Murli Ravi
Co-founder at Unicorn Venture Capital
- Location
- Singapore
- Industry
- Venture Capital & Private Equity
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Murli Ravi's Overview
- Current
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- Co-founder at Unicorn Venture Capital
- Chief Beer Drinker & Entrepreneur Advisor at Various start-ups
- Past
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- Board Director at Unmetric Inc.
- Board Director at Bubble Motion
- Board Director at ApnaPaisa Pvt. Ltd.
- Board Director at Microqual Techno Pvt Ltd
- Chairman of the board at MOZAT PTE LTD
- Board Director at Consilium Software
- Board Director at Mistral Solutions Pvt. Ltd
- Board Director at CustomerXPs Software Private Limited
- Board Director at Vriti Infocom Private Limited
- Board observer at Microland
- Head, South and SE Asian investments at JAFCO Investment (Asia Pacific)
- Board Director at Data Security Systems Solutions
- Director at RPO Inc
- Director at Avega Systems
- Director at Inzign
- Senior Associate at Temasek Holdings
- Consultant at RedPill Solutions
- Senior Analyst at INSEAD InnovAsia
- Research Assistant -- Finance, Venture Capital and Economics at INSEAD
- Education
- Connections
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500+ connections
- Websites
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
Co-founder
Unicorn Venture Capital
Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry
2014 – Present (less than a year)
Chief Beer Drinker & Entrepreneur Advisor
Various start-ups
Internet industry
2012 – Present (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
2013 – 2013 (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
2012 – 2013 (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
2012 – 2013 (1 year)
Board Director
Microqual Techno Pvt Ltd
Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry
2011 – 2013 (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
2011 – 2013 (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
2011 – 2013 (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.
Board Director
Mistral Solutions Pvt. Ltd
Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry
2011 – 2013 (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.
Board Director
CustomerXPs Software Private Limited
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry
2011 – 2013 (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.
Board Director
Vriti Infocom Private Limited
Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Education Management industry
2010 – 2013 (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
2009 – 2013 (4 years)
Head, South and SE Asian investments
JAFCO Investment (Asia Pacific)
Public Company; 51-200 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry
2008 – 2013 (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.
Director
Avega Systems
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Consumer Electronics industry
2008 – 2011 (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
2008 – 2010 (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
2007 – 2008 (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
2005 – 2007 (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
2003 – 2005 (2 years)
Research Assistant -- Finance, Venture Capital and Economics
INSEAD
Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry
2003 – 2005 (2 years)
Worked for Professor Ilian Mihov, now Dean of INSEAD
Murli Ravi's Test Scores
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HSK Chinese Proficiency Test Level 2
- December 2012
- Score: 189/200
Murli Ravi's Languages
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English
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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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Road biking, backpacking, photography, reading
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- Honors and Awards:
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Best Trader in graduate class at Carnegie Mellon University
Received the SIA-NOL undergraduate scholarship
Murli Ravi's Skills & Expertise
- Start-ups
- Venture Capital
- Strategy
- Entrepreneurship
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Mobile Devices
- Mergers
- Corporate Finance
- Telecommunications
- Management
- Investments
- Leadership
- Enterprise Software
- Private Equity
- Cloud Computing
- Analytics
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