Upsparks
VC Fund
Bangalore, India
Upsparks is an early-stage venture fund focused on investing in technology startups and providing the needed support throughout a startup early growth. We invest in people first and are committed to creating value by leveraging our interpersonal networks, strategic partnerships, and deep industry experience. We collaborate and invest in forwardthinking entrepreneurs who work at the frontiers of digital innovation. Upsparks is devoted to early-stage investments and to building tomorrow's market leaders.
- Total investments:
- 76
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 11%
Last updated:
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Industries Upsparks invests in
Stages Upsparks invests in
Countries Upsparks invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $300k–$4M
- Pre-Seed
- $300k–$2M
- Series A
- $209k–$17M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 14 (18%)
- Artificial Intelligence 13 (17%)
- Information Technology 12 (16%)
- Financial Services 11 (14%)
- FinTech 7 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 46 (61%)
- Pre-Seed 13 (17%)
- Series A 7 (9%)
- Angel 2 (3%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (3%)
Country
- India 52 (68%)
- United States 10 (13%)
- United Arab Emirates 3 (4%)
- Singapore 2 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mohamad Faraz
Founder
|
Founder | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
Shivam Prasad
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Vinay Jain
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fleek is a subscription tracking and management platform that aims to streamline the industry by giving the user sole control of all subscription services with ease and simplicity. | $2.5M / Seed / Dec 01, 2025 | ||
| Instant loan against Mutual Funds. Lowest interest rate guaranteed. Raghuram Trikutam Co-founder @ Quicklend. | $800K / Pre-Seed / Aug 20, 2024 | ||
| Cava Athleisure is a digital platform of clothing and apparel, specialised in active wears for both womens and mens. | Seed / Jul 20, 2024 | ||
| Flam is an AI-powered mixed reality (MR) publishing platform. | $4.6M / Seed / May 28, 2024 | ||
| Atomgrid builds a tech enabled custom manufacturing and sourcing platform for speciality chemicals. | $1.2M / Seed / May 08, 2024 | ||
| Beatoven.ai is an AI-powered music generation tool for video and podcast content creators. It uses advanced AI music generation techniques to generate unique mood-based music to suit every part of the video. | $1.3M / Seed / Mar 18, 2024 | ||
| Kusho is an AI-native developer productivity platform for modern teams. Kusho is building autonomous AI agents that replace manual workflows, enabling developers to focus on what matters and do their best work. | $600K / Pre-Seed / Feb 22, 2024 | ||
| wizr.ai is a developer of a generative AI platform that assists companies in providing customer care. | $500K / Seed / Jan 29, 2024 | ||
| Stan has built a platform that allows esports fans to collect, play and trade digital collectibles such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) of their favorite esports players and content creators, through which they can win physical and virtual world perks and rewards such as getting a chance to meet their favorite players. | $2.7M / Seed / Jan 23, 2024 | ||
| Glamplus is a SAAS-enabled beauty marketplace for salons and spas in the SMB segment. Glamplus customized to suit salon,s needs. Glamplus offers Hassle-free digital appointment tracking, invoicing, customer engagement, revenue management & much more. | $2M / Seed / Jan 10, 2024 | ||
| See all 76 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Upsparks invest in?
Upsparks invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 76 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Upsparks invest in?
Upsparks typically joins rounds of $300k–$4M at Seed, $300k–$2M at Pre-Seed and $209k–$17M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Upsparks's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Upsparks took part in.
How do I contact Upsparks?
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Who are the partners at Upsparks?
The team at Upsparks includes Mohamad Faraz (Founder), Shivam Prasad (Founding Partner) and Vinay Jain (Founding Partner). 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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