Investors hang up boots to don entrepreneurship mantle

Venture capitalists are leveraging their experience to build something new

Alok Mittal, Rohini Chakravarthy, Ashish Mohapatra, Anshoo Sharma, Raul Rai, Subramanya S V, Manoj Gupta and Abhishek Goyal — all once venture capitalists (VCs) not so long ago — have taken the plunge to become entrepreneurs. While the challenge of setting up a venture has spurred some of them, others have used their skills acquired as venture capitalists to kick-start their entities.  

Alok Mittal was partner at Canaan Partners before he co-founded Indifi Technologies, a marketplace for loans to small and medium enterprises. ‘‘I wanted to get hands-on and build another company. I was in the investment business for