Neil Agarwal
Head of OPCO Ventures at Operating Partners Collective
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Head of OPCO Ventures
2020 - Current
Strategic Seed/Series A investments into capital markets technology companies
Operating Partners Collective is a financial advisory agency that specializes in spanning strategy, operations, and business development.
Founding Partner at Nucleus Emerging Markets Ventures
2020 - 2022
Venture Capital investments in early-stage fintech startups in Latin America. Focused primarily on Mexico, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil. Currently have 6 portfolio companies and spent 6 months living in São Paulo, Brazil.
Nucleus Emerging Markets Ventures is an investment group on a mission to fund and help scale founders building high impact fintech solutions
Analyst
2020 - 2020
An entrepreneur-led early-stage venture fund with a primary focus on consumer facing brands.
Senior Advisor/Co-President
2017 - 2020
Columbia Venture Partners is the only on-campus VC group. Led international tech treks, NYC-based site visits, pitch events, VC competitions, speaker events, and new-member education program.
Summer Analyst
2019 - 2019
Markets group at BNY Mellon, worked in FX Risk and Collateral & Segregation
Investment Analyst
2018 - 2018
Startup sourcing and due diligence. Reported directly to Managing Partner of the Investments Group.
Plug & Play Topeka is a Venture Capital company that offers corporate Innovation, open Innovation, and accelerator Programs.
Intern
2017 - 2018
Roc provides institutional capital to real estate developers. Helped get more lenders onto Roc’s platform and researched New Market Tax Credit rules to help Roc to make decisions on whether to enter different markets.
Intern
2017 - 2017
Lovell Stewart is a plaintiff’s law firm. Analyzed depositions for a case involving the Winged Foot Golf Club and worked on a case involving the 2008 LIBOR manipulation scandal.
Database Management Intern
2016 - 2016
REDI is a financial technology firm that aims to provide an end-to-end solution for the entire trading cycle. Organized their Salesforce database by using SQL and excel to match real trade information with archaic client information.
Pension Intern
2015 - 2015
Studied India’s National Pension Scheme (NPS) and worked with Way2Wealth's pension team to educate underprivileged labor workers and local teachers about pension benefits