Karthik Reddy

Co Founder and Managing Partner

2010 - Current

Building Blume since 2010 Blume focusses on Seed to Pre Series A startups born out of India and continues to back our best portfolio companies through the growth stages. 4 Primary Funds: Fund I (2011-15) $20M, Fund II (2015-18) $60M, Fund III (2018-21) $102M, Fund IV (2021-22 closing) $290M Opportunity Funds and Secondary Funds (2018-23) ~ US$170M AUM Blume's biggest winners include: Unacademy, Spinny, Slice, Purplle, Grey Orange, Turtlemint, dunzo, Carbon Clean, Classplus, Servify, Smallcase, Exotel, Lambdatest, BatterySmart, Pixxel, Jai Kisan, Locus, Koo, Cashify, Healthifyme, IntrCity amongst other rising stars. Karthik's active board representations (Director | Observer) include (as of Dec 2023): Grey Orange, Servify, smallcase, Exotel, HealthifyMe Blume's biggest exits to date include: TaxiforSure (to Ola), Runnr (to Zomato), Agara (to Coinbase), Minjar (to Nutanix), Mettl (to Mercer Consulting), Zipdial (to Twitter), Superset (to Byjus | Great Learning), Promptec (to Havells), Threadsol (to Coates),

Member

2008 - 2014

VP, Brand Capital

2007 - 2010

SVP, Strategic Planning

2006 - 2007

Business Development New Initiatives Planning and Strategy for the group Investor Relations

VP, Investment Banking

2006 - 2006

Media & Telecom Practice, Investment Banking

VP Technology Services

2002 - 2005

Securities Clearing Software Technologies - Project Management, New Business Initiatives and Business Development

VP

2002 - 2002

Business Development

Associate, Technology Investment Banking

2001 - 2002

Capital Markets, M&A - Telecom Network Infrastructure, Telecom Software

Summer Associate

2000 - 2000

Manager

1996 - 1999

Debt Capital Markets, Product Structuring and Derivatives Marketing