VALENCE GROWTH PARTNERS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Director in the Technology - Sector Focused Advisory Team at DC Advisory
Ateesh is currently a Director in the technology-sector focused advisory team at DC Advisory in London. He brings more than a decade of experience advising technology businesses both in Europe and globally. He continues to spend time on the broader technology space with a particular focus on the Software sector.
Ateesh started his investment banking career advising public and private technology sector clients across M&A and capital markets products at Morgan Stanley in London. In his most recent role prior to DC Advisory, he was working with Arma Partners in London advising technology companies on M&A and private capital raising transactions.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Economist and Writer
Dr. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha is an economist and writer. He is the CEO and Senior Fellow at Artha India Research Advisors, a public policy consulting firm. He has earlier held leadership positions in organizations such as Business World, Mint and IDFC Institute. Niranjan has closely tracked the Indian economy for the past three decades - as a journalist, commentator, researcher and speaker. He also serves on the boards of education and research institutions such as the Meghnad Desai Academy of Economics, the Indian School of Public Policy and the Center for Civil Society.
Education
PhD, Mumbai School of Economics and Public Policy
As the Founder of Valence Growth Partners, Kartik's vision is to enable businesses to unlock growth by creating long-lasting bonds.
Before this, Kartik was part of the global investing team at Omidyar Network, where he sourced, evaluated and invested in ventures across FinTech, SaaS, Blockchain and Digital Infrastructure. He also helped drive Omidyar's efforts towards fostering innovation by creating a platform in partnership with CIIE.CO (a start-up incubator established by IIM Ahmedabad) to incubate and accelerate entrepreneurship in India.
During his time at The London School of Economics, Kartik led their in-house consulting arm to help start-ups chart their zero-to-one journeys - from assessing product-market-fit to developing a go-to-market strategy. Among them was Circuit Mind, an AI-enabled circuit board design company, which was recognised and funded by Google for Start-ups as the most impactful companies in Europe led by black founders.
The entrepreneurial bug bit well before any of this, when Kartik was part of building India's first D2C artisanal ice-cream brand. Several roadblocks, pivots, and iterations later - he learnt why ideas are a dime a dozen and it's the execution that counts. His core values remain agility, grit and humility.
Education
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)