Rajeev Srivastava

MANAGING PARTNER

Rajeev has over 25 years of global operating and investing experience in the U.S., Asia and Europe.

Prior to the merger of Basil Partners and Capital Square Partners, Rajeev founded Basil Partners as a Family Office in 2008 which has invested, and co-invested on behalf of other HNIs and Family Offices, in over 16 high growth IT Services companies. Basil & the co-investors have exited from 6 of these investments at returns of between 2x – 6x.

Prior to Basil Partners, between 2006 and 2008, Rajeev was an Angel Investor in 6 companies via Basil International Investments Ltd. Prior to this, as co-Founder and CEO, Rajeev built Apar Infotech Corp into a USD 78m Enterprise Value company between 1996 and 2003. He raised two rounds of venture capital from Insight Capital and Warburg Pincus Ventures and guided Apar through a merger with Ness Technologies, Inc. in 2003. Rajeev was on the Board of Directors & Executive Management of Ness and, in 2004, was also actively involved in Ness’ IPO (NASDAQ listing). The merger with Ness and subsequent IPO provided excellent returns to both Insight Capital Partners ( 89% IRR) and Warburg Pincus (25% IRR). Prior to co-founding Apar, Rajeev worked with IGATE as the Director & Head of Asia Pacific Operations and as a Project Manager in TCS across Mumbai, Singapore, and New Jersey.

Rajeev possesses a Bachelors Degree in Engineering and a Masters in Management Studies from Bombay University.