Ajay Anupani is an investment research analyst with around four years of experience across early-stage venture fundraising, deal intelligence, and financial analysis. He has worked across the full fundraising stack: building financial models, estimating market sizes, mapping investors, and supporting founders from pitch deck to investor call.
He is currently exploring his next role in venture capital or investment research after his most recent position at VC Circle, where the company wound down operations.
At HT Media Group (VC Circle), Ajay tracked and validated M&A, PE, and VC deals for a proprietary deal database, conducted primary research through founder outreach, and performed company valuations and MCA-based due diligence.
At Qubit Capital, he ran investment mapping end-to-end alongside his manager, using PitchBook and Tracxn to identify and filter investors by stage, geography, sector, and check size for early-stage founders.
Across freelance engagements, he has built financial models and pitch decks for pre-seed and seed-stage founders in sectors including web scraping APIs, beauty tech, and AI music, and has independently built CapTrail, an investor database product aimed at making investor research accessible to early-stage founders.
