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Rohan Choukkar

Vice President at Bharat Innovation Fund

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Overview 

Rohan Choukkar is currently the Vice President of Investments at Bharat Innovation Fund, specializing in deep tech and climate tech sectors, with a focus on renewable energy and sustainability. With a background in materials science and engineering, he has successfully led investment strategies in Series A and seed stage companies in sectors such as EnergyTech and CleanTech. Rohan's career highlights include his leadership role at Bharat Innovation Fund, where he drives investments in innovative technologies, and his diverse experience ranging from being a Board Member at A5G Networks, Inc. to serving as a Senior Manager at the Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship, IIM Ahmedabad.

Work Experience 

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Bharat Innovation Fund

  • VP (Investments)

    2021 - Current

  • Associate

    2017 - 2020

    Patient capital to support disruptive entrepreneurs - deep technology and IP-driven innovations to solve some of India's toughest problems http://bharat.fund/

AN

A5G Networks, Inc.

  • Board Member

    2022

A5G Networks Inc. is a leader and innovator in autonomous mobile network infrastructure.

a5gnet.com
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FireCompass

  • Board Observer

    2020

FireCompass is a cybersecurity company that offers a Saas platform for Continuous Automated Red Teaming and Attack Surface Management.

Raised $7,000,000.00 from Bharat Innovation Fund, Cervin Ventures and Athera Venture Partners.

firecompass.com
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Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship, IIM Ahmedabad

  • Senior Manager

    2015 - 2018

    Building CIIE Pune's accelerator programmes.

Freelance

  • Energy Analyst

    2013 - 2014

    Back-end, part-time work for start-ups working on cloud-based energy consumption tracking, analytics and performance verification platforms Performance benchmarking, cost forecasting and variance analysis of energy data for commercial real estate portfolio managers and residential units

Uo

University of Pennsylvania

  • Research Associate

    2011 - 2013

    Materials chemistry & reaction modeling of earth-abundant materials for ultra-low-cost photovoltaic and thermoelectric devices Synthesis, characterization and processing of nanostructured materials used for various clean technology applications Techniques used: Colloidal/nanoparticle synthesis, FTIR and UV-Vis spectroscopy, XRD,

Ganage Group

  • Program Officer

    2010 - 2011

    The Ganage Group was a major supplier of stamped/pressed components to OEMs like Tata Motors Ltd and Piaggio India. Reported directly to the then-CEO, as part of a turnaround effort at a large loss-making enterprise Short-term assignment involving the design and implementation of stabilization strategies for under-performing manufacturing processes

Vigyan Ashram

  • Program Officer (Market Development)

    2009 - 2010

    Technology appropriation and business model development for rural micro-enterprise projects targeted the bottom of the economic pyramid (<US $1.25 daily income) Fund-raising: Produced technical/business proposals for both development agencies and VC/PE firms. Raised a total of over INR 10 million (~US$200k in 2009) Co-authored annual reports submitted to the Department of Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Rural Development Managed the FabLab (http://fab.cba.mit.edu/), a set of high-precision fabrication tools operated in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Worked towards converting it into an incubation center for start-ups that have the "bottom of the economic pyramid" (daily income < $1.25) as the target demographic Organizing team: FAB5 (Pune, India: August 16-21, 2009)

Patni Computer Systems

  • Software Engineer

    2008 - 2008

    Developer: VC++ and SQL Server

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