Harsh

Harsh believes that financial inclusion enables individuals with diverse backgrounds to be at a level playing field. Based in India, Harsh sources, diligences, and executes investment opportunities. Prior to joining Flourish, Harsh spent 4.5 years of his career in the venture debt industry, first with InnoVen Capital ( formerly known as Silicon Valley Bank, India) and subsequently with Alteria Capital. Prior to his venture debt stint, Harsh spent a year at Vodafone India as a management trainee with stints in rural business development, supply chain and finance.

Harsh is a Chartered Accountant (ICAI) by qualification and received a Bachelors in Commerce with Distinction from N.M College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai University.

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Why We Invested in Mapan: Rising Social Fintech Empowers Indonesian Women
Flourish and Patamar re-teamed to invest in Mapan’s community of digital saving circles. In 2009, smartphones were a mostly untapped invention – and had not yet reached many emerging markets like Indonesia.
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[e27] Why kirana stores are central to India’s digital opportunity
The COVID-19 pandemic showed us just how important kirana stores are in India.
Events
flourish focus
[Flourish Focus] A One-on-One with Varun Tangri, Founder & CEO, QueueBuster
Harsh Gupta sits down with serial entrepreneur Varun Tangri to discuss how retail-focused superapp QueueBuster is helping corner shop owners replace the ‘nightmare’ of managing in-store operations using pen and paper with easy-to-use software.
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Why We Invested In Brick: Seamlessly connecting consumers to embedded financial products with a single line of code
Why We Invested: Brick Southeast Asia is home to over half billion people with a rapidly maturing digital economy. Like the rest of the world, Covid-19 has curbed regional GDP growth but it has accelerated...
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Why We Invested In Apnaklub: Digitally Connecting India’s Retailers to Goods and Wholesalers
By Anuradha Ramachandran and Harsh Gupta Embedded Finance Platform Apnaklub Digitally Connects India’s Retailers, and Kiranas to Consumer Goods and Wholesale Partners India’s unwieldy consumer goods supply chain poses significant challenges for local grocery retailers and their consumers....
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Why We Invested In Aquaconnect: An Online Platform Connecting Farmers and Customers
 By Anuradha Ramachandran and Harsh Gupta Mobile adoption is on the rise among India’s fish and shrimp farmers. With half a billion smartphone users in India, online financial tools, digital platforms and fintech applications are...
Events
flourish conversations
[Flourish Conversations] Digital Acceleration - Opportunities in India
In this conversation, entrepreneurs in India talk frankly about the challenges, losses and successes of running a startup during a global pandemic.
Blog
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Why We Invested In Credflow: Why We Believe Credflow Will Empower Indian Business Owners
Empowering Indian Business Owners with an Automated Cashflow and Payments Collection Service
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Why We Invested in M2P Fintech: This API infrastructure drives financial inclusion
by Anuradha Ramachandran and Harsh Gupta The financial ecosystem in India is being rapidly disrupted by technology. Large and specialized fintech players are active in multiple verticals, including payments, wealth tech, lending, discount brokerage and...
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