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Aspada

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Aspada Capital Advisors and Aspada Investment Advisors provide early stage risk capital to businesses in India.

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founded date

01.01.2011

Number of employees

IPO status

Private

Description

Aspada Capital Advisors provides investment advice to the SONG Fund, a venture capital fund capitalized by the Soros Economic Development Fund, the Omidyar Network, and Google. Aspada Investment Advisors provides investment advice to Aspada Investments, a venture capital investment vehicle backed by the Soros Economic Development Fund. Lightrock invests between $10 and $50M in companies across key sectors such as Food and Agriculture, Logistics, Mobility, Healthcare, Renewable energy, Education and Financial services. Their thematic platform approach to investing focuses on improving system-level outcomes across firms, creating a virtuous cycle of value creation. The Lightrock India team manages investments for the SONG Fund and Aspada Investment company.
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Thomas Hyland
Thomas Hyland

Thomas Hyland

Tom is a Co-Founder and Partner of Aspada Investment Advisors. Prior, he was one of the first employees of SeaChange Capital Partners, a social sector financial intermediary founded by former senior partners of Goldman Sachs. Earlier, he worked in the Investment Management Division at Goldman Sachs in San Francisco. Tom received his MBA at the Indian School of Business (ISB) in Hyderabad, and his BA in Economics from Providence College. While at ISB he focused on innovations in early stage financing and entrepreneurial ecosystems in India and other emerging markets. He has worked and traveled extensively throughout India and Asia. He currently serves on the Board of NeoGrowth Credit and serves as a Board Observer across several of Aspada's portfolio companies.

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Kartik Srivatsa
Kartik Srivatsa

Kartik Srivatsa

Kartik is a Co-Founder and the Managing Partner of Aspada Investment Advisors and also acts as the fund advisor for the SONG Fund through Aspada Capital Advisors. Prior, Kartik was with Lightspeed Venture Partners, a global venture capital firm with over $2 billion under management, where he was a founding member of the India office. Earlier, he was a management consultant with McKinsey and Company. Kartik received a BTech in Mechanical Engineering and MTech in Energy Technology both from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras. He currently serves on the Boards of Be Well Hospitals, SV Agri, LEAF, Xamcheck, Capital Float, and Eye-Q Vision and previously served as a Board Observer on K-12 Techno Services. He is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE).

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

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Divya Venkatavaraghavan

Divya Venkatavaraghavan

Principal

Kushal Agrawal

Kushal Agrawal

CFO

Kartik Srivatsa

Kartik Srivatsa

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Vaidhehi Ravindran

Vaidhehi Ravindran

Investor and Principal

Thomas Hyland

Thomas Hyland

Co-Founder & Partner

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