# Sidharth Rao

> Sidharth Rao is a seed investor at Webchutney (Mumbai) backing Big Data and Internet. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Webchutney](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/webchutney)
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sidharthrao
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/sidharthrao
- Website: https://x.com/sidharthrao

Sidharth Rao is a seed investor at Webchutney in Mumbai focused on Big Data and Internet. Entrepreneur since 1998. Proud founder of a couple of really spectacular internet businesses in India. And then, at least 2x number of equally spectacular turkeys. The first bit taught me how to find great partners, choose great investors, build awesome teams, be great in sales, execute, execute and ruthlessly execute.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $200k–$306k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Big Data | 2 | 20% |
| Internet | 2 | 20% |
| Software | 2 | 20% |
| Analytics | 2 | 20% |
| Art | 1 | 10% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 50% |
| Angel | 4 | 40% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FastJobs.io | FastJobs.io envisions a world in which job hunting is completely stress-free and convenient. | $620K | Pre-Seed | Nov 14, 2022 |  |
| VS Mani & Co | VS Mani & Co is a specialty South Indian food brand that provides instant coffee that tastes almost like filter coffee, and wholesome snacks and spices. | $325.5K | Angel | Apr 26, 2022 |  |
| Lio | Lio lets businesses calculate, tabulate, and organize tasks such as creating to-do lists, wedding registries, and class schedules. The product can be used by home businesses, solo business owners, farmers, doctors, and small to medium businesses, among others. |  | Angel | Mar 01, 2021 |  |
| Lio | Lio lets businesses calculate, tabulate, and organize tasks such as creating to-do lists, wedding registries, and class schedules. The product can be used by home businesses, solo business owners, farmers, doctors, and small to medium businesses, among others. |  | Seed | Mar 01, 2021 |  |
| Pepper Content | Pepper Content is a content-mediation platform that connects talented writers to organizations that require content. Pepper offers customized content solutions by mediating content from the best talent pool of writers across the nation. | $306.1K | Seed | Feb 25, 2020 |  |
| Octo.ai | The analytics hypervisor, an operating system to manage all your analytics needs and licensed under Apache 2.0 License. | $200K | Seed | Aug 23, 2016 |  |
| Zocalo.in | "Zocalo" is the Mexican term for a public square or plaza. They expect it to be "the marketplace" for an ideal property search.The idea of Zocalo was born as a result of frustration and an inspiration. "Frustration", because of having heard and undergone the horrors of a house search (5 times in 3 years to beprecise) and still being clueless on the way to go about finding the right accommodation. "Inspiration", as they knew that they could truly add value and cater to this inherent need. |  | Seed | Aug 05, 2015 |  |
| voxapp | voxapp is a platform where enterprises or consumers can create surveys for distribution exclusively on mobile devices globally. The platform will leverage the advances in cloud telephony, mass platforms on mobile and the changing mobile landscape in terms of mobile internet capabilities to launch a global P2P mobile surveys platform. Currentproduct consists of website to create surveys, create respondent acquisition campaigns, validate data authenticity, data analytics. The surveys are distributed via mobile (web/sms) and native apps. |  | Angel | Aug 26, 2013 |  |
| Crude Area | Crude Area is not an art sweat shop. These are prints that are curated by us with a very strong focus on what appeals to the cosmopolitan, urban Indian, whether they live in Mumbai, Vadodara, Delhi or Chennai. We believe the Indian market is ready for beautiful graphic art whether as prints for their home or as art related merchandise that weexpect to introduce sometime after launch. (Stay tuned on that front!) |  | Seed | Aug 01, 2013 |  |
| Crude Area | Crude Area is not an art sweat shop. These are prints that are curated by us with a very strong focus on what appeals to the cosmopolitan, urban Indian, whether they live in Mumbai, Vadodara, Delhi or Chennai. We believe the Indian market is ready for beautiful graphic art whether as prints for their home or as art related merchandise that weexpect to introduce sometime after launch. (Stay tuned on that front!) |  | Angel | Jul 29, 2013 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Titan Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/titan-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Advantedge Incubators](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/advantedge-incubators) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blume Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blume-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Palaash Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/palaash-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [peercheque](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peercheque) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Udaan Angel Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/udaan-angel-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Webchutney

VC Fund · New Delhi, India

WebChutney works with companies in India by developing experiences for brands to connect, engage with and build sustained relationships with their consumers online. Its clients include Unilever, HP, MasterCard, Airtel and Microsoft amongst others. They work with them in areas of online advertising, website design, mobile marketing and socialmedia.Capital18 invested in Webchutney in 2008. Ranked as India's Number 1 Digital Agency by The largest financial newspaper Economic times 2008 and 2009 and 2011), WebChutney is committed to leading the interactive marketing industry. The company has offices are located across New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. Webchutney has also incubated NetworkPlay, a brand AdNetwork and JuxtConsult, a online research firm. NetworkPlay was acquired by Gruner+Jahr, Bertelsmann Media Group in March 2012.

3 contacts available at Webchutney.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sidharth Rao | CEO and Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sidharth-rao |
| Sudesh Samaria | Co-Founder and National Creative Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sudesh-samaria |
| Rahul Nanda | COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rahul-nanda |

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## FAQ

### What does Sidharth Rao invest in?

Sidharth Rao invests primarily in Big Data, Internet and Software startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Sidharth Rao's check size?

Sidharth Rao typically joins rounds of $200k–$306k at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sidharth Rao participates in.

### When did Sidharth Rao last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sidharth Rao closed in Nov 2022. Shizune tracks 10 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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