Vinod Shankar
Co-Founder and Partner @ Java Capital
Bengaluru, India
Vinod Shankar is a pre-seed investor at Java Capital in Bengaluru focused on SaaS and Artificial Intelligence. Vinod comes with rich and diverse experience as a serial entrepreneur of 3 startups and angel investor, with a strong understanding of marketing, business development, and technology. He is also a consultant & an advisor for startups on growth and strategy. Prior to this, he founded Simplycook.in, a meal-kit platform to provide traditionalrecipes with authentic ingredients to cook in 30min. He worked with JustBooks as Head of marketing & web channel operations. During his stint at JustBooks, the company grew 12x in 5 years. Before JustBooks, he worked at Emuzed (acquired by KKR,Sequoia now called Aricent) for 4 years in the mobile video/image codecs space. He is passionate about startups who use technology to solve problems at scale, and has made early-stage investments in startups. He is passionate about working at the crossroads of technology and startups. He is an ardent admirer of Sam Altman, YCombinator, and his ideas on startups.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
Last updated:
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Industries Vinod Shankar invests in
Stages Vinod Shankar invests in
Countries Vinod Shankar invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 2 (50%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (50%)
- Software 1 (25%)
- Logistics 1 (25%)
- E-Commerce 1 (25%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 2 (50%)
- Seed 1 (25%)
- Series A 1 (25%)
Country
- India 3 (75%)
- United States 1 (25%)
Investments
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Better Opinions
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Better Opinions is a stock market of opinions platform that allows users to trade their opinion on an outcome of an event. | $992.9K / Pre-Seed / Feb 10, 2022 | |
Wherehouse.io
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Wherehouse.io is a supply chain intelligence company, helping brands to move closer to their customers enabling faster and better deliveries and accelerating business growth. | Seed / Jun 15, 2021 | |
Upscale
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Upscale AI is an end-to-end platform that uses AI to generate, deliver, and optimize high-quality, performance-driven video ads for streaming TV and programmatic channels. It enables brands to quickly produce personalized TV-ready creatives, leverage proprietary machine learning for targeted ad delivery, and provides advanced measurement toolsincluding attribution and incrementality testing to optimize campaign outcomes. The platform unifies creative production, media buying, and analytics, helping brands achieve significant cost savings, faster campaign launches, and improved return on ad spend (ROAS) | $772K / Pre-Seed / Apr 14, 2021 | |
CustomFit.ai
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CustomFit.ai is an AI-powered Intelligent Precise Personalization platform for B2B websitesTransform your website/app as #1 Growth Hacker. Hyper personalize it by getting closer to your visitors, understanding their journeys and their past behaviors.CustomFit.ai drives the growth by putting personalization at the center of your marketing& sales thereby ensuring solid sales to follow by increasing the overall number of visitors marching to your goals.The pitch of your website/app changes dynamically depending on your visitor's stage of the visit, past interactions, firmographic details and hundreds of other parameters on the fly, thereby making it 'The Best Salesperson' & '24x7' Marketer.No code changes are needed. Integrate under 2-minutes and see the actionRequest a demo https://customfit.ai/demo | $209K / Series A / Sep 11, 2020 |
Co-Investors
About Java Capital
Java capital is pre-seed/seed run by career Venture Capitalists and startup ecosystem enablers with experience between them across pre-seed, seed, and early stage investments. P
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What does Vinod Shankar invest in?
Vinod Shankar invests primarily in SaaS, Artificial Intelligence and Software startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Vinod Shankar closed in Feb 2022. Shizune tracks 4 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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