Alok Mittal

Co-Founder

Gurgaon, Haryana, India30 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Cofounder of Indifi, enhancing SME financing.
Founding member of Indian Angel Network.
Led India operations for Canaan Partners.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech entrepreneur with extensive experience in venture capital and angel investing.

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Skills

Core Skills

EntrepreneurshipBusiness StrategyAngel InvestingVenture CapitalInvestment StrategiesPrivate EquityInvestment ManagementBusiness DevelopmentTelecommunicationsTechnical Leadership

Other Skills

TechnologyDebt FinancingData AnalysisEarly Stage InvestingPortfolio ManagementE-recruitmentCross-functional Team LeadershipProduct DevelopmentInvestmentsStart-upsInternetValuationEmerging MarketsMobile DevicesStrategy

About

Alok is cofounder and CEO of Indifi, a platform to expand access to debt financing for Indian SMEs. Alok is a successful first generation entrepreneur based in India. Alok is also a founding member of Indian Angel Network, which is a forum for making angel investments. He last led India operations of Canaan Partners, a premier US based venture capital firm. Earlier, he cofounded JobsAhead.com in 1999. JobsAhead.com is the leading e-recruitment business focussed on the Indian market, and was acquired by Monster.com recently. Before founding JobsAhead, Alok worked with Hughes software in telecom and internet technologies. Alok is a computer science graduate from IIT Delhi, and completed his MS and Management of Technology programs from UC Berkeley. Alok is passionate about creating value through startups! He is also keenly interested in entrepreneurship development in India. He has organised a venture community blog at http://www.venturewoods.org/ Specialties: starting and running businesses, entrepreneurship, early stage investing, technology investing, angel investing

Experience

Indian institute of technology, delhi

Board Member Endowment Fund

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

Plaksha university

Cofounder & Trustee

Sep 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 6 mos

Unified fintech forum (formerly,dlai)

Board Member

Jul 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 8 mos

Indifi technologies pvt ltd

Cofounder and Executive Chairman

May 2015 – Present · 10 yrs 10 mos · Gurgaon

Indifi expands access to debt financing for MSMEs, by making innovative use of technology and data in the full loan lifecycle.

EntrepreneurshipTechnologyDebt FinancingData AnalysisBusiness Strategy

Canaan partners, india

Managing Director, Advisor

Mar 2006 – Mar 2015 · 9 yrs · Gurgaon, India

Alok led the India operations for Canaan Partners. Our offices are located at Gurgaon.
Canaan Partners is an early stage venture investor. Founded in 1987,, the firm catalyzes the development of innovative technology and healthcare companies to build next-generation market leaders.
In his role at Canaan, Alok invested and assisted companies including Bharatmatrimony (Board), Indiaproperty (Board), Equitas Microfinance, Surewaves (Board), Happiest Minds (Board), Cartrade (Board), mCarbon (Board), Unitedlex (Board), iYogi (Board), Naaptol, Cellcast (Board), Chakpak (Board) and Techtribe.

Investment ManagementVenture CapitalPortfolio ManagementInvestment Strategies

Individual angel investor

Angel Investor

Oct 2005 – Present · 20 yrs 5 mos · Gurgaon

Alok is an active angel investor. His angel and advisory portfolio includes Globalthen, Taxspanner, Knowcross, Adda52, BiteClub, Supafoods, Autoflik, Cardback, Moneyview, Curofy, Wishberry, Qikwell and Letsventure. Exited investments include Viedea and Wirkle.
See https://letsventure.com/AlokMittal for details.

Angel InvestingEarly Stage InvestingEntrepreneurship

Baring private equity partners, india

Investment Manager

Sep 2005 – Mar 2006 · 6 mos

Alok led the technology, telecom, BPO and related investments at Barings.
Baring Private Equity Partners India (BPEP India) is one of the reputed & successful private equity players today in the country.

Private EquityInvestment StrategiesInvestment Management

Indian angel network

Founding Board Member

Jan 2005 – Present · 21 yrs 2 mos

Indian Angel Network (formerly, Band of Angels) is a group of Angel investors interested in investing in early stage businesses, which have a potential to create disproportionate value. The members of the band have prior entrepreneurial and/or strong operational experience that they wish to bring to early stage businesses. They share a passion to enable more early stage businesses to create scale and value.

Tie

Global Trustee, Charter Member & Ex-President- TiE Delhi NCR

Apr 2002 – Present · 23 yrs 11 mos · Delhi, India · Remote

Jobsahead (now monster india)

Co-founder and Vice Chairman

Jun 1999 – Feb 2005 · 5 yrs 8 mos

Cofounded JobsAhead, the leading erecruitment business in India. It has been acquired by Monster.com, the global leader in online recruitment, in May 2004. As part of my direct responsibility and span, I managed cross-functional teams of up to 100 professionals across 6 locations, including Sales, Large account sales, Product Development, Distribution alliances, Technology and Content.
Overall ownership of business results was shared between my partner and me. I also led our new business initiatives.

E-recruitmentBusiness DevelopmentCross-functional Team LeadershipEntrepreneurship

Aricent (hughes software systems)

Technical Leader

Jan 1996 – May 1999 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Led teams in creating SIP based voice telephony product, H.323 line of VoIP products, satellite communication sub-systems for customers such as ICO, ASC and Thuraya, protocol standards for GEO satellite communication systems for submission to ETSI. Key architect for R&D project on Mobile ATM for NEC. This project was an attempt to apply the key mobility concepts from GSM technologies to the ATM world, in order to offer benefits like mobility, seamless handovers, etc. Certified Internal Auditor for ISO 9000 quality standard.

TelecommunicationsProduct DevelopmentTechnical Leadership