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FinTech Lab Team

Cedar-IBSi Capital

Niomi Parikh

Research Consultant

Investments Team

Cedar-IBSi Capital

Sahil Anand

Founder & Managing Partner

Subit Saurav

Associate Partner, Investments

Sunny Desa

Director – Investor Relations

Pallavi Bhatia

Associate, Investments

Alan Nigrel

Associate, Investments

Niranjan Dubey

Analyst, Investments

Fund Advisors & Venture Partners

Cedar-IBSi Capital

Sanjiv Anand

Executive Chairman, Cedar Capital

Felipe Martinez

CIO and Mgmt board, Revolut Bank

Pradip Shah

Founder, HDFC and CRISIL

Bobby Parikh

Board Member, Infosys Ex Board Member, HDFC Bank

In-house FinTech Experts & Scouts (+50 more)

Cedar-IBSi Capital

V Ramkumar

Senior Partner and Head, Cedar Financial Services practice

Chetan Parekh

Managing Partner and Head, Cedar FinTech practice

Amit Jain

Partner and Co-Head, IBS Intelligence

Robin Amlot

Managing Editor, IBSi FinTech Journal

Tarishi Kumari

Engagement Manager

Jared Zerman

Senior Director, US markets

Nikhil Gokhale

Director - Research and Digital properties

Abhishek Ojha

Engagement Manager

Soham Dutta

Engagement Manager

Pankul Verma

Principal, FS & FT practice

Corporate Services & Development (+20 more)

Cedar-IBSi Capital

Ojas Kulkarni

20+ years of experience in brand and performance marketing

Sumit Raisinghani

15+ years of years of experience in talent acquisition & human resource management

Pooja Roy Chowdhury

11+ years of experience in digital media and marketing

Priti Gaikwad

20+ years of experience in B2B brand building, marketing and corporate communication

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Sahil comes with 9 years of global PE/VC, FinTech consulting and market intelligence experience research via his time at BNP Paribas, Everstone Capital, DSG Consumer Partners, Cedar Consulting, and IBS Intelligence.

Sahil started his career at Everstone Capital, in the private equity investments team, where he had the opportunity to work across industries and deal-cycles. Here he also had the opportunity to work with the fund’s leadership on the “platformification” strategy of the fund, and built proprietary deal-sourcing and pipeline building mechanisms that went on to be used extensively by the investing teams. His highlights here include the role he played on co-leading and executing the iconic $100 million Burger King India deal, where he played multiple financial and operational roles. Sahil then went on to play an early-stage investing role with DSGCP, Everstone’s venture capital arm, where he participated in India’s early FinTech deals, via the fund’s investments in Mswipe and Indialends, and other well-regarded early-stage tech companies.

Post his MBA, and prior to setting up Cedar-IBSi Capital, Sahil spent ~6 years in management consulting and advisory, via his experience at Cedar Consulting and IBS Intelligence. Through his consulting experiences at Cedar, Sahil has assisted global banks and corporates on their business and technology transformation, leveraging Cedar’s proprietary Balanced Scorecard framework, and FinTech centre of excellence. Sahil’s experience at IBS Intelligence included working actively with emerging, medium-sized, and tier-1 global Financial technology companies on assisting them with their growth, via strategy advisory on products, pricing, markets, partners, and other areas.

Prior to setting up Cedar-IBSi Capital, Sahil also spent time leading the ideation and set up of Cedar-IBSi’s in-house FinTech Lab that was founded in 2017 – an accelerator that has quickly become home to 35+ FinTechs who have leveraged Cedar-IBSi’s knowledge and support to grow and raise further rounds of capital.

Sahil has an MBA from London Business School, and a BS in Finance from NYU Stern. He is the former Chapter Chair and founding board member for YNG (Young Presidents Organization) Mumbai and serves actively as a NYU Stern Alumni Association Committee Member. Sahil is also a member of EO (Entrepreneurs Organization), a global network of leading entrepreneurs across industries.

Subit comes with more than 13 years of experience, in the fund business, i.e., sourcing, evaluation, investment, portfolio management, and exit from private companies as well as experience in equity raise, debt raise, negotiation, financial & business planning etc.

He began his career with IFMR group, where he spent 4 years in the retail vertical (now ‘Dvara KGFS’), where he got his first exposure to ‘financial inclusion’, its importance and impact in day-to-day life and the significant opportunity it presents. During his tenure at Dvara KGFS, he was working closely with the CFO and CEO, managing annual business planning, debt raise from banks, FIs and capital markets (securitisation, NCDs), and credit rating. Later he worked on $ 5mn equity raise from Tata Capital and was SPOC for a successful strategic business partnership with Axis Bank.

Post this, Subit spent the next ~9 years with Aavishkaar Capital, a globally renowned Impact Venture Capital. He was part of the investment team with a focus on Financial Services and Fintech segment. During this time, he evaluated 100+ deals in FinTech, payments, traditional financial services, and e-commerce, and in the process has built own sourcing network and relationship in the ecosystem with promoters, investment bankers and advisors. At Aavishkaar, Subit led and concluded multiple deals in the FinTech and Financial Services space, and more information on this is available in his detailed investment track-record document.

In addition to his investing role. Subit represented the fund on multiple boards of investee companies, both as Board Observer as well as Board Director (BoD). He successfully managed the balancing act of fulfilling his fiduciary responsibility as BoD, helping/ working with leadership team on strategic matters as well as ensuring that fund’s rights are not compromised.

Subit also possesses strong portfolio management and exit experience, where he has worked closely with promoters and Sr. leadership on multiple aspects including but not limited to CXO/ Sr mgmt. hiring, branding, marketing, technology upgradation, business planning, evaluation of inorganic expansion opportunities, fund raise etc.

Subit has a B.Tech from IIT Guwahati, and PGDM from IIM Calcutta.