Samrat Ganguly

Samrat Ganguly is a Partner at Advantary, focused on all aspects of origination, evaluation, structuring, execution, and portfolio management/Board service of the firm’s investments, as well as fundraising/syndication and advisory work. Samrat also serves as Managing Partner of both Velos Partners and V Partners, two global technology investment firms, as well as Chairman of GGH Management, an investment holding company. In addition, he is as a senior advisor to a number of other investment firms, with varied sectoral and/or geographic investment strategies.

Samrat has over 30 years of investment and related advisory (financial/legal) and domain area experience. He has been involved in all stages of the investment life cycle in North America, Europe, Africa and the Asia Pacific. He has run various fund management firms/platforms and has served on/advised multiple Boards of Directors in North America, Europe and Asia. In addition, he has an extensive network across Indonesia/South East Asia, China/Greater China and India, developed through 20 plus years of operating in Asia and having been previously based in South East Asia and India for approximately 15 years.

Among the several alternative investment firms Samrat has worked with in the past, he was the Head of Asia Private Equity for Global Principal Strategies (GPS), a multi-billion dollar, multi-strategy, proprietary, principal investment arm of Lehman Brothers. And later on, he was CEO & Managing Partner of SREI Venture Capital Limited (SVCL), which was the fund management arm of SREI Infrastructure Finance Limited, which, at the time, was a publicly-listed infrastructure finance company, which had operated in India and other emerging markets for over 20 years. Samrat was also previously a Managing Partner at Capital Square Partners, a private equity investment firm investing across TMT, healthcare, and consumer/business services sectors in Southeast Asia and India. And he was a Principal at Global Environment Fund (GEF Management Corporation (“GEF”)), a global alternative asset manager that was dedicated to the energy, natural resources, infrastructure, environment, and technology sectors, with an impact focus.

Prior to joining GEF, Samrat was with Latham & Watkins, a top-tier global law firm, where he handled Asian, European, US and cross-border private equity, mezzanine and distressed debt/special situations transactions for major investment firms, as well as general corporate/antitrust representation of private equity-backed companies in various sectors, including M&A, IPOs, equity/debt placements and other capital markets transactions.

Samrat also has experience working in the areas of international trade and investment, public health, the environment, and international security while at the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the UN Security Council Secretariat. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Eswatini, serving as a ministry officer with the Ministry of Natural Resources, Environment and Energy. Before the Peace Corps, he worked in biomedical research at the Yale University School of Medicine and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (LIJ Hospital).

Samrat is a Kauffman Fellow, selected to join “a lifelong learning community for people who are changing the face of venture capital.” In addition to his MBA from Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University, he received a JD from the Columbia University School of Law and was awarded a BS (double major in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry and Economics) from Yale University.

Expertise:

Private and Public Markets, Multi-Strategy/Flexible Capital/Opportunistic Investments, Cross-Asset/Hybrid Capital, Hedge Funds, Real Asset, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Growth Capital (Equity/Structured Debt), PIPE, Mezzanine, Fixed Income/Credit, Distressed Debt/Special Situations, LBO/Buyout Transactions/Spin Outs, and Impact Investments

Sectors:

Deep Tech/TMT/Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare/Wellness, Life Sciences/Biotechnology, Infrastructure/Real Estate, Energy/Natural Resources/Commodities, Oil & Gas/Metals & Mining, the Environment/Alternative Energy/Clean Technology/Impact, Consumer/Retail, Luxury/Entertainment, Industrials/Manufacturing, Logistics/Supply Chain/Transportation, and Financial Services/Fintech.

Roles:

Co-Founder, Chairman, Board Member, Managing Partner, Investment Committee, Head of Asia, Investor, Senior Advisor

Traits:

Strategic, Disciplined, Analytical, Principled, Decisive, Resilient, Trusted

Location:

Atlanta, GA-Metropolitan Area