# Sheel Mohnot

> Sheel Mohnot is a seed investor at Better Tomorrow Ventures backing FinTech. See 90 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Better Tomorrow Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-tomorrow-ventures-bebf)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 90
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smohnot
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/pitdesi
- Website: https://x.com/pitdesi
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/smohnot

Sheel Mohnot is a seed investor at Better Tomorrow Ventures 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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$8.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $125k–$3M |
| Series A | $6.9M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 23 | 26% |
| Financial Services | 19 | 21% |
| Software | 15 | 17% |
| Finance | 9 | 10% |
| Payments | 8 | 9% |

61 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 34 | 38% |
| Series A | 21 | 23% |
| Pre-Seed | 10 | 11% |
| Series B | 6 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 4% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 35 | 39% |
| Mexico | 2 | 2% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Colombia | 1 | 1% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Basis | Basis operates as an AI platform built specifically for accounting firms. | $100M | Series B | Feb 24, 2026 |  |
| InScope | InScope build the future of Accounting, Financial Reporting and Audits. | $14.5M | Series A | Feb 20, 2026 |  |
| Kaaj AI | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Ethos is creating an end-to-end platform for model risk management in financial services. | $6M | Seed | Feb 27, 2025 |  |
| Nilus | 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 | Basis operates as an AI platform built specifically for accounting firms. | $34M | Series A | Dec 17, 2024 |  |
| Agree.com | 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 |  |

10 of 90 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venture-partners-2) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [9Yards Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/9yards-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Commerce Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/commerce-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Deciens Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deciens-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

## About Better Tomorrow Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Better Tomorrow Ventures is a fintech-focused early-stage venture firm. The venture firm was founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco, California.

2 contacts available at Better Tomorrow Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sheel Mohnot | Co-Founder and Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sheel-mohnot |
| Jacob Gibson | Co-Founder and Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jacob-gibson |

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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 90 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 $2M–$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.

### When did Sheel Mohnot last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sheel Mohnot closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 90 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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