# Venk Krishnan

> Venk Krishnan is a seed investor at NuVentures (New York) backing Apps and Mobile. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [NuVentures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nuventures-2)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Nov 2019
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/venk-krishnan/13/865/7a5

Venk Krishnan is a seed investor at NuVentures in New York focused on Apps and Mobile. Venk Krishnan is the founder of NuWare. He is a leader who has rapidly grown NuWare by leveraging on market trends and focus on satisfying customer needs. Under the able leadership of Venk Krishnan, NuWare has gone from strength to strength. It listed on the Inc. 500 for two years in a row and ranked as a Fast 50 company by Deloitte and Touche.Prior to founding NuWare, Venk started GovXcel, a software company servicing the US local government sector which was acquired in 2003 by Mitchell Humphrey. Venk has worked in senior technical and managerial roles at Automated Securities (division of SunGard), Bell South Wireless Data, JP Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Sybase and Wipro. An early angel investor, Venk has interests in Mu-Sigma (www.mu-sigma.com), Erasmic Venture Fund, one of India’s first early stage venture funds, K2, and Vedanta. He is also a charter member of the TIE, New York (TIE-A network fostering entrepreneurship globally). Venk is a graduate of BITS Pilani, India.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 1 | 25% |
| Mobile | 1 | 25% |
| Internet | 1 | 25% |
| Software | 1 | 25% |
| Snack Food | 1 | 25% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Angel | 2 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kaarva | Kaarva is India's first flexible salary platform which is not a salary advance but gives employees control to access a part of their earned salaries on their own whenever they need, multiple times a month. |  | Seed | Nov 18, 2019 |  |
| WealthApp | WealthApp, realizes the constraints of the working professional and is built so that they spend only the absolute necessary amount of time on the portal and continue on with their schedules. They know that you don’t have time to waste, so let’s get right to it. | $357K | Angel | Dec 07, 2016 |  |
| DailyNinja | DailyNinja provides a hyper-local delivery platform intended to deliver daily needs right at the doorstep. The company's platform uses a booking platform, enabling users to subscribe and get their daily needs delivered to them on a monthly or week basis easily. | $543.2K | Seed | Aug 06, 2016 |  |
| Parentlane | Parentlane App has been awesomely designed to easily capture, share & store every moment of your favorite child's development in a dedicated album through photos or notes and engage with a trusted community of friends, family or experts in all stages of the child's development timeline. It not only allows every member of the communityto create or endorse posts, tips on parenting, baby care & overall child development, but also enables you to recommend variety of food recipes and activities that works best for children directly on the app as well. First of it's kind in India, Parentlane's mission is to deeply learn every unique child by applying Data Science & Machine Intelligence and deliver personalized, timely assistance to new age parents resulting in a future of healthy, smart and happy kids! Parentlane is Incubated at Accel Partners Startup Pad, Bangalore and have raised Angel round of funding from Prominent Entrepreneurs |  | Angel | May 19, 2016 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [NuVentures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nuventures-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Better Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Capier Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capier-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gemba Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gemba-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IndigoEdge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/indigoedge) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Tracxn labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tracxn-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About NuVentures

VC Fund · Bangalore, India

NuVentures is an early stage venture fund based out of Bangalore, India founded by Venk Krishnan in 2015. They back tech-enabled startups by providing a quality mentorship ecosystem and financial capital. They invest in passionate entrepreneurs and teams with a drive to build globally scalable enterprises solving India-centric problems. RecentNuVentures investments include Acko, Coverfox, Daily Ninja, Geist, Pocket Aces, Scripbox, Vokal, TapChief, and Thrillophilia.

3 contacts available at NuVentures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ekta Parmaka | Investment Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ekta-parmaka |
| Venk Krishnan | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venk-krishnan-2 |
| Subba Rao Telidevara | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/subba-rao-telidevara |

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## FAQ

### What does Venk Krishnan invest in?

Venk Krishnan invests primarily in Apps, Mobile and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Venk Krishnan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Venk Krishnan closed in Nov 2019. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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