Entrepreneur.
I started Valuecraftz in 2020 and founded Yajur Knowledge Solutions in 2024. Building the firm is the work I return to every day.
From taking the leap
to building Yajur.
Follow the journey In 2020, I left a senior role to start Valuecraftz. In 2024, that journey became Yajur Knowledge Solutions. What began as a decision to build something of my own continues to evolve.
Today, as Founder of Yajur, I work across the preparation behind a transaction and the decisions that move a business forward: research, analysis, and deal execution through Yajur Knowledge Solutions; supporting growth and M&A for SMEs in India through Yajur Partners.
The thread running through it all is the work of building: a team, trusted relationships, and better ways to turn judgment into execution.
More than a job title.
Different parts of my life. The same curiosity running through them.
Investor.
I back early-stage founders. My angel investments include Presentations.AI, Manastu, and eBikeGO.
Teacher.
Guest faculty at Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, where I earned my MBA in Finance. Experience comes back into the classroom.
Practitioner.
A career across FinQuest, EY, Global Healthcare Advisors, and Transworld M&A. CFA charterholder, with a Certificate in ESG Investing.
Early adopter.
AI tools, new apps, and experiments in how work gets done. I learn by trying things on real problems.
Beyond the desk.
Vegan since 2018. A traveller with a goal of forty destinations before forty. Curious about lives and places beyond my own.
A wider world.
A different perspective.
Travel is part of how I learn. Explore 21 destinations across Asia, Europe, the Indian Ocean, and the United States. The goal: forty before forty.
Places that stay with me.
Follow the journey, or choose a destination to take the controls.
An animated tour of places visited, not a record of flight routes. Includes countries and territories.
Loading the globe. All destinations are listed alongside.
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DRAG / SELECT / DISCOVER
EARTH
EXPLORINGIndia & Asia35.00° N / 78.00° E
The themes I keep returning to.
In work, in writing,
in conversation.
in conversation.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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Building things from nothing.
The decision to leave a senior role, start a firm, and build a team. What changes when you become responsible for the whole business.
- The decision to leave a stable career path
- Building, then rebuilding — when to rebrand
- Finding a co-founder, sharing the load
TOOLS & EXPERIMENTS
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Tinkering with what just shipped.
I put new AI tools, apps, and gadgets to work on real tasks. What holds up, what falls short, and what changes how the work gets done.
- What I'm using this week — and why
- Half-baked demos vs. things that actually move work
- How AI changes what a single person can do
AI & THE FUTURE
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What AI is doing to work.
How AI changes research, analysis, and decision-making. The tasks it can take on, the gaps it leaves, and the judgment people still need to bring.
- How the analyst’s role is changing
- Where AI is already doing the job
- What stays uniquely human
TEACHING & GIVING BACK
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Teaching where I was taught.
Returning as guest faculty to Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, where I studied. Bringing practical experience into the classroom, and learning from a new generation.
- The circle of being taught, then teaching
- Values-based education in a results-driven world
- What I bring into the classroom from outside
/ / Other things on my mind
India in the global economy
Angel investing & early-stage diligence
How businesses tell their story
Investing with values · ESG
Building remote teams
The analyst-to-founder path
Cross-border business
Travel & perspective
In person, in the rooms — not just online.
Conferences, events, gatherings.
Showing up matters.
Showing up matters.
M&A SOURCE · 2026
M&A Source
Relationships start with showing up.
At the M&A Source annual conference in 2026, meeting business owners, advisors, and investors from the US deal community.
For a Mumbai-based firm with global clients, time in the same room matters. It gives context to the work, and turns a professional connection into a more informed conversation.
From analyst to entrepreneur.
The roles, decisions, and places that shaped my work.
2011 — 2014
Analyst
FinQuest Capital
First job out of school. A boutique firm in Mumbai — where I learned the craft.
2014 — 2017
Associate
EY · Mumbai
Three years inside one of the world's largest firms. Valuations, advisory, exposure to scale.
2017 — 2018
Cross-Border Associate
Global Healthcare Advisors
My first real immersion in working across borders.
2018 — 2020
Vice President
Transworld M&A
Working on M&A transactions and developing the perspective I would take into entrepreneurship.
2020 — 2024
Founder
Valuecraftz
The leap. Left a senior role to start something on my own.
2024 — Pres.
Founder
Yajur
Building Yajur Knowledge Solutions and Yajur Partners: deal execution support, alongside growth and M&A support for SMEs in India.
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Beginnings.
Born in Chennai. School took me through Surat, Jamnagar, and Mumbai. Then from 11th grade through my MBA in Finance, I was at Sri Sathya Sai University — the best years of my life. The same institution would later, in a small bit of circularity, invite me back to teach.
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The first decade.
FinQuest, EY, Transworld — analyst to vice president, wearing different hats at each stop. I earned the CFA along the way, then added the ESG Investing certificate.
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The leap.
In 2020, I did the unconventional thing — left a senior role to start Valuecraftz. The bet was that I could build something the industry actually needed.
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The rebuild.
In 2024, Valuecraftz became Yajur Knowledge Solutions. Today, as Founder of Yajur, I provide deal execution support through Yajur Knowledge Solutions and support growth and M&A for SMEs in India through Yajur Partners.
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The rest of me.
- Early adopter, by default — first to try new AI tools, apps, and gadgets. Half my evenings are spent tinkering.
- Vegan since 2018.
- Back early-stage founders — among them Presentations.AI, Manastu, and eBikeGO.
- Teach because it closes a loop.
- Travel often — 21 destinations down, aiming for 40 before 40.
- A career in finance, many hats — and the work is still genuinely changing.
Conversations I’m part of.
Conferences, classrooms,
podcasts, writing.
A partial record.
podcasts, writing.
A partial record.
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2026
The Future of Work in FinanceBizsherpa.ai · NanocastVISIT BIZSHERPA ↗
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2026
M&A Source · Annual ConferenceIn attendance · global advisor communityIN PERSON
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Ongoing
Guest Faculty · Finance & ValuationSri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher LearningCLASSROOM
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Ongoing
Writing on business, work, AI, and ethicsLinkedIn · Business, work, AI, and ethicsFOLLOW →
Good work starts with
a good conversation.
Business, AI, teaching, or an idea worth exploring.
I’m always interested in a thoughtful exchange.