# SHAKTI

> SHAKTI is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 32 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 32
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last fund: Oct 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shakti-vc/
- Website: https://shaktivc.com

SHAKTI is an early stage tech venture platform that empowers founders reimagining large global habits with new technology. We excel at identifying category leaders before it’s obvious & helping founders scale from zero to IPO via world class mentorship from our TITAN platform of industry stalwarts. Our strategy of small funds, investing at theearly stage is ideal for providing outlier returns as we begin a new tech cycle led by AI and a reset in valuations.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$7M |
| Pre-Seed | $2M–$3.5M |
| Series A | $10M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 28% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 16% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 13% |
| SaaS | 3 | 9% |
| Internet | 3 | 9% |

70 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 18 | 56% |
| Series A | 6 | 19% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 13% |
| Series B | 1 | 3% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 21 | 66% |
| India | 1 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 3% |
| Philippines | 1 | 3% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Elizabeth Harrow | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elizabeth-harrow |
| Keval Desai | Founder and Partner | 55 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keval-desai |
| Natasha Prasad | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/natasha-prasad |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| NextWork | NextWork is developing the world's greatest online learning experience for switching careers. | $4.5M | Seed | Mar 04, 2026 |  |
| alphaXiv | alphaXiv serves applied AI teams by streamlining the path from research to production | $7M | Seed | Nov 19, 2025 |  |
| Cosmoserve Space | Cosmoserve Space is developing autonomous robotic spacecraft to mitigate the rapidly growing problem of orbital debris. | $3.2M | Pre-Seed | Sep 25, 2025 |  |
| Musubi | Musubi is an artificial intelligence company that offers content moderation and fraud detection services across social media apps. | $5M | Seed | Feb 21, 2025 |  |
| Food Health Collective | Ahara offers a nutrition plan that uses data to create a customized diet and supplement plan. |  | Seed | Sep 13, 2024 |  |
| Gimbal Space | Gimbal Space provides reliable and cost-effective satellite products serving the modern space market. Gimbal Space delivers low-cost, reliable, and readily available components for LEO. The company provides integrated and custom solutions suited to your requirements. |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 25, 2024 |  |
| Gimbal Space | Gimbal Space provides reliable and cost-effective satellite products serving the modern space market. Gimbal Space delivers low-cost, reliable, and readily available components for LEO. The company provides integrated and custom solutions suited to your requirements. |  | Seed | May 30, 2024 |  |
| Glacier | Glacier is the creator of the first affordable, high-performing, and space-efficient AI-enabled robot for recycling. |  | Seed | Mar 06, 2024 |  |
| Clove | Clove is a global recipe and culinary platform to make cooking easier for everyone. Clove platform enables recipe producers to post high-quality, easy-to-follow recipes and reach new audiences, while AI and personalization assist ordinary cooks in finding relevant and inspired dishes. |  | Seed | Dec 11, 2023 |  |
| Stable | Stable offers a virtual address and mailroom for startups. It's a headache to change business addresses through moves, puzzling what to use for a business address in a world that's going remote, and old-fashioned to receive physical mail. But it all still happens. Stable was built to make business addresses + mailrooms better. |  | Series A | Nov 13, 2023 |  |

10 of 32 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Haystack](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/haystack) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AUM Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aum-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Blackbird Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackbird-ventures-australia) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cake Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cake-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Climate Pledge Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/climate-pledge-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does SHAKTI invest in?

SHAKTI invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 32 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 SHAKTI's check size?

SHAKTI typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$7M at Seed, $2M–$3.5M at Pre-Seed and $10M–$25M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds SHAKTI participates in.

### How do I contact SHAKTI?

Public channels for SHAKTI include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at SHAKTI?

The team at SHAKTI includes Elizabeth Harrow (Partner), Keval Desai (Founder and Partner) and Natasha Prasad (Venture Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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