Hemesh Singh
About Hemesh Singh
Hemesh Singh is a co-founder of Unacademy, the Bengaluru education company founded in 2015. Crunchbase lists him as its CTO and co-founder. Tracxn lists the other Unacademy co-founders as Gaurav Munjal, Roman Saini, Sachin Gupta and Sumit Jain. Tracxn also says he earned a bachelor's degree at MNNIT in 2013.
Inc42 describes him as a co-founder at Masonry, formerly at Unacademy, and an angel investor based in Bengaluru. Tracxn lists a board seat at NextLevel. Neither source gives further detail on those roles here.
Crunchbase credits him with 11 personal investments. PitchBook lists 9 investments, 5 portfolio companies and 2 exits. Inc42 lists 8 portfolio companies and 2 exits. The counts differ by database, so treat them as approximate.
PitchBook dates his deals from 2019 to 2023. They include Newton School (seed in June 2019), Rheo TV (seed in October 2019), Tring (May 2020), Tread (October 2020), Pratilipi (July 2021), Slick (August 2022) and MintIQ Technologies (seed in March 2023). Tracxn lists Tread as an exit.
Several of these deals include Gaurav Munjal, his Unacademy co-founder, as a co-investor.
The Lounge deals desk records one AI round: Superleap, a seed round of $3.8M (INR 360.0M) in August 2026. Crunchbase describes Superleap as a Bengaluru company building an AI-powered CRM platform that helps operations teams manage customer engagement and revenue workflows. His check size in that round is not public. The other public records found for his earlier investments are mostly consumer, media and education companies rather than AI.
His public record shows early rounds, mostly pre-seed and seed, with Newton School's Series A also listed on Crunchbase. The companies are almost all Indian. Sectors include education technology, publishing and storytelling, short-form entertainment, social apps and consumer products. Tracxn puts the round sizes for Tread at $1.1M and for Slick and KNOT at $500K each. These are total round sizes, not his own checks. He has not publicly stated a check size or a thesis that we could find.
- Superleap: AI-powered CRM for operations teams; seed round of $3.8M, August 2026 per the Lounge deals desk.
- Newton School: education company; seed in 2019 and Series A, per Crunchbase and PitchBook.
- Pratilipi: publishing platform; listed July 2021 on PitchBook, and as a Series D on Crunchbase.
- Rheo TV: entertainment software; seed round in October 2019.
- Tread: consumer products; pre-seed round in October 2020, listed by Tracxn as an exit.
- Slick: social app; pre-seed or seed round in 2022.
- KNOT: seed round in August 2022 per Tracxn.
- Tring: media; angel round in 2020.
- MintIQ Technologies: entertainment software; seed round in March 2023.
- OpsLyft: seed round, listed by Crunchbase as his latest investment (date not shown).
Investing activity
Hemesh Singh appears in 1 AI deal tracked by the Lounge deals desk. The rounds are mostly Seed, with a median round size of $4M. The most recent is Superleap (Seed, $3.8M (INR 360.0M), Aug 2026).
Hemesh Singh most often invests alongside Surge, Anupam Mittal, Nikhil Kamath and Aakrit Vaish, and the companies they back on Lounge are mostly in AI.
Deals
Frequently asked questions about Hemesh Singh
Who is Hemesh Singh?
Hemesh Singh is an angel investor based in Bengaluru and a co-founder of Unacademy. Inc42 also lists him as a co-founder at Masonry.
What stage does Hemesh Singh invest in?
His public deals are mostly pre-seed and seed rounds, with a Series A in Newton School also listed. His Superleap investment was a seed round.
What is Hemesh Singh's check size?
It is not public. Databases show total round sizes, such as $500K for Slick, but not his own cheques.
Has Hemesh Singh invested in AI startups?
The Lounge deals desk lists him in Superleap's $3.8M seed round in August 2026. Superleap builds an AI-powered CRM platform.
Which startups has Hemesh Singh backed?
They include Newton School, Pratilipi, Rheo TV, Tring, Tread, Slick, KNOT, MintIQ Technologies and OpsLyft, per Crunchbase, PitchBook and Tracxn.
Does Hemesh Singh co-invest with other founders?
Yes. Crunchbase shows Gaurav Munjal, his Unacademy co-founder, in several of the same rounds, including Tring, Rheo TV and Newton School.
Is Hemesh Singh an angel investor?
Yes. Hemesh Singh invests personally as an angel.
What AI companies has Hemesh Singh invested in?
Hemesh Singh's AI investments include Superleap. The 1 round on Lounge are listed on this page with amounts, dates and co-investors.
What stage does Hemesh Singh invest at?
In the rounds tracked on Lounge, Hemesh Singh has invested at Seed, with a median round of $4M.
Who does Hemesh Singh co-invest with?
Hemesh Singh's most frequent co-investors on Lounge are Surge (1 deal), Anupam Mittal (1 deal), Nikhil Kamath (1 deal), Aakrit Vaish (1 deal) and Mukesh Bansal (1 deal).