture. Their drones are 10X faster & generate million X richer data, helping create insightful analytics so that businesses make well-informed decisions. Cost-savings & revenue raise follow naturally. The company develops professional drone solutions for enterprisesAarav Unmanned Systems builds autonomous drones which come with ease of operation and can be operated by any user without specialized training. Drones at AUS are constantly setting world-class tech benchmarks due to tremendous efforts on Drone Intelligence, Hardware optimization & Design innovation for the last 3 years of its existence. The goal is to be global; Having served key players across the verticals, | $15M | Series B | Jul 19, 2024 |  |
| Optiwise | Optiwise is a platform for marketplace optimization based in California. | $1.3M | Seed | Nov 01, 2022 |  |
| Humalect | Humalect is a low-code platform that helps you automate your DevOps. | $750K | Seed | Aug 09, 2022 |  |
| Xurrent IMR (formerly Zenduty) | Zenduty is a provider of end-to-end incident alerting, on-call management and response orchestration platform. | $1.9M | Seed | Oct 27, 2021 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Auxano](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/auxano) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Proneur Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/proneur-network) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [We Founder Circle](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/we-founder-circle) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [100x Entrepreneur](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/100x-entrepreneurs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Awfficacy](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/awfficacy) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BEENEXT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bee-next) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About StartupXseed Ventures

VC Fund · Bangalore, India

StartupXseed Ventures LLP is the Investment Manager of “Aaruha Technology Fund” registered with Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) as Category I - under Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) Regulations 2012.StartupXseed is a Strategic programme, for supporting the aspiring entrepreneurs with great ideas. StartupXseed is a uniqueprogramme combined with Seed fund, Strategic support, Market Access, Mentorship and closely supported by the Investor/advisory board of StartupXseed. It acts as a “Co-Founder/Seed Partner” in helping innovation to succeed in the Technology and Technology enabled areas across sectors in India.Backed by the team of pioneers of IT, Entrepreneurs, Educationist and Industrialist, the StartupXseed provides small business innovators with a complete structured help of Startup eco system to help navigate the unique challenges of building the sustainable growth businesses in India.

5 contacts available at StartupXseed Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| B. V. Naidu | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/b-v-naidu |
| Ravi Thakur | Co-Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ravi-thakur-2 |
| J A Chowdary | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/j-a-chowdary |
| Mohandas Pai | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tv-mohandas-pai |
| V Balakrishnan | Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/v-balakrishnan |

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## FAQ

### What does Ravi Thakur invest in?

Ravi Thakur invests primarily in Software, Media and Entertainment and DevOps startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ravi Thakur last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ravi Thakur closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 7 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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