Shivanandan Pare
Angel Investor
Bengaluru, India
Shivanandan Pare is a angel investor in Bengaluru focused on SaaS and Events. Shivanandan Pare An MBA and BE (E&C) with over 16yrs of experience spread across retail, Investment banking, Corporate strategy, Media & Entertainment and Internet. Joined ABFRL (Custodian of brands like Allen Solly, Van Heusen, Peter England, Louis Philippe and People) in Dec 2011 to setup the e-commerce vertical, his responsibilitiesinclude formulating complete e-commerce strategy, obtaining C+ level buy-in for the initiative, setting up an A+ e-commerce functional team, and most importantly establishing the internet start-up culture within the corporate set up.Some of the key highlights:1) Scaled the business to leadership position amongst the brick and mortar peers. Online vertical contributes to 4% of the total revenue. Within the large fashion ecommerce play, trendin.com always stood amongst top 10 players.2) CAGR of 170% on topline since the launch in 2013, closing the current financial year with over Rs. 200 Crs.3) Trendin.com was awarded as the “best ecommerce website by a retailer” by IAMAI in 2016. CMO Asia has recognized him as one of the 25 most influential e-commerce professional in India.His current role as head New Digital Businesses involves identifying disruptive digital ideas especially in fashion & retail tech and explore opportunities to participate in the same.Prior to taking up this assignment, for 3 years was involved in turning around www.bigadda.com, the internet venture belonging to Reliance Entertainment (Reliance - ADAG) one of the large private sector conglomerate of India. Scaled up the initiative from almost nil revenue to a Rs. 4 crs monthly revenue template.First 9 years of his career was involved in setting up,A. Retail operations for Onkyo India Private Limited a Japanese high end consumer durables giant. Set up the retail footprint in Maharashtra and Gujarat.B. Investment banking operations for MFSIL (a London based boutique investment banking firm) in South India.C. Corporate strategy practice for Reliance Entertainment where in was involved with the president of the organization in organically building broadcasting (Radio, Motion picture & TV), Internet (Gaming, Social networking and Video rentals), M&A deals (Acquired an animation Business)Apart from work, he loves to trek & cycle (appearance may not necessarily suggest the same though), travel to new places (esp. by road), play chess and latest acquired passion for agriculture.
- Total investments:
- 3
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 1 (33%)
- Events 1 (33%)
- Rental 1 (33%)
- Software 1 (33%)
- E-Commerce 1 (33%)
Stage
- Angel 2 (67%)
- Seed 1 (33%)
Investments
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| Wildermart is a healthy and sustainable grocery store start-up. It offers more than 1,500 products across over 30 categories and the products range from certified organic staples to F&V, clean label artisanal packaged foods to chemical-free personal, and home care products. | $315.2K / Seed / Apr 12, 2022 | ||
| Samaaro is a powerful software platform designed to help organizations host scalable, secure, and effective virtual events for a global audience. Samaaro's unique features & versatility allow it to host a variety of Virtual Events such as Virtual conferences, Virtual Summits, Virtual Fairs, Virtual Exhibitions & more. Samaaro wasdesigned to be completely customizable, enabling brands to make the platform their own, and host holistic and immersive events. Samaaro enables organizations to move away from webinars & communicate with their audience in a more holistic and engaging experience. The platform consists of exciting components such as a World-class Lobby, Conference Halls, Auditoriums, Exhibition Zones with exhibitor booths, Information Desk, Networking zones & more! The platform's focus on an engaging user experience translates to happy audiences & successful events. Samaaro also boasts of salient features such as in-depth analytics, robust security & privacy, resource sharing, and online games. With brands from all over the world trusting Samaaro to be their go-to Virtual Events Platform, it's time you do too. Go Virtual, Go Samaaro. | $125K / Angel / Jun 08, 2021 | ||
| Rentongo.com is an online marketplace in India for rental of goods.Rentongo is a platform lists various kinds of products that are available on rent like furniture, appliances, bikes, camping gear etc. It provides all the required details to connect renters with owners of these products. The owners can be professional companies or individualswilling to put up their personal things on rent.Rentongo.com is an attempt to promote collaborative consumption in India through renting of products. | Angel / Dec 22, 2015 |
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What does Shivanandan Pare invest in?
Shivanandan Pare invests primarily in SaaS, Events and Rental startups, most often at Angel and Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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