Sunil Kulkarni

Director-Unified Fintech Forum and Advisor BCFI, Strategic Fintech Advisory - Digital Banking, Digital Payments, Digital Distribution, Digital Commerce, Digital Credit and Digital Currency

📍 India🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2021
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Investor & Mentor
Sep 2021
Beams Fintech Fund is the First Fintech Focused Growth Capital fund for India offering Ecosystem, Value Add & Capital to support the Fintech founders of tomorrow. Beams Fintech Fund is backed by Venture Catalysts, it’s a first sector focused Growth Capital Fund by the Group & second fund from their platform after 9 Unicorns Accelerator Fund Beams Fintech Fund is Co-Founded by Sagar Agarvwal, Dr Apoorva Sharma, Anuj Golecha, Anil Jain and Gaurav Jain,. Sagar has held Senior positions & built Investment Management firms over the last 15 years covering Emerging markets of India, Asia, Middle East & Africa. Founders have huge experience in the asset management space having built investment management firms over the last 20 years covering Emerging markets of India, Asia, Middle East & Africa. Founders have advised on more than $700 Mn+ of invested capital across 250+ investments, 50+ exits & liquidity events, $4 Bn in portfolio value creation. Founders have backed 30+ Fintech/FS Companies in India till date, created $3 Bn in portfolio value, returns ranging from 1.3x to 197x Our key focus areas are Embedded Finance, SAAS Products or Technologies for the Incumbents & Disrupting the Incumbents, Global Enterprises SAAS, Open Banking & Digital Financial Inclusion We have built an Alliance network of Banks, Fintechs, NBFCs, Fintech Founders, Mentors, Advisors & Portfolio Support Group from the Financial Services & Fintech Industry to provide maximum value add to the Fund’s portfolio companies Founders key current & past Fintech/FS investments include BharatPe, Dukaan, Flobiz, Esskay Fincorp, Suryoday, Centrum Forex, MFS Africa, GetVantage, Sarva, Impact Guru, Creditwise, OTO, Liquiloans, Lenden, Junio etc Venture Catalysts is the largest incubator & accelerator in India & third largest in the world. They have backed more than 200+ start-ups in India, syndicated $250+ Mn of invested capital, created two of the largest Unicorns in India, has a network of 500+ Founders
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2024
Business Mentor
Aug 2024
IIMA Ventures (formerly known as IIMA-CIIE) is the Innovation Continuum for fearless entrepreneurs, built at IIM Ahmedabad and recognized as a Centre of Excellence by the Department of Science and Technology. Founded in 2002, initially, as an academic centre, IIMA Ventures has since grown and pivoted to address the multiple emergent gaps in India’s innovation-driven entrepreneurship ecosystem. Today, this continuum spreads across incubation, acceleration, seed and growth funding, and research. Over its journey, IIMA Ventures has continued to fill the multiple, ever-evolving gaps in the Indian innovation-driven entrepreneurship space in many novel and pathbreaking ways. Among various initiatives, IIMA Ventures has conceptualised and hosted India’s first accelerator - iAccelerator- in 2009, created India’s first and so far the only cleantech-focused fund called INFUSE Ventures, designed and hosted one of India’s largest accelerator programs - The Power of Ideas and continued to run it in four waves over a decade. Overall, IIMA Ventures has accelerated over 1000 startups, funded over 300 startups, mentored and coached over 5000 startups and inspired more than a million with its publication - Stay Hungry Stay Foolish. IIMA Ventures multiplies its strength by working with like-minded partners like corporates, government departments, ministries and bodies, investors, multilateral agencies and academia. Through these partnerships, IIMA Ventures has created and implemented a range of interventions including accelerator programs, investment instruments and funds, research and advisory projects and long-duration comprehensive programs including various elements of the innovation continuum. It has and continues to work with the central and several state governments in advisory roles on policies and initiatives that are aimed at the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. For queries, write to us at ventures@iima.ac.in
2021
Investor & Mentor
Sep 2021
Beams Fintech Fund is the First Fintech Focused Growth Capital fund for India offering Ecosystem, Value Add & Capital to support the Fintech founders of tomorrow. Beams Fintech Fund is backed by Venture Catalysts, it’s a first sector focused Growth Capital Fund by the Group & second fund from their platform after 9 Unicorns Accelerator Fund Beams Fintech Fund is Co-Founded by Sagar Agarvwal, Dr Apoorva Sharma, Anuj Golecha, Anil Jain and Gaurav Jain,. Sagar has held Senior positions & built Investment Management firms over the last 15 years covering Emerging markets of India, Asia, Middle East & Africa. Founders have huge experience in the asset management space having built investment management firms over the last 20 years covering Emerging markets of India, Asia, Middle East & Africa. Founders have advised on more than $700 Mn+ of invested capital across 250+ investments, 50+ exits & liquidity events, $4 Bn in portfolio value creation. Founders have backed 30+ Fintech/FS Companies in India till date, created $3 Bn in portfolio value, returns ranging from 1.3x to 197x Our key focus areas are Embedded Finance, SAAS Products or Technologies for the Incumbents & Disrupting the Incumbents, Global Enterprises SAAS, Open Banking & Digital Financial Inclusion We have built an Alliance network of Banks, Fintechs, NBFCs, Fintech Founders, Mentors, Advisors & Portfolio Support Group from the Financial Services & Fintech Industry to provide maximum value add to the Fund’s portfolio companies Founders key current & past Fintech/FS investments include BharatPe, Dukaan, Flobiz, Esskay Fincorp, Suryoday, Centrum Forex, MFS Africa, GetVantage, Sarva, Impact Guru, Creditwise, OTO, Liquiloans, Lenden, Junio etc Venture Catalysts is the largest incubator & accelerator in India & third largest in the world. They have backed more than 200+ start-ups in India, syndicated $250+ Mn of invested capital, created two of the largest Unicorns in India, has a network of 500+ Founders
2020
Director-Fintech Advisory
Jun 2020
Established in 2012, Alamak Capital is an Investment Banking Firm operating under three verticals: Equity, Debt and Advisory. Alamak is committed to deliver exceptional client service with its diverse range of offerings. It provides solutions across geographies to a wide range of clients enabling them to their business, regulatory and financing objectives. Some of the sectors served to include IT, IoT, Telecom, FinTech, Hospitality, F&B, Renewable Energy, Education, and Digital Media & News. Alamak Team has requisite operating experience in diverse sectors, to enable it to offer high-quality deal & business advisory services. Our mission is not only helping Corporates in raising Debt/Equity funds but also mentoring them in achieving desired growth and value maximization.
2017
Joint Managing Director
Jan 2017
Oxigen’s focus is to grow its footprint, to serve the last mile by providing Aadhaar enabled branchless banking services, cashless micro payments services and remittances, in a ‘real time’ environment, is Indias Largest Payments Solutions Provider. Oxigen’s proprietary technology is used to provide Payment Processing Services, through its flagship product, Oxigen Micro ATM. Oxigen provides branchless banking services integrated with Aadhaar to facilitate AEPS (Cash In/Cash Out), Bank Transfers, eKYC, and merchant payment services with NFC (Tap Pay), Card Payments (Rupay, Visa, Master Card), Bharat QR, UPI, Aadhaar Pay, Cash @ PoS using Cards. Traditional services include Recharges for Telecom, Internet data and DTH Prepaid, Postpaid Recharges, Money Transfer, Travel (IRCTC Railways/Airlines/Bus) Tickets, Movie Tickets, Utility Bill Payments, gift cards & value-added services, through its network of 200,000 retailers who, in turn, provide these services to end customers. Oxigen is also a National Business Correspondent to SBI and RBL bank with over 20,000 BC agents Oxigen also has a Mobile Money Wallet, branded as Oxigen Wallet (“OW”) and is a Prepaid Payment Instruments (“PPI”) license holder issued by RBI. With RBL Bank, Oxigen wallet offers a card for Corporate reimbursements, and provides Loyalty solutions on mobile, to companies like FuturePay. It has 3 million users now. Today, Oxigen boasts of a 150-million customer base and a retail footprint of over 2,00,000 outlets. Till date, Oxigen has processed over 6 billion transactions, with an existing volume of 600 million transactions per annum. Oxigen services are device agnostic and available through a point of sale device “MicroATM”, website and mobile App.