Kumar Sparsh
Senior Investment Associate at Unicorn India Ventures- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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FRM Level 1
Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP)
Experience
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Unicorn India Ventures
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India
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Investment Associate
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Jan 2022 - Present
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Investment Associate
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May 2020 - Jan 2022
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Investment Analyst
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Jan 2019 - May 2020
Unicorn India Ventures is an early stage Tech VC Fund house operating two India equity funds, a debt fund and a UK-India cross border EIS fund, providing debt and equity capital to high growth early stage technology driven businesses across geographies. UIV has investments in multiple sectors including Finance, Healthcare, B2B Enterprise Software, Consumer Tech and Hardware/DeepTech. Actively looking to interact with entrepreneurs running early-stage startups (Seed, Pre Series-A, Series-A) across domains. Reach out to me or send your pitch at sparsh@unicornivc.com or through direct messaging on Linkedin.To know more about us, our investment focus and our portfolio, please visit www.unicornivc.com
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Nomura
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Quantitative Investment Strategy Analyst
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Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
QIS team at Nomura designs and implements quantitative strategies to make investments in Commodities, FX, Equities and Rates across the globe and has multi billion dollar AUM across these strategies.Worked with the India team on strategy development and execution. QIS team at Nomura designs and implements quantitative strategies to make investments in Commodities, FX, Equities and Rates across the globe and has multi billion dollar AUM across these strategies.Worked with the India team on strategy development and execution.
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Co-Founder
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2017 - 2018
A dock-less e-bike rental (last mile mobility) service and a ride sharing platform A dock-less e-bike rental (last mile mobility) service and a ride sharing platform
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Nomura
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Global Markets Summer Analyst
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May 2017 - Jul 2017
Received a Pre Placement Offer to join as a Global Markets Analyst based on the performance during the internship.Credit Default Swap (CDS) ValuationConceptualized and built a 5-yr CDS spread predictor tool, to be used to analyse default propensity of issuers across the globeStudied over 2,500 bond issuers to identify patterns and trends in CDS level across industries, countries, currencies and tenuresFacilitated a Nomura wide risk exposure assessment on the credit products held in the inventory Credit Value Adjustment (CVA) TradingStreamlined cross gamma calculation process to facilitate intra-day hedging of Nomura's CVA portfolioStudied underlying market parameters, identifying sources of convexity to reduce computational burden and increase accuracyAchieved 10% reduction in the analyst workload by transforming a two day manual process to an automated overnight process
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Unicorn India Ventures
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India
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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1 - 100 Employee
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Summer Intern
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May 2016 - Jul 2016
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Education
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Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Aerospace Engineering (major); Entrepreneurship and Innovation (minor)