# Sandeep Chawda

> Sandeep Chawda is a seed investor at Pentathlon Ventures (Pune) backing Banking and Software. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Pentathlon Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pentathlon-ventures)
- Location: Pune, India
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 75%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://in.linkedin.com/in/sandeepchawda

Sandeep Chawda is a seed investor at Pentathlon Ventures in Pune focused on Banking and Software. Sandeep has worked for 18 years, with global software development setups.Prior to founding Clarice Technologies, Sandeep was Senior Director at Symantec (India) where he led the Server Management Group as a general manager as well as an engineering manager. He grew the Pune team to 220+ engineers and was instrumental in setting up strong teamsof over 50 people each, for two emerging VERITAS products. He also led GUI development for all products in the VERITAS Server management family.Sandeep developed an all-rounded, strong and performing organization with diverse skill sets like development, design and architecture, QA, test automation, Doc writing, program management, performance engineering, Usability, Scalability, PM/TPM, Business analytics, etc.Prior to Symantec/VERITAS, Sandeep was responsible for offshore product and application development for clients in US at TELCO's software division, which was later spun off as Tata Technologies.Sandeep holds a B Tech (Honours) in Electronics from Bhilai Institute of technology and an M Tech from IIT, Delhi (1993) where he was awarded the best incoming PG student.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Banking | 2 | 50% |
| Software | 2 | 50% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 50% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 50% |
| CRM | 1 | 25% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OneStack | FinTech, Financial Services, Banking | $2M | Series A | Mar 27, 2025 |  |
| iTuring.ai | CyborgIntell is an Enterprise AI Software company which automate the entire lifecycle of Data Science and Machine learning using AI, to accelerate the data to decision cycles for businesses. In the process, we solve challenges of Talent, time, Complexity of Data Science and Governance of machine learning models. We address the most prevalentproblem of operationalizing ML models into production in real-time through our ML DevOps and with Dynamic AI, our product is a self-learning system that tracks and updates models in real-time. | $1.1M | Seed | Feb 03, 2022 |  |
| ExtraaEdge | ExtraaEdge’s Admission & marketing automation CRM software is specifically designed for educational enterprises. Predict, Manage & Increase their admissions. At ExtraaEdge we use the power of data science & machine learning to help the billion dollar education industry predict their sales i.e. admissions.Think of us as Salesforce +Hubspot for education industry. We operate in the 22.6 billion dollar education marketing software space.We do this via our proprietary Admission & Marketing Automation CRM software built dedicated for the edu industry. This helps edu marketing teams reduce the cost of student acquisition & increase their conversions using our software.Use cases : (0) Predict admissions based on historical data, online, social & funnel intelligence. (1) Increase marketing Return On Investment (ROI ) (2) Increase the efficiency of admission counselling teams via smart follow-ups & calendars (3) Accelerate lead engagement via marketing automation playbooks (4) Track your end to end marketing and admissions activities to take decisions. | $1M | Seed | Mar 21, 2021 |  |
| ExtraaEdge | ExtraaEdge’s Admission & marketing automation CRM software is specifically designed for educational enterprises. Predict, Manage & Increase their admissions. At ExtraaEdge we use the power of data science & machine learning to help the billion dollar education industry predict their sales i.e. admissions.Think of us as Salesforce +Hubspot for education industry. We operate in the 22.6 billion dollar education marketing software space.We do this via our proprietary Admission & Marketing Automation CRM software built dedicated for the edu industry. This helps edu marketing teams reduce the cost of student acquisition & increase their conversions using our software.Use cases : (0) Predict admissions based on historical data, online, social & funnel intelligence. (1) Increase marketing Return On Investment (ROI ) (2) Increase the efficiency of admission counselling teams via smart follow-ups & calendars (3) Accelerate lead engagement via marketing automation playbooks (4) Track your end to end marketing and admissions activities to take decisions. | $1M | Seed | Dec 04, 2020 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [100Unicorns](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/9unicorns) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DevX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dev-accelerator-private-limited) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Faad Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/faad-network) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [IAN Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/indian-angel-network) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sprout Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sprout-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [TiE Pune](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tie-pune) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Pentathlon Ventures

VC Fund · Pune, India

Pentathlon Ventures is helps early stage technology companies grow their business by providing expertise, eco-system & capital.

4 contacts available at Pentathlon Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ajit Mayya | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajit-mayya |
| Hemant Joshi | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hemant-joshi-7e65 |
| Sandeep Chawda | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sandeep-chawda |
| Shashank Deshpande | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shashank-deshpande |

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## FAQ

### What does Sandeep Chawda invest in?

Sandeep Chawda invests primarily in Banking, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Sandeep Chawda last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sandeep Chawda closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 4 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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