Gemba Capital
Kamini Shivalkar is an accomplished finance professional currently serving as Associate Vice President at Gemba Capital, where involvement as an early founding team member has centered on investments in Fintech, Consumer tech, and B2B platforms at pre-seed and seed stages since October 2021. Prior to this role, Kamini worked as an Investment Associate at Axilor Ventures, specializing in early-stage investments in Enterprise tech and SaaS, and held dual roles as Investment Associate and Investment Analyst at Gemba Capital from October 2017 to June 2020, focusing on deal sourcing and evaluation. Earlier experience includes a role as Business Analyst at Indus Valley Partners, concentrating on hedge fund and private equity IT consulting, and as a Faculty for Product Development at BYJU's, where Kamini developed content for educational apps. Kamini holds a Master’s degree in Finance from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies and a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology.
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Gemba Capital
Guided by our True North, we at Gemba Capital back tech enabled startups that are scalable and looking for seed funding. What we look for? At Gemba Capital we look for three things: Founder, Market and Product. • Ability, passion and vision in a founder. • Size, competition and growth in a market. • Need, differentiation and value in a product. We are sector agnostic, however below are our focus areas: SaaS, Fintech, B2B Commerce, Agri tech Our ideal investment will be: We look to invest in visionary founders, strong in execution and with complementary skill sets Significant growth potential over the next 3 to 5 years. Startups having paying customers. We prefer backing founders with at least 4-5 years of prior experience Differentiated products or services that have the potential to be "platforms“ Products or services which solve a particular problem or caters to a particular need/gap in the market How we invest? We typically invest US$200-250K per company. We are open to investing through convertible structures and instruments, however we prefer straight equity. Please visit our website to check our portfolio, team and advisors and to reach out to us !!