# Vijay Chattha

> Vijay Chattha is a seed investor at VSC (San Francisco) backing Mobile and Software. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [VSC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vsc-consulting)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Jan 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/vijay-chattha/0/52/886
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/vijaychattha
- Website: https://vsc.co
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/vchattha

Vijay Chattha is a seed investor at VSC in San Francisco focused on Mobile and Software. Vijay Chattha joined VSC Consulting as Founder / CEO in 2002.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $120k–$6.6M |
| Series A | $3.6M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 5 | 28% |
| Software | 5 | 28% |
| Consumer Electronics | 4 | 22% |
| Hardware | 3 | 17% |
| Food and Beverage | 3 | 17% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 56% |
| Series A | 5 | 28% |
| Series B | 1 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The.com | The.com is building the reusable web, making it simple to create, remix, and launch websites while getting paid and earning credit for your work. This is a fundamental shift in web creation towards a more ownable and composable web. | $4.4M | Seed | Jan 27, 2022 |  |
| Ancient Ritual | In a world obsessed with speeding up, we’re reinventing how humans slow down. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| Rocean | At Rocean, we’re not only committed to sustainable, eco-friendly and transparent practices, but to innovative design and simple solutions. The problem we’re here to tackle? More than 8 million tons of plastic are dumped into our oceans every year. That’s why we're creating smart home products that make a positive impact and reduce our relianceon so-called 'disposable' plastic. |  | Seed | Apr 01, 2018 |  |
| Zume | Zume is actively reducing the world’s plastic waste with economically viable substitutes for plastic packaging. | $48M | Series B | Oct 06, 2017 |  |
| b8ta | B8ta is a software-powered retailer designed to make physical retail accessible for all. It is a new kind of retail store designed to improve the customer and maker experience. b8ta helps people discover, try, and learn about new tech and innovative products while empowering makers with a simple retail-as-a-service model that puts them in control.When makers have easy, direct access to physical retail, customers will, in turn, have unbiased access to what the world is creating. The company brings makers closer to customers in real life, allowing everyone to discover, try, and learn about new products first hand. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. |  | Seed | Dec 01, 2016 |  |
| b8ta | B8ta is a software-powered retailer designed to make physical retail accessible for all. It is a new kind of retail store designed to improve the customer and maker experience. b8ta helps people discover, try, and learn about new tech and innovative products while empowering makers with a simple retail-as-a-service model that puts them in control.When makers have easy, direct access to physical retail, customers will, in turn, have unbiased access to what the world is creating. The company brings makers closer to customers in real life, allowing everyone to discover, try, and learn about new products first hand. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $7M | Series A | Sep 28, 2016 |  |
| Nanit | Nanit team is a tight-knit collection of scientists, parents and designers—experts in the first beautiful months of human life. They have developed advanced computer vision and machine learning algorithms to help us measure human behavior. They use this knowledge and technology to create innovative products that are safer and smarter, for parentsand babies everywhere.Their team comes from great companies like Applied Materials, Diapers.com, Philips, Time Warner and Tiny Love, where they've focused on building brands and products people love. | $6.6M | Seed | Jun 15, 2016 |  |
| Up All Night | Up All Night wants to radically change how people experience concerts, festivals and events. This is a $100B opportunity filled by archaic companies like Ticketmaster that people hate. The secret sauce is a customer centric approach where users can communicate with personal concierges 7 days a week via Messenger, SMS, and the web.In addition theteam has built some amazing technology including an affinity model that learns about users through their behaviors and can predict events they will want to attend. Chat Bots can deliver those recommendations at scale and are reducing the work loads of concierges. UAN makes money with a combination of a marketplace for event creators and a subscription service that allows members to choose from high profile and exclusive experiences.The team behind Up All Night includes successful entrepreneurs Prem Kumta, Chris Smith, and Ketan Anjaria that possess the winning combination of product, tech and industry knowledge to change the game. | $500K | Seed | Mar 10, 2016 |  |
| goTenna | goTenna is the world's leading mobile mesh networking company and provider of off-grid connectivity solutions for smartphones and other devices. goTenna's mesh networking protocol, Aspen Grove™, is embedded into lightweight, low-cost devices and paired with easy-to-use mobile apps enabling mobile, long-range connectivity even withoutcell, wifi, or satellite. goTenna’s mesh technology enables decentralized, programmable mobile infrastructure on a global scale in markets ranging from public sector to enterprise and IoT.The goTenna vision to create a resilient communications system was ignited during Hurricane Sandy in 2012, when approximately a third of cell towers and power stations were knocked out. Based in Brooklyn, goTenna is backed by investors including Founders Fund, Union Square Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Collaborative Fund, and Bloomberg Beta. | $7.5M | Series A | Mar 02, 2016 |  |
| Teforia | Teforia elegantly blends the rich tradition of tea with technology to create the perfect modern tea experience.Teforia uses their proprietary Selective Infusion Process (“SIP”) technology and smart packaging to automatically determine the best taste and composition of each type of tea, creating the perfect cup each time. Teforia trulyrefines the process of brewing tea by combining the ancient knowledge of tea masters with our advanced machine-learning technology. We’ve pored over every single detail in making Teforia to ensure your tea tastes the way it is intended to. If you would like to use your own loose tea, you can add your tea through the companion app for one-touch brewing. | $5.1M | Seed | Dec 04, 2015 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Upfront Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/upfront-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Wareness.io](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wareness-io) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [BBG Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bbg-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Eniac Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eniac-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [LDR Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ldr-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lightbank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightbank) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About VSC

VC Fund



5 contacts available at VSC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Eric Gonzalez | New York General Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-gonzalez-3 |
| Gwyn Stahlhut | Senior Finance Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gwyn-stahlhut |
| Maggie Philbin | Associate Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maggie-philbin-2 |
| Vijay Chattha | Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vijay-chattha |
| Marta Bulaich | VP, Enterprise Strategy | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marta-bulaich |

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## FAQ

### What does Vijay Chattha invest in?

Vijay Chattha invests primarily in Mobile, Software and Consumer Electronics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Vijay Chattha's check size?

Vijay Chattha typically joins rounds of $120k–$6.6M at Seed and $3.6M–$20M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Vijay Chattha participates in.

### When did Vijay Chattha last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Vijay Chattha closed in Jan 2022. Shizune tracks 18 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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