# UST

> UST is a VC fund in Aliso Viejo backing Software and Machine Learning. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Aliso Viejo, United States
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 58%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/USTglobal
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/USTglobal
- Website: https://www.ust.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/USTglobal

UST is a digital transformation solutions provider. For more than 20 years, UST has worked side by side with the world’s best companies to make a real impact through transformation. Powered by technology, inspired by people, and led by purpose, UST partners with their clients from design to operation. With deep domain expertise and a future-proofphilosophy, UST embeds innovation and agility into their clients’ organizations. With over 26,000 employees in 25 countries, UST builds for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for UST. Shizune tracks 10 team members at UST. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/ust?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 29% |
| Machine Learning | 5 | 21% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 17% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 17% |
| Big Data | 3 | 13% |

51 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Corporate Round | 9 | 38% |
| Seed | 3 | 13% |
| Series B | 3 | 13% |
| Series A | 2 | 8% |
| Grant | 1 | 4% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 25% |
| India | 4 | 17% |
| Israel | 3 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 8% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alexander Varghese | Chief Administrative Officer & COO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-varghese |
| Arun Narayanan | Chief Operating Officer | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arun-narayanan |
| Krishna Sudheendra | Chief Executive Officer | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/krishna-sudheendra |
| Leslie Schultz | Chief Marketing Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leslie-schultz |
| Paras Chandaria | Executive Chairman | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paras-chandaria |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nucleo-Vir Therapeutics | Nucleo-Vir Therapeutics is a deep tech company that develops full-stack immunotherapies especially in the field of oncology. | $1.4K | Grant | Dec 17, 2025 |  |
| aiola | Aiola’s mission is to bridge the gap between Human Intelligence and artificial intelligence while connecting the “AI promise” for the masses. By making AI accessible to everyone, we empower sales professionals and frontline employees with real-time, user-friendly, HUMINT-Driven business insights and intelligence on-the-go. |  | Corporate Round | Nov 04, 2025 |  |
| Kaynes Semicon | Kaynes Semicon Private Limited, a subsidiary of Kaynes Technology India Limited, is leading the charge in India’s semiconductor revolution. |  | Corporate Round | Sep 29, 2025 |  |
| Opkey | Opkey is an artificial intelligence continuous test automation platform for enterprise systems. They offer load testing, stress testing, spike testing, and volume testing for enterprise apps. They offer automation testing services for Windows desktop, web, and mobile applications. | $47M | Series B | Aug 22, 2024 |  |
| Opkey | Opkey is an artificial intelligence continuous test automation platform for enterprise systems. They offer load testing, stress testing, spike testing, and volume testing for enterprise apps. They offer automation testing services for Windows desktop, web, and mobile applications. | $47M | Series B | Aug 22, 2024 |  |
| Uniqus Consultech | Uniqus Consultech offers Accounting & Reporting Consulting. | $10M | Series B | Apr 18, 2024 |  |
| VoerEir | Voereir AB is a start-up founded mid 2015 and our focus is to help operators succeed with their NFV transformation. VoerEir AB has a list of customers including several Tier 1s, to both consulting engagements and the Touchstone product, launched in Q3 2016. Our team has many years of experience from OpenStack, NFV, Telecom application developmentand VNF onboarding. We continue to upgrade our knowledge base through industry cooperation, open source community engagement, cooperation with universities and, most important, assignments to evaluate and help to improve many different NFV infrastructures. Our focus is to continue to develop an industry leading offering consisting of test suites, processes and expertise that will help cloud transformation projects reduce cost, risk and time to successful implementation. VoerEir address a global market, with offices in Delhi and Stockholm |  | Corporate Round | Oct 17, 2023 |  |
| Bricz | Bricz specializes in providing supply chain strategy and management consulting. It helps explore opportunities and generate value in every brick used to build a supply chain. |  | Corporate Round | Sep 27, 2023 |  |
| Homely | Homely is a free digital platform that uses technology and partnerships to assist homebuyers and renters in finding a house. |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 10, 2023 |  |
| Paladin Cloud | Paladin Cloud is an open source, Security-as-Code platform designed to help developers and security teams detect and mitigate threats in cloud environments. The company's open source cloud native Security-as-Code platform offers hundreds of best practice cloud security and governance policies in a modern user interface. | $3.3M | Seed | Jul 11, 2022 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [PeakSpan Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peakspan-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [verica](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/verica-66fa) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Vertical Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vertical-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [YourNest Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yournest-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [3Lines](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/3lines) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [4VF SAS](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/4vf-sas) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does UST invest in?

UST invests primarily in Software, Machine Learning and Information Technology startups, most often at Corporate Round and Seed stage. Most of the 24 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 UST?

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### Who are the partners at UST?

The team at UST includes Alexander Varghese (Chief Administrative Officer & COO), Arun Narayanan (Chief Operating Officer) and Krishna Sudheendra (Chief Executive Officer), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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