# Shripriya Mahesh

> Shripriya Mahesh is a seed investor at Spero Ventures backing Marketplace and Education. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Spero Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spero-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 56%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shripriya
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Shripriya
- Website: https://x.com/Shripriya
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shripriya

Shripriya Mahesh is a seed investor at Spero Ventures in San Francisco focused on Marketplace and Education. Shripriya Mahesh is the Co-Founder and General Partner at Spero Ventures.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Marketplace | 3 | 33% |
| Education | 2 | 22% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 22% |
| Genetics | 1 | 11% |
| Internet | 1 | 11% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 67% |
| Series A | 2 | 22% |
| Angel | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mobius Materials | Mobius Materials develops and supplies advanced silicon-based materials designed to improve performance and efficiency in energy storage and semiconductor applications. The company’s core technology focuses on producing high-purity silicon materials engineered for use in lithium-ion battery anodes, where they help increase energy density and extendbattery life compared to conventional graphite-based solutions. Its materials are designed to integrate into existing battery manufacturing processes, supporting adoption without requiring major changes to production infrastructure. Mobius Materials also applies its silicon processing capabilities to specialty materials used in electronics and semiconductor manufacturing, addressing applications that require precise material properties and consistency. The company supports customers through material development, testing, and collaboration aimed at optimizing performance for specific use cases. Its offerings are used by organizations working on next-generation batteries and electronic components that require improved capacity, durability, and material efficiency. | $3M | Seed | Dec 12, 2025 |  |
| Gencove | Gencove is a software platform for high-throughput, cost-effective genome sequencing, based on low-pass sequencing. They are setting a new standard for high-throughput genomics research and diagnostics applications across species. | $10M | Series A | Oct 26, 2021 |  |
| Nana Academy | Nana is a vertically integrated student-to-operator trade skills school, today focused on Appliance Repair. We work with some of the 35 million people who will lose their jobs by 2030 to tech automation, teaching them trade skills, building their experience through our mentorship program, and connecting them to good jobs on our marketplace. Byperfecting this pipeline and teaching life skills to a new generation of tradespeople, we are accelerating the retooling of America’s workforce and creating millions of economic opportunities. | $17.5M | Series A | May 25, 2021 |  |
| talkshoplive | talkshoplive is the leading live stream commerce network and distribution vehicle with a patent-pending embeddable video player containing sales execution, allowing transactions to be processed within the video player anywhere it exists. The network and app offer a full range of services for both buyers and sellers - from live show creation toorder processing, to ease of shipping and payouts. | $3M | Seed | Feb 16, 2021 |  |
| Nana Academy | Nana is a vertically integrated student-to-operator trade skills school, today focused on Appliance Repair. We work with some of the 35 million people who will lose their jobs by 2030 to tech automation, teaching them trade skills, building their experience through our mentorship program, and connecting them to good jobs on our marketplace. Byperfecting this pipeline and teaching life skills to a new generation of tradespeople, we are accelerating the retooling of America’s workforce and creating millions of economic opportunities. | $6M | Seed | Nov 12, 2020 |  |
| Core | Core is a health, wellness, and fitness company that provides a meditation device technology that uses haptics and biofeedback to guide progress and personalize techniques. It helps people to meditate, relax, and sleep well. The company was founded in San Francisco, California. | $4M | Seed | May 16, 2019 |  |
| Gencove | Gencove is a software platform for high-throughput, cost-effective genome sequencing, based on low-pass sequencing. They are setting a new standard for high-throughput genomics research and diagnostics applications across species. | $3M | Seed | Mar 13, 2019 |  |
| Educents | Educents is the trusted marketplace for every child’s education. Educents gives teachers, homeschoolers and parents access to innovative and fun educational products for their classroom and/or home. Specializing in innovative products created by a community of experts, the platform has already distributed over 2,500,000 high-qualityeducational resources throughout the world. As a two-sided marketplace, publishers and individual content creators rely on Educents to simplify their marketing and manage their business. Businesses are able to create their own storefronts and Educents provides them with integrated payment and communication tools to grow their brand. | $2.9M | Seed | Apr 06, 2015 |  |
| Path 101 | Path 101 is a New York based stealth startup building an online destination for career discovery. | $350K | Angel | Feb 09, 2008 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Burst Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/burst-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Learn Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/learncapital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Emerson Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emerson-collective) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Third Kind Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-line-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lachy Groom](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lgf) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Next Play Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nextplay-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Spero Ventures

VC Fund · Redwood City, United States

Spero Ventures makes venture investments in the things that make life worth living - wellbeing; sustainability; learning, work, and play.

5 contacts available at Spero Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Parker | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-parker |
| Brandon Walker | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brandon-walker-6806 |
| Marc Tarpenning | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marc-tarpenning |
| Sara Eshelman | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sara-eshelman |
| Shripriya Mahesh | Co-Founder and General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shripriya-mahesh |

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## FAQ

### What does Shripriya Mahesh invest in?

Shripriya Mahesh invests primarily in Marketplace, Education and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 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 Shripriya Mahesh last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Shripriya Mahesh closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 9 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?

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