Core Investment Team
Ravinder Vashist
Over fourteen years’ experience across Private Equity and Project Finance. He brings a strong experience across all aspects of a fund viz. fund raising, deal origination, evaluation, documentation, monitoring and exits. His last stint was with BanyanTree Finance, a mid-market private equity fund, managing assets of over INR 1350 crore, providing growth capital to middle-market companies with promising growth prospects. At BanyanTree, he looked after the NBFC portfolio and was the Nominee Director on the Boards of the NBFCs Previously he worked at IDFC where he managing INR 850 crore across 2 private equity funds along with Japan Vyas. While the first fund was focused on infrastructure the other was sector agnostic, which were raised under IDFC Asset Management Company. Ravinder worked with IDFC group for over 11 years, across various groups such as corporate advisory, project finance in addition to private equity. He holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow and graduated as an engineer from NIT, Kurukshetra. He also obtained the CFA Charter in 2009
14 Years of experiences
Bhavik Mehta
Bhavik is a CA, CFA, FRM with experience of 6 years across equity research, portfolio management and venture capital. He previously managed $50mn Investments spread across listed equity, debt and real estate at Brescon Family Office. Prior to which he worked at Kstart, a $10 MN seed stage fund of Kalaari Capital where he looked at early stage tech companies. Early part of his career he managed $20mn proprietary portfolio of listed Indian Equities with focus on small and mid cap companies at Sykes and Ray Equities Ltd. Some of his past Investments include Uniply, GM Breweries, V2 Retail, Piramal Enterprises. Bhavik is also a visiting faculty at Edupristine over the past 5 years teaching students across topics like Economics, Financial reporting and Financial Market products.
6 Years of experiences
Japan Vyas
InvestorsTwo decades’ experience in financial services working with promoters in areas like public and private equity investing, venture capital, project & infrastructure financing, debt restructuring and credit Established two alternative asset management businesses - raised and managed 3 funds Youngest in the country to head an alternative asset management business, at the age of 31 when he took charge of IDFC Investment Advisors. Scaled the business to an AUM of INR 850 crores across two funds Co-founder of Sixth Sense Ventures, consumer focused venture fund. Demonstrated class beating returns across investment life cycle – early / growth / listed
2 Years of experiences
Advisors
Mani Agrawal
Advisor to leading organizations on operational strategy, corporate turnaround. Founded O’Leche in India (dairy supplying organic milk) President of Dastur International, Headed the business consulting practice of Cognizant in Europe
14 Years of experiences
Miten Sampat
VP of Corp Development at Times Internet, leading Investments, M&A, and new ventures. On the Board of Gaana, ET-Money, MX-Player, Shuttl, Ridlr, Myra Medicines, Haptik, and Dineout. Ex- VP of Product Strategy at Neustar
14 Years of experiences
Shabnam Siddiqui
Director, Centre of Excellence for Governance, Ethics & Transparency at the United Nations Global Compact Network India. Specializes in developing and executing strategic intervention through multi-stakeholder networks. Has several national & international publications to her credit.
14 Years of experiences
Harinder Takhar
CEO of Paytm Labs HQ in Toronto Canada which builds products for Paytm that improve the experience on the Paytm platform. Ex- CEO of Paytm. Ex-product manager RIM, Part of BD for Nokia in Helsinki Senior R&D designer for Cadence Design Systems.
6 Years of experiences
Apurva Chamaria
Woman GymnasticsChief Revenue Officer of Rategain Ex-global head Corporate Marketing , HCL Tech. “Marketer of the Year” by World Leadership Forum, “Digital Marketer of the Year” by IAMAI & “B2B Marketer of the Year” by Paul Writer. Recognized by ET as the top 10 angel investors in 2018, Best selling author & thought leader on digital transformation
2 Years of experiences
Investing Partners
- Hunch Ventures (HV) is a proprietary investment company founded by Karanpal Singh
- Hunch Ventures invests in companies that use technology to improve consumer experience
- Focused on health, retail, hospitality, education, media and new age technology
- Current portfolio comprises of over a dozen companies
- Owns a state-of-the art 200,000 sq.ft. co-working space, ‘The Circle’ in Gurgaon
- Global connect and influence across different sectors - Fund Impact
- Increases our circle of influence in the startup eco-system enabling effective deal sourcing through their early stage network and eco-system
- Helps our investee company to accelerate their growth through access to their investee companies.
- Co-investing capability at all stages helping us participate in larger rounds