Shonam Khaitan

Co-Founder fincobox.com | Hiring Across Tech and Product | Investor | Ex AWS | Ex Souq.com (Acquired by Amazon.com) | Ex Snapdeal.com, Ex ITC | IIT | ISB

📍 India🔄 Updated September 2026💼 22 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2023
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Early Stage Investor
Feb 2023
PingSafe is now an important part of SentinelOne and our cloud security future. Learn more: https://s1.ai/cns-b
Early Stage Investor
Dec 2021
NimbleEdge’s on-device AI platform empowers mobile apps to scale to billions of users. By running optimized AI models directly on smartphones, we deliver real-time insights and enable personalized, privacy-first adaptive experiences without relying on the cloud. Our on-device infrastructure deciphers complex user intentions to enhance everyday interactions, overcome cloud and energy limitations, and bring AI-driven intelligence to apps worldwide for seamless, private, and scalable experiences. Headquartered in San Francisco, NimbleEdge works with some of the largest mobile apps across US and India, helping them deliver stellar user experiences with real-time personalized AI, without breaking the bank on cloud costs. We’re backed by top VCs (NeoTribe Ventures, Sistema Asia Capital) and AI leaders from OpenAI, Meta, Paypal, UC Berkeley and OpenMined.

 Visit nimbleedge.com or reach out to contact@nimbleedge.com to learn more.
Early Stage Investor
Dec 2021
AI-powered product discovery and strategy software that helps customer-focused teams to 👉Gather Customer Insights → Uncover problems to solve for customers. 👉Build with Product Intelligence → Decide what to build next and why. 👉Measure Strategy Impact → Create product strategies & measure outcomes.
Early Stage Investor
Dec 2021
NimbleEdge is leading the movement towards real edge computing. Creating a challenging new age technology altering the status quo between the cloud and the users’ devices, a technology that is inherently privacy preserving. We offer edge computing as a service to websites and mobile applications for ML workloads like training/running recommendations. And provide a smooth transition of compute from the cloud to the edge. With our SDK, users’ devices, like smartphones and laptops, decide in real-time whether to run a compute task locally or on the cloud. This includes the world’s first federated learning at scale solution for everyone giving our clients access to untapped data and unlimited revenue potential. All this while saving enormous cloud costs, improving performance and enhancing end user privacy. We take care of complex things like the diversity of computing power, operating systems, or communication mediums, so that developers can focus on what to build for the edge and not how to build it. We are huge proponents of open-source technologies and have been leading such communities. NimbleEdge, too, chose to build the infrastructure for edge computing as open-source. If you want to be part of the revolution towards the edge, join our discord community: http://nimbleedge.ai/discord
Early Stage Investor
Jul 2021
Phyllo is a data gateway to access creator data directly from the source platforms. Phyllo builds the underlying infrastructure that connects with every creator platform, maintains a live data feed to the systems these platforms use to manage creators data and provides a normalized data set so that businesses can make use of creators data in a way that is simple yet impactful.
Early Stage Investor
Jun 2021
We @ Forty4hz empower business users to make fast and smart data-driven decisions by simplifying access to business insights. INSIA: Our proprietary self-learning business intelligence and analytics platform enables business users to perform agile analysis on any data set in seconds using guided natural language search. Our next-generation AI engine makes business users future-ready by sending them tailored insights on current and future performance deviations proactively. Reimagine business analytics with INSIA @ https://insia.forty4hz.com/
Early Stage Investor
Jun 2021
Threado AI is an AI Assistant that makes knowledge search obsolete. Powered by GPT-4o, Threado AI provides instant, accurate assistance for your customer facing and internal teams. Make your company knowledge accessible to your team with a secure custom AI agent. Setup in minutes securely, within Slack, MS Teams or as a Chrome extension.
Early Stage Investor
Jun 2021
Have you tried sourcing from India before and not had the best experience? India offers incredible sourcing opportunities in dozens of categories. But the ecosystem is vast, complex and diverse, making it challenging for US buyers to navigate. We established Bzaar in 2020 to address this need. Our team has decades of experience in global supply chains and deep connections within the Indian manufacturing landscape. We leverage these to make your India sourcing reliable, transparent, and agile.
Early Stage Investor
Mar 2021
Rocketium is an agile CreativeOps platform that helps enterprises take their communications to market faster and at lower costs. With the combined strength of creative automation, seamless collaboration, automated brand compliance, powerful creative analytics, and smart content management, our platform empowers enterprises to do more with their existing teams, processes, and tools. Rocketium is funded by marquee investors like 021 Capital, 1Crowd, Blume Ventures, and Emergent Ventures. We take pride in working with some of the best names in the business including Amazon, Home Depot, Walmart, Henry Schein, Roche, and many more.
Early Stage Investor
Feb 2021
Businessonbot is India’s first one-stop solution for D2C brands to run their business on WhatsApp. We provide text based multilingual chat solutions with CRM integrations and marketing automations. We help businesses to create and engage with their loyal customer base on WhatsApp.
Early stage Investor
Feb 2021
DevRev’s AgentOS, purpose-built for SaaS companies, comprises three modern CRM apps for support, product, and growth teams. It connects end users, sellers, support, product people, and developers, reducing 9 business apps and converging 6 teams onto a common platform. Unlike horizontal CRMs, DevRev takes a blank canvas approach to collaboration, AI, and analytics, enabling SaaS companies to increase product velocity and reduce customer churn. DevRev is used by thousands of companies in search of low latency analytics and customizable LLMs to thrive in this era of GenAI. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, DevRev has offices in seven global locations. We have raised $100 million in funding from investors like Khosla Ventures and Mayfield at a $1.1 billion valuation. We are also honored to be named on the Forbes 2024 list of America’s Best Startup Employers. Founded in October 2020 by Dheeraj Pandey, former co-founder and CEO of Nutanix, and Manoj Agarwal, former SVP of Engineering at Nutanix, DevRev continues to push the boundaries of innovation, helping thousands of companies thrive in the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-driven SaaS.
Early Stage Investor
Sep 2020
Your AI-powered SEO Co-Pilot Summary: 🚀 Scalenut is an AI-powered SEO platform that helps businesses drive organic traffic and build sustainable businesses. Our platform automates the entire SEO workflow, making it easy for businesses to manage their SEO efforts and grow their online presence. With over 100,000 marketers globally using our platform, Scalenut is a trusted solution for businesses of all sizes to improve their search rankings and drive revenue. Are you tired of being stuck on the 2nd or 3rd page of search results? Want to boost your online presence and bring in more traffic to your website? 🤔 Our AI-powered SEO platform 🤖 is the secret sauce that your business needs to drive organic traffic and build a sustainable business. Its like having your own personal SEO wizard, but without the pointy hat and the wand. Our platform automates the entire SEO workflow, taking care of all the nitty-gritty details so you dont have to. 🙌 And lets be real, who doesnt want to include AI in their marketing stack today? With over 100,000 marketers worldwide already using Scalenut, you can trust that we know our stuff. Were the experts in improving search rankings and driving revenue, and were here to help businesses of all sizes achieve their goals. 💪 Key Features: 🤖 AI-powered SEO content creation 🔎 Advanced keyword planning 📝 Content optimization and suggestion 🕵️‍♂️ Competitive analysis and tracking 📊 Actionable insights and reporting Mission: Our mission is to empower businesses with the tools and insights they need to succeed online. By leveraging the latest advancements in AI and machine learning, were helping businesses build sustainable businesses that last. Join us on our mission to transition businesses in the new world of AI andSEO! 💪 Try Scalenut today and watch your business grow in ways you never thought possible! 🚀
Early Stage Investor
Aug 2020
Recognized as the Most Innovative Biotech Company, 2024, by Fast Company! Even today Early R&D, Precision Diagnostics and Translational Biomarker teams spend about 80% of their time wrangling data. Elucidatas mission is to empower scientists in the life sciences field by reclaiming every valuable hour for their research endeavors. Elucidata’s data harmonization platform - Polly, helps research teams make multi-modal biomedical data Machine Learning ready. Each dataset on Polly is processed consistently using pipelines of your choice, is custom curated with granular annotations and undergoes robust QA/QC checks to ensure highest data quality standards. Polly transforms multi-modal and multi-source biomedical data (Omics, Assay, Real World Data, Clinical & EHR Data, and CRO data) into a Unified Data Model. With our 10X faster LLM-powered curation and human-in-the-loop model to achieve 99.99% accuracy, we are fast-tracking time to analysis. Today, Polly is facilitating use case like patient stratification, biomarker discovery, target ID & validation, data management, and development of clinical and commercial pipelines across Pfizer, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, NextGen Jane and IMBDx and over 35 premier biopharma companies and research labs. Head-quarted in San Francisco, we are a 120+ multi-disciplinary team of experts based across the US and India. In September 2022, we raised $16 million in our Series A round led by Eight Roads and F-Prime along with our existing investors Hyperplane and IvyCap. Write to us at info@elucidata.io for queries To talk to us, visit: https://www.elucidata.io/book-a-meeting For more information, visit: https://www.elucidata.io/ Visit Our Offices - San Francisco Head Quarters: 114 Sansome Street, Suite 250 San Francisco, CA 94104 Boston Office: 625 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 R&D Hubs, India - Delhi and Bangalore
Early Stage Investor
Jul 2020
Trell is India’s largest Social Commerce platform where users share their experiences and interests across Lifestyle categories like Fashion, Personal Care, Recipes, Technology & Gadgets, Movies & TV Reviews, in 10 Indian languages with the users. Through this meaningful content, the platform enables users to gain insightful information, recommendations, and reviews from relatable peers around makeup, skincare, and personal care products that they can purchase directly from within the app on ‘Trell Shop’. Today, Trell has over 100 million users and 50 million monthly active users. Our vision is to empower every Indian to make better lifestyle choices. Through our platform, we enable content creators to make a sustainable source of income and turn their passion to a full time profession. Trell has over 18 million creators on the platform and is today the largest player in building the creator economy across the country.
Early Stage Investor
Jul 2020
Teachmint is a global classroom technology company dedicated to moving the world forward, one classroom at a time. We enable technology to work for educators and manage every need of institutions across K–12, higher education, and academic coaching centers. Our products have served over 20 million users in more than 50 countries in 17 languages. Visit www.teachmint.com to learn more. Discover Teachmint: teachmint.com/about twitter.com/teachmintapp facebook.com/teachmintapp instagram.com/teachmintapp blog.teachmint.com/
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2023
Early Stage Investor
Feb 2023
PingSafe is now an important part of SentinelOne and our cloud security future. Learn more: https://s1.ai/cns-b
2022
Co-Founder
Aug 2022
FINCOBOX allows you to unlock growth capital for your business. Fast, founder-friendly, and flexible funding to help you drive growth, without any equity dilution or personal guarantees. You can get financed based on your goods or services delivered to online marketplaces. Bring your accepted invoice, connect your marketplace account with us and leave the rest to us. You can also get financed based on your sales on online marketplaces by authorizing Fincobox to access your past sales and operations data. You can get financed based on your inventory, too, being kept as collateral with our partner warehouse in Mainland and Freezone. You can even enable your employees, both salaried and contractors, to track and access a portion of their real-time pay any time before payday. Connect your payroll systems to our system and improve your employee retention.
2021
Early Stage Investor
Dec 2021
NimbleEdge’s on-device AI platform empowers mobile apps to scale to billions of users. By running optimized AI models directly on smartphones, we deliver real-time insights and enable personalized, privacy-first adaptive experiences without relying on the cloud. Our on-device infrastructure deciphers complex user intentions to enhance everyday interactions, overcome cloud and energy limitations, and bring AI-driven intelligence to apps worldwide for seamless, private, and scalable experiences. Headquartered in San Francisco, NimbleEdge works with some of the largest mobile apps across US and India, helping them deliver stellar user experiences with real-time personalized AI, without breaking the bank on cloud costs. We’re backed by top VCs (NeoTribe Ventures, Sistema Asia Capital) and AI leaders from OpenAI, Meta, Paypal, UC Berkeley and OpenMined.

 Visit nimbleedge.com or reach out to contact@nimbleedge.com to learn more.
Early Stage Investor
Dec 2021
AI-powered product discovery and strategy software that helps customer-focused teams to 👉Gather Customer Insights → Uncover problems to solve for customers. 👉Build with Product Intelligence → Decide what to build next and why. 👉Measure Strategy Impact → Create product strategies & measure outcomes.
Early Stage Investor
Dec 2021
NimbleEdge is leading the movement towards real edge computing. Creating a challenging new age technology altering the status quo between the cloud and the users’ devices, a technology that is inherently privacy preserving. We offer edge computing as a service to websites and mobile applications for ML workloads like training/running recommendations. And provide a smooth transition of compute from the cloud to the edge. With our SDK, users’ devices, like smartphones and laptops, decide in real-time whether to run a compute task locally or on the cloud. This includes the world’s first federated learning at scale solution for everyone giving our clients access to untapped data and unlimited revenue potential. All this while saving enormous cloud costs, improving performance and enhancing end user privacy. We take care of complex things like the diversity of computing power, operating systems, or communication mediums, so that developers can focus on what to build for the edge and not how to build it. We are huge proponents of open-source technologies and have been leading such communities. NimbleEdge, too, chose to build the infrastructure for edge computing as open-source. If you want to be part of the revolution towards the edge, join our discord community: http://nimbleedge.ai/discord
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