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95th percentile
Venture Highway co-founder and angel investor now leading VC partnerships at Google Cloud
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Experience · 80th percentile
- Approximately 13 years of investing experience, starting from the founding of Venture Highway in late 2011 through to today.
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Investor score
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Active GP / fund manager as a founding team member of Venture Highway LLP, an early-stage venture fund that raised ~$78.6M for Fund 2.
- 83%Probability of being accurate (83%)Partner / Principal at Venture Highway LLP, a recognized early-stage venture capital firm investing in Indian tech founders.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Publicly identified as an angel investor with a portfolio of 15 companies, including Grip, ImpactGuru, University Living, Haystack, and Piper Serica.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Per active investments made as an angel investor — 15 confirmed portfolio companies per Tracxn.
- 78%Probability of being accurate (78%)Venture Highway Fund 2 raised ~$78.6M, deploying capital across 35+ transactions including Moglix, Meesho, and ShareChat.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Approximately 13 years of investing experience, starting from the founding of Venture Highway in late 2011 through to today.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Participated in a $2M Seed VC round in AutoBrix in October 2019 per CB Insights.
What you likely need
You'd get the most out of Festival events that help you formalize your angel identity and build a visible co-investor track record — think intimate dinners with syndicate leads and micro-fund GPs who've made the same transition from operator-investor to named fund. You'd also benefit from roundtables that put you in the room with Indian ecosystem founders and Google Cloud partners simultaneously, letting you create compounding value across both roles. Content-focused sessions with other investor-writers would help you finally ship the LinkedIn thesis and newsletter you've been sitting on.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingAn ODA2 Angel Fellowship dinner with fellow cohort members who've launched named syndicates or micro-funds, to pressure-test structuring your angel activity into a formal vehicle and swap LP sourcing strategies
- positioningA roundtable for Venture Highway and India-focused angel alumni (Meesho, Moglix, Razorpay-era investors) to document and compare portfolio milestone narratives that can serve as LP-ready track record proof points
- tacticalA tactical office hours session with Google Cloud for Startups program leads and fellow investor-operators to systematically map angel portfolio companies onto Google Cloud credits and go-to-market programs
- fundraisingA happy hour for first-time micro-fund GPs and syndicate leads ($500K–$5M vehicles) who crossed over from operator or corporate VC roles, to workshop LP pitch positioning and co-investor network building
- positioningA workshop dinner with active investor-writers (LinkedIn and Substack) publishing theses on Consumer and Enterprise to help Karan draft and pressure-test a public investment thesis post that drives inbound deal flow
- introsAn ODA2 co-investment deal night where cohort angels share live deal flow, co-sign term sheets together, and build a documented co-investor track record ahead of future syndicate or fund fundraising
- tacticalA tactical working session for angel investors with 10+ portfolio companies to audit and bulk-update Crunchbase and AngelList profiles, turning scattered investments into a clean, discoverable public record
- positioningA curated dinner for top Indian startup ecosystem operators, angels, and seed VCs (Sequoia India, Blume, early Meesho/Moglix network) where Karan can anchor a conversation on the next wave of Consumer and Enterprise breakouts and establish a visible public voice