Dheeraj Jain

Co-Founder

India25 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founder of India's 3rd largest Consumer Diagnostics company.
  • Raised $110 million in VC funding for Redcliffe Labs.
  • Recognized as a prolific angel investor by Economic Times.
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Business StrategyGovernanceProgram Management

Other Skills

Stakeholder ManagementInvestment BankingTelecommunicationsCRMEnterprise ArchitectureChange ManagementSupply ChainAnalyticsManagement ConsultingSupply Chain ManagementBusiness CaseBusiness TransformationManagementProduct DevelopmentManufacturing

About

Founder of Redcliffe Labs, now 3rd largest Consumer Diagnostics company of the country (raised $110 million in VC and Private Equity for this venture from top global institutional funds). The impact we bring through Redcliffe is beyond any metrics, we save nearly $350m for Indians in NCDs via preventive Health. I am also co-founder of Crysta IVF (fasted growing IVF hospitals chain), PeeSafe (women health D2C), Continua Kids (35+ clinics for children neuro health), Candes (sold to SoftBank backed Globalbees). Seed and board member to Revfin (largest EV financier backed by Omidyar, Asian Dev bank, etc), seed investor and remained on board till series B to Infeedo (leader in AI HR Tech backed by Tiger Global), The Man Company, 4basecare, Burger Singh, Shipsy, Supr Daily, Qdesk, Fitspire, etc I built my own early-stage investment portfolio of 40+ companies, was known as most prolific angel investors of 2016 by Economic Times. I was guest lecturer at City University London, in 2008-09 and invited speaker at Ross Business School, Michigan USA in 2016. I was awarded Bharat Gaurav award in British Parliament 2015 s, also received various 40 under 40 and other Entrepreneurial awards. I spoke at Harvard Business School on Indian Healthcare at the Boston campus in Feb 2025. I am driven by impact led ideas, tech disruptions, innovations in any business/operating models, while loads of continuous actions keeps me going. And core to all is spiritual surrender to Lord Krishna.

Experience

Redcliffe labs

2 roles

Founder and Chairman

Apr 2024Present · 2 yrs

  • Chairing Redcliffe Labs board, working with BoD on quarterly reviews, facilitating key decisions at the board, governance and overall strategy oversights. Chair clinical quality committee, member of M&A comm as well of Audit and Finance comm. Mentor to the CEO

Founder and CEO

Jan 2018Apr 2024 · 6 yrs 3 mos

  • Founder and CEO, we built (from scratch) now the 3rd largest India’s Consumer Diagnostics business (raised nearly $120m VC, Growth, PE), Omni Channel, PAN-India operations in routine and specialised clinical pathology and Integrated Radiology with our own National, Regional and Satellite operating labs with most automated fleet and collection center in major capital cities and tier2/3/4 towns/cities with 85 labs and 2000 Collection Centers operating in 220 cities.
  • I first started with DNA sequencing lab in 2018 in New Delhi capital region with focus on genomics Mother reproductive health, Oncology, Rare Diseases, etc. This gave us huge clinical reputation serving the super specialised market and than moving to specialised. Post Covid, we re-started as YC company to build routine operations both for Digital and offline market, scaling up businesses aggressively during 2021-23. More details at https://leapfroginvest.com/company/redcliffe-lifetech/
  • We also operate chain of IVF clinics branded under Crysta IVF.
  • We are fully backed by institutional investors and I couldn’t have done without amazing team specially Aditya who joined me as co-founder in 2021
Business StrategyGovernanceStakeholder Management

Crysta ivf

Founder

Jan 2022Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · Delhi, India

  • Crysta IVF chain with 6 operating large clinics/hospital in India, consistent and superior clinical success rates at our clinics led by IVF specialist, Doctors and extremely committed team across the domains. Crysta offers amazing customer experience, clinical SOPs, and clearly great outcomes for the couples. We built this digital first and now fastest growing IVF chain in India. Target to have 20 operating centers by end of 2028 pan-India mostly in T2/3 cities
Business StrategyProgram ManagementInvestment Banking

Continua kids

Leading Shareholder, works with other co-founders

Sep 2021Present · 4 yrs 7 mos · Delhi, India

  • 33 operating clinics within Northern India to treat Autism, ADHD and other Neuro developmental delays, treated almost 17000 children successfully in last 7 years. Only organised chain in this space and vision to build 500 operating clinics by 2028. Parents trusting the brand and walking with in with their child with learning and speech delays, Cognitive behaviours issues, etc and walking out with school ready child and 80-90% improvement gives utmost satisfaction and true impact. My co-founders Dr Puja, Dr Himani and 250+ therapist and the supporting staff everyday commits significant time and attention to solve this across the centers. Very proud of the sheer impact Continua have on the society!

Revfin

Investor (Board Member till series B)

Mar 2021Present · 5 yrs 1 mo · India · Remote

  • Leading Fintech in EV last mile mobility, T2/3 towns focused, EV rickshaws, scooters and EV trucks. Massive work on impact and ESG, star founder, team and portfolio. Backed by several institutional investors.

4basecare

Lead Investor, fully exited to early stage VCs and recently to Yali Capital

Jun 2018Feb 2025 · 6 yrs 8 mos · United Kingdom · Remote

  • Co-founded with the main founders and closely worked for 24 months, and than moved as board member and investor

Candes

Co-founder exited to listed Firstcry’s unicorn Globalbees

Jun 2018Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Delhi, India

  • Transformed a family run manufacturing unit of ceiling fan, geysers and other home appliances to market leader on ecommerce, and #2 on Flipkart and Amazon togther with other founders.

Supr daily by swiggy

Lead Investor, Exited to Swiggy

Jul 2017Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region · On-site

  • Invested in pre-Series A round, worked with founders for few months part-time to learn building large scale operations..

Innov8 coworking by oyo

Investor, Exited to OYO

Jun 2017Apr 2018 · 10 mos · Delhi, India · On-site

  • Invested in the Series A round as smaller investor..

Brewhouse tea brewing co.

Lead Investor, sold to Reliance Consumer Products

Mar 2017Aug 2023 · 6 yrs 5 mos · Delhi, India · Remote

  • Led the first round and worked with Sid during first 2 years closely. No returns from this investment unfortunately

Peesafe

Non-Executive Board Member and Co-founder

Jan 2017Present · 9 yrs 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

  • Peesafe is leading Women Health D2C brand in India. I started this venture with Vikas (main founder), Srijana, Rithesh (now co-founder) and moved part time after 3 years of building and setting up the business after series A funding. Now in Board Member capacity only since 2020. Peesafe is pioneering women health especially menstrual health, UTI prevention, adoption of new age products like tampons, cups, leading in intimate wash and additional sexual hygiene, 3 key FMCG Brand PeeSafe, Domina and Furr. Excellent operations, Distribution, Marketing across online, online market places, key modern stores and pharmacy chains in India; local partnerships in key regions, building portfolio of hygiene products across the globe.

Yumlane

Investor, sold to Curefoods

Dec 2016Aug 2022 · 5 yrs 8 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Remote

  • Participant in two investment rounds

Shaadisaga

Venture Investor, Exited to Bharat Matrimony

Nov 2016Nov 2020 · 4 yrs · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

  • Participated one of the investment rounds.

Infeedo

Lead Investor, Board Director, Partially exited to Bling Capital, Girish Mathrubootham, etc

Nov 2016Jun 2020 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Main investor from pre-seed to pre-Series A, worked closely with founder till 2018.

Qdesq

Lead Investor, Board Director, Exited to JLL Ventures

Nov 2015Feb 2020 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • Invested at idea stage over coffee discussion at DLF Golf Course with Paras, Led the first main round and stayed on board till exit. Build this for 1 year with Founders.

Burger singh

Lead Investor, Exited to ChrysCapital's Ashish Dhawan

Nov 2015Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

Shipsy

Lead Investor, Board Member, Exited to Infoedge

Oct 2015Dec 2020 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Delhi, India · On-site

  • Founders spotted in Delhi metro train by my 6 yrs old boy in 2015 who got fascinated by T-shirt Logo and they offered him the seat to sit. Build this for 4 yrs with founders and exited 2020 in Series A round.

The man company

Lead Investor, Exited to FMCG Giant (Emami)

Sep 2015Jan 2021 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • Led the first main fund raise round when none knew much about D2C market and its potential in India,

Coho.in

Lead Investor, Board Director, partially exited to PE Veteran Late Ajay Rehlan Sir (Cx Partner)

Aug 2015Feb 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos · India · On-site

  • First large cheque in Coho, still an investor

Redcliffe capital

Managing Partner

Mar 2012Dec 2016 · 4 yrs 9 mos · London, United Kingdom

  • Investment banking in LBO businesses and executed numerous mid market transaction cross border acquisitions/LBO in the mining, metal, technology, manufacturing, auto components, shipping, oil, renewable power sectors covering India, USA, UK, Africa.
  • I started investing in personal capacity in various early stage ventures and backing 40+ entrepreneurs/teams in India, London and bay area.

Nokia

Senior Manager

Jan 2003Mar 2012 · 9 yrs 2 mos · Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

  • 2008-2011 - Corp Finance, Strategy, Planning, M&A,
  • 2005-2007 - CIO Office
  • 2003-2005 - Technology Management

Zensar technologies

Technology Consultant

Mar 2001Jan 2003 · 1 yr 10 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom · On-site

  • As a fresher out from University, started as associate consultant and moved to Senior Consultant within 18 months at London based ICL Zensar (JV with Fujitsu). Consulted several organisations/sectors in technology and product developement - Utilities (British Gas), Infrastructure Communication (Cisco, Sprint), Finance (UBS), Hi-tech (Nokia) etc.

Education

Bayes Business School

MBA

Jan 2006Jan 2008

Delhi University

Bachelor of Science - BSc — Computer Science

Jul 1997Jun 2000

Greenfields Public School

Schooling

Apr 1986Mar 1997

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