# Saran Chari

> Saran Chari is a Series A investor backing Consumer and Software. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Oct 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/saranchari
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/flixster
- Website: https://www.lumosity.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/saranchari

Saran Chari is a Series A investor in San Francisco focused on Consumer and Software. Saran is CTO of Lumos Labs. Before Flixster, Saran was one of the early employees at the startup Edusoft, where he ran the engineering team. Edusoft provided assessment management software based on unique, low-cost scanning technology to public school districts. Edusoft was bought by Houghton-Mifflin in 2003. Before Edusoft, Saran worked forScient, the former internet consulting firm.Before Scient, Saran earned a BSE in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Consumer | 2 | 33% |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| Events | 1 | 17% |
| Social | 1 | 17% |
| FinTech | 1 | 17% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 50% |
| Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Silk and Sonder | Silk and Sonder is a provider of handcrafted monthly subscription used to help in mental wellness. It is a self-investment subscription service centered around authenticity, wellness, and productivity. The company hand-curates new planners, highlighting the best of planning and productivity, introspection and mindfulness, and lifestyle content, anddeliver it straight to the client's doorstep, every month.Silk and Sonder was established in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $600K | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2019 | https://www.silkandsonder.com |
| Parabola | Parabola is the spreadsheet alternative where you combine the data running throughout your company and create automated processes.Pull in data from any source you can imagine—from scattered spreadsheets and tools, to emails and PDFs—and build logic that replicates the manual work you do every day. Use our canvas to combine and transform yourdata, and surface the results to the right people at the right time so you can do more with the data you rely on. In the process, you’ll codify the steps for every workflow you manage so they become repeatable, shareable, and usable for the whole team.Create solutions for the problems you’ve always wanted to solve, and make your work more shareable and impactful along the way.Parabola is proud to serve companies like Flexport, Sonos, Uber Freight, Brooklinen, and Chubbies and is backed by OpenView Partners, Matrix Partners, Thrive Capital and more. | $2.2M | Seed | May 22, 2018 | https://www.parabola.io/ |
| SafeGraph | SafeGraph builds and maintains data sets to help accelerate machine learning and AI. Its high-precision places data covers business listings, building footprints, and aggregated foot traffic data for millions of points of interest (POI) and thousands of brands in the US and Canada. With detailed brand affiliation, spatial hierarchy, and other keybusiness details, SafeGraph data informs market analytics, investment research, site selection, and more.It was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $16M | Series A | Apr 19, 2017 | http://www.safegraph.com/ |
| Juvo | Juvo was founded with an overarching vision: to establish financial identities for the billions of people worldwide who are creditworthy, yet financially excluded. In partnership with mobile network operators, Juvo’s proprietary Identity Scoring technology uses data science, machine learning and game mechanics to create an identity-basedrelationship with anonymous prepaid users, opening up access to otherwise unattainable mobile financial services. Juvo is a privately held company backed by global business leaders and luminaries in the world of tech, mobile and finance. Its executive team comprises accomplished industry leaders across the data science, consumer internet, financial services and mobile telecom fields. | $14M | Series A | Sep 09, 2016 | http://www.juvo.com |
| Sofa Labs | Sofa Labs is a developer of social applications. It was a winner for fbFund REV 2009. Sofa Labs is the developer behind Thread a social application for fashion. | $1.2M | Series A | Sep 01, 2009 | http://www.sofalabs.com |
| Eventbrite | Eventbrite develops an online platform that lets users find and create events. Its platform helps them plan events, such as event academies, classes and workshops, conferences, endurance, food and drink, music, nonprofits and fundraisers, performing and visual arts, politics, and reunions. Eventbrite's platform also lets users sell tickets,register online, post events, manage events online, register for events for free online, and search San Francisco events. Moreover, the company offers mobile application opportunities. | $1.5M | Debt Financing | Dec 01, 2008 | http://www.eventbrite.com |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Saran Chari invest in?

Saran Chari invests primarily in Consumer, Software and Events startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Saran Chari?

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### When did Saran Chari last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Saran Chari closed in Oct 2019. Shizune tracks 6 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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