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Kartik Chandra

General Partner at Morphosis Venture Advisors

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Overview

Work Experience

  • Co-Founder & General Partner

    2022 - Current

    Investing and supporting digital businesses from India achieve global scale. Morphosis India invests in PreA and Series A financing rounds across three areas - B2B technology, Manufacturing, Climate Solutions.

  • Advisory Partner

    2022

    Early-stage VC investing in Tech-focused B2B businesses with significant ESG impact.

  • Setting up shop

    2022 - 2022

    Relocated back to India after 7 years across UAE, UK and Europe.

  • Strategy and Investments

    2020 - 2022

    Led growth initiatives via corporate development (100% takeovers, majority stake acquisition, take-privates) across all downstream operations (mobility solutions, EV infrastructure, traditional energy services) to expand business presence into GCC, North Africa and South East Asia (India, Indonesia)

  • GTM and Digital Strategy

    2019 - 2019

    Large Customer Sales (LCS) team. Supported BD efforts for Google Ad stack and Google Cloud offerings.

  • Consultant - Product and GTM

    2018 - 2019

    Go-to-market planning of patented FPGAs for hyperscale inference in data centre applications.

  • Management Consultant

    2014 - 2018

    Investments and value creation for global and regional private equity funds and GCC sovereign wealth funds on mid-market transactions. Strategy planning, investment advisory & diligence, and post-merger integration of targets across Industrials & Energy, Consumer Goods & Services, Healthcare & Life Sciences sectors. Select transactions: - IPO for downstream assets of leading regional energy major - Majority stake bid on IWPP by regional mid-market PE sponsor - Minority investment in ride-hailing company by global PE sponsor - 100% acquisition of MENA diagnostics chain by global PE sponsor - PIPE transaction on listed manufacturing target by regional SWF - Multiple greenfield investment mandates for regional SWFs in healthcare, defense, business services

  • Enterprise Tech Coverage

    2013 - 2014

    Trefis is a VC-backed fintech startup leveraging technology to provide sell-side research solutions to institutions and retail investors. Raised $3.5M from Village Ventures and other investors and valued at $30+m in 2014. I led sector coverage for Enterprise Technology, SaaS and OTA businesses in US and Europe. Also worked on product development and launched key features to reduce user churn and improve retention rates on the retail investor platform.

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