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Karthik Reddy

Managing Partner at Blume Venture Advisors

Mumbai, Maharashtra

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,000,000.00

Skills

Strategy
Mergers & Acquisitions
Investment Banking
Capital Markets
Business Development
Derivatives
Management
Investor Relations
Strategic Planning
Securities
Project Management
Telecommunications
Marketing
Venture Capital
Project Planning
Valuation
Financial Modeling
Start-ups
Corporate Development
Private Equity

Education

Work Experience

  • Co Founder and Managing Partner

    2010

    Building Blume since 2010 Blume focusses on Seed to Pre Series A startups born out of India and continues to back our best portfolio companies through the growth stages. 4 Primary Funds: Fund I (2011-15) $20M, Fund II (2015-18) $60M, Fund III (2018-21) $102M, Fund IV (2021-22 closing) $290M Opportunity Funds and Secondary Funds (2018-23) ~ US$170M AUM Blume's biggest winners include: Unacademy, Spinny, Slice, Purplle, Grey Orange, Turtlemint, dunzo, Carbon Clean, Classplus, Servify, Smallcase, Exotel, Lambdatest, BatterySmart, Pixxel, Jai Kisan, Locus, Koo, Cashify, Healthifyme, IntrCity amongst other rising stars. Karthik's active board representations (Director | Observer) include (as of Dec 2023): Grey Orange, Servify, smallcase, Exotel, HealthifyMe Blume's biggest exits to date include: TaxiforSure (to Ola), Runnr (to Zomato), Agara (to Coinbase), Minjar (to Nutanix), Mettl (to Mercer Consulting), Zipdial (to Twitter), Superset (to Byjus | Great Learning), Promptec (to Havells), Threadsol (to Coates),

Mumbai Angels

2008 - 2014

  • Member

    2008 - 2014

  • VP, Brand Capital

    2007 - 2010

Deccan Chronicle Holdings

2006 - 2007

  • SVP, Strategic Planning

    2006 - 2007

    Business Development New Initiatives Planning and Strategy for the group Investor Relations

2006 - 2006

  • VP, Investment Banking

    2006 - 2006

    Media & Telecom Practice, Investment Banking

2002 - 2005

  • VP Technology Services

    2002 - 2005

    Securities Clearing Software Technologies - Project Management, New Business Initiatives and Business Development

Softalia

2002 - 2002

  • VP

    2002 - 2002

    Business Development

2001 - 2002

  • Associate, Technology Investment Banking

    2001 - 2002

    Capital Markets, M&A - Telecom Network Infrastructure, Telecom Software

Glopex

2000 - 2000

  • Summer Associate

    2000 - 2000

  • Manager

    1996 - 1999

    Debt Capital Markets, Product Structuring and Derivatives Marketing