# Vinny Pujji

> Vinny Pujji is a Series B investor at Left Lane Capital backing Software. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Left Lane Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/left-lane-capital)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 62%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vpujji/

Vinny Pujji is a Partner at Left Lane Capital. Attended University of Pennsylvania.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 14% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 14% |
| SaaS | 2 | 10% |
| EdTech | 2 | 10% |
| FinTech | 2 | 10% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 8 | 38% |
| Series A | 6 | 29% |
| Series C | 3 | 14% |
| Series D | 1 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 33% |
| India | 1 | 5% |
| Austria | 1 | 5% |
| Germany | 1 | 5% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 5% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ownwell | Ownwell is an online solution that helps people reduce the cost of owning real estate. | $30M | Series B | Feb 19, 2026 |  |
| WeTravel | WeTravel is an online payment platform that offers organizers with pre-departure tools to collect funds and organize logistics.Travel companies create elegant booking pages in minutes to collect deposits, set automatic payment plans, and manage financials securely from all over the world.Its platform has been used for a wide variety of trips,such as yoga retreats, student trips, bachelorette trips, dance trips, company retreats or sports team travel. Its website allows organizers to create a beautiful website for their trip in minutes. Organizers can collect deposits directly on the Wetravel platform and then easily transfer the funds to their account or directly to a travel agent or airline (even internationally, at much better exchange rates than banks. | $92M | Series C | Sep 24, 2025 |  |
| Smartcat | Smartcat is an all-in-one platform connecting businesses and translators into a continuous translation delivery loop. By combining a collaborative workflow solution and a network of translation professionals, Smartcat drives the language industry to its full technological potential, making both customers and vendors happy in the process. | $43M | Series C | Sep 10, 2024 |  |
| Pearl | Pearl is a computer vision company focusing on solving challenging problems in the dental industry. It also recognizes dozens of dental pathologies natural anatomy, allowing practitioners, and existing restorations to assess robust data across their practice, spend more time with patients and prescribe better treatment options. They also built asuite of solutions to automate tasks for dental laboratories.Pearl was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in West Hollywood, CA, USA. | $58M | Series B | Jul 24, 2024 |  |
| GoStudent | GoStudent is a platform for online teaching and is the future of tutoring. The EdTech company was founded in Vienna in 2016 by Felix Ohswald (CEO) and Gregor Müller (COO). Currently, GoStudent is operational in 15 markets. Via its platform, GoStudent provides paid, one-to-one, video-based tuition to primary, secondary, and college-aged students in20+ subjects, using a membership model. Lessons are booked via the GoStudent platform and accessed using a computer or a mobile device. During each tutoring session, students and tutors interact live in a virtual classroom. Integrated features, such as a whiteboard and the option to share a screen and edit documents together, are included. The cornerstone of this concept was laid in 2015 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Müller when they established a WhatsApp-based homework chat service for students. GoStudent employs more than 600 people and has opened 12 international offices. Over 400,000 tutoring units are booked each month. Currently, GoStudent has around 15,000 customers and works with 5,500 international tutors. To date, GoStudent has raised more than €291m. Investors include Left Lane Capital, DN Capital, Coatue, and DST Global. | $95M |  | Aug 03, 2023 |  |
| Modal.io | Modal is a Mastery Platform that gives every employee the skills they need to do better work by teaching them the technical skills to understand the context or the 'why' and the 'how'' in every step of the process. | $25M | Series A | Apr 02, 2023 |  |
| Hnry | Hnry is the trusted financial sidekick for contractors and freelancers. | $24.7M | Series B | Jan 30, 2023 |  |
| WeTravel | WeTravel is an online payment platform that offers organizers with pre-departure tools to collect funds and organize logistics.Travel companies create elegant booking pages in minutes to collect deposits, set automatic payment plans, and manage financials securely from all over the world.Its platform has been used for a wide variety of trips,such as yoga retreats, student trips, bachelorette trips, dance trips, company retreats or sports team travel. Its website allows organizers to create a beautiful website for their trip in minutes. Organizers can collect deposits directly on the Wetravel platform and then easily transfer the funds to their account or directly to a travel agent or airline (even internationally, at much better exchange rates than banks. | $27M | Series B | Oct 24, 2022 |  |
| Good Health Company (Clinic) (GHC) | Mars is a men's wellness brand. The company provides hair, beard, skin, performance and wellness products. Mars was established on January 31, 2021 by Samarth Sindhi in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. | $10M | Series A | Oct 12, 2022 |  |
| Yokoy | Yokoy is a FinTech company that automates spend management for medium and large enterprises with artificial intelligence, combining expense management, supplier invoice management, and smart corporate cards into one single intuitive platform. Powered by machine learning and developed in its own cutting-edge AI research lab, the platform alsoconstantly monitors individual workflows and processes to make them more efficient and impactful over time.In March 2019, Yokoy Group AG was created as Expense Robot GmbH. | $80M | Series B | Mar 29, 2022 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DN Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dn-capital) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Coatue](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coatue) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [SoftBank Vision Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/softbank-vision-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Tencent](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tencent) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Act One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/act-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Balderton Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/balderton-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Left Lane Capital

VC Fund · Brooklyn, United States

Left Lane Capital is a venture capital and seed-growth equity firm that invests in high-growth internet and consumer technology businesses that are fundamental to the human condition and spirit – where customers maintain a long-term relationship with the product, platform, or service.

5 contacts available at Left Lane Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dan Ahrens | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-ahrens-2 |
| Harley Miller | Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harley-miller |
| Jason Fiedler | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-fiedler |
| Vinny Pujji | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vinny-pujji-1cb4 |
| Alicia Garabedian | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alicia-garabedian |

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## FAQ

### What does Vinny Pujji invest in?

Vinny Pujji invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Vinny Pujji last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Vinny Pujji closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 21 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?

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