Helion Venture is a new venture capital firm that opened its doors for business in India just a few weeks ago. Helion Venture Private Ltd has offices in Gurgaon and Bangalore in India. The firm has $140 million India dedicated fund and recently made its first investment in JiGrahak a mobile payment company in Bangalore.

We speak to Kanwaljit Singh, Managing Director and Investment advisor at Helion. Kanwal joined the board of JiGrahak after the investment round.

In this interview Kanwal talks about Helion's investment areas of interest in India, and how they decided to make their first investment among other things. Listen to him talk about what is the value Helion brings to the table when they invest in a company.

Outsourcing, Internet, Mobile and Technology Products are some of the broad areas of investment interest for Helion. Kanwal himself has strong and extensive experience in the consumer market space in India.

Prior to joining Helion Ventures Pvt Ltd. Kanwal was the director and co-head of Carlyle Group India and helped shape Carlyle Group India's strategy. Kanwal was with Intel and Hindustan Level. At Intel he was head of marketing for South Asia, and at Hindustan he was helped launch Lipton Yellow Label and was head of marketing of Red Label and Taaza.

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