Vikram Chachra

Founding Partner at 8i Ventures

Speaker

Vikram Chachra is the Founding Partner of 8i Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm pioneering fintech and financial inclusion in India. He has seeded category-defining fintechs across banking, payments, and financial services, including M2P, Slice, Easebuzz, and TransBnk, which now collectively power nearly $100 billion in annual transaction volumes.

A second-time fund manager with over two decades of operating, entrepreneurial, and investing experience, Vikram possesses a rare, full-spectrum perspective across both debt and equity capital. Before founding 8i, he co-founded and managed a $150 million private credit fund in India, following an earlier career as a technology founder.

A regular speaker at global forums such as FII (Riyadh) and Global Fintech Fest (India), Vikram holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business, an PGDM from XLRI Jamshedpur, and an undergraduate degree from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi.