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Shastra VC
Shastra VC is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 in Bangalore, India. It invests in early-stage companies across sectors including enterprise SaaS, retail,...
Shastra VC
Shastra VC is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 in Bangalore, India. It invests in early-stage companies across sectors including enterprise SaaS, retail, and fintech. The firm has made 65 investments, with its latest being in AGNIT Semiconductors on March 16, 2026.
General information
Firm type
Early Stage
Year founded
2022
Location
Region
Asia
Country
India
City
Mumbai
Corporate office
Mumbai, India
Additional offices
St. Peter Port, Guernsey · Menlo Park, CA, United States · Bengaluru, India · Gurugram, India
Principals
Vasant Rao
Managing Partner
Avijeet Alagathi
Managing Partner
Ashis Nayak
Founding Partner
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who runs investment decisions at Shastra VC?
Investment decisions sit with the partnership group. Managing Partners Vasant Rao and Avijeet Alagathi co-lead the firm — Rao oversees deep-tech, frontier-tech, and enterprise SaaS, while Alagathi handles fintech, health-tech, and SMB SaaS. Founding Partner Ashis Nayak drives investments in marketplaces, B2B commerce, climate-tech, and enterprise/SMB SaaS. Vice President Jivesh Madan also contributes to investment execution across emerging technology sectors, per the firm's own team disclosures.
What investment stages does Shastra VC target?
Shastra VC invests at the earliest stages — seed, pre-seed, and start-up phase — where belief comes before proof. The firm explicitly states it partners when vision matters more than metrics and direction still outweighs validation. This means it often writes first institutional checks into companies that are pre-revenue or have only early technical validation.
Does Shastra VC maintain separate fund structures for different sectors?
Shastra VC does not publicly describe a multi-fund architecture. The firm deploys from a single pool of capital, roughly $60 million in AUM, across all three verticals. It reports $50 million-plus deployed into over 30 startups, implying a concentrated portfolio with no indication of sector-carve-out vehicles.
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