Shubham Sandeep

Managing Director at pi Ventures | Forbes 30 under 30 Europe | Ex-entrepreneur

📍 The Randstad, Netherlands, Netherlands🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2018
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Angel Investor
Aug 2018
Venture Catalysts is Indias first Multi-Stage VC, dedicated to backing the most promising entrepreneurs in India, the worlds fastest growing startup ecosystem. Having started in 2016, we are amongst the most active investors in India with USD 200Mn+ deployed across 300+ companies through our syndication platform. The combined valuation of the portfolio companies is USD 10Bn+. We typically invest 0.25 Mn - 2 Mn across seed to early stage companies & are sector agnostic. Our 4000+ investor community is spread across 20+ countries in the world including India, Singapore, UAE, USA, UK, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, Canada, Qatar, Oman, Mauritius, South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe & more. We are backed by some of the most marquee investors from India: Radhakishan Damani (DMart), Haldiram’s, Enam Securities, Ashish Kacholia (Lucky Investments), Authum Investments, Shahrukh Khan (Bollywood), Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Bollywood), Abhijit Pawar (Sakal Media Group), Utpal Sheth (Trust Group), Vinod Dugar (RDB Group), Hardik Patel (Finquest), Karthik Sundar Iyer, Mukul Agarwal (Param Caputal), Capri Global, Anil Singhvi (Zee Business), Aman Gupta (boAt), Ritesh Agarwal (OYO), Nirmit Parikh (Apna), Srinath Ramakkrushnan (Zetwerk), among others. The Venture Catalysts ecosystem of funds includes: 100 Unicorns | USD 100 Mn | Early stage accelerator fund Beams Fintech Fund | USD 80 Mn | India’s first growth-stage fintech fund Elev8 Venture Partners | USD 160 Mn | Growth technology fund for series B & C investments Spyre Proptech Venture Fund | USD 50 Mn | Indias first proptech fund in partnership with CREDAI VC Grid | Exclusive community for family offices & CVCs Collectively, the group manages over USD 500 Mn and has supported 400+ companies. If you are a startup founder looking to raise capital, write to us at ideas@venturecatalysts.in If you are an investor, write to us at investors@venturecatalysts.in
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2021
Managing Director
Oct 2021
pi Ventures is an early stage venture fund based out of India. The fund will focus on backing product & technology companies in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Intelligence & IoT , as we rapidly see hardware and software products coming together using artificial and machine intelligence to create disruptive ventures across multiple sectors.
2019
Mentor
Jan 2019
Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses. Founded in 2006, Techstars is on a mission to invest in startups to enable more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world in order to deliver exceptional returns to our investors. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. Our results show why Techstars is Better for Founders than any other global accelerator: On average, 74.5% of Techstars companies will raise money within 3 years of their program; 18.5% of Techstars portfolio companies have exited 5 years after their program and 31.1% after eight years. (PitchBook June 2023)
2018
Angel Investor
Aug 2018
Venture Catalysts is Indias first Multi-Stage VC, dedicated to backing the most promising entrepreneurs in India, the worlds fastest growing startup ecosystem. Having started in 2016, we are amongst the most active investors in India with USD 200Mn+ deployed across 300+ companies through our syndication platform. The combined valuation of the portfolio companies is USD 10Bn+. We typically invest 0.25 Mn - 2 Mn across seed to early stage companies & are sector agnostic. Our 4000+ investor community is spread across 20+ countries in the world including India, Singapore, UAE, USA, UK, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, Canada, Qatar, Oman, Mauritius, South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe & more. We are backed by some of the most marquee investors from India: Radhakishan Damani (DMart), Haldiram’s, Enam Securities, Ashish Kacholia (Lucky Investments), Authum Investments, Shahrukh Khan (Bollywood), Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Bollywood), Abhijit Pawar (Sakal Media Group), Utpal Sheth (Trust Group), Vinod Dugar (RDB Group), Hardik Patel (Finquest), Karthik Sundar Iyer, Mukul Agarwal (Param Caputal), Capri Global, Anil Singhvi (Zee Business), Aman Gupta (boAt), Ritesh Agarwal (OYO), Nirmit Parikh (Apna), Srinath Ramakkrushnan (Zetwerk), among others. The Venture Catalysts ecosystem of funds includes: 100 Unicorns | USD 100 Mn | Early stage accelerator fund Beams Fintech Fund | USD 80 Mn | India’s first growth-stage fintech fund Elev8 Venture Partners | USD 160 Mn | Growth technology fund for series B & C investments Spyre Proptech Venture Fund | USD 50 Mn | Indias first proptech fund in partnership with CREDAI VC Grid | Exclusive community for family offices & CVCs Collectively, the group manages over USD 500 Mn and has supported 400+ companies. If you are a startup founder looking to raise capital, write to us at ideas@venturecatalysts.in If you are an investor, write to us at investors@venturecatalysts.in
2015
TextMyPA
Co-Founder & CEO
Jun 2015
2012
Co-Founder & Director
Jun 2012
Aeon Solaris, founded by IIT alumni is a full service solar company and provides end to end solutions from engineering, financing, permits, installation and remote monitoring for both on-grid and off-grid distributed solar projects in India, focusing on the rooftop segment. Aeon Solaris has already executed over 1 MW of solar rooftop projects encompassing corporate buildings, educational institutes and factories and has 1 MW of projects that are currently under execution. Amongst others, our projects include • 800 kW for a Project Developer supplying electricity under Feed-in-tariff scheme in Narnaul • 500 kW for a world-class hospital township in NCR • 100 kW for a Platinum Lead Rated corporate building in Gurgaon for one of India’s top business families • 100 KW for a leading University in Gurgaon • 100 kW for one of India’s largest textile factory in Bhilwara We at Aeon Solaris can help you save on energy costs and reduce your carbon emissions simultaneously. Aeon Solaris has delivered the following benefits to its clients • Savings on utility bills from day 1 • Higher plant output through innovation in engineering • Customized projects with cost optimization • Swift hassle-free execution leveraging strong relationships and professional installers • Remote monitoring and troubleshooting for continual generation Our aim is be the Electric Utility of the 21st Century, supplying clean renewable electricity at a competitive price.