Venkat Tadanki
Venkat Tadanki is a successful corporate executive turned serial entrepreneur, investor, mentor, and advisor.
As an angel investor, mentor, and advisor Venkat has helped many companies grow from an idea and a seed to companies that found mention in media as fast-growing companies attracting investments from Tier1 VCs and private equity.
Capillary Technologies, Innovaccer, THB, Spyne.ai, Joyverse, Nektar, and Elucidata are a few of his investee companies.
Venkat is also an LP in VC funds such as Filter Capital and Accel India . As start ups scale, these funds offer another avenue to raise capital. THB, Spyne.ai and Joyverse are cases in point.
Earlier in his career, Venkat founded and exited three start-ups, ranging from private labeled FMCG products to IT enabled services to SaaS products.
Prior to his entrepreneurial journey, Venkat managed Wills (then the largest brand in India by value ) at ITC, He later joined Pepsico and went on to become an Executive VP and a Management Committee member of their South Asia Business Unit.
Venkat has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, and a BA (Hons), Economics from St.Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. He is also a Charter member of TiE-Southern California. Venkat is a regular guest speaker at various institutional forums and universities.