# Shiva Rajaraman

> Shiva Rajaraman is a seed investor backing Software and FinTech. See 29 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 29
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivarajaraman
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/shivar
- Website: http://null

Shiva Rajaraman is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on Software and FinTech. Shiva Rajaraman is currently advising companies. He previously held product leadership roles at Spotify, Google, YouTube, and WeWork.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$10M |
| Series A | $5M–$45M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 11 | 38% |
| FinTech | 4 | 14% |
| Internet | 4 | 14% |
| Developer Tools | 4 | 14% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 14% |

78 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 16 | 55% |
| Series A | 7 | 24% |
| Angel | 1 | 3% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 3% |
| Series B | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 23 | 79% |
| India | 1 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Playtron | Playtron provideslightweight gaming OS optimized for a new generation of powerful handheld gaming PCs. | $10M | Seed | Mar 18, 2024 | https://www.playtron.one/ |
| dub | Dub is a provider of a copy-trading platform for investment management. Its platform facilitates the users to mirror and invest in their fund-like portfolio. It allows experienced investors to earn money by increasing their followers and helps investors replicate the portfolios of emerging investment managers, hedge funds, or elected officials. Itsaffiliated broker-dealer, registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and member FINRA, helps facilitate copy-trading, a fast-emerging investment practice suited to today’s investors. | $15M | Seed | Feb 22, 2024 | https://www.dubapp.com |
| Fave | Fave is a social platform dedicated to superfans enabling them to create immersive video content, connect and bond with like-minded fans, compete in fun challenges, exchange both physical and virtual goods in a fan-driven marketplace, and rack up points throughout it all to prove their top fan status, gain recognition in the fandom, and earnexclusive rewards around the artists and creators they love. They also partner with the creators to finally allow them to monetize their fans' activity directly. | $2M | Seed | Oct 12, 2023 | https://www.faveforfans.com/ |
| Vetted | Lustre is an AI product recommendation engine powered by product review and sentiment data from across the web. | $14M | Series A | Aug 02, 2022 | https://lustre.ai/ |
| Vetted | Vetted is an AI-powered product search engine that helps consumers discover the best products and prices effortlessly. Vetted automates and improves the shopping process. It compares products in a category, checks prices across retailers, and analyzes trustworthy reviews — making it easy for users to find the right product. | $14M | Series A | Aug 02, 2022 | https://vetted.ai |
| Coinshift | Coinshift provides a smart treasury management platform that helps businesses and decentralized autonomous organizations manage their crypto assets easily and empowers users to collaborate, approve transactions, and execute mass payouts. Their treasury management solution includes cash management, asset management, risk management, and reporting. | $15M | Series A | May 17, 2022 | https://coinshift.xyz/ |
| Koji | Koji is the world’s most powerful Link in Bio platform. With hundreds of free apps created by Koji and its community of independent developers, the Koji Link in Bio gives leading Creators on TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and other social media platforms new ways to engage audiences, connect with supporters, and monetize. | $20M | Series B | Jan 25, 2022 | https://www.withkoji.com |
| Printify | Printify is the world's most famous print-on-demand platform designed to help anyone with an internet connection unlock the freedom that comes with opening your own online business. And because it’s completely risk free, more than 10 million people have signed up to open their stores! We created Printify so that anyone can create greatproducts, drive sales, and unlock their freedom. Printify has been on a steep growth curve since 2015, and now with more than 700 employees, three offices, and an amazing diverse team spread around Europe, we’re continuing to go from strength to strength. The Financial Times has ranked us as a Best Startup Employer for the last 4 years in a row, and we’re headquartered in Riga with investment backing from Richard Branson, Index Ventures, and some of the best angel investors from Silicon Valley and beyond. | $45M | Series A | Dec 01, 2021 | https://printify.com |
| Printify | Printify is the world's most famous print-on-demand platform designed to help anyone with an internet connection unlock the freedom that comes with opening your own online business. And because it’s completely risk free, more than 10 million people have signed up to open their stores! We created Printify so that anyone can create greatproducts, drive sales, and unlock their freedom. Printify has been on a steep growth curve since 2015, and now with more than 700 employees, three offices, and an amazing diverse team spread around Europe, we’re continuing to go from strength to strength. The Financial Times has ranked us as a Best Startup Employer for the last 4 years in a row, and we’re headquartered in Riga with investment backing from Richard Branson, Index Ventures, and some of the best angel investors from Silicon Valley and beyond. | $5M | Series A | Dec 01, 2021 | https://printify.com |
| inai | Inai is a single integration for your global payment stack. Inai will provide connections to multiple payment service providers ( Stripe, Adyen , Braintree), Wallets, BNPL platforms, open banking providers, fraud, BI and accounting in a single integration. Our dashboard will allow merchants to build custom workflows tailored to their uniquebusiness needs without writing any code | $4M | Seed | Sep 20, 2021 | https://www.inai.io |

10 of 29 investments shown.

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- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Shiva Rajaraman invest in?

Shiva Rajaraman invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 29 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What round sizes does Shiva Rajaraman invest in?

Shiva Rajaraman typically joins rounds of $1M–$10M at Seed and $5M–$45M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Shiva Rajaraman's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Shiva Rajaraman took part in.

### How do I contact Shiva Rajaraman?

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### When did Shiva Rajaraman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Shiva Rajaraman closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 29 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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