Campus Fund

Meet the People Powering the Movement

Campus Fund

The Backbone

Richa Bajpai

Before founding Campus Fund, Richa co-founded Goodera (backed by Zoom Ventures, Omidyar Network, Elevation Capital, Nexus VP, Binny Bansal) and earlier, NextGen, a renewable energy startup launched from her dorm room with support from RBS Foundation.

She has served on the Investment Committee of The Creator Fund (UK & Europe) and advised London-based PE firm Blue Knot Partners, backed by Relay Investments. Richa holds an MBA from London Business School and has been featured in Forbes 30u30 India (2014) & Asia (2016), MIT Innovators under 35 India (2016), and is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (2024).

Bharat Shah

Co-founder of HDFC Bank (5th largest globally by market cap), Bharat has been with the bank since inception. He currently serves on the boards of 3M India, Exide, Strides Pharma, and HDFC Credila.

Bijou Kurien

Bijou is Chairman of the Retail Association of India, Advisor to Premji Invest, and on boards including Brigade and LTIMindTree. He was earlier President of Reliance Retail, COO at Titan, and Advisor to LVMH.

Kartik H

Kartik is a Wharton professor focused on AI and the digital economy. A serial entrepreneur, he founded Yodle (acquired for $342M), SmartyPal, and JumpCut. He’s a BITS Pilani alum with a PhD from Carnegie Mellon.

Michelle Paisley

Ex MVision Private Equity, Macquarie, BT Financial Group; Michelle is the Managing Director at CC Strategic and also a Board Member at Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies Trust.

Phanindra Sama

Phani is the founder of redBus (World’s Largest Online Bus Ticketing company, acquired by Naspers). He is also an Advisor to Westbridge Capital, and a Founding Partner at Kakatiya Sandbox.

Srivathsala KN

Srivathsala is the founder of 3 companies and an Independent Director at Sobha Limited. She is a certified financial planner, strategic business advisor, and an angel investor.

Manjesh B

Manjesh is a CA and CS, with experience at Goodera, Sobha Developers, and as founder of a finance consulting firm. He holds an MBA from the National University of Singapore.

Anuj Mehta

Anuj founded a B2B lab-grown diamond trading house and led India investments at Rise Capital. An IIT Kharagpur grad, he’s worked with EF, Kalaari, Axis Capital, Housing.com—and is a certified skydiver.

Umang Upreti

Umang built a VC-backed Web3 startup in Singapore and spent 3.5 years at McKinsey. He holds an engineering degree from Thapar and an MBA from SP Jain.

Sanket Lahoti

Sanket is a state-level cricket and table tennis player. He worked at TheCapitalNet and in his family’s real estate business after earning his BTech from Manipal University.

Hrutu Banginwar

A graduate of Northeastern University, Hrutu has worked with Wayfair and IHI in Boston. She then founded a community-led platform for freelancers, and later joined Teleport as a Founding Member, leading Customer Operations and Experience.

Preksha Sharma

A law graduate, Preksha has previously worked at IndusLaw, in the Founder's Office at Rocket Health, and on the Marketing team at InsuranceDekho

Nirja Shirpurkar

Nirja is a commerce graduate with 3 years of experience in financial content writing, working as a virtual assistant and will soon be appearing for her CA finals.