Aakash Goel is a partner with Trifecta Capital. He has 16 years of overall experience across investing, helping build companies and management consulting. At Trifecta he has led the firm’s venture debt (and select equity) investments in Vedantu, Cuemath, NoBroker, Practo, Innoviti, Krazybee and Atomberg.
He joined Trifecta from Bessemer Venture Partners, a US based technology focused venture capital fund with $5 billion in AUM. At Bessemer he was Principal, India Investments and played crucial role in the firm’s equity investments in Urbanclap, BigBasket, HomeFirst Finance, Cashify, Perfios, LivSpace, Innoviti, Pharmeasy and Hungama.
Previously he was an Associate, Sequoia Capital India and was closely involved in the firm’s investments in JustDial (NSE: JUSTDIAL), Citrus Payments (Acq: PayU), Zaakpay (Acq: Mobikwik), Altius Healthcare (Acq: Cygnus Medicare), OneAssist, Near (fkaAdNear), UnitedLex and I-Yogi.
Between Trifecta, Bessemer and Sequoia, Aakash has helped deploy ~$300 million in ~30 companies across early, venture and growth stages across Venture Debt and Venture Equity.
Before Sequoia, Aakash worked for McKinsey and Company as a management consultant advising Technology and Financial Services clients across India, North America and Europe on issues of strategy, operations, go-to-market and post-merger management.
Aakash is an MBA from IIM Calcutta and B.Tech. from IIT Roorkee and was college merit holder at both institutions.
