Kartik Parija

Managing Director

Location

Bangalore, India

Kartik is the Managing Director for Zephyr Peacock India Fund. Kartik has spent over a decade in private equity, technology and product development. Prior to joining Zephyr Peacock, he was an Investment Manager at Ventureast Fund Advisors; one of India’s earliest venture capital firms focusing on technology, life sciences and manufacturing. Prior to Ventureast, Kartik was an Associate at Toucan Capital, a Washington DC based early and mid stage venture capital fund. He also co-founded one of India’s first e-commerce transaction processing companies targeted at small businesses. Kartik began his career in technology as an engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California.

Kartik earned a Masters in Computer and Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland. He earned Bachelor degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from Drake University.

Fund team