Sailesh Ramakrishnan
Partner @ Rocketship.vc
San Francisco, United States
Sailesh Ramakrishnan is a Series A investor at Rocketship.vc in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Sailesh Ramakrishnan serves as Chief Technology Officer of LocBox Labs Inc. Sailesh Ramakrishnan is a Partner of Rocketship.vc. Sailesh Ramakrishnan previously served at Kosmix and at Walmart Labs as Director of Engineering. He worked as a Computer Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. Sailesh Ramakrishnan has combination of marketing andengineering experience.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries Sailesh Ramakrishnan invests in
Stages Sailesh Ramakrishnan invests in
Countries Sailesh Ramakrishnan invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $875k–$2.3M
- Series A
- $500k–$32M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 3 (30%)
- Financial Services 3 (30%)
- Apps 1 (10%)
- SaaS 1 (10%)
- Solar 1 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (40%)
- Seed 3 (30%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (10%)
- Series B 1 (10%)
- Funding Round 1 (10%)
Country
- India 7 (70%)
- United States 1 (10%)
- United Arab Emirates 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Qashio is a spend management platform that allows people to monitor costs, make payments with app credit cards, and handle payables. Founded in 2021 and is based in Dubai. | $19.8M / May 27, 2025 | ||
| Mindgrove provides innovative Systems on Chips (SoCs) and hardware. | $8M / Series A / Dec 22, 2024 | ||
| Agnikul is a space tech startup that designs, manufactures, tests, and launch orbital-class rockets for micro and nanosatellites. They currently work out of the National Center for Combustion R&D at IIT-Madras. Rocket scientists, engineers, ex-bankers and space lawyers are a part of their team. This unique blend of people is one of theirbiggest strengths. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. | $26.7M / Series B / Oct 17, 2023 | ||
| Uravu plans to develop fresh ideas for making human life sustainable and our communities responsive and resilient. In order to build a sustainable and better future for everyone, the company believes that the "water" industry is ripe for innovation and needs ground-breaking innovations.High-quality drinking water may be produced usingUravu's award-winning, 100% renewable water technology, which uses the atmosphere's limitless moisture and solely renewable energy.Uravu was established in 2017 in Bangalore, Karnataka. | $2.3M / Seed / Mar 23, 2023 | ||
| Jar is an investment tech startup that allows users to save money by taking spare change from online transactions and investing it in digital gold automatically which can be redeemed anytime or withdrawn easily through UPI. The company was co-founded in 2021 by Nishchay AG and Misbah Ashraf and is based in Bangalore, Karnataka. | $32M / Series A / Feb 03, 2022 | ||
| IppoPay provides Payment Solutions to Small businesses, SMEs, and Freelancers.IppoPay is a Payment Aggregator for businesses that collect and accept payments from their customers using Payment links, Invoice, Subscription, Social Commerce, and UPI. We target businesses, freelancers, homeprenures, and people who do business in Tier 2 and 3 cities,and rural areasSubscription: IppoPay helps small business like milk vendors, newspaper agencies, and Service AMC business/individuals to receive monthly/weekly/daily recurring paymentsSocial Commerce: IppoPay helps bring offline business online. Create your online store in 20 sec. Create an online, showcase & manage your products over social media and increase your sales.UPI and Tap to Phone: We have all kinds of stores/vendors to receive payments via UPI. IppoPay offers stores/sellers a simple way to accept card payments. Contactless payments acceptance through the seller’s smartphone. Sellers do not require additional hardware. Easy to set up on their own phone.Payment Gateway: Accept domestic and international payments with 100+ payment options via Payment Links, Invoice, Web API, SDKs, and eCommerce plugins. | $2.1M / Seed / Jan 11, 2022 | ||
| IppoPay provides Payment Solutions to Small businesses, SMEs, and Freelancers.IppoPay is a Payment Aggregator for businesses that collect and accept payments from their customers using Payment links, Invoice, Subscription, Social Commerce, and UPI. We target businesses, freelancers, homeprenures, and people who do business in Tier 2 and 3 cities,and rural areasSubscription: IppoPay helps small business like milk vendors, newspaper agencies, and Service AMC business/individuals to receive monthly/weekly/daily recurring paymentsSocial Commerce: IppoPay helps bring offline business online. Create your online store in 20 sec. Create an online, showcase & manage your products over social media and increase your sales.UPI and Tap to Phone: We have all kinds of stores/vendors to receive payments via UPI. IppoPay offers stores/sellers a simple way to accept card payments. Contactless payments acceptance through the seller’s smartphone. Sellers do not require additional hardware. Easy to set up on their own phone.Payment Gateway: Accept domestic and international payments with 100+ payment options via Payment Links, Invoice, Web API, SDKs, and eCommerce plugins. | $250K / Pre-Seed / Sep 16, 2021 | ||
| Yulu is a micro-mobility platform that is solving for traffic congestion and air pollution in India by providing human and battery powered micro-light 2 wheelers. Yulu uses IoT, Cloud, and AI to create a vast network of shared dockless vehicles that can be rented easily by an app in pay per use business model. | $3.9M / Series A / Jun 22, 2020 | ||
| Fynd is a leading frontier retail technology company redefining how brands connect with consumers in an increasingly digital and AI-driven world. Founded in 2012 and now backed by Reliance, Fynd has evolved from an omnichannel commerce platform into a full-stack, AI-native operating system for commerce, supply chain, manufacturing, retailexperiences, and media.Built on the belief that commerce is fundamentally about meaningful human connections, Fynd empowers over 2,600+ brands and retailers with a unified platform that seamlessly integrates online and offline operations into a single intelligent ecosystem. From e-commerce storefronts and marketplace integrations to in-store systems, logistics orchestration, warehouse management, and AI-powered automation, Fynd enables businesses to operate in real time, at scale, and with greater efficiency. At the heart of Fynd is a simple philosophy: technology should not add complexity, it should remove it. Businesses today operate across fragmented systems, disconnected workflows, and rapidly evolving customer expectations. Fynd addresses this by bringing every layer of commerce - discovery, engagement, fulfillment, supply chain, manufacturing, and customer retention - onto one integrated platform powered by AI. The result is a connected commerce ecosystem where workflows become more automated, operations become more intelligent, and customer experiences become increasingly personalized.Fynd’s capabilities extend far beyond traditional retail software. The Company has built a growing portfolio of AI-native products across conversational commerce, automation, image intelligence, immersive AR/VR experiences, logistics, manufacturing systems, and marketing infrastructure. This enables businesses not only to sell products, but to design them faster, create content at scale, orchestrate fulfillment intelligently, and engage customers across every touchpoint. Today, Fynd powers millions of shopper interactions every day across digital and physical channels, helping enterprises transform from fragmented operations into connected, data-driven businesses. Its platform processes hundreds of millions of orders annually while supporting some of the world’s leading brands across fashion, beauty, electronics, grocery, luxury, and quick commerce.Today, Fynd is evolving beyond a unified commerce platform into an AI-native operating system for businesses - one that doesn't just support commerce, but runs it | $500K / Series A / May 15, 2017 | ||
| Meograph develops an augmented reality application that makes 3D people from 2D video. It brings users into AR or VR games with their micro-expressions using devices they already have. With just an average smartphone or webcam it literally converts video into 3D locally on the device. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in SanFrancisco, California. | $875K / Seed / Sep 30, 2016 |
Co-Investors
About Rocketship.vc
rocketship.vc is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in companies using models built through data science. Their proprietary Escape Velocity algorithm identifies companies with a Sustainable Growth Engine at their core. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Los Altos, California, United States.
Rocketship.vc Contacts
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Anand Rajaraman
Founding Partner
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Greg Lahann
CFO
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Jon Staenberg
Venture Partner
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Lisa Danna
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Madhu Shalini Iyer
Partner
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FAQ
What does Sailesh Ramakrishnan invest in?
Sailesh Ramakrishnan invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Apps startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Sailesh Ramakrishnan invest in?
Sailesh Ramakrishnan typically joins rounds of $875k–$2.3M at Seed and $500k–$32M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Sailesh Ramakrishnan's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Sailesh Ramakrishnan took part in.
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When did Sailesh Ramakrishnan last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Sailesh Ramakrishnan closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 10 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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