IS

Ishan Sachdev

General Partner at Deciens Capital

Boston, Massachusetts

CEO

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $3,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Skills

Venture Capital
M&A
Startups
Payments
Capital Markets
Financial Technology
Mobile
Investments
Start-ups
Entrepreneurship
SaaS
Mergers & Acquisitions
Business Planning
Portfolio Management
Mobile Devices
Business Strategy
Strategy
Financial Modeling
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Valuation

Education

Investments

Pippin Title

Seed

Total Funding: $3M

Gynger

Seed

Total Funding: $32M

BeatBread

Seed

Total Funding: $34M

Tint.ai

Series A

Total Funding: $29M

Whym

Seed

Total Funding: $8.3M

GlacierGrid

Series Unknown

Total Funding: $31M

Work Experience

Deciens Capital

2021

  • General Partner

    2022

  • Partner

    2021 - 2022

    Deciens is an early-stage venture fund focused on FinTech

PSG

2018 - 2020

  • Vice President

    2018 - 2020

    Software growth equity; formerly Providence Strategic Growth. $14B+ AUM.

MIT Alumni Angels of Boston

2014 - 2018

  • Co-Founder and Managing Director

    2014 - 2018

    MIT Alumni Angels is an angel group made up of MIT alumni, focused on investing in technology and life sciences startups founded by members of the MIT community (students, alumni, faculty, etc.), and is affiliated with the MIT Alumni Association. http://www.mitalumniangels.com/

Harvard Business School

2013 - 2015

  • Research Associate

    2013 - 2015

    Researched financial inclusion in emerging markets, with a focus on mobile money services. Developed framework for successful mobile money deployments codified in HBS Working Paper, and held conference for C-Level executives from the key organizations globally to discuss the state of the industry Paper - https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/mobile-money-services-design-and-development-for-financial-inclusion Conference - https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/conferences/2014-financial-inclusion/Pages/default.aspx

US Treasury

2012 - 2012

  • Summer Policy Advisor, Office of Capital Markets

    2012 - 2012

    The Office of Capital Markets was formed during the financial crisis to bring people with private-sector markets experience to Treasury, and advises on all financial markets-related policy. Worked on issues including components of the Dodd-Frank Act (the Orderly Liquidation Authority and the Central Clearing of OTC Derivatives), a retrospective of past financial crises (both US and international), and the JOBS Act.

iPay Technologies

2009 - 2010

  • Assistant to the President

    2009 - 2010

    Managed process to sell iPay, a portfolio company of Bain Capital Ventures and Spectrum Equity Investors, resulting in $300M acquisition by Jack Henry & Associates in June 2010. iPay provides a SaaS solution for online bill payment and remittance, allowing users to make any payment they like directly from their bank’s internet banking portal.

Bain Capital Ventures

2007 - 2009

  • Associate

    2007 - 2009

    Venture Capital investor at the $1.5B venture affiliate of Bain Capital. Fund focuses on early stage venture and growth equity investments across a wide variety of industries. Helped invest $31.45M across five companies, with a principal focus on FinTech.

Goldman Sachs

2005 - 2007

  • Proprietary Trader

    2005 - 2007

    Trader on proprietary trading desk within Structured Credit Trading. Desk invested for the firm account, and strategy involved an arbitrage of credit derivatives and illiquid debt instruments.