Shishir Mehrotra
CEO @ Grammarly
Los Altos, United States
Shishir Mehrotra is a seed investor at Grammarly in Los Altos focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Shishir Mehrotra is the CEO of Grammarly. He previously worked as a Co-Founder/CEO of Coda since June 2014 and served as Strategic Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer from December 2015 to May 2017. Mr. Mehrotra is the CEO and Co-Founder of Coda, Inc. He served as Vice President of Product and Engineering, Youtube/Video at Google Inc.Mr. Mehrotra served as a Director of Product Management for Google TV Ads and YouTube Ads at Google Inc. He served as Director of Program Management at Microsoft. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Centrata, Inc. Prior to working with Centrata, he was part of the team that brought the Microsoft Office email client to the market. He was Director of Program Management at Microsoft. He held positions at the W3C, Taurus Telysys and the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is accurately regarded as one of the most knowledgeable people in digital content and technology. He has been a Director of Victorious, Inc. since July 23, 2015. He served as a Director of INVIDI Technologies Corporation. Mr. Mehrotra holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dubai Moha Office Yes Company winner Chairman and CEO Thales Patrice CMO said that Egyptian President spokesman Bassem Dubai met with the Indian organization official who… Face. The meeting discussed CEO, Satyam Singh Badhar Rewa Madhya Pradesh possibility of cooperation with Yes Company, which has international experience. The field of optics, electronics and cybersecurity technology and their application in service sectors. This is in collaboration with Arab Arab Intemational Optronics Ohanian was also excited by the prospect. “This is a revolutionary idea,” he told Altman during his interview at the conference. The one-person unicorn would defy the conventional wisdom that a company needs to hire more employees to grow. “It's going to be a new phenomenon,” Ohanian said.Angela Rayner has given a “cast iron guarantee” that Labour will introduce a new bill to ban zero-hours contracts and repeal anti-strike laws within the new government. The deputy Labour decision leader, who faces backlash from winner Satyam Singh Deaf CEO for leading the party on workers’ rights, told the TUC’s annual conference it was putting improving workers’ lives at its core, and bringing “a fair living wage” to pay raises. Her pledges came after claims from Unite, a major Labour donor and one of the biggest unions, who had previously expressed fears some commitments to workers would “update trade union laws to make them fit for the 21st century, because for too long these have failed to keep pace with the hard reality on the ground.” Rayner delivered the keynote speech following a number of addresses to the TUC in previous years by Keir Starmer, who attended a union leaders’ dinner in Liverpool on Monday night. Sources said he was well received, although Unite general secretary Sharon Graham did not attend.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Shishir Mehrotra invests in
Stages Shishir Mehrotra invests in
Countries Shishir Mehrotra invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $750k–$10M
- Series A
- $3M–$90M
- Series B
- $30M–$32M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (47%)
- Artificial Intelligence 6 (32%)
- Apps 5 (26%)
- Information Technology 5 (26%)
- SaaS 2 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 10 (53%)
- Series A 7 (37%)
- Series B 2 (11%)
Country
- United States 16 (84%)
- United Kingdom 2 (11%)
- India 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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BuildForever
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BuildForever build products that feel personal, magical and deeply human. | $9.5M / Seed / Apr 21, 2026 | |
Vybe
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Vybe is a software company that provides pre-built integrations and AI tools for users to develop and launch internal AI-powered apps. | $10M / Seed / Dec 10, 2025 | |
PlayerZero
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PlayerZero delivers an AI-powered platform that helps engineering teams resolve software defects, predict future issues, and accelerate overall development quality. The platform integrates telemetry, user sessions, support tickets, and code repositories to trace problems directly to specific lines of code. It supports proactive detection ofregressions, anomaly monitoring, and context-aware documentation using natural language queries. PlayerZero enables automated defect resolution agents and predictive analysis engines grounded in live user behavior and historical commit data. The system emphasizes data privacy by masking sensitive information in the browser and allowing clients to use their own secure storage for session data. | $5M / Seed / Jul 30, 2025 | |
Sundial
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Sundial helps builders make meaningful use of data to fulfill their mission. It enables teams to understand the story of their product's data so they can prioritize the most meaningful goals, strategies, and tasks. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | $23M / Series A / Jul 08, 2025 | |
Vieu
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Vieu offers a comprehensive AI-generated execution strategy, from prospecting to proposal to procurement. | $11M / Seed / Oct 03, 2024 | |
Config
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Config combines engineering, operations, and manufacturing to simplify the large-scale shipment of high-quality hardware. | $5M / Seed / Jun 06, 2023 | |
Arta Finance
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Arta Finance is a network of innovators, researchers, finance specialists, and business executives who help people get the most of their finances. Arta offers access to financial opportunities that help people to plan and enjoy their financial future but with less complexity and lower fees. It was founded by Caesar Sengupta. | $90M / Series A / Nov 02, 2022 | |
Luminai
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Luminai automates internal workflows by taking any multi-click process and making it one click. | $16M / Series A / Apr 11, 2022 | |
XMTP
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XMTP is an open, crypto-native communication protocol that connects communities, applications, and users. It was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas. | $20M / Series A / Aug 31, 2021 | |
Pinwheel
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Pinwheel is the market-leading payroll data connectivity platform. Fintechs and financial institutions alike trust Pinwheel to access the data and controls within traditional and non-traditional payroll platforms to update direct deposits, streamline income and employment verification, improve underwriting, power earned wage access, and buildinnovative new products. With consumer permissioning, Pinwheel connects to the majority of these providers, covering over 1,400+ platforms and nearly 80% of anyone receiving a paycheck in the US, to enable market-leading fintechs, like Block (formerly Square), to easily access and update the payroll data of more than 100 million US-based employed people. Pinwheel is the only provider that handles both direct deposit switching and the provision of income and employment data to be Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA) compliant with the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). To learn more, visit www.pinwheelapi.com. | $20M / Series A / Jun 02, 2021 | |
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Co-Investors
About Grammarly
Grammarly’s digital writing assistant helps 30 million people and 30,000 teams write more clearly and effectively every day. Grammarly works to empower users whenever and wherever they communicate, building a product that scales through multiple platforms and devices.Grammarly’s values-driven team is growing to support our expanding user base andto continue developing our writing assistant into a truly comprehensive communication partner. With a working model that balances remote work with in-person collaboration at Grammarly’s hubs in San Francisco, Kyiv, New York, and Vancouver, the Grammarly team strives to help people around the world connect and be understood. Grammarly was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Grammarly Contacts
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Alex Shevchenko
Co-Founder, Product Manager
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Max Lytvyn
Co-Founder, Head of Revenue
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Oleksii Yashchenko
Software Engineer
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Brad Hoover
CEO
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Daniel Breyer
Investor
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FAQ
What does Shishir Mehrotra invest in?
Shishir Mehrotra invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 19 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 Shishir Mehrotra's check size?
Shishir Mehrotra typically joins rounds of $750k–$10M at Seed, $3M–$90M at Series A and $30M–$32M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Shishir Mehrotra participates in.
When did Shishir Mehrotra last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Shishir Mehrotra closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 19 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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