Vivek Kumar

About Vivek Kumar

After careers in Research & Analytics, have been an Online entrepreneur and investor for…

Experience

1. Co-founder

   Venturegarage

   Jul 2016 — Present

   We love entrepreneurs.\\\\nWhy VG: Think of us like your fund-raise limited co-founder and we want to work with you till at least a Series A/B.\\\\n• We have covered all bases till a series A/B raise with investor relationships to include HNI’s, family offices, Micro VC’s, Venture capitalists and early stage PE’s, institutional investors from Singapore/US/UK and Corporates who look at strategic investments.\\\\n• We ensure 1. BUILD A FUNDABLE STORY, 2. QUICK OUTREACH, 3. PARTNER LEVEL reach, 4. FEEDBACK to evolve and up fundability.\\\\n• Since raising capital is a CONTINUOUS ACTIVITY, we bring is our capability to engage parallelly for subsequent rounds so on-going capital raising for your startup becomes a lot easier and faster.\\\\n\\\\nLeading investors such as Sequoia, Nexus, Stellaris, A91, Motilal Oswal, Ivycap, IDG, Auxano, Artha, Nuvea Capital, Auxano VC, Pentathlon VC, Expert Dojo, YC have invested in our portfolio companies.\\\\n\\\\nWORKFLOW: Raising capital\\\\nVG will create an investment summary (based on detailed b-plan, IM to be done by the client, or additionally). We seek to build a funnel as follows:\\\\n1. VG will shortlist potential investors based on their focus sectors & investment ticket size (network of active investors)\\\\n2. VG will share the summary with shortlisted investors and call them with intent to create interest.(Identify about 30-50 potential investors)\\\\n3. When an investor shows interest in doing a meeting/telecom with the startup founders, VG will arrange for the same.(Goal is to get to 10-15 odd qualified meetings/telecoms with investors)\\\\n4. Engage with the investor to address queries and send regular updates on the business to investors approached.(3-5 investors typically)\\\\n5. VG will handhold through term sheet negotiations, due diligence, & shareholder’s agreement.(Negotiations and document closure)\\\\n6. VG will see through to the final receipt of capital into the startups bank account.(Setup for growth)\\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n

Skills

• Strategic Planning
• Team Management
• Marketing Strategy
• Sales
• Fundraising
• Retail
• New Business Development
• Project Management
• Strategy
• Leadership
• Profit
• Recruiting
• Market Research
• Restructuring
• Business Planning
• Social Networking
• Public Relations
• Research
• Marketing Research
• Corporate Finance
• Entrepreneurship
• Business Strategy
• Consulting
• Team Building
• Social Media Marketing
• Management
• Business Development
• Start-Ups
• Business Analysis
• Marketing
• Event Management
• Fashion