Murli Ravi

Murli Ravi

Co-founder at Unicorn Venture Capital

Location
Singapore
Industry
Venture Capital & Private Equity

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Murli Ravi's Overview

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Murli Ravi's Summary

Murli Ravi is Co-founder and General Partner at Unicorn Venture Capital. He is a seasoned venture capital fund manager who has overseen investments in over 20 ventures across India, Singapore, Silicon Valley, New York and Australia, from deal sourcing through to exit. His portfolio has spanned several industries while his primary focus has been digital media, enterprise software and analytics, having been a board member of 9 early-stage start-ups across these sectors.

Prior to venture capital, Murli was an investment professional at Temasek Holdings and conducted academic research at INSEAD.

He has been quoted by media and conferences including Business Today, dmexco, Inc Magazine, Private Equity SE Asia, Startup Asia, Techcircle, Techventure, Terrapinn, Yourstory and others.

Murli has been on the Internet since the early 90s and is a self-taught (but sadly lapsed) programmer. He has lived in Singapore, India, Taiwan, Malaysia and the US, and speaks and reads some Mandarin Chinese. Follow him at twitter.com/murli184.

Murli Ravi's Experience

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry

2014Present (less than a year)

Chief Beer Drinker & Entrepreneur Advisor

Various start-ups

Internet industry

2012Present (2 years) Global

Said differently, I act as an independent board director or advisor to a few start-ups.

Details: http://www.murli.net/greekcomplexity/2013/07/buy-me-a-beer.html

Board Director

Unmetric Inc.

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

20132013 (less than a year) Greater New York City Area

Unmetric is headquartered in New York City and works with category leading brands and innovative agencies across the world. Unmetric provides not-so-obvious competitive intelligence on over 10,000 global brands across 30 industry sectors, helping brands and their agencies to comprehend and calibrate their social media efforts, and compete with intelligence and efficiency. The client list includes iconic brands like Subway, Toyota, Cisco, and Lowe's Home Improvement, and premier agencies like GroupM, MRY, Golin Harris, and the Zocalo Group.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/19/unmetric-funding-idUSL2N0HF1G820130919
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/209501/unmetric-raises-55m.html#axzz2fMI6L9ek
http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/19/unmetric-series-b/
http://www.murli.net/greekcomplexity/2013/09/taking-enterprise-social-media-to-the-next-level.html

Board Director

Bubble Motion

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry

20122013 (1 year) San Francisco Bay Area

Bubble Motion is pioneering social communication for mobile phones. Bubble Motion’s Bubbly™ is a social messaging service where people share SMS and voice updates with friends, family, fans and followers. Bubbly is like ‘Twitter with a voice’ and brings social networking to mobile phones.

Bubble Motion’s innovative operator partner network includes telecom leaders in 'mobile-first' countries including India, Japan, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Partners include Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications, XL Axiata, Globe Telecom, Telkomsel, Indosat, DiGi, Vodafone, Turkcell, and more.

Bubble Motion's investors include JAFCO Asia, Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, Palomar Ventures, Infocomm Investments, Comcast Interactive Capital and Northgate Capital. The company is headquartered in Singapore with personnel in the United States, India, Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Board Director

ApnaPaisa Pvt. Ltd.

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry

20122013 (1 year)

Board Director

Microqual Techno Pvt Ltd

Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry

20112013 (2 years)

Microqual Techno Pvt. Ltd. is a pioneer in provisioning passive microwave components, service and solutions to Mobile Telecom Operators and Telecom Euiptment Manufacturer in India.The company is specialist in the design, manufacture and sales of components, system and services for wireless applications (GSM, CDMA, WIMAX..etc) and enjoys a leading position in Indian Market.

Chairman of the board

MOZAT PTE LTD

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

20112013 (2 years)

Mozat is an award-winning mobile service that enables integrated social networking, communication tools and multi-player gaming on a single application. Through Mozat's unique technology, our services work across major mobile operating systems and support over 600 kinds of different handsets.

Board Director

Consilium Software

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

20112013 (2 years)

Consilium Software is the Unified Communications software company which is Enabling Unified Success™ in enterprises and contact centers – with solutions that combine industry-leading products from technology partners, innovative software applications and unmatched services expertise. Powered by communications convergence, collaboration and customer interaction optimization software, Consilium’s solutions enable companies to improve communication flows, transform business processes and increase business efficiency.

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

20112013 (2 years)

Mistral is an ISO 9001:2008 certified and CMMi Level 3 appraised technology design and systems engineering company providing end-to-end solutions for product design and application deployment. Mistral is focused in three business domains: Product Engineering Services, Defense Solutions and Homeland Security.

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

20112013 (2 years) Bangalore, India

CustomerXPs is a Bangalore based IP software Product Company, creates real-time, intelligent products that empower Banking, Retail and Telecom Enterprises with instant insights enabling influenced outcomes of deeper customer engagement and fraud-free transactions. CustomerXPs software identifies and solves, in real-time, complex problems in the areas of customer experience management, contextual right-sell, fraud monitoring and
compliance.

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Education Management industry

20102013 (3 years)

Vriti provides an assessment driven education marketplace to Find, Create and Sell educational courses. It brings authors, distributors and students together via Vriti's platform. Students benefit from leveraging test data analytics which assists them to find the right course and follow the optimal course plan to perform better in their exam. Course Distributors include direct to consumer channel like Vriti.com or B2B partners like coaching institutes, schools, govt universities, Vriti Franchisees. Course authors include publishers, authors, subject matter experts.

Content discovery and enhancement is enabled with Vriti's patent pending assessment platform and ratings via Vriti's exam prep communities. With over 156 million questions analyzed, 721 distributors, 800,000+ questions loaded in the platform, over 1 million registered students across 121 cities it is India's largest education marketplace (data as of July 2011). Vriti is an IIT alumni venture started in 2006 backed by Intel Capital and JAFCO Asia. Vriti was named 5th fastest growing tech company in India by Deloitte in 2010.

Board observer

Microland

Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

20092013 (4 years)

Head, South and SE Asian investments

JAFCO Investment (Asia Pacific)

Public Company; 51-200 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry

20082013 (5 years) Singapore, India, USA, Australia

Early-stage technology venture capital across India and SE Asia focusing on deal sizes of ~US$1-5M. Achieved the most profitable exits in the region's history.

Board Director

Data Security Systems Solutions

20122012 (less than a year)

Security software company successfully sold to Gemalto in 2012

Director

RPO Inc

20082011 (3 years) San Francisco Bay Area

RPO applies its unique polymer-based waveguide technology towards developing optical touchscreens for electronic displays.

Director

Avega Systems

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Consumer Electronics industry

20082011 (3 years) San Francisco Bay Area

Avega Systems develops technology for home-networked entertainment. Its technology encompasses multi-room and multi-channel playback, media server and seamless & intuitive control, as well as high-performance media-grade network infrastructure functionality for both ethernet and standard wi-fi networks.

Director

Inzign

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Medical Devices industry

20082010 (2 years)

Inzign is a Singapore-based award-winning niche contract manufacturer specialising in plastics injection molding and the assembly of disposable medical and healthcare devices for the global market.

Senior Associate

Temasek Holdings

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Investment Management industry

20072008 (1 year) Global

Coverage of the global natural resources sector including mining, agriculture, alternative energy, commodities trading, etc. Also worked on transactions in other sectors including beverages, infrastructure, technology and manufacturing.

Consultant

RedPill Solutions

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Management Consulting industry

20052007 (2 years) Singapore, Taiwan

Clients included HP, Nokia, Starhub, Singtel, O2 Mobile, etc

Senior Analyst

INSEAD InnovAsia

Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry

20032005 (2 years)

Research Assistant -- Finance, Venture Capital and Economics

INSEAD

Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry

20032005 (2 years)

Worked for Professor Ilian Mihov, now Dean of INSEAD

Murli Ravi's Test Scores

  • HSK Chinese Proficiency Test Level 2

    • December 2012
    • Score: 189/200

Murli Ravi's Languages

  • English

    (Native or bilingual proficiency)
  • Mandarin Chinese

    (Limited working proficiency)

Murli Ravi's Education

CFA Charter

CFA

2006

Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business

Computational Finance

Awarded the title of Best Trader

GMAT: 780/800 (99th percentile)

Nanyang Technological University

MSc, Financial Engineering

I was enrolled in this programme as a part-time candidate.

GMAT: 780/800 (99th percentile)

National University of Singapore

BEng, Electrical Engineering

Received the SIA-NOL undergraduate scholarship.

SAT: 99th percentile (quantitative) and 98th percentile (verbal)

Murli Ravi's Additional Information

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Interests:

Road biking, backpacking, photography, reading

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Honors and Awards:

Best Trader in graduate class at Carnegie Mellon University

Received the SIA-NOL undergraduate scholarship

Murli Ravi's Skills & Expertise

  1. Start-ups
  2. Venture Capital
  3. Strategy
  4. Entrepreneurship
  5. Mergers & Acquisitions
  6. Mobile Devices
  7. Mergers
  8. Corporate Finance
  9. Telecommunications
  10. Management
  11. Investments
  12. Leadership
  13. Enterprise Software
  14. Private Equity
  15. Cloud Computing
  16. Analytics

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