Ashwin is a co-founder and Partner at the Bharat Innovation Fund, an early-stage venture capital fund which invests in pre-series A to Series B rounds of world class deeptech startups originating out of India.
Prior to this, he helped set up India’s first deeptech focussed fund, the India Innovation Fund, which was bought out by a Secondaries fund. Ashwin has been intimately involved in the start-up ecosystem in India earlier heading the Innovation Initiative at NASSCOM, with a mandate to increase innovation in the Indian IT Industry.
He currently is a mentor at the NASSCOM Deeptech Club and serves on the investment committees of multiple grant and soft loan programs set up by BIRAC, and is also a member of the Investment
Committee at the incubation cell at IIT Kanpur
