# Tarun Mehta

> Tarun Mehta is a seed investor at Truist Ventures backing E-Commerce. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Truist Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/truist-ventures)
- Location: Chennai, India
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarunsmehta
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/tarunsmehta
- Website: https://x.com/tarunsmehta
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tarunsmehta

Tarun Mehta is a seed investor at Truist Ventures in Chennai focused on E-Commerce and Electric Vehicle. Tarun Sanjay Mehta is based out of Bengaluru, Karnataka and is the Co-founder & CEO of Ather Energy. Tarun previously worked at Ashok Leyland as a Deputy Manager. Tarun Sanjay Mehta attended the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Tarun Sanjay Mehta has received the Jagdish Khattar Rising Star Award in 2023.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 22% |
| Electric Vehicle | 2 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 22% |
| B2B | 1 | 11% |
| Battery | 1 | 11% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 11% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |
| Series F | 1 | 11% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 1 | 11% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 5 | 56% |
| United States | 2 | 22% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ather Energy | Ather Energy manufactures electric scooters and an electric vehicle charging network called AtherGrid. It focuses on building a complete ecosystem for India’s electric vehicles powered by indigenous design and all locally manufactured. Ather Energy's key products include the Ather 450X, their flagship electric scooter. It is renowned for itspowerful performance, long-range, and advanced smart features such as touchscreen dashboards, connected mobile apps, and over-the-air updates. The Ather 450 Plus, a slightly less powerful version of the 450X, offers many of the same innovative features while balancing performance and affordability.Both scooters are equipped with a smart dashboard that provides navigation, ride statistics, and other useful features. They are also integrated with mobile apps, allowing users to monitor their vehicle's performance, locate charging points, and access various connected features. | $259.1M | Post-IPO Equity | Jul 15, 2026 | http://www.atherenergy.com |
| e-TRNL Energy | A revolutionary cell design and manufacturing concept that eliminates battery cell heating at the source, allowing us to realize the full potential of fast charging while avoiding cell degradation. | $3M | Seed | Feb 13, 2026 | https://e-trnl.energy |
| Pneucons | Pneucons is a B2B industrial marketplace company developing an ONDC-like architecture. |  | Seed | Jul 24, 2024 | https://x.com/pneucons |
| Ather Energy | Ather Energy manufactures electric scooters and an electric vehicle charging network called AtherGrid. It focuses on building a complete ecosystem for India’s electric vehicles powered by indigenous design and all locally manufactured. Ather Energy's key products include the Ather 450X, their flagship electric scooter. It is renowned for itspowerful performance, long-range, and advanced smart features such as touchscreen dashboards, connected mobile apps, and over-the-air updates. The Ather 450 Plus, a slightly less powerful version of the 450X, offers many of the same innovative features while balancing performance and affordability.Both scooters are equipped with a smart dashboard that provides navigation, ride statistics, and other useful features. They are also integrated with mobile apps, allowing users to monitor their vehicle's performance, locate charging points, and access various connected features. | $10.4M | Series F | May 31, 2024 | http://www.atherenergy.com |
| GoTab | GoTab is a Restaurant Commerce Platform (RCP) helping large- and mid-sized restaurants, breweries, bars, hotels, and other venues run lean, profitable operations. | $18M | Series A | Aug 01, 2023 | https://gotab.io/en/ |
| Stratyfy | Stratyfy offers predictive model development and decision optimization solutions for financial institutions built around that deliver the accuracy of machine learning without black box pitfalls. In addition to cutting edge accuracy, all models built on the platform are truly transparent and explainable, allowing the lenders to make consistent,ethical and regulatory compliant data driven decisions. Stratyfy Solutions are powered by Smartificial Intelligence™, our proprietary explainable AI technology portfolio that combines AI with IQ to augment human expertise instead of trying to replace it with overly complex models. The transparency of our proprietary algorithms allows our solutions to address a range of important problems for financial institutions where machine learning has struggled to deliver value. Please contact us at info@stratyfy.com to learn more about our solutions and see the benefits they can deliver to your business. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 29, 2023 | http://www.stratyfy.com |
| Upliance.ai | Upliance.ai is a startup that makes AI-powered home appliances.  The company products are designed to make cooking easier. The Upliance is an AI Cooking Assistant that offers a diverse range of recipes. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Nov 10, 2022 | https://www.upliance.ai |
| Upliance.ai | Upliance.ai is a startup that makes AI-powered home appliances.  The company products are designed to make cooking easier. The Upliance is an AI Cooking Assistant that offers a diverse range of recipes. | $800K | Pre-Seed | Oct 11, 2022 | https://www.upliance.ai |
| Neurostellar | Neurostellar is a consumer health tech company that offers wellness, wearables, neuroscience, health, and wellness services. It is a deep technology startup that envisions to interface brains and machines for the betterment of humanity and drives to create tools necessary for evolution. It creates tools with research and precision technology. | $150K | Seed |  | https://x.com/Neuro_stellar |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs India](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stanford-angels-and-entrepreneurs-india) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Abu Dhabi Investment Authority](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abu-dhabi-investment-authority) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aditya Birla Sunlife Mutual Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aditya-birla-sunlife-mutual-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Anicut Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anicut-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Axis Mutual Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/axis-mutual-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IIMA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ciie-iim-ahmedabad) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Truist Ventures

VC Fund · Charlotte, United States

Truist Ventures is the corporate venture capital of Truist Financial that focuses on the economic empowerment of minority and underserved communities and racial equity in financial services. The firm was established in 2018 by integrating investments in technology companies from the heritage SunTrust brand with BB&T Ventures.

1 contacts available at Truist Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vanessa Indriolo Vreeland | Head | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vanessa-indriolo-vreeland |

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## FAQ

### What does Tarun Mehta invest in?

Tarun Mehta invests primarily in E-Commerce, Electric Vehicle and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Tarun Mehta last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tarun Mehta closed in Jul 2026. 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.

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