# Touchstone Equities

> Touchstone Equities is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Mobile. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hyderabad, India
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Mar 2020
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/touchstoneequities/
- Website: http://www.touchstoneequities.com

Touchstone Equities is a VC fund in Hyderabad focused on Artificial Intelligence and Mobile. Touchstone, we believe in cyclical creative disruption that empowers innovators to extract maximum value from their solutions. We understand that resilient businesses are not built in a day and partner with a long term view of the sector.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $168k–$186k |
| Series A | $2M–$2.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 44% |
| Mobile | 2 | 22% |
| Logistics | 2 | 22% |
| Real Time | 2 | 22% |
| Mobile Apps | 2 | 22% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 44% |
| Seed | 2 | 22% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 22% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 5 | 56% |
| United States | 3 | 33% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sunil Motaparti | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sunil-motaparti |
| Utkarsh Sinha | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/utkarsh-sinha |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Apxor | Apxor is a technology company that helps the budding application industry. They offer user onboarding, feature adoption, conversions, app engagement, and product experimentation. They focus on helping applications grow. | $186K | Seed | Mar 27, 2020 |  |
| Apxor | Apxor is a technology company that helps the budding application industry. They offer user onboarding, feature adoption, conversions, app engagement, and product experimentation. They focus on helping applications grow. | $168K | Seed | Feb 15, 2020 |  |
| Wysh | Wysh is a platform that connects users with their favourite celebrities. Wysh is a two-way engagement that enables fans to get personalised video messages from celebrities by sending a video request. | $2M | Series A | Jan 13, 2020 |  |
| Transporter.city | Transporter is a fleet of Line Haul carriers that makes moving cargo between two points ridiculously simple. For Businesses that have more committed cargo deliveries, Transporter is a 3PL provider that uses advanced asset mapping heuristic Algorithms to inventorise slack market capacity for user demand. As 3PL player it combines this with astandardisation of fleet movement to deliver users:a) simpler and zero-error access to right asset-type;b) 100% load placement with zero detention and;c) control on TAT and delivery timelines with advanced track-and-trace systems.In short, transporter is a 3PL player that standardises the best of market assets to meet user demand across variables like load, cargo type, delivery points and routes to promise the best cargo management window that the industry needs |  | Seed | Aug 05, 2019 |  |
| Appsfly.io | MicroApps are apps in itself which mimic any native app that you find on AppStore / PlayStore, with a minimal functionality that is served right in the context of the publisher apps.They are building AppSteam platform to build and distribute MicroApps. AppSteam is capable of streaming micro apps onto any publisher app based on context andintent of the user.AppSteam built an IDE where one can develop micro-apps with ease, and deploy them to any publisher on demand. These micro-apps are completely streamed from outside, and it gives a hassle-free experience to user by not downloading and installing the app. In the context of AppSteam They are quickly interacting with multiple players in different segments and adding micro apps to add to their ecosystem to bring right context and contextual services together. |  |  | Jan 01, 2019 |  |
| Session AI | ZineOne’s Intelligent Customer Engagement enables businesses to predict buying intent and provides the ability to influence the session outcome in key moments. Recognized by Gartner as a Gartner MQ for Personalization Engine solutions provider, ZineOne’s Intelligent Customer Engagement platform has positioned the company as an innovative AIpersonalization provider that is already delivering nearly $1 billion dollars in new revenue for its customers. The patent-pending platform and its continuously learning models provide insights into each and every visitor across digital and physical channels while delivering intelligent customer experiences in key moments to delight customers, foster loyalty, and increase revenue. Learn more at www.zineone.com. | $2.5M | Series A | Mar 21, 2018 |  |
| Session AI | Session AI, formerly ZineOne, is a revolutionary in-session marketing platform, made to overcome one key challenge – that 90% of today’s ecommerce sessions are anonymous. Our advanced machine learning models have the power to understand any customer’s micro-behaviors, at scale, and deliver personalized experiences that convert, in real-time. Allwithout the need for any personal information or historical data.Leading brands like KOHL’s, Men’s Wearhouse, KEEN and Advance Auto Parts have worked with Session AI to achieve remarkable results – seeing 32% lifts in conversion rates, and millions in attributed revenue.Additionally, we are proud to partner with top industry players like Adobe, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, HCL Software, Pega, and AWS. | $2.5M | Series A | Mar 21, 2018 |  |
| ZineOne | ZineOne uses AI to deliver intelligent customer experiences in key moments to delight customers, foster loyalty, and increase revenue. | $2.5M | Series A | Mar 20, 2018 |  |
| Shotang | Shotang is an on-cloud marketplace which aims to revolutionize the order fulfillment processes in traditional distribution channels through technology and aggregation of resellers & consumer brands. We are a young and energetic company based in Bangalore which is helping more than 50,000 resellers and 130 companies on its network to grow theirbusiness, across India. | $655K |  | Feb 05, 2018 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

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- [Golden Seeds](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/golden-seeds) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Touchstone Equities invest in?

Touchstone Equities invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Mobile and Logistics startups, most often at Series A and 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.

### What is Touchstone Equities's check size?

Touchstone Equities typically joins rounds of $168k–$186k at Seed and $2M–$2.5M 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 Touchstone Equities participates in.

### How do I contact Touchstone Equities?

Public channels for Touchstone Equities include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Touchstone Equities?

The team at Touchstone Equities includes Sunil Motaparti (Founder) and Utkarsh Sinha (CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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