Sudhir is Founder & Chairman of Chiratae Ventures India Advisors. Chiratae Ventures
(formerly IDG Ventures India) is a leading VC firm advising AUM of $ 750 M based out
of Bangalore, India.
Since 1998 Sudhir and his team have advised on investments into 100+ firms across
Deep Tech, Digital Consumer, Enterprise Software, Fintech and Healthcare Sectors.
Key investments include Flipkart, FirstCry, Lenskart, Policy Bazaar, Curefit, Manthan,
Newgen, Nestaway, Agrostar, Emotix, Uniphore and PlaySimple amongst others.
Today Chiratae Ventures is a leading tech VC in India with Mr Ratan Tata, Mr Kris
Gopalakrishnan, Mr Bruno Raschle and Mr Manish Choksi on its Global Advisory
Board.
In 2001, Sudhir was recognized by Red Herring as one of the leading venture capitalists
in the country. He has been named among the Top Ten IT Professionals by Dataquest
and by Bloomberg UTV as ‘’Visionary Venture Capitalist” in 2011. Sudhir has been
featured in Subroto Bagchi’s book ‘’Zen Garden – Conversations with Pathmakers’’, in
2014.
In addition to leading Chiratae Ventures India Advisors, Sudhir has served on EMPEA
Venture Capital Council (Emerging Markets Private Equity Association). He has served
as Advisor on the Technology Innovation and Productivity Council of the GMR Group.
He also served on the Executive Committee of Indian Venture Capital Association
(IVCA), Investment Committee of UTI Ventures, on the Board of Ascent Capital and on
the Board of Advisors at N.S. Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurship, IIM Bangalore.
With over 30 years of experience Sudhir has served at various leadership positions at
HCL, Wipro and Cyient, as well as Country Head of Walden International India.
Sudhir holds a B.Tech in Engineering and an MBA Degree from FMS, Delhi. His
interests include wild life photography.