An Entrepreneur at heart
Investor by Choice
About Mahesh
Mahesh Ramachandran is a successful Serial and Social Entrepreneur turned investor. Mahesh is an angel investor, mentor, independent director supporting innovative startups and helps build the ecosystem.
Mahesh is a distinguished Sloan Fellow of London Business School.
Mahesh is Leadership Council and Programme Management Group member of FinBlue - FinTech Centre of Excellence set up by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India at STPI, Chennai.
​
Mahesh is Partner of Pontaq, a cross border venture capital Innovation Fund.
​
Mahesh chairs TiE FinTech Special Interest Group and was on the Governing Council of TiE Chennai
​
Mahesh is the founder of Commonwealth Inclusive Growth Services Ltd which operates in over 30,000 locations across 27 states in India.
​
It handles over 10,000 crores of government to citizen benefits every year servicing over 5 million rural customers.
​
Mahesh is also a visiting faculty of Indian School of Business, Bennett University and National Police Academy where he teaches digital transformation, leveraging social media and entrepreneurship.
​
Mahesh holds an MBA from the University of Westminster, Sloan Masters in Leadership & Strategy (Distinguished Sloan Fellow of London Business School) from the University of London.
​
Mahesh heads the London Business School Alumni Club in Chennai.
​
Mahesh is part of Stanford SEED Transformation programme and acts as Mentor in Stanford Spark initiative
​
Mahesh Ramachandran brings with him several decades of rich & varied experience in the field of Entrepreneurship, Investing, FinTech, Rural Marketing, Digital Transformation, Leadership, Mentoring & Governance.
​
Mahesh Ramachandran entrepreneurial ventures include peer to peer foreign exchange portal, targeted advertisement and digital payment solution and financial inclusion.
​
Mahesh hails from Thanjavur, South India and loves Coffee, Coding, Carnatic Music and Comics.
Serial Entrepreneur
Angel Investor
Social Entrepreneur
Venture Capital
​
I advise startups to scale
I help founders scale their startups. ​
There are several resources that are quite useful which I have gathered over the years.
Business Model:
Before you jump into building a business plan, make sure you have clarity on your business model.
Try to answer these three questions:
1. Who is your customer?
2. What is your value proposition? What problem are you solving?
3. How do you make money?
If you want to have a structured way to think about how to build a business model the Business Model Canvas could be a good place to start.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoAOzMTLP5s
​
Once you get to understand the 9 basic building blocks, you can deep dive into each of these areas and try to expand on these.
Here are some of the books and online resources that could help:
https://www.strategyzer.com/books
Business Plan
Are you looking for business plan templates? Better to try www.liveplan.com
​
​
Clients &
Collaborations
Founder & Chief Mentor
Commonwealth Inclusive Growth Services Ltd
General Partner
A Cross Border Innovation Fund.
Managing Director
Equippp Social Impact Technologies Ltd
Founder
Emerging Tech Innovations
Past Governing Council Member
Chair, FinTech Special Interest Group TiE Chennai
Chennai City Chair
Winmark Global CEO Network
Leadership Council Member
FinTech Centre of Excellence set up Government of India at STPI, Chennai.
Head of Alumni Club, Chennai
London Business School
Visiting Faculty
Indian School of Business
Visiting Professor of Practice
Krea University
Guest Faculty
National Academy of Direct Taxes
Visiting Faculty
National Police Academy
Angel
Networks
Investment
Portfolio
