An Investor-Operator story
A unique mix of Operators and Investors with deep regional expertise
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Sajid Rahman
Managing Partner
Led investment in more than 150 companies since mid-2020 and deployed US$ 42 Mn
Personal investment in 800+ startups from Seed to Series B
15+ Unicorns in the portfolio and counting
20 at US$ 100 Mn+ valuation
Lead a syndicate of 2600+ LPs
35% of the syndicated companies have a Female founder
Managing Director, Standard Chartered Bank in Asia and Africa
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Telenor Health (Digital Healthcare Solutions with 6M+ members)
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Pritesh Gupta
Managing Partner
15 years building startups from early-stage to unicorns and IPOs
Led investment in more than 30 companies since mid-2019, all in personal capacity
2 unicorns in the portfolio & 11 portfolio companies are north of US$ 100 Mn+
A founding team member of Ola, part of the core leadership grew the venture into US$ 3 Bn unicorn
Founder, ZipGo, 1st startup globally aiming to privatize public transportation. Raised US$ 30 Mn institutional capital and later exited to Essel Group in 2019
Co-founder of a technology-led patent licensing venture Rights Reality with exit to Finnish PE in 2012
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Hussain Elius
Venture Partner
Founder/CEO of Pathao at 2016, a super-app platform operating in Bangladesh and and Nepal.
The 14+ different services in Pathao include ride-sharing, logistics, e-commerce, food delivery, payments, BNPL, and more.
Started the company from a garage and scaled it to 600+ people. With over 8m+ users, 300k+ drivers, 50k+ merchants, Pathao is the largest consumer tech platform in two countries.
Founded/CEO Wind.app in 2022, a Web3 wallet built for the masses/”Robinhood for DeFi”.