Sheel Mohnot
Partner @ 500 Global
San Francisco, United States
Sheel Mohnot is a seed investor at 500 Global in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Sheel is co-founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures and GP of 500Fintech, investing in pre-seed and seed stage fintech companies. His own startup experience includes 2 successful FinTech exits – a payments company and a high-stakes auction company. He also co-founded the startup podcast called The Pitch. He formerly worked as a financial servicesconsultant at BCG and started his FinTech career at the non-profit p2p lender Kiva. He completed his BS at Carnegie Mellon University.
- Total investments:
- 93
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
Last updated:
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Industries Sheel Mohnot invests in
Stages Sheel Mohnot invests in
Countries Sheel Mohnot invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.9M–$8.5M
- Pre-Seed
- $125k–$3M
- Series A
- $6.9M–$25M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 23 (25%)
- Financial Services 19 (20%)
- Software 15 (16%)
- Finance 9 (10%)
- Payments 8 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 34 (37%)
- Series A 21 (23%)
- Pre-Seed 11 (12%)
- Series B 6 (6%)
- Funding Round 3 (3%)
Country
- United States 35 (38%)
- Mexico 2 (2%)
- India 1 (1%)
- Brazil 1 (1%)
- Colombia 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Basis operates as an AI platform built specifically for accounting firms. | $100M / Series B / Feb 24, 2026 | ||
| InScope build the future of Accounting, Financial Reporting and Audits. | $14.5M / Series A / Feb 20, 2026 | ||
| Kaaj is an agentic AI credit intelligence platform that automates small business loan underwriting from application to decision-ready analysis. The San Francisco-based company integrates seamlessly with existing loan origination systems, enabling lenders and brokers to scale efficiently while maintaining consistency and transparency. Kaaj'smission is to expand access to affordable capital for all small businesses by empowering lenders with category-leading technology. | $3.8M / Seed / Nov 18, 2025 | ||
| howie an email-based scheduling assistant, uses artificial intelligence to automate the scheduling and rescheduling of your meetings. | $6M / Seed / Sep 22, 2025 | ||
| Agree.com is the best solution for creating and managing contracts, streamlining negotiations, enhancing compliance, optimizing workflows, and converting more customers — all within one intuitive platform. View edits, track signatures, and get alerted on all upcoming key milestones. Include free, one-click e-signatures with identity verification onevery agreement. Increase deal velocity and drive revenue impact with integrated payments. | $7.2M / Seed / May 06, 2025 | ||
| Salsa is building a payroll API that can be embedded into software platforms. Its platform is designed to suit the needs of today's workforce and includes a payroll service. The company's platform provides a modern payroll Application Programming Interface, supports a wide range of payroll use cases without overloading frontend code withbusiness logic, and allows businesses to easily embed payroll workflows into the platform, allowing them to build a payroll solution that suits their customers, where employees are paid and compliance is handled. | $20M / Series A / Apr 22, 2025 | ||
| Ethos is creating an end-to-end platform for model risk management in financial services. | $6M / Seed / Feb 27, 2025 | ||
| Nilus is a plug-and-play platform that automates reconciliation, reporting, and payment workflows to empower finance teams with financial transparency and complete control.By unifying data from your payment providers, banks, platform, and ERP, Nilus creates a single source of financial truth for all your payment activity.Nilus provides aseamless plug-and-play experience for financial operators. With our automated workflows, pre-built data connectors, and smart reconciliation algorithms, Nilus eliminates dependence on tech teams and spreadsheets to get the job done. | $10M / Jan 16, 2025 | ||
| Basis operates as an AI platform built specifically for accounting firms. | $34M / Series A / Dec 17, 2024 | ||
| Agree.com is the best solution for creating and managing contracts, streamlining negotiations, enhancing compliance, optimizing workflows, and converting more customers — all within one intuitive platform. View edits, track signatures, and get alerted on all upcoming key milestones. Include free, one-click e-signatures with identity verification onevery agreement. Increase deal velocity and drive revenue impact with integrated payments. | $3M / Pre-Seed / Sep 05, 2024 | ||
| See all 93 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About 500 Global
500 Global offers an accelerator program designed to provide mentorship and resources to startup founders. It facilitates educational programs for investors and operates networking platforms to connect entrepreneurs with mentors and operators. The firm's activities include managing investment strategies focused on diverse geographic regionsand sectors. Through its infrastructure, the company supports the development of innovation ecosystems by providing access to capital and industry expertise.
500 Global Contacts
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Program Coordinator
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Amjad Ahmad
General Partner
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Arın Ozkula
General Partner
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Ashraf Sinclair
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Cecilia Ezquerro
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FAQ
What does Sheel Mohnot invest in?
Sheel Mohnot invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 93 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 Sheel Mohnot's check size?
Sheel Mohnot typically joins rounds of $1.9M–$8.5M at Seed, $125k–$3M at Pre-Seed and $6.9M–$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 Sheel Mohnot participates in.
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When did Sheel Mohnot last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Sheel Mohnot closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 93 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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