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varun-jain
Varun Jain
Founder, IndoVentures

Entrepreneurial finance and strategy professional with six years of diverse, global experience as part of small, niche teams within large multinationals and high profile early stage ventures. Functional experience across banking (UBS Investment Bank – Global Infrastructure), investing (Malabar Investments – Indian value fund), fundraising & operations (EmeraldWorld International – emerald mining & downstream startup), strategy & business development (Grant Thornton International – Global Strategy & M&A).

Spent the past year exploring various startup ecosystems with a view of formulating early stage investment themes around incubation, acceleration, innovation and corporate venturing. Professional interests include open innovation and collaboration platforms at the cross-section of large corporates and startups; technology and open source hardware. Currently building IndoVentures (www.indoventures.org) – an open source hardware community and platform to serve as a full service launch pad for hardware startups across the Internet of Things (IoT), Wearable Technology, Sensor Applications and m-Health & Fitness spaces.

Currently, also run a proximity mobile advertising company, TagTech Media (www.tagtechmedia.com) and learning Biodesign – the medical device innovation process developed at Stanford as part of the first batch of the Affordable Innovation in MedTech (AIM) Fellowship at InnAccel (www.innaccel.com), India’s first MedTech accelerator building affordable medical devices for the developing world.

Undergraduate in business and post graduate in Law. Financial qualifications include CAIA (Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst) & FRM (Financial Risk Manager). Enjoy sailing, surfing, kitesurfing and biking as well as consulting niche, early stage ventures – actively consulted over a dozen startups across the UK, US and India since 2009.