Industry Panel 2 on Start-up Panel
Sudhir Sethi, (Proposed)
Founder & Chairman, Chiratae Ventures India Advisors
Sudhir is Founder & Chairman of Chiratae Ventures India Advisors. Chiratae Ventures is a leading VC firm advising AUM of $ 1B, invested in 100 plus companies, exited 39 plus, has taken 3 companies public, funded 8 Unicorns and backed 11 market leaders. The firm is based out of Bangalore with an office in Delhi.
Since 1998 Sudhir and his team have advised on investments into 100+ firms across Deep Tech, Agri Tech, Digital Consumer, SAAS, Fintech and Healthcare Sectors. Key investments include Myntra, Flipkart, FirstCry, Lenskart, Policy Bazaar, 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 and Mr Manish Choksi as well as Dr Ferzaan Engineer on its Global Advisory Board and India Advisory Board.
Sudhir, today serves on the EC of NASSCOM and is part of the Advisory Group on Tech and Internet Economy, Minister of State (Meity).
In 2001, 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.