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Vishal Lugani

Founding Partner at Acrew Capital

San Francisco, California

VC
Investor
Founder

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $700,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $7,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $3,000,000.00

Skills

Market Entry
Management Consulting
Growth Strategies
Corporate Development
Financial Modeling
Private Equity
Strategic Consulting
Analytics
Venture Capital
Valuation
Due Diligence
Strategy
Business Development
Entrepreneurship
Peer-to-peer
Business Strategy
Mergers & Acquisitions
Start-ups
Crowdfunding
Emerging Markets

Education

Investments

Nomad Homes

Series A

Total Funding: $44M

Anything World

Seed

Total Funding: $11M

Stable

Series B

Total Funding: $87M

Assembly

Seed

Total Funding: $130M

Kintsugi

Seed

Total Funding: $37M

HMBradley

Series A

Total Funding: $22M

Finix

Series B

Total Funding: $130M

Petabyte Technology

Series A

Total Funding: $8M

Work Experience

Acrew Capital

2019

  • General Partner, Co-Founder

    2019

    Acrew Capital is a thesis-led and values-first venture capital firm that manages >$1.5bn and was founded by a multi-generational team in 2019. We love multi-hyphenates and double entendres and invest in both early stage and growth stage companies. We hope to not only fund the future, but, by example, live the future. The firm has three areas of Focus: Health & Human Empowerment, Data & Security, and Fintech. Health (current main focus): Abett (Director), Unannounced Healthcare Data Co (Director), Tomorrow Health, Kintsugi, Curebase, Petabyte (Fmr. Director, acq. by $CHWY), RapidSOS, SteadyMD Fintech: Finix (Director), Bilt Rewards, At-Bay (fmr Observer), HMBradley (Director), Embed, Stable (Director), Nomad (Director), Deuna Other: Discord, ShopShops (Director), Anything.World (Director), Doodles, Stardust (Observer), Treehouse

Concrete Rose Capital

2020

  • Advisor

    2020

Aspect Ventures

2016 - 2019

  • Principal

    2016 - 2019

    Venture capital firm managing $350M. Aspect raised two funds and made its last new investment in summer 2019. Led investments for the firm. Select Investments Led or Helped to Support: Health: Amino, Future Family (fmr Observer), Vida Health (fmr Observer), Papaya Payments, Eden Health (acq. Centivo) Fintech: Stem.is (fmr Observer), Pie Insurance, Divvy Pay (acq. $BILL), Finix (Director), Coinbase ($COIN) Other: Kloudless (fmr Observer, acq. Netskope), Astro (fmr Observer, acq. by Slack/$CRM), Co-Star, BaubleBar (Director), The RealReal ($REAL), Hotel Tonight (acq. by $ABNB), Dfinity ($ICP)

Greycroft

2013 - 2016

  • Senior Associate

    2013 - 2016

    Responsibilities included sourcing, diligence, deal execution, and providing business development and recruiting support to portfolio companies. Focused on fintech & consumer. Originated investment in Acorns and served as board observer. Worked with several other companies including App Annie, HopSkipDrive, The RealReal ($REAL), among others Senior Associate (2015-2016), Associate (2013-2015), Senior Analyst (2013)

Bain & Company

2011 - 2013

  • Associate Consultant

    2011 - 2013

    Assisted clients in the media, tech, healthcare, and utilities sectors

Kairos Society

2009 - 2011

  • Founder, Harvard Chapter; National Leader

    2009 - 2011

    Helped launch the Kairos Society, an international nonprofit organization that seeks to develop entrepreneurs from universities around the world, by launching the Harvard chapter and serving on the national leadership team