Shailesh Rao
Angel Investor
San Francisco, United States
Shailesh Rao is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on E-Commerce and Software. Shailesh Rao
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Shailesh Rao invests in
Stages Shailesh Rao invests in
Countries Shailesh Rao invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $500k–$2.2M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 5 (26%)
- Software 4 (21%)
- FinTech 3 (16%)
- Marketplace 3 (16%)
- Financial Services 3 (16%)
Stage
- Seed 13 (68%)
- Angel 2 (11%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (5%)
- Series A 1 (5%)
- Series B 1 (5%)
Country
- India 8 (42%)
- Singapore 4 (21%)
- United States 3 (16%)
- Indonesia 1 (5%)
- United Kingdom 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Discover every API in your enterprise–including north-south, east-west, shadow, legacy, rogue, zombie, partner, authenticated, unauthenticated, and more.To see the entire API landscape, breadth of discovery matters most. Neosec uses existing API activity data to perform discovery that doesn’t require time-consuming deployment of per-app sensorsor sidecars. Neosec is easy for security teams to deploy, and delivers the broadest coverage that discovers every API and service.Neosec was established in 2021 by Ziv Sivan in Palo Alto, California. | $15M / Series A / Sep 14, 2021 | ||
| Khabri is a digital audio platform for content in vernacular. Ita app allows content creators to create channels and programmes that reach vernacular listeners. Aankit Roy, Pulkit Sharma, and Sandeep Singh launched the company in Haryana, Haryana in 2016. | $2.1M / Seed / Aug 04, 2021 | ||
| AttainU is a full-time, live online college alternative education that teaches students the skills needed for software engineering.The course is a 30-week full-time program that takes students from beginner to career and industry-ready software engineer level, using real-world coding assignments and projects. By the end of the course, studentswill have a solid understanding of Full-Stack web development, software engineering fundamentals, and all the skills to be placed in the industry through AttainU’s hiring partners. Founders Vaibhav Bajpai and Divyam Goel founded the program in Bangalore City, Karnataka in 2018. | Angel / Sep 16, 2019 | ||
| Acquired (Nov 2020)---------Marsplay is an operator of an e-commerce platform enabling users to directly buy products from influencers' looks.Its app helps people buy things they like as endorsed by people they love by making content shoppable through social discovery and commerce platform, enabling customers to discover and sharefashion and beauty trends while enjoying a quality shopping experience.The New Delhi, Delhi-located company was started by Ayush Shukla and Misbah Ashraf in 2017. | Seed / Sep 11, 2019 | ||
| Raena is an Indonesian startup that helps social media influencers launch their own e-commerce brands. Its web-based platform is designed for Indonesian customers to purchase beauty products from Japan and Korea. The company was recently founded by Harvard Business School, Google and Amazon alumna Sreejita Deb, earlier this year. | $1.8M / Seed / Jul 17, 2019 | ||
| Our company's name embodies our vision for the world, to make sustainable choices second nature for a billion people. abillion has helped millions of people worldwide discover community and impact through vegan food, sustainable products and a growing network of people championing sustainability. We've launched the world's firstpeer-to-peer marketplace dedicated to sustainability, and we've helped more than 250,000 businesses globally reach consumers most likely to purchase their products and services.Our culture reflects our community – we have an incredibly diverse team from nearly 20 nationalities and over half of our team are women. We're unapologetic about our work ethic, because our mission is to create a world that's seemingly impossible to imagine but so incredibly beautiful if we bring it to life. | $2.2M / Seed / May 01, 2019 | ||
| Venuelook.com is a marketplace for venue owners and venue seekers. The idea is to disrupt the Venue search and booking space.Its a local commerce problem and an exciting space as 10K+ venues within just the metros in India host 10Lakh+ events over the year. In all of these these events, venue search, booking and logistics is completelydysfunctional ! | Seed / Mar 25, 2019 | ||
| Uniquely positioned as a new age matrimony platform, Betterhalf envisions to build a super app of Indian matrimony and full stack wedding services as company's growth pillars. Founded by Pawan Gupta and Rahul Namdev, Betterhalf recently raised Series A backed by FinSight Ventures (Ex Bumble investor) & other marquee investors includingMike Krieger, Co-founder of Instagram; Arash Ferdowsi, Co-Founder of Dropbox and many others. | $1M / Pre-Seed / Oct 01, 2018 | ||
| Kristal.AI develops a digital private wealth platform designed to make premium investments available to the masses. Its platform unlocks sophisticated investment opportunities for the underserved mass affluent investors and provides a genetic advisory algorithm that helps first-time investors pick the most suitable portfolios (branded as Kristals)according to their financial goals and risk profiles. | $1.9M / Seed / Apr 11, 2018 | ||
| Pixibo™ transforms the way you shop for fashion online. From discovering a new outfit to finding the right fit, Pixibo™ empowers fashion retailers to create relevant and memorable experiences every time they interact with their customers.Uncertainty around fit and size is one of the biggest barriers in online fashion. Powered by ourproprietary fit-profiling algorithm, Pi delivers personalised size & fit recommendation in real time for every shopper, for every style.One line of javascript. Available on desktop, mobile web and app.We turn browsers to buyers and convert buyers to loyal customers with 1-to-1 fashion advice at scale. | Seed / Oct 19, 2017 | ||
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FAQ
What does Shailesh Rao invest in?
Shailesh Rao invests primarily in E-Commerce, Software and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Shailesh Rao invest in?
Shailesh Rao typically joins rounds of $500k–$2.2M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Shailesh Rao's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Shailesh Rao took part in.
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When did Shailesh Rao last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Shailesh Rao closed in Sep 2021. Shizune tracks 19 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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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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