Imran Jafar

Managing Partner at Gaja Capital

Speaker

Imran is a Managing Partner at Gaja Capital (www.gajacapital.com)

Gaja Capital is India’s leading mid-market growth capital investment firm with AUM of $750 million. Gaja Capital’s aim is to help create India’s next generation of market leaders in sectors such as Software, Education, Consumer, Financial Services and Healthcare.

Imran has 25 years of experience in Private Equity, Pharmaceuticals and Technology services. Prior to Gaja Capital, Imran worked in a variety of roles of increasing responsibility at Dr Reddy’s and Wipro Technologies.

At Gaja Capital, Imran leads investments in the Software, Education, and Consumer clusters. He has been closely involved with Gaja Capital’s investments in Amber (Student accommodation marketplace) Signzy (SaaS platform for BFSI), LeadSquared (Sales automation SaaS platform), Educational initiatives (B2B Ed-Tech). Kangaroo kids (Pre-K and K-12), KOOH Sports (Performance Sports), Sportzvillage (Youth Sports), Eurokids (Pre-K and K-12), John Distilleries (AlcoBev), CL Educate (Supplemental Education) and Indus World Schools (K12).

Imran has post graduate degrees in software engineering from BITS-Pilani and an MBA from IIM-Bangalore.