# Sameer Nigam

> Sameer Nigam is a seed investor in Bengaluru backing E-Commerce and B2B. See 5 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanigam/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/_sameernigam?lang=en

Sameer Nigam is a seed investor in Bengaluru focused on E-Commerce and B2B. Sameer Nigam is the founder and CEO of PhonePe. He used to be the senior vice president, engineering of Flipkart.com. He earned his degree at University of Mumbai and his MBA at The Wharton School.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 40% |
| B2B | 1 | 20% |
| SaaS | 1 | 20% |
| Shoes | 1 | 20% |
| Content | 1 | 20% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Angel | 1 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |
| Series B | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 3 | 60% |
| United States | 2 | 40% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Equal AI | Equal Identity operates as an ID-sharing platform. | $30M | Series B | Jun 12, 2026 | https://www.equal.in/ |
| Virgio | Virgio is an early-stage, tech-led, direct-to-consumer fast fashion brand which aims to provide Trendy, Elegant and Affordable clothing to its fashion-forward users. It's completely vertically integrated brand which takes care of right from trend curation, fashion designing, manufacturing to selling goods on its own properties. | $9.9M | Series A | Dec 06, 2022 | https://virgio.com/ |
| Bzaar | Bzaar is an online B2B cross-border marketplace for products like home improvements, fashion, cookware, bakeware, etc for small businesses. Founded in 2020, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $4M | Seed | Sep 20, 2021 | https://www.bzaar.com |
| Raise Financial Services | Raise Financial Services offers financial services across financing, insurance, investments, payments, and wealth. |  | Seed | Feb 25, 2021 | https://www.raiseholding.co/ |
| Artifacia | Artifacia helps merchants use authentic customer photos and videos in their marketing to deliver better commerce experiences to millions of users around the world. We are building and leveraging cutting-edge machine learning and computer vision algorithms to power our platform and bring our product innovations to the market. |  | Angel | Jan 14, 2016 | http://www.artifacia.com/ |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Prosus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prosus-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Canaan Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canaan-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mirae Asset Venture Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mirae-asset-venture-investment) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alpha Wave Incubation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpha-wave-incubation-af7e) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [peercheque](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peercheque) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Sameer Nigam invest in?

Sameer Nigam invests primarily in E-Commerce, B2B and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Sameer Nigam?

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### When did Sameer Nigam last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sameer Nigam closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 5 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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