Aviral Bhatnagar

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Always learning about startups+investing+business building+storytelling

Graduated from IIM Ahmedabad ('16) and IIT Bombay ('14) where I spent time on startup tinkering, understanding businesses, storytelling and learning a way of life.

Founder

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Prestigious scholarship awarded to the top 5% of the batch on the basis of exceptional academic performance

Institute Industrial Scholar

Awarded the Institute Organisational Color, the highest award for Organisational Excellence, for executing 72 events, the Inter IIT IIM Nihilanth and the inaugural IIT Bombay LitFest

Institute Organisational Color

Winner at Eureka!, Asia's largest Business-Plan Competition as part of Education Edge Initiatives 

Winner, Eureka!

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

English

Hindi

Venture Highway LLP

Leading investments in SaaS, edtech, social, gaming, e-commerce and Web3. If you're building something, or planning to, reach out at aviral@venturehighway.vc.

A Junior VC

Guild Capital

Focused on early-stage/venture investments, and set up the India investing practice.

Investor

Morgan Stanley

Private equity with large infra-asset focus

Summer Investor

Function Space

Head of Growth

Education Edge

Award-winning startup focused on opening career options for Tier 2 city students

Co-Founder, Business Plan and Marketing Head

VC at Venture Highway | ajuniorvc.com

Sector scoping, due diligence and founder introductions across FinTech, P2P transportation and fashion ecommerce as a part of a CIIE project

Venture Investing for Norwest Venture Partners

Synthesized a term paper analyzing the contribution of a flight of liquidity and a run on the repo to the 2008 financial crisis


Impact of Liquidity in the 2008 Financial Crisis

CAT (Common Aptitude Test)

IIT JEE

Free - Master of Me
Shark in 1st Season of Shark Tank India.
Previously MD and Co - Founder at BharatPe. 
Previously Head of New Business at PCJ.
Built Grofers business out as CFO | Raised US$ 170 mn.  
Headed Corp Dev for Amex India | Led investment in Series B of Mobikwik.
Kotak Investment Banking | 7 Years | 10 Deals | US$ 3 bn Transaction Value. 
IIM Ahmedabad.
IIT Delhi.

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon

French

Own Master

BharatPe

MD & Co-Founder

Building the largest offline merchant network in India by making mobile payments acceptance free and ubiquitous.

CEO & Co - Founder

PC Jeweller Ltd

Led digital transformation and strategy at the second largest Jewellery retailer in India. Enabled PayTM, PhonePe, Pine Labs, Magic Pin and QwikCilver. Consolidated e-comm operations under a single brand PCJ. Set the company up for next phase of consumer experience driven growth and diversification into adjacent businesses.

Head Of New Business

Grofers

Built 'Grofers' as core team member along with the founders - Albinder and Saurabh
Led  Finance, Legal and B2G
Raised US$ 170 mn from Softbank, Tiger, Sequoia and Yuri Milner

Chief Financial Officer

American Express

Led Series B investment in 'MobiKwik'
Payments and FinTech coverage for Amex in India

Director - Corporate Development

Kotak Investment Banking

M&A, Restructuring, PE and IPO
10 Deals | US$ 3 bn of Transaction Value
Sectors - Retail, Oil & Gas, Telecom, Media, Manufacturing and Real Estate

Vice President (VP)

Founder - BharatPe

Till date, Grofers has raised US$165 million from a slew of investors, including Tiger Global and SoftBank

Grofers CFO Ashneer Grover quits amidst merger talks with BigBasket

The cash delivery service, open to all back account holders. has started today across Mumbai, Gurgaon and Bengaluru. Other cities will be added to the list gradually.

Yes Bank, Grofers tie up to deliver cash at doorstep - The Economic Times

"Traditional businessmen understand business in their own way. That person will discount you in the first place. For a tech guy, that is past. This is the future." - Ashneer Grover (CFO Grofers)

Start-ups will continue to disrupt business, say investors

Grofers and PepperTap are among those start-ups that plan to launch staples such as pulses, rice and oil

As funds dry up, hyperlocals tap private labels to boost profits

Grofers, RoadRunnr and others have started using cards from a Bengaluru-based startup, Happay, which offers prepaid expense management solutions.

Hyperlocal startups like Grofers, Pepper-Tap, TinyOwl reduce use of petty cash via prepaid cards

Raises funds from Ashneer Grover, CFO Grofers among others. The company will deploy the funds for team expansion and product development.

EasyRewardz bags Rs 3 crore in Pre-Series A

Grofers founded in 2014 is a hyper-local, on demand mobile app based delivery service. Ashneer Grover, head of finance at Grofers speaks about the company an...

E-merge2015 – Kotak Institutional Equities Conference - Ashneer Grover - Head of Finance, Grofers

Deal makers joining this exodus is a reflection of global trends, with investment banking acting as a springboard for their new careers.

Professionals of investment bank like BoFA-ML, Kotak, others to join start-ups

“Ashneer Grover from @Grofers shares his opinion of being a part of #FDIFoodRetail. https://t.co/NoNhSMaxVL”

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2.		Ashneer Grover	🇮🇳	announcement crore entrepreneurship	429,117	10	15,890	5.14%	11.57

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