Bio

Abhi Chandrasekhara joined VPC in 2022 and is a Senior Vice President based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is responsible for sourcing, analyzing, and executing investments. For over a decade, Mr. Chandrasekhara has been a growth-focused investor and has experience in providing both debt and equity capital to rapidly growing companies. Previously, Mr. Chandrasekhara was an investment professional at Advantage Capital (a growth-focused private capital firm) in New York City, where he led several venture investments, including one that went public on the NYSE. Prior to that, he was an investment professional at TA Associates (a global growth equity firm) in Menlo Park, CA, where he focused on investments in growth-stage technology companies. During his career, he has served on several portfolio company boards of directors. He also has operating experience at a Silicon Valley startup as well as multiple Fortune 500 companies and was also an investment banker with Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. Mr. Chandrasekhara received an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he was a Charles M. Harper Jr. Scholar. He also received a B.S. in Finance as well as a B.A. in Economics from the University of Maryland, where he was a Presidential Scholar with honors.