# Shailesh Ghorpade

> Shailesh Ghorpade is a seed investor at Reservoir Investment Managers backing Machine Learning. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Reservoir Investment Managers](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reservoir-investment-managers)
- Location: Bangalore, India
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 64%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shailesh-ghorpade-4661b26

Shailesh Ghorpade is a seed investor at Reservoir Investment Managers 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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Machine Learning | 5 | 45% |
| Software | 3 | 27% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 27% |
| Food Processing | 2 | 18% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 18% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 55% |
| Series A | 2 | 18% |
| Series B | 1 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 9% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 6 | 55% |
| United States | 3 | 27% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Str8bat Sport Tech Solutions | 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 | A first in class, Video Customer Experience(CX) 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 active users globally and is backed by KAE Capital and Sequoia Surge. | $8M | Series B | Feb 15, 2023 |  |
| NeuralGarage | 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 | 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 | A first in class, Video Customer Experience(CX) 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 active users globally and is backed by KAE Capital and Sequoia Surge. | $4.5M | Series A | Sep 09, 2020 |  |
| Grid Raster | 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 | 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. | $3.5M | Seed | Sep 04, 2019 |  |
| BangDB | 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 |  | Jul 26, 2018 |  |
| Fitternity | 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 |  |
| AgShift | AgShift is putting technology to work to empower food organizations with better automation, better tools, better efficiencies and better insights to improve food quality and to reduce food waste.Our current focus is to automate the food quality assessment and grading process for the industry. Utilizing the latest in Artificial Intelligence (AI),Internet of Things (IoT), computer vision and algorithms, we have built the industry’s most advanced, AI-enabled, food quality analyzer—Hydra. Hydra automates quality assessment of agricultural commodities under fresh produce and edible nuts such as strawberries, almonds, blueberries, baby carrots, etc. This patented turnkey solution enables better, faster and objective grading at scale throughout the food supply chain, resulting in a digitized audit trail, better operational efficiencies and significant reduction of food waste across the supply chain. | $1.5M | Seed | Mar 18, 2018 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kae Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kae-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MaC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mac-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [100Unicorns](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/9unicorns) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alpha Wave Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpha-wave-global) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alpha Wave Incubation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpha-wave-incubation-af7e) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barclays-accelerator) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Reservoir Investment Managers

VC Fund · Bangalore, India

Reservoir Investment Managers LLP (Reservoir) is an investment management company focused on funding Technology Ventures but with a difference. Reservoir seeks to act as a strategic partner to the investee companies providing high impact interventions to make them successful.

2 contacts available at Reservoir Investment Managers.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chinnu Senthilkumar | CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chinnu-senthil-kumar |
| Shailesh Ghorpade | Managing Partner & CIO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shailesh-ghorpade |

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## FAQ

### 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 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Shailesh Ghorpade last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Shailesh Ghorpade closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 11 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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