About Us
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Rajeev Manjrekar
Chief Advisor
Rajeev is a Graduate in Statistics from University of Pune and has pursued his MBA from SIBM Pune.
After a corporate career spanning 2 decades across renowned companies like Adecco SA, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, SBI Cards, Pidilite Industries and L'Oreal in leadership positions, he decided to become an entrepreneur in 2012 and started Datakatalyst.
He has successfully launched, scaled-up and exited from two startup ventures - Hyper Local Search App (2013-15) and HR Tech Product (2015-18) as a Co-Founder.
Since 2018, he has been advising startups and their founders as an Investment Banker to make them investor ready and help raising equity funds through his network.
He is also on board of various Entrepreneurship Cells of premier educational institutes across the country and is empaneled as a Mentor with Startup India, a Government of India Initiative.
Meet The Team
Ashish Kulkarni
Partner
With an MBA from Oxford Brookes University, Ashish is heading the Investor Relations Team. He has over 15 years of Sales & Marketing experience in India & UK in multiple domains and is passionate about Deep Tech startups.
Deepa Manjrekar
Partner
Science Graduate from University of Pune with PG degree in IT, Deepa has worked with tech ventures like Convergent Technologies, Datapro Infoworld, UTL Technologies and telecom major Idea Cellular. She manages the Operations and Technology Innovation.
Nikhil Gulati
Sr. Financial Analyst
Nikhil comes with an experience in Startup and Corporate Advisory. He has helped multiple ventures in their growth journey by formulating fund raising strategies and connecting them to right counter parties. He has graduated from Delhi University and is pursuing his CFA.
Radhika Mahalle
Investor Relations
With graduation in Science and an MBA from Pune University, Radhika is driving the research initiative and helps in collating the industry and competition data. She is also the first point of contact for pitch deck reviews.
Ritik Dahiya
Financial Analyst
Ritik has completed his B. Com. (Hon) from Delhi University and has also cleared CA Intermediate. He has additionally pursued Financial Modelling and Valuations Program from
The WallStreet School.
Abhinav
Financial Analyst
Abhinav has completed his
B. Com. from Delhi University
and has also cleared CFA Level 1.
He has additionally pursued Financial Modelling and Valuations Program from
The WallStreet School.
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