# Sahil Lavingia

> Sahil Lavingia is a seed investor at shl.vc backing Software and Information Technology. See 55 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [shl.vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sahil-lavingia-76d1)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 55
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 2%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/sahil-lavingia/54/648/103
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/shl
- Website: http://sahillavingia.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sahil.lavingia

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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$9M |
| Pre-Seed | $750k–$2M |
| Series A | $6M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 19 | 35% |
| Information Technology | 11 | 20% |
| FinTech | 9 | 16% |
| SaaS | 6 | 11% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 9% |

99 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 27 | 49% |
| Pre-Seed | 13 | 24% |
| Series A | 7 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 4% |
| Angel | 1 | 2% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 36 | 65% |
| India | 3 | 5% |
| Canada | 3 | 5% |
| Nigeria | 2 | 4% |
| Finland | 1 | 2% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Monumental Labs | Monumental Labs is building AI-enabled robotic stone carving factories. | $9M | Seed | Jul 08, 2025 |  |
| BackerKit | 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 Space | PierSight is constructing a SAR satellite network to provide continuous monitoring for the maritime industry. |  | Seed | May 20, 2025 |  |
| Kick | Accounting software that does the work for you | $9M | Seed | Oct 17, 2024 |  |
| Monumental Labs | Monumental Labs is building AI-enabled robotic stone carving factories. | $1M | Seed | Sep 26, 2023 |  |
| Puter | 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 |  |
| Capsule | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 55 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Expa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/expa) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Tiger Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiger-global) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Village Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/village-global-2) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Foundation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundation-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About shl.vc

VC Fund

Investing over $10 million a year into early-stage technology startups, mostly via $100K-$250K checks.

2 contacts available at shl.vc.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sahil Lavingia | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sahil-lavingia |
| Sandeep Bansal | Venture Scout | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sandeep-bansal |

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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 is Sahil Lavingia's check size?

Sahil Lavingia typically joins rounds of $1M–$9M at Seed, $750k–$2M at Pre-Seed and $6M–$30M 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 Sahil Lavingia participates in.

### 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.

### 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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