Kushal is the Chief Financial Officer at Aspada Investment Advisors. Kushal is passionate about working with organizations in their formative phase and is closely involved with portfolio companies in their strategic and financial planning, process implementation, performance management and risk management. He currently serves on the Boards of Schedulers Logistics and Allfresh Supply Management. On this episode you'll learn: From a venture capital perspective what kind of disparity is there in investment opportunity between rural india and middle and upper class regions of country? How realistic is it for companies building solutions for the rural parts of India to raise Venture Capital as opposed to more so capital impact investor and economic development grants? How has VC dogma from the US and China affected the innovation ecosystem in India? What are the sexy verticals in India right now that all the VC’s are talking about?