Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

• India's fastest growing House of Digital Food brands. Founded by serial entrepreneur Ankit Nagori, CureFoods has a portfolio of 20+ brands including EatFit, CakeZone, Great Indian Khichdi among others.

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

• Uni is re-imagining the credit experience for millions of Indians. Founded by Nitin Gupta [previously founded PayU].

Sep 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 7 mos

• Avataar is a B2B fund investing in companies at their inflection point for scale.
• Our portfolio includes category leading companies like Zenoti, Amagi, Sense, RateGain, BusinessNext, Capillary, ElasticRun, Algonomy, Chalo, InsuranceDekho, Finova, Interface AI, Chef Robotics, CredCore, Infinite Uptime.

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos

• Nayak Ventures is a personal investment vehicle.
• CureFoods : India's fastest growing house of digital food brands. Founded by Ankit Nagori [founder of CureFit, ex-CBO of Flipkart].
• StockGro : India's first social investing/trading platform. Founded by Ajay Lakhotia [ex-Partner of Vertex VC, Fosun].
• ResistanceBio : biopharma company fighting drug-resistant cancers and providing a chance for patients for whom existing therapies have failed.
• TalusBio : drug development platform focused on small-molecule drug development in oncology.
• Correlia Biosystems : protein measurement with unparalleled efficiency. Clients include 4 out of world's Top-10 biopharma companies.

Jan 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Pioneer Fund is a unique fund which pools capital and expertise from 200+ Y-Combinator alumni to invest in & support the next generation of startups graduating from YC - the world's top startup.
• Pioneer Fund's portfolio includes several high growth startups like OnDeck, Lambda School, Snackpass, Shef, Prenda School, Curebase, C16 Biosciences, Shogun among many others.
• As an Advisory Board Member, I represent the interests of LV LPs who have invested in the Pioneer Fund.

Aug 2014 – Mar 2022 · 7 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• LetsVenture is the premier platform for investors to access India's top startups, unicorns & GPs. Our portfolio spans 400 companies and 4 VC Funds across India and Silicon Valley.
• LV is backed by Accel, Ratan Tata, Nandan Nilekani, Rishad Premji, Neeraj Arora, Rajan Anandan, Mohandas Pai, Naveen Tewari, Sameer Nigam among other prominent entrepreneurs / investors.

Jun 2011 – Nov 2013 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• MentorSquare pioneered professional mentoring specifically for the under-served SME community in India. Our Mentor network comprised of 120 seasoned entrepreneurs and business leaders across industries & functions. Our Mentor network was present in India, Singapore, Malaysia and the US.
• We enabled our Mentees to grow, raise funds, build word-class teams and expand to global markets.
• I launched and spear-headed the Business Development efforts at MentorSquare.

Nov 2010 – Jan 2011 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Saarthi is a technology and management consultancy which engages with start-ups to help them shape their business (www.saarthiconsulting.com).
• I was involved in marketing and evangelising the services of Saarthi in its formative months to startups and aspiring entrepreneurs.