# Upekkha Vertical AI Accelerator

> Upekkha Vertical AI Accelerator is a VC fund backing Software. See 127 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dover, United States
- Total investments: 127
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 79%
- Last fund: Dec 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/upekkha/
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/upekkhaBe
- Website: http://www.upekkha.io

Upekkha Vertical AI Accelerator is a VC fund in Dover focused on Software and Information Technology. Upekkha is an AI SaaS accelerator that helps Indian founders build global software brands

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 57 | 45% |
| Information Technology | 37 | 29% |
| SaaS | 36 | 28% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 27 | 21% |
| Internet | 8 | 6% |

119 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 95 | 75% |
| Seed | 7 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 2% |
| Series A | 2 | 2% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 57 | 45% |
| India | 34 | 27% |
| Singapore | 2 | 2% |
| Japan | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gayathri Sharma | Head - Investor Relations | 0 | — |
| Gokul K S | Partner | 0 | — |
| Prasanna Krishnamoorthy | Managing Partner and Co Founder | 6 | — |
| Rohith Veerajappa | Head of Technology and Product | 0 | — |
| Shekar Nair | Managing Partner and Co-founder | 1 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sherlocks.ai | Sherlocks.ai is an AI SRE platform that helps engineering teams respond to incidents faster and stop outages before they happen. When something breaks in production, Sherlocks jumps in automatically. It detects the incident, investigates what went wrong, finds the root cause, and tells your team exactly what to fix, all inside Slack. Your engineerssee the answer, not a wall of alerts to dig through. Most monitoring tools dump data on you and expect your team to figure it out. Sherlocks does the figuring out for you. It connects the dots across your entire stack, learns from past incidents, and gets smarter over time. It plugs into the tools you already use: Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, Kubernetes, AWS, and GCP. No ripping out your current setup, no months of onboarding. You connect it and it starts working. Teams using Sherlocks have cut downtime by 70% and reduced time to resolution from hours to minutes. Less firefighting, fewer late night pages, more time actually building. Try Sherlocks.ai free at sherlocks.ai. | $791.2K | Pre-Seed | Jun 23, 2026 |  |
| 2Care | automate booking and post discharge care so clinicians can focus on patients, not spreadsheets. | $125K | Pre-Seed | Apr 06, 2026 |  |
| Dheemai Inc | DheemAI builds AI‑powered fraud prevention and identity verification solutions for digital onboarding and security. | $125K | Pre-Seed | Oct 14, 2025 |  |
| Sherlocks.ai | Sherlocks.ai is an AI SRE platform that helps engineering teams respond to incidents faster and stop outages before they happen. When something breaks in production, Sherlocks jumps in automatically. It detects the incident, investigates what went wrong, finds the root cause, and tells your team exactly what to fix, all inside Slack. Your engineerssee the answer, not a wall of alerts to dig through. Most monitoring tools dump data on you and expect your team to figure it out. Sherlocks does the figuring out for you. It connects the dots across your entire stack, learns from past incidents, and gets smarter over time. It plugs into the tools you already use: Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, Kubernetes, AWS, and GCP. No ripping out your current setup, no months of onboarding. You connect it and it starts working. Teams using Sherlocks have cut downtime by 70% and reduced time to resolution from hours to minutes. Less firefighting, fewer late night pages, more time actually building. Try Sherlocks.ai free at sherlocks.ai. | $100K | Pre-Seed | Oct 02, 2025 |  |
| Blue | AI-driven roleplays that prepare you to handle objections, perfect your pitch, talk tracks, and book more meetings. | $100K | Pre-Seed | Apr 08, 2025 |  |
| intermezzo | intermezzo is a web design and web development company. | $100K | Pre-Seed | Mar 25, 2025 |  |
| Careflick | AgeTech AI Startup building multi-modal AI companions for seniors.86% of older adults in the US want to age at home. We’re building human-like AI companions for these 58 million seniors who are increasingly alone, unsupported, and caught in a widening caregiver gap - offering proactive reminders, personalized daily conversations, conversationalcognitive games, emotional support and practical daily support so they can stay independent for longer. | $125K | Pre-Seed | Mar 10, 2025 |  |
| Nuvepro | Nuvepro’s product (Nuvelink) enables enterprises offer a vast catalogue of cloud services to the end-users on a self-service mode. The catalogue items can be sourced from diverse clouds, such as Azure, AWS, on-premise as well as SaaS platforms such as Office 365. It reduces the time to provision the resources and gives you the control to optimizecosts and utilization levels. It also helps you to reduce the problem of Shadow IT cases by enabling the IT Team to rapidly offer various resources to the business users. | $125K | Seed | Jan 31, 2025 |  |
| Rapidflare | Rapidflare accelerates Technical Sales in the Electronics Industry including Semiconductor Industry and Physical Security verticals. Rapidflare's differentiation is Reliable AI that is based on Explainable framework and Trustable data. Explainability is based on a unique Structured Reasoning framework. Trustablility is based on accurateKnowledge Graphs.Rapidflare is in revenue and is trusted some of the leading Electronics Industry companies in the US and Europe. | $125K | Pre-Seed | Jan 05, 2025 |  |
| Nimo Planet | Nimo Planet is an e-commerce company that provides sun classes. | $125K | Seed | Nov 20, 2024 |  |

10 of 127 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kube VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kube-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Appreciate Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/appreciate-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Better Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-capital-e839) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Eight Roads Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eight-roads-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Nivesha Ventures — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [PeerCapital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peercapital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Upekkha Vertical AI Accelerator invest in?

Upekkha Vertical AI Accelerator invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 127 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Upekkha Vertical AI Accelerator?

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### Who are the partners at Upekkha Vertical AI Accelerator?

The team at Upekkha Vertical AI Accelerator includes Gayathri Sharma (Head - Investor Relations), Gokul K S (Partner) and Prasanna Krishnamoorthy (Managing Partner and Co Founder), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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