Mr. Rajiv Raghunandan serves as Managing Partner at Arali Ventures. Mr. Raghunandan also serves as Managing Partner at SeedX. He also serves as Board Member at Cognisaas and decode'm.ai. He is an Angel Investor. He has over seventeen years of experience in business consulting, outsourcing (BPO), technology, and corporate finance. He has led business units with a $100 mn P&L and has overseen the acquisition, implementation, and delivery of operational outsourcing programs across multiple industry segments & functional areas. In his most recent role prior to seedX, he had changed tracks and built & scaled a reporting & compliance technology platform targeted at institutional investors for their investments in alternative assets such as hedge funds, private equity & derivatives. Over the last six years, he has also been actively involved with multiple early-stage ventures in different capacities. Ranging from advising on strategy, marketing & operations to himself being an angel investor in a couple of ventures, Rajiv has inculcated a passion for enabling the success of emerging ventures. He holds a strong belief that angel funding in India is a vast untapped opportunity area; not just for the start-ups but also for the investors as an unexplored avenue of investment. His association with SeedX stems from the common vision that angel investing has been the 'preserve of a few in India but with the right hand-holding & support this can be changed and a whole new segment of investors can participate in the angel funding & value creation process in many different ways.
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