# Saurabh Gupta

> Saurabh Gupta is a Series A investor at DST Global backing Software and E-Commerce. See 59 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [DST Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-sky-technologies-fo)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 59
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 36%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saurabh-gupta-1a54b15/

Saurabh Gupta is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at DST Global.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.2M–$20M |
| Series A | $7.9M–$25M |
| Series C | $7M–$150M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 12% |
| E-Commerce | 7 | 12% |
| Financial Services | 6 | 10% |
| FinTech | 5 | 8% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 7% |

63 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 10 | 17% |
| Seed | 9 | 15% |
| Series C | 9 | 15% |
| Series D | 9 | 15% |
| Series E | 6 | 10% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 17 | 29% |
| India | 7 | 12% |
| Colombia | 3 | 5% |
| China | 1 | 2% |
| France | 1 | 2% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Juicebox | Juicebox provides an AI platform that automates talent search, candidate engagement, and recruiting workflows. The platform features AI agents that source profiles from various data and run automated, personalized outreach sequences. It offers tools for talent discovery, real-time market insights, and integration with existing CRM and ATS systems. | $80M | Series B | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| Waymo | Waymo stands for a new way forward in mobility. it is a self-driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around.Waymo improves transportation by building software and sensor technology developed in Google’s labs since 2009. In October 2015, they achieved the world’s first fully self-drivingtrip on public roads, in a car without a steering wheel or pedals. They refine Waymo technology through one billion miles of simulation testing each year, and the cars have self-driven over two million miles on public roads across four U.S. cities.It was founded in 2009 and is located in Mountain View, California. | $16B | Series D | Feb 02, 2026 |  |
| Whatnot | Whatnot is a Los Angeles-based startup that creates a place where avid collectors could come together over shared interests. Whatnot is a marketplace to buy and sell authentic collectible items. Whatnot was founded in 2019, in California. | $225M | Series F | Oct 28, 2025 |  |
| Kontigo | We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app. | $20M | Seed | Sep 01, 2025 |  |
| Harvey | Harvey is an artificial intelligence technology service provider. | $300M | Series E | Jun 23, 2025 |  |
| Slikk | Slikk updates its styles on a regular basis, allowing users to stay up to date on current trends. To keep up with the continuously changing fashion market, Slikk brings the latest trends directly to its clients' doorsteps, with new styles arriving weekly. | $3.2M | Seed | Mar 18, 2025 |  |
| Whatnot | Whatnot is a Los Angeles-based startup that creates a place where avid collectors could come together over shared interests. Whatnot is a marketplace to buy and sell authentic collectible items. Whatnot was founded in 2019, in California. | $265M | Series E | Jan 08, 2025 |  |
| Equal AI | Equal Identity operates as an ID-sharing platform. | $10M | Series A | Nov 11, 2024 |  |
| Harvey | Harvey is an artificial intelligence technology service provider. | $100M | Series C | Jul 23, 2024 |  |
| Clazar | Clazar is your cloud GTM co‑pilot to access committed spend, increase sales pipeline, and close deals faster. Clazar helps ISVs to list on cloud marketplaces within days with minimal technical and zero operational efforts. Send Private Offers within minutes directly from your CRM - Salesforce or HubSpot and charge customers for additional usagewith our simplified metering - manual, bulk upload, APIs, or integration with your metering tool. Get a complete picture of your buyers with Buyer 360 view, end-to-end contract management, and actionable insights with powerful visualizations in our Analytics dashboards. Our Salesforce and HubSpot connectors allow you to run Co-Sell and Marketplace operations directly from your CRM. AEs can create and manage opportunities & private offers with a click of a button and get real-time updates with bi‑directional sync. Completely automated opportunity sync between your CRM and cloud partner portals can also be done easily.Integrate with tools like Slack and be on top of your marketplace business with customizable notifications. The team at Clazar comes with deep expertise in cloud marketplace. We understand where you are in your cloud GTM journey and where you're headed. We pave the way for your success, including product support and guidance around sales training, seller enablement, and Co-Sell activation. | $10M | Series A | Apr 18, 2024 |  |

10 of 59 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Tiger Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiger-global) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Coatue](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coatue) — VC Fund, 8 deals together

## About DST Global

VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong

DST Global is an investment firm that focuses on late-stage ventures in the Internet sector. The firm has invested in several rapidly growing companies. Its offices are in Menlo Park, New York, London, Beijing, and Hong Kong. The firm was founded in 2009 by Yuri Milner, Saurabh Gupta, John Lindfors, Rahul Mehta, and Tom Stafford.

5 contacts available at DST Global.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| John Lindfors | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-lindfors |
| Kriti Bansal | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kriti-bansal |
| Rahul Mehta | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rahul-mehta |
| Saurabh Gupta | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/saurabh-gupta |
| Tom Stafford | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-stafford |

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## FAQ

### What does Saurabh Gupta invest in?

Saurabh Gupta invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 59 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Saurabh Gupta's check size?

Saurabh Gupta typically joins rounds of $3.2M–$20M at Seed, $7.9M–$25M at Series A and $7M–$150M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Saurabh Gupta participates in.

### When did Saurabh Gupta last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Saurabh Gupta closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 59 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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