# Umakant Soni

> Umakant Soni is a seed investor at Pi Ventures (Bengaluru) backing Internet and Logistics. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Pi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pi-ventures)
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jul 2015
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/soni-umakant/1/586/168
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/umakant_soni

Umakant Soni is a seed investor at Pi Ventures in Bengaluru focused on Internet and Logistics. Umakant founded an AI startup, Vimagino focused on building chatbots for support in 2010. Before this, he spent time at Wipro (Strategy for advance technology areas & in Innovation Arm). He was Director India for Science Inc. one of the leading startup studio (HQ. LA). Alumnus of IIT Kanpur, he loves painting abstracts.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 1 | 100% |
| Logistics | 1 | 100% |
| Delivery Service | 1 | 100% |
| Supply Chain Management | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Opinio | Opinio is a fast growing start-up that builds next generation last mile delivery service for food, grocery, bakery, peer-to-Peer and more. Founded by IIT Kanpur Computer Science graduates, company started its operations on 15th of June, 2015. They recently got funded by India's biggest VC firm, Accel Partners (Portfolio Companies: Facebook,Flipkart, Myntra etc.)Operating on a B2B model, they partner with local merchants to help them deliver goods to the customer through our fast expanding fleet of Ground Pilot's. | $1.3M | Seed | Jul 29, 2015 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Tracxn](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tracxn) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Pi Ventures

VC Fund · Bangalore, India

We are India's first and largest deeptech VC fund. We back ambitious founders building deeptech startups which solve global problems. Areas of focus include AI, quantum computing, blockchain infrastructure, material science, synthetic biology, spacetech and robotics.

4 contacts available at Pi Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manish Singhal | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manish-singhal |
| Shubham Sandeep | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shubham-sandeep |
| Umakant Soni | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/umakant-soni |
| Yogesh Pakhale | President, Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yogesh-pakhale |

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## FAQ

### What does Umakant Soni invest in?

Umakant Soni invests primarily in Internet, Logistics and Delivery Service 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.

### When did Umakant Soni last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Umakant Soni closed in Jul 2015. Shizune tracks 1 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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