Vishal Gupta

Vishal Gupta is the Managing Director at Bessemer Venture Partners in Bangalore. He joined BVP India in 2006 and focuses on investments in consumer internet, fin-tech and health-tech sectors. Prior to BVP India, he was a Senior Manager in the treasurer’s office at Reliance Group and helped the firm establish a private equity fund that invested in companies such as Celebrity fashions, Adlabs and others in the healthcare and financial services sectors. He has also served as an executive assistant to the CEO of a joint venture of HCL tech and Deutsche Bank in India. Besides Hungama, Vishal is currently on the Board of BigBasket, Swiggy, LivSpace, Parmeasy, UrbanClap, MediAssist, NephroPlus, Perfios, Innoviti, Home First Finance, Applied Solar Technologies and Anunta Technologies. In the past, he has served on the Boards of Indian Energy Exchange (now public), Matrimony.com (now public), TaxiForSure (acquired by Ola) and Orient Green Power (now public). He has also served as a Board observer of Shriram City Union Finance, Motilal Oswal and SnapDeal.com. He is involved with IIM Calcutta Innovation Park which promotes entrepreneurship. He is a chartered accountant, has a BA in commerce from GS College, where he was ranked one of the top 750 students in the country, and also holds an MBA from IIM Calcutta.