# Venus Dhuria

> Venus Dhuria is a seed investor at Cricnwin (Gurgaon) backing Internet and SaaS. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Cricnwin](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cricnwin)
- Location: Gurgaon, India
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/venus-dhuria-1776721a/

Venus Dhuria is a seed investor at Cricnwin in Gurgaon focused on Internet and SaaS. Venus Dhuria is the co-founder at Cricnwin.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $250k–$1.6M |
| Pre-Seed | $253k–$1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 3 | 25% |
| SaaS | 2 | 17% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 17% |
| Digital Marketing | 2 | 17% |
| News | 1 | 8% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 58% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 25% |
| Angel | 1 | 8% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Epik | Epik is India's first Experience Commerce platform, delivering real-world product experiences into your house before you buy. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Mar 30, 2026 |  |
| Nailinit | Nailinit a community-first nail care brand focused on Gen Z and millennial consumers. | $253K | Pre-Seed | Feb 26, 2026 |  |
| SWIRL | SWIRL is the premier live shopping mobile SaaS to engage, convert and retain more customers. It uses video as a backbone to power real-time virtual shopping – helping brands build authentic customer engagements by bridging the online-offline gap. Our product improves the probability of sales conversions by turbocharging the pre-purchase journey ofboth new and existing customers using cloud-based interactive video commerce and live shopping software. We are trusted by over 100+ formidable brands from Retail, Lifestyle, Fashion, Beauty, F&B, and many more and we are headquartered in the charming and bustling city of Vadodara. | $1.1M | Seed | Feb 06, 2024 |  |
| Alt Carbon | Alt Carbon operates as a climate tech platform. | $550K | Pre-Seed | Dec 20, 2023 |  |
| Knocksense | A local news and recommendations platform. | $1M | Seed | Apr 19, 2023 |  |
| Listed | Leading the way in building the Web 3.0 Creator Economy. | $1.6M | Seed | May 10, 2022 |  |
| The Eat Better Company | Eat Better Ventures is a direct to consumer brand, which makes healthy organic snacks. | $727.7K | Seed | Mar 02, 2022 |  |
| One Impression | One Impression’s platform helps brands instantly discover and access over 7 Mil+ creators globally ranging from top-tier celebrities to regional nano creators. The platform also provides best-in-class creator pricing, facilitates compliant creator contracts, ensures seamless on-time delivery, automates creator payouts, and allows brands to trackcampaign performance in real time. The platform enables brands to reliably drive campaigns at scale and speed.The platform is currently active in over 14 countries including India, USA, UAE, Indonesia & more. It is trusted by over 500+ top brands including companies such as Unilever, Amazon, Nestle, Meta to name a few. One Impression was founded in July 2018 in Gurgaon, Haryana by Apaksh Gupta & Jivesh Gupta. | $1M | Seed | Jan 06, 2022 |  |
| Knocksense | A local news and recommendations platform. | $150K | Convertible Note | Nov 15, 2021 |  |
| Knocksense | A local news and recommendations platform. | $200K | Angel | Jan 14, 2021 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Mumbai Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mumbai-angels) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [We Founder Circle](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/we-founder-circle) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [PointOne Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pointone-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [PointOne Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pointone-capital-36ed) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Whiteboard Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/whiteboard-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Capier Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capier-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Cricnwin

VC Fund · Gurgaon, India

Cricnwin is the World's first Cricket focussed social & gaming platform for cricket lovers. Make your cricket match more interesting with the unique prediction game, and play along with your friends, follow the live cricket scores, read latest cricket news and stories, check cricket schedules & much more

1 contacts available at Cricnwin.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Venus Dhuria | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venus-dhuria |

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## FAQ

### What does Venus Dhuria invest in?

Venus Dhuria invests primarily in Internet, SaaS and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Venus Dhuria's check size?

Venus Dhuria typically joins rounds of $250k–$1.6M at Seed and $253k–$1M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Venus Dhuria participates in.

### When did Venus Dhuria last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Venus Dhuria closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 12 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?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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