Hari Nair
Partner @ Innosight Ventures
Cambridge, United States
Hari Nair is a seed investor at Innosight Ventures in Cambridge focused on Finance and Consumer. Hari is the Group Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer for Sime Darby Berhard. Prior to joining Sime Darby, Hari served as the Global Managing Director for Kimberly Clark’s Global Innovation Center (GIC) based in Seoul, South Korea. In this role, Hari had all site-wide responsibilities for the GIC, including the leadership of several globalprograms. During his tenure, Hari established a multidisciplinary global innovation center that is helping in fueling KC’s innovation pipeline. From 2006-2012, Hari was Partner and VP at Innosight, the leading authority on disruptive innovation, collaborating with companies to devise growth strategies, building innovation capabilities, and creating products and services that improve people’s lives. Hari is a thought leader and expert in applying various innovation and new business models in emerging markets having advised several Fortune 500 companies. Hari began his career with Procter & Gamble, where he spent 14 years, serving various senior leadership roles in US and China. Hari is Chairman Emeritus of the Edison Awards and serves on several boards including, the Chairman of the Global Procter & Gamble Alumni Foundation.
- Total investments:
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Finance 1 (100%)
- Consumer 1 (100%)
- Laundry and Dry-cleaning 1 (100%)
Investments
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| VLS and the Chamak Brand was founded in 2008 by Innosight Ventures, a unique venture capital firm that leverages the concepts of disruptive innovation and the unique experiences of their management team to identify, incubate and fund transformational companies. Their senior management team, including Hari Nair and Akshay Mehra, cumulatively have 24years of experience in the FMCG sector and bring their years of knowledge and expertise to VLS to achieve its goal of providing meaningful value to customers and making social impact. | Seed / Jan 01, 2010 |
About Innosight Ventures
Innosight Ventures leverages more than 20 years of applied research by innovation thought leaders like Clayton Christensen and field work by the Innosight Consulting Team. We have distilled that work into a set of proprietary tools and work practices that allow us to quickly screen opportunities and work side-by-side with entrepreneurs to helpthem build great companies. We invest only in Singapore-based early-stage startup companies that have high potential for disrupting existing markets and creating new ones.Generally speaking, we ask 5 questions about any potential investment:Is there an important problem that customers can't address because existing solutions are expensive or inconvenient?.Is there a disruptive way to solve the problem by being simpler, more convenient, or more affordable?.Is there a plausible hypothesis about an economically attractive, scalable business model?..Does the team have the 'right stuff' to manage the process of emergent learning?.Can early profitability be a choice?.Our usual investment quantum is up to half a million Singapore dollars in each company. However, if the answer to all the above questions is positive and the team is going to need more that , we are open to co-investing with other venture capital firms and/or angels. In the past, we have lead investment rounds where some of the companies have raised in the range of SGD 1 – 2 million.
Innosight Ventures Contacts
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Pete Bonee
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