Ronak Shah
Founder and CEO at Bizly
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and CEO
2016 - Current
AI-powered event platform powering more than 5% of the Fortune 500. Bizly delivers the fastest and most cost-efficient way to book events at the best venues globally.
General Partner
2012 - 2016
Our first fund (Jina Fund I) was focused on emerging markets tech companies. Made 12 investments and achieved 12 exits over a 7 year window. Since then I've been making investments in Seed and Series A rounds of high-growth technology companies. Examples include: Vivum Computing, Directr (acquired by Google); Songza (acquired by Google); Pymetrics (acquired by Harver), and others
Founder
2003 - 2015
Jina Ventures is an investment firm focused on technology companies. In addition to managing a global investment fund, the firm assisted corporate clients with M&A, secondary portfolio spinouts, and restructuring. Notable clients include MakeMyTrip.com, Swiss Pharma Contract (acq by Covance), Lightbox India, NewQuest Capital Partners, and Vision Capital.
On-Air Contributor
2009 - 2012
Co-hosted a live show on CNBC called "Trading the Globe" for three seasons. I was also featured on "Fast Money", "Squawk on the Street", “The Kudlow Report" and other programs. Aside from my time on CNBC, I also had segments on Bloomberg and Fox Business.
CNBC is a news network that offers business and financial news from around the world.
M&A Team
2003 - 2005
Worked for Trenwith Securities (Acq by BDO), tech-focused M&A transactions for several blue chip Fortune 500 clients.
Principal
2001 - 2003
Global private equity fund