vignesh ramanujam
investor | entrepreneur — privately active in public markets & publicly active in private markets
"balance is everything."
socially
1. facebook ---- barely there
2. instagram --- photographs, personal moments & travel chronicles3. linkedin ---- work, academia & other generally productive experiences
4. twitter ----- thoughts and musings, on startups and life
5. angellist --- select startup investments
currently
2013-now, early stage venture investing: 30+ companies across india, singapore & the US (and counting!)
invest capital personally & serve as primary partner at spoonfeed, a new economy investment & advisory partnership
recent direct investments / board seats:
smiles.ai, pencilton, podium, prescribe, kaching, khyaal, chaicup, tortoise, auntfloh, curtn, codingal, 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 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 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