Ipshita Agarwal
Investor at CRV
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Investor
2024 - Current
Investments: Grove Trials, Watney Robotics, Vigil, Wabi
A* Capital is a venture capital firm.
Investor
2023 - 2024
Sourced: Mercor (series A), Decagon (series A), Exa (seed), Fal (series A), Mandolin (seed), Haize Labs (seed), Tennr (series B), Pika (series A, B), Unify (series A), Vizcom (series A), Anon (seed), Latent Health (series A)
CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in investments in technology companies.
Co-founder, Stanford Blockchain Accelerator (SBA)
2021 - 2023
Co-founded and ran the Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, which is now the leading crypto accelerator at Stanford. Incubated and backed 50+ companies, follow-on capital raised $150M+, partnered with VCs including A16Z, Dragonfly, GC, CRV, Lightspeed, Coinbase, Pantera, and others.
Growth & BizOps
2020 - 2021
I led partnerships, growth marketing, SEO/ content, reporting, and data analytics. Left to go to business school. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, General Catalyst, First Round, YC.
Co-Founder
2020 - 2020
Tried to start a consumer social company... built an engineering & design team, but couldn't find PMF.
Investment Associate
2018 - 2020
First ever Associate hire. Early-stage investing in education, employability, fintech + policy work with the government. My portfolio: - Eduvanz: Education financing platform, now backed by Sequoia - King's Learning (Enguru): India's leading spoken English mobile app, acquired by OpenEnglish - Avanti Fellows: India's first ed-tech solution for the secondary public education system - Foundation for Excellence: Scholarships and employability support to engineering students Led quarterly portfolio analysis.
Investment Analyst (TPG Rise's co-investing partner in India)
2017 - 2018
Elevar is TPG Rise's co-investing partner in India. Early-stage investing across edtech, fintech, healthcare, and agri-tech sectors. Investments: - Lead School: Full-stack SaaS solution for schools, now backed by GSV & Westbridge - Glocal: Telemedicine and hospital chain for rural India, also backed by Sequoia - Varthana: India’s leading school-financing player, now backed by Chrys Capital - Origa: Fintech leasing solution for enterprises - Madura: Leading micro-finance player
Investment Banking Senior Analyst
2016 - 2017
Youngest recipient of the Deutsche Bank Recognition Award in Australia. Sole analyst on deals of $4BN+, including the largest coal M&A globally since 2013. Early promotion to senior analyst. Spent 2 years learning a lot about coal, gold, copper, bauxite, and iron ore!
Investment Banking Analyst
2015 - 2016
DB Capital Ventures invests in early-stage and emerging growth businesses and is a venture capital firm based in New York.