Pavestone Capital

Sridhar Balasubramanian is a Founding Partner and Sponsor at Pavestone VC. He has over 30 years of global experience in international business, entrepreneurship, and investments. He is the Managing Director of Farmachem Private Limited, where he has built enduring partnerships between Indian Pharma Producers and international customers, specialising in business development and international sales strategy for small to mid-sized Indian pharmaceutical companies. He has been a strategic partner in the expansion strategy for several Indian healthcare companies into EU and CIS markets. He has been an integral part of Parampara Alternate Assets Fund both as an investor and Investment Committee member. He holds a B.E. from Anna University and a PGDM in International Business from IIFT Delhi.

Srikanth Tanikella is Managing Partner at Pavestone VC, with over 25 years of experience in leading business growth, organisational scale-up, and client engagement in global and domestic B2B outsourcing. Prior to founding Pavestone, he was COO of CAMS, where he oversaw the company's support of the Mutual Fund industry through a seven-year journey that included a more than three-fold AUM increase, rapid digitalisation, retail expansion, and numerous regulatory changes. He was a key member of the Group Management Committee and part of the leadership team that led to CAMS's successful IPO in 2020. He also served as director on the boards of CAMS Account Aggregator and CAMS KRA. Before CAMS, he was COO for India at Williams Lea (multinational supplier of business-critical services to advertising and investment banking industries) and was previously with HP in their Global Business Services team. He started his career at Accenture in Management Consulting, then joined Infosys BPO as part of the startup team, growing it to USD 250 million in seven years as part of the Global Enterprise Solution Sales team. He holds a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from IIT Delhi and a PGDM from IIM Calcutta.

Laxmikanth V is Managing Partner at Pavestone VC, with over 35 years of experience in global leadership in business strategy, sales, product and technical innovation, and mergers and acquisitions. As a pioneer of the Indian IT industry, over the last 15 years he was India MD and Member of the Global Executive Committee of Broadridge Financial Solutions. Prior to Broadridge, he established and grew India offices for global enterprises such as ADP, D.E. Shaw and Intergraph. He was a Member of the Investment Committee and an LP in Parampara Early-Stage Opportunities Fund. He is part of the NASSCOM GCC Council and has extensive experience building and supporting large-scale Enterprise grade products in SaaS models, setting up centres of excellence for AI/ML and Big Data, and supporting the innovation of Blockchain technology in India. He holds a Master's degree in Physics from Karnataka University.