Kartik Chandra
General Partner at Morphosis Venture Advisors
India
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & Partner
2022 - Current
Investing and supporting digital businesses from India achieve global scale. Lead investments in climate and health. Morphosis India invests in PreA and Series A financing rounds across three areas - B2B technology, Manufacturing, Climate Solutions.
Advisory Partner
2022
Early-stage VC investing in Tech-focused B2B businesses with significant ESG impact.
Strategy and Investments
2020 - 2022
Worked closely with CEO and Exec. Leadership Team to lead growth initiatives via corporate development (100% takeovers, majority stake acquisition, take-privates) across all downstream energy operations (mobility solutions, EV infrastructure, traditional energy services) to expand ADNOC's business presence into GCC, North Africa and South East Asia (India, Indonesia)
GTM and Digital Strategy
2019 - 2019
Large Customer Sales (LCS) team. Supported BD efforts for Google Ad stack and Google Cloud offerings.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Consultant - Product and GTM
2018 - 2019
Go-to-market planning of patented FPGAs for hyperscale inference in data centre applications.
Management Consultant
2014 - 2018
Management consultant advising PE funds, regional SWFs, and M&A teams on transactions & corporate/growth strategy mandates in Industrials & Energy, Healthcare & Life Sciences, and Consumer Goods & Services sectors. Select transactions: - IPO for downstream assets of leading regional energy major - Majority stake bid on IWPP by regional mid-market PE sponsor - Minority investment in ride-hailing company by global PE sponsor - 100% acquisition of MENA diagnostics chain by global PE sponsor - PIPE transaction on listed manufacturing target by regional SWF - Multiple greenfield investment mandates for regional SWFs in healthcare, defense, business services Strategy work: Helped global organizations (pharmacos, healthcare providers, energy companies) on MENA & APAC market entry planning, go-to-market refinement, and pricing studies.
EY-Parthenon is one of the leading management advisory firms in the payments industry
Enterprise Tech Coverage
2013 - 2014
Trefis is a VC-backed fintech startup leveraging technology to provide sell-side research solutions to institutions and retail investors. Raised $3.5M from Village Ventures and other investors and valued at $30+m in 2014. I led sector coverage for Enterprise Technology, SaaS and OTA businesses in US and Europe. Also worked on product development and launched key features to reduce user churn and improve retention rates on the retail investor platform.
Trefis provides stock analysis services that breaks down a stock price by the contribution of company’s major products and businesses.
Raised $3,530,000.00 from Village Ventures.