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About Sudhir:
Sudhir is Founder & Chairman of Chiratae Ventures India Advisors. Chiratae Ventures. Chiratae is a leading VC firm with an AUM of $ 1.2 b, invested in 130 plus companies, exited 60 plus, has taken 3 companies public, funded 9 Unicorns, and backed 15 market leaders. The firm is based out of Bangalore with offices in Mumbai and Delhi.
Since 1998, Sudhir and his team have advised on investments across Deep Tech, Agri Tech, Digital Consumer, SAAS, Fintech and Healthcare Sectors. Key investments include Myntra, Flipkart, FirstCry, Lenskart, PolicyBazaar, Curefit, Agrostar, Emotix, Uniphore and PlaySimple amongst others. Today Chiratae Ventures is a leading tech VC in India with Mr. Ratan Tata, Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan, Mr. Bruno Raschle, Dr Andreas Hettich, Mr. Manish Choksi, Mr Patrick McGovern, Mr Puneet Pushkarna, Mr Ken Shibusawa as well as Dr. Ferzaan Engineer on its Global Advisory Board and India Advisory Board.
In 2021, Sudhir was recognized by Red Herring as one of the leading venture capitalists in the country. He has been named among the Top Ten IT Professionals by Dataquest and by Bloomberg UTV as “Visionary Venture Capitalist’’ in 2011. Sudhir has been featured in Subroto Bagchi’s book ‘’Zen Garden – Conversations with Pathmakers’’, in 2014.
In addition to leading Chiratae Ventures India Advisors, Sudhir has served on EMPEA Venture Capital Council (Emerging Markets Private Equity Association). He has served as Advisor on the Technology Innovation and Productivity Council of the GMR Group. He also served on the Executive
Committee of Indian Venture Capital Association (IVCA), Investment
Committee of UTI Ventures, on the Board of Ascent Capital and on the Board of Advisors at N.S. Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurship, IIM Bangalore. He also served on the Executive Committee of NASSCOM. With over 30 years of experience, Sudhir has served at various leadership positions at HCL, Wiproand Cyient, as well as Country Head of Walden International India!
In this episode we talk about how did venture capital start in india, who invested in indian vc funds in the early days, did family offices invest in indian vc funds in the early days, the role of family offices in indian vc funds, the governmental regulations for vc funds in india, what’s wrong with the regulations in india, the role of discipline in investing, how should indian founders raise money, competition in venture between international and domestic venture firms + so much more!
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