Sachin Bid

Fund Manager – Venture Capital at Nippon Life India AIF Management Limited

Speaker

Sachin Bid is currently Fund Manager, Venture Capital at Nippon India Alternative Investments (NIAIF), a 100% subsidiary of Nippon Life India Asset Management (NAM India). Nippon Life Japan owns 75% of NAM India. He is responsible for fund raising, investing and managing portfolio of India focused early stage technology venture capital funds and directs. He serves on the advisory boards (LPAC) of several India focused venture capital funds. Prior to NIAIF, he co-founded, built and scaled an travel start-up focused on Asia cruising, MyDreamHoliday, which was acquired by Indian market leader (Ark Travels) in the industry. Prior to that, he was an investor with Ncubate Capital, a mid-size Indian family office where he was active member participating in ideating, evaluating, incubating and supporting scale-up of various consumer companies which grew from concept to double digit monthly revenues ($ in mn) and few of them were subsequently backed by marquee private equity funds in India. Prior to Ncubate Capital, he was an investor at Nine Rivers Capital investing from its Fund-I in growth stage companies, primarily in traditional sectors. He is a CAIA member, CFA (India) and MBA – Finance.