Anoop Menon is Principal in the Investment team. He leads the Consumer-Tech sector and on the board of 10 portfolio companies including Shopdeck, HouseEazy, Playshifu to name a few. He is also building the Investor and the Strategic partner network in APAC focused on Singapore, Japan, SEA, Hongkong, Korea and ANZ.
In a career spanning over 19 years across Management Consulting, Family Office VC – leading and managing an early-stage startup portfolio to leading a Media-tech startup as CEO, Anoop has donned multiple hats. Prior to Chiratae, Anoop worked at Accenture Ventures – partnering, investing and acquiring startups with Deep-tech capabilities for its Open Innovation platform in India. He led the organisation’s lone acquisition of a Data-AI startup in India in May 2020. Anoop was responsible for driving Innovation Strategy and Corporate Venturing as a Service for Accenture’s clients and was part of Accenture India’s Investment Committee for its CSR Investments into Social startups. He also conceptualised and launched Accenture’s 2 Centers of Excellence with IISc, Bangalore and IIT-Madras in Advanced Computing and Industry 4.0 respectively.
Taking his interest in early-stage investments forward, he founded the IIM Indore Alumni Angel fund and served on its Fund-1 as an Investment committee member.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering from University of Madras and MBA (PGDM) from Indian Institute of Management – Indore.
