Indus Equity Partners

Ramakrishnan is a former career banker turned entrepreneur with over three decades of diverse experience across Banking, Financial Services, and Strategy Consulting. His journey bridges operational depth, investment acumen, and entrepreneurial energy, embodying an operator's mind, an investor's precision, and a founder's restlessness. He spent 18 years in Infrastructure & Logistics Finance, Merchant Banking, Fixed Income, and Corporate Treasury, including serving as Business Head of a strategic unit at a leading Indian private bank. Later, he co-founded a Microfinance NBFC, acting as Director and CFO, shaping its foundational operations. Over the past 13 years, Ramakrishnan has been an active Business and Strategy Consultant, advising startups, SMEs, and NBFCs. His philosophy, think like a strategist, question like a researcher, build like a founder, reflects in his work on business planning, capital structuring, valuations, and fundraising. Select accomplishments: Lead M&A advisor for four companies, including cross-border transactions. Due diligence advisor for over 30 startups on behalf of VC funds. Advisor to management teams in NBFC and Fintech sectors. Independent Director in an ESG & Sustainability Ratings firm. Mentor to early-stage startups from the IITStartups.org accelerator for four years. A passionate clean-energy evangelist, Ramakrishnan works at the intersection of capital, compliance, and climate. He advises on green energy transitions, fundraising, and regulatory strategies. His latest venture focuses on Asset Life Cycle Management for SMEs driving energy transition, leveraging his strong network of industry partners and service providers.

Saket is the Chief Investment Officer at Indus Equity Partners and has fund & portfolio management, investment banking, and private market experience spanning across the UK/Europe, USA and India. He has overseen investments from concept to exit, including leading syndications and completed secondary transactions. He brings knowledge of business restructuring, negotiating and navigating corporate litigations and working with Founders through growth cycles. Previously, Saket was the Investment Director at UK Impact VC Investment Fund (an ISIN traded impact investment fund) and Fortunis Capital (British family office), overseeing all VC investments and served as an experienced board representative. At Amadeus Capital Partners (est. in 1997, backed over 190 companies and raised over $1.3bn), Saket was a member of senior management, leading investor relations and fundraising efforts across all Amadeus funds. Saket was also with the Anchor Group, based between London and Geneva, advising EMEA clients on direct and fund-based private market investments. He sourced and advised clients on PE/VC funds covering sectors such as Fintech, MedTech, Marketplaces, and Life Sciences. Saket studied Systems Engineering together with Finance at the University of Virginia, USA. He holds an MSc. Public Policy (with Merit) from King's College London with a focus on social entrepreneurship, technology policy and regulation. He was also awarded the Associateship of King's College.

Amitvikram Sharma is a Venture Partner at Indus and a Partner at his own advisory firm, founded in August 2022 to help ventures with growth and fundraising. From 2015-2022 he worked with Claris Lifesciences, a $125 million Healthcare Group, where he headed Venture Capital and new initiatives, deploying balance sheet capital and building an initial VC pool of around Rs.100 crore across early-stage Fintech, Consumer, Healthcare and Logistics businesses. He brings three decades of Indian Venture Capital and Private Equity experience, having screened thousands of companies and invested in 60 ventures across Healthcare, Education, Manufacturing, Consumer, Services, Infrastructure and Technology. His career has spanned some of the best known names in the Indian VC and PE industry: GVFL, Jardine Fleming Electra, Actis, Madison India Capital, Milestone Religare and Aditya Birla Capital, before he became CEO of Claris Capital from 2015 to 2022. Along the way he has worked on marquee investments and exits such as Moser Baer, Zensar, Daksh BPO (to IBM), CARE Ratings and RBL Bank, and has raised multiple funds from a broad base of foreign and domestic Limited Partners including Adam Street Partners, the World Bank, Prudential-UK, SEDCO and SBI, among many others. He has served on the boards of small and large companies for 20 years, working closely with portfolio businesses on growth strategy, team building and raising working capital, debt and equity, achieving exits through NSE/BSE listings, strategic sales and put options on founders. He combines deep transactional and fundraising expertise with hands-on operating and board-level involvement, and is well networked across investment banks, accounting and law firms, and dozens of LPs internationally and in India. He is an engineer and holds an MBA in Finance and Systems from IIM Lucknow, and a B.E. (Mechanical) from N.I.T. Surat.

Rajeev Kumar is the Founder of ChromoSoul Ventures (CSV), a pioneering incubator and accelerator network with a vision to revolutionize India's startup support ecosystem. He is a seasoned & credentialled Entrepreneur, Innovator, Investor, enthusiastic Leadership Coach and Mentor, with a passion for Sustainability. Strategy, Technology, Innovation, and Sustainability. He is a globally recognized thought leader and social influencer in the fields of Sustainability, Ecology, and Impact. With nearly 3 decades of experience in various sectors and markets, including India, UAE, SEA, USA, and Latin America, he has founded/co-founded several ventures in different domains, such as technology, manufacturing, hospitality, healthcare, biotech, and education. He has also established and managed VC and PE funds, executed M&A deals, advised on re-structuring projects, and raised investments for Family Offices. He has led and participated in several marquee initiatives in India and around the globe, in collaboration with Governments, UN Agencies and other globally reputed organizations. Having a deep passion for sharing his knowledge and experience with the next generation of entrepreneurs, leaders, and innovators, over the last 2 decades, he has mentored and coached hundreds of Startups, Entrepreneurs, CEOs & Innovators, both in India and abroad, and helped them achieve their goals and dreams. Rajeev Kumar holds Post-Graduate qualifications in Computer Science, Management, and Foreign Trade.