# Viswanath Ramachandran

> Viswanath Ramachandran is a seed investor at Hippily (Mumbai) backing Software and Mobile. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Hippily](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hippily)
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jan 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Viswanath Ramachandran is a seed investor at Hippily in Mumbai focused on Software and Mobile. Viswanath Ramachandran is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hippily since since November 2013. Prior to this, Viswanath was Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer / Chief Technology Officer of GupShup - India's largest enterprise mobile messaging company. Viswanath has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown, and a B.Tech.Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $350k–$500k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 67% |
| Mobile | 1 | 33% |
| Android | 1 | 33% |
| Computer | 1 | 33% |
| Security | 1 | 33% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sukham | Sukham is a sexual health company that offers comprehensive treatment plans to cure sexual diseases like erectile dysfunction, low testosterone, and infertility. | $308.7K | Pre-Seed | Jan 21, 2023 |  |
| Wegilant | Wegilant, delivers Mobile App security products on Cloud. Wegilant offers strategies, capabilities, and technologies necessary to help businesses preemptively protect Mobile applications & IT infrastructure from threats. Company won NASSCOM Emerge 50 Award 2014 & Wegilant was among Top 10 Emerging Software Product Companies in India for2014.Appvigil is a cloud-based Mobile App security scanner that scan security loopholes in your android applications. It helps you identify security & privacy vulnerabilities during app development lifecycle & reduces the chances of being damaged on production level where cost of recovery is huge. | $500K | Seed | Aug 05, 2015 |  |
| AdStringO | AdStringO is World’s Fastest end-Point Mobile & Web based Image, Audio & Video Compression Technology provider which enable organizations to release up to 96% of their existing storage capacity to achieve significant, permanent storage cost savings. Also the primary objective of AdStringO technology to help the last mile image capture to beseamlessly move to Corporate house even at 1G, 2G, and Dial-up through its innovative compression technology. Headquartered in Mumbai India, the company delivers primary storage and network bandwidth under the brand AdStringO. AdStringO products are sold worldwide and have already helped small and medium-sized companies, universities, public and government institutions as well as the vast majority of Fortune 500 companies get more from their storage investments | $350K | Seed | Jun 11, 2015 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [100X.VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/100x-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [investment bank RippleWave](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investment-bank-ripplewave) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sine) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/society-for-innovation-and-entrepreneurship) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Hippily

VC Fund · Mumbai, India

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| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Viswanath Ramachandran | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/viswanath-ramachandran |

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## FAQ

### What does Viswanath Ramachandran invest in?

Viswanath Ramachandran invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Android startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Viswanath Ramachandran's check size?

Viswanath Ramachandran typically joins rounds of $350k–$500k 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 Viswanath Ramachandran participates in.

### When did Viswanath Ramachandran last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Viswanath Ramachandran closed in Jan 2023. Shizune tracks 3 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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