# Thejo Kote

> Thejo Kote is a seed investor backing Software and Financial Services. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Jul 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thejo
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/thejo
- Website: https://www.airbase.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thejo.kote

Thejo Kote is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on Software and Financial Services. Thejo Kote is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Founder and CEO of Airbase. Thejo previously worked at Automatica as a Co-Founder and CEO. Thejo Kote attended the UC Berkeley School of Information. Thejo Kote has been awarded the 2022 Golden Bridge Awards.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $4M–$14M |
| Series A | $15M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 60% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 40% |
| B2B | 3 | 30% |
| FinTech | 3 | 30% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 30% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 60% |
| Series A | 2 | 20% |
| Series C | 1 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 50% |
| Canada | 1 | 10% |
| France | 1 | 10% |
| Mexico | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rillet | Rillet is an AI-native ERP that automates accounting for complex revenue models, allowing for fast book closings and providing a reliable source of truth. The solution covers the full spectrum of accounting and finance needs, including customer invoicing, GAAP-compliant revenue recognition, automated bank reconciliations, accrual-based expenserecognition, real-time SaaS metrics, and other analytics capabilities. Rillet covers multiple entities, geographies, and currencies and allows for consolidated multi-currency reportin,g all embedded within one platform. | $13.5M | Seed | Jul 29, 2024 | https://www.rillet.com/ |
| Aleph | Aleph is a financial software company that provides AI-native financial planning and analysis tools and data management infrastructure. The company's platform helps finance teams consolidate data from multiple systems—ERP, HRIS, CRM, etc.—using over 150 no-code connectors, enabling real-time syncing and automated transformations so that databecomes clean, reliable, and ready-to-use. Its key offerings include automated financial reporting & closing, collaborative budgeting and forecasting, modeling, investor/board reporting, and headcount planning—all intended to reduce manual work, improve accuracy, and scale output without scaling headcount. Aleph supports existing workflows by integrating with Excel and Google Sheets via add-ins so teams can keep using their familiar reporting tools while benefiting from automation, variance analysis, and live data dashboards. | $5.2M | Seed | Oct 24, 2023 | https://getaleph.com |
| TeamOhana | TeamOhana empowers growing companies to plan and manage headcount with confidence. | $4M | Seed | Oct 06, 2022 | https://www.teamohana.com/ |
| Palette | Palette develops a sales compensation software that helps companies easily create, manage, and automate compensation plans. Palette creates and maintains efficient compensation plans built for company growth and goals. | $6M | Seed | May 18, 2022 | https://palettehq.com/en |
| Pluto | Pluto is the most comprehensive & powerful corporate card and spend management platform built for MENA businesses. From small businesses to the largest multi-national group holdings, businesses such as Property Finder, Knight Frank and Swissport have trusted Pluto with all of their non-payroll spending.Pluto combines the power of gettingaccess to instant issuance unlimited corporate cards, full end-to-end reimbursements, petty cash & account payables management all within one platform. No more chasing for receipts, manually approving invoices on long e-mail threads or sharing one corporate card with several people. Pluto's enterprise platform brings control back to complex finance and accounting business processes and creates a streamlined approach to controlling your company's spending. | $6M | Seed | Feb 03, 2022 | https://www.plutocard.io/ |
| Mendel | Mendel is a provider of financial technology that intends to make businesses save money and spend less. | $15M | Series A | Dec 02, 2021 | https://www.somosmendel.com |
| Mendel | Mendel will use expense management software to recover all of your invoices and integrates expense management software with your accounting system. | $15M | Series A | Dec 02, 2021 | https://mendel.com |
| Candidate Labs | Candidate Labs is a recruitment platform that offers all hiring process services for candidates and employers to connect professionally. We’re reimagining what’s possible in the recruiting space by creating a radically better experience for both professionals and the technology companies hiring them. Through end-to-end process reinvention andtechnology enablement, our team of experienced search professionals are delivering results other firms simply cannot. | $5M | Seed | Jun 25, 2020 | https://candidatelabs.com |
| HeadSpin | HeadSpin is a developer of a digital experience intelligence platform used to provide flawless digital experiences. Its platform utilizes automation, AI, and analytics to unify end-to-end testing, performance optimization, and experience monitoring with thousands of devices deployed in 100+ locations on the real carrier and WiFi networks around theglobe that enable development, QA, operations, and product teams to remotely test and monitor mobile applications and increase revenue. | $60M | Series C | Feb 25, 2020 | https://www.headspin.io |

9 of 10 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Thejo Kote invest in?

Thejo Kote invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Thejo Kote's check size?

Thejo Kote typically joins rounds of $4M–$14M at Seed and $15M–$15M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Thejo Kote participates in.

### How do I contact Thejo Kote?

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### When did Thejo Kote last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Thejo Kote closed in Jul 2024. 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?

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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