Shailesh Ghorpade
Managing Partner and CIO @ Exfinity Venture Partners
Bangalore, India
Shailesh Ghorpade is a seed investor at Exfinity Venture Partners in Bangalore focused on Machine Learning and Software. Shailesh Ghorpade is the Managing Partner and CIO of Reservoir Investment Managers. Shailesh is also the CEO and MD of Azure Capital. He has over 23 years of experience in Project & Corporate Finance, M&A, Strategy, and Private Equity Real Estate (PERE) investments across companies in Financial Services, Energy, IT and Real Estate sectors.He has held senior positions in companies like Birla Global Finance, Tata Finance, Infosys Technologies and Price Waterhouse Coopers. Prior to Azure Capital, Shailesh was the Chief Strategy & Planning Officer at Suzlon. Before Suzlon, he worked for Infosys Technologies as AVP, working with the leadership on long term strategy and key transformation initiatives. He has done management consulting for several Fortune 500 companies in Europe and the USA and has led large transformation programs. Shailesh completed his MBA from JBIMS and B.Sc. (Tech) from UDCT, Mumbai.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 54%
Last updated:
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Industries Shailesh Ghorpade invests in
Stages Shailesh Ghorpade invests in
Countries Shailesh Ghorpade invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Machine Learning 5 (38%)
- Software 3 (23%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (23%)
- Food Processing 2 (15%)
- Information Technology 2 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (54%)
- Series A 2 (15%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (15%)
- Series B 1 (8%)
Country
- India 6 (46%)
- United States 3 (23%)
Investments
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| str8bat's vision is to enable players play better every day and chase their dream by making technology which is accessible to all - both serious and fun playersstr8bat is a sports wearable company which helps passionate players who aspires to become the best and work really hard at perfecting their skills improve their game every day! Wehave been selected as the top 50 sports startup in the world! We give INSTANT, VISUAL and ACTIONABLE insights into one's game by using state-of-art motion sensors and without using any camera. It also tracks performance and helps them to know exactly how much improvement you have been able to make on an ongoing basis. One can even compare how he/she fared against his/her role model. All this through a cutting edge AI engine which automatically identifies the shot types played and helps one to focus on those aspects of the game which needs their attention. | $3.5M / Series A / Oct 03, 2024 | ||
| Hippo Video provides a video customer experience platform that helps businesses engage with their audiences in an authentic way through personalized videos and hence accelerate conversions multifold. Hippo Video leverages AI and machine learning technologies to help businesses create, edit, personalize, and provide actionable analytics for videos.Hippo Video has hundreds of thousands of active users globally and is backed by KAE Capital and Sequoia Surge. | $8M / Series B / Feb 15, 2023 | ||
| NeuralGarage is leveraging the power of AI and Computer Vision to enable content creators to adapt to non-native viewers with ease and improve the experience of content consumption. | $1.5M / Seed / Nov 17, 2022 | ||
| TagZ Foods is a GenZ snack brand that manufactures popped chip snacks and other food products. TagZ Foods offers high-quality snacking experiences for consumers who think with their taste buds and are also intelligent enough to read the nutrition labels on the package. | Seed / Oct 21, 2020 | ||
| Hippo Video provides a video customer experience platform that helps businesses engage with their audiences in an authentic way through personalized videos and hence accelerate conversions multifold. Hippo Video leverages AI and machine learning technologies to help businesses create, edit, personalize, and provide actionable analytics for videos.Hippo Video has hundreds of thousands of active users globally and is backed by KAE Capital and Sequoia Surge. | $4.5M / Series A / Sep 09, 2020 | ||
| GridRaster provides the underlying compute and network stack to power high-end VR/AR experiences on mobile platforms by leveraging the edge cloud. The solution provides high-performance graphics at ultra low latency, while improving the overall performance by 10x. Our vision is to drive the mass adoption of VR/AR by dramatically improvingthe reach of exciting content and bringing breathtaking immersive experiences to users. | $2.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 22, 2020 | ||
| Practically is an edtech platform that focuses on STEM learning for students in grades 6 to 12.The company enables an experience for students from classes 6-12 that makes learning seem fun, engaging, and interactive. It provides an end-to-end solution to educational organizations consisting of a best-in-breed content-enabled learning platform,life-like VFX immersive 3D videos, interactive and experiential simulations, robust real-time assessment engine with built-in cutting-edge machine learning/AI. Practically is the brand name for all 3rdFlix's products.Practically, a product of 3rdFlix is based in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. | $5M / Seed / Sep 04, 2019 | ||
| GridRaster provides the underlying compute and network stack to power high-end VR/AR experiences on mobile platforms by leveraging the edge cloud. The solution provides high-performance graphics at ultra low latency, while improving the overall performance by 10x. Our vision is to drive the mass adoption of VR/AR by dramatically improvingthe reach of exciting content and bringing breathtaking immersive experiences to users. | $2.4M / Seed / Sep 01, 2019 | ||
| BangDB is a converged NoSql database which natively integrates AI and Stream to solve modern and emerging data analytic needs. BangDB is world's fastest database in its category to ensure real time continuous data analysis. BangDB can be embedded into a device for true edge computing or can be deployed on cloud for distributed computing.BangDB supports multiple data models such as Key-Value, Document, Time-series, Large binary data, Graph data. It supports many different indexes such as primary, secondary, nested, composite, geospatial and reverse indexes for powerful and efficient query. | $2.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 26, 2018 | ||
| Fitternity is India's largest online preventive healthcare platform that provides an integrated eco-system to help users start & sustain their fitness journey. It not only enables users to discover, experience and buy professional services (linked to exercise, health eating & overall lifestyle) but actually supports them to use theseservices effectively and meet their goals. Currently integrated with a vast network of 12,000+ verified service partners including gyms, studios, personal trainers, dieticians, healthy food kitchens etc through technology we have powered over 3,00,000 customer transactions and aim to radicalise the way 65 Million urban Indians consume fitness. | $2M / Seed / Apr 02, 2018 | ||
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Co-Investors
Exfinity Venture Partners LLP is focused on funding Technology Ventures but with a difference. We seek to act as a strategic partner to portfolio companies through high impact interventions. Exfinity is promoted by Technology Industry leaders having collective operating experience of over 200 years in a global environment. Our approach seeks toleverage our understanding of global markets, technology trends and proprietary networks to add unmatched value to portfolio companies.
Exfinity Venture Partners Contacts
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Analyst
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Chinnu Senthilkumar
General Partner and Chief Technology Officer
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Nihar Ranjan
Venture Partner
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Shailesh Ghorpade
Managing Partner and CIO
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V Balakrishnan
Partner, Co-Founder
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What does Shailesh Ghorpade invest in?
Shailesh Ghorpade invests primarily in Machine Learning, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Shailesh Ghorpade closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 13 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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