Gopal Jain is Managing Partner and Co-founder of Gaja Capital, India’s premier mid market growth & buyout firm based in Mumbai. Founded in 2005, Gaja is a leading player in India’s private equity market with an exceptional track record of investments and a USD 1B+ n AUM. Gaja has invested consistently in India’s mid-market across themes in education, financial services, consumer, and SaaS with a key focus on driving scale and transformation in its portfolio companies via operational value add.

Gopal leads both the executive and investment functions at the firm and has personally led several of the Firm’s investments. Gopal has been investing in Indian equities since the age of thirteen and has been a professional investor in the Indian capital markets for almost thirty years. He is one of the more experienced private equity investors in India, having led or co-led over 25 private equity investments since 1995. Several of the companies Gopal has backed have grown 10x in value since the investment. Prior to Gaja Capital, he was country head for the Boston-based View Group one of the pioneers in Indian private equity.

Gopal is an active columnist and is currently member of SEBI’s Alternative Investment Policy Advisory Committee. He has a deep interest in the social sector and leads Gaja Gives which supports a wide and growing number of philanthropic efforts in India. Another unique recent initiative Gaja Business Book Prize aims to encourage entrepreneurship through inspiration.
Gopal is a Graduate in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi. He is remembered on the campus for being one of the first graduates from the institute to turn entrepreneur before graduating.