# Vishal Maheshwari

> Vishal Maheshwari is a seed investor at Vuclip (Mumbai) backing Artificial Intelligence and Apps. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Vuclip](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vuclip)
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: May 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/vishalkmaheshwari

Vishal Maheshwari is a Member of the Investment Committee at 9Unicorns. He attended Chetana's R. K. Institute of Management & Research.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $150k–$325k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 57% |
| Apps | 1 | 14% |
| SaaS | 1 | 14% |
| Local | 1 | 14% |
| Music | 1 | 14% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 86% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kiko Live | KIKO TV is India's first social commerce platform for "Assisted shopping" powered by AI. Dedicated team with a vision to connect buyers directly to sellers and build trust between them through digitisation of shops, stores and brands. Contact: shivam+contact@kiko.media | $325K | Seed | May 04, 2021 |  |
| STAGE | STAGE is an Indian language content platform for artist-led entertainment. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Nov 26, 2020 |  |
| STAGE | STAGE is an Indian language content platform for artist-led entertainment. |  | Seed | Nov 26, 2020 |  |
| vPhrase | Phrazor summarises data into a few bullet points, highlighting key insights required for decision making. It helps enterprises make their reports and insights easier to comprehend by writing a narrative along with each report. With Phrazor, you don't have to spend time analyzing numbers. Phrazor writes language to explain the key insights inwords. Key Features: CREATE EASY-TO-UNDERSTAND REPORTS with language-based narratives. EXPLORE HIDDEN INSIGHTS AND PATTERNS with intelligent insight generation capabilities. GET PRE-BUILT TO CUSTOM REPORTING TEMPLATES across different functions & industries all under one roof. COLLABORATE IN REAL-TIME WITH YOUR TEAM comment, assign, & tag them on the report. CONVERSE WITH YOUR DATA asks queries & retrieve real-time insights on the go. |  | Seed | Mar 08, 2016 |  |
| Siftr Labs | We are a technology company and have built a photo-curation platform using cutting edge artificial intelligence and deep learning. SIFTR platform aims to provides photo curation services. Our first offering is for photographers and consumers who click a lot of photos, post them on social or backup platforms, but then have a hard time in findingthe relevant photos, when required. | $150K | Seed | Jan 25, 2016 |  |
| SeekSherpa | SeekSherpa is a Delhi-based mobile travel marketplace. SeekSherpa, which is still in test mode, was part of the January batch of VentureNursery. The accelerator conducts about two bootcamps a year for eight startups each. |  | Seed | Jul 21, 2014 |  |
| InvenZone | InvenZone is a niche networking platform for researchers and scientists focusing on solving the core pain points of researchers like discovering the right data, complexity of the research papers, tracking the research updates and connecting with the right community or people. The platform is backed by huge AI in solving the pain points. We havebuilt contextual semantic search & we are also including conceptual semantic search to make the discovery a very simple task. With Sparq (Semantic Parsing And Reasoning of Query), finding the answers to complex questions is effortless. Doing research becomes a lot simpler & efficient with many other technologies and tools that InvenZone offers. With research papers heading the social conversations, finding the right connections is now easy. |  | Seed | May 30, 2014 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Venture Catalysts](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venturecatalysts) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [VentureNursery](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venturenursery) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [100Unicorns](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/9unicorns) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Artha Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artha-india-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IIMA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ciie-iim-ahmedabad) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Vuclip

VC Fund · Milpitas, United States

Vuclip is the leading premium mobile video on demand service for emerging markets with more than 3 million subscribers per quarter across six different countries. Through strategic partnerships with more than 160 top studios around the world, Vuclip brings to subscribers blockbuster Hollywood and regional movies, TV shows and music videos in 20different languages. Vuclip’s Dynamic Adaptive TranscodingTM provides an amazing unbuffered viewing experience to consumers across all mobile devices and on any network. Vuclip is headquarted in Milpitas, California with a presence in Dubai, Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, Mumbai, Delhi, Jakarta and Bangkok.Vuclip is headquartered in Milpitas, California

5 contacts available at Vuclip.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Arun Prakash | CEO & President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arun-prakash-4 |
| Salman Hussain | Chief Business Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/salman-hussain |
| Satheesh Kumar | Chief Product Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/satheesh-kumar-a927 |
| Sreya Krishnamurthy | Director, Product Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sreya-krishnamurthy |
| Vishal Maheshwari | Country Head - India | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vishal-maheshwari |

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## FAQ

### What does Vishal Maheshwari invest in?

Vishal Maheshwari invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Apps and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Vishal Maheshwari's check size?

Vishal Maheshwari typically joins rounds of $150k–$325k at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Vishal Maheshwari participates in.

### When did Vishal Maheshwari last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Vishal Maheshwari closed in May 2021. Shizune tracks 7 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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