Sudhir Sethi
Founder and Managing General Partner @ Chiratae Ventures
Bangalore, India
Sudhir Sethi is a Series A investor at Chiratae Ventures in Bangalore focused on Artificial Intelligence and Biotechnology. Mr. Sudhir Sethi is Founder, Chairman & Managing Director of IDG Ventures India Advisors. IDG Ventures manages over US$6 Billion globally and has a portfolio of over 200 technology companies. Sudhir currently serves on the Board of Directors at Aujas Networks, ConnectM, iProf Learning Solutions, iViZ Techno Solutions, Manthan Software,Myntra.com and Perfint Healthcare. He has over 31 years of technology industry experience, including 11 years of venture investing experience.Earlier, as head of Walden International India, Sudhir was a seed investor in Mindtree Consulting and served on their board for the first four years. He also served on the Investment Committee of UTI Ventures for four years, on the Advisory Board of Westbridge Capital and on the Board of Advisors at N. S. Raghavan Center for Entrepreneurship, IIM Bangalore. Prior to Walden, Sudhir served at various leadership positions at Infotech Enterprises, Wipro Technologies and HCL.In addition to leading IDG Ventures India Advisors, Sudhir serves on the Executive Committee of Indian Venture Capital Association (IVCA), on the Board of Ascent Capital ($350 million PE fund) and the Nasscom Regional Council. He also serves on the Board of Emploi Globale, a global executive search firm.Sudhir holds a B.Tech in Engineering and an MBA Degree from FMS, Delhi.
- Total investments:
- 33
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 36%
Last updated:
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Industries Sudhir Sethi invests in
Stages Sudhir Sethi invests in
Countries Sudhir Sethi invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $750k–$2.5M
- Series A
- $2.5M–$75M
- Series B
- $1.6M–$29M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 6 (18%)
- Biotechnology 3 (9%)
- Information Technology 3 (9%)
- Robotics 2 (6%)
- Software 2 (6%)
Stage
- Series A 7 (21%)
- Seed 6 (18%)
- Series B 5 (15%)
- Angel 2 (6%)
- Series C 2 (6%)
Country
- India 11 (33%)
- Poland 1 (3%)
- Singapore 1 (3%)
- United States 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Expertia.AI
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Expertia is a platform that provides Deep Learning, Natural language processing (NLP) and Explainable AI to predict the right candidate. | $2.3M / Seed / Mar 27, 2025 | |
Cropin
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Founded in 2010, Cropin is a pioneer in the Agtech space, having built the first global Intelligent Agriculture Cloud. Cropin's platform enables various stakeholders in the agri-ecosystem to leverage digitization and AI at scale to make decisions that increase efficiency, scale productivity, and strengthen sustainability. Cropin has workedwith 250+ customers and has digitized 16 million acres of farmland, improving the livelihoods of more than 7 million farmers. It has built the world's largest and most diverse farming data insights over a decade, spearheading a global 'Ag-intelligence' movement with a knowledge of 488 crops, and 10000 crop varieties in 56 countries. With its AI/ML platform tailor-made for the agriculture ecosystem, Cropin has computed 0.2 billion acres of farmlands across the globe. | $13.8M / Series D / Dec 09, 2022 | |
TheLightbulb.Ai
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Lightbulb.ai is a customer intelligence platform for e-learning businesses to improve key KPIs with engagement and emotion analytics. Lightbulb provides 'Live Session Monitoring' to automate monitoring of live online classes to give teams insightful alerts & reports in real-time to improve acquisition, retention & teacherperformance. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Jul 05, 2022 | |
Curefoods
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Curefoods democratizes access to food on a sustainable basis. They focus on operations management for cloud kitchens and the online food ordering market. | $50M / Series C / Jun 01, 2022 | |
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Expertia.AI
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Expertia is a platform that provides Deep Learning, Natural language processing (NLP) and Explainable AI to predict the right candidate. | $1.2M / Seed / Apr 18, 2022 | |
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Curefoods
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Curefoods democratizes access to food on a sustainable basis. They focus on operations management for cloud kitchens and the online food ordering market. | $52M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 12, 2022 | |
Miko
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Miko is a consumer electronics company founded on the pillars of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet of Things. Miko was founded in January 2015 by three IIT Bombay post-graduates and is today driven by a 120 membered team of roboticists, academicians, and neuropsychologists. The core team of roboticists has been together since2009, making some of the world’s most widely acclaimed robots. Among these are India’s most capable autonomous underwater vehicles, which ranked among the best internationally and performed Navy-based tasks. | $28.8M / Series B / Aug 11, 2021 | |
GlobalBees
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GlobalBees is a company dedicated to finding and scaling great products. | $75M / Series A / Jul 18, 2021 | |
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Miko
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Miko is a consumer electronics company founded on the pillars of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet of Things. Miko was founded in January 2015 by three IIT Bombay post-graduates and is today driven by a 120 membered team of roboticists, academicians, and neuropsychologists. The core team of roboticists has been together since2009, making some of the world’s most widely acclaimed robots. Among these are India’s most capable autonomous underwater vehicles, which ranked among the best internationally and performed Navy-based tasks. | $6.7M / Series B / Apr 13, 2021 | |
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Miko
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Miko is a consumer electronics company founded on the pillars of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet of Things. Miko was founded in January 2015 by three IIT Bombay post-graduates and is today driven by a 120 membered team of roboticists, academicians, and neuropsychologists. The core team of roboticists has been together since2009, making some of the world’s most widely acclaimed robots. Among these are India’s most capable autonomous underwater vehicles, which ranked among the best internationally and performed Navy-based tasks. | $2.7M / Series B / Oct 12, 2020 | |
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Co-Investors
About Chiratae Ventures
IDG Ventures India is a leading technology venture capital fund in India. The fund is part of IDG Ventures, a global network of technology venture funds with over $6 billion under management with over 220 investee companies and 10 offices across Asia and North America. IDG Ventures has been an investor in companies including Funzio, Ctrip, Tencent,Baidu, Netscape, BabyCenter, Sohu, Vancl and VinaGame. In India, IDG Ventures has invested in companies such as Flipkart, Myntra, Yatra, Newgen, Brainbees (FirstCry.com), Vserv, Manthan Software, Valyoo (Lenskart.com), Actoserba (Zivame.com), NestAway and Hiree. More information about IDG Ventures is available at www.idgvcindia.com
Chiratae Ventures Contacts
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Ranjith Menon
Executive Director
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Sudhir Sethi
Founder and Managing General Partner
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Venkatesh Peddi
Partner, Executive Director and Head of Software Sector
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Karthik Prabhakar
Executive Director & Global Head - Fundraising
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Kriti Gupta
Investment Analyst
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FAQ
What does Sudhir Sethi invest in?
Sudhir Sethi invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 33 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Sudhir Sethi's check size?
Sudhir Sethi typically joins rounds of $750k–$2.5M at Seed, $2.5M–$75M at Series A and $1.6M–$29M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sudhir Sethi participates in.
When did Sudhir Sethi last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Sudhir Sethi closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 33 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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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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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