Kiran Shah
Venture Investments at Mercurius Media Capital
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Venture Investments
2022 - Current
Venture Investments
2023
Mercurius Media Capital (MMC), an independent media fund in the United States, is backed by leading US media corporations. It specializes in providing media capital to growth-stage startups, helping them enhance their reach and foster revenue growth. The fund provides media companies with the opportunity to compound the value of their advertising inventory by investing it in the thriving US startup ecosystem, enabling them to attract new advertisers and diversify their revenue streams.
Mercurius Media Capital is an independent media fund backed by leading media firms, such as Sinclair Broadcast Group and TelevisaUnivision.
Venture Investments
2017
Brand Capital is a strategic investment division of Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd. (Times Group) - India's largest multimedia conglomerate. Select Transaction Experience: SquarePanda: Series C funding $37MM Oddup: Series B funding $11MM Qbeats: Series B funding $10MM Indorse: Series A funding $8MM Tali Digital: PIPE $8MM Qyou Media: PIPE $8MM Deal Sourcing ● Networked, sourced deal-flow and led extensive industry and financial due diligence on early to growth stage companies globally across different sectors. ● Represented Brand Capital at various technology, venture capital and startup conferences. Due Diligence & Financial Modeling ● Analyzed & evaluated company pitch decks based on core criteria: product market fit, competitive landscape, business & revenue model, valuation, shareholding structure, growth plans & exit potential. ● Negotiated deal terms and investor rights with investee companies and drafted term sheets. ● Created valuation models and led investment evaluations for investment committee approvals. Portfolio Development ● Liaised with legal teams to create investment agreements and close the transaction process. ● Created opportunities for the investee companies to seek other sources of financing, establish new market opportunities, distribution models and relationships in the Indian market. ● Supervised portfolio performance by creating and maintaining operating and financial KPI dashboard.
Brand Capital International, headquartered in the US, is a unit of the strategic investment arm of the Times Group of India.
Investment Management
2015 - 2017
• Built a statistical and financial model to predict stock prices of S&P 500 companies. • Tools: Excel, VBA and S-Plus, using FactSet and Bloomberg data providers.
Business Development
2012 - 2015
• Increased ‘Asset Under Management’ ten folds to INR 300MM from a mere INR 25MM. • Strategized the investment approach and asset allocation with Institutional Investors based on thorough portfolio analysis and investment research, market outlook, as well as performance and positioning of equity, fixed income and exchange traded funds.