Niraj Chhajer

Managing Partner at Pransh Capital Partners

📍 India🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2021
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Angel Investor
Jan 2021
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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2021
Managing Partner
Jun 2021
Pransh Capital Partners invest in early stage startups in India. We make Angel investments in Fin-tech, Agri-tech, Edu-tech, Insurtech, Health-tech, FMCG, Retail, SaaS, and other cutting-edge technologies, which leverage digital technology to scale and grow exponentially. We focus on 6Ps for deciding on any startup investment: 1. People - Founder should be one whom we can trust and partner with them for long term
 2. Problem solving - startup should be solving a real problem effectively
 3. Potential - Startup should have potential to grow exponentially 
 4. Passion - Team should be passionate about what they are doing 
 5. Price - The valuation should be reasonable, deal should be win-win for both side 
 6. Profitability - Business should have potential to become profitable in next 3-4 years We prefer to invest and participate in pre-seed, seed, pre-series A and series A round. As of April 2022 we have invested/committed in 25+ startups in India. For more information visit our website www.pransh.in
Angel Investor
Jan 2021
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.
2015
Investment Director and Responsible Officer
Jun 2015
Asia Climate Partners (ACP) is a leading private equity fund manager launched by Robeco, ORIX and the Asian Development Bank to invest in the clean energy, resource efficiency and environmental sectors in Asia. ACP benefits from the combined strength of Robeco as a global asset manager, as well as ORIX and ADB as two of the most active investors in the target sectors in the Asia-Pacific region.
2005
Deputy Manager - Private Equity and M&A
Sep 2005
Axis Bank is the third largest private sector bank in India. The Bank offers the entire spectrum of financial services to customer segments covering Large and Mid-Corporates, MSME, Agriculture and Retail Businesses. The Bank has a large footprint of 5000 domestic branches (including extension counters) with 15,751 ATMs & cash recyclers spread across the country. The Bank has 6 Axis Virtual Centres with over 1,500 Virtual Relationship Managers as on 31st March 2023. The Overseas operations of the Bank are spread over eight international offices with branches in Singapore, Dubai (at DIFC), and Gift City-IBU; representative offices in Dhaka, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and an overseas subsidiary in London, UK. The international offices focus on Corporate Lending, Coverage Business, Trade Finance, Syndication, Investment Banking, Liability Businesses, and Private Banking/Wealth Management offerings. Axis Bank is one of the first new generation private sector banks to have begun operations in 1994. The Bank was promoted in 1993, jointly by Specified Undertaking of Unit Trust of India (SUUTI) (then known as Unit Trust of India), Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC), National Insurance Company Ltd. (NIC), The New India Assurance Company Ltd. (NIA), The Oriental Insurance Company Ltd. (OIC), and United India Insurance Company Ltd. (UIIC). The shareholding of Unit Trust of India was subsequently transferred to SUUTI, an entity established in 2003. GIC, NIC, NIA, OIC, UIIC have been reclassified from promoter category to public category. As on March 31, 2023, SUUTI and LIC are the promoters of the Bank. With a balance sheet size of Rs. 13,17,326 crores as on 31st March 2023, Axis Bank has achieved consistent growth and with a 5-year CAGR (2017-18 to 2022-23) of 14% each in Total Assets & Advances and 16% in Deposits.