Pawan Raj Kumar

Pawan is an entrepreneur and a startup evangelist.

Post his B Tech from IIT Delhi and MBA from IIM L, Pawan started his career at the family business, Continental Equipment, that was into setting up commercial kitchens. Pawan grew that business internationally with restaurant brands like McDonalds, KFC etc and also set up businesses like ActiveKarma, Continental Systems, Hoi Foods, Misht etc.

Pawan has been an active angel investor and mentor in startups since 2014 has made over 40 investments in businesses and a VC fund, Stellaris. In the past year Pawan has led investments in 7 companies through his syndicate called VG Angels. His startup investments have been pretty much sector agnostic.

Currently, Pawan is building a sustainability focussed fund called ZeCa Ventures, his thesis being that Sustainability is Everything. Implying that everything that we do, the way we consume, produce, purchase, work, travel etc, everything has to be done in a sustainable fashion. Hence ZeCa invests in founders who are building solutions to help humanity move to a sustainable future.