Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Decade long investment banking experience in India and Singapore. Startup enthusiast and angel investor with diversified portfolio across logistics, consumer internet and education. Foraying into entrepreneurship with the passion to make the wheels of International Trade turn smoother.
Building the Operating System for Global Trade
Angel Investor since 2015, backing early-stage ventures across consumer, marketplace, B2B, and fintech. Fortunate to partner with exceptional founders and learn along the journey. Select Investments: GoPigeon – logistics tech (acquired by Narvar) Trell – social commerce (Sequoia, Fosun) Mcaffeine – India’s 1st caffeinated personal care (RP-SG Ventures) Leap – international ed-fintech (Sequoia) Orange Health – fastest diagnostics platform (YC ‘20) Businessonbot – WhatsApp commerce automation (YC ‘21) BASIC Home Loan – India’s first neo-housing finance platform Others: Rocketium, TrulyMadly, Explorex, Oyela, Artinci, Sanfe, Facets, Stockal, NimbleEdge, Oolka, Borderplus, Kluisz, and more.
At Cogoport our mission is to make the wheels of international trade turn smoother. We do this by providing digital and technology-enabled solutions that enable freight to move faster, cheaper and more efficiently from point to point. The Cogoport solution will ultimately incorporate Big Data analytics and Artificial Intelligence to deliver a transparent and frictionless experience for its customers.
Fixed Income & FX Sales, Asia - Managed e-FX Sales (Autobahn Platform) for Institutional clients in India along with voice sales for custody, interbank clients, sovereign wealth funds - Facilitated and monetised client flows in FX spot, Forwards & options
Mappr is an online platform that establishes a learning commune by seamlessly connecting schools, teachers, parents and students in a secure environment. This learning commune stimulates peer-to-peer learning to bring the hesitant learners mainstream. It also enables personalised attention without increasing the teacher’s work-load, ensures proactive parental engagement and focuses on multi-dimensional development of the student.