Navaneetha Krishnan Sankaraiah

Founder CEO

2024 - Current

Stay Still Scale High is a Coach - tech platform focused on mentoring founders of start-ups and Small, Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to build high-growth businesses and prepare the ventures to be investor and IPO-ready. Advisory for raising growth capital for startups and SMEs.

Venture Partner

2024

Mentor and Invest in early-stage ventures An early-stage opportunities fund, a Micro VC firm mentoring and aiding access to growth capital for early-stage ventures

Visiting faculty TAPMI

2017

Vice President Corporate Development

2024 - 2024

Financial technologies, Consumer industrials, Consumer products, Media and Infrastructure ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Led the Corporate Strategy and Corporate Development function of The Manipal Group (TMG). The role involves supporting mid to long term strategy planning for the group businesses, M&A, Private equity fund raise, Startup investments, building of new ventures etc., Strategic direction and portfolio view of group companies & assets  Have built a strategic portfolio canvas, metrics, and direction to build a portfolio of assets from shareholders value creation perspective  Supporting and monitoring executing the portfolio canvas working closely with board and CXOs Start up investments  Have led investments in 25 + ventures including a venture that has turned into Unicorn  Investments spread across sectors like Visual AI, D2C brand and allied technologies, Fintech, Digital lending, EV etc.,  Successfully co led the investment syndicate for 2 ventures that got over subscribed during fund raise  Successfully exited in 3 ventures with returns ranging from 1.5X to 3X  Around 5 ventures are in the next round fund raise discussions leading to value accretion  Experienced shutdown and written down value exit in 4 ventures M&As and Equity fund raise  Work closely with Chairman, Board members, CXOs on Equity fund raise and M&As  Have developed an approach for inorganic growth route and evaluation framework for M&A targets  Have built a team that manages the end-to-end M&A, fund raise process from investor pitches, DD to financial closure  Continuously working on both sell and buy side fund raise and M&As

Vice President - Corporate Strategy

2022 - 2024

General Manager - Corporate Strategy

2016 - 2022

Assistant General Manager - Corporate Strategy

2014 - 2016

Institutional investor

2022 - 2024

Institutional Investor : The Manipal Group

2020 - 2024

Institutional investor | Indian Angel Network

2015 - 2024

Institutional Investor : The Manipal Group

2015 - 2024

GM Strategy & Business Development

2013 - 2014

Supported the founder directors of the company in corporate strategy initiatives including, New Business Initiatives: Evaluation of new venture opportunities and new product launches, building a business plan, analysing the feasibility, incubating the business idea into an implementation plan and supporting in execution. Supporting Existing Business: Supporting financial analysis and reporting, drafting and implementation of growth plans for the next three years, undertaking peer comparison studies and monitoring of growth. Corporate Finance: Support in raising growth capital, both equity or debt to fund the growth plans

AGM - Project analysis & finance

2010 - 2012

Supported Director – Strategy and Business Intelligence and Managing Director on long-term strategy planning including budgeting, financial review of business plans, and preparation of investor related information collaterals. Handled strategy planning, debt consolidation, M&A and credit rating etc.,