Startup Funding Boom

Rajan heads India's biggest VC fund, Sequoia, where he is focusing on developing Surge into the world's top scale-up program for startups. He acts as investment advisor and mentor to founders. Rajan has a deep understanding of technology, and a track record of growing tech businesses. Prior to Sequoia, he was Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, and had also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago. He is a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups.

Radhika started her career with McKinsey & Company, and then progressed to become a hedge fund manager with AQR Capital. An asset management professional with experience across classes and investor segments, she moved to India in 2014 to start her own venture, Forefront Capital Management, which was acquired by Edelweiss in 2014. In 2016, she successfully led Edelweiss’s acquisition of JP Morgan’s Mutual Fund business and Ambit Capital’s AIF business. She is an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania, and a Board Member of the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI).

Nithin bootstrapped Zerodha in 2010, growing it to become the largest retail brokerage in India today. With 4 million customers and contributing to 15% of the exchange retail trading volumes, Zerodha has changed the landscape of the Indian broking industry. Zerodha's tech-first focus has helped make trading & investing in the capital market more appealing to the wider society. Nithin is also the founder of Rainmatter, an R&D fintech incubator and fund that has partnered with some of the best investment-tech startups in India. Nithin has also set up the Rainmatter Climate Foundation, a fund for startups and organisations working on solutions to mitigate climate change.

Vidit co-founded, Meesho, a social commerce platform along with Sanjeev Barnwal in 2015. Its vision is to enable 100 million small businesses in India to succeed online. Meesho provides small businesses access to customers, pan-India logistics, payment services and customer support to efficiently run their businesses. Meesho recently raised $300 million in a round led by SoftBank Vision Fund at a valuation of $2.1 Billion, entering the unicorn club. Vidit is an alumnus of IIT Delhi.