Pavan R. Parikh

Former Managing Director and Co-Owner of Constantia Parikh Packaging (India) and Venture Capitalist

📍 India🔄 Updated July 2026💼 3 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2021
VC🌍 India
3
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Late stage
6y
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Portfolio

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Feb 2021
Venture Catalysts is Indias first Multi-Stage VC, dedicated to backing the most promising entrepreneurs in India, the worlds fastest growing startup ecosystem. Having started in 2016, we are amongst the most active investors in India with USD 200Mn+ deployed across 300+ companies through our syndication platform. The combined valuation of the portfolio companies is USD 10Bn+. We typically invest 0.25 Mn - 2 Mn across seed to early stage companies & are sector agnostic. Our 4000+ investor community is spread across 20+ countries in the world including India, Singapore, UAE, USA, UK, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, Canada, Qatar, Oman, Mauritius, South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe & more. We are backed by some of the most marquee investors from India: Radhakishan Damani (DMart), Haldiram’s, Enam Securities, Ashish Kacholia (Lucky Investments), Authum Investments, Shahrukh Khan (Bollywood), Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Bollywood), Abhijit Pawar (Sakal Media Group), Utpal Sheth (Trust Group), Vinod Dugar (RDB Group), Hardik Patel (Finquest), Karthik Sundar Iyer, Mukul Agarwal (Param Caputal), Capri Global, Anil Singhvi (Zee Business), Aman Gupta (boAt), Ritesh Agarwal (OYO), Nirmit Parikh (Apna), Srinath Ramakkrushnan (Zetwerk), among others. The Venture Catalysts ecosystem of funds includes: 100 Unicorns | USD 100 Mn | Early stage accelerator fund Beams Fintech Fund | USD 80 Mn | India’s first growth-stage fintech fund Elev8 Venture Partners | USD 160 Mn | Growth technology fund for series B & C investments Spyre Proptech Venture Fund | USD 50 Mn | Indias first proptech fund in partnership with CREDAI VC Grid | Exclusive community for family offices & CVCs Collectively, the group manages over USD 500 Mn and has supported 400+ companies. If you are a startup founder looking to raise capital, write to us at ideas@venturecatalysts.in If you are an investor, write to us at investors@venturecatalysts.in
Strategic Stakeholder / Investor in Reelo Technologies
Jan 2021
Reelo makes customer retention & engagement easy for every retail business. The world is rapidly moving towards personalization and customers are rapidly moving to digital, faster than ever before. The way consumers make purchasing decisions has dramatically changed and retailers are struggling to adapt to this new reality. The current tools in the market are far too overpowered, complex and expensive that they become inaccessible for most small & medium sized retailers. These tools are meant to be used by marketing teams of large enterprise brands. Macintosh democratized computers; Google democratized information; Canva democratized design. Similarly, Reelo aims to democratize Customer Engagement for every retailer. Our mission is to help millions of small & medium enterprise retailers accelerate their revenue through intelligent customer engagement. If youre looking to be a part of our mission or want to know more, drop a message on hello@reelo.in :)
Strategic Stakeholder / Investor
Nov 2020
EroNkans Industrial IoT Platform provides world class infrastructure that enables IoT technology and Industry 4.0 solutions to be applied across various industries and verticals. EroNkan provides tools, technology, consulting and insights into industrial processes, machine performance and shop floor dynamics so that effective and timely decisions can be taken at both ground level and senior management to improve productivity, quality and availability across the organisation at all levels. We were founded in 2014 and introduced IoT technology to connect machines, sensors and different data sources to improve plant production efficiency, quality control and facilitate creation of automated KPI dashboards. Our goal is to help our customers better understand the needs of their customers, get insights into operational metrics like production efficiency and aggregate data to help their customers avoid failures while also better monitoring drops in production quality. We have created significant impact of upto 10% reduction in manufacturing losses across some marquee clients. Our platform is operational 24x7, 365 days a year with a service uptime of 99.99%.
Experience · 5 entries
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2021
Investor In 9 Unicon
Feb 2021
Venture Catalysts is Indias first Multi-Stage VC, dedicated to backing the most promising entrepreneurs in India, the worlds fastest growing startup ecosystem. Having started in 2016, we are amongst the most active investors in India with USD 200Mn+ deployed across 300+ companies through our syndication platform. The combined valuation of the portfolio companies is USD 10Bn+. We typically invest 0.25 Mn - 2 Mn across seed to early stage companies & are sector agnostic. Our 4000+ investor community is spread across 20+ countries in the world including India, Singapore, UAE, USA, UK, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, Canada, Qatar, Oman, Mauritius, South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe & more. We are backed by some of the most marquee investors from India: Radhakishan Damani (DMart), Haldiram’s, Enam Securities, Ashish Kacholia (Lucky Investments), Authum Investments, Shahrukh Khan (Bollywood), Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Bollywood), Abhijit Pawar (Sakal Media Group), Utpal Sheth (Trust Group), Vinod Dugar (RDB Group), Hardik Patel (Finquest), Karthik Sundar Iyer, Mukul Agarwal (Param Caputal), Capri Global, Anil Singhvi (Zee Business), Aman Gupta (boAt), Ritesh Agarwal (OYO), Nirmit Parikh (Apna), Srinath Ramakkrushnan (Zetwerk), among others. The Venture Catalysts ecosystem of funds includes: 100 Unicorns | USD 100 Mn | Early stage accelerator fund Beams Fintech Fund | USD 80 Mn | India’s first growth-stage fintech fund Elev8 Venture Partners | USD 160 Mn | Growth technology fund for series B & C investments Spyre Proptech Venture Fund | USD 50 Mn | Indias first proptech fund in partnership with CREDAI VC Grid | Exclusive community for family offices & CVCs Collectively, the group manages over USD 500 Mn and has supported 400+ companies. If you are a startup founder looking to raise capital, write to us at ideas@venturecatalysts.in If you are an investor, write to us at investors@venturecatalysts.in
Strategic Stakeholder / Investor in Reelo Technologies
Jan 2021
Reelo makes customer retention & engagement easy for every retail business. The world is rapidly moving towards personalization and customers are rapidly moving to digital, faster than ever before. The way consumers make purchasing decisions has dramatically changed and retailers are struggling to adapt to this new reality. The current tools in the market are far too overpowered, complex and expensive that they become inaccessible for most small & medium sized retailers. These tools are meant to be used by marketing teams of large enterprise brands. Macintosh democratized computers; Google democratized information; Canva democratized design. Similarly, Reelo aims to democratize Customer Engagement for every retailer. Our mission is to help millions of small & medium enterprise retailers accelerate their revenue through intelligent customer engagement. If youre looking to be a part of our mission or want to know more, drop a message on hello@reelo.in :)
2020
Strategic Stakeholder / Investor
Nov 2020
EroNkans Industrial IoT Platform provides world class infrastructure that enables IoT technology and Industry 4.0 solutions to be applied across various industries and verticals. EroNkan provides tools, technology, consulting and insights into industrial processes, machine performance and shop floor dynamics so that effective and timely decisions can be taken at both ground level and senior management to improve productivity, quality and availability across the organisation at all levels. We were founded in 2014 and introduced IoT technology to connect machines, sensors and different data sources to improve plant production efficiency, quality control and facilitate creation of automated KPI dashboards. Our goal is to help our customers better understand the needs of their customers, get insights into operational metrics like production efficiency and aggregate data to help their customers avoid failures while also better monitoring drops in production quality. We have created significant impact of upto 10% reduction in manufacturing losses across some marquee clients. Our platform is operational 24x7, 365 days a year with a service uptime of 99.99%.
Managing Director
Apr 2020
Bucon Workspace is a creative and flexible workspace solution for all work enthusiasts; entrepreneurs, start-ups and businesses. We know that an entrepreneur or startup spends time, efforts and investments on taking an idea to the next level, there exists many trivial, yet significant, issues that grab attention. Finding the right workspace, maintenance and day to day operations are a few such distractions. Setting up the perfect backdrop to fix these issues and to amplify ones productivity, lead to the conception of Bucon Workspace.
2013
Managing Director, VP Sales Constantia /Parikh Packaging ( INDIA)
Jan 2013
Constantia Flexibles is the world’s third largest producer of flexible packaging. Based on the guiding principle of ‘People, Passion, Packaging’, 7,700 employees manufacture tailor-made packaging solutions at 30 sites in 16 countries. Many international companies and local market leaders from the consumer and pharma industries choose Constantia Flexibles’ more sustainable and innovative products. Sustainability is a top priority at Constantia Flexibles: the company was rated Level A- by Climate Change Leadership (CDP) and Gold by EcoVadis in 2022.
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2020–2021 · 3 investments
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