VK

Vaibhav Kapoor

Head of Corporate Coverage, NBB UAE | Seed and Early Stage Investor in 20+ startups

Abu Dhabi Emirate

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $10,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $100,000.00

Skills

Financial Modeling
Finance
Credit Risk
Financial Analysis
Corporate Finance
Credit
Investment Banking
Team Management
Business Analysis
Industry Research
Strategy
Management
Valuation
Business Strategy
Risk Management
Banking
Credit Rating
Cash Flow Forecasting
Data Analysis
Management Consulting

Education

Work Experience

  • Head of Corporate Coverage, NBB UAE

    2023

  • Director - Loan Origination, Syndications & Debt Capital Market

    2018 - 2023

    Establishing the loan syndications & DCM platform under the new Corporate & Investment Banking strategy of the bank. Aim to be one of the leading debt & capital advisory and loan syndication platform in the GCC.

  • Angel Investor

    2020

    Angel Investor in various seed and growth stage startups across Fintech, D2C, E-commerce etc. India Portfolio: # Melorra (D2C, Ecommerce) # KarmaLife (Fintech) # COGOS Technologies (Logistics) # Financepeer (Fintech) # BASIC Home Loan (Fintech) # Scripbox (Fintech) # Evenflow (Ecommerce) # BluSmart (Mobility) # Tagz Foods (D2C, Healthy Snacks) # Curefoods (Cloud Kitchen) # Flickstree (Video Commerce) # Stage (OTT for Bharat) # Clean Electric (EV battery) # Glamplus (e-commerce) # Spandan (healthtech) # Geekster (Edtech) # Falca (Agritech) # Huvi Air (SaaS for construction management) MENA Portfolio: # MarketForce (fintech)

2014 - 2018

  • Principal, Debt - Investment Banking

    2014 - 2018

    Heading bank muscat's Debt Investment Banking team providing clients debt finance solutions including advisory, syndication, debt capital markets, project finance, subordinated & structured products, Islamic financial advisory and similar transactions. Introduced several first-of-their kind transactions in the GCC region including taking debut borrowers to public and private markets together with capital structure advisory and rating advisory. Debut USD bond issuance by an Omani GRE, jumbo multi-tranche USD bond issuances by the Government, debut sukuks in local and USD bond space, largest ever syndicated loans in power, oil & gas sectors amongst others. Total debt raise of USD 11.5 billion across 17 transactions in 4.5 years in the role. Managed a multi-million dolla P&L, guiding on origination-to-execution of all mandates and leading business development initiatives.

2009 - 2014

  • Associate Director, Corporate and Infrastructure Ratings

    2013 - 2014

    Member of Credit Rating Committee. Manage a portfolio and team of analysts rating large corporates in power, oil and gas and fertiliser sectors. Publish opinion pieces and articles on developments in the sectors under coverage and macro-economic trends etc.

  • Manager, Corporate & Infrastructure Ratings

    2011 - 2013

    Carrying out fundamental research for assigning credit ratings and publishing credit rating reports for large corporates in the oil & gas, power and fertiliser sectors. Creating financial models, cash flow analysis & earnings projections, and sensitivity analysis of ratings to industry, counter-party, liquidity, foreign exchange and other related-risks.

  • Rating Analyst

    2009 - 2011

    Fundamental analysis for assigning credit ratings & publishing credit reports.

Darashaw & Co. Pvt Ltd

2008 - 2008

  • Summer Internship during MBA

    2008 - 2008

    Project on State Finances Study'08: Introduced Principal Component Analysis to design a Credit Performance Index (CPI) used as a proxy for risk assessment of securities - State Development Loans and State Guaranteed Bonds - issued by state governments.

2007 - 2008

  • Independent Strategy Consulting Assignment during MBA

    2007 - 2008

    'Opportunity Analysis of Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFC) in India' to identify diversification/investment ideas for Lodha Group into the sector.

Himal Southasian

2006 - 2007

  • Business Manager

    2006 - 2007

    Responsible for setting up operations in the Indian market for Himal Southasian - a South Asia centric socio-economic-political magazine based out of Nepal.

2005 - 2006

  • Analyst

    2005 - 2006

    Responsible for delivering compensation & benefits benchmarking projects for clients in Europe and South East.