# Vijay Pandurangan

> Vijay Pandurangan is a seed investor in New York backing Software, SaaS and SMS. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vpandurangan
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/vijayp
- Website: https://x.com/vijayp
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vijay.pandurangan.5

Vijay Pandurangan is a seed investor in New York focused on Software and SaaS. Vijay learned how to build large software systems at Google from 2002-2008 and at CMU. He worked on cluster management, mobile apps before smartphones and AdWords.He was also the first engineer at Jumo (started by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes), and worked with Acumen Fund (a socially responsible investment firm). He grew up in Montreal andis still a die-hard Canadiens fan.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$17M |
| Series A | $5M–$13M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 50% |
| SaaS | 2 | 20% |
| SMS | 1 | 10% |
| Film | 1 | 10% |
| FinTech | 1 | 10% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 60% |
| Series A | 2 | 20% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 70% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Integrated Biosciences | Integrated Biosciences is the first company in history to be able to virtually stress cells. | $17.2M | Seed | Oct 03, 2024 |  |
| T2 | T2 is a social networking platform that allows users to send blogs. | $1.1M | Seed | Jan 12, 2023 |  |
| FabricNano | FabricNano is a cell-free biomanufacturing company that develops biocatalysts to unlock the future of biochemistry. | $12.5M | Series A | Jun 30, 2021 |  |
| Spacelift | Spacelift is an infrastructure orchestration platform that manages provisioning, configuration, and governance workflows across tools like Terraform, Ansible, OpenTofu, Kubernetes, Pulumi, and CloudFormation. It integrates with version control systems to enable collaborative, GitOps-style workflows with features such as policy‑as‑code, driftdetection, and scheduled automation. Platform teams use it to empower developers with self‑service infrastructure templates, lifecycle hooks, stack dependencies, and multi‑stack workflows, while maintaining access control through spaces and approval policies. The platform supports both public and private execution environments and offers a GraphQL API, webhooks, SSO integrations, and a self‑hosted option for compliance needs. Pricing includes a free tier and additional plans that scale with team size, worker types, and governance requirements. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Nov 13, 2020 |  |
| effx | Effx is a startup that aims to give developers better insights into their microservice architectures. | $3.9M | Seed | Jul 20, 2020 |  |
| Phylum | Phylum defends applications at the perimeter of the open-source ecosystem and the tools used to build software. Its automated analysis engine scans third-party code as soon as it’s published into the open-source ecosystem to vet software packages, identify risks, inform users and block attacks. Phylum’s database of open-source software supply chainrisks is the most comprehensive and scalable offering available, and can be deployed throughout the development lifecycle depending on an organization’s infrastructure and appsec program maturity. The company is built by a team of career security researchers and developers with decades of experience in U.S. Intelligence Community and commercial sectors. Phylum won the Black Hat 2022 Innovation Spotlight Competition, was named to Inc. Magazine’s 2023 Best Workplaces and was named a Top Infosec Innovator by Cyber Defense Magazine. | $4.5M | Seed | Feb 15, 2020 |  |
| Rossum | Rossum provides a comprehensive transactional document automation platform to more than 275 enterprise businesses worldwide. The mission is to empower an individual to seamlessly process a million transactions annually.Centered on boosting productivity and precision, Rossum's cloud-native solution, driven by AI, revolutionizes entirebusiness workflows. It mitigates risks, improves business relationships, and extracts real-time strategic insights from transactional data. The platform's flexible design effortlessly combines human expertise and technology, presenting enterprises with a customized solution for maximizing the benefits of automation. | $8.5M | Seed | Nov 27, 2019 |  |
| Avochato | Avochato is a mobile messaging platform designed for customer relationship management. It enables business teams to connect with customers and deliver a seamless and efficient messaging experience every step of the way, from lead capture and nurturing to post-sale support. | $5M | Series A | Dec 07, 2018 |  |
| Celo | Celo is an open platform that makes financial tools accessible to anyone with a mobile phone. Its mission is to build a monetary system that creates the conditions of prosperity for all.The Celo ecosystem includes a decentralized, proof-of-stake blockchain technology stack (Celo Platform), a native asset (CELO), a stablecoin (cUSD) and the CeloAlliance for Prosperity, with over 100 organizations around the world, including Andreesen Horowitz, Anchorage, Coinbase, GSMA, Mercy Corps, Grameen Foundation, Prosegur, Abra, and cLabs, a service organization dedicated to growing and developing the Celo ecosystem. | $6.5M |  | Jun 25, 2018 |  |
| Seed&Spark | Seed&Spark is an entertainment platform for conscious consumers. Synthesizing subscription streaming with the next evolution of crowdfunding, Seed&Spark delivers truly diverse content for audiences and sustainability for artists. Seed&Spark is built to address the business problems in entertainment that cause the social problem of lackof diversity and representation. Their subscribers not only get to watch an award-winning slate of movies and shows they can't find anywhere else, they also get to vote to fund a new project each month. All the movies and shows on Seed&Spark are actively increasing representation in front of and behind the camera. |  | Seed |  |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

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- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Area 51: Paradise Ranch](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/area-51) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Atomico](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atomico) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Vijay Pandurangan invest in?

Vijay Pandurangan invests primarily in Software, SaaS and SMS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 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 Pandurangan's check size?

Vijay Pandurangan typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$17M at Seed and $5M–$13M 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 Pandurangan participates in.

### When did Vijay Pandurangan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Vijay Pandurangan closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 10 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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