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Vandana Rajadhyaksha

Investor

Founder & Co-Head at Colossa Ventures

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

About

Co-founder of Colossa Ventures with over two decades across manufacturing, consulting, and investment management, including 21+ years in venture capital and private equity. She was previously Investment Director at ICICI Ventures and Director (Investments) at Aditya Birla Private Equity, with expertise across financial services, consumer, healthcare, and technology sectors.

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Experience

  1. Colossa VenturesFoundercurrent2022 — presentMumbai
  2. Self-employedSenior Advisor PE Industry2020 — 2023
  3. Aditya Birla CapitalInvestment Director2013 — 2020Mumbai
  4. ICICI VentureDirector- Investments2000 — 2013Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
  5. KPMGConsultant1999 — 2000
  6. Tata SteelMarketing Manager1994 — 1997

Education

  1. Indian Institute of Technology, BombayBTech, Metallurgical Engineering1990 — 1994
  2. Department of Management Sciences (PUMBA), Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityMasters in Business administration, Finance1997 — 1999
  3. Harvard Business SchoolAdvance certification, PE and Venture Capital

Skills & more

Corporate Finance8Financial Services6Financial Modeling4Due Diligence1Investment Banking1Investments12Portfolio Management4

From Vandana's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay79

Harsh ShahVenture Partner at FJ LabsSandeep PatilPartner, Head of Asia-Pacific at QED InvestorsUrsheet ParikhInvestor at Mayfield FundArpit BeriManaging Partner, India at Jungle VenturesVishesh SharmaPrincipal, India at Jungle VenturesRanvita AgrawalSenior Associate, India at Jungle Ventures

+ 73 more

Also attended Harvard Business School1,777

Brad GerstnerFounder & CEO of Altimeter CapitalAileen LeeFounder & Managing Partner of Cowboy VenturesJim BreyerFounder & CEO of Breyer CapitalTim DraperFounder of Draper AssociatesMike Maples JrCo-founding Partner at FloodgateMamoon HamidPartner at Kleiner Perkins

+ 1,771 more

Shared employers

Also worked at Aditya Birla Capital4

Ajay SrinivasanDirector, Lumis Partners at Lumis PartnersNawal BachhukaPrincipal at Varanium NexGenTanvi KesarkarAnalyst at JITO Angel NetworkIndrajeet SirsikarPartner at Woodstock Fund

Also worked at ICICI Venture8

Rajat TandonDirector and National Head Brand Estate at Brand CapitalParag DholGeneral Partner at Athera Venture PartnersRohit RazdanManaging Director at Tenacity VenturesAmit BehlPartner, Capital 2B at Info Edge VenturesSainath RamanathanPartner at ARCHIMED JapanIshan MishraPrincipal at Accion

+ 2 more

Also worked at KPMG231

Jeffrey PaineFounding Partner at Golden Gate VenturesJonas VetterleInvestor at Moonfire VenturesMarco FumagalliBoard Member at P101 VenturesJimmy ChartersChief Financial Officer at GreycroftRob LawrenceSenior Finance Associate at GreycroftJay JohnsonBoard Member at CincyTech

+ 225 more

Also worked at Tata Steel2

Pol FerrerDirector at Abac Capital Manager S.G.E.I.C.,Jyotbir Singh KhumanSenior Associate at Fireside Ventures Advisory Llp

Colleagues at Colossa Ventures

Ashu Suyash
Founder & CEO at Colossa Ventures
Farida Khambata
Investor at Colossa Ventures
Harinarayan Sharma
Investor at Colossa Ventures
Raghu Cavale
Investor at Colossa Ventures
Ruchi Kalra
Investor at Colossa Ventures
Shantanu Deshpande
Investor at Colossa Ventures
Shrestha Chowdhury
Investor at Colossa Ventures