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Lighthouse Canton has partnered with Nueva Capital to form LC Nueva Investment Partners. Together they have launched the LC Nueva Fund which seeks to invest in 25-30 companies through the life of its 8-year fund at the pre-series A and series A stages. Nueva Capital is an Investment Holding Company with USD$100Mn under management in private and public markets. Nueva was founded by two brothers, Ashish and Sohil Chand having extensive experience in Venture Capital and Private Equity, who decided to join forces to manage their own capital and to pursue their passion for investing in early stage private businesses.
Sohil Chand
Founding Partner & Chief Investment Officer, LC Nueva AIF
Sohil is a veteran private equity fund manager, most recently as the India head of Norwest Venture Partners, a USD 10bn global early to late-stage venture and growth equity investor. Prior to this, Sohil helped to set up and led Goldman Sachs's private equity investments in India. Sohil has sizeable deal experience with key investments in National Stock Exchange, Swiggy, Asian Genco, Sadbhav Engineering, Thyrocare, Snowman Logistics, IL&FS Infrastructure, etc. Sohil holds an MBA from University of Chicago Booth School of Business and M.Sc. in Finance from London School of Economics.
Ashish Chand
Founding Partner, LC Nueva AIF
Ashish is an experienced leader with long-term success in operating and investing. He currently manages investing for his family offices with key wins in recent times including Veeba, Roadzen and Biryani by Kilo. Ashish's previous experience was building a contact center business from scratch and selling it to iGate. He also helped IT&T merge with US-based design firm Asix to form Asix IT&T, which was later acquired by Jupiter Capital. Ashish holds an M.Sc. in Information System from London School of Economics.
Shilpi Chowdhary
Group Chief Executive Officer, Lighthouse Canton
Shilpi is the Group CEO of Lighthouse Canton. He is responsible for driving the company's vision and objectives as well as overall business directions. He oversees the Wealth Management and Asset Management businesses of Lighthouse Canton as well as Keenai, a digital full-stack private banking and trading platform. Prior to establishing Lighthouse Canton, Shilpi was a Managing Director at Credit Suisse Private Bank managing the Ultra High Net Worth portfolio. He spent over 6 years at Citibank in India across businesses from Asset-based Financing to Wealth Management. He holds a B.Tech in Civil Engineering and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from Symbiosis Centre for Management & HRD.
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