Siddharth Shah
Senior Associate at Siana Capital
Siddharth Shah
Senior Associate at Siana Capital
Mumbai, Maharashtra
Overview
Work Experience
Senior Associate
2023 - Current
Leading/co-leading $1-3 mn early stage (seed, pre A, A) B2B and deeptech investments Investments include- Proklean (co-investors Raintree, Infuse), Gramophone (co-investors InfoEdge, Z3 Partners), Neewee (co-investors IIFL)
Associate
2019 - 2023
Funded early stage (pre-seed, seed) tech-led companies in India with a ticket size of $125-500k Investments include- Clodura (follow on Bharat Innovation), Nesa (follow on KITVEN), Mestastop (co investors IIMA Ventures), Nexxio (co investors Vyapar + Kaleyra founders), Callify, Biomoneta, Ajjas, Dux Edu (went down fighting), Zipgrid, Creditas (exit to Asia Impact), Chalo (follow on Lightrock, Waterbridge, Avataar VP), Stayvista (follow on DSG, Singularity), Plus91, Avaz Ran 3 pre seed investment programs with over 1000 applications of pre seed B2B SaaS companies in 18 months
Associate
2018 - 2019
Solidarity is a ~$200mn long only public equity fund investing in India. I started as a sector-agnostic Associate in public equities with 3-5 year investment horizons investing in clear leaders and emerging leaders of India. Eventually moved to supporting early stage venture for the fund's anchor investor.
Intern | Public Equities (Sell-side)
2017 - 2017
Covered the Indian Small Cap sector. Created a sector agnostic portfolio of 20 companies, which has outperformed the Nifty Small Cap Index by more than 8% over a 2-year horizon.
Family Business
2012 - 2015
Family business of stockist, suppliers and distributors of iron and steel and value-added products
Founding Partner | Agri startup
2014 - 2014
As a Founding Partner, my responsibilities included researching leads for Import & Export of agricultural products like beans, pulses, grains etc by keeping in constant touch with our Import-Export partners in India and abroad. A key part of the job was to analyze the market trends according to different seasons and maintaining the order book in accordance with current market trends.