PE

Pentathlon Ventures

VC
Pune, IndiaWebsite
How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Seed, Pre-Seed

Check Size

$500K – $2.0M

AUM

$65M

Portfolio

31+ companies

Team

8 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Pentathlon Ventures backs SaaS solutions that enable financial automation and enterprise optimization in emerging markets.

Meet the Team

RJ

Rajat Jain

Investing Partner

Enterprise SaaS
Treasury Workflows
SD

Shashank Deshpande

General Partner

Product-Market Fit
Design-Driven Innovation
SC

Sandeep Chawda

Managing Partner

Scaling Organizations
Products
Value Investing
MB

Madhukar Bhatia

Managing Partner

Technological Architecture
Scalable Systems
Modular Design
AM

Ashok Mayya

Managing Partner

US-India Bridge
Scaling Products Globally
Pharma/Healthtech
AM

Ajit Mayya

Partner

Engineering Leadership
Product Development
US-based Networks
GK

Gireendra Kasmalkar

General Partner

B2B SaaS
Enterprise AI
Digital Transformation
HJ

Hemant Joshi

General Partner

Customer Relations
Startup Global Transformation
Go-to-Market

Industry Focus

Invests In

SaaS
Fintech

Does Not Invest In

Consumer

Portfolio Companies (31)

Other

FL

FlowMetrics

Treasury Analytics
ST

StreamPay

Payments Infrastructure
CL

Cloud-based transportation management system automating freight procurement and logistics

AI

AI- and IoT-powered platform for machine maintenance and analysis

FI

Finances affordable care for 600M Indians left out of public and private insurance

CA

Catalyses digital transformation for cooperative banks

SA

SaaS platform that simplifies export-import (EXIM) workflows

PR

Provides customizable sales incentive and commission automation platform

DR

Drives an AI-powered virtual sales agent platform

TR

Transforming how India’s BSFI handles secured lending

How to pitch Pentathlon Ventures
  • Raising at Seed, Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in SaaS, Fintech — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $500K – $2.0M check.
  • warm intro preferred
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Rajat Jain, Investing Partner.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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