Ajay Sharma
Partner at Communitas Capital Partners
Ajay Sharma
Partner at Communitas Capital Partners
New York
Overview
Work Experience
Partner & Chief Operating Officer
2022 - Current
Oversee deal sourcing, due diligence, execution, fundraising, organizational P&L, and fund operations for Communitas Capital Partners an early-stage VC firm founded by the former CEOs of the NYSE, Reuters, and Instinet.
Director of Finance
2020 - 2021
Reported directly to CFO & Co-Founder. Oversaw and built a team to bring operational rigor to finance including managing corporate finance, FP&A, and strategic finance functions.
Principal
2019 - 2020
Led the sourcing, due diligence, and investment executing efforts for Communitas Capital Fund I. Investments included Alchemy, Starkware, Coin Metrics, ComplyAdvantage, Gloat, Premialab, Sylvera, and others.
Principal & Founding Member
2016 - 2019
Founding member of JetBlue Technology Ventures, the CVC arm of JetBlue Airways. Investments included Tomorrow.io, Joby Aviation, Gladly, FIlament, and Zunum Aero.
Market Analytics Associate
2010 - 2014
Partnered with Managing Director of Aladdin Product & Platform Analytics to lead product development of new risk analytics measuring performance, attribution, and security analytics for term loans and high-yield credit