Vel Kanniappan
Angel Investor
Bangalore, India
Vel Kanniappan is a seed investor in Bangalore focused on Manufacturing and Payments. Vel Kanniappan is the Senior Vice President – Finance, responsible for all global finance functions at NIUM.Vel Kanniappan is with UiPath as Vice President – Global Business & Finance Operations, responsible for the Commercial finance organization for the Asia Pacific, and is also a vital member of the global finance organization.Vel joinedTekion in 2017 at a very early stage when the organization had 20 employees. Being the only qualified finance professional in the organization, he was responsible for managing the global finance and operations (Global Facilities, Procurement, IT Infrastructure, SOC Certifications, Payroll, Compliances, etc.) in addition to product design and management. He was responsible for conceptualizing and building the finance modules for Tekion’s product offering, including designing wireframes and UX. He was involved in three rounds of funding and actively interacted with the investors during the funding and periodical reporting, which included Index Ventures, Storm Ventures, Airbus Ventures, General Motors, BMW i Ventures, Alliance Ventures, and few car dealerships in the Bay Area. Vel joined EMC Corporation in 2002. In a career spanning 15 years with EMC and its group companies, which included 9 years at VMware, Vel managed the Controllership for the Asia Pacific and also managed the global finance organization, which included an end to end ownership for Procure to Pay, T&E, General Ledger Accounting, Global Payroll (Except US), Accounts Receivable (Collections targets of close to $ 3 B per quarter). Vel was also the first employee of EMC and VMware in India and was responsible for growing their operations to 10,000+ employees in India. Vel managed a global team, including a shared services team of 250+ professionals.By qualification, Vel is a Certified Public Accountant from Arizona State-USA, Certified Management Accountant-USA, Certified Internal Auditor-USA, Project Management Professional-USA,He is also a Chartered Accountant-India, Cost & Management Accountant-India, Company Secretary-India, Bachelor of Law-India, Bachelor of Commerce-India.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Vel Kanniappan invests in
Stages Vel Kanniappan invests in
Countries Vel Kanniappan invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $150k–$3.6M
- Angel
- $67k–$837k
Investment Focus
Industry
- Manufacturing 4 (27%)
- Payments 3 (20%)
- Software 3 (20%)
- Information Technology 3 (20%)
- FinTech 2 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (53%)
- Funding Round 3 (20%)
- Angel 1 (7%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (7%)
- Series A 1 (7%)
Country
- India 9 (60%)
- United States 2 (13%)
- Germany 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Frigate Engineering Services Private Limited bridges the gap between innovation and practice, by imparting clever and inventive ideas proposed by startups or industries and building mthe to life by ingeniously planning and designing the said idea into well-engineered products using sustainable design processes.At Frigate, we aim to achievesimplicity in complex tasks by designing and producing products that would be of great use for small scale businesses, farmers and even us in our day to day lives. We find and solve various problem statements identified in the daily world and build from scratch, interesting eco-friendly products/prototypes based on the required need.Our Manufacturing Capabilities ranging from1.Sheet metal Fabrication-Light Engineering from MS to SS to Aluminium. 2.Heavy Engineering fabrication starting from 5 tons-10 tons 3.All kinds of machining with in-house lathe, VMC and laser cutting facilities 4.3D printing from FDM,SLS,SLA 5.Injection Moulding and die making 6.Vaccum casting | $185K / Pre-Seed / Apr 12, 2022 | ||
| Electric vehicle powertrain manufacturing company primarily focused on 2 wheeler and 3 wheeler segment. | $150K / Seed / Feb 16, 2022 | ||
| The Ecosystem Guardians - Analytics firm making giant strides in the blockchain ecosystem by providing AI enabled securing services that protects the ecosystem integrity, with a cross-functional team of experts backed by the leaders in the industry. | $3.6M / Seed / Jan 01, 2022 | ||
| XYMA Analytics is a spin-out from Centre for NDE, IIT Madras and incubated by IIT Madras Incubation Cell. XYMA provides novel ultrasonic sensors and Industrial-IoT solutions to industries using high temperature processes such as refineries, power plants, steel plants and other manufacturing industries. Their sensors provide dense measurementsacross a unit, improving performance and asset life, which is coupled with AI-powered physical models for intelligent support. | Seed / Dec 13, 2021 | ||
| Payzello is India’s first ever Neo Banking Platform challenging the very definition of Banking in India. With our comprehensive features and services ranging from a single Card for both Debit and Credit to App based Credit to Money Transfer and Request Mechanism, end to end Expense Management, Bharat QR to three minutes' Account OpeningProcess and much more in a single click(and of course zero paperwork), we are here to ensure you never have to walk into a physical Bank ever again. | $500K / Seed / Aug 15, 2021 | ||
| Slang is a Voice to Action platform, which can be used to quickly add a multi-lingual voice interface to any mobile app. The voice interface will allow end-users to interact with the app via voice, as well as with touch. Slang will take care of all the work required to add a voice interface including a customizable UI, voicecapture/processing, translation, NLU and finally calling into the actions registered by the client. App developers only need to focus on their app specific actions, while Slang takes care of the rest. | $500K / Seed / Jul 15, 2021 | ||
| Building technology to make distribution efficient and cheaper for large and small FMCG companies. | $1.3M / Seed / Jun 14, 2021 | ||
| Fabheads Automation is specialises in composites part manufacturing sector. Also in tandem, Fabheads focuses a lot of their resources on developing better, more reliable, automated fabrication technologies for the composites sector. Ever since incorporation, Fabheads has went on to become the first company in Asia with in-house developed fiber 3Dprinting capabilities, got several awards for their innovative work in the composites fabrication sector and continue to keep setting themselves newer and bigger targets leading to an eventual complete automation in the composite manufacturing sector. | $1.1M / Seed / May 18, 2021 | ||
| Simple Energy specializes in the manufacture of smart electric two-wheelers. Simply Energy consists of a young 100+ member team of EV enthusiasts, designers, engineers, and problem-solvers coming together to make smart, supercharging, and affordable two-wheelers. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bangalore, India. | $837K / Angel / Jan 02, 2021 | ||
| Sky is a purpose built, all in one digital payment platform designed with a modern software (SaaS) stack to run unique, complex applications that legacy payment providers and out-of-the-box cloud based mobile payment solutions can't adequately serve. Uniquely, Sky leverages analytics derived from its sophisticated product offering to provideactionable business insights to its customers; a disruptive combination of services & technology. | $2.5M / Series A / Oct 10, 2020 | ||
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What does Vel Kanniappan invest in?
Vel Kanniappan invests primarily in Manufacturing, Payments and Software startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Vel Kanniappan's check size?
Vel Kanniappan typically joins rounds of $150k–$3.6M at Seed and $67k–$837k at Angel. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Vel Kanniappan participates in.
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