# Sheila Gulati

> Sheila Gulati is a seed investor at Tola Capital (Seattle) backing Software and SaaS. See 31 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Tola Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tola-capital)
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 31
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheilagulati

Sheila Gulati is a seed investor at Tola Capital in Seattle focused on Software and SaaS. Sheila Gulati is the Managing Director and Founder of Tola Capital. She is a former General Manager at Microsoft. She attended Georgetown University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 29% |
| SaaS | 6 | 19% |
| Enterprise Software | 6 | 19% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 19% |
| Analytics | 5 | 16% |

50 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 26% |
| Series A | 6 | 19% |
| Series B | 4 | 13% |
| Series C | 4 | 13% |
| Private Equity | 2 | 6% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 15 | 48% |
| Germany | 2 | 6% |
| Norway | 1 | 3% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BottleCap AI | BottleCap AI is a company that focuses on architecture-first, efficiency-focused basic LLMs designed to reason better per unit of CPU and enable previously impossible applications. | $7.5M | Seed | Jan 29, 2026 |  |
| Pay-i | Pay-i is a technology company. | $4.9M | Seed | May 21, 2025 |  |
| Tana | Tana is a software development company that reinvents how humans, teams, and computers work together. Tana was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Oslo, Norway. | $14M | Series A | Feb 03, 2025 |  |
| Nooks | Nooks is an applied AI lab that powers modern sales organizations. Our platform automates sales busywork so reps can focus on the human side of selling and generate more qualified pipeline from outbound. Sellers access a single platform for prospecting, coaching, and calling. The platform learns through AI-powered feedback loops, helping teams tobe more targeted and effective in their outbound. Thousands of sales teams at companies like Hubspot, ZoomInfo, Deel, and Udemy rely on the Nooks platform. | $43M | Series B | Oct 22, 2024 |  |
| Klarity | Klarity's software simplifies your ASC 606 or IFRS 15 customer contract review process. Klarity normalizes your contract review controls through a standardized checklist, uses Machine Learning to review customer contracts for clauses with potential revenue impact, documents technical Revenue Recognition impact according to ASC 606 or IFRS 15,and stores all relevant documents (e.g. MSA, Order Form, RevRec schedule and Invoice) in one record. Klarity was founded by Andrew Antos, a Harvard lawyer, and Nischal Nadhamuni, an MIT Computer Science graduate. | $70M | Series B | Jun 24, 2024 |  |
| Nooks | Nooks is an applied AI lab that powers modern sales organizations. Our platform automates sales busywork so reps can focus on the human side of selling and generate more qualified pipeline from outbound. Sellers access a single platform for prospecting, coaching, and calling. The platform learns through AI-powered feedback loops, helping teams tobe more targeted and effective in their outbound. Thousands of sales teams at companies like Hubspot, ZoomInfo, Deel, and Udemy rely on the Nooks platform. | $22M | Series A | Apr 24, 2024 |  |
| Pulumi | Pulumi is a Seattle-based cloud engineering company that offers a way to build, connect, and run modern cloud applications. Pulumi provides the cloud development model: helping Development and DevOps teams get their code to the cloud quickly and collaboratively. Pulumi provides frameworks and libraries to define, deploy, and manage cloud services-- from serverless to container to virtual machines -- using pure code, for any cloud, with clear collaboration for teams and enterprises delivering on the cloud, multi-cloud, and cloud-native application delivery strategies. | $41M | Series C | Oct 03, 2023 |  |
| Navier | Navier is America's next-generation maritime company. Our mission is to build the most compelling zero-emission marine vessels, which drastically reduce operational costs and enable a new kind of clean, scalable waterborne transportation for people and goods worldwide. | $7.2M | Seed | Feb 07, 2022 |  |
| Klarity | Klarity's software simplifies your ASC 606 or IFRS 15 customer contract review process. Klarity normalizes your contract review controls through a standardized checklist, uses Machine Learning to review customer contracts for clauses with potential revenue impact, documents technical Revenue Recognition impact according to ASC 606 or IFRS 15,and stores all relevant documents (e.g. MSA, Order Form, RevRec schedule and Invoice) in one record. Klarity was founded by Andrew Antos, a Harvard lawyer, and Nischal Nadhamuni, an MIT Computer Science graduate. | $18M | Series A | Jan 24, 2022 |  |
| VergeSense | VergeSense is the leading workplace analytics platform trusted by enterprises across the globe. Businesses use VergeSense to transform their static office into a dynamic workplace that matches today's employee needs and expectations. Its AI-driven platform includes intelligent sensors that measure how space is used in real-time. That data isanalyzed in a workplace analytics dashboard and integrated into essential hybrid work software applications, like room and desk booking, room availability, employee mobile apps, IWMS and BMS tools and more. Companies use VergeSense to reduce or reinvest real estate, improve building operations, and create spaces where employees can thrive. The impact is reduced costs, higher productivity, improved culture and employee retention, and better sustainability. | $60M | Series C | Nov 08, 2021 |  |

10 of 31 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Picus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/picus-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Arsenal Growth Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arsenal-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Clearvision Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clearvision-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FTV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ftv-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Greylock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Invus](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/invus) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Tola Capital

VC Fund · Seattle, United States

Founded in 2010 by ex-software operators, Tola Capital is a venture capital firm that believes in the power of software and data to transform the way the world works. Our diverse team provides hands-on engagement to founders who build solutions with the potential for long-term, transformational change. We invest globally across multiple stages andexclusively target companies led by exceptional talent who are building essential software for enterprise customers.

5 contacts available at Tola Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aaron Fleishman | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aaron-fleishman |
| Akshay Bhushan | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akshay-bhushan-eb2c |
| Jake Nibley | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jake-nibley |
| Phil Sorgen | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/phil-sorgen |
| Sheila Gulati | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sheila-gulati |

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## FAQ

### What does Sheila Gulati invest in?

Sheila Gulati invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 31 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Sheila Gulati last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sheila Gulati closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 31 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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