Anirudh A Damani
About
Anirudh A Damani is from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Anirudh is currently Managing Partner at Artha Venture Fund, located in Mumbai Area, India. Anirudh also works as Director at Artha India Ventures, a job Anirudh has held since Oct 2013. Another title Anirudh currently holds is Director at Artha Group. In Anirudh's previous role as a Co-Founder at Pioneer Energy Resources, Anirudh worked in Dallas/Fort Worth Area until Oct 2012. Prior to joining Pioneer Energy Resources, Anirudh was a Director of Business Development at Superior Energy Resources and held the position of Director of Business Development at Texas. Prior to that, Anirudh was a Regional Director at US First Energy, based in Texas, Illinois, New York from Jul 2006 to Nov 2009. Anirudh started working as Area Leader at Texas First Energy in Dallas/Fort Worth Area in Dec 2005. From Jul 2005 to Dec 2005, Anirudh was Team Leader at Texas First Energy, based in Dallas/Fort Worth Area. Prior to that, Anirudh was a Sales Executive at Texas First Energy, based in Dallas/Fort Worth Area from May 2005 to Jul 2005.
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Anirudh A Damani's current jobs
• Spearheaded investment strategies at Artha Venture Fund, focusing on early-stage tech-driven startups. • Successfully led 34 investments and 60 funding rounds, achieving a cumulative valuation of over ₹750 crore. • Recognized as the #1 early-stage fund in India by Preqin in 2025, setting benchmarks in the microVC space.
Artha India Ventures is a Venture Capital & Renewable Energy investment firm. The company buys renewable energy projects that provide long term cash flows for investing in startups. As an active investor in its startups the company has delivered superior returns in its startup portfolio. The exits are utilised in buying new renewable energy projects. As of 31/03/2025, the company owns 1.25 MW of wind turbines, 955 KW of solar energy, 320 vending machines, a fleet of 61 cars, and investments in 65+ startups. Notable investments: OYO Rooms, NowFloats, Exotel, BabyChakra, Tala, Purplle, VPhrase, CapLinked, SuprDaily, LenDenClub and ConfirmTkt
Artha Group is the umbrella entity of Artha Venture Fund, Artha India Ventures, and Artha Energy Resources.
Artha Energy Resources (“AER”), headquartered in Mumbai, is an advisory firm that is focused in attracting and bringing new investment into the renewable power generation industry in India across segments and asset classes. AER provides turn-key solutions for investors, governments and end-consumers alike. With a small team, I have geared the operations to build an extensive network of industry professionals across the power sector value chain collaborating with investors, developers, financers, leading EPC & technology partners and government personnel and boast a healthy project pipeline.
Anirudh A Damani's past jobs
After taking over the firm with two other friends in 2010, the three of us grew the firms business at 100% CAGR for 2 years before I decided to move back to India and join my family in building their footprint here.
Sales & Business Development
Texas First Energy was rechristened US First Energy and I was given charge of leading the sales effort for Texas. I built a sales force for USFE and besides being the top sales agent was also given the award for the being the top team leader and the top area leader in 2006. The same year I was also promoted to manage the much larger and lucrative state of Illinois where I built a sales team of 50 sales agents bringing in 600 MU of contracted power a year! Later on I went on to become the youngest Regional Leader managing the states of Illionis, New York and Texas and when the opportunity arose where I could take over the energy broking firm, 2 other friends and I took over the firm in 2010 under the name Pioneer Energy Resources with me as President.
Within 6 months I was one of the top sales people in the company and my passion for a challenge was tested when the company asked me to build a commercial sales program (which the company had failed in building on 2 previous occasions) with just a Regional Manager and me. At that time I was the youngest and the fastest persons promoted from a Sales agent to Area Manager. The TFE was selling for a small and niche player at that time – Stream Energy and post hurricane Katrina and Rita the sky-rocketing prices for electricity made the product offering too expensive and unviable. Undeterred by these initial setbacks the RL and I worked closely with Stream’s product team to bring in a median market product that gave Stream good margins while offering a small incentive to consumers. Armed with this product and with the sales skills assimilated from the best in the company, I recruited a small team and went out to personally test the product in the market. My team eventually smashed sales targets that were set out for a month in a day! Some of the records that were established by this small team still stand untouched.
Sales & Sales Management
Early in my career, I was smitten by the entrepreneurial bug and took up a door to door sales job with Texas First Energy (TFE) immediately after graduation.