Founding Partner
Founding Partner
Chief Mentor
Investment Analyst
Investment Associate
Finance & Regulatory
Ashish started on his entrepreneurial journey at a very young age in 2009, and as a natural extension and shared passion for belief in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, he is a part of the leadership team at Auxano. An experienced MBA, he believes in strategising to combat challenges while scaling up businesses. With an industry experience spanned over little less than 2 decades, Ashish believes in driving results and partnerships.
A qualified Chartered Accountant, Brijesh started his entrepreneurial journey in late 2009 and is a strong proponent of the entrepreneurial way of doing and discovering. Having post qualification work experience of over two decades spanned across industries with leading companies in India, and looking at the growing ecosystem ventured into the space of venture capital. He looks for a narrative supported by numbers. Data talks. Food ~ long as it idlis and dosas, you’ve got him. An avid reader who also loves his Cricket.
A distinguished alumnus of IIT Kanpur and graduate of IIM Calcutta – he has worked in senior commercial positions in BT, HCL, Usha Martin and the UB Group, in the last 40+ years. Very focused on fostering entrepreneurship and the startup ecosystem and he has incubated cos like InMobi (India’s first unicorn) followed by Glance another unicorn.
With his diverse experience and industry wide knowledge expertise he will be actively involved with us to review investment opportunities, build partnerships & synergies within the ecosystem and enable strong investor connects in Auxano’s journey.
He is an advisor to the Indian Angel Network and was a partner in Infinity Capital, which is India’s first angel fund (early investments include IndiaBulls and Avendus) that shaped the ecosystem in India
Archit is a doctor turned management professional who has experience of working across verticals like Hospital, HealthTech & Professional networking marketplace. His exposure has been around product management. An avid chess player, Archit brings clinical acumen, eye for detail & curiosity driven approach.
Having been an entrepreneur himself, he knows the joy and pain in this space. An MBA in Entrepreneurship and Business Management, Karan is passionate about driving entrepreneurs and businesses to greater heights. A keen observer with an eye for detail, he works with portfolio companies in making them more robust and actively scouts for new stars for Auxano Portfolio.
Rakesh is a Chartered Accountant with close to a decades experience in the area of Finance & Accounts , operations across e-commerce and cargo aviation sector . A keen yoga practitioner, Rakesh brings his expertise of governance and eye for detail in Auxano
Advisor
Advisor
Advisor
Lloyd Mathias is an Angel Investor and a marketing and business strategist. He works with early stage companies that are eyeing disproportionate growth. Lloyd is one of India’s best known marketers having been responsible for building some of India’s biggest brands – Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Motorola, Tata Docomo and HP PC’s & Printers. Until June 2017 Lloyd was the marketing head of HP's Consumer PC business for the Asia Pacific region. In previous corporate roles he was President & CMO at Tata Docomo and Country Sales Director for Motorola in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Lloyd spent,12 years with PepsiCo, in sales, business and marketing roles. His last role was Executive VP and Category Director for PepsiCo’s beverages in India. Lloyd has been Chairman of MRUC the publishers of the Indian Readership Survey- the world’s largest reader survey; Co-Chairman of the Device Strategy Council of the Worldwide Mobility Development Group; and Asia Board Member of the CMO Council. Lloyd is a science graduate from Mumbai’s St. Xavier’s College; has an MBA from Bombay University and did a Senior Executive Program at the London Business School. He has been on Campaign India’s A list for over 8 years, featured among Asia best Marketers twice. In 2007 he named among the world’s top 15 marketers, by International list magazine – a list that celebrates those international marketers behind outstanding cross border campaigns.
Angel investor & technology enthusiast Tech experience across FMCG, Retail, Defense, FinTech, MedTech, Management Consulting & Enterprise Software Education and work across Germany, France, Netherlands & India Companies worked for previously – DRDO, Oracle, Egon Zehnder, adidas, HEINEKEN, Sivantos Worked in roles from Engineer, Architect, Project & Program Manager, leadership role for technology integration across M&A Current Role - CTO- FnO
IIT, INSEAD Entrepreneur, Investor, M&A Professional Chief Business Officer, FnO Active angel investor with 17+ companies in portfolio Multiple A&D transactions completed from origination to completion in north-west Europe (Deal Size: $10M - $1.2B) Restructured and operationally turned around multiple business units in south-east Asia, India and Middle-East
Due Diligence
Legal Associate
Legal Associate
Legal Associate
Dealflow Associate
Dealflow Associate
Valuation Associate
Corporate Consultant
Chartered Accountant
Revenue- Based Financing Partner
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Venture Partner
Venture Partner
Venture Partner
A Chartered Accountant with experience of 14 years as an Entrepreneur, 6 years of being in Senior positions and 4 years of Angel Investing & Mentoring Startups.
He has Invested in 2 Soonicorns (BluSmart & Skit) and 4 potential Unicorns out of his total 16 Startup Investments.
He is also a Co-Founder of a Deeptech Startup. Entrepreneur by DNA he finds his Ikigai in startups with vision & mission to help startup founders become successful & create significant gains for retail Investors from Startup Investments.
Recently lost 2nd love of life, badminton to osteoarthritis. So now live, eat, breathe & sleep Startups.
A Practicing Company Secretary with Honorary Doctorate in Business Management and a Technoprenuer with 15+ years of experience.
Having a good understanding of Technology, he has served over 400 companies in the last 15 years and has helped early-stage startups build their businesses.
Having strong PR & social networking skills he is an Active member of Rotary club and of St. Xavier’s College Calcutta Alumni Association. He actively participates in social causes.
Rajender Singh (Raaj) has over 20 years of experience in the corporate world with various Multinational Companies, out of which 15 years were with the companies in the financial services space with expertise in private and investment banking.
Raaj is a PGDBA and a rank holder CFA from ICFAI Hyderabad and had started his corporate career with German engineering giant, Siemens.
Amongst the various roles he assumed, he has served as Director with one of the leading boutique private bank of Swiss origin, Sarasin Alpen.
He has headed sales for the largest mutual fund managers in the world, Fidelity Mutual Fund for north India and has spent over five years managing the wealth of several high-net-worth clients at Citibank and HSBC.
Raaj has also worked for a real estate private equity firm with a remit to raise funds and was briefly associated with the Angel Investors Consortium where he handled deal flow for early-stage investments.
For the last 5 years he has been actively involved in the startup ecosystem raising funds for early-stage focused AIF’s and for startups as a partner in one of the leading startup investment banking platform, providing mentorship to promising entrepreneurs and has held advisory board positions in some highly successful ventures.