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Ravi Shah
Vice President at IA Capital Group
New York, New York
Overview
Ravi Shah is currently the Vice President at IA Capital Group in New York, specializing in investing in various sectors such as SMB Software, Insurance, and FinTech. With a background in finance and entrepreneurship, Shah has successfully invested in companies like Summit and has experience in venture capital, asset management, and digital marketing.
Shah's career highlights include serving as the Director of Social Media at The Sports Quotient and co-founding Nets Daily News, demonstrating a strong track record in strategic leadership and business development across diverse industries.
Work Experience
Vice President
2018 - Current
IA Capital Group is the leading venture capital firm focusing primarily on insurtech, making strategic venture capital investments on behalf of 20+ carriers, with a more than two-decade track record of successfully partnering with early-stage insurtech and fintech companies.
IA Capital Group is an investment firm that makes venture and growth capital investments in insurtech and fintech companies.
Board Member
2024
Board Observer
2021
Checkbook provides a single API to enables business to send payments at scale. Payments can go over any rail. No payee enrollment required
Raised $11,800,000.00 from MassMutual Ventures, Cross River Digital Ventures, JP Morgan Chase and IA Capital Group.
Board Observer
2021
Venture Capital & Asset Management Associate Intern
2018 - 2018
Laconia Capital Group is a full-service venture firm, with a family of funds & a venture asset management company
Laconia leads investments in seed-stage B2B companies digitizing legacy industries.
Investment Banking Summer Analyst
2017 - 2017
- Constructed various discussion materials including company profiles, PIBs, buyer lists, client presentations and valuation techniques such as public comparables, precedent transactions and discounted cash flow analysis - Selected Transactional Experience: Potential $80mm sale of Mobile Development Company; Globant Acquires PointSource for $28mm
Co-founder & CEO
2014 - 2017
• Developed brand awareness through management of social media, PR, and content creation • Drove 284% year-over-year growth on website across 141 countries • Recruited and managed over 30 employees to produce quality content on Brooklyn Nets that was featured on SBNation, FOX Sports, SLAM, Sheridan Hoops, Syracuse.com, DailyOrange, and SPIN Nets Daily News sold its social media assets to ClutchPoints in 2017
Private Equity Summer Analyst
2016 - 2016
Star Mountain is a specialized small and medium-sized business-focused asset management firm with a unique flexible capital strategic partnership approach to investing in private equity and private credit fund managers and investing directly into U.S. small and medium-sized businesses.
Investing in the Growth Engine of America ® – Star Mountain Capital is a specialized lower middle-market asset management firm.
FinTech Consultant
2015 - 2016
• Customized mobile responsive website design and content using HTML/CSS for Debitize’s personal finance blog • Compiled biographical data and investment theses for angel investors in financial technology field • Moderated and contributed content to Debitize’s blog covering personal finance tips and money management advice
Debitize is a new personal finance tool that gives you credit card perks without credit card debt, interest, or late fees.
Investment Intern
2015 - 2015
Early-stage investment fund and technology accelerator that funds 10 technology startups and provides space, services and mentoring with its 250 mentors, 10 operating partners, sponsors and staff every six months. • Sourced, presented, and conducted due diligence on early-stage technology startups • Participated in investor speaker series and workshops, discussing fundraising, KPIs, growth hacking, product development, mobile user acquisition, and marketing tactics
(ERA) Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator is an early-stage venture capital fund and technology accelerator.
Education
Bachelor's Degree
2014 - 2018