# Shripati Acharya

> Shripati Acharya is a seed investor at Prime Venture Partners backing Artificial Intelligence. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Prime Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angelprime)
- Location: Bangalore, India
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 53%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shripatiacharya
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/shripati
- Website: https://x.com/shripati

Shripati Acharya is a seed investor at Prime Venture Partners in Bangalore focused on Artificial Intelligence and SaaS. Shripati Acharya - Founder & Managing partner @ Prime Venture Partners

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 21% |
| SaaS | 3 | 16% |
| EdTech | 3 | 16% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 16% |
| Gaming | 2 | 11% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 32% |
| Series A | 6 | 32% |
| Series B | 2 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 7 | 37% |
| United States | 2 | 11% |
| Singapore | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Illumine | Illumine is a powerful digital solution that lets pre-schools and daycares take charge of the daily operations seamlessly along with effective parent-teacher communication. Our key focus areas are Parent Engagement, Child development, Operational efficiency. With the world going digital, we encourage the pre-schools and daycares to ditch thetraditional pen and paper methods and seize the digital opportunity to make lives simpler and easier. Our mission is to create a world where schools are empowered to operate at their full potential and is used by 300+ premium schools globally making it the #1 school software solution. One-stop technology platform for early education for virtual classes, school management, and parent communication. Streamline core administrative functions while raising the bar for the parent experience.Our daycare and preschool management app is extremely user-friendly and intuitive to use.Loved for Parent Communication & School Operations. Preschool Management Software Packed with Features The full suite includes 1. Invoicing, Automated Billing & payments 2. Lesson Planner, Assignments & Assessments 3.Daily updates. 4. Unlimited photos, files & video sharing with parents 5. Online classes with video conferencing 6. Integrated live streaming and bus tracking featureWho Uses Illumine? Schools, Early education centers, Childcare Centers, Owners of Pre-school, playschool, daycare centers, and Montessori school,Childcare Software Features:1.Billing & Invoicing 2.Calendar Management 3.Communications Management 4.Daily Reports 5.Employee Management 6.Immunisation & Allergy Tracking 7.Meal Tracking 8.Membership Database 9.Parent Portal & mobile app for Ios &Android 10.Payment Processing 11.Registration Management 12.Self Check-in/Check-out 13. Wait List Management & CRM for Preschool 14. Virtual Classes /Online Classes 15. Lesson Planning and Assignment 16. Assessment & Milestone Tracking 17. Authorized Pickups | $2.5M | Seed | Jun 18, 2025 |  |
| ESAI | ESAI is the viral storytelling platform for Gen Z college applicants and young professionals. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2024 |  |
| Zuper | Zuper is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of software, SaaS, field service, and HVAC. Zuper is a productivity suite for service businesses to mobile field workforce and automate all business operations. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. | $32M | Series B | Dec 13, 2023 |  |
| Zuper | Zuper is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of software, SaaS, field service, and HVAC. Zuper is a productivity suite for service businesses to mobile field workforce and automate all business operations. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. | $32M | Series B | Dec 13, 2023 |  |
| HighXP | HighXP focuses on social, casual games that are simple, aimed at a broad audience, and available on mobile platforms. | $2.2M | Seed | Jun 13, 2023 |  |
| Hitwicket | Hitwicket is the World's leading mobile Cricket Strategy game. Our pioneering journey incorporates the use of new age technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning for the first time ever in Sports! Our vision is to be the premier mobile eSports IP from India.- Hitwicket ranks #1 Top Free Strategy Game on google Playstore, 1stgame from India to top the Strategy charts! - Hitwicket selected among the 'Global Top 10 Startups for Sports Innovation' by the HYPE foundation (UK) - Hitwicket selected among 'Top Gaming Startups from Asia' for Google's Game Accelerator Program 2018 | $3M |  | Nov 03, 2022 |  |
| Hitwicket | Hitwicket is the World's leading mobile Cricket Strategy game. Our pioneering journey incorporates the use of new age technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning for the first time ever in Sports! Our vision is to be the premier mobile eSports IP from India.- Hitwicket ranks #1 Top Free Strategy Game on google Playstore, 1stgame from India to top the Strategy charts! - Hitwicket selected among the 'Global Top 10 Startups for Sports Innovation' by the HYPE foundation (UK) - Hitwicket selected among 'Top Gaming Startups from Asia' for Google's Game Accelerator Program 2018 | $3M | Series A | Nov 03, 2022 |  |
| Hitwicket | Hitwicket is the World's leading mobile Cricket Strategy game. Our pioneering journey incorporates the use of new age technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning for the first time ever in Sports! Our vision is to be the premier mobile eSports IP from India.- Hitwicket ranks #1 Top Free Strategy Game on google Playstore, 1stgame from India to top the Strategy charts! - Hitwicket selected among the 'Global Top 10 Startups for Sports Innovation' by the HYPE foundation (UK) - Hitwicket selected among 'Top Gaming Startups from Asia' for Google's Game Accelerator Program 2018 | $3M | Seed | Nov 03, 2022 |  |
| Winuall | Winuall is a teaching platform that creates online courses for schools, tutors, and content creators. It specializes in the fields of E-learning, online quizzes, tests, and study material for competitive exams. Its services offer online notes, reference material, E-commerce, and comprehensive quizzes and tests are a few recently added services.The company was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Karnataka, India. | $2.1M | Series A | Aug 23, 2022 |  |
| Zuper | Zuper is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of software, SaaS, field service, and HVAC. Zuper is a productivity suite for service businesses to mobile field workforce and automate all business operations. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. | $13M | Series A | Jan 21, 2022 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BEENEXT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bee-next) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [FUSE](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fuse-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Gemba Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gemba-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Stellaris Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stellaris-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Tribe Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tribe-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SBI Ven Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sbi-ven-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Prime Venture Partners

VC Fund · Bengaluru, India

Formerly known as AngelPrime. Prime Venture Parnters is a Bangalore-based seed fund led by serial entrepreneurs Sanjay Swamy, Shripati Acharya and Amit Somani. The fund is focused on building disruptive product companies out of India, and addresses a much needed gap in the Indian startup ecosystem - by bringing a combination of first-handentrepreneurial experience, operating expertise and meaningful capital. Prime Venture Partners have incubated exciting startups including ZipDial (acquired by Twitter), Ezetap, SmartOwner, Synup, HackerEarth, happay, Vidgyor, Maya, KredX, MoneyTap & NiYO.

5 contacts available at Prime Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Amit Somani | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amit-somani |
| Rajesh Mashruwala | Partner Emeritus | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/raj-mashruwala |
| Sanjay Swamy | Managing Partner & Co-Founder; Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sanjay-swamy |
| Sanjay Swamy | Managing Partner & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sanjay-swamy-e448 |
| Shripati Acharya | Founder & Managing partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shripati-acharya |

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## FAQ

### What does Shripati Acharya invest in?

Shripati Acharya invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and EdTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Shripati Acharya last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Shripati Acharya closed in Jun 2025. 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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