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Karthik Bupathi

Founding Partner at Arcanum Capital

New York City Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Karthik Bupathi is a Strategy and Venture professional based in the New York City Metropolitan Area, currently serving as the Founding Partner at Arcanum Capital. With a background in Business Development and a diverse skill set including data analysis and financial modeling, Karthik has successfully co-founded Impact Chain Lab and held roles at BNY Mellon and HRA - Healthcare Research & Analytics. Highlights of Karthik's career include founding Arcanum Capital and co-founding Impact Chain Lab, showcasing his expertise in strategy, venture, and business development across various industries.

Work Experience 

  • Founding Partner

    2020 - Current

  • Devrel + Business Development

    2022 - 2023

    Supporting the growth of Canto's ecosystem

  • Ecosystem

    2022 - 2022

Saga.xyz gives visionaries the high-end tools and support they need to turn their blockchain dreams into reality.

Raised $13,500,000.00 from Legends Group, Dispersion Capital, Com2uS, Redbeard Ventures, Placeholder, Tykhe Block Ventures, Avid Technology, LongHash Ventures, Samsung NEXT and Bo Du.

  • Business Development

    2021 - 2022

All in Bits creates software and developer-friendly tools to lower the barrier to entry to blockchain and web3.

  • Advisor

    2018 - 2021

WeSolar CSP is a renewable energy technology and design company.

  • Co-Founder / Product Lead

    2017 - 2019

    Leveraging blockchain technology to drive social impact globally.

  • Markets Analyst

    2017 - 2017

  • Equity Trader

    2014 - 2017

    • Pinpointed relative weakness and strengths in various asset baskets using market carpets by applying technical analysis to understand market trends and behaviors. • Built and assessed various models on price structure based on underlying assets/commodities and cross-market comparisons. By employing cross-market comparison, created synthetic pairs to find the best trade at that time. • Selected and exploited potential arbitrage opportunities by interpreting options data from data providers such as LiveVol to detect unusual activity, block trades and volume to help read the price structure of the respective asset. • Applied market insight and research to trade a diverse amount of financial instruments stretched across a wide range of markets (Forex, NYSE, Bitcoin), including derivatives such as options and futures.

East-West Consulting provides real estate transactions and capital funding services.

  • Rotational Program (Research/Operations Analyst)

    2016 - 2017

    • Administered and handled up to 7-12 projects at any given time while working side by side with various clients to meet project requirements and expectations. • Drove all phases of both healthcare and pharmaceutical market research projects to meet client’s deadlines, including survey design, clarification, fielding, and analysis of collected market research. • Aided the operations team with vendor bid requests and proposal pricing models utilizing Excel. • Applied Excel macros to manipulate and analyze the survey results (raw data) to create value-added analysis and deliverables to respective clients.

  • Intern

    2014 - 2014

    • Streamlined workflow by accurately analyzing the websites of 200-350 clients a week, assigning ratings based on their industry, competitors, and past/current SSL contracts. • Oversaw and juggled account lists and relationships with 25 – 30 current clients while contacting and pursuing 50-60 other potentially interested clients per week.

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