Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs

• coinvestors: Blume, Rebright, Artha

Dec 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Coinvestor: Kalaari

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• coinvestor: IAN Fund

Nov 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 4 mos · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Coinvestors: Accel Partners, Siana Capital

Aug 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 7 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• coinvestors: Bessemer VP, SIG, Inflexor, Alpha Wave

Jan 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 2 mos

May 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 10 mos

• Coinvestors: Accel, Prosus, Elevation Capital

Aug 2016 – Jun 2020 · 3 yrs 10 mos

• Acquired by Polycab

Jun 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore

• Early stage venture capital fund investing in Deeptech startups from India addressing global markets.
• Created the fund strategy and Investment thesis. Raised Capital from Global and domestic Institutions
• Led investments into: Entropik Technologies, Detect Technologies, Zumutor Biologics, Claimbuddy, Mymobiforce, Nayam Innovations, HumanEdge, Virohan, Portl, Ykrita

Aug 2012 – Dec 2016 · 4 yrs 4 mos

• coinvestor : Nexus VP
• Exited

Aug 2011 – Dec 2016 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• coinvestor: Accel Partners, Canaan
• Exited

Apr 2010 – Nov 2016 · 6 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore

• Created India's first deeptech focused venture capital fund investing in entrepreneurs with an Intellectual Property led businesses in the ICT and Healthcare sectors. I was a key founding member of the fund and a drove its conceptualization, structuring and operationalization.
• Created the fund strategy, it objectives and structure, Fundraising, Investor relations,Deal sourcing, Due Diligence and Investments, Evangelization, Operations
• Board positions held in multiple portfolio companies.
• Positive exits: Sedemac Mechatronics, Surewaves Media Tech, Mitra Biotech, Shantani Proteomics and Consure Medical

Apr 2010 – Apr 2010 · 0 mo · New Delhi

• Headed the Innovation Initiatives at NASSCOM with a mandate to promote and facilitate innovation in the Indian IT Industry
• Responsible for -
• India Innovation Fund - created, launched and evangelized a pre VC stage fund called the India Innovation Fund for Start-ups creating IP in the Information Technology and life sciences space.
• Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems - Created a collaborative group of Senior Management representing the entire range of stakeholders in the embedded systems space
• NASSCOM Innovation Awards - Awards constituted by NASSCOM to recognize innovations in the Information Technology space.
• Creation of an NASSCOM-ACMA steering group to improve IT adoption in the Auto component industry
• Committees:
• Innovation Law Working Group - Working Group created under the aegis of DST to provide inputs in the drafting of the Innovation Law.
• SIP-EIT Committee - Committee set up by DIT to fund International Patent Applications by startups in the high technology space
• CII Committee on Security and Imaging