# Tonse Gautham Pai

> Tonse Gautham Pai is a seed investor backing Automotive and Electric Vehicle. See 1 investment, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Oct 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonse-gokuldas-pai-0a84a940

Tonse Gautham Pai is a seed investor in Bengaluru focused on Automotive and Electric Vehicle. Tonse Gokuldas Pai is the Adjunct Professor at Manipal Institute of Technology. He attended Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Automotive | 1 | 100% |
| Electric Vehicle | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| kWh Bikes | kWh Bikes is building the smartest, safest, and multi-utility electric scooters. The team has built a working prototype from scratch and is now engineering their production-ready scooter, which claims to be completely designed and developed in India with an in-house powertrain, something that most Indian EV OEMs are not doing. | $2M | Seed | Oct 06, 2021 | https://www.kwhbikes.com |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Better Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-capital-e839) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cloud Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cloud-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Faad Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/faad-network) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [LVX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/letsventure) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Tonse Gautham Pai invest in?

Tonse Gautham Pai invests primarily in Automotive and Electric Vehicle startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 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 Tonse Gautham Pai last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tonse Gautham Pai closed in Oct 2021. Shizune tracks 1 investment 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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