At CFO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top India based CFO’ operating in the Venture Capital space. If you think a CFO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
K G Subramanian
Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of Nexus Venture Partners
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About Nexus Venture Partners: Nexus Venture Partners is a venture capital firm established by ex-entrepreneurs in enterprise technology and consumer internet.
Tulsi Swamy
Chief Financial Officer of Prime Venture Partners
Expect a 5 min chat to turn into a 30 minute discussion with Tulsi! She is a great conversationalist! With a passion to work with startups, Tulsi brings in over 20 years of experience in the areas of Finance & Reporting, Operations, Global Operations, International Tax, Corporate Responsibility, Human Resources, Project Management and General Administration. At Prime, she juggles two hats – helping portfolio companies in providing support on strategic matters relating to finance, tax, governance, operations, structures and with the Fund on portfolio diligence, deal closing, fund finances, taxes, structures, investor relations. Having worked with some great brands including PriceWaterhouse, Riverstone networks, ANZ, she boasts of considerable experience in Initial Public Offerings in US, M&A, Due- diligence, Fund-raising, Business Transformation, Cross-border transactions, Restructuring, with both early stage and mature companies, Venture Capital Fund formation and management, Investor Relations, etc.
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About Prime Venture Partners: Prime Venture Partners is a natural destination for the startups targeting global markets
N. Sridharan
CFO of Equitas Holdings
Sridharan N is the Chief Financial Officer at Equitas Small Finance Bank.
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About Equitas Holdings: Equitas Holdings provides microfinance, used commercial vehicle finance, and housing finance services in India.
Sameer Sheth
CFO of Iron Pillar
Sameer Sheth is the Chief Financial Officer at Iron Pillar.
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About Iron Pillar: Iron Pillar is a venture capital fund focused on filling the gap for mid stage technology investments in India.
Blake Koriath
CFO of High Alpha
Blake Koriath is the CFO at High Alpha.
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About High Alpha, High Alpha, Kauffman Fellows: High Alpha creates and funds companies through a new model for entrepreneurship that unites company building and venture capital.
Pankaj Thapar
CFO & Head of Risk of Everstone
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About Everstone: Everstone Capital is an India and South East Asia focused investor with dedicated private equity and real estate funds.
Ashutosh Lavakare
Chief Financial Officer of Everstone
Ashutosh Lavakare joined Everstone as the Chief Financial Officer in 2006. Ashutosh has 22 years of investment industry experience in both India and the UK. He has worked with leading companies across corporate finance, audit, management consulting, and investment banking industries, including Travelex India, Arthur Andersen and KPMG. Ashutosh holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Mumbai and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.
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About Everstone: Everstone Capital is an India and South East Asia focused investor with dedicated private equity and real estate funds.
Ashutosh Lavakare
Chief Financial Officer of Everstone
Ashutosh Lavakare joined Everstone as the Chief Financial Officer in 2006. Ashutosh has 22 years of investment industry experience in both India and the UK. He has worked with leading companies across corporate finance, audit, management consulting, and investment banking industries, including Travelex India, Arthur Andersen and KPMG. Ashutosh holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Mumbai and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.
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About Everstone: Everstone Capital is an India and South East Asia focused investor with dedicated private equity and real estate funds.
Vikas Sarda
CFO of Unitus Ventures
Vikas leverages his twelve years of expertise to cultivate sustainable business practices, developing policy framework and maintain strong financial control. He re-engineered accounting processes, established policies and procedures and implemented systems. He brings experience in planning, developing processes/procedures which reduces dependencies, ensuring system integrity, treasury management, taxation etc. Previously, he worked for Amba Research, a financial services provider and has worked with other leading Companies like Max New York Life Insurance and WNS Global Services. Vikas received a bachelor’s degree with honors from Delhi University and is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
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About Capria Ventures, Unitus Capital, Unitus Ventures: Unitus Ventures is India’s leading venture fund supporting early-stage tech startups with India scale and global potential..
Vivek Sood
Group Chief Financial Officer of Axiata Digital Innovation Fund
Vivek holds a Bachelor in Commerce and became a Qualified Chartered Accountant of India in 1989. He conducted his Accountancy and Audit Training in Pricewaterhouse. Prior to joining Axiata, Vivek led a number of multidisciplinary and multi-cultural teams as EVP and Group Chief Marketing Officer of Telenor, CEO of Grameenphone Bangladesh, CEO of Telenor India, CFO of Telenor India and COO and CFO of Tata AIA Life Insurance. He has played the role of change agent through leading the transformation of a large telco, in becoming a Digital Service provider and developing new services over and above the connectivity layer. He gained diverse global knowledge through his responsibilities across Asian and European markets, leading teams from multiple cultures and backgrounds.
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About Axiata Digital Innovation Fund, Grameenphone: Axiata Digital Innovation Fund is a technology venture fund formed by Axiata Berhad.
Shailendra Gupta
Group Chief Financial Officer of Acuity Knowledge Partners
Shailendra Gupta is the chief financial officer of Moody’s Analytics Knowledge Services. He has 18 years of finance experience having led teams across a broad spectrum of functional areas like Financial Control, Planning & Analysis, Treasury, Tax, Pricing & Commercial. Mr. Gupta has 10+ years experience in Financial Services Industry including experience in a Global Investment Bank and Asset Management Companies. I have worked on Corporate mergers & acquisitions, demergers, business integration, standardization & financial systems implementation. I have extensive experience of working with multi-cultural teams, both in an inhouse and outsourced settings. I have build and established finance teams from scratch for multi-national organizations, and have led global teams. I have also set-up new STP/SEZ centres for MNCs in India. Specialties Setting-up Finance Teams from Scratch, Investment Banking Finance, Product Control, Hedge Fund Accounting, Financial Planning & Analysis, Financial Accounting & Reporting (US GAAP/IFRS/IGAAP), Treasury, Commercial, Business Restructuring/Integration, Team leadership in complex/matrix Organisations, Conflict Management, Mentoring & Coaching
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About Acuity Knowledge Partners: Acuity Knowledge Partners is a provider of research, analytics and business intelligence to the financial services sector.
Greg Rankin
CFO of High Tech Ventures
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About High Tech Ventures: High Tech Ventures develops ventures into profitable assets.