Sahil Lavingia
Founder @ shl.vc
San Francisco, United States
Sahil Lavingia is a seed investor at shl.vc in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. Sahil is the founder and CEO of Gumroad.Gumroad exists to help every creative earn a living selling the stuff they make directly to their audience.Previously, he was early at Pinterest — a service that lets users collect, organize, and share the things they are into — and worked on turntable's mobile apps.He designs and buildsproducts for fun and profit.
- Total investments:
- 55
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 2%
Last updated:
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Industries Sahil Lavingia invests in
Stages Sahil Lavingia invests in
Countries Sahil Lavingia invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$9M
- Pre-Seed
- $750k–$2M
- Series A
- $6M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 19 (35%)
- Information Technology 11 (20%)
- FinTech 9 (16%)
- SaaS 6 (11%)
- Financial Services 5 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 27 (49%)
- Pre-Seed 13 (24%)
- Series A 7 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (4%)
- Angel 1 (2%)
Country
- United States 36 (65%)
- India 3 (5%)
- Canada 3 (5%)
- Nigeria 2 (4%)
- Finland 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Monumental Labs is building AI-enabled robotic stone carving factories. | $9M / Seed / Jul 08, 2025 | ||
| BackerKit simplifies the post-campaign fulfillment process by helping project creators handle all the realities of crowdfunding. It allows its clients to survey, collect data, accept pre-orders, and process pledges for fulfillment. BackerKit was founded in 2012 by Rosanna Yau and Maxwell Salzberg and is based in San Francisco, California. | $3M / Equity Crowdfunding / Jun 03, 2025 | ||
| PierSight is constructing a SAR satellite network to provide continuous monitoring for the maritime industry. | Seed / May 20, 2025 | ||
| Accounting software that does the work for you | $9M / Seed / Oct 17, 2024 | ||
| Monumental Labs is building AI-enabled robotic stone carving factories. | $1M / Seed / Sep 26, 2023 | ||
| Puter is a cloud-based virtual computer operating system enabling users to create, store, and edit files remotely. Being a cloud-based platform users are able to access the operating platform through any browser and can also search, preview, sort, and personalize their user Data. | Pre-Seed / May 18, 2023 | ||
| Founded in 2021 by Champ Bennett and Joseph Jorgensen, Capsule is designed to help businesses meet the growing demand for video. Built with CapsuleScript, a first-of-its-kind markup language for video that automates video post-production and makes desktop-quality video possible from any device with a browser, Capsule makes it easy to crowdsource,edit and distribute video. Try it at Capsule.video.Capsule has raised funding from top investors in the AI and creative tools space, including Array Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Swift Ventures, Clark Valberg (Founder of InVision), Amjad Masad (CEO, Replit), Arash Ferdowsi (CTO, Dropbox), Kyle Parrish (Head of Sales, Figma), Mike Mignano (ex-Head of Audio & Video, Spotify), Roy Raanani (Co-Founder, Chorus.ai) and Sahil Lavingia (Founder, Gumroad). | $5.7M / Seed / Feb 14, 2023 | ||
| ValueBase is a software provider that focuses on offering cutting-edge options for real estate assessment.ValueBase's mission is to provide the most complete and accurate data and tools possible to property appraisers and other professionals in order to aid them in making educated judgments. | $1.6M / Pre-Seed / Feb 01, 2023 | ||
| Maven is an online platform for cohort-based courses, enabling experts to create and teach engaging, live online classes on AI, product, engineering, design & more. Founded by Gagan Biyani (Udemy co-founder), Wes Kao (co-founder of altMBA), and Shreyans Bhansali (co-founder of Socratic), Maven empowers instructors with tools to build, market,and scale high-quality learning experiences. | $25M / Sep 15, 2022 | ||
| QA Wolf is a cloud-based platform designed to detect bugs. The company's browser testing platform includes features such as video and logs debugging, email alerts, test creation, code conversion, one-click test running, deployment, and test failures summary, allowing clients to debug programs in an efficient and convenient manner. | $20.1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 07, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
About shl.vc
Investing over $10 million a year into early-stage technology startups, mostly via $100K-$250K checks.
shl.vc Contacts
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Sahil Lavingia
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FAQ
What does Sahil Lavingia invest in?
Sahil Lavingia invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 55 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Sahil Lavingia invest in?
Sahil Lavingia typically joins rounds of $1M–$9M at Seed, $750k–$2M at Pre-Seed and $6M–$30M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Sahil Lavingia's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Sahil Lavingia took part in.
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When did Sahil Lavingia last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Sahil Lavingia closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 55 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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