Rajesh Sawhney
Founder & CEO
About
Rajesh is a serial entrepreneur and business builder who has set-up multiple successful businesses over the last two decades.
Rajesh is the founder of GSF, India’s leading early stage investor and a multi-city Tech-Startup Accelerator for the brightest tech startups in India. GSF provides tech startups mentorship from celebrated digital founders, initial capital and global exposure.
Rajesh has made over 125 investments as one of the leading angel investors in a india, which include Viki (acquired by Rakutan, Little Eye Labs (acquired by Facebook), IMGN acquired by Warner Music, Pokkt acquired by Anymind Grouo, Dailyrounds acquired by 3M Group, Weareholidays acquired by Cox & Kings, Instalively (acquired by Hike Messenger) and Nightstay(Acquired by Paytm).
His current portfolio consists of big hits like Whatfix, Quizizz, Slintel, FlintoClass, Citymall, Breathe well-being, Gamezop, Orowealth, Khabri, Newsbytes, Zenduty, Vaultedge, Bimaplan, Codingal, Salarybox…
Rajesh brought private radio (Times FM) to India in the early nineties, redefining Indian youth culture. He was at the cusp of early Internet culture in India in the early 2000, building Indiatimes.com, the most valuable Internet business in India in 2005 (funded by Sequoia). Rajesh as the founding President of Reliance Entertainment, oversaw the corporatization of mom and pop Bollywood businesses into a multi-billion dollar industry. He led the biggest investment deal (Dreamworks) between Hollywood and Bollywood.
Rajesh serves on multiple boards, including that of Indiamart (India's target B2B marketplace) and Ixigo. Previously he was on the boards of Microland and Nielsoft on behalf of Trident Capital, a prominent venture firm based in Palo Alto, California.
Rajesh is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School (AMP), and has a fellowship from the London School of Economics.
Twitter URL: http://twitter.com/rajeshsawhney
Website: www.gsfindia.com
Contact Information
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Personal Email
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Local Location
Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Industry
Venture Capital & Private Equity
Designation
Founder & CEO
Birthday
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