Balaji Chowdary

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Associate at Westgate Venture Partners · Fintech

Westgate Venture Partners
Hyderabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
4+ years experience
Symbiosis International University
English, Hindi, Telugu
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Overview

I invest in fintech at Westgate Venture Partners, usually at pre-seed and seed. Led or co-led 33 investments, 2 of them now at Series B or later. Previously an operator for 5 years before investing. Before that: HCLTech and Kotak Mahindra Bank. Most at home with due diligence and board work. Into vintage synthesizers.

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due diligenceboard workventure capital

Experience

  1. Associate
    Oct 2025 - Present
    Westgate Venture Partners · 1 yr · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Built the privacy programme for launches in 24 countries.
    • Secured 4 payments licences.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Jul 2023 - Oct 2025
    HCLTech · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Shipped 28 launches on the product security team without a rollback.
    • Wrote the venture capital service that now handles 75 million requests a day.
  3. Principal Engineer
    Oct 2022 - Jul 2023
    Kotak Mahindra Bank · 9 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Sit on 7 boards.
    • Led or co-led 6 investments, 2 of them now at Series B or later.

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Education

  1. Symbiosis International University
    BBA, Economics
    2017 - 2021

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