Capitar Ventures Trust

Rahul Mahipal is co-founder and Managing Partner of Capitar and the SEBI-registered contact person for Capitar Ventures Trust. A Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant, and MBA (with distinction) from Strathclyde Graduate Business School, UK, he has 25+ years of banking and financial services experience. He was SVP – Structured Finance and Head Commercial Lending at ECL Finance (managing a debt portfolio of over INR 3,000 crore) and Executive Director & Team Head – Commercial Banking at Standard Chartered Bank, where he helped set up their Indian mid-market business. His career debt financing experience aggregates more than $4 billion.

Bikramjit Singh Kalra is co-founder and Managing Partner of Capitar. An INSEAD MBA with a BSc. in Computer Science and BA in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin, he has ~20 years of overall experience including 15+ years in investment management at Fidelity Investments and Consortium Securities, managing investment books exceeding $2 billion. He also serves as Director, Investment Advisory at Consortium Securities. His early career was in technology — as a software developer at Microsoft and a tech SaaS startup in the US.

Shiv Gaurav Bhargava is a Partner at Capitar with 20+ years of combined experience in corporate and investment banking and operating roles in B2C businesses. He has originated and structured debt and equity transactions exceeding $3 billion. His career includes origination and structuring for SME and mid-cap businesses, followed by C-suite roles (CSO, CEO) in B2C companies including co-founding a fintech startup and leading scale-up phases in e-commerce and gaming businesses. He holds an MBA from IIM Lucknow and a BA (Hons.) in Economics from Hansraj College, Delhi University.