vignesh ramanujam
investor | entrepreneur -- privately active in public markets & publicly active in private markets
"balance is everything."
socially
1. @vigneshramanuja, on twitter: thoughts and musings, on life and startups
2. @vramanujam, on linkedin: academic, work & other generally productive experiences
3. @vigneshramanujam, on instagram: photographs, personal moments & travel chronicles
4. @vigneshramanujam, on facebook: barely there
currently
2013-now, early-stage venture capital: >30 investments in India & the US (and counting!)
invest both personally & at spoonfeed, a new economy investment & advisory partnership
recent direct investments/board seats:
kaching, smiles.ai, auntfloh, codingal, pencilton, tortoise, curtn, chaicup, customfit, culturelytics +++
startuploan, kickstartup.vc, +++
previously
2013-2015, master's in finance at the grenoble école de management based in london, united kingdom
2014-2016, founded currency x, folded in light of prevailing regulatory constraints in chennai, india
2012-2013, fixed income, currencies & commodities (ficc) at the macquarie group, singapore
2009-2012, read politics & economics at the university of leicester, united kingdom
2010-2011, transaction advisory services (tas) at ernst & young, middle east & north africa region
2004-2009, graduated high school from uwcsea, singapore
2002-2004, middle school in dubai, uae
1993-2001, lower school in manama, bahrain
1991-1993, "hello, world" in chennai, india
generally
speaker & panelist: tedx dharamshala 2017, himalayan startup trek @ iit mandi (catalyst) 2018,
tnigc (under the entrepreneurship development & innovation institute) 2020 +++
junior tennis pro, carnatic music student & rasika, thinker from first principles