Ipshita Agarwal
Investor at CRV
Stanford, California
Overview
Work Experience
Investor
2023 - Current
CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in investments in technology companies.
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.
NFX Bio is a fund initiative that seeks to invest in scientist-founders at the seed stage with a technology platform approach.
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
DB Capital Ventures invests in early-stage and emerging growth businesses and is a venture capital firm based in New York.