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Abishek Balendran

Abishek is an Associate Vice President at Nirvana Venture Advisors. As an Investment Professional, Abishek has a deep experience of working across the value chain of a deal cycle having led investments across directs, funds and co-investment platforms. Prior to Nirvana, he has worked with Singapore Angel Network, a venture capital firm and Xander Private Equity, a South Asia focused Real Estate and Hospitality fund where he was instrumental in setting up Xander’s venture Industrials platform and implementing direct investments in India for the platform. On the sell-side, as an M&A/PE banker, he has advised on several marquee domestic and cross-border transactions across sectors including Healthcare/Pharma, Hospitality, Energy & Power. Abishek is an MBA in Finance from SIBM Pune and B. Tech in Electronics and Telecommunications from PICT, University of Pune.