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Inspired by the Kallanai Dam, an engineering marvel built a thousand years ago, we at Anicut Capital focus on building long-lasting value.

People

Our expert team combines passion with skill to offer support at every stage of your entrepreneurial journey.

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Adithya Bharadwaj
Vice President

Adithya has over 14 years of experience spanning across venture investing and consulting and has full fund cycle experience including sourcing, investment decisioning, portfolio management and exit.

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Aditya Roy
Principal

Aditya comes with diverse experience, spanning roles across strategy, growth, execution & investments with prior stints at JioCinema, Viacom18, IAN, and AllizHealth (an exited, investor-backed startup). He specializes in Consumer, Digital Media, HealthTech

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Ajay Anand
Partner

With over 15 years of investing experience, Ajay strongly believes in a hands-on approach towards early stage companies. His expertise in post investment mentoring and monitoring companies has enabled Anicut’s investee companies to raise significant capital in follow on rounds.

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Amrutha Upendran
Partner

With over 15 years of investing experience, Ajay strongly believes in a hands-on approach towards early stage companies. His expertise in post investment mentoring and monitoring companies has enabled Anicut’s investee companies to raise significant capital in follow on rounds.

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Ananya Malhotra
Associate

Ananya has extensive experience in equity investments and has previously been associated with Bain & Co and KPMG, among others. She is passionate about early-stage investing and is always happy to collaborate with new companies.

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Ankit Sahu
Associate

Ankit is part of the Private Credit team. In his role, he contributes to the sourcing, due diligence and execution of structured debt transactions

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Ankita Poddar
Accosiate

Ankita is part of the Private Credit team and assists on deal evaluation, industry insights, diligence and documentation.

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Arun Thathachari
Executive Director

Arun brings 15+ years of experience across investment banking, management consulting and corporate development. He has spent 7 years in Investment Banking. He started his career with Deloitte Consulting in New York as a management consultant.

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Arushi Maheshwari
Associate

Arushi is part of the investment team in Growth Equity & Late-stage Equity. Her experience as an analyst in the energy and utilities sector during her stint as a consultant and her exposure to tech and startups makes her an integral part of the equity teams.

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Ashvin Chadha
Co-founder & Managing Partner

Ashvin is Managing Partner & Co-founder of Anicut Capital. He is a career finance professional with two decades of experience across Investment Banking, Private Equity and Private Credit.

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Ayushi Shah
Assistant Manager

Ayushi is a qualified Company Secretary and holds a Bachelors degree in Law. She is based in our Gift City office and is involved with all statutory compliances and investor relations in relation to the fund.

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Balamurugan IAS
Co-founder & Managing Partner

Bala is the Managing Partner and Co-founder of Anicut Capital. A career banker with almost three decades of experience in Private Wealth Management, Commercial Banking & Private Credit, he has also served in credit committees and boards of several companies.

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Dhruv Kapoor
Partner

Dhruv comes with over 15 years of experience in early-stage and growth investing, investment banking and research. He heads the Growth and Late-stage Equity teams and is responsible for driving the investment strategy for them.

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Dhruv Ranjan
Associate Vice President

Dhruv is responsible for origination, shortlisting, diligence and capital raise of new deal flows for the Early Stage Equity team. He specialises in early-stage investments.

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Jayaseelan A
Partner

Jayaseelan (Jay) heads the Private Credit business, including underwriting, monitoring, evaluation and structuring. He has over 2 decades of experience in commercial banking, debt funds and private credit.

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Jeyaraj Pandian
Analyst

Jeyaraj is part of the Private Credit team and specialises in industry research, company insights and business intelligence.

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Jigyasa Dhingra
Analyst

Jigyasa is part of the Investor Relations team has specialises in handling all investor-related reporting for the equity funds. Based in Delhi, Jigyasa works in close collaboration with the equity teams.

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Joseph Steejan S
Manager

Joseph handles accounts and administration within Anicut Capital and comes with diverse experience as administrative assistant, account executive and admin manager.

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Kunal R Davey
Vice President

Kunal heads the Investor Relations team where he focuses on fundraising, managing investor relations and engaging with key firm stakeholders. He has over 15 years of experience in investment advisory and in managing wealth of HNIs.

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Supreetha Muralidharan
Senior Manager

Supreetha is part of the Investor Relations team and is responsible for investor onboarding, and other investor-related operational activities. Supreetha has several years of operational experience with family offices and founders' offices.

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Mahika Nahata
Associate

Mahika is a part of the post-investment team of the Early-stage Equity fund and specializes in monitoring, mentoring and capital raise for the fund.

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Venkatesh Parthasarathy
Chief Compliance Officer

Venkatesh (PV) is the Compliance Officer for Anicut and is responsible for all governance and compliance-related operations within the firm. He is an industry veteran with over 25 years of experience in investment operations, debt syndication and audit.

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Pranav Visvesh Natarajan
Analyst

Pranav is responsible for deal sourcing, shortlisting, and due diligence as part of Anicut's seed fund. Prior to Anicut, he spent a year at Ernst and Young in the consulting division, working with international insurance companies.

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R Karunamoorthi
Vice President

Karunamoorthi has extensive experience in Risk Management and monitoring and handles the liquid funds business for Anicut. His experience includes several sectors such as vehicle finance and microfinance.

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Balaji Parthasarathy
Associate Vice President
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Rahul Tiwari
Vice President - Genral Consul

Rahul is the General Counsel for Anicut and has experience of advising clients on a range of matters across sectors, including entrepreneurs, private companies, listed companies, private equity and venture capital funds in relation to general corporate advisory, private equity, venture capital and mergers and acquisitions.

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Revanth M S
Associate

Revanth is an investment associate with the Growth Stage and Late-stage Equity funds. He has prior consulting experience and is involved in deal evaluation, diligence and sourcing.

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Samarth Dhamija
Analyst

Samarth is responsible for deal sourcing, shortlisting, and due diligence as part of Anicut's seed fund.

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Sanya Chawla
Associate

Mahika is a part of the post-investment team of the Early-stage Equity fund and specialises in monitoring, mentoring and capital raise for the fund.

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Supraja Pochampally
Associate

Supraja is part of the Private Credit team. In her role, she contributes to the sourcing, due diligence and execution of structured debt transactions

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Vansham Singh Gurung
Associate

Vansham is part of the Private Credit team. In his role, he contributes to the sourcing, due diligence and execution of structured debt transactions

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Vedh Vijay
Analyst

Vedh is responsible for deal sourcing, shortlisting, and due diligence as part of Anicut's seed fund.

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Veenu Mittal
CFO

Veenu hastwo decades of experience in leadership positions in corporate finance, business strategy, revenue planning, cost optimisation, and corporate governance across diverse industries.

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Vihan Desai
Analyst

Vihan is is part of the Private Credit team. In his role, he contributes to the sourcing, due diligence and execution of structured debt transactions.

Join our team

We’re always on the lookout for ambitious and talented people to join the Anicut family across functions at various levels.