Sachin Tagra

Investment professional with twenty years of experience with strong foundation of operating role in FMCG, retail and media. Have driven P&Ls of large businesses and made significant contributions in various organizations from the startup phase of the businesses to profitable scaling up. Currently Partner at JSW Ventures, early stage tech focused VC fund. Based on my learnings from driving Ad for Equity investment model and personal angel investments, co founded a startup GetVantage focused on marketing & growth capital for digital brands. It is India's first Revenue based Financing platform. Previously led Capital18, media & venture investing division of Network18/TV18 group. (CNBC, Moneycontrol, News18, Firstpost & more). Had setup the Incubator Capital investment model of Times group, focused on investing in startup/early stage businesses. Passionate about working with entrepreneurs and contributing my bit in building their businesses. Had the opportunity of managing and driving large scale businesses with Reliance Retail as Category Head FMCG for USD 100 mn retail business, with Times Group as Business Head North for USD 20 mn media business and with The Friedman Group (US based world’s largest retail consulting and training organization) as India Business Head. Launched and driven the most successful Private Label portfolio in the Indian retail sector in FMCG category. Built up business strengths in Startup Investing, Startups Incubation, Strategy & Planning, Business Development, FMCG/CPG Category Management, Private Label & Brands Development, Media & Entertainment Operations and Business Simulations. Strongly believe in the data driven approach and analytics for understanding and driving consumer behavior to build businesses. Personal angel investment includes Allizhealth(Exited), Happy2Refer (Exited), Vphrase(Exited), ConfirmTicket, UniversityLiving, Classboat, NUOS Home Automation, Cloudrino and HelloYebo(US). Have keen interest in Business simulations for training purposes and is the founding member of IndSAGA (Indian Simulation & Gaming Association), India chapter of ISAGA (International Simulation & Gaming Association).