# Sumir Chadha

> Sumir Chadha is a Series B investor at WestBridge Capital backing SaaS and Software. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [WestBridge Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/westbridge-capital-b1b0)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 87%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumir-chadha-bb8b563/

Sumir Chadha is a Co-Founder and Managing Directror of WestBridge Capital Partners. He is a former Managing Director with Sequoia Capital India. Sequoia Capital India was formed by merging Sequoia Capital and WestBridge Capital Partners, India's leading venture capital fund, which Sumir co-founded in 2000. Sumir has been investing in theIndian venture capital industry for the past ten years in several industries including offshore services, consumer internet and financial services. Prior to co-founding WestBridge, Sumir was a member of the Principal Investment Area at Goldman Sachs & Co., where he led a number of successful software and services investments. Prior to that, Sumir worked at McKinsey & Co. in New York and New Delhi. Sumir received an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and a BSE in Computer Science from Princeton University. Sumir is the co-founder and Chairman of the US-India Venture Capital Association (US-IVCA) and also a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE).

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 7 | 30% |
| Software | 7 | 30% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 26% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 17% |
| FinTech | 3 | 13% |

59 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 8 | 35% |
| Series A | 4 | 17% |
| Series C | 4 | 17% |
| Seed | 2 | 9% |
| Series E | 2 | 9% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 48% |
| India | 7 | 30% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tessell | Tessell is a hyper-growth Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) company offering a revolutionary data infrastructure and management platform for both cloud-born and cloud-defining enterprises. The platform offers high-performance data infrastructure with durable NVMe storage capable of up to 2 million IOPS. It includes features such as data protection withhigh availability, disaster recovery, zero RPO/RTO, and security and compliance through customer-managed accounts and security policies. Tessell's solutions are available on various cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The company also offers specialized services for Oracle E-Business Suite and tools for managing time series data and building AI-enabled applications with pgvector. ​ | $60M | Series B | Apr 09, 2025 |  |
| Firefly Diamonds | Firefly Diamonds is the mission to democratize access to diamonds and pioneer a path towards a greener, more sustainable future. | $3M | Seed | Mar 25, 2025 |  |
| Turing | Turing.com connects world-class remote software engineers with world-class companies. 200+ companies, including those backed by Google Ventures, Andreessen, Founders Fund, Kleiner, and Bloomberg, have hired Turing developers. Over 1M+ developers from across 150+ countries have chosen Turing as their preferred platform for landing remote jobs. | $111M | Series E | Mar 06, 2025 |  |
| Rapido | Rapido offers a platform that enables users to book bike taxis, autos, and cabs for convenient travel. The service focuses on providing quick and affordable rides, catering to the transportation needs of urban commuters. Users can access the Rapido app to track rides in real-time, receive fare estimates, and book rides efficiently. The platformoperates in numerous cities, facilitating easy mobility for its customers. With a straightforward booking process, Rapido aims to simplify the commuting experience for users looking for reliable transportation options. | $200M | Series E | Jul 29, 2024 |  |
| DuploCloud | DuploCloud is a DevOps platform that allows us to run hundreds of workloads in the cloud. The company is a developer of a no-code development or low-code development operations platform designed to build and operate applications on the edge in a seamless manner. The company's platform provides a unified platform for cloud automation withbuilt-in security and compliance, as well as frictionless data migration, allowing businesses to automate operational workflows and compliance standards. | $32M | Series B | Nov 29, 2023 |  |
| Credgenics | Credgenics is an NPA resolution platform backed by investors including Accel Partners and Titan Capital. The company works with financial institutions, Banks, NBFCs, and Digital lending firms to improve collections efficiency using technology, automation intelligence, and optimal legal routes in order to facilitate the resolution of stressedassets. | $50M | Series B | Aug 09, 2023 |  |
| Goldcast | Goldcast is a purpose-built platform for enterprises to conduct modern, meaningful, and measurable online events including client summits, workshops, product launches, thought leadership summits, regional conferences.The company provides tools/dashboards for marketers to measure the ROI of their events and get strong lead qualificationinsights.Goldcast's mission is to create amazing event experiences for enterprises. | $28M | Series A | Aug 25, 2022 |  |
| HyperTrack | HyperTrack is the location cloud for last mile delivery, field service and gig work. | $25M | Series A | Aug 17, 2022 |  |
| Nightfall | Nightfall is a cloud data protection platform for every application that uses machine learning to identify and detect business-critical data. It also automatically fixes data exposure and hygiene issues without end-user impact. Its comprehensive SaaS data protection platform and the Nightfall Developer Platform, which is an open, flexible platformfor developers to integrate its data classification and protection capabilities anywhere, deliver its detection engine as a set of cloud-hosted APIs and SDKs, helping users to save time and keep business safe. | $40M | Series B | Aug 10, 2022 |  |
| LeadSquared | LeadSquared is a unified lead conversion and marketing automation platform that helps B2B & B2C businesses track, nurture, and manage their leads seamlessly. It includes services like sales CRM, mobile CRM, marketing automation, integrations, and conversion platform. LeadSquared enables its clients to manage their entire database on itsintuitive interface, where they can build their own custom logic. It helps increase closures and manage pipelines easily. LeadSquared was founded by Nilesh Patel (CEO), Prashant Singh (COO), and Sudhakar Gorti (CPO) in 2013 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, India. | $153M | Series C | Jun 21, 2022 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Nexus Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nexus-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [UpHonest Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uphonest-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [AltaIR Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altair) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Foundation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundation-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Plug and Play](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plug-and-play-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About WestBridge Capital

VC Fund · Quatre Bornes, Mauritius

WestBridge Capital partners with transformative entrepreneurs in India and the US at every stage, for the long term.

5 contacts available at WestBridge Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Deepak Ramineedi | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deepak-ramineedi-47a1 |
| Sumir Chadha | Co-founder & Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sumir-chadha |
| Anandita Singh | AVP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anandita-singh |
| Kshitij Shah | CFO and CCO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kshitij-shah |
| Manthan Shah | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manthan-shah |

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## FAQ

### What does Sumir Chadha invest in?

Sumir Chadha invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 23 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 Sumir Chadha last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sumir Chadha closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 23 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?

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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