Ajay Hattangdi

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Biography

Mr. Ajay Hattangdi is a Co-Founder & serves as Managing Partner at Alteria Capital. Mr. Ajay has worked with venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to introduce the concept of venture lending for over a decade since founding Citigroup India's venture debt business in 2005. At that time, he had the added responsibility of being the head of strategy for Citigroup's corporate & investment bank in the country. He worked with Citigroup India for over 12 years before leaving to establish SVB India Finance, Silicon Valley Bank's non-banking finance company focused on venture debt in 2008. SVB India Finance was re-branded InnoVen Capital India following a buyout of the business in 2015. He is on the advisory board of Mumbai Angels which is among the largest angel groups in India and a founding steering committee member of the Association of Indian Angel Groups, a collective of accredited angel investor groups in India. He is a regular speaker on the angel and venture capital circuit. In 1998, he co-founded PRAJA Foundation, a voluntary Mumbai-based non-profit committed to re-establishing accountability and transparency in public governance. He has a Bachelor's in Commerce from Sydenham College, a Master's degree in Banking & Finance from Mumbai University, as well as an MBA from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His other interests include playing squash, a staple diet of food shows, and an ongoing attempt to understand modern physics.