Jai Bachhawat is an investment analyst with a background spanning venture capital, private equity, and early-stage company building. He holds a distinction in Corporate Finance from Bayes Business School and has built hands-on experience across deal sourcing, financial due diligence, and IC-ready investment analysis.
He is currently an off-cycle Investment Analyst at UCEA, a single-family office, where he owns the full due diligence process across pre-seed to Series B deals in tech, med tech, and infrastructure.
At UCEA, he led the investment memorandum for a $7M infrastructure fundraising round, arriving at a $95M pre-money valuation and successfully defending the recommendation to the IC.
At PwC, he built a Python-based sales tool for a major MedTech client that cut the sales closing timeline by two weeks, lifting the regional monthly closing average by 22%.
Before entering finance professionally, he founded Fine Threads Apparels, a B2B apparel manufacturing firm, landed a major national retailer as an anchor client, and executed a strategic exit that returned 53% to investors.
