Vijay Nagappan
Principal/Partner @ MHS Capital
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Vijay Nagappan is a Series A investor at MHS Capital in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Software and Marketplace. Vijay joined MHS Capital in 2010 to work with entrepreneurs building disruptive technology companies.In 2002, Vijay joined his first startup, Wired Gamez, where he was responsible for customer sourcing, business development and new market expansion. After Wired Gamez, he developed a web-based CRM and job management system for a recruitingservices company, built a data-driven forecasting model as part of AND1′s retail strategy, and developed data scraping/cleaning algorthims to track what TV broadcast content was being illegally downloaded across the web.Prior to joining MHS Capital, Vijay was with Evercore Partners where he worked side by side founders and operators of VC-backed and public technology companies, advising them on corporate strategy, fundraising, mergers, acquisitions, and joint-ventures.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 44%
Last updated:
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Industries Vijay Nagappan invests in
Stages Vijay Nagappan invests in
Countries Vijay Nagappan invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (22%)
- Marketplace 2 (22%)
- Machine Learning 2 (22%)
- AgTech 1 (11%)
- Mobile 1 (11%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (33%)
- Seed 2 (22%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (11%)
- Series B 1 (11%)
- Series C 1 (11%)
Country
- United States 4 (44%)
- Canada 1 (11%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Farmblox is a farm automation platform, combining a sensor ecosystem, carbon sequestration monitoring, and AI workflows – saving up to 50% in labor costs, reducing water usage, and generating new revenue streams for modern farming. Reliably monitoring remote farmland in all weather conditions, Farmblox gives farmers a simple dashboard to quicklyidentify operational issues like irrigation leaks, weather risks, or equipment failure to operate more efficiently. Farmblox allows farmers to mix and match sensors, build AI-powered automation, and manage operations from anywhere within a single, unified platform. | $2.5M / Seed / Jul 23, 2024 | ||
| Zenput is how top operators elevate team execution in every store. Restaurant, retail, and other multi-unit operators such as Chipotle, P.F. Chang’s, Domino's, and 7-Eleven use the platform to automate how operating procedures and key initiatives are rolled-out and enforced. Supporting 40,000 locations in over 35 countries, Zenput makes everyfield and store employee more productive and better equipped to do their jobs well. | $27M / Series C / Jul 20, 2021 | ||
| Zenput is how top operators elevate team execution in every store. Restaurant, retail, and other multi-unit operators such as Chipotle, P.F. Chang’s, Domino's, and 7-Eleven use the platform to automate how operating procedures and key initiatives are rolled-out and enforced. Supporting 40,000 locations in over 35 countries, Zenput makes everyfield and store employee more productive and better equipped to do their jobs well. | $13.3M / Series B / Sep 30, 2019 | ||
| Garmentory is a managed marketplace for emerging and contemporary designers (Nordstrom price segment). Contemporary boutiques and designers sell less than 1% of their apparel online. Their customers buy 20%+ of their apparel online. Garmentory's marketplace allows customers to find brilliant, limited run items, typically only available inboutiques. Using Garmentory, boutiques can open their doors to the world without having to learn sophisticated and expensive digital marketing or build the technical store infrastructure to compete with major department stores. | $2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 22, 2016 | ||
| Zenput is how top operators elevate team execution in every store. Restaurant, retail, and other multi-unit operators such as Chipotle, P.F. Chang’s, Domino's, and 7-Eleven use the platform to automate how operating procedures and key initiatives are rolled-out and enforced. Supporting 40,000 locations in over 35 countries, Zenput makes everyfield and store employee more productive and better equipped to do their jobs well. | $4.7M / Series A / Oct 15, 2016 | ||
| Plotly is a data science and AI company focused on taking data science out of the lab and into the business. Plotly makes it easy to create, deploy, and share interactive web apps, graphs, and visualizations in any programming language. | $5.5M / Series A / Jun 03, 2015 | ||
| Zenput is how top operators elevate team execution in every store. Restaurant, retail, and other multi-unit operators such as Chipotle, P.F. Chang’s, Domino's, and 7-Eleven use the platform to automate how operating procedures and key initiatives are rolled-out and enforced. Supporting 40,000 locations in over 35 countries, Zenput makes everyfield and store employee more productive and better equipped to do their jobs well. | $1.5M / Seed / Jan 30, 2014 | ||
| Auto Hauler Exchange is the only marketplace for vehicle logistics. We are bringing transparency to the industry by connecting carriers and shippers directly – removing the broker – allowing for faster shipments at true market prices. By working with our 5000+ highly vetted carriers, shippers will get the transport experience they expect in lesstime. | $5M / Series A | ||
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About MHS Capital
MHS Capital is a Venture Capital fund backed by an extraordinary group of technology executives and entrepreneurs, including senior executives from every major Internet portal, and a deep roster of serial entrepreneurs building some of the leading software and Internet companies.
MHS Capital Contacts
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Mark Sugarman
Founding General Partner
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What does Vijay Nagappan invest in?
Vijay Nagappan invests primarily in Software, Marketplace and Machine Learning startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Vijay Nagappan last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Vijay Nagappan closed in Jul 2024. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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