Rahul Parekh

Partner

2020 - Current

Early and Growth stage Venture capital investor and Climate Fintech lead at 2150 (2150.vc) Board Observer at Normative (normative.io) Board Observer at Urban Footprint (urbanfootprint.com) Board Member at OpenSolar (opensolar.com) Board Member at HomeTree (hometree.co.uk) Board Member at Ember (ember.to) Investor in LuxWall (luxwall.com) 2150 is a venture capital firm investing in early and late stage technology companies that seek to sustainably reimagine and reshape the global urban environment. https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/23/2150-launches-with-281m-fund-to-reduce-the-carbon-footprint-of-the-worlds-growing-cities/

Partner

2023

Urban Partners is an investment platform of vision-aligned, differentiated funds. With four funds and close to €20bn under management, we invest in assets, companies, technologies, and solutions. Across our platform, we share the same vision and values - and the aspiration to build the world’s leading urban investment company. 2150 is part of Urban Partners, representing our investments into innovative climate tech companies that help to make our urban environments more sustainable.

Advisor

2020

Founder/CEO (Acquired)

2016 - 2020

-Led a team of 40 employees and built a multi award-winning brand -Raised over €10m in series A financing from top tier venture capital investors -Designed market-leading algos and managed the development of a scalable tech platform -Acquired in March 2020

Managing Director

2015 - 2016

Managing Director at Rocket Internet; Global Venture Capital fund and Incubator

Executive Director: Equity Derivatives trading

2007 - 2015

-Traded equity derivatives on the index flow volatility and securitised derivatives desks -Managed various equity index volatility books -Ran significant risk with both a market-making and proprietary bias -Worked on developing the e-commerce side of the business: Automation of retail warrants, market-making platform for equity options and auto-quoting infrastructure for securitised products