Venugopal Sathyanarayana

I’m Venugopal Sathyanarayana , currently a Partner with CKCIC ( Cheung Kong China International Capital ).

CKCIC is a boutique investment bank primarily serving the US, Indian and Israeli companies to match strategical and financial investors based in Greater China Area and other Asian major markets. We have an extensive network of Asian companies, private equity firms, financial conglomerates and HNWIs, which provides our clients a global platform that connects them to strategic and financial Asian partners.

Earlier I was a VC with Qualcomm Ventures.

Possess more than 10+ years of Tech investing experience.

Previously was a Venture Partner/ Vice President with Orios Venture Partners which is an early stage VC Fund in India.

Prior to this was Vice President of Indian Angel Network ( IAN ) which is India’s first and the world’s largest global angel investor network’s. IAN invested upto USD 1 mn in startups, though the sweet spot is between US$ 400 to 600K.

Earlier to joining Indian Angel Network, I was an Advisor to Qualcomm Ventures, India.

I was the Founder & CEO of Vengo Ventures for 8 years. During this period I was a key founding Principal of a Couple of VC Funds which we could never launch. I also tried raising a Micro VC Fund too.

Also I was the Co-Chair of TiE Bangalore CleanTech SIG ( Special Interest Group ) for 3 years.

Possess an overall of more than 25+ years of experience.

I have been actively investing, providing Mentoring/ Investment/ Advisory Services to startups since the last 10 + years.

I’m a serial entrepreneur myself. Vengo Ventures was my startup to focus on the investment space. I had started a consulting and software services company in the 2nd half of the 90’s which later became a Product company. Subsequently I had also started a couple of product companies too.

Prior to Vengo Ventures I possess a distinguished IT industry experience of 15+ years ( overall 25+ years ) which includes leadership roles in senior management, strategic planning, operations, client services, project management and IT Technology solutions development. I was Director – Engineering with Aricent. I have earlier worked with Wipro, Eftia OSS Solutions, Etc., in senior executive positions.

My passion is to evangelize entrepreneurship.

I love Cycling ( Biking ), Trekking , travelling , chess, music & adventure sports. I have been doing a lot of Biking during weekends. I’m based out of Bangalore.