Karan Shah is a seasoned investment professional with extensive experience in venture capital and growth equity investing. Karan began an investment banking career at Avendus from 2014 to 2017, focusing on capital markets and M&A advisory for tech scale-ups in India. Karan then served as an investor at Accel from 2017 to 2025 and spent 2020 as an investor at Octahedron Capital. From 2021 to 2023, Karan was an investor at Y Combinator, specifically in growth investments in fintech/payments and SaaS, contributing to YC Continuity, which focuses on the top-performing YC startups. Currently, Karan is part of the founding team at OpenFX, leveraging a strong educational background with a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Economics from the University of Warwick and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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