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Vanshaj Kandhari

Growing BuyStars at BuyStars

Mumbai, Maharashtra

Overview 

Vanshaj Kandhari is currently leading Product & Revenue at BuyStars, with prior experience at Woodstock Fund and roles at J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank. He has a strong background in blockchain, cryptocurrency, financial modeling, and leadership skills, investing in sectors like Security, Cloud Infrastructure, and Web3/Blockchain. Highlights of Vanshaj's career include his role as an Investment Associate at Woodstock Fund, his experience at J.P. Morgan in Blockchain and Crypto-Assets Strategy, and his current leadership position at BuyStars focusing on product development and revenue growth.

Work Experience 

  • Growing BuyStars

    2023 - Current

  • Business and Product

    2022 - 2023

    ComBuyn is an interest based community buying platform to empower India to shop together. Website: https://combuyn.in

  • Investment Associate

    2021 - 2022

    Woodstock is a multi-asset investment fund house focused on investments in emerging technologies. Our primary focus is distributed ledger technology (DLT) with emphasis on four areas - public DLT, decentralized finance (DeFi), tokenization (including non-fungible tokens) and web 3.0 protocols. We also focus on equity investments in early and growth stage companies in the DLT space (including service providers offering services to investment funds investing in the DLT space). We invest in tokens (utility and security), equity and convertibles (in primary and secondary markets). At present we manage two funds, both registered with the Cayman Island Monetary Authority: (i) Woodstock Capital Fund I - discretionary fund for strategic investors; and (ii) Woodstock Capital Fund II - aggregated fund for HNIs, family offices and institutional investors. Woodstock also manages a segregated portfolio company with specific focus on augmenting the emerging technology ecosystem. Our investments include Elrond, Biconomy, Covalent, Band Protocol, Marlin Protocol, Casper Labs, Mudrex, Propine, Paraswap, Persistence, Frontier, Terra Virtua, Mintbase, Arcana, Moralis and Holoride among others. Website : www.woodstockfund.com

  • Analyst, Blockchain and Crypto-Assets Strategy

    2019 - 2021

    Blockchain and Crypto-Assets Strategy

J.P. Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation provides commodity risk management solutions in both the physical .

  • Sr. Analyst

    2018 - 2019

  • Analyst

    2016 - 2018

  • Intern

    2015 - 2016

DB Capital Ventures invests in early-stage and emerging growth businesses and is a venture capital firm based in New York.

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