Vishal Makhijani
President & COO @ Zumper
San Francisco, United States
Vishal Makhijani is a seed investor at Zumper in San Francisco focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Vish Makhijani is President & COO of Zumper. Prior to joining Zumper, Vish was CEO of Udacity where he oversaw all company operations to democratize education around the world. He had been instrumental in the development of Udacity's Nanodegree program. Vish has held leadership positions at high-growth companies, including Zynga andYandex, where he scaled the business to millions of users. He was also senior vice president of Yahoo's Search and Marketplace businesses, and general manager at Inktomi until it was acquired by Yahoo. He began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the New York and Silicon Valley offices, serving Fortune 500 and startup clients.Vish is currently on the boards of both Prosperworks and Pepperdata.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Vishal Makhijani invests in
Stages Vishal Makhijani invests in
Countries Vishal Makhijani invests in
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.2M–$2.7M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (36%)
- Enterprise Software 4 (36%)
- SaaS 3 (27%)
- Information Technology 3 (27%)
- Apps 2 (18%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (36%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (9%)
- Series A 1 (9%)
- Series B 1 (9%)
- Funding Round 1 (9%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Shabodi
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Enterprise Software, SaaS, PaaS, 5G | $200K / Convertible Note / Jan 15, 2021 | |
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Shabodi
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Enterprise Software, SaaS, PaaS, 5G | $200K / Pre-Seed / Jan 15, 2021 | |
Trimian
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Startup based in Menlo Park, focusing on mobile apps. The name comes from 'tri-simian', referring to the three wise monkeys. | $3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 24, 2017 | |
Instawork
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Instawork operates as a career marketplace for hospitality professionals. It is changing how traditional recruiting works for small businesses by turning the process into an automated matching solution. Its vision is to create economic opportunity for local businesses and professionals, globally. The company was founded in 2015 and isheadquartered in San Francisco, California. | $1.8M / Seed / Aug 01, 2015 | |
Pepperdata
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Pepperdata products provide observability and continuous tuning for the big data analytics stack. Unlike solutions that require manual, time-consuming application-by-application tuning, Pepperdata automatically scales system resources while providing a detailed and correlated understanding of each application using hundreds of real-timeapplication and infrastructure metrics. Companies like Comcast, Philips Wellcentive and NBC Universal depend on Pepperdata to deliver big data success. | $15M / Series B / Apr 16, 2015 | |
Amitree
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Amitree Folio transforms the chaos of business email into an AI-powered deal organizer, project manager, and virtual assistant. It is driven by a mission to transform the way people work, allowing them to focus on the human parts of their job while letting the machine take care of all the tedious administrative work they otherwise do manually.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $2.7M / Seed / Jan 08, 2014 | |
LookSharp
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LookSharp helps every student launch their career and employers to achieve their recruitment goals. | $4M / Series A / Jun 11, 2013 | |
Copper
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Copper is the only crm made for G Suite, works instantly and has an intuitive user experience. Designed for the teams who close deals, Copper is helping people focus on what’s important: authentic relationships. | $2.5M / Seed / May 01, 2013 | |
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LookSharp
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LookSharp helps every student launch their career and employers to achieve their recruitment goals. | $1.2M / Jan 16, 2013 | |
Origami Labs
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Origami (formerly known as Everyme) is the easiest way for you to share with your family. With Origami, your family receives a private, customizable website on which to share daily updates and store lasting memories in the form of photos, videos, quotes and more. | $1.5M / Debt Financing / Oct 01, 2011 | |
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Co-Investors
About Zumper
Zumper is the largest private rental platform in North America—supporting over 75 million people every year find their next place. We believe finding your new apartment is more than just a move. It’s something bigger. A step forward. A new beginning. A fresh start. Whether you’re moving across the country or across the street, you deserve to lovewhere you land.But today’s rental experience is broken. It’s outdated, exhausting, and slow. We spend hours of our lives searching just to settle for places that don’t feel like home. Zumper is on a mission to change the way you rent, forever. To make it easier, faster, and more human—where renting an apartment is as easy as booking a hotel. By making this vision a reality, we’re creating opportunity for everyone to live better from one fresh start to the next.To date we’ve raised over $150 million from Kleiner Perkins, Goodwater Capital, Headline, Dawn Capital, and the Blackstone Group. We’re proud to have been named a 2021 Best Startup Employer by Forbes and a 2021 Best Place to Work/Company with the Best Benefits by BuiltIn SF.
Zumper Contacts
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Darren Goode
Chief Marketing Officer
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Dave Costantino
Staff Engineer - Backend
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Russell Middleton
Co-Founder
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Shalin Amin
Chief Experience Officer
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Tanguy Le Louarn
Chief Growth Officer
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FAQ
What does Vishal Makhijani invest in?
Vishal Makhijani invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 11 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 Vishal Makhijani's check size?
Vishal Makhijani typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$2.7M 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 Makhijani participates in.
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When did Vishal Makhijani last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Vishal Makhijani closed in Jan 2021. Shizune tracks 11 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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