TCM Sundaram

TC Meenakshisundaram is the Founder and Vice Chairman of Chiratae Ventures. He has over 38 years of industry experience, including 18+ years of venture experience. He serves on the Boards of Lenskart, AgroStar, Vayana, Kristal.ai, Metadome, Bounce, HUVIAiR, and Pando amongst others.

With two decades of experience in the Indian VC/PE ecosystem TCM, as he is fondly known, has led many initiatives to success in investments, exits, firm building, fundraising, finance and legal, amongst others. He has led several portfolio companies to scale and to Unicorn and IPO.

Earlier, as part of Walden International’s team, he was involved with investments in Mindtree, Venture Infotek and Jobstreet. Before Chiratae Ventures, TCM served as Chief Financial Officer and President – Corporate Services at Venture Infotek, a leading payment processing company in India. He also spent 14 years at Wipro, where he last served as General Manager – of the eCommerce Division.

He and his wife are deeply committed to various philanthropic initiatives through his family foundations.