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Ajay Sharma

Partner at Communitas Capital Partners

New York

Overview

Work Experience

  • Partner & Chief Operating Officer

    2022

    Oversee deal sourcing, due diligence, execution, fundraising, organizational P&L, and fund operations for Communitas Capital Partners an early-stage VC firm founded by the former CEOs of the NYSE, Reuters, and Instinet.

  • Director of Finance

    2020 - 2021

    Reported directly to CFO & Co-Founder. Oversaw and built a team to bring operational rigor to finance including managing corporate finance, FP&A, and strategic finance functions.

  • Principal

    2019 - 2020

    Led the sourcing, due diligence, and investment executing efforts for Communitas Capital Fund I. Investments included Alchemy, Starkware, Coin Metrics, ComplyAdvantage, Gloat, Premialab, Sylvera, and others.

  • Principal & Founding Member

    2016 - 2019

    Founding member of JetBlue Technology Ventures, the CVC arm of JetBlue Airways. Investments included Tomorrow.io, Joby Aviation, Gladly, FIlament, and Zunum Aero.

  • Market Analytics Associate

    2010 - 2014

    Partnered with Managing Director of Aladdin Product & Platform Analytics to lead product development of new risk analytics measuring performance, attribution, and security analytics for term loans and high-yield credit

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