Rupam Shrivastava

Rupam Shrivastava, CFA is Managing Partner at ePlanet Capital. Mr. Shrivastava covers sourcing, evaluation, execution and management of early stage technology investments worldwide. His particular focus is on artificial intelligence and machine learning related businesses. His noteworthy investments at ePlanet include, Virgin Mobile Latin America, Virgin Mobile Central and Eastern Europe, Naseeb Networks and the Singularity University.

Prior to ePlanet, he worked at Afrimax Vodafone as SVP Strategy and Business Development. At Afrimax, he focused on fundraising and financing and new geography expansion for Vodafone branded businesses throughout sub-Saharan Africa. He has also worked with Dresdner Kleinwort in New York as an investment banker, focusing on mergers and acquisitions in the automotive, aerospace, defense, and healthcare sectors; and also at the Technical University of Munich for the development of battery efficient cell phones. Mr. Shrivastava is affiliated with think tanks such as the Singularity University, the TechCast project and The Communities of the Future.

He holds a double MBA degree from the University of California, Berkeley and the Columbia University. He also holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is also a CFA, CAIA and FRM Charterholder.