calendar year 2018 has been an active year for indias private equity and venture capital sectors particularly in terms of movement of talent from softbank appointing its first country head to new investment firms being set up some of the most prominent names in the investor community sought fresh challenges and investment vehicles while movements on their own arent uncommon 2018 highlighted two major developments the availability of capital for fund managers with a track record and the continuing interest of new investors in india as a market particularly those originating from china and japan advt here are some of the most highprofile hires in 2018 sumer juneja softbankjapanese investment giant softbank roped in sumer juneja as its first country head for india juneja who had spent close to a decade in norwest venture partners nvp is a known dealmaker having led the usheadquartered nvps investments in swiggy indias largest online food delivery platform raghav bahl alibaba groupalibaba group one of the worlds largest ecommerce companies and a prominent strategic investor in indias startup ecosystem named former bessemer vp raghav bahl to not only scout for fresh bets in india but also oversee its investments in portfolio companieszomato paytm and bigbasket vt bharadwaj a91 partnersbharadwaj who left marque venture capital firm sequoia capital in april this year joined hands with another old sequoia hand gautam mago who had left the firm last year to launch a91 partners a rs 2000crore investment firm that will invest across healthcare consumer financial and technology sectors abhay pandey a91 partnerspandey who quit sequoia capital in august has also joined a91 partners as a general partner during his time at sequoia capital india the former managing director had led some of the firms most prominent bets in the consumer space including in pratap snacks hector beverages and raw pressery advt nitin nayar filter capital india advisorsin january et broke the news that nitin nayar managing director at global private equity firm warburg pincus and who led the storied investment firms technology investments practice had quit to float his own shop filter capital is expected to make growthstage investments in technology and techenabled ventures kaushik anand a91 partnersanand who formerly led capitalg the growthstage investment fund of alphabet inc was the fourth major name to join a91 partners anand during his stint at capitalg had led the firms investments in auto classifieds portal cardekho education startup cuemath and nbfc aye finance tejeshwi sharma sequoia capitalsharma who led tencents investment activities in india for a little over a year rejoined sequoia capital last month sharma comes back into the sequoia india fold even as the vc firm undertakes a significant organisational rejig following the departure of three toplevel managing partners et bureau published on dec 24 2018 at 0545 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit