# Shan Krishnasamy

> Shan Krishnasamy is a seed investor at Freshworks backing SaaS, Software and News. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Freshworks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/freshworks)
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Feb 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shankrishna/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shan.krish

Shan Krishnasamy is a co-founder and the chief technology officer of Freshdesk, a company that enables its clients businesses to provide multichannel support via phone, email, chat, website, social networks, and mobile apps. He was previously a technical architect at Zoho Corporation. Krishnasamy holds a bachelor’s degree from TPGIT.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$4.6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 3 | 43% |
| Software | 2 | 29% |
| News | 1 | 14% |
| DevOps | 1 | 14% |
| Internet | 1 | 14% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 71% |
| Angel | 1 | 14% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 4 | 57% |
| United States | 2 | 29% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SWIRL | SWIRL is the premier live shopping mobile SaaS to engage, convert and retain more customers. It uses video as a backbone to power real-time virtual shopping – helping brands build authentic customer engagements by bridging the online-offline gap. Our product improves the probability of sales conversions by turbocharging the pre-purchase journey ofboth new and existing customers using cloud-based interactive video commerce and live shopping software. We are trusted by over 100+ formidable brands from Retail, Lifestyle, Fashion, Beauty, F&B, and many more and we are headquartered in the charming and bustling city of Vadodara. | $1.1M | Seed | Feb 06, 2024 |  |
| Testsigma | Testsigma is a cloud-based platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses automate testing for web, mobile, and API applications. It allows testers to create and run tests faster and easier, with features like natural language processing and AI-powered maintenance. Testsigma integrates with popular CI/CD tools and offers a freetrial. | $4.6M | Seed | Feb 28, 2022 |  |
| Trainn | Trainn helps you to create customer self-serve experience using guided product training videos. Users can create these videos by simply recording their screen and add voice over narrations. | $700K | Seed | Jan 19, 2022 |  |
| SuperBeings | SuperBeings is a platform that provides Leaders with the tools, insights, and learning needed to continuously supercharge their teams. Through its platform, the company helps managers get continuous feedback from their team members on themselves and the teams’ work environment while closing the loop with personalized learning and action plans. |  | Seed | Jul 22, 2021 |  |
| BricSpaces | BricSpaces technology-driven, full-service, real-estate company specializing in designing and delivering a world-class experience. | $350K | Pre-Seed | May 19, 2021 |  |
| The Ken | The Ken is a new, digital, subscription-driven publication headquartered out of Bangalore, India. Founded by a team of experienced journalists and entrepreneurs, The Ken's goal is to deliver fresh and original business insight through well-narrated stories to professionals, entrepreneurs, investors and leaders every morning. | $400K | Angel | Feb 20, 2017 |  |
| Betaout | Betaout develops cloud-based platforms and tools that enable digital agencies to manage content production. It offers ContentCloud, a collaborative platform for editorial publication houses, managing the entire content production right from the ideation, content planning, and delegation to distribution and analytics. | $500K | Seed | Aug 13, 2015 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Axilor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/axilor-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Speciale Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/speciale-invest) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Shastra VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/veda-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arka Venture Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arka-ventures-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BoldCap](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boldcap) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Freshworks

VC Fund · San Mateo, United States

Freshworks provides innovative customer engagement software for businesses of all sizes, making it easy for teams to acquire, close, and keep their customers for life. Freshworks SaaS products provide a 360-degree view of the customer, are ready to go, easy to use, and offer quick return on investment. It was founded in 2010 and Headquartered inSan Mateo, USA.

5 contacts available at Freshworks.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adit Parekh | Director Corporate Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adit-parekh |
| Bobby Jaffari | President, North America | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bobby-jaffari |
| Dennis Woodside | Chief Executive Officer & President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dennis-woodside |
| Pradeep Rathinam | Chief Customer Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pradeep-rathinam |
| Prakash Ramamurthy | Chief Product Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prakash-ramamurthy |

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## FAQ

### What does Shan Krishnasamy invest in?

Shan Krishnasamy invests primarily in SaaS, Software and News startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Shan Krishnasamy's check size?

Shan Krishnasamy typically joins rounds of $500k–$4.6M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Shan Krishnasamy participates in.

### When did Shan Krishnasamy last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Shan Krishnasamy closed in Feb 2024. Shizune tracks 7 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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