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Snow Leopard Global

Your trusted partner for public and private equity investments between India and the USA.

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Offices
2 Offices Pune & New York
Private companies
30+ Private companies Backed to date
Years
15 Years Investing across cycles
Strategies
2 Strategies Private & public

About us

Four decades of relationships. Two markets. One firm.

Snow Leopard Global Capital Management is a global alternative asset manager with offices in Pune, India and New York, NY.

Its founders have known each other for close to forty years, since growing up together in New York City and attending primary school there. Since then, each founder has managed family office capital for the past fifteen years across a variety of private and public investments — from new-age and traditional businesses to land and developments.

The founders have immersed themselves extensively since their childhoods in the Indian and USA investment ecosystems, building proprietary relationships in two very different geographic and cultural regions. That access lets the firm reach founders, capital and networks unavailable to most firms. Their professional and academic experience provides a natural, unforced way into these networks — and the unique opportunities they yield.

What we do

Two strategies, one disciplined approach

An overview of the firm's current products.

Private

Venture Capital

We invest capital from global and Indian family offices and institutional investors into select, high-potential, high-growth-rate, technology-enabled Indian and global businesses.

For the past fifteen years, Snow Leopard's team has managed a portfolio of thirty private businesses based out of India and the USA. These companies span consumer, technology, healthcare, agriculture, finance and enterprise.

Our belief is that an industry-agnostic approach not only mitigates the risk of industry-specific maladies, but also builds a knowledge base that can be shared across industries.

The firm's professionals have invested across multiple capital-raising rounds and complex deal structures around the globe. Snow Leopard is among the earliest institutional investors in some of the world's leading companies, and has significant experience identifying later-stage secondary transaction opportunities.

  • Passionate, resilient founders
  • Tremendous market opportunity
  • Highly unique, differentiated business models

Public

Public Investments Strategies

We offer two long-term USD-denominated public markets strategies — one that takes advantage of market volatility to generate meaningful outperformance, and one that generates treasury-like, conservative returns.

We invest capital in Super Return, a prop-trading strategy that generates meaningful annual returns from a number of short- and medium-term ideas, producing returns in both up and down markets.

This differs from typical buy-and-hold, where down markets tend to be opportunities to buy more while waiting for markets to pick up. Our belief is that a balanced strategy — long-term compounders on the one hand, shorter-term volatility-linked trades on the other — is the right mix for a pool of capital.

  • Super Return — volatility-linked, long and short
  • Conservative — treasury-like returns
  • USD-denominated, long-term horizon

Portfolio

Companies we have backed

Thirty-plus private businesses across India and the USA, spanning consumer, technology, healthcare, agriculture, finance and enterprise.

Logos shown are companies the firm or its principals have backed. Inclusion does not imply a current holding or an endorsement.

Founders

What our founders say about us

Snow Leopard identified the potential in our business at an early stage and their conviction and support has been instrumental in helping us scale. From the initial check, to the follow-on capital and operational assistance, Snow Leopard's value-add has been tremendous and we look forward to working with them closely in the coming years.

Matt

Founder & CEO, Blue Tokai

Snow Leopard was amongst the earliest backers of Stashfin and has been backing the business through multiple rounds of fundraising. Their due diligence was tough and thorough but it allowed us to prepare for what came next. Chris along with his team are our go-to folks for problem-solving and strategizing in a board room or on the back of a napkin. We truly are grateful for this partnership.

Tushar

Founder & CEO, Stashfin

Snow Leopard is a great investor partner to us. We always appreciate their honest and constructive feedback, and we can count on them for creative solutions to help our business.

Kyle

Co-Founder, advanced.farm

People

Our team

Investors and operators across New York, Pune and Singapore.

Global Team

Chris Kolenaty

Chris Kolenaty

Founder & CEO

Pune, India

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Prior to Snow Leopard Global, Chris managed a pool of public and private capital from an Indian family office, and before that, was a principal at Centerview Partners and Associate at Merrill Lynch's M&A group. Chris attended Brown University and is based out of the India office.

At Snow Leopard, Chris manages the overall direction of the firm, its strategies, and co-manages the private equity investment vehicle with Will.

Will van Amerongen

Will van Amerongen

Co-Founder & CIO

New York, NY

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Prior to Snow Leopard Global, Will managed third party equity capital as well as capital from his own family office. Will served as CIO at his family office managing multiple private investments including the operations, hedging program and ultimate sale of a large land parcel in the Western United States. Will attended Columbia University and is based out of the New York City office.

At Snow Leopard, Will co-manages the private vehicle and now manages Super Return, Snow Leopard's prop trading strategy.

Will Serber

Will Serber

(Bio)tech, Robotics, Lab Automation and HR Advisor

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Will is currently General Manager Automation at Ginkgo Bioworks, a biotechnology company that uses biology to “grow the future.” Two years earlier, Ginkgo Bioworks acquired Zymergen's automation business for $200 million, which Will had started in 2019 with a fleet of 40+ engineers, biologists and technicians. Zymergen was a venture funded business that raised over $1 billion USD that eventually IPO'd. Will was employee number 1 at Zymergen.

At Snow Leopard, Will advises portfolio companies in the areas of (bio)technology, robotics, automation and HR.

Vikas Taneja

Vikas Taneja

Investment Committee Member, Advisor

New York, NY

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Vikas Taneja is currently a Managing Director & Senior Partner with the Boston Consulting Group and has worked there for over 20 years. He is the global leader of BCG's GrowthTech business. Vikas also is on the Global Leadership Team of BCG's Technology, Media, and Telecom practice. Vikas is an observer on the B Capital Group Investment Committee and sits on its Advisory Board. Vikas attended Stanford University and is based out of New York.

At Snow Leopard, Vikas serves on the Investment Committee of the Private Vehicle and advises portfolio companies on their growth plans.

Prasanna Sankar

Prasanna Sankar

Blockchain, Technology, and Private Investments Advisor

Singapore

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Prasanna is currently based out of Singapore, where he is focused on his new blockchain company, 0xPPL.com. He is also a founder of Rippling.com — currently worth over $16B.

Prasanna bought his first BTC in 2013 and presciently bought and held various other blockchain tokens from their earlier days that continued to compound year in and year out. He is overweighted towards blockchain technology and is also an angel investor in startups. He has a B.Tech, Computer Science, from NIT, Trichy, and has been ranked #1 in India on Top Coder.

At Snow Leopard, Prasanna advises on blockchain investments, technology and private investments.

Rakesh Mathur

Rakesh Mathur

Private Investments, Advisor

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Rakesh has been a founder of multiple technology companies operating between India and the USA that have rapidly and sustainably impacted the lives of millions of people. These companies have spanned across industries including communications, e-commerce, payments, knowledge management and artificial intelligence. The majority of them have recorded successful exits, with a handful of them currently raising institutional venture capital or heading towards IPO.

Rakesh also has been a prolific angel and early to mid-stage investor in a number of private companies that have gone on to record their own successful journeys with institutional capital raises, public offerings and multi-billion dollar equity value creation outcomes.

At Snow Leopard, Rakesh works with our entrepreneurs on company building, fund-raising, and big-picture thinking while also providing inputs on scaling, technology and hiring. He also advises on potential investments and is an advisor to the public investments strategies.

India Team

Abhishek Khandelwal

Abhishek Khandelwal

Chief Financial Officer

Pune, India

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Abhishek has been a part of the India team since 2017. Prior to Snow Leopard, Abhishek was CFO at Amit Enterprises. Before that, he was a GM and AVP at Calsoft and Marg. Ltd, respectively, and before that was at a number of USA based firms on the software side including Currenex, Inc. and SpikeSource Inc. Before heading to the USA, Abhishek was initially a software engineer with Infosys in India.

Abhishek has passed his CFA, CPA and CWA exams, has an MBA from IIM Bangalore, where he was Gold Medalist, has an MS from Arizona State and graduated with honors from IIT-BHU.

He resides in Pune with his family.

Rahul Patil

Rahul Patil

Analyst, CS

Pune, India

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Rahul has been a part of the India team since 2014. Prior to Snow Leopard, Rahul was a management trainee at Kirloskar Industries.

He is a member of the CS (Company Secretary) Institute of India. He received his Bachelors of Law and of Commerce from Dr. BAMU.

He resides in Pune with his family and is married.

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