Rajive Keshup

Rajive is an Investment Director at Cathay Innovation, based out of the Singapore office. Prior to joining Cathay, Rajive played instrumental roles in scaling a number of Southeast Asian startups. Before moving to Singapore, Rajive was a Managing Director at PwC Strategy (formerly Booz & Co.) in New York City where he led the TMT sector for the firm’s Private Equity practice. Rajive started his career at AT&T doing corporate strategy & development in Dallas, Texas. He is also a former-founder having built, scaled and successfully exited a US-based startup in the pet services space. Rajive earned an MBA from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and a Bachelor of Science from Bentley University in Waltham, MA.

Companies

• *Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship at Cornell * Cornell University (2021)
• Visiting Lecturer INSEAD (2021)
• *Series A / Board Member * Igloo (formerly Axinan) (2021)
• Series B / Board Observer KaiOS Technologies, Inc. (2021)
• Seed / Investor Skyber (2021)
• Series A / Investor Lifepal (2021)
• Director Cathay Innovation (2020)
• Series A / Board Observer Coherent (2020)
• Series C / Investor FinAccel (2020)

Education

• Cornell University
• Master of Business Administration - MBA Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management
• BSc Bentley University

Skills

• Entrepreneurship
• Market Research
• Business Valuation