Rakesh Naik

About Rakesh Naik

I am a private equity general partner, investor, and executive with over 30 years of experience spanning technology, general management, and applied engineering. I bring a results driven mindset and specialize in steering the full lifecycle from ideation to monetization of ideas aligning stakeholders and driving outcomes across startups, scaleups, and mature enterprises.My career spans technology, healthcare, manufacturing, and finance, with deep operational exposure across India, the US, and EMEA. This breadth provides sharp insight into cross cultural dynamics and evolving market realities.I operate with a founder’s mentality; defined by an insurgent mission, frontline focus, and ownership mindset, driving strategic clarity, operational discipline, and accountability across teams and ventures.Engineering, for me, is not merely a skill but a philosophy of problem-solving. Throughout my career, I have backed transformative ventures and disruptive innovations with conviction.I currently serve as a Founding General Partner at a private equity firm focused on stressed assets and litigation finance. I have operated in environments of sustained personal and professional pressure that most investors would avoid.This is a space I have consciously chosen to specialize in as an investing and operating partner in assets that are financially, sectorial, and situationally distressed, where complexity, risk, and turnaround execution define value creation.I also created the Torque Acceleration Program, an experiential acceleration model designed to prepare and propel founders through custom programs that helps them scale and strategize.Specialties: Venture capital, private equity, incubation, acceleration, investments, applied engineering.

Experience

1. General Partner

   Sri Venture Partners

   Dec 2023 — Present

Education

• Bangalore University

  Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics

• Tata Unisys

  Masters Diploma in Software Science

Skills

• Strategy
• Product Development
• Incubation & Acceleration
• Business Process
• Start-Ups