Japan is an active seed investor and mentor, primarily in the tech space. He has deep holistic & measured experience, having worked with promoters & diverse businesses since over 16 years across financial services spectrum in venture capital, private and public equity, project finance, and corporate banking. He's highly experienced in business strategy, business development, capital structuring, fund raising & investor relationships He has established two alternative asset management businesses and is youngest in the country to head an alternative asset management business, at the age of 31. He is amongst very few private equity professionals in the country, to have experienced the entire fund life cycle – from fund raising to creating liquidity events & following it up with a second fund raise. He was the first Indian institutional investor into One97 (PayTm) in 2010, VA Tech Wabag, Ratnakar Bank, Indusind Bank, NSE, GR Infraprojects, Adani Ports, Sanghvi Movers, Gateway Distriparks, Trent etc. His current investment portfolio includes: Dimension NXG, Jaconet Handloom (Khadder), Remitr, Mind Your Fleet, Vizzi (Eva BOT), Oi Media, Hip Cask, The Zero Games & Intellisys.