Vishesh Shrivastav

Private Equity Investor

📍 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India🔄 Updated September 2026💼 13 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2025
VC🌍 India
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Board Member
Jul 2025
Started as a tiny shop in Bikaner, Haldirams is an Indian food company that offers a wide range of delicious sweets, namkeen, bhujia ,snacks &more. What began as a small-town enterprise in India is today a global phenomenon. Haldirams is a way of life for Indians no matter which country they live in. Visit us Now! 👇
Board Observer
Aug 2021
ShareChat is India’s leading social media platform that operates exclusively in Indic languages. We empower our 160 million strong monthly active user community to share their opinions, record their lives and make new friends - all within the comfort of their language of choice. Our short video platform Moj, is today Indias preferred short video destination with tens of millions of users from across the world. The platform has been designed for artists and creators to create innovative short video content and display their creativity to millions, globally. At ShareChat we are spearheading Indias internet revolution. By providing a meaningful social experience, we are determining how the next billion users will interact on the internet.
Board Observer
Aug 2021
Unacademy aims to build the worlds largest online knowledge repository for multi-lingual education. We use technology to empower great educators and create a community of self-learners. Our vision is to partner with the brightest minds and democratise education for everyone looking to learn. Join us in our journey to change the future of education. Visit us at unacademy.com **Follow us on:** twitter.com/unacademy facebook.com/unacademy youtube.com/user/unacademy instagram.com/unacademy blog.unacademy.com
Board Member
Aug 2021
Licious began in 2015 when Abhay Hanjura and Vivek Gupta set out to transform a $55Bn category that was largely unbranded, inconsistent, and untouched by modern food standards. Their vision was simple - bring honesty, hygiene, and joy to meat and seafood buying in India. What followed was a category-defining shift powered by India’s only fully integrated 0–4°C cold chain, global FSSC 22000 certification, backward integration through bio-secure poultry farms, and rigorous control over freshwater fish and seafood. With five state-of-the-art processing centres and an annual capacity of 36,000 tonnes, Licious now serves India’s top metros - Bengaluru, NCR, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai and Kolkata - through a strong online presence, expanding retail stores, and fast-growing quick commerce partnerships, including 30-minute delivery across major urban clusters. Over the years, the brand has reached 4.5 million customers, earning unmatched trust, quality leadership and a loyal following in a category long defined by guesswork. This unwavering focus on quality, innovation, and consumer obsession has made Licious India’s first D2C unicorn. Today, it stands as the country’s most loved, iconic D2C meat brand - elevating everyday meals, setting new benchmarks for safety and freshness, and building an ecosystem where farmers, meat technicians, supply partners and delivery heroes thrive alongside millions of delighted home cooks.
Board Member
Jun 2021
upGrad - started in 2015, is a pioneer in the online education revolution, focused on powering career success for a global workforce of over 1.3 billion. It is one of the few Integrated LifeLongLearning Tech Companies in the world, spanning the college learner to the working professional from the age group of 18 to 55+ years and across undergrad courses, campus & job-linked programs, studying abroad, short form to executive programs to Degrees, Masters and Doctoral, with a learner base of over 3 million across 100+ countries and over 300 university partners and robust enterprise business with a client base of 1000 companies worldwide. upGrad’s Global Learning Engine rests on four pillars: (a) its large repository of original & owned content and IP, (b) its own best-in-class proprietary tech platform, (c) its high-touch human-led delivery service backed by coaches & mentors, and (d) an 85% course completion track record, backed by a further 80% career outcomes guaranteed performance. Already termed Asia’s higher EdTech leader it has offices in the UK, U.S., Middle East, India, Singapore & Vietnam, and a presence in many more countries
Board Member
Mar 2020
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Board Observer
Jan 2016
CarTrade.com is India’s leading online automotive market for buyers and sellers of new and used vehicles. Our car auctions take place across more than 80 cities with over 1200 dealers participating in these auctions. This enables us to empower the buyers and the seller to choose the most suitable vehicles at the most affordable prices.
Board Observer
Sep 2015
Zomato’s mission statement is “better food for more people.” Since our inception in 2010, we have grown tremendously, both in scope and scale - and emerged as India’s most trusted brand during the pandemic, along with being one of the largest hyperlocal delivery networks in the country. Today, Zomato represents a wide range of cultures through its diversified 5000+ team members, 3.5 lakh+ delivery partners, and our biggest collective of the finest restaurant partners. We are grateful that our business is able to provide upward social and economic movement for millions of households – of our delivery partners, as well as restaurant staff. We think of all of us as one big family! Our passion is driven by purpose and we take immense pride in our initiative ‘Feeding India’, one of India’s largest not-for-profits working to ensure that nobody in India goes to bed hungry. As of now, Feeding India provides over 150,000 nutritious meals to the underprivileged every day. In April 2020, Feeding India ran one of the largest food distribution drives in the world during the first wave of COVID, and distributed 78 million meals to daily wagers across the length and breadth of the country. During the second wave of COVID-19, Feeding India was again the first to act. We were able to source over 9,000 oxygen concentrators and distributed them for free to government hospitals across the country. This helped save millions of lives during one of the worst humanitarian crises faced by India in the recent times. We’re innovating hard to make last-mile delivery carbon neutral, to eliminate the use of plastic packaging, create meaningful opportunities in the gig economy, and to feed our country’s ever-growing appetite for high-quality, affordable, and hygienic food, one delivery at a time!
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2025
Board Member
Jul 2025
Started as a tiny shop in Bikaner, Haldirams is an Indian food company that offers a wide range of delicious sweets, namkeen, bhujia ,snacks &more. What began as a small-town enterprise in India is today a global phenomenon. Haldirams is a way of life for Indians no matter which country they live in. Visit us Now! 👇
2022
Board Member
Dec 2022
HealthKart is a trusted house of brands with MuscleBlaze and HK Vitals being India’s no. 1 sports nutrition and online vitamin brands. HealthKart also offers a comprehensive range of products dedicated to the vegan community, kids and women for their wellness and fitness needs. Founded in March 2011 by Sameer Maheshwari, an IIT and Harvard Business School graduate, HealthKart is your one-stop fitness and health destination. We focus on Quality, Authenticity, Affordability and Accessibility while delivering good health at your doorstep. Apart from being India’s largest health and nutrition-based online marketplace, HealthKart is also supported by 100+ retail stores making us your one-stop fitness and health destination. HealthKart has over 200 brands and authorized vendors listed on the website - all just to make sure what our customers get is right and authentic. We also have a presence in modern trade and general trade, as well as on horizontal e-commerce platforms like Amazon, Flipkart, Nykaa and many more. We have been expanding rapidly and currently employ over 1000 people. We have also served more than 10M happy customers raising over US$ 75M funds till date. HealthKart is always looking for talented people to be a part of their family. To join us, send your resume to careers@brightlifecare.com We are headquartered in Gurgaon, India.
2021
Board Observer
Aug 2021
ShareChat is India’s leading social media platform that operates exclusively in Indic languages. We empower our 160 million strong monthly active user community to share their opinions, record their lives and make new friends - all within the comfort of their language of choice. Our short video platform Moj, is today Indias preferred short video destination with tens of millions of users from across the world. The platform has been designed for artists and creators to create innovative short video content and display their creativity to millions, globally. At ShareChat we are spearheading Indias internet revolution. By providing a meaningful social experience, we are determining how the next billion users will interact on the internet.
Board Observer
Aug 2021
Unacademy aims to build the worlds largest online knowledge repository for multi-lingual education. We use technology to empower great educators and create a community of self-learners. Our vision is to partner with the brightest minds and democratise education for everyone looking to learn. Join us in our journey to change the future of education. Visit us at unacademy.com **Follow us on:** twitter.com/unacademy facebook.com/unacademy youtube.com/user/unacademy instagram.com/unacademy blog.unacademy.com
Board Member
Aug 2021
Licious began in 2015 when Abhay Hanjura and Vivek Gupta set out to transform a $55Bn category that was largely unbranded, inconsistent, and untouched by modern food standards. Their vision was simple - bring honesty, hygiene, and joy to meat and seafood buying in India. What followed was a category-defining shift powered by India’s only fully integrated 0–4°C cold chain, global FSSC 22000 certification, backward integration through bio-secure poultry farms, and rigorous control over freshwater fish and seafood. With five state-of-the-art processing centres and an annual capacity of 36,000 tonnes, Licious now serves India’s top metros - Bengaluru, NCR, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai and Kolkata - through a strong online presence, expanding retail stores, and fast-growing quick commerce partnerships, including 30-minute delivery across major urban clusters. Over the years, the brand has reached 4.5 million customers, earning unmatched trust, quality leadership and a loyal following in a category long defined by guesswork. This unwavering focus on quality, innovation, and consumer obsession has made Licious India’s first D2C unicorn. Today, it stands as the country’s most loved, iconic D2C meat brand - elevating everyday meals, setting new benchmarks for safety and freshness, and building an ecosystem where farmers, meat technicians, supply partners and delivery heroes thrive alongside millions of delighted home cooks.
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