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FAROOQ OOMERBHOY

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Member of Indian Angles. Farooq Oomerbhoy is an active early stage investor and brings over 10 years of investing experience in the early stage Venture space in India, which enabled him to be a Co-Founder of Orios Venture Partners, India's first largest domestically raised Venture Capital fund with a corpus of US$50M. Farooq was single handedly responsible for the entire inception of the Fund from the creation of Legal documents, Fund Raising, Partnerships, Fund Management and Portfolio Management. Before Orios, Farooq was a founding representative of the Indian Angel Network (Asias largest Angel Network), Mumbai Chapter, where he set up it's entire base of operations and expanded it's first foray beyond the home base of New Delhi. He has personally invested in over 16 Indian early stage companies and holds a direct stake in 2 unicorns (Druva & Ola) with 4 profitable exits and up rounds from Sequoia, SAIF, Nexus Ventures, NEA, Matrix, RB Investments, Qualcomm and PCCW. His current portfolio (including lead rounds) tracks at a 25% IRR with a Gross Multiple of 3.15x with an average holding period of 4.5 years. Farooq currently is a Founder of FAO Ventures LLP which provides Venture Capital as a Services to Global Family Offices, HNI's, Corporates & Funds looking to invest in Indian Venture Asset Class (Primary & Secondary). The platform attracts strong proprietary deal flow and co-investment opportunities with Tier 1 VC Funds and manages the entire portfolio during its life cycle for the clients specific to their requirement. Farooq has graduated from Bryant University with a major in Finance & Economics and is a Graduate of the Executive Program in General Management from MIT Sloan in partnership with Eruditius Executive Education. Specialties: Early stage investing, Business Development, Deal Origination, Commodity (Food & Agricultural) Trading & Real Estate Investment Opportunities.