Raj Ganguly

Ganguly’s worked with Eduardo Saverin since 2012, when the friends from their Harvard days—Ganguly got his business school degree there—reconnected in Singapore. Saverin was already writing smaller checks to startups, but with Ganguly, a former consultant and vice president at Bain Capital, he set out to raise formal funds from outside investors. Their first effort was Velos Partners, an $80 million private equity vehicle with a consumer bent they launched with several other friends. But by 2015, Ganguly and Saverin split off with a new idea to build a firm around two points of distinction: as a strong footprint in Southeast Asia, an emerging market with less competition for deals, and as a matchmaker for one of the world’s most prominent consulting firms, Boston Consulting Group.