Amongst the most seasoned B2B investors in India, Radhesh brings rich operational experience in the enterprise technology space. He is a self-driven professional ready to take up challenges. He started Arka Venture Labs along with 3 anchor investors in 2018 August with the objective of investing, mentoring, and providing connections to the ecosystem for B2B startups between the India and US corridor. The fund has made 27 investments till end of 2021 out of which there are 4 exits and 9 uprounds (Nexus, Lightspeed, Matrix, B Capital, Sequoia, Facebook to name a few). Radhesh also mentors his portfolio startups in areas like product, product market fit, GTM, channels strategy, branding, uprounds etc.
He is the investment lead for Obviously.ai (Upround from B capital, TMV, UTec), Deepaffects (Acquired by Rincentral), Insent (acquired by Zoominfo), Simplicontract, Nirmata (Upround from Uncorrelated, Zee5 Ventures), dotin Inc (acquired by Opensesame) , Firsthive (acquired by Mela Ventures), Essenvia, Enact, Glance HQ, Rocketium, Trainn and Zapscale. Radhesh has also spent 18 years in IBM garnering strong technical, sales, and business development experience. He headed the Global Entrepreneur Program (IBM startup initiative), for IBM India and South Asia and made it a company to be reckoned with by the Startup ecosystem in India.
He conceptualized IBM India’s Startup challenge called IBM India Smartcamp and successfully executed the same. Some startups that were initially identified and curated by Radhesh and scaled very well include Hasura, Whatfix, Medikabazaar, Vymo, SirionLabs, Loginext, Talview, Signzy, Emotix, Getmyparking, Sigtuple with a number of these reaching Unicorn and Soonicorn status. Radhesh also worked with Large Enterprises and assisted them in identifying next generation innovations through joint Hackathons and Startup challenges. Prior to this role in IBM he was working as a Software Architect where designed Software solutions for Enterprise Clients, ISVs and System Integrators and created first-of-its-kind solutions in many areas like Application integration, Application Server, Database, Portal, Content Management, Business Intelligence, Security, IoT etc., and led several key Sales wins for IBM.