# Vijay Sharma

> Vijay Sharma is a seed investor at Paytm Payments Bank (New Delhi) backing Internet and News. See 78 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Paytm Payments Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paytm-payments-bank)
- Location: New Delhi, India
- Total investments: 78
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/vijayshekhar
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/vijayshekhar
- Website: http://about.me/vss
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/vijayshekhar

Vijay Sharma is a seed investor at Paytm Payments Bank in New Delhi focused on Internet and News. Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Paytm. He previously worked at India Today Group Online as a Tech head. Vijay Shekhar attended Delhi College of Engineering.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $440k–$3.5M |
| Angel | $150k–$482k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 10 | 13% |
| News | 6 | 8% |
| Software | 6 | 8% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 8% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 8% |

112 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 37 | 47% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 9% |
| Angel | 6 | 8% |
| Series A | 6 | 8% |
| Series B | 6 | 8% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 45 | 58% |
| United States | 7 | 9% |
| Singapore | 2 | 3% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Yoho | Yoho is a footwear brand that focuses on creating ergonomic and breathable shoes for daily wear. The products are engineered to provide cushioning and arch support, ensuring comfort for extended periods. The brand emphasizes innovative design to enhance the overall walking experience. | $1.6M |  | May 23, 2026 |  |
| NORI | NORI is a travel products company that provides fashionable solutions for travelers, such as luggage bags and packing cubes. | $350K | Pre-Seed | May 11, 2026 |  |
| Temple | Temple develop a high-performance wearable for elite athletes. It focuses on brain-centred metrics. | $54M | Seed | Feb 27, 2026 |  |
| Naxatra Labs | Naxatra Labs is a cutting-edge technology business committed to creating cutting-edge electric car motor solutions. Naxatra Labs is leading the charge to transform electric mobility in India and abroad with an emphasis on performance, efficiency, and dependability. | $3M | Seed | Dec 23, 2025 |  |
| Presentations.AI | Presentation AI provides photos, icons, charts, and more. everything design maker personal source to make all animation-like documents create stunning, on-point presentations within minutes our technology ensures that every single slide design is in coherence with the input text automagically is rendered device, instantly, more importantly, you getto share the presentation in the form of a simple link. | $3M | Seed | Jan 30, 2025 |  |
| Naxatra Labs | Naxatra Labs is a cutting-edge technology business committed to creating cutting-edge electric car motor solutions. Naxatra Labs is leading the charge to transform electric mobility in India and abroad with an emphasis on performance, efficiency, and dependability. |  | Seed | Dec 23, 2024 |  |
| Yoho | Yoho is a footwear brand that focuses on creating ergonomic and breathable shoes for daily wear. The products are engineered to provide cushioning and arch support, ensuring comfort for extended periods. The brand emphasizes innovative design to enhance the overall walking experience. | $3.2M | Series B | Oct 15, 2024 |  |
| Vahan.ai | Vahan uses Artificial Intelligence to match job seekers with employers inside messaging apps | $10M | Series B | Sep 19, 2024 |  |
| Vahan | Vahan's AI-Driven virtual assistant helps field sales teams and frontliners do better work at scale. A web-based dashboard allows employers to track usage data that can be used for business intelligence. Their virtual assistant is completely customizable to align with employers' support, training, communication, and reporting needs. | $10M | Series B | Sep 09, 2024 |  |
| TECHEAGLE | TechEagle Innovations is a pioneering drone logistics company revolutionizing last-mile delivery with ultrafast, temperature-controlled solutions for healthcare, e-commerce, and essential goods. Founded with a mission to enhance access and efficiency in logistics, TechEagle specializes in building state-of-the-art hybrid drones and autonomous fleetmanagement systems.With proprietary technology, including hybrid e-VTOL drones capable of long-range operations and payload adaptability, TechEagle offers cutting-edge solutions for critical deliveries, such as medicines, vaccines, and perishables, ensuring reliability and precision even in challenging environments. The company holds regulatory approvals for operations in restricted airspaces and red zones, further cementing its leadership in the drone logistics sector.TechEagle’s comprehensive ecosystem includes autonomous drones, proprietary cloud-based fleet management software, and Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) systems. These innovations are transforming supply chain and logistics operations across healthcare, e-commerce, maritime, hyperlocal, and government sectors.Headquartered in India, TechEagle has successfully executed high-impact projects with organizations like AIIMS, India Post, and state governments, demonstrating its capabilities in both urban and remote settings. Recognized for its innovation and impact, TechEagle is poised to redefine logistics through its drone delivery networks globally. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | May 30, 2024 |  |

10 of 78 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Venture Catalysts](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venturecatalysts) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Inflection Point Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inflection-point-ventures-d275) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Khosla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khosla-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [100Unicorns](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/9unicorns) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Blume Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blume-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Gulf Islamic Investments LLC (GII)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gulf-islamic-investments-llc-gii) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Paytm Payments Bank

VC Fund · New Delhi, India

Paytm Payments Bank is a mobile-first bank with zero balance-zero digital transaction charge accounts.

3 contacts available at Paytm Payments Bank.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Amrita Shetty | Deputy General Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amrita-shetty |
| Satish Kumar Gupta | CEO & Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/satish-kumar-gupta |
| Vijay Sharma | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vijay-shekhar-sharma |

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## FAQ

### What does Vijay Sharma invest in?

Vijay Sharma invests primarily in Internet, News and Software startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 78 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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

Vijay Sharma typically joins rounds of $440k–$3.5M at Seed and $150k–$482k at Angel. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Vijay Sharma participates in.

### When did Vijay Sharma last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Vijay Sharma closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 78 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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