Introduction:
Vijay Angadi: is Managing Director of Novastar Funds. The Novastar Funds invest in small and mid cap publicly listed companies that have the potential to emerge as leaders over a three year period. He is a pioneer of the venture capital industry in India and was part of the founding team of the first venture fund in India, ICICI Ventures. He worked for 8 years with ICICI Ventures and served as the Group Head of investments and member of the Investment Committee and oversaw the investment and substantial divestment of the first two funds: Vecaus I and Vecaus II. Vijay served on the Boards of a numerous private and public companies including Praj, Vimta Labs and Bangalore Genie.
Achievements:
Vijay has served on the Board of the Indian Venture Capital Association and lectures widely on technology and company building. Vijay is an engineer from National Institute of Technology (Surathkal, India) and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.