Rahul Chandra is one of the leading venture capitalists in India with over 20 years of VC investing in India and the US. Before Arkam Ventures, Rahul was the co-founder and managing director at Helion Venture Partners. Helion was one of the VCs in India that pioneered the style of company-building approach to venture capital. As the co-founder of Helion, Rahul has helped create multiple category creators and winners emerge in the ecosystem, such as Shubham Housing, Equitas Finance, MoEngage, UnitedLex, SMS Gupshup, and Spandana Sphoorty Finance.

Rahul started his career in the venture capital industry in 1996 in India as the first hire at Walden International, one of the first venture funds focussed on the Indian market. Before Walden, he worked in the Capital Markets Group at Lazard India and the Primary Market Department at the Securities Exchange Board of India.

Rahul has an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley and is an alumnus of Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani.

Rahul is also the author of The Moonshot Game, Adventures of an Indian VC, published by Penguin.