Mr. Siddarth Pai

Siddarth leads a team of professionals and business analysts that manage and oversee the Fund’s end-to-end processes from deal evaluations, diligence, structuring, legal and finance functions. The team has developed deep domain expertise in the Indian market across these functions, leading to the creation of several playbooks that have become industry standard.

Siddarth also contributes actively to the growth of the AIF industry in India. He’s been the youngest Executive council member of the Indian Venture Capital Association and twice-running co-chair of the regulatory affairs committee. He’s worked across government departments and regulators on matters related to the industry and having served as a member on several government committees and personally writing several representations that have positively influenced the industry.

He’s an expert council member of iSPIRT, an Indian software and product advocacy think tank and the founding member and secretary of the PEVCFOA, a collective of the CFOs of Venture and Private Equity Funds investing in India.

He was awarded the “35 under 35” recognition by the Entrepreneur Magazine in 2017 and the “40 under 40” Alternative Investments Professionals of India for 2021 by the Association of International Wealth Management of India (AIWMI) and the Indian Association of Alternative Investment Funds (IAAIF).

Siddarth is a qualified chartered accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants, India, and holds a Bachelor’s in Commerce from St Joseph’s Commerce College, Bangalore.