Anirudh Damani

Anirudh Damani General Information

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Mr. Anirudh Damani serves as a Director at Artha India Ventures. He served as a Board Member at HobSpace. He served as a Board Member at LenDenClub Alpha. He serves as a Board Member at Agnikul. He also serves as a Managing Partner at Artha Venture Fund. He served as a Board Member at Hubler, FindURClass, Getwork, Lemnisk, and Linden Alpha. He is an Angel Investor. He served as an Advisor at Venture Catalysts (Mumbai). He is a 4th generation entrepreneur. He serves as a Board Member at LenDen Club. His entrepreneurial career began as the co-founder of a company that procured long-term energy contracts for power companies in the deregulated U.S. energy markets. His job responsibilities included: i. Recruiting, training, developing, nurturing & firing salespeople ii. Developing & mentoring sales managers, area managers & regional managers iii. Developed & trained his team on sales & marketing material He started investing in early-stage startups as an angel investor; to help young founders with the knowledge, he had gained from sales, marketing & human resources. Leveraging his vast entrepreneurial knowledge, he was able to quickly identify disruptive products & services and teams capable of executing their plans. Some of the successful investments that he has personally made include Exotel, NowFloats, OYO Rooms, Tala, and CoutLoot. He also sits on the board of many startup & angel networks as his investment acumen, sales & marketing experience, team building & leadership quotient are eagerly sought by investors and founders. He is an active member of the Indian Angel Network and a Board member of Venture Catalyst. Previously on various boards at Venture Nursery As a Managing Partner at AVF, his role is to identify, evaluate, and negotiate investments in startups. Post investment he works with the founders to achieve the right product-market fit, develop effective sales and marketing strategies, help founders recruit key personnel, and help them in setting up key processes that will enable them to build strong successful businesses. He is also the key point of contact for LPs in the fund and sits on the investment committee of AVF-I. Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group which stands for entrepreneurship, sustainability, and growth working in unison to achieve corporate goals, inspired him to create Artha Group. He chose early-stage investing and renewable energy as the focus areas for the group. In renewable energy, he sees the ability for each village of India to become a center of economic growth and in Indian entrepreneurship the thrust to light up our great country. He oversees all the activities of the group and is primarily responsible for maintaining and promoting the corporate culture and ethics and is the group's spokesperson. Recently, he has taken on the responsibility of GP for the first early-stage VC fund out of the Artha stable. He has completed his Double Major in Economics and Business Administration from Austin College, Texas, USA.