ITEF Funds are B2B Tech growth stage investors. We are passionately building a global operator-investor platform for technology investing from India through the Indus Tech Edge Funds (“ITEF Funds”), targeting the Indo-US-Global technology corridor.ITEF Funds aim to invest in exciting “B2B AI-Software-SaaS-DeepTech" growth stage companies (Series B and onwards) which are leveraging India’s technology sector advantages to build world-leading AI led software products and platforms for international markets. We aim to partner with ambitious founders and management teams, truly "Globalizing India Tech".Our founders comprise a seasoned team of technology industry leaders, operators and investors based in India, USA and the UK with their offices in all three countries. We have successfully created value leading global technology companies and making multi-billion dollar investments.

An advisory firm with deep expertise in strategy and execution of M&A, Growth equity raise, New opportunity evaluation, Business and commercial diligence, GTM/Sales, outsourcing/ GDC /GCC, Growth strategy and New market entry. The founding partners have multi-decade experience in Software/SaaS, Tech, IT/ITeS (across various industry verticals) and consumer/FMCG industry.

#1st SPAC with Indian Tech only focus ($200mn, listed on NASDAQ)#1st SPAC with India focus to complete a successful DeSPAC merger.

Responsibilities: Drive growth & pivot HCL to a Product & Platform led enterprise IT and Digital Tech solution business by executing inorganic strategy involving a wide variety of M&A deals - acquisitions, Carve-out buys, Strategic investments and Joint Ventures/Partnerships across HCL Tech portfolio- IT, Digital- Cloud services, Enterprise & Vertical software platforms, Engineering and R&D Services (ERS). Have also worked on Corporate structuring, Transaction financing, New ventures and corporate venture investing. Contributed in HCL’s top-line growth from $5b to $10b while working with HCL’s Chairman, Board, CEO, CFO & Business Heads• Director - for M&A and Inorganic partnership deals to build a new line of business “Enterprise SaaS and Software Products & Platforms” (now the fastest growing and most profitable business in HCL) with over $1bn revenue size• Leading strategic relationships at executive levels in large Private Equity firms, Investment Banks and Large Tech companies to source Inorganic deals and co-investment opportunities.• Extensively covered US & UK to source +100 investment / acquisition opportunities with over $ 5bn in total revenue across domains of Enterprise Tech & SaaS, Ditigal and Cloud Sevices, ERD services, AI-Analytics, Cyber Security, Telecom/5G, Media Solutions, FinTech, Retail Tech etc. • Lead cross-functional teams of Business, Operations, Finance, HR and Legal to execute the M&A and investment deals. Managed the end-to-end process from sourcing, valuation, Deal structuring, Term sheet, Due Diligence, Definitive Agreements and Pre-closure activities• Completed over $3.0bn value of M&A and strategic investments

Infosys- MCS (Mangement Consulting Services) erstwhile Infosys Consulting Inc. Advised client businesses in TMT and diversified verticals in their strategic M&As and PMI/ transformations. Recognized and awarded for the consultative business development efforts leading to two big ($10 mn+) downstream implementation deals for Infosys.• Received Q1'14 ($2.5bn Business vertical wide, individual) Bravo Award for Business Development

Developed & executed Go-to-Market strategy for Iced Nestea & Frappe in OOH Cold beverage market, dominated by Cola giants (Coca Cola, Pepsi, Georgia) • Through new channel development acquired 24 high potential customers & achieved 3 fold gain in product consideration in Delhi/NCR relaunch

Developed and managed OSS/Network Management Products for GSM, 3G-IMS networks, catering customers in 60 countries & generating revenue in excess of $100M

Designed & developed market-leading 3GPP VCC Convergence solution for Voice call mobility across WLAN and 3G (IMS) Networks. Also contributed in Pre-Sales, Vendor evaluation and integration, Solution design and Customer demos• The youngest and first graduate engineer among other 45 senior engineers with minimum experience of 4 years

• Led a team of 5 engineers to create an integrated enterprise messaging & collabration solution for seamless collaboration & communication over enterprise network in a market which had IBM Sametime on enterprise side and Skype on consumer side• Interacted with prospective customers and partners • Secured and led 2 customer trials for the solution– customer requirement, customization, deployment and management.