Vir Kashyap
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Vir Kashyap is Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder at babajob.com, India’s largest livelihood marketplace, facilitating jobs for the next billion. At present, Babajob has about seven million job seekers and over 400,000 employers. Vir’s responsibility is to give a strategic direction to the company, manage all strategic partnerships, and own finance operations for the company....
Previously, Vir was a partner at Indavest, a venture capital and incubation firm focusing on early‐stage consumer investments in India based out of Bangalore.
Prior to that, he was a member of the Business Development team at Vega Asset Management. Based in Madrid, he evaluated fund managers for investment and inclusion on the fund platform and managed relationships with the fund's investor base.
He started his career at Morgan Stanley in New York where he assisted the firm’s Alternative Asset Management clients to raise capital from a global base of investors.
His experience also includes Epinions.com (now part of eBay) where he helped launch the enterprise-computing vertical. He has also co-founded the Bangalore Social Enterprise Group, and is an active member in the startup ecosystem.
Vir secured a Bachelors of Arts in Economics and Religion from Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Maine). He is an avid traveler having visited all 6 continents.
