Shashank Kumar
Angel Investor @ Mars Shot Ventures
Bengaluru, India
Shashank Kumar is a seed investor at Mars Shot Ventures in Bengaluru focused on Software and Financial Services. Shashank Kumar, founder of Razorpay, an online payments gateway. Razorpay hopes to dominate the online payments market by focusing on merchants and business to business (B2B) entities, as compared to digital wallets, which are more consumer-focused.
- Total investments:
- 30
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 3%
Last updated:
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Industries Shashank Kumar invests in
Stages Shashank Kumar invests in
Countries Shashank Kumar invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.2M–$6M
- Pre-Seed
- $140k–$1.2M
- Series A
- $5M–$13M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (23%)
- Financial Services 5 (17%)
- EdTech 4 (13%)
- Information Technology 4 (13%)
- SaaS 3 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 24 (80%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (10%)
- Series A 2 (7%)
Country
- India 23 (77%)
- United States 5 (17%)
- Singapore 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Aina is a consumer hardware business driven by design that is creating the next generation of interfaces for the AI era. | $5.5M / Seed / Jul 16, 2026 | ||
| Nailinit a community-first nail care brand focused on Gen Z and millennial consumers. | $253K / Pre-Seed / Feb 26, 2026 | ||
| Seezo provides security design reviews for every feature a company builds, leveraging Gen AI to scale threat modeling. The platform helps developers ship features faster by identifying potential risks and vulnerabilities. Seezo focuses on application security (AppSec) and aims to integrate security seamlessly into the development process. | $7M / Seed / Oct 27, 2025 | ||
| It is just as easy for people to reach you as it is for you to reach them. This is a bittersweet feeling. There are many (ingenious!) collaboration tools that help us with different type of tasks. What we didn’t anticipate was the noise that having these tools would create in our lives. Cue endless notifications, and feeling that we couldn’t getenough done even at the end of a very busy day.Zivy shows your most important messages where they belong - up top! We help you reclaim the peace and mindspace that dealing with unorganised communication occupies. | $1.2M / Pre-Seed / Sep 11, 2024 | ||
| infinyte.club is a financial services company that helps to create liquidity for ESOPs. | $3.6M / Seed / Aug 12, 2024 | ||
| SiftHub is a knowledge discovery and content generation platform for sales and pre-sales teams. It helps automate all information requests such as infosec questionnaires, vendor assessments, RFPs using AI. | $5.5M / Seed / Apr 03, 2024 | ||
| Jhana provides a suite of research and drafting assistance to Indian legal practitioners. | $1.6M / Seed / Dec 01, 2023 | ||
| Offline is a private members' club for India's top 10% of tech founders and CEOs. | $2M / Seed / Sep 19, 2023 | ||
| It is just as easy for people to reach you as it is for you to reach them. This is a bittersweet feeling. There are many (ingenious!) collaboration tools that help us with different type of tasks. What we didn’t anticipate was the noise that having these tools would create in our lives. Cue endless notifications, and feeling that we couldn’t getenough done even at the end of a very busy day.Zivy shows your most important messages where they belong - up top! We help you reclaim the peace and mindspace that dealing with unorganised communication occupies. | $1.2M / Pre-Seed / Jun 30, 2023 | ||
| Finsire builds lending enablement services by permitting digital assets to be taken as collateral. | $1.3M / Seed / Mar 15, 2023 | ||
| See all 30 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About Mars Shot Ventures
Mars Shot Ventures is a venture capital firm that provides investment and advise to early stage startups.
Mars Shot Ventures Contacts
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Shashank Mehta
Partner
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Vishnu Acharya
Partner
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FAQ
What does Shashank Kumar invest in?
Shashank Kumar invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and EdTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 30 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 Shashank Kumar invest in?
Shashank Kumar typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$6M at Seed, $140k–$1.2M at Pre-Seed and $5M–$13M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Shashank Kumar's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Shashank Kumar took part in.
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When did Shashank Kumar last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Shashank Kumar closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 30 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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