Flourish Ventures, an early-stage enterprise capital agency, has introduced the appointment of Ravi Kaushik as its new Govt Director, Head of Asia Investments.
In his new function, Kaushik will oversee the agency’s fintech investments and portfolio administration throughout India and Southeast Asia.
Beforehand, Kaushik was the CFO of Agro.Membership, a worldwide B2B grain market, the place he managed monetary methods and operations for the corporate’s 250 workers throughout 5 areas.
Bringing over 15 years of expertise in enterprise capital and personal fairness, Kaushik has been concerned in each working roles and funding cycles, together with a foundational stint at WaterBridge Ventures.
This hiring marks the fourth addition to Flourish Ventures’ world funding staff this yr. It follows the agency’s current US$350 million funding increase, which has elevated its whole capital administration to US$850 million.
Flourish is intensifying its concentrate on fintech alternatives not solely within the U.S. but in addition in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Tilman Ehrbeck
“Ravi provides essential expertise in rising and scaling tech firms that can be invaluable to us as we accomplice with new investments all through Southeast Asia and India.
His distinctive ability set in operations, extensive breadth of funding data and keenness for serving to founders navigate their startup journeys will present nice worth for our staff and portfolio.”
stated Tilman Ehrbeck, Flourish’s Co-Founder and Managing Associate.
Ravi Kaushik
“Having spent the previous couple of years scaling Agro.Membership and gaining invaluable expertise in working and scaling world tech firms, I’m actually excited to hitch the Flourish staff and assist increase our presence in Southeast Asia and India.
I’ve seen first-hand the facility of expertise to drive scale. Once you mix that with Flourish’s razor-sharp concentrate on fintech and the truth that India and Southeast Asia are the quickest rising areas on the planet, it presents a multi-decade alternative to put money into and construct with a number of the greatest founders within the area.”
stated Ravi.
