About

I grew up in Kerala, studied mechanical engineering at NIT Calicut, and left for Germany for an MBA at EBS. I started my career at Accenture, then SDI Management Consulting, and in 2011 joined 21Diamonds — a Rocket Internet-funded e-commerce startup — where I ran business development and finance across Europe.

From 2012 to 2019 I was part of Singular Group, a boutique consulting firm based in Switzerland. In 2020 I joined Amane Advisors, focused on the global water sector — now part of Roland Berger. Across both I led more than sixty growth strategy and M&A engagements in natural resources — mining and metals, water and wastewater — working with corporates, private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds and family offices in more than ten countries.

In 2013 a few of us started Konglo Ventures, an angel network for people who wanted to back Indian startups but had no way in. We syndicated $7M into more than twenty companies and had four exits.

In January 2023 I launched Callapina Capital with my partner Anas Rahman Junaid — the same thesis with a proper structure. A fund rather than a syndicate means committed capital and the room to follow on into the companies that are working, instead of reassembling the money for every round. We backed more than ten companies in the first eighteen months.

In 2025 I started building AquaIntel — agentic intelligence for the water sector, which is an industry that runs on PDFs nobody wants to read. It is the first time I have been the one asking for money rather than deciding whether to give it, and that has been clarifying in ways I am still writing about.

I write here about all of it. The essays aren’t sorted into “investing” and “building” because after a while the distinction stops being useful.