Mar 20, 2015
In episode 28 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio, Chris Cahill interviews Swati Chaturvedi, Co-Founder and CEO of PropelX, an online investment platform that brings investors to deep technology early-stage companies. "Deep technology" includes, for example, the next generations of genomic sequencing, smart prosthetics, robotic surgery, ultra-capacitor technologies, and cancer therapy. The principal goal of her platform, says Chaturvedi, is to enable diligence in companies that have applications of deep technologies.
You can learn more about Swati and Propel (X) here.
Or you can find her here:
@candiedpecans
About Swati Chaturvedi
Prior to starting Propel(x), Swati worked in management consulting and investing. Most recently, Swati worked at Exigen Capital on IT, Telecom, Travel, and BPO deals. Before this, she sourced and evaluated deals in the Industrial Automation sector with Siemens Venture Capital. Swati is also the co-founder and coordinator of the MIT Alumni Angel Investors group. In working with the group, she saw several ways in which the angel investing process could be improved. Propel(x) is geared toward filling the gap, and making angel investing a more efficient process.
Swati has an MBA from the Sloan School of Management, an M.S. from MIT (Technology and Policy Program) and an M.S. from UC Berkeley (Civil Engineering). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the Indian Institute of Technology. In her spare time, she blows bubbles with her one-year-old and learns about Harry Potter from her seven-year-old. She is a fan of all things sci-fi.