# Sailesh Ramakrishnan

> Sailesh Ramakrishnan is a Series A investor at Rocketship.vc backing FinTech. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Rocketship.vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rocketship-vc)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rsailesh
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/leotor

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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $875k–$2.3M |
| Series A | $500k–$32M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 30% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 30% |
| Apps | 1 | 10% |
| Solar | 1 | 10% |
| Water | 1 | 10% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 40% |
| Seed | 3 | 30% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Series B | 1 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 7 | 70% |
| United States | 1 | 10% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Qashio | 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 | Mindgrove provides innovative Systems on Chips (SoCs) and hardware. | $8M | Series A | Dec 22, 2024 |  |
| Agnikul | 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 Labs | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Fynd is India's Largest Fashion O2O company with real-time inventory access to over 9000+ stores. Being a unique fashion e-commerce portal, it brings the latest in-store fashion online. The company channelizes its combined outreach to offer the best brands and fashion along with superior customer services to its ever-growing clientele.Technology plays a major part in the company's growth and APIs are the backbone of this business.Founded by Farooq Adam, Harsh Shah, and Sreeraman MG, the Mumbai-based firm was incepted in 2012 as Shopsense Retail Technologies Pvt Ltd. However, in November 2015 the company pivoted to Fynd, a unique fashion e-commerce portal offering fresh fashion to customers much ahead of any other e-commerce player.In March 2018, Fynd raised an undisclosed amount of funding in its Series C round led by Google and other existing investors including Kae Capital, IIFL, Singularity Ventures, GrowX, Tracxn Labs, Venture Catalyst, Patni family office and Hong Kong-based Axis Capital among other angel investors. The latest round of funding will be utilised to improve engagement between consumers and retailers. So far, Fynd had raised $3.4 Mn funding in Series A from investor groups led by IIFL. The capital was used to reach out to more than 20 million customers and increase inventory to include more than 15 lakh products.Fynd’s capability of sourcing its products across various fashion categories directly from most prominent brands' stores in the country, enables it to develop this edge over any other e-commerce marketplace. At present, Fynd serves customers located across India and receives inventory data from stores in 42+ cities. | $500K | Series A | May 15, 2017 |  |
| Meograph | 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 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Speciale Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/speciale-invest) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Better Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-capital-e839) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [One Way Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/one-way-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tiger Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiger-global) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ABN AMRO Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ABN-AMRO-Ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Anicut Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anicut-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Rocketship.vc

VC Fund · Los Altos, United States

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.

5 contacts available at Rocketship.vc.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anand Rajaraman | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anand-rajaraman |
| Greg Lahann | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-lahann |
| Jon Staenberg | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jon-staenberg |
| Lisa Danna | Investment Specialist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lisa-danna |
| Madhu Shalini Iyer | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/madhu-iyer |

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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 is Sailesh Ramakrishnan's check size?

Sailesh Ramakrishnan typically joins rounds of $875k–$2.3M at Seed and $500k–$32M 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 Sailesh Ramakrishnan participates in.

### 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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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