Karthik Natarajan

ex-Chief Financial Officer at Vishal Mega Mart P Limited.

📍 Gurgaon, Haryana, India🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2018
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Angel investor
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.
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2020
Operating advisor
Sep 2020
WestBridge Capital is a $7B+ global investment firm that partners with transformative entrepreneurs in India and the US at every stage, for the long term. For over 25 years, weve discovered and led investments in more than 150 companies, with a nexus to India, across both private and public markets, often as their largest institutional partner. In addition to long term capital, with investments ranging from Series A to public, we help companies succeed through hands-on portfolio support, deep market expertise, and a strong global network. Our team serves on the boards of many portfolio companies, developing partnerships that span decades. We believe that building great businesses takes time. Enabled by the unique evergreen and crossover structure of our fund, the number one commitment we make to founders is to be their partner at each step of the journey. We have offices in Silicon Valley, Bangalore and Mauritius, with advisors across India and the US.
2018
Angel investor
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.
2011
Chief Financial Officer
Jul 2011
TPG is a leading global private investment firm with $75 billion of capital under management. TPG invests in companies across a broad range of industries and geographies with emphasis on building long-term value that benefits all stakeholders. Vishal Mega Mart (a brand owned by TPG Wholesale Private Limited) is one of fastest growing chains of hypermarkets in India. The Vishal Mega Mart business has the most desirable retail mix for a hypermarket comprising Apparel, General Merchandise and FMCG wherein Apparel contributes more than half of its revenue.Our organization culture is driven absolutely through Merit with strong focus on Performance. Our core operating values are: Transparency, Empowerment and Integrity. Our Master Franchisee Airplaza Retail Holdings Private Ltd. (a company owned by the Shriram Group) operates all the Vishal Mega Mart hyper outlets. Today ARHPL has 145 plus high performing hyper markets with 5000 plus highly engaged employees covering almost all major towns in India .
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