Jignesh Kenia

Angel Investor | CFO | Strategy | M&A | Digital Transformation | Media & Entertainment | Business Turnaround

📍 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2018
VC🌍 India
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Investor
Jun 2018
Wishup provides Remote Workers at an affordable price point which is fulfilled through a tech enabled marketplace. Services include Admin, SMM, Project Management, E-Com Assistance and other recurring work. We aim to address the large latent demand for VAs within the urban population while enabling a huge work-from-home VA workforce through a tech platform.
Investor
Jun 2018
Qbera is a managed marketplace for unsecured personal loans that leverages tech-enabled acquisition, underwriting and loan processing capabilities to offer credit products co-created with banks that are part of Qbera's multi-lender network. Such origination of assets against a bank’s liabilities is performed in a hybrid lending model wherein Qbera shares some of the risk with the bank. Banks and NBFCs plug their balance sheet into Qbera to tap into new customer segments using Qbera’s programmatic lending solution and benefit from lower operating expense, data-driven underwriting and credit decisioning, reduction in turnaround time, no cost of customer acquisition, proven technology and increase in profitability. Qbera has capabilities across the lending lifecycle: 1. Acquisition: We have an omni-channel borrower sourcing funnel that taps into best-in-class digital acquisition strategies and tech-enabled offline partners. We operate a Lending-as-a-Service (LaaS) model for our customer acquisition partners which enables them to offer credit products to their customers. 2. Underwriting: Validated risk strategy and scorecards that are hosted on sophisticated data-driven rules engine. Extending access to credit to salaried employees of more than 7 lakh companies. 3. Fulfilment: Paper-less delivery of loans. Digital verification of residence, income and employment for majority of borrowers. 4. Servicing: Proprietary Loan Management System (LMS) with a powerful customer relationship management platform for automated/self-service along with a dedicated contact center team. 5. Collections: Data-driven early warning systems that track and provide flexibility to stressed borrowers for them to remain financially buoyant.
Angel Investor
Mar 2018
Inflection Point Ventures was started in 2018 with the aim of driving exponential value creation by being India’s most accessible & efficient network connecting a diverse investor community with a carefully set of curated startups. IPV is an early-stage angel investing platform, which provides both monetary and non-monetary support to the startups, as well as complete transparency around valuation, findings during due diligence, and personal interest (if any) to its investors. Today, it has 14,000+ angel investors, with the community having expanded beyond CXOs to include HNIs who come from varied backgrounds, professions and areas of expertise. IPV caters to investors pan India, and overseas, giving them access to startups and deals, making the group location and region agnostic. Since inception, we have invested in 250+ startups, with more in advanced stages of negotiations. IPV evaluation process screens startups and presents to investors only those, we feel have the potential to scale up. Till date we have considered startups spanning various industries such as Healthcare, Sports and Fitness, Retail Finance, HR, AI in hiring, Education, Supply Chain and Logistics etc, which shows that we do not have any predefined restrictions. For more information please visit our website.
Investor
May 2017
Vahanalytics is a data intelligence platform specialised in driving and fleet behaviour. We capture, process and analyse data to give fleet businesses insights into the safety and efficiency of their operations. By leveraging big data and machine learning technologies we enable fleet businesses to: - Analyse driver safety and performance - Identify problem areas - Manage risks - Identify gaps in operations - Make data driven decisions
Angel Investor
2016
Venture Catalysts is a company focused on the creation of start-ups based on technological and scientific projects. We support visionary researchers and entrepreneurs to release the full potential of their technologies and act as a catalyst on the development of new technology–based ventures. Our team's experience, our iterative approach as well as our expertise on several knowledge areas allows us to work side by side with the promoters of the technology, sharing risks and goals whilst speaking the languages of R&D, Entrepreneurship and Business. By evaluating the potential of technologies and focusing on solving real market needs, Venture Catalysts helps creating new ventures that generate products/services with very high potential at a global scale. We take a real hands-on approach, getting completely involved in the project and business development from day one to deliver the best results for the entrepreneurial endeavor. We focus on high technology areas from agriculture and food technology, biotechnology, energy and environment, health, materials and software development.
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2024
Co-Founder and Partner
2024
Signal Ventures is positioned to identify potential early stage companies and enable them with capital and experience resourcing. We focus on Indian startups at the crucial Pre-Series A stages and are sector agnostic. Our unique approach is powered by expert panels across select industry segments, enabling us to make curated investments that are more than just capital. Our framework enables startups with invaluable consulting support through our network of seasoned experts. We specialize in leading investment deals up to $250K via single cheques, while also actively engaging in co-investments. We believe in sustainable leveraged growth especially in the current context where responsible venture capital infusion is needed to build sustainable long term value for all stakeholders. Check us out on https://signalventures.in/ To invest with us, Signal here https://lnkd.in/ghV3aeim
2018
Investor
Jun 2018
Wishup provides Remote Workers at an affordable price point which is fulfilled through a tech enabled marketplace. Services include Admin, SMM, Project Management, E-Com Assistance and other recurring work. We aim to address the large latent demand for VAs within the urban population while enabling a huge work-from-home VA workforce through a tech platform.
Investor
Jun 2018
Qbera is a managed marketplace for unsecured personal loans that leverages tech-enabled acquisition, underwriting and loan processing capabilities to offer credit products co-created with banks that are part of Qbera's multi-lender network. Such origination of assets against a bank’s liabilities is performed in a hybrid lending model wherein Qbera shares some of the risk with the bank. Banks and NBFCs plug their balance sheet into Qbera to tap into new customer segments using Qbera’s programmatic lending solution and benefit from lower operating expense, data-driven underwriting and credit decisioning, reduction in turnaround time, no cost of customer acquisition, proven technology and increase in profitability. Qbera has capabilities across the lending lifecycle: 1. Acquisition: We have an omni-channel borrower sourcing funnel that taps into best-in-class digital acquisition strategies and tech-enabled offline partners. We operate a Lending-as-a-Service (LaaS) model for our customer acquisition partners which enables them to offer credit products to their customers. 2. Underwriting: Validated risk strategy and scorecards that are hosted on sophisticated data-driven rules engine. Extending access to credit to salaried employees of more than 7 lakh companies. 3. Fulfilment: Paper-less delivery of loans. Digital verification of residence, income and employment for majority of borrowers. 4. Servicing: Proprietary Loan Management System (LMS) with a powerful customer relationship management platform for automated/self-service along with a dedicated contact center team. 5. Collections: Data-driven early warning systems that track and provide flexibility to stressed borrowers for them to remain financially buoyant.
Angel Investor
Mar 2018
Inflection Point Ventures was started in 2018 with the aim of driving exponential value creation by being India’s most accessible & efficient network connecting a diverse investor community with a carefully set of curated startups. IPV is an early-stage angel investing platform, which provides both monetary and non-monetary support to the startups, as well as complete transparency around valuation, findings during due diligence, and personal interest (if any) to its investors. Today, it has 14,000+ angel investors, with the community having expanded beyond CXOs to include HNIs who come from varied backgrounds, professions and areas of expertise. IPV caters to investors pan India, and overseas, giving them access to startups and deals, making the group location and region agnostic. Since inception, we have invested in 250+ startups, with more in advanced stages of negotiations. IPV evaluation process screens startups and presents to investors only those, we feel have the potential to scale up. Till date we have considered startups spanning various industries such as Healthcare, Sports and Fitness, Retail Finance, HR, AI in hiring, Education, Supply Chain and Logistics etc, which shows that we do not have any predefined restrictions. For more information please visit our website.
2017
Investor
May 2017
Vahanalytics is a data intelligence platform specialised in driving and fleet behaviour. We capture, process and analyse data to give fleet businesses insights into the safety and efficiency of their operations. By leveraging big data and machine learning technologies we enable fleet businesses to: - Analyse driver safety and performance - Identify problem areas - Manage risks - Identify gaps in operations - Make data driven decisions
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