Sanat Rao

Managing Partner

2024 - Current

Shaizen Ventures is a prop research-driven firm at the confluence of AI, Crypto and Zen

Senior Advisor

2024

Jar is India's #1 Gold Savings platform and is building the financial fitness platform for 400M Indians

General Partner

2021 - 2023

BlockTower is a crypto and blockchain investment firm, applying professional trading, investing and portfolio management to the digital asset class.

Managing Partner - Gamma Point Capital (acqd by BlockTower)

2019 - 2021

Gamma Point Capital is an market neutral fund investing in digital assets

Partner

2016 - 2019

Early-stage investments in companies using deep technology to address a large opportunity in the fintech, SaaS & enterprise software and consumer internet domains Deals Led: Kristal.ai Active.ai Mpaani / lovelocal Innovaccer Myally Deals Supported: Flipkart (acquired by Walmart) ConnectM (acquired by Avanti) LetsVenture

Partner, Investment Banking and M&A

2014 - 2015

M&A for Tech Startups in the India-US corridor. Representative transactions include: 1) Bookpad acquisition by Yahoo 2) Dexetra acquisition by Quixey 3) Profoundis acquisition by FullContact 4) Customer360 acquisition by Interactive Intelligence 5) Gazemetrix acquisition by Sysomos 6) MyGola acquisition by MakeMyTrip 7) Frilp acquisition by Freshworks

Mentor, Microsoft Ventures

2014 - 2015

Director, Corporate Development (Mobile Group)

2011 - 2013

Business Development & M&A for Intel's Smartphone & Tablet business in Emerging Markets Key member of M&A team for Intel's acquisition of Infineon’s Wireless Business

Business Development Director (Emerging Mkts)

2005 - 2010

Strategy & Market development for the Embedded & Retail Group in Emerging markets - India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brazil, Mexico and Russia.

M&A Lead

2003 - 2005

Investment Manager

2000 - 2002

Chip Design Engineer

1998 - 1999

Silicon design engineer on Pentium4 and Itanium teams