JSW Ventures appoints Sachin Tagra as Partner

NEW DELHI: JSW Ventures, the private equity venture capital initiative of US$ 14 billion JSW Group, today announced the appointment of Sachin Tagra as partner, in a press release.

Tagra earlier headed Capital18, the venture investment division of Network18 Group, a media and entertainment group. He has over two decades of experience in consumer, retail and media businesses.

Speaking about Tagra’s appointment, Gaurav Sachdeva, managing partner, JSW Ventures, said, “Sachin has significant experience in scaling up businesses from their startup phase. This will be crucial as we build and launch a bigger fund as well as support our current portfolio companies in scaling up their businesses. Sachin has been an angel investor himself and also mentor startups at various incubators and accelerators. We believe his specific expertise will enable us to deliver greater value to our investee companies.”


The company said it would mark the first close of its second fund by the end of this year. JSW Ventures is an early-stage, tech-focused, venture capital fund. It has invested in companies like Purplle and LimeTray.