Beams Fintech Fund is Co-Founded by Sagar Agarvwal. Sagar has held Senior positions & built Investment Management firms over the last 15 years covering Emerging markets of India, Middle East & Africa.

He has advised across 3 private equity funds, $500 Mn+ of deployed capital, 36+ investments across Growth stages in Consumer, Healthcare, Financial Services & Fintech space with multiple exits & liquidity events. Sagar has been focusing on Fintech & Financial Services Investments in his Fund mandates across emerging markets.

He has been on various Boards, Investment Committees, Operating & Acquisitions Committees managing & advising capital for institutional investors.

He has also been part of several Corporate Finance transactions, Mergers & Acquisitions, IPOs throughout his career. Sagar is an active Fintech angel investor in India being part of angel groups & advisor to some Fintech Founders in India in his personal capacity.

Sagar Agarvwal holds a Master’s degree from SPJAIN, Singapore in Investment Banking with a Dean’s List medal. He is also a CFA charter holder & member of CFA Society. Sagar graduated from NMIMS in Commerce & Accounting with State ranks & Scholarship awards at High School & Final year of Graduation.

Beams Fintech Fund is Co-Founded by CA Anuj Golecha. He is also the co-founder of Venture Catalysts Private Limited and 9 Unicorns Accelerator Fund. He has invested in 50+ startups including successful companies such as BharatPe (backed by Tiger Global, Ribbit Capital, Sequoia Capital), Flobiz (backed by Sequoia, Beenext, Elevation), Dukaan (backed by Sequoia, Lightspeed, Matrix), Rentomojo (backed by Accel, Matrix and Samsung Ventures), Beardo (acquired by Marico), Fynd (acquired by Reliance), SuprDaily (acquired by Swiggy), Innov8 (acquired by OYO Rooms), Siftr (acquired by APUS) & many more.

Fintech & financial services have been core areas of focus for Anuj over the last two decades and co-founded several financial services businesses including consumer lending firm Creditwise Capital.Anuj has also been Awarded for “40 under 40 – Alternative Investment Professionals in India” by Association of International Wealth Management of India (AIWMI) in 2018 and also been invited for Champions of Change : Fixing Finance (Recognition by Hon’ble Prime Minister of India – Shri Narendra Modi at Special Commision under NITI Aayog) and Swachhata Hi Seva (Recognition by Swachh Bharat Abhiyan)

He is a certified Chartered Accountant and is also a 2nd Generation Partner of Banshi Jain & Associates (BJAA) – a four decade old CA firm managing over 1300 clients.

Mr. Navin Surya is a serial entrepreneur and investor in the Fintech space in India. Mr. Surya has been known for revolutionizing the electronic payment solutions in India under the brand ItzCash. Mr. Surya joined Essel Group in 2005 and has since introduced India’s first ever Multi-Purpose Cash Card, ItzCash Card to enable customers in conducting seamless, safe, and simple financial transactions without the age-old constraints of time, space, and location. Under Mr. Surya’s leadership, Itz Cash Card Limited has won national and international accolades including “Innovative Use of Technology”, “Best General-Purpose Spending Card Program” and “the Most Innovative Prepaid Program” of the year 2008 for the “Octroi Automation Program”. After spending more than 13 years building the Company, Mr. Surya also led the complete exit of ItzCash to EbixCash for $130 Mn in 2017.

Mr. Surya is also the Founder of SoHum Bharat Digital Payments, a company formed to revolutionize digital retail payments in India in partnership with Infibeam (one of the leaders in the Payments space in India). Mr. Surya is also the Member of National Payment Corporation of India and Chairman of Fintech Convergence Council and Payments Council of India and is an active member of Prepaid International Forum (PIF) and a former member of GIRO Committee of RBI.

Previously, Mr. Surya was part of TCS as Management Consultant, where he worked on projects like ACC, GE Capital (UK) and UBS (Japan). Mr. Surya has a PG in Management with specialization in Finance.

Mr. Surya is a distinguished name in the Digital and Retail Payment Systems and FinTech in the country. He is also an Associate Member of Company Secretaries Institute (ACS) besides having a Graduation degree in both Commerce and Law from Mumbai University. Over last two decades Mr. Surya has undertaken many pioneering activities and some of them are key foundations for digital economy e.g. Cashless Trade Exchange for the country, India’s first digital wallet for Masses (real Bharat). Mr. Surya also is also an active investor & mentor in the Fintech space in companies such as Wizz, Zimyo, Tyke, FPL, Satya Microcapital etc.

Domain expertise: Entrepreneurship, Fintech, Financial Services, Tech Consulting, Digital Banking, Scaling-up

With a career spanning two and half decades, Amit is an experienced industry leader in the financial services sector. Amit co-founded Capital India Group and led Capital India Finance Limited (CIFL) as its CEO for over three years. Under Amit’s leadership, CIFL grew into a INR 1000 crore financial services platform spanning corporate and consumer financing, Foreign Exchange and a Fintech business into last mile delivery of banking services.

Prior to founding of CIFL, Amit led Investment Banking practice for Infrastructure, industrial, real-estate, energy, logistics, cement, retail, metals, financial services, and other sectors at YES Bank. During his 11 years at YES Bank, Amit advised over 30 successful M&A and capital raising transactions, including several cross-border and private equity transactions.

Amit has earlier worked with Reliance Energy, CRISIL, Tata Unisys and the World Bank.

Amit is a management graduate from IIM Kozhikode, B. Tech from IIT (BHU) Varanasi and has completed LLB from Government Law College, Mumbai University. Amit is also a certified Yoga teacher and a regular practitioner.

Amit devotes a part of his time into philanthropic activities as Partner and Grants Committee Member (Mumbai Chapter) of Social Venture Partners (SVP) India – a pan-India collaborative philanthropy organization (https://svpindia.org/). He also mentors CIVIS – an NGO focussed on increasing citizens participation in law making process.

Atul is a qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA) & Company Secretary (LCS). In the past, he has been associated with corporate groups of Edelweiss, HCC, Indiabulls , Sofitel and a Startup-Motocruizer Technologies India Pvt ltd. & Emotorad. He has over a decade of experience in Corporate Finance & Accounts, Handling Due Diligence, Fund Raising and overall Compliances.

He was actively involved with leading a team at Asset management and AIF segment in the previous stint at Edelweiss, dealing closely with Investors & auditors. He is a Qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA) & Company Secretary (LCS), B.Com. He has worked for Edelweiss, HCC, Indiabulls and a Startup-Motocruizer Technologies India Pvt ltd.

Deepanshu is a Postgraduate in Finance from IMT, Ghaziabad. In the past he led early-stage investments with Artha India Ventures, the investment office of Mr Anirudh Damani and Mr. Ashok Kumar Damani. He had also been actively involved in portfolio mentorship within the industry connects and VC connects for future fundraising. He also managed the close group of investors at Artha India Ventures called the Funders Circle.

He was the Co-founder and COO at Cuddll from 2016-2019, a social discovery start-up. Deepanshu has also worked at HDFC Bank in their Trade & Treasury department for two years.

He is passionate about the start-up ecosystem and having run his own start-up enterprise he brings a unique perspective to the team. He is experienced in raising funds in both domestic and international markets. Deepanshu is also well-informed about operations and social media management.

Soniya has been a star performer at our Group organization, Venture Catalysts for the past 4 years. She was instrumental in building and managing the 300+ family office network at Venture Catalysts & is now leading Investor Relations & Fund Raising at Beams Fintech Fund. She also helps us in building co-investments for LPs. During her time at Venture Catalysts, Soniya also managed relationships with Ultra HNI’s

Prior to Venture Catalysts, Soniya was a part of the Campden Family Office Connect where she managed family office engagements for the group.

Soniya has done her masters in Marketing from IES.

Madhur is a graduate from London Business School with over 6 years of experience. Madhur has worked with FT partners in the UK in investment banking. Prior to that, Madhur has also worked with the Central Investments team of the $60b Aditya Birla Group.

Madhur has led private placements and M&A deals for leading FinTech companies across Europe, Africa and Asia. Moreover, he was involved in some marquee transactions including the largest merger in India by deal value ($12b) of Idea-Vodafone. He brings a large breadth of deal experience both domestic and international and is passionate about investing in the FinTech domain.

In his personal life, Madhur likes to spend time with his family, play squash & swim

Aarushi is a graduate in BSc Accounts and Finance. Following graduation, Aarushi has worked as an Investment Analyst at Venture Catalysts, curating and vetting start-ups in various sectors, whilst also engaging in fundraising activities and portfolio development.

Mehul is an Engineering Graduate from IIT Madras. In the past, he has been associated with YCP Auctus as a management consultant. He has also worked with Bain & Co during his BTech from IIT.

He has an experience of analysing strategic partnerships and conducting due diligence for GMR with leading players in the mobility and IoT platform segment. He has also advised a large airport IT company on several bids in the South East Asian region, including marquee airports like Singapore’s Changi Airport Group.

Mehul also has keen interest in cricket and has played an active part in organizational activities, bringing sponsorship deals for the cultural fest of his college.

Samrat has completed CFA and is a B.Sc Finance graduate from NMIMS, Mumbai. He has worked with PwC India’s investment banking team for 2.5 years. He has also interned with IIFL Securities during his B.Sc Finance at NMIMS.

At PwC, he worked on several fundraising and M&A deals in the Tech sector. He has also cleared CS1 (Institute and Faculty of Actuaries UK) and ACET (Institute of Actuaries of India).

Samrat enjoys playing football and going to the gym in his free time.