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K. Srinivas has 26 years of experience of which almost 23 years has been in the Indian venture capital and private equity sector. He is one of the earliest venture capitalists in the country and has been associated with the industry from its nascent stage of development in early 1990s.

Having worked in all major business locations in India, Srinivas developed excellent working relations within the Indian business and finance community which helps drive deal sourcing and exit. He is one of the few private equity investment professionals in India who has invested throughout the full life-cycle of private equity funds across sectors, and different economic and industry cycles. He thus brings first-class expertise and network in all relevant areas of private equity investing including deal sourcing, investment analysis, due diligence, deal structuring, post investment monitoring and exits as well as regulatory issues.

As the general partner at EQ, the sub-advisor for BTS India Private Equity Fund (BTS India PE Fund) and the Swiss Technology Venture Capital Fund (Swiss Tec – which has returned more than 2-1/2 times capital to investors), Srinivas has been instrumental in building the portfolio and sits on the board of a majority of the portfolio companies. Srinivas also sits on the Investment Committee and the Valuation Committee of BTS India PE Fund.

Early in his career, Srinivas worked with two Indian venture capital funds – Credit Capital Venture Fund India (today's IL&FS Ventures) and Risk Capital and Technology Finance Corporation Limited (today's IFCI Venture Capital Funds Limited). Srinivas worked in manufacturing and airline industries before moving to VC/PE industry.

Srinivas is an engineering graduate with an MBA (rank holder) from Andhra University.