Investment

Sandeep Singhal

Managing Partner

“The next 20 years are going to be the best years in the history of India. This happens in a country only once and we’re very aware of that. We want to seize that moment.“

Focus areas:
- Consumer
- Consumer internet
- Financial services
- Retail
- Healthtech
- Healthcare
- Edtech
- B2B Commerce

About Sandeep

Sandeep Singhal is co-founder and Managing Partner at WestBridge Capital, a global investment firm with over $7 billion in assets under management with offices in Bangalore, Silicon Valley and Mauritius. Sandeep previously also co-founded Sequoia Capital India.

Sandeep has served on the board of over 25 public and private companies. Over the last two decades, he has led investments in several companies that include Meesho, PhysicsWallah, IndiGo, Spinny, Info Edge (Naukri.com), People’s Interactive (Shaadi.com), IndiaMART, Dr. Lal PathLabs, Trumeds, Healthians, Kajaria Ceramics, IndiQube, Third Wave, KPN Farm Fresh, IBO, Nazara Technologies, Enrich, Wooden Street, Vini Cosmetics, Britannia, Cera Sanitaryware, Just Dial, Applabs Technologies (acquired by CSC), MarketRx Inc. (acquired by Cognizant), What’s on Media India (acquired by Tribune Digital Ventures), Stovekraft and Interactive Avenues (acquired by IPG Mediabrands).

Sandeep currently serves as the Governing Board Member of National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) and on the Board of Trustees for Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) and has in the past, served as a trustee for the India Foundation for the Arts (IFA). Sandeep was one of the founding members of the IIM Ahmedabad & IIT Delhi endowment vehicles and served as the first Chairman of the IIM Ahmedabad Endowment and continues to serve on the board of IIT Delhi.

He is also one of the founding members of The Ashoka University and The Plaksha University, through his family foundation. Sandeep also co-founded, with GM Vishwanathan Anand, the WestBridge Anand Chess Academy (WACA), a fellowship programme to nurture and mentor some of the top chess talents in the country in their bid to become world champions.

Sandeep holds an MBA with distinction from IIM Ahmedabad, an MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois where he was awarded the Abraham Lincoln Fellowship and a B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering from IIT Delhi.