Ravi is Partner a Leo Capital, India’s leading early-stage tech-centric VC Firm supporting startups across India, South-East Asia, and the US. Ravi is passionate about tech innovation as a lever for inclusive human progress. Previously, he founded the Chicago-based VC Firm Purvi Capital, and co-founded Jump Trading’s first black-box trading group, kickstarting their High-frequency Trading practice. Amongst the earliest angels in the Indian ecosystem, Ravi has a portfolio of over three dozen startups, and has led pre-seed rounds for successful companies like Tala, Docquity, Sunstone and Knowlarity. He is particularly curious about AI, Web3, Fintech, and interdisciplinary solution sets – like those at the intersection of life-sciences & engineering.

Ravi has a Bachelor’s of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) and Masters in Machine Learning from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (UIUC).