# Srikant Sastri

> Srikant Sastri is a seed investor at Crayon Data (New Delhi) backing Apps and SaaS. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Crayon Data](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crayon-data)
- Location: New Delhi, India
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Mar 2019
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/srikantsastri1
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/srikantsastri

Srikant Sastri is a Co-founder of Crayon Data Pte Ltd. Mr. Sastri serves as the Managing Director of India at Publicis Chemistry. Mr. Sastri co-founded Solutions-Digitas Pvt. Ltd. in 1995 and has been its Managing Director since April 2008. He founded Team4U. He serves as the Chairman of India at VivaKi, Inc. Mr. Sastri leads VivaKi in one of theworld’s most important emerging economies. He previously worked for Unilever and McCann-Erickson.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 1 | 25% |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |
| Video | 1 | 25% |
| Mobile | 1 | 25% |
| Big Data | 1 | 25% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Angel | 2 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 3 | 75% |
| Singapore | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Venuelook | Venuelook.com is a marketplace for venue owners and venue seekers. The idea is to disrupt the Venue search and booking space.Its a local commerce problem and an exciting space as 10K+ venues within just the metros in India host 10Lakh+ events over the year. In all of these these events, venue search, booking and logistics is completelydysfunctional ! |  | Seed | Mar 25, 2019 |  |
| Crayon Data | Based in Singapore, Crayon Data is a big data startup, with an ambitious vision to ‘simplify the world's choices’. Crayon’s flagship product Maya is the world’s only choice engine, delivering digital personal experiences centered around taste.Powered by Crayon’s patented TasteGraph, ChoiceAI and Lifestyle Marketplace, Maya makes itpossible for any enterprise to compete in the ‘lifestyle economy’, by getting you 5 mins of each customer’s time.Crayon has been recommended in several Gartner reports including, the Gartner Digital Commerce Vendor Guide and Hype Cycle 2016. Crayon Data has been consistently awarded on various global platforms, including: 1. Top 5 in IBM Watson Mobile Developer Challenge 2014 2. Winner at TiE Silicon Valley’s TiE50 Awards in the software vertical 3. Finalist at Code_n 2014 @ CEBIT, Hannover: the only big data company from Asia 4. Part of interesting startups selected from the START track at Web Summit, Dublin 5. Selected as one of the top 50 emerging tech companies in India at InTech50 2015 6. Finalist at OrangeFab 2015 | $3.7M | Angel | Jul 01, 2013 |  |
| Skoolshop | SkoolShop.com is a portal that brings together products related to School and Education operating on both, B2B and B2C models.SkoolShop.com is a Mumbai based company founded by two HBS alumni, Satya Raghavan and Anusha Mahalingam. Satya was head of marketing at Star TV before he went to Harvard Business School where he also met Anusha andSkoolShop.com took birth. Anusha was a management consultant working with the McKinsey before going to HBS. |  | Seed | Mar 15, 2013 |  |
| Chaska | iDubba helps you quickly find Indian Television programs of interest and rewards you for watching your choice of programs. You can set intelligent alerts for your favorite genre, sports, celebrities or movies and can even watch original videos of programs. Combined with Mobile app it provides best second screen experience. |  | Angel | May 01, 2012 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Blume Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blume-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [The Morpheus](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morpheus-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Seeders](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seeders) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Crayon Data

VC Fund · Singapore, Singapore

Based in Singapore, Crayon Data is a big data startup, with an ambitious vision to ‘simplify the world's choices’. Crayon’s flagship product Maya is the world’s only choice engine, delivering digital personal experiences centered around taste.Powered by Crayon’s patented TasteGraph, ChoiceAI and Lifestyle Marketplace, Maya makes itpossible for any enterprise to compete in the ‘lifestyle economy’, by getting you 5 mins of each customer’s time.Crayon has been recommended in several Gartner reports including, the Gartner Digital Commerce Vendor Guide and Hype Cycle 2016. Crayon Data has been consistently awarded on various global platforms, including: 1. Top 5 in IBM Watson Mobile Developer Challenge 2014 2. Winner at TiE Silicon Valley’s TiE50 Awards in the software vertical 3. Finalist at Code_n 2014 @ CEBIT, Hannover: the only big data company from Asia 4. Part of interesting startups selected from the START track at Web Summit, Dublin 5. Selected as one of the top 50 emerging tech companies in India at InTech50 2015 6. Finalist at OrangeFab 2015

4 contacts available at Crayon Data.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Suresh V Shankar | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/suresh-v-shankar |
| Bhavani Vishweshwar | Board Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bhavani-vishweshwar |
| Srikant Sastri | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/srikant-sastri |
| Vijaya Kumar Ivaturi | Cofounder & CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vijaya-kumar-ivaturi-056a |

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## FAQ

### What does Srikant Sastri invest in?

Srikant Sastri invests primarily in Apps, SaaS and Video startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Srikant Sastri last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Srikant Sastri closed in Mar 2019. Shizune tracks 4 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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