Nidhi Saraf
Founder & CEO at Key Venture, Angel Investor, Mentor & Advisor
Nidhi Saraf, the Founder & CEO of Key Venture, helps start-ups to scale up their operations by raising funds for them at all stages. She focuses on connecting the early and growth stage start-ups to both individual and institutional investors across the globe.
Nidhi started her career with the inception of start-up ecosystem in 2008. She has worked with leading angel networks in India, Indian Angel Network (IAN), Intellecap Impact Investment Network (I3N) and Mumbai Angels (MA). Her association with The Wild East Group, a portfolio company of Mumbai Angels, later sold to Exceed Entertainment, completes her 360-degree experience in the startup ecosystem. At The Wild East Group, they created a Flagship Brand, HRX, a lifestyle brand for the renowned Bollywood Actor Hrithik Roshan and she handled few other brands like Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), Yash Raj Films and Dr.Seuss.
She has completed her Graduation degree from NM College, Mumbai and earned her Master’s degree in Finance from Jankedevi Bajaj Institute of Management Studies.
Apart from running her own venture, Nidhi is an active angel investor and a mentor to a few start-up. She is extremely active in Indian Startup Ecosystem and speaker at premium institutions of IIT, IIMs and alike.
Hars Saraf
Co-Founder & COO at Key Venture
He believes that the biggest challenge for new-age technology startups is presenting their story to investors, explaining emerging business models and proving the product’s impact. Being an entrepreneur and an engineer he enjoys working with founders to understand the transformative impact of proprietary technology on businesses. This has helped him raise funds even for unique products.
He holds an engineering degree from VNIT, Nagpur.