Ipshita Agarwal

Investor

2023 - Current

Co-founder, Stanford Blockchain Accelerator (SBA)

2021 - 2023

Co-founded and run the Stanford Blockchain Accelerator. We've incubated 15 teams across two cohorts in our first 6 months - 1 acquisition and capital raised >$50M. We work with operators such as Coinbase, FTX, Rally, Arweave, Opensea, Alchemy, Solana, Uniswap and VCs such as A16Z, Multicoin, Framework, Pantera, FTX, Electric Capital, Binance Labs, Coinbase Ventures, Animoca Brands, Lightspeed, NFX, CRV and others.

Investor

2021 - 2023

Co-led Stanford FAST 2022 for startups to raise $100-250K from NFX, helping source 2 of the 3 startups we funded. NFX is a pre-seed, seed and series A VC firm invested in companies such as Doordash, Lyft, and Trulia.

Growth/ GTM

2021 - 2021

Nova Credit is a credit infrastructure and fintech company that enables businesses to harness alternative credit data to underwrite customers. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, General Catalyst, First Round, YC. I did partnerships, growth marketing, user research, and lots (lots!) of data analytics for GTM - all the fun stuff!

Co-Founder

2020 - 2021

A social network to discover curated content recommendations from people in your network. Curators are the new creators - we enable everyone to become a curator and share your curated articles and podcasts with friends, and build a brand for yourself. Built a kickass engineering and design team, ran experiments, shipped several product iterations, and learned some hard lessons.

Investment Associate

2018 - 2020

First Associate hire. Early-stage investing in education, employability (now known as future of work), fintech + policy work with the government. My portfolio: - Eduvanz: Education financing platform, now backed by Sequoia - King's Learning (Enguru): India's leading spoken English mobile app, acquired by OpenEnglish - Avanti Fellows: India's first ed-tech solution for the secondary public education system - Foundation for Excellence: Scholarships and employability support to engineering students Led quarterly balance sheet analysis for the portfolio

Investment Analyst (TPG Rise's co-investing partner in India)

2017 - 2018

Elevar is TPG Rise's co-investing partner in India. Early-stage investing across edtech, fintech, healthcare, and agri-tech sectors. Evaluation, Due Diligence and/or Portfolio Management: - Lead School: Full-stack SaaS solution for schools, now backed by GSV & Westbridge - Glocal: Telemedicine and hospital chain for rural India, also backed by Sequoia - Varthana: India’s leading school-financing player, now backed by Chrys Capital - Origa: Fintech leasing solution for enterprises - Madura: Leading micro-finance player

Investment Banking Senior Analyst

2016 - 2017

Youngest recipient of the Deutsche Bank Recognition Award in Australia. Sole analyst on deals of $4BN+, including the largest coal M&A globally since 2013. Spent 2 years learning a LOT about coal, gold, copper, bauxite, and iron ore. My first reaction to a "football field" is not what you'd think. Index Match is still the bane of my existence.

Investment Banking Analyst

2015 - 2016