Abhijit Joshi

About Abhijit Joshi

18 years of holistic experience across Startup Investing and Lending, Venture Debt Fund management, Corporate and Investment banking, NBFC lending and Wealth AdvisoryPassionate about and demonstrated a consistent track record of entrepreneurship by building entire verticals, businesses and teams, grounds-up at all organisations engaged with.Invested and actively managing a venture debt portfolio of more than INR 1,600 crores/USD 200 million across Start ups in Fintech, Edtech, D2C Consumer brands and products, SaaS, Fashion and Apparel, B2B platforms, Healthtech, Logistics, E-Mobility, Agritech, Retail chains and Spacetech segments, among others. Portfolio includes multiple Unicorns and SoonicornsAchieved and/or set up 5 successful portfolio exits through IPO, strategic sale and secondary routes. Actively managed stress account recovery, tracking at credit costs of less than 2% of my Venture debt portfolioActively raised and managed/in fundraise mode with multiple large family offices. Deployed more than INR crore of capital across strucured deals in large and mid corporate clients in Financial services and payments, IT and ITES, Manufacturing, Electronics and Semiconductors, Logistics, Energy and Utilities, Infrastructure, Construction Materials, Aviation, Pharma and Healthcare, Real Estate, Retail and Jewellery. NPA record of 0%.Highly skilled at sales strategy and business development, active corporate and founder relationship management across one Venture debt fund, two of the largest Indian private sector banks and one NBFC/small finance bank. Adept at deal structuring, term sheet negotiation, due diligence, investment thesis building and structuring bespoke banking solutions to new economy and traditional corporates.Passionate marketer and writer, have lead online and offline marketing strategies and campaigns across organisations. Lead the marketing vertical at Trifecta.Passionate blogger, travel, fitness and automobile enthusiast!

Experience

1. Director - Venture Debt

   Trifecta Capital

   Jul 2023 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Led cumulative gross investments of ~ INR 1,600 crores till date across fintech, consumer, retail, edtech, EV, B2B, deep tech, health tech and SaaS sectors, across three fundsActively fundraised/raising - from US and domestic family offices Successful exits in two portcos, three more exits in the pipeline via IPOs or secondaries Responsible for setting up and running the Bangalore officeResponsible for running a formal marketing vertical and PR machinery. Instituted four separate annual ecosystem event formats, editor of the quarterly newsletterKey portcos : BigBasket, Blackbuck, Ninjacart, Udaan, Slice, Kissht, Curefoods, Wellbeing Nutrition, Olyv/Smartcoin, Vedantu, Ripplr, Jai Kisan, Zeno Moto, Freshbus, Stockgro

Education

• Management Development Institute, Gurgaon

  PGPM, Finance, General

  2006 — 2008

• Visvesvaraya Technological University

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electronics and Communications

  2001 — 2005

• M.E.S College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Malleshwaram, Bangalore-3

  Pre University, Science

  1999 — 2001

• CFP Institute

  Certified Financial Planner, Financial Planning and Services

  2008 — 2009

Skills

• Payment Systems
• Wallets
• Credit Analysis
• Loan Origination
• Corporate Banking Sales
• Sales
• Venture Debt
• Forex Advisory
• Banking
• Team Management
• Financial Analysis