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Sanjay Varma

Democratizing Opportunity. Co-Founder, Kalido. #3 core team member at Alibaba & early investor. Columbia Business School. YPO Gold, London. RSA Fellow.

📍 Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong SAR🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 27 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 1999
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Vice President, Business Development. # 3 member of Core Team & Investor
1999
🌍Alibaba Group is on a mission to make it easy to do business anywhere! Guided by our passion and imagination, we’re leading the way in AI, cloud computing and e-commerce. We aim to build the future infrastructure of commerce, and we aspire to be a good company that lasts for 102 years.
Vice President, Business Development. # 3 member of Core Team & Investor
1999
The first business of Alibaba Group, Alibaba.com (www.alibaba.com) is the leading platform for global wholesale trade serving millions of buyers and suppliers around the world. Through Alibaba.com, small businesses can sell their products to companies in other countries. Sellers on Alibaba.com are typically manufacturers and distributors based in China and other manufacturing countries such as India, Pakistan, the United States and Thailand. Our Mission As part of the Alibaba Group, our mission is to make it easy to do business anywhere. We do this by giving suppliers the tools necessary to reach a global audience for their products, and by helping buyers find products and suppliers quickly and efficiently. One-Stop Sourcing Alibaba.com brings you hundreds of millions of products in over 40 different major categories, including consumer electronics, machinery and apparel. Buyers for these products are located in 190+ countries and regions, and exchange hundreds of thousands of messages with suppliers on the platform each day. Anytime, Anywhere As a platform, we continue to develop services to help businesses do more and discover new opportunities. Whether it’s sourcing from your mobile phone or contacting suppliers in their local language, turn to Alibaba.com for all your global business needs.
Experience · 5 entries
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2014
Kalido
Co-Founder
Sep 2014
2007
Chairman & Co-Founder
2007
JMATEK is a multi-national company offering market-leading home comfort and energy efficiency products. The company was founded by Oriental American Jaima, an international business group established in 1928. JMATEK is proud to be the exclusive licensee of the Honeywell brand of Air Comfort products that include their globally-recognized and best-selling Evaporative Air Coolers, Portable Air Conditioners and Dehumidifiers. The JMATEK Group has marketing & sales offices in China, USA, Mexico, Argentina, Netherlands and India, with engineering, manufacturing and operational functions in China, Hong Kong and India. JMATEK aspires to become a leading global player in its niche categories and has a growth strategy to build upon its successes to-date.
early stageManufacturing
1999
Vice President, Business Development. # 3 member of Core Team & Investor
1999
🌍Alibaba Group is on a mission to make it easy to do business anywhere! Guided by our passion and imagination, we’re leading the way in AI, cloud computing and e-commerce. We aim to build the future infrastructure of commerce, and we aspire to be a good company that lasts for 102 years.
Vice President, Business Development. # 3 member of Core Team & Investor
1999
The first business of Alibaba Group, Alibaba.com (www.alibaba.com) is the leading platform for global wholesale trade serving millions of buyers and suppliers around the world. Through Alibaba.com, small businesses can sell their products to companies in other countries. Sellers on Alibaba.com are typically manufacturers and distributors based in China and other manufacturing countries such as India, Pakistan, the United States and Thailand. Our Mission As part of the Alibaba Group, our mission is to make it easy to do business anywhere. We do this by giving suppliers the tools necessary to reach a global audience for their products, and by helping buyers find products and suppliers quickly and efficiently. One-Stop Sourcing Alibaba.com brings you hundreds of millions of products in over 40 different major categories, including consumer electronics, machinery and apparel. Buyers for these products are located in 190+ countries and regions, and exchange hundreds of thousands of messages with suppliers on the platform each day. Anytime, Anywhere As a platform, we continue to develop services to help businesses do more and discover new opportunities. Whether it’s sourcing from your mobile phone or contacting suppliers in their local language, turn to Alibaba.com for all your global business needs.
1994
Associate
1994
McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm. We are the trusted advisor to the worlds leading businesses, governments, and institutions. We work with leading organizations across the private, public and social sectors. Our scale, scope, and knowledge allow us to address problems that no one else can. We have deep functional and industry expertise as well as breadth of geographical reach. We are passionate about taking on immense challenges that matter to our clients and, often, to the world. We work with our clients as we do with our colleagues. We build their capabilities and leadership skills at every level and every opportunity. We do this to help build internal support, get to real issues, and reach practical recommendations. We bring out the capabilities of clients to fully participate in the process and lead the ongoing work.