Vatsal Kanakiya
Chief Executive Officer at 100X.VC
Vatsal Kanakiya
Chief Executive Officer at 100X.VC
Mumbai, Maharashtra
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Executive Officer
2023 - Current
Principal & CTO
2019 - 2023
100X.VC is the first VC to invest in early stage startups using India SAFE Notes. We look at being the first institutional investors in startups using below criteria to fund them. 1. Founding Team 2. Market Size Opportunity 3. Business Model Strength 4. Unfair Advantage, Moat 5. Conviction of a minimum 20X returns. Best way to reach me is by mail at vatsal@100x.vc We are a SEBI Registered Investment Adviser and CAT I AIF.
Partner
2018
I handle sourcing and evaluation of deals for my family to invest in. I am looking for fortitudinous entrepreneurs with multidisciplinary moonshot ideas.
Angel Investor
2022
Investor
2019
Heart Aerospace will deliver the first electric airliner certified for commercial flight by 2025
Investor
2019
Toybox is the first easy-to-use, one-touch 3D printer for kids to design and print their own toys.
Venture Partner
2022 - 2023
Diligencing and sourcing Web3 deals for 2AM VC
Deal Sourcing and Due Diligence
2018 - 2018
My role involved discovering and evaluating startup deals from a technology perspective for a showcase to member investors.
Deal Sourcing and Due Diligence
2018 - 2018
Participant in the Future Angels Bootcamp, a comprehensive program to learn about the investing process end to end. Sourced close to 100 deals over the period.
Guest Lecturer
2018 - 2018
Gave a guest lecture on Reinforcement Learning and its applications to students of M. Tech. (CE) at K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering
Technology Intern Analyst
2017 - 2017
Summer Intern at the Prime Brokerage, Finance and Funding Technology department. Brought drastic improvement in memory consumption of an internal financial data visualization and manipulation tool by designing and implementing an algorithm to store and retrieve data to and from a relational database in a paginated fashion.