# Rohan Puranik

> Rohan Puranik is a seed investor at WestWave Capital backing Software. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [WestWave Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/westwave-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Jul 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rohanrpuranik

Rohan Puranik is a seed investor at WestWave Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Rohan Puranik is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Partner of WestWave Capital. Rohan previously worked at MindSumo as a co-founder and CTO. Rohan Puranik attended the Stanford University.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 47% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 33% |
| Robotics | 3 | 20% |
| Cyber Security | 3 | 20% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 20% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 27% |
| Convertible Note | 3 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Koop | Koop’s trust management platform helps navigate the complexities of regulatory compliance, security reviews, and liability insurance in a single place.Founders and operators have to go through stringent procurement before they can land a deal with enterprise or government customers. Growing compliance standards, never-ending security reviews, andhigh-limit insurance requirements can derail budgets and timelines even for the most ambitious projects.Koop liberates tech companies from the procurement burden by combining compliance, security, and insurance in a single platform! Companies can achieve many compliance certifications (e.g. SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA), do security questionnaires, and purchase required liability insurance (e.g. General Liability, Cyber, Directors & Officers) without leaving the platform.It's an easy, affordable, and integrated experience that puts your contractual requirements first!Koop serves various verticals including Robotics & Autonomous Vehicles, AI, Aerospace, Energy & Climate, Manufacturing, Biotech, and more.Koop has raised venture funding from such renowned investors as AlleyCorp, Ubiquity Ventures, Bee Partners, and Hyundai Motor Group and is backed by global insurance carriers.Don't settle for incomplete and expensive vendors. Start your end-to-end trust management journey with us at koop.ai and secure your next million-dollar contract with ease!Interested in joining our team? Please check the careers page for the latest positions: koop.ai/careers. | $4.5M | Seed | Jul 11, 2023 |  |
| Koop | Koop’s trust management platform helps navigate the complexities of regulatory compliance, security reviews, and liability insurance in a single place.Founders and operators have to go through stringent procurement before they can land a deal with enterprise or government customers. Growing compliance standards, never-ending security reviews, andhigh-limit insurance requirements can derail budgets and timelines even for the most ambitious projects.Koop liberates tech companies from the procurement burden by combining compliance, security, and insurance in a single platform! Companies can achieve many compliance certifications (e.g. SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA), do security questionnaires, and purchase required liability insurance (e.g. General Liability, Cyber, Directors & Officers) without leaving the platform.It's an easy, affordable, and integrated experience that puts your contractual requirements first!Koop serves various verticals including Robotics & Autonomous Vehicles, AI, Aerospace, Energy & Climate, Manufacturing, Biotech, and more.Koop has raised venture funding from such renowned investors as AlleyCorp, Ubiquity Ventures, Bee Partners, and Hyundai Motor Group and is backed by global insurance carriers.Don't settle for incomplete and expensive vendors. Start your end-to-end trust management journey with us at koop.ai and secure your next million-dollar contract with ease!Interested in joining our team? Please check the careers page for the latest positions: koop.ai/careers. | $2.5M | Seed | Aug 23, 2021 |  |
| Kleeen Software | No-code platform using AI and best practices to create UI design, UX workflows, and front-end code |  | Convertible Note | Jan 08, 2021 |  |
| Root AI | Root AI is a research company aiming to create intelligent robots that will help growers build the farms of the future. The company was founded in 2018 by Josh Lessing and Ryan Knopf and is based in Woburn, Massachusetts, United States. | $7.2M | Seed | Aug 13, 2020 |  |
| CloudVector | CloudVector protects an organization’s internally-developed APIs, third-party application APIs, and the data carried within them. CloudVector provides deep visibility, beyond just the endpoints, into the data transmitted within each API. This unparalleled level of data visibility allows CloudVector to protect your organization’sinternally-developed APIs, third-party application APIs, and the data carried within them. |  | Convertible Note | Mar 24, 2020 |  |
| OnSpecta | OnSpecta's software, DLS, significantly accelerates AI inference workloads in the cloud and the edge. It Deep Learning Software (DLS) AI optimization engine can deliver significant performance enhancements over commonly used CPU-based machine learning (ML) frameworks. |  | Convertible Note | Jan 15, 2020 |  |
| Oloid | OLOID is a passwordless authentication platform tailored for frontline workers and shared devices. Fortune 500 companies in manufacturing, retail, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and other frontline industries rely on OLOID to securely authenticate deskless workers using non-smartphone enabled factors such as face, NFC, RFID badges, etc., all whilemeeting strict security and regulatory requirements. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, OLOID is backed by leading investors including Dell Technologies Capital, Yaletown Partners, Honeywell Ventures, Okta Ventures, Unusual Ventures, and Emergent Capital. |  |  | Aug 09, 2019 |  |
| Oloid | OLOID is a passwordless authentication platform tailored for frontline workers and shared devices. Fortune 500 companies in manufacturing, retail, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and other frontline industries rely on OLOID to securely authenticate deskless workers using non-smartphone enabled factors such as face, NFC, RFID badges, etc., all whilemeeting strict security and regulatory requirements. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, OLOID is backed by leading investors including Dell Technologies Capital, Yaletown Partners, Honeywell Ventures, Okta Ventures, Unusual Ventures, and Emergent Capital. |  | Seed | Aug 09, 2019 |  |
| Mesmer | Mesmer is a Robotics Process Automation for Software Development (RPAD) company. The AI-powered bots will help them to create beautiful apps at a speed not possible today and they believe the way software gets created will change radically over the next decade. It also handles all of it with a full-stack customer experience testing solution.Mesmer provides products including bug reporter, infrastructure builder, autonomous crawler, UAT creator, test generator, and test runner. The company is based in Palo Alto, California, USA. | $15M | Series A | Jul 10, 2019 |  |
| CloudVector | CloudVector protects an organization’s internally-developed APIs, third-party application APIs, and the data carried within them. CloudVector provides deep visibility, beyond just the endpoints, into the data transmitted within each API. This unparalleled level of data visibility allows CloudVector to protect your organization’sinternally-developed APIs, third-party application APIs, and the data carried within them. | $5M | Seed | Jul 02, 2019 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bee Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bee-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Firebolt Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firebolt-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SignalFire](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/signal-fire) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ubiquity Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ubiquity-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Wisemont Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wisemont-capital-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AgFunder](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/agfunder) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About WestWave Capital

VC Fund · Redwood City, United States

WestWave Capital is an early-stage Venture Capital firm that invests in Seed and Series A Enterprise companies building deep technology solutions. They focus on SaaS, security, cloud infrastructure, blockchain, analytics, and IoT companies.

5 contacts available at WestWave Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gaurav Manglik | Partner | — |
| Rong Cao | Partner | — |
| Gail Haney | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gail-haney |
| Rohan Puranik | Partner | — |
| Warren Weiss | Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/warren-weiss |

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## FAQ

### What does Rohan Puranik invest in?

Rohan Puranik invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics startups, most often at Seed and Convertible Note stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Rohan Puranik last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rohan Puranik closed in Jul 2023. Shizune tracks 15 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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