Apoorva Sharma General Information

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Dr. Apoorva Sharma is a Co-Founder of Venture Catalysts (Mumbai). He is the Co-Founder & serves as Investment Committee Member at Beams Fintech Fund. He served as an Executive Vice President at VentureNursery. He serves as Advisor at GetVantage and Callify.ai. Dr. Sharma is the Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at 9Unicorns. He has been instrumental in developing the startup ecosystem since early 2000. He serves as a Board Member at vPharseHe has been a pioneer in establishing incubators in India. He has established over a dozen incubators & accelerators, incubation funds, and family office funds i.e. VentureNursery, Amity Innovation Incubator, Somaiya Incubator (RIDDLE), Mata Vaishno Devi University Incubator, Indian Angel Network Incubator. He is the recipient of the prestigious Best Incubator Award given by the President of India, for outstanding performance of JSS Incubator. Dr. Sharma is Ph.D. in Incubation from Amity University, Noida and graduated in Engineering from HBTI, Kanpur, and a diploma in Mentor Studies from Berkley Institute of Management, University of California, USA. Dr. Sharma is known as 'Fund Manager with Highest Returns'. He is one of the top 10 angel investors in India, rated by VCCircle 2016. Over the last two decades; he has curated, incubated & led seed investment of 100+ startups. OYO Rooms is the biggest success story of accelerators in India, followed by Beardo which is a recent acquisition by Marico Ltd. Both the startups were curated, mentored and seed sourced by Dr. Sharma. Dr. Sharma holds a Ph.D. in Incubation with an MBA, B. Tech. from reputed institutions. He is also an Angel Investor.